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habeasdorkus posted:WTF? Profit-taking for a year and then planning to go straight back down? Norwich are in a weird position where our recruitment over the last two years has been so implausibly good that prior to this window every position but 2 were already at or in some cases far above the ceiling of quality you'd expect to see playing for Norwich. So now the vast majority of players that would improve the team are way out of our price range. The best work our DOF has done this window is signing up almost the entire squad to new long term contracts.
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Big Huski Boi posted:William Saliba to Arsenal (and then immediately back to St Etienne) is a done deal: https://www.arsenal.com/news/salibasigns-saliba-join-club Lol wtf
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Brendan Rodgers posted:drat wasn't Andre player of the month after his first few matches for Swansea what happened to him? Andre Ayew was always poo poo but people thought he was good because he scored some late consolation goals for us. We were awful when he played. As soon as he was dropped the team improved massively (Gylfi especially, Andre kept literally getting in his way in front of goal when he was supposed to be playing right wing). Guidolin sussed him out day one and it's one of the reasons Huw Jenkins turned on him imo. A lot of costly business done with the Ayews/Gomis' agent. Bringing Andre back from West Ham would be the most obvious-at-the-time transfer failure in our history had we not signed Wilf back that same season. He's on at least £80k a week for another two seasons.
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I too think Arsenal signing a French child and completely ignoring the worst area of their team is "savvy". Ceballos is an ok signing but it doesn't fit my narrative so I left him out to suit my own agenda.
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An Actual Bear posted:I too think Arsenal signing a French child and completely ignoring the worst area of their team is "savvy". Ceballos looks to be a good player but it's just a loan with no option to buy which is not "savvy" for what's supposed to be a top 6 team Small club mindset, basically
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An Actual Bear posted:I too think Arsenal signing a French child and completely ignoring the worst area of their team is "savvy". How do you pick one worst area?
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Backdoor Delivery posted:How do you pick one worst area? It’s the one where Mustafi is
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Backdoor Delivery posted:How do you pick one worst area? Seriously though, you can't. People think we should prioritize a center back but even the best center back in the world can't do poo poo when you've got Xhaka constantly losing possession in midfield, two full backs who barely defend, and wide players who don't cover for those full backs' attacking runs (incidentally our only reliable source of offense).
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De Rossi to Boca Juniors is pretty much a done deal but it be bolded on monday.
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hello i am phone posted:De Rossi to Boca Juniors is pretty much a done deal but it be bolded on monday. https://twitter.com/BocaJrsOficial/status/1154489168296157184?s=20 done deal
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I know gently caress all about Boca really but this seems like a cool transfer to me. Hell, I may subscribe to Mundial because of it.
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De Rossi wants to wear the colors (officially, not as a full kit wanker) & that's cool and good
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Bruce has said Newcastle are after Allan Saint-Maximin and he was left out of Nice's pre-season match against Boavista
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Jul 26, 2019 09:58
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Alderweireld's 25M release clause has expired, so I guess he just plays out the last season of the contract.
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There’s definitely something dodgy about him besides the wage demands.
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Jul 26, 2019 14:22
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:There’s definitely something dodgy about him besides the wage demands. It's hard to really tell, but I haven't seen much in the last 4 years. I do question his agent, since he didn't get big moves to Atletico or when he was loaned over to Southampton. There were some rumors that none of the top clubs wanted him and that he didn't want to take a step down...but even at 30 you'd think 25 M gets you a quality defender for at least the next 3 seasons.
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i'd never heard of jarrod bowen before we were linked with him but he scored 22 goals in the championship last season and is only 22 so sign him up bruce/charnley/ashley
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Jose posted:i'd never heard of jarrod bowen before we were linked with him but he scored 22 goals in the championship last season and is only 22 so sign him up bruce/charnley/ashley Hull have only got two good players and he's one of them.
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Jul 26, 2019 15:41
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Micah Richards to retirement is a done deal
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:There’s definitely something dodgy about him besides the wage demands. This is what the telegraph reckon. (Cut and paste because of paywall.) quote:It looked like the easiest deal of the summer and yet Toby Alderweireld’s £25million Tottenham Hotspur release clause this week expired leaving the Belgian to consider whether or not to run down his final year or sign a new contract with the club.
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Jose posted:Micah Richards to retirement is a done deal Wow I thought that happened a decade ago.
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Xabi posted:Wow I thought that happened a decade ago. He only just turned 31 a month ago as well
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Xabi posted:Wow I thought that happened a decade ago. He was getting paid £60k per week by Villa to sit in the physios room for the last four years or something. To be fair to him, he had a very unusual meniscus tear injury that meant he lost pretty much all cartilage in his knee to the point that he had more or less bone on bone contact. He seems like a very decent sort, too. A shame for him: “I’m a footballer and I want to play football, but the knee would swell up to the point where I couldn’t even train properly,” he reflected. “I would have liked to have given Aston Villa more on the pitch, but it just wasn’t to be." https://www.mancity.com/news/club-news/club-news/2019/july/man-city-micah-richards-retires
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So it sounds like Spurs only offered like half the amount for Dybala that had been reported. PSG are in for him now, I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see him go there, and they could make the type of offer that would help offset all of Juve's spending this summer.
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trem_two posted:So it sounds like Spurs only offered like half the amount for Dybala that had been reported. PSG are in for him now, I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see him go there, and they could make the type of offer that would help offset all of Juve's spending this summer. It seems like that story was leaked by the spurs pr team. I'm not quite why but would I reckon must be more to do with tussling with betis rather than a genuine bid. That is purely speculation though.
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https://twitter.com/BocaJrsOficial/status/1154818594921992192 Bolded 4 years contract with no release clausule so I guess he'll be in the MLS by January 2020.
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Jose posted:i'd never heard of jarrod bowen before we were linked with him but he scored 22 goals in the championship last season and is only 22 so sign him up bruce/charnley/ashley
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straight up brolic posted:Don’t you already have Dwight Gayle? He’s literally the exact same player Gayle is older and injury prone
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straight up brolic posted:Don’t you already have Dwight Gayle? He’s literally the exact same player Never seen Dwight Gayle carve his way through a midfield.
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Bale is apparently going to get a million a week in China.
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Cutrone left Milan’s summer tour today presumably to go finalize the deal to Wolves. Pretty bummed out about it to be honest. I hope he does well.
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Eau de MacGowan posted:Bale is apparently going to get a million a week in China. If Giggs had any balls he'd drop the greedy oval office
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Just Chamber posted:If Giggs had any balls he'd drop the greedy oval office why
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I don't think Liverpool are going to sign anyone else for the rest of the summer window and it may not end well unless multiple youth players turn out to be superstars.
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This is in an ideal world, of course he wont because he's their best player, sells shirts etc but he clearly does not give a poo poo about playing high quality competitive football anymore and just wants a big sack of cash before he retires. I bet if China hadn't offered him stupid money he'd have been happy to run out his contract and play golf all day if he could. They're never going to get anywhere with the current squad they have even with Bale and too much of the focus is on him in the welsh team and promoting some young blood to take his place wouldn't be the worst idea.
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Just Chamber posted:This is in an ideal world, of course he wont because he's their best player, sells shirts etc but he clearly does not give a poo poo about playing high quality competitive football anymore and just wants a big sack of cash before he retires. I bet if China hadn't offered him stupid money he'd have been happy to run out his contract and play golf all day if he could. They're never going to get anywhere with the current squad they have even with Bale and too much of the focus is on him in the welsh team and promoting some young blood to take his place wouldn't be the worst idea. Are any of your opinions not from reactionary tabloids?
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Total Meatlove posted:Are any of your opinions not from reactionary tabloids? Isn't the general tabloid view that Bale is being treated so poorly by Real Madrid and he should go to a top flight club and play actual competitive football again? He literally could have gone to any top team in the world if he'd taken a pay cut. I just think a player who'd rather play in one of the lowest tiers of football available to them clearly isn't committed to the game and it sets a bad image, why not give that opportunity to a younger player he's keeping out of the squad? Wales aren't progressing atm with or without him. But please explain why I'm wrong in your opinion. edit: He's 30 so if he wants to gently caress off to China and get his last pay day good for him, I just think it shows that money is his number one priority now rather than playing the best football he can play. Imo it says a lot about someone and their love of the game if they'd rather take 1 million a week to play for some random Chinese club, than reduce their demands to say 250k a week and play Champions League football for probably any other team in the world not called Real Madrid. Just Chamber fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Jul 27, 2019 |
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