Things you expect to see happen in the summer's transfer window

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Any predictions on what you expect we will see in the 2016 transfer window?

Mine:

- Average transfer prices will increase a solid 10-15% i.e. a player that may have cost £40m last summer will cost closer to £50m this year - a reflection of the huge increases in TV money in the PL and many teams needing talent.

- £50m is the new £30m. At least ten PL transfers will break the £50m mark.

- The PL transfer record will be broken. Both for an individual player (I'm guessing Pogba to City for a solid £70m+) and total spend by a team and the league.

- United will spend close to £200m which should make them competitive for a CL position. We might get 4 good players for that.

- City will sign some top quality players and break some spending records.

- Mahrez, Stones will move clubs. United hopefully will get both of them.

- PL will bring in some top talent from abroad across the whole division.
 
I think that some of the transfers that relatively small clubs like Everton and Watford make will blow some people away. I expect players to start leaving really high profile clubs to come and join the premier league.
 
Twigginater said:
I think that some of the transfers that relatively small clubs like Everton and Watford make will blow some people away. I expect players to start leaving really high profile clubs to come and join the premier league.
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To blow me away they'll have to be acquiring top talents from Europe for £30m-£40m. If they spend that money on players from the Premier League they won't get half the value.
 
Sounds fun.

I expect to see City make some huge signings. Pogba is a good shout and I think Pep will talk some big players into going there.

Liverpool will probably get someone like Gundogan as their marquee signing. He'll live to regret it, but I think Klopp will go all out to get someone in that he knows and feels can improve them a lot.

Chelsea seem to have pulling power simply by being known as a billionaire club and by being in London, so I'd expect them to grab a striker (Lukaku back seems possible) and possibly Greizmann or something, or Mahrez if Griezmann goes elsewhere.

Arsenal seem to keep pulling off one surprisingly top signing most summers lately, so maybe we'll see Isco or someone similarly improbable go there.

Leicester will pick up some bargains and may see Mahrez and Vardy leave, actually, Vardy would fit nicely at Liverpool...

Tottenham will retain their players mostly, and make a couple of good, but uninspiring signings from mid table clubs.

We'll struggle to attract players as they'll see us as being something of a sinking ship and won't want to play under Van Gaal and his 'tactics'. We might be able to get Mahrez if we overpay, but I expect a summer of disappointments. I'd completely revise this if we were to get Mourinho, but we won't.
 
Players will use us to get new contracts
Ed Woodward will look stupid
We'll go after high profile players with audacious that we've no chance of signing
We'll start the season still with half the team to fill
 
City and Chelsea will get considerably stronger

Man Utd will depend on our managerial appointment or lack of

Spurs will make a shock signing

Leicester will lose Mahrez

Man Utd will lose De Gea to Madrid
 
United will be linked with gaitan, garay and wesley sniejder. All of them will be very close to joining and then not join .
United will be linked to a player they have no interest in and the said player after moving to pool/city will say they rejected united.
Arsenal will sign a 1 player at end of transfer window, while rest of the transfer window they get linked, their fans go mad with rage and wenger is seen half naked on some beach in south of france
 
Arsenal will fail to sign a proven striker...instead buying a promising but ultimately underwhelming playmaker.
 
I can see a huge amount of movement this window. Madrid have the transfer ban looming over them and look likely to shift a few, City have pep joining and I'd be shocked if he's keen to keep Yaya/Fernando as part of his CM, Chelsea are coming off their worst season in a long time and Wenger was the only manager not to buy an outfield player last summer, then you have Klopp at pool and we will surely look to invest in a few big names.
 
CR7 to P$G
Ibra/Cavani to Arsenal
Player of the tournament of Euros to RM
Thiago, Stones to City
Hazard to RM
Bale to Utd
Arsenal to break Ozil's club record fee
Mahrez to leave
Vardy to leave
Isco to Arsenal
Laporte to Utd/City
Pogba to leave
RM to sign Aguero
 
I've a feeling if we get Mourinho then we may get Terry as well and being honest I don't see that as a bad thing and may even be good for us to have his know how alongside Smallings pace for a year. Is that even a possibility?

We should get a winger, centre half, striker and another centre midfielder.

Other teams I would expect to all improve from their current positions as money becomes a bigger pull for arguably smaller teams. I expect Bournemouth to continue their surges into the transfer market and to surprise a few once again by pulling off an audacious deal that nobody sees coming.

Leicester to be smart and sign top premier league players to cement their place towards the upper echelons of the league and to keep Vardy but lose Mahrez. I think players like Sigurdsson, Shawcross, Redmond/Arnautovic are the types of players they could target with the prospect of CL football or am I aiming too low for them? They could get Zlatan as he perhaps likes Red Leicester and has been inspired by the story of a cheese winning the league???
 
I think this could be one of the busiest windows ever

- Madrid will rebuild (Maybe Ronaldo, James, Isco, Kroos out, a lot of top players in)
- City is going to spend like crazy to build a team "worthy" of Guardiola, they could even get 2 or more signings past the 70M € mark
- Bayern could sign some consistent players around Europe, even though that's up to Carlo
- Barcelona will (again) try to strenght their defense and possibly going to fail on that purpose
- A lot of middle table PL teams will get in the way of some crazy signs, that will raise the price of a lot of players
- City and Madrid will expend most money, followed by United and maybe Bayern, Juve and Chelsea
- I don't know if Chinese teams have a transfer window in Summer, but if they do they might get some European legends or even top quality players (Hello Wayne Rooney, Agüero?)
 
Van Gaalacticos said:
I've a feeling if we get Mourinho then we may get Terry as well and being honest I don't see that as a bad thing and may even be good for us to have his know how alongside Smallings pace for a year. Is that even a possibility?

We should get a winger, centre half, striker and another centre midfielder.

Other teams I would expect to all improve from their current positions as money becomes a bigger pull for arguably smaller teams. I expect Bournemouth to continue their surges into the transfer market and to surprise a few once again by pulling off an audacious deal that nobody sees coming.

Leicester to be smart and sign top premier league players to cement their place towards the upper echelons of the league and to keep Vardy but lose Mahrez. I think players like Sigurdsson, Shawcross, Redmond/Arnautovic are the types of players they could target with the prospect of CL football or am I aiming too low for them? They could get Zlatan as he perhaps likes Red Leicester and has been inspired by the story of a cheese winning the league???
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So Mourinho dropped terry for poor performance and then decides to sign him here...can't see it.
 
Von Mistelroum said:
Sounds fun.

I expect to see City make some huge signings. Pogba is a good shout and I think Pep will talk some big players into going there.

Liverpool will probably get someone like Gundogan as their marquee signing. He'll live to regret it, but I think Klopp will go all out to get someone in that he knows and feels can improve them a lot.

Chelsea seem to have pulling power simply by being known as a billionaire club and by being in London, so I'd expect them to grab a striker (Lukaku back seems possible) and possibly Greizmann or something, or Mahrez if Griezmann goes elsewhere.

Arsenal seem to keep pulling off one surprisingly top signing most summers lately, so maybe we'll see Isco or someone similarly improbable go there.

Leicester will pick up some bargains and may see Mahrez and Vardy leave, actually, Vardy would fit nicely at Liverpool...

Tottenham will retain their players mostly, and make a couple of good, but uninspiring signings from mid table clubs.

We'll struggle to attract players as they'll see us as being something of a sinking ship and won't want to play under Van Gaal and his 'tactics'. We might be able to get Mahrez if we overpay, but I expect a summer of disappointments. I'd completely revise this if we were to get Mourinho, but we won't.
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I don't think Gundogan will go to Liverpool...Isco to Arsenal makes sense, and he'd be a massive upgrade on the right for them....Spurs I think will go foreign with their PL money, as I don't see a ton of non-Leicester players that will be raided....My prediction with Pep is that he will be surprised how weak the team's back 6 is once he studies them more and isn't at Bayern and make a bunch of signings in those areas rather than attack, along with a RW who can play wide from there.
 
KingMinger22 said:
- Average transfer prices will increase a solid 10-15% i.e. a player that may have cost £40m last summer will cost closer to £50m this year

- £50m is the new £30m. At least ten PL transfers will break the £50m mark.
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- KingMinger is told he's being held back a year at school because his maths is so poor.
 
Twigginater said:
I think that some of the transfers that relatively small clubs like Everton and Watford make will blow some people away. I expect players to start leaving really high profile clubs to come and join the premier league.
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That will never happen. They are getting a 50 percent increase in tv money. Not overall revenue. I can see players that are no longer wanted like Shaqiri and Afelley but top players from high profile clubs like Aubameyang/Dortmund? That money is nowhere near enough. They are asking for 100m..
 
People will start raging that we didn't sign anyone even before the transfer window will open, like every year.
 
ottosec said:
People will start raging that we didn't sign anyone even before the transfer window will open, like every year.
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Never ceases to amaze me how people get so wound up about something "not happening" when in reality they have no idea either way.
 
Liverpool to sign a keeper and someone from Dortmund.

David De Gea signing for Real Madrid.

Arsenal probably won't sign the players necessary to push on.

Clubs like Everton, Stoke and Bournemouth to spend a decent sum of money on players.

Hazard leaving Chelsea seems like a real possibility as well.

My crazy one is Ronaldo going back to United.
 
-I think that the protagonists of the market will be the midfielders.Many new managers looking forward to get the right midfielder to mold the team. A war for Pogba but also Koke.
-I think that Cristiano will leave Madrid, and perhaps Benzema too. If I had to bet I would say that there will be another surprise , Isco , James or Kroos . It will depend on the dates of the elections and candidates. The club will bring Morata back, to do the preseason, but I am not sure if he will stay.
For months I was sure that Cristiano would go to France,now I have my doubts.
It is too early to say names but once the renewal of Neymar is announced, the priorities should be Hazard, Lewandowski and a pair of top midfielders . All depends on what happens in the Euro . Nobody wins an election or convince people with Hazard in such a poor state.
- I have my doubts about the continuity of Simeone at Atlético , but in any case I think they will sell important players, the first Saúl, who has already rejected two renewal bids.
-Mourinho/United will want a midfielder with a wide range of pass + a mega top in the attack. Mata will leave the club, and perhaps Herrera.
-Madrid will sign De Gea and United will buy Oblak.
-Sampaoli will sign for a big team
 
-Chelsea will surely respond to this season - Roman's money will start flowing again, which will just add more fuel to the already crazy fire that will be the summer transfer window. What's more interesting to me with them is how Roman will handle all the players that spent so much of the season playing to get their manager sacked. If Roman doesn't boot out large numbers then there will be further trouble ahead. However if they manage to avoid the Europa League then I'd make them favourites for the title next season after this window.

-City will have another huge window, possibly a record-breaking window as others have suggested. Pep has not joined the richest club in England without spending like a bastard. With Pep spending Mansour's money, expectations will be very high.

-Arsenal will be the same as ever - a decent end to the season and the top four place will take some pressure off Wenger, though it will inevitably build the longer they go without doing anything major, but I think they will end the window with a big signing.

-Liverpool I expect to have a major, major window. They have so much crap to get rid off, and now that they have a top quality manager for the first time in ages, then I'm fearing the worst. Bastards.

And as for us, who the feck knows anymore? Will the Glazers react like they did the first time we missed-out on the Champions League, or will they take a more pragmatic approach to spending? Eitherway I don't see us being high on the list of destinations for major players, and with LVG (or maybe Giggs) then I don't see the squad being anymore complete by the end of the window. Maybe a slight outside chance of a ludicrous move for someone like Bale whilst the rest of the squad is ignored, but I doubt that, especially if Real get their ban. If they don't, then DDG is gone, and his replacement will cost us more than we get from them for DDG. Basically I think we're in for a window severely lacking in... value :nervous:

Also I think Ronaldo to PSG will got ahead, despite any ban Real have on signing players - there will be too much Qatari money for Real to turndown.

There's a great demand for good players, but I think the supply is lacking to meet that demand. Plenty will miss out.
 
LVG and Giggs to leave

Best transfer window ever
 
Von Mistelroum said:
Sounds fun.

I expect to see City make some huge signings. Pogba is a good shout and I think Pep will talk some big players into going there.

Liverpool will probably get someone like Gundogan as their marquee signing. He'll live to regret it, but I think Klopp will go all out to get someone in that he knows and feels can improve them a lot.

Chelsea seem to have pulling power simply by being known as a billionaire club and by being in London, so I'd expect them to grab a striker (Lukaku back seems possible) and possibly Greizmann or something, or Mahrez if Griezmann goes elsewhere.

Arsenal seem to keep pulling off one surprisingly top signing most summers lately, so maybe we'll see Isco or someone similarly improbable go there.

Leicester will pick up some bargains and may see Mahrez and Vardy leave, actually, Vardy would fit nicely at Liverpool...

Tottenham will retain their players mostly, and make a couple of good, but uninspiring signings from mid table clubs.

We'll struggle to attract players as they'll see us as being something of a sinking ship and won't want to play under Van Gaal and his 'tactics'. We might be able to get Mahrez if we overpay, but I expect a summer of disappointments. I'd completely revise this if we were to get Mourinho, but we won't.
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Where he will go on a barren run of 2 seasons scoring less than 5 goals in each, before being sold to a club like Watford for 23p and a packet of crisps. And we will laugh.
 
I think we are in for a very disappointing Summer, Van Gaal or Giggs being in charge next season and us wasting more money on average players.
 
Real Madrid will experiment with e-mail as a method of communication, only to go and spend £80 on a new fax machine by the end of the window when it wasn't needed.

Then there will be a massive debate on how they can use both the old and new fax machine at the same time, and why they didn't just give e-mail a chance.
 
I can see Yaya going to Juve to replace Pogba.
 
With the new TV money taking effect, I can foresee an absolute clusterfeck of a window about to ensue. Everyone and their dog will bid for Vardy, he will likely be transferred to 3 different clubs during the window, finally ending up at the dippers where his inevitable failure will lead them to yet another season of obscurity.

Bale will end up at Old Trafford where he will be hailed as the second coming by the faithful "the Welsh Wizard hath cometh" they will say. Only to discover that in his infinite wisdom, LVG saw fit to play him as Mike's partner at centerback leading us to ten 0-0 draws in a row "to the LVG outeth thread" they did say.

Ronaldo will join PSG for fee that will literally "break" the world.
 
diarm said:
I can see Yaya going to Juve to replace Pogba.
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Good call, if not for Yaya's wages. Would Juve want to pay him what he'd no doubt want?
 
Ilkay Gundogan and Paul Pogba to move clubs. Yaya Toure to China?
 
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