David Moyes on Declan Rice:
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David Moyes on Declan Rice:
Simeone has spoken on Trippier's situation:
Stone also reports on Newcastle's formal bid for Trippier:
Stone also reports on Newcastle's formal bid for Trippier:
Let’s get after Zakaria
Juventus want a loan with no purchase obligation. This doesn't necessarily mean that Juve don't want a purchase option, though.
This is going to be one of MLS's biggest contracts ever if true.
Why does it seem players like him move back and forth to Italy whilst achieving feck all, same with Morata.
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Baffling that we gave Mata a new deal in the first place. Would be nice to shift some deadwood this window, Jones etc.
Good move for him I think. Looked good for Barnsley last season when I was able to watch them play.
They are battling for promotion. If he can be good enough to earn a starting role, he will be better for it.
Yeah, he was due this move to better himself as a player. Ismaël also seems to trust him, so I wouldn't be surprised if he gets a good number of minutes.
Well, this is a surprise!
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I wasn't expecting Augsburg to have a chance at getting him. I don't know how he'll fare there, but good luck to him nonetheless!
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I wasn't expecting Augsburg to have a chance at getting him. I don't know how he'll fare there, but good luck to him nonetheless!
No idea where Augsburg has 20m from.
Soooooo….. not really feeling this at all. They are amongst the lowest scorers in the league and have looked meh when I have watched them. Good luck I guess and good for Pepsi I guess???
Not sure that is better than where he was for development? Perhaps gets bigger teams looking at him?
See my post above but yeah, not super happy. Between this and Dike’s move I think that Dike’s us a better fit. We desperately need a 9 who is used to, and can convert, chances.
Very weird indeed.
i was reading that an American investor David Blitzer put up an additional €10M to make the deal happen.
It is a surprising transfer. Augsburg on their own do not have the means to complete the deal. But according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung the club the club's main investor Hofmanns Investoren GmbH, which owns 99.4% of the FC Augsburg GmbH sold 45% of their shares to American investor David S. Blitzer last spring. Blitzer is a private equity investor and is a co-managing partner and minority owner of several sports teams including Premier League side Crystal Palace. Augsburg were hit hard by COVID-19 and the lack of spectators over the last two seasons and could not have made the deal without external investment.
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I don't really trust Romano's $20m plus addons, Bild for example report a fee of €13m. Which is still pretty insane by Augsburg's standards at a time when they have to play without fans again. I don't understand why a somewhat promising talent would go there either: under Weinzierl they are among the teams that play the dullest football in the league and even before him they weren't necessarily tactical visionaries.
Maybe Bayern are involved?! Pepi came through the academy of their partner club, he has the right age to be a Lewandowski successor and they were linked with him before. I wouldn't be surprised if they did something similar like with Gnabry, help another club complete the signing in exchange for a very cheap release clause.
Maybe Bayern are involved?! Pepi came through the academy of their partner club, he has the right age to be a Lewandowski successor and they were linked with him before. I wouldn't be surprised if they did something similar like with Gnabry, help another club complete the signing in exchange for a very cheap release clause.
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Someone told my brother something in private, and he then told me and now I'm telling everyone.
So much for that then. At least the podcast was right about Pepi being sold in winter..
No doubt playing in Bundesliga is a big step up for him, but this is still a very undewhelming move for the supposedly biggest US striker talent..
Just happy for him he doesn't have to live in Wolfsburg.
The Sueddeutsche article is interesting in this context, indeed. I hadn't read about (or if I did I forgot) that investor deal, but he basically owns almost half of Augsburg now (as well as apparently being a decade long acquaintance of Augsburg's de facto 'owner' Hoffmann, who is the president of the club and whose company holds all the shares of the football company, with the actual 'club' being general partner in control of governance).
This is also another example of just what kind of complicated contructions and legal structures often exist going along with the 50+1 rule, and how far removed from the simple misunderstanding of "50+1 means fan-owned and no outside investment allowed" these arrangements and forms are.
It shows that outside investment is possible and happening, as the 50+1 rule refers merely to the voting control, responsibilities and legal liabilities of the clubs. These are in fact football companies (in different forms, in this case a limited joint-stock company if I get that right with my laymen's understanding of business forms, in Dortmund's case even a publicly traded corporation) owned by investors while being controlled by a sports club.
It's very possible, or likely, that the transfer is connected to this coownership, as it makes the club instantly more attractive for the American market.
The thought has crossed people's mind, yes, not excluding mine. For what it's worth (arguably not very much), SportBild's Augsburg and Bayern reporter Altschäffl says it's not the case.
But honestly, I don't see it either. Without wanting to offend the US contingent here, I don't think that Bayern rate Pepi high enough to invest that much in him, and I don't think even Bayern have these kinds of sums lying around currently to nurture a merely speculative deal, spending for a player that isn't even in our squad.
Anyway, what happened to Wolfsburg? Not that I would wish moving to a different continent, and finding yourself in Wolfsburg, on anyone, least of all a perfectly nice Texan kid like Pepi.
Lukaku is such a massive sausage. God along knows what a player he’d be if he had a decent attitude
No offense taken at all. I really like Pepi, but he was poor in the league after his fantastic National team debut. He is only 18 and he has some great qualities, but he is nowhere near Bayern’s level now, and may never be.
In my opinion, and I really hope I am wrong, this seems like Sargent all over again.
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Pretty much the same tank of a player with a gruesome touch. Lukaku is a very limited player regardless of his off-field antics, sick and tired of his bullshit to be fair.
Well yeah, it's a move in the right direction, no? Table toppers?
Why risk it when he's already playing all the time and performing well?
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