Transfer Tweets - Summer 2017 | Keep it on topic
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Until JM or EW come out and say our transfers are complete for the summer then there's deals still being worked on.
Shame it is white. Would prefer to Dier over Matic due to age, nationality and to annoy those pesky Spurs fans.
Dier the new smokescreen for Matic? We surely know Levy won't sell us Dier even for 40/50 million but might be doing it to play Chelsea for the second time this window....
There is over a month of the window so cannot see them saying it's done. In fact if they did that with all this time left people would go nuts. So here's hoping for news.
The idea that we would bid £40 odd million as a smokescreen to buy somebody else is just laughable.If we have put a bid in for Dier then we want him, pure and simple.
That Dier bid was a while back according to the guardian, and rejected off hand. Levy wouldn't sell us their third choice U18 left back so don't see us getting Dier.
I think Dier is our first choice for DMF. Matic is the plan b if it failed. The problem will be in how to secure Dier from Spurs.
Is Jimbo going to be right for once?
the irony of your criticism..
I'm pretty sure David Gill or Fergie used come out and say the transfer business was done mid summer as we would acquire our targets quite early in the summer.
Benatia
60 mill ought to do it.
This was in one of the tweets earlier today. Spurs rejected it, hence we've turned out attention back to Matic.
To be fair he did get the Lukaku deal right albeit after he had signed but still you got to crawl before you walk...
AC Milan are an exciting project, historically huge plus he'll be paid more.
What do Dortmund have to offer? 2nd/3rd in the league every season and a good atmosphere? Bundesliga is trash.
I think I'll have no problem if we paid this for him tbh. If full backs are sold in this market for +50m, then midfielders will be worth more anyway.
Dier is young and still have room for development. The price may very well be seen as a bargain some years later.
Which towards the end of their reign is why we are in a bit of a mess now.
You took my post wrongly. The difference on SAF dealing is his team is good enough to challenge & win the league without upgrading the CM position. Then we had a monster midfielder in Pogba in our academy (Raiola played a blinder on it with SAF being stubborn), so there were some planning on long term. Herrera was tracked under SAF too which his signing was club signing as both Moyes & LVG didn't really know him that well. SAF proved his decision is right. Thing is people are talking about where SAF left (still a very healthy situation for a competent manager to take over) without acknowledging his genius & what he would have done in those situation. They applied their own thinking into the situation & brought out generic narrative from ANBU about SAF would have struggled in same situation if he had continued. It has been proven again & again that SAF keeps improving himself & eventually overcome obstacles & new challenges. ABU has been long for the day where SAF wouldn't respond their wrong accusation, that is when he retired & has no team to manage.
Here the City situation is they didn't upgrade last season, leaving themselves tackling all the expected problem now. Pep didn't disprove nothing from the doubt people have about his philosophy (having better players than his rivals & false development vs fine tuning). Of course nothing wrong about fixing the problem by forking out inflated market price. Just saying it's not some sort of genius doing so.
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If it happens I wonder how Spurs will look to plug the gaps left following the departure of both him and Walker.
Carrick & Berbatov were obvious exceptions? Levy will sell any unhappy player, but he'll rightly extract top dollar for them.
They are going to spend 26 million for a backup fb and people are annoyed at the fact the are willing to spend 50 million to get a cm for first team
thats great Jim, just waiting on Benatia to land then i'll get back to you on Dier. Since 2014, so we wont hold our breath!
30 million used to be marquee signing money. Ferdinand/Rooney money. Now it gets you about 1.12 of a backup fullback.
So frustrated...Milan signing a whole new team, City picking off players they want left and right and yet we struggle.....how in the feck were we not able to get a decent fecking DM or winger by now?? Surely Mourinho has to be asking questions about Verratti since PSG want Neymar so bad. Prices are so out of control now...Ive always preferred a good younger player as so that we can build a dominate team for years to come.....offer 85m for Keita....go all in and offer 100m for Verratti....do something Woody!!!! Matic would be fine but hes 29 and we will be looking for another DM in a couple of seasons and thats IF Matic does the job.....
Why are these type of players already not at the club with scouting itself. Why do they always land in tottenham. Carrick modric . I hate going to spurs to buy players.
You took my post wrongly. The difference on SAF dealing is his team is good enough to challenge & win the league without upgrading the CM position. Then we had a monster midfielder in Pogba in our academy (Raiola played a blinder on it with SAF being stubborn), so there were some planning on long term. Herrera was tracked under SAF too which his signing was club signing as both Moyes & LVG didn't really know him that well. SAF proved his decision is right. Thing is people are talking about where SAF left (still a very healthy situation for a competent manager to take over) without acknowledging his genius & what he would have done in those situation. They applied their own thinking into the situation & brought out generic narrative from ANBU about SAF would have struggled in same situation if he continued. It has been proven from time to time that SAF keeps improving himself & eventually overcome obstacles & new challenges. ANBU has been long for the day where SAF wouldn't respond their wrong accusation, that is when he retired & has no team to manage no team.
Here the City situation is they didn't upgrade last season & tackling the problem now. Pep didn't disprove nothing from the doubt people have about his philosophy (having better players than his rivals & false development vs fine tuning). Of course nothing wrong about fixing the problem forking out inflated market price. Just saying it's not some sort of genius doing so.
Moyes is the biggest effing culprit of that problem.
Mourinho wants Matic or Dier. However underwhelming they might seem, they're the manager's choice. Woodward isn't going to go for players the manager doesn't want, hence why we've not been linked with Keita or Verratti. Even if we did want Verratti, PSG have made it clear he isn't available.
I did see something earlier about United looking at Vidal.
Buying loads of players isn't some sign of genius, it's a sign of awful planning to need to do so much surgery in one go.
Like spurs will accept 40 m. He'd want 60 - 65. Wil it be better than?
Our Vidal? In that case it's look, don't touch.
What about fabinho? Monaco not selling him?