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Damien said:
Seems like your high tier people only know who Liverpool aren't interested in goalkeeper-wise and not who you are interested in. Alisson and Oblak links seem dead but maybe you're after Donnarumma.
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Klopp: I would be 'the biggest idiot in world' if Karius wasn't good
 
Damien said:
Seems like your high tier people only know who Liverpool aren't interested in goalkeeper-wise and not who you are interested in. Alisson and Oblak links seem dead but maybe you're after Donnarumma.
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I've got a feeling we'll sell Mignolet and go into the season with Karius and Ward as our two keepers.

I'd be ok with that based on how Karius has played over the last 6 months. Apart from the CL final he's mostly looked decent with Van Dijk playing in front of him.

Maybe it's something to reassess in January.
 
el3mel said:
Brazil are in World Cup quarter final, while several other big teams were shown the door earlier. Maybe they aren't pleasent on the eye but they are solid and doing the job without much fuss.

We have Pogba, Sanchez and Lukaku, with some young talents on the bench, while we really lack an out and out winger who provide width on the right. William fits that imo. We even need a player like that more than Barca.



They already had a full stacked attacking lineup upfront when they bought the likes of Alcacer, with all of them breaking numbers and scoring loads of goals. They surely weren't signing Alcacer to take a spot from them. When Baca want a permanent attacking player, they go on and sign either a top name or one of the best talents worldwide, they always did that : Henry, Villa, Suarez, Neymar Coutinho, Dembele..etc. Alcacer doesn't fit that, and even came with than not needing any starting attacking player.

Dalot was bought as a backup for Valencia that if he plays well he will overake his position after a year or something I believe. No one is predicting Dalot to be a starter by the beginning of the upcoming season.

Investing in attacking players as a backup option so they may be starters in the future is a fine principle and I don't disagree of they were thinking that way and have some flops in the way but you need to consider that if you are buying talents as backups you : a) take a risk anyway as there's no guarantee for any talent to prove its worth and b) you aren't hurting your team since you already have a core of a very good team and even if some talents you bought failed to show their worth they will stay as a backup option.
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You know what, since you seem so adamant in defending Barca's transfer policy, explain two things to me :

1.Barca were planning on buying a #10/shadow striker in Griezmann, even had a verbal agreement with him. But as soon as he snubbed them, they decided to pursue a CM and now are after a RW.
Doesn't that show an absolute lack of planning and buying whoever is available?

2.The alleged Willian bid. Do they really need another 29 year old for 50 - 60 million in an already oldish team while they have the world's second costliest player playing in the same position?
 
Sanche7 said:
You know what, since you seem so adamant in defending Barca's transfer policy, explain two things to me :

1.Barca were planning on buying a #10/shadow striker in Griezmann, even had a verbal agreement with him. But as soon as he snubbed them, they decided to pursue a CM and now are after a RW.
Doesn't that show an absolute lack of planning and buying whoever is available?

2.The alleged Willian bid. Do they really need another 29 year old for 50 - 60 million in an already oldish team while they have the world's second costliest player playing in the same position?
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1- Can you tell me how are both related and who said they moved to this as a replacement for Griezmann ? Maybe they're just targeting different positions, Griezmann included.

2- No one care that much about the age of players signed except United fans. The other teams have no problem buying an aging player to give them 2-3 decent years before shipping him out and replacing him with another player, much better than enduring 2-3 of inconsistency of youngsters in such position with no reliable player to depend on. They can bring Willian as a reliable starter for 2-3 useful years then either Dembele takes the role or buy a superstar present, win-win for everyone. Madrid, Barca, Bayern..etc all have young talents on the bench and depend on reliable starters till these youngsters grow up and start taking the role. The only big clubs whose fans are so obsessed with having young talents playing every game and can't be benched for a 29 years old star is apparently us.

I'm not saying their transfer policy is not at fault, as they made some cheap and unnecessary signings, but my point, their transfer policy can't be that crap with them winning the league and cup on consistent basis from one of the best teams in the world, so they must be doing something right. They also used the money they got from Neymar very well for example and added Coutinho and Dembele to the team to cover more positions and give the team much more solidity than even at the presence of Neymar himself. You can see how Liverpool misused the money they got from selling Suarez or how we did the same when we sold Ronaldo and you'll know what they did wasn't that easy.
 
el3mel said:
1- Can you tell me how are both related and who said they moved to this as a replacement for Griezmann ? Maybe they're just targeting different positions, Griezmann included.

2- No one care that much about the age of players signed except United fans. The other teams have no problem buying an aging player to give them 2-3 decent years before shipping him out and replacing him with another player, much better than enduring 2-3 of inconsistency of youngsters in such position with no reliable player to depend on. They can bring Willian as a reliable starter for 2-3 useful years then either Dembele takes the role or buy a superstar present, win-win for everyone. Madrid, Barca, Bayern..etc all have young talents on the bench and depend on reliable starters till these youngsters grow up and start taking the role. The only big clubs whose fans are so obsessed with having young talents playing every game and can't be benched for a 29 years old star is apparently us.

I'm not saying their transfer policy is not at fault, as they made some cheap and unnecessary signings, but my point, their transfer policy can't be that crap with them winning the league and cup on consistent basis from one of the best teams in the world, so they must be doing something right. They also used the money they got from Neymar very well for example and added Coutinho and Dembele to the team to cover more positions and give the team much more solidity than even at the presence of Neymar himself. You can see how Liverpool misused the money they got from selling Suarez or how we did the same when we sold Ronaldo and you'll know what they did wasn't that easy.
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1.Because all theses links appeared after Griezmann snubbed them. Also a zillion reports claiming the same :

Barcelona's main objective after Griezmann snub: A new midfielder
Now it's all about a "top class" central midfielder. This is the radical switch in priorities from the sporting department following Antoine Griezmann's decision to stay at Atletico Madrid. Barcelona want a new midfielder to take over the mantle left by Andres Iniesta.

https://www.sport-english.com/en/news/barca/barcelonas-main-objective-a-new-midfielder-6881538

2.Well Barca should care about the age of the players they are buying as I said in my previous post 7 out of their starting 11 are 30 or above. Paulinho who is the next in line is 31.Adding an expensive 30 year old to an old squad, in a position they really don't need to strengthen is again IMO very poor planning
 
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Gabi leaves Atletico. Has arrived in Qatar.

Was hoping he'd be around the team next year and help them lift some silverware. One of my favorite players and most underrated players for years.
 
Sanche7 said:
1.Because all theses links appeared after Griezmann snubbed them. Also a zillion reports claiming the same :

Barcelona's main objective after Griezmann snub: A new midfielder
Now it's all about a "top class" central midfielder. This is the radical switch in priorities from the sporting department following Antoine Griezmann's decision to stay at Atletico Madrid. Barcelona want a new midfielder to take over the mantle left by Andres Iniesta.

https://www.sport-english.com/en/news/barca/barcelonas-main-objective-a-new-midfielder-6881538

2.Well Barca should care about the age of the players they are buying as I said in my previous post 7 out of their starting 11 are 30 or above. Paulinho who is the next in line is 31.Adding an expensive 30 year old to an old squad, in a position they really don't need to strengthen is again IMO very poor planning
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1- I'll give you that. Maybe they changed targets after he decided to stay and looked for other positions. Griezmann at the end would have been a luxury signing for them I believe.

2- Players don't die once they reach 30 or 31 and Willian will be playing in the same position they have a talent like Dembele in, so they're secured for the future once Willian is done for 2-3 years later. He'll just make them less reliable on inconsistent young talent with a huge price tag on him as a pressure. That will help them and him imo.
 
Klopper76 said:
It's hard to see them staying competitive if they now have to sell to buy players.
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May be they'll start trusting in their youth players for a change. I can see the selling to buy only being a temporary measure though, they're not in the CL again so have less to spend than they're used to.
 
I find it extremely difficult to believe we've turned down an offer "in excess of £50m" from Barca for Willian. I think most Chelsea fans would've said we'd bite someones hand off for £35-40m from a foreign club. Over £50m is the sort of price I'd reluctantly sell him to United for.

Hopefully Barca are serious and push it through. Much as I've loved Willian he's a purple patch player who can never maintain those purple patches for long enough. We need a younger upgrade.
 
el3mel said:
1- I'll give you that. Maybe they changed targets after he decided to stay and looked for other positions. Griezmann at the end would have been a luxury signing for them I believe.

2- Players don't die once they reach 30 or 31 and Willian will be playing in the same position they have a talent like Dembele in, so they're secured for the future once Willian is done for 2-3 years later. He'll just make them less reliable on inconsistent young talent with a huge price tag on him as a pressure. That will help them and him imo.
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You don't buy a player for 110+50? million euros to put him on the bench. Dembele was playing at a very high level for almost two years and was considered by many as the best young player in the world.
If they are indeed buying Willian for 60 million pounds to play 30 games a year, to take the weight off the shoulders of a player who cost 160 mill, there is something wrong with that Barca board.They would have spend 230 million euros just to secure their Right wing. Yup, that's really good business
Not to mention the reports that they were looking to sell him/send him on loan.

Also you must see the irony in your post. First you say that players don't die when they reach their 30s,then you say that Willian will be done for in 2-3 years.

So they are buying a player for 60 million ( who, in your words will be done in 2-3 years ) so that he can be backup to a player who could cost upto 160 million, but somehow that's good business.
OK!
 
Sanche7 said:
You don't buy a player for 110+50? million euros to put him on the bench. Dembele was playing at a very high level for almost two years and was considered by many as the best young player in the world.
If they are indeed buying Willian for 60 million pounds to play 30 games a year, to take the weight off the shoulders of a player who cost 160 mill, there is something wrong with that Barca board.They would have spend 230 million euros just to secure their Right wing. Yup, that's really good business
Not to mention the reports that they were looking to sell him/send him on loan.

Also you must see the irony in your post. First you say that players don't die when they reach their 30s,then you say that Willian will be done for in 2-3 years. I don't agree with that.
So they are buying a player for 60 million ( who, in your words will be done in 2-3 years ) so that he can be backup to a player who could cost upto 160 million, but somehow that's good business.
OK!
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a) They're not keeping Dembele on the bench forever to say that they wasted the money spent on him, as long as they benefit from him at the end when he reaches his peak is the only thing that matters, not his impact now. You said yourself they need to look for the future ?
b) Dembele isn't going to set on the bench the whole upcoming season either, he's going to share games with Willian. Think of it as Asensio in Madrid except for the price tag.
c) 3 years is a good time in football.
 
Arsenal will definitely shore up their midfield from defensive point of view by acquiring Nzonzi in addition to Torreira who on its own is a fantastic little player and will add a real bite to that team.
 
el3mel said:
a) They're not keeping Dembele on the bench forever to say that they wasted the money spent on him, as long as they benefit from him at the end when he reaches his peak is the only thing that matters, not his impact now. You said yourself they need to look for the future ?
b) Dembele isn't going to set on the bench the whole upcoming season either, he's going to share games with Willian. Think of it as Asensio in Madrid except for the price tag.
c) 3 years is a good time in football.
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So about 220 million on RW with a 60 million pound player as backup is good intelligent excellent transfer strategy?! :confused:
Yup, I'm done
 
Sanche7 said:
So about 220 million on RW with a 60 million pound player as backup is good intelligent excellent transfer strategy?! :confused:
Yup, I'm done
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And if this money ended up paying off and leading to success ?
 
Rajma said:
Arsenal will definitely shore up their midfield from defensive point of view by acquiring Nzonzi in addition to Torreira who on its own is a fantastic little player and will add a real bite to that team.
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And instantly fixes Arsenal’s main problems (assuming they play to their usual form)
They’re always going to score goals but probably need a keeper and a LB now
 
golden_blunder said:
And instantly fixes Arsenal’s main problems (assuming they play to their usual form)
They’re always going to score goals but probably need a keeper and a LB now
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They can’t possibly go into the new season with same set of GKs can they? Are they being linked with any?
 
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