if you believe whats written on twitter you mean
Transfer Tweets - 2018/19 | Remember if posting foreign language tweets to post in English too
- Thread starter Damien
- Start date
- Status
if you believe whats written on twitter you mean
I would worry what would happen if he works with someone who can bring the best from him.
I am not expert as I said only see very little of him at Barcelona. This is going off WC games and the friendly vs France: He makes Davidson Sanchez looks like ordinary physically. His athleticism looks top notch = even better than his build suggests. So Bailly kind of freak in a sense.
Yes. If you want me to be sensible and qualify it, then yes!
barca want rid so prob his agent pushing a story to drum up interest or similar
We need to loan out the players we can't sell - honestly anything just to get them off the books for a season. If Napoli want Darmian on loan we should just accept it at this point.
Point is, anyone who calls pre season games “meaningless” is clueless as the games serve some purpose - fitness being a HUGE one. If Martial needs games to be fit, would you rather he irons out his rustiness when the season starts, with points being at stake?
Benedikt Höwedes signs for Lok Moscow.
What a nightmare that is for Chelsea and Drinkwater. No doubt he's on about 150k a week which narrows the potential sale to a certain number of clubs.
I suspect he will see out his contract there and go on various loan spells. I'd go as far as saying he's washed away his career.
Isn’t he a RB?
Was a make-shift RB for France. He is a much better CB.
Bit weird with Chelsea how they buy these less than glamourous players then dump them off. Remember Steve Sidwell?
At least that was a free transfer though.
This was a fairly significant transfer, and never for a second looked like being a good enough player for them
Yep, Mina as a second choice signing to Khoubillay maybe with a ball playing signing as the other and moving two or three centre backs on (one can dream, well, maybe not)
Fair point this post. I disagree with the last post as it sound like working on tactic is always possible and main aim.
Maybe click on transfer tweets at the top of the page rather than clicking in view discussion here
Yes and I remember people in the press and on here saying we should buy him back, ridiculous. He did very well in that title winning side, they all did. But Vardy Mahrez and Kante were to me at least the only players capable of playing for the big sides in the league.
Whatever happened to SMS Savic and the 100 million bids? Was that even real?
Well the president was quoted that a premiership side bid for him, we know Conte was definately after him at Chelsea and according to the recent press report he was supposedly one of Mourinhos main targets this summer. Of course the president could be lying and it is the press but it is definately a more believable rumour.
We are struggling to sign a centre back but I am surprised no big offer seems to have been made for Romagnoli or Upemanco as they are two quality centre backs I would have thought a big bid may be accepted by the club
Exactly. Cant really judge a player not seen before purely from the world cup, but unless you are watching a lot of Brazilian football I wonder how all these people can say he isnt good enough or is poor on the ball when you couldnt have watched him play more than 6/7 times probably even if you had watched him as soon as he came over to Europe?
I did like him in the world cup though, thought he looked strong, athletic with leadership qualities and find it weird people saying how he isnt good enough yet people are saying how good Lindelof was in the world cup....from my eyes Lindelof had a decent world cup that didnt really show anything special, Mina had an excellent world cup.
I don't see the point. It's not like we can't make do with odd appearance from them when injury crisis hit (looks like it's already here). And sound like we have to sell to add fund before buying. Loaning give us nothing but risk with the player may get injured on loan &a further lose value, or the other club pull the plug next season taking some insignificant penalty fee.
People will buy into anything they read in the press or on social media. I think it was pretty clear during the world cup SMS Savic wasn't even worth half that figure.
I'd throw money on him signing for someone average like that guy Seri everyone spoke about for months on end. Barca, Madrid, City, Liverpool, United & Chelsea were all linked with him in the press and where did he end up..........
Fulham
I appreciate he could lose £5/6m from moving to a smaller club on a smaller wage but I dont agree with the logic. Football is a 15-20 career at best. There are obviously mercenaries but I would think somebody liek Drinkwater would want to play as much as possible, maybe even harbouring England hopes. Its hardly like if he drops to £90l a week he has to desperately start thinkign about a pension plan is it
Can play both and apparently played for his club mainly at centre back. Must admit I had never even heard of him until I saw him linked to Arsenal before the world cup
Juve went beyond their limits in buying ronaldo, so they need to balance it with transfers. Not logical or smart! so i guess they are smoking something
Doesnt look like it and gladly. I thought could only be any truth in it if we were selling Pogba and even though he has yet to consistently perform I think he is a much better player, Savid isnt worth anywhere near that figure even in todays market
I'm sorry to tell you this but you'd have to be a complete idiot to drop 90k if you were contracted to it.
These lads have to continue in their current lifestyle beyond their playing years, do you honestly think he'd give up 4.6 million pounds a year?
It's been discussed before, but based on Jose's press conference, it looks like he has a list of 'Practical' players while Woody is looking for cash cows. now there can be only one winner in this! Unfortunately, the football is going to suffer
Yeah the hype around him was incredible. And Seri
Exactly this.
Most people wouldn't want to drop salary even in normal jobs where you're talking a few thousand a year.
So to expect players to write off millions is breathtaking naivety.
It's Koulibaly. And he is a great ball playing CB.
Yep, Mina as a second choice signing to Khoubillay maybe with a ball playing signing as the other and moving two or three centre backs on (one can dream, well, maybe not)
We could help them out by offering 100m for Sandro+Dybala... If they are smoking they might agree
Well be about £3m a year but wouldnt the club have to pay part of his contract if they are selling him anyway, we always seem to be doing it with our players like Blind recently from what I read. If he sits on the bench for three years he will probably struggle to get any kind of decent contract afterwards anyway so in the long run could be worse off staying.
Also lets not forget he has probably doubled or trebled his wage signing for them in the first place so not like going back to the old wage is bread and water again.
I am probably being naive of course, I agree with you and greed is a bad thing. If I was a top footballer though I would want to be playing regularly at the highest level I could, especially at the age he is at not warming a bench for 20% of my career for big money. Lets face it, his career started quite late as he didnt ever break through with us....sayign that it has peaked already hasnt it, will never have another year like his Lecister one if he played ever week for another 100 years
As for Yerry Mina he was known in Brazil and Colombia for his freakish physicality and also his skills on the ball. Though what may pass as special in Brazil may not be the same in La Liga. That said he barely got a look in at Barca with just 4 starts and one 15 minute sub where he got an assist.
What attracted Barca to him was the combination of an aggressive, agile giant who could also dribble. They do require a really high level of passing skill from their CBs at Barca and that's definitely where he's fallen short. Might just be a the Smalling replacement we need. But it would be a huge leap of faith to get him as the new starting Ball playing defender.
What attracted Barca to him was the combination of an aggressive, agile giant who could also dribble. They do require a really high level of passing skill from their CBs at Barca and that's definitely where he's fallen short. Might just be a the Smalling replacement we need. But it would be a huge leap of faith to get him as the new starting Ball playing defender.
Because the board are saying we can't buy new players unless we sell. So even if we loan we could still potentially sign some new players. Playing Darmian won't do us any good - did you see him last night? He was awful.
This would just be buying for the sake of it.
Sale =|= loan, even with option to buy. I already explained the risk of losing value the following year. If the board see that we must sell before buying, it makes no sense they accept a loan move for only taking one year wage off while risk losing more. Darmian is not on high wage that we have to do anything to get his wage off our bill. I meant look loan him now there is a higher chance he would come back next season and unmovable then, so what's the point?
- Status