Transfer Tweets - Summer 2017 | Keep it on topic

Ok fair enough.

I've seen a lot of Sigurdsson and he's a good player in a terrible team. I wouldn't want him near Utd.

I disagree with you're first statement. I think he's good enough to be in a top 4 team. I agree with your 2nd point though. He wouldn't suit our system.
 
Most we ever paid for a buyout clause was Herrera for 30m pounds unless I'm forgetting someone obvious. I doubt we'll be willing to pay six or seven times more in three years (not to mention the wages and additional fees involved) unless half the squad decide they don't want to get paid the next season.
So you think if Neymar indicated he wants to move to us, we would say no thanks and not pay the clause??
 
Why? Have you watched Sanches play football? He's been awful for the last year, and Bayern making a large profit on their purchase would be hilarious. Dier has shown far more talent than Sanches has in his career so far.

Do you just want Sanches because his name is more exotic and he's not English?
On top of that, sanches isn't really a defensive midfielder. I don't want Dier particularly but we need a proper defensive midfielder and he seems to be the only one we want whose parent club might entertain the offer.
 
So you think if Neymar indicated he wants to move to us, we would say no thanks and not pay the clause??
If Barca aren't willing to negotiate at all and point straight to the clause, then yes. If they are willing to negotiate and give us installment options, then Woody would be camping outside the negotiation room.
 
So you think if Neymar indicated he wants to move to us, we would say no thanks and not pay the clause??

I don't know, his buyout clause is just under £200m. I'm not actually sure we could afford that without making like no other signings that summer (or maybe one cheap one). For all people talk about our wealth there are still limits to what we can spend in one summer. I think it's more likely we would agree a deal of £150-70m tbh.
 
Would be great to see Pepe Reina at City and have a reason to hate them even more.

A real calamity goalkeeper and someone I have majorly disliked since his early Liverpool days. Imagine he dislodged their £34m goalkeeper; Ederson!
 
€220m up front is some ask, even for us. Ordinarily we'd structure big deals to spread the cost. This would be a huge single hit.

Yeah, it's a bit much. Seems to me there is much better value in hijacking the Sanchez deal than in triggering the Neymar clause. But EW might see things differently because Neymar has such a powerful image.
 
Telegraph just tweeted an article about us closing in on perisic then deleted it instantly, might be an embargoed brief tweeted early by accident
 
Neymar available for the price of a small Carribbean island by the sounds of it. No player in world football is worth £200 million.

Will be wanting same wages as Messi £500,000 thousand a week so £26m a year for 5 years

total outlay £330m and knowing our luck will get injured in first game and will head off to Brazil to recuperate
 
Neymar available for the price of a small Carribbean island by the sounds of it. No player in world football is worth £200 million.
Quite. We should steer well clear of this. It's just ludicrous to spend double the current world record on a single player.

Let PSG pay it if they want.
 
no thats the reported next bid, or what theyll go to.

also, "is not for sale at any price" doesnt exist.
You are probably right and they will come again totally ignoring everything, but that won't make them look any smarter. It shows pure ignorance and delusion and I am not sure if RBL are going to stay relatively calmed..could see them responding in a not so kind manner next time.
 
I'm 40. I'm amazed I managed to get to work today, because reading this forum, I should have had a stroke after walking 5 yards.
40 is the new 30 so you can chill for a bit yet. That also makes Perisic 18 years old.