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cnut sounds like Pete Tong as well.Yeah but noone is going to do that mate!
The English journos tend to know nothing. The Spanish and Italian ones actually have contacts.
Nah, overall value.
Who the feck is this guy?
Apparently we have a good shot at landing Sanchez, however, I'm not sure how I feel about the whole 3 targets for the summer, one of them signed in January. Don't get me wrong, I believe Sanchez is a very good signing, yet at the end of his playing career, this one contract might be his last. If that means we're going to miss out on Dybala, I'm sure not pleased.
Dybala would be the same of Pogba's level signing, another statement, another step in the right direction, one for the future.
How do you guys see it?
Dybala would be the same of Pogba's level signing, another statement, another step in the right direction, one for the future.
How do you guys see it?
Ah okay, good.
Nah, they'll be separate deals.
If we did an actual swap deal, it'd have to be roughly no cash - a straight swap. And that would not be easy to sell to the Arsenal fans!
Fair enough.
Nah it'd be 35m plus agreeing to sell them Mkhi.
Isn't he supposedly going onto the coaching staff. I know my team Athletic Bilbao were after Monreal. Wonder if they will try again in the summer?
Got it.
The English journos on this believed the smug briefing from City that Sanchez would crawl over hot coals just for the privilege of licking the sweat off Pep’s balls. No chance he would sign for United.
His Twitter profile pic looks like Mourinho has shoved a finger up his arse and he’s just accepted his fate...probably by a cANAL.
No. £35m made up of Mkhi plus the balance in cash. How much Mkhi is worth though is what makes these deals unlikely.
Would have liked to keep Mkhi as a supersub, but oh well, we can't both have our cake and eat it I suppose...
From what Wenger said about Sanchez being on standby (as in about to move clubs) it can only be the finer details of the transfer that are still being worked on, transfer fee and personal terms must have been agreed by now (I suspect agents fees is all that's left)
Mkhitaryan has zero value due to the wages he’s earning. So I wouldn’t be surprised.
Yep, they are fecked. About to lose the only two world-class players they have, and probably going to get a combined £30m for the both of them at this rate which doesn't even get you a Danny Drinkwater these days.
Furthermore, their best prospects are the likes of Alex Iwobi, Reiss Nelson and Ainsley Maitland-Niles, sorry but not a patch on some of the players the other top sides have coming through and I wouldn't expect any of these guys to be anything special.
They're incredibly reliant now on a player that spends 80% of his time in the physio room as well and is also out of contract at the end of the season currently. Ramsey is another who's out of contract soon (2019), who's caught between probably not being good enough as a starter but being a great squad player, but he's on £100k+ a week already.
They arguably need over the next few windows:
- New long-term GK
- Another RB for depth/competition.
- A new commanding CB + maybe 1 more for depth (Mertesacker retiring, Chambers not good enough, Koscielny ageing).
- Proper DM
- New CM playmaker (depending on Wilshere/Cazorla futures I guess).
- New AM to replace Ozil
- 3 new wide-forwards (needed a RW anyway, replace Sanchez, greater depth).
- Another ST
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You tell them Andy. That George Boateng lad is out of his depth sitting there talking out of his ass on live TV. How about Sanchez coming to United to make history and being the main star, opposed to going to City to collect a PL medal that others have already won for him while being just another squad player.Andy Gray speaking sense. George Boateng sounds like an idiot and says it like if there's a gap now, then there's no chance of that changing in the next 5 years. Because things don't change from season to season in football
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John Cross are starting to say United directly now, not just Sanchez leaving.
I posted this back in the summer but for those who might be new here...
Di Marzio PAYS his contacts for real news. It's why he gets the best news first.
Our UK media work off rumours and hearsay. Or they simply make it up.
Apparently Di Marzio has spent a fortune on paying agents and club officials for breaking news stories.
Di Marzio PAYS his contacts for real news. It's why he gets the best news first.
Our UK media work off rumours and hearsay. Or they simply make it up.
Apparently Di Marzio has spent a fortune on paying agents and club officials for breaking news stories.
He didn't. It's Cross's speculation.
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I think transfer fee, personal details and agent fee is likely sorted, it’s just pending on the Malcolm transfer.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Malcom be signed but not allowed to move until the end of the season so they get Mkhitaryan on loan until then who will get the chance to play for a chance of earning a good transfer in the summer.
This guy knows nothing.
Fair pointThat's really what convinced you that we are crazy? Really?
And this is?
It’s not even City’s fault tbf, it’s the media’s desperation to turn every half thought out micro topic into a declarative talking point to upsell the PL and their own coverage of it. City are the best team this season you say? So are they maybe even the best team ever? Discuss. Only tonight on The Debate. And also every hour on the hour on our rolling sports news channel (because please god we need stories. Give us stories. We’re a whole fecking channel of this!)...
Whatever is happening now needs to be the bestest and most important thing ever, because we’re the bestest and most important League, and this is all hugely important, and also buy our papers and subscribe to our channels covering it, because you can’t miss this once in a lifetime super amazing event. At least not until the next super amazing once in a lifetime event. Coming soon, next season. Or next week. Who knows? feck it.
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Who is this exactly ?
All riding the wave DiMarzio started.
I think it's mainly them getting a replacement in before they announce it so their fans don't go apoplectic. Once they either agree on Malcom or Mkhi then it will be announced. Or that's my take.
Yep, I used to be a skeptic. But it's obvious that Di Marzio has a direct line to people in the industry.
He is basically gospel for players in Seria A, and one of the most reliable for those outside the Seria A.
Crossy mentioning it is good enough for me. Plus, he says Sanchez's agent is on his way to Manchester, so it must be common knowledge even among English journos, and especially those close to Arsenal by now as to which Manchester club he is headed to.
CalcioMercato journalist links PremiumSportHD too.
Yes, and if you are a woman, you just let your boobs out, and run in the streets of your town, while shouting players name.
Nobody.
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