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CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
The Transfer Window has officially opened in England, its silly season time.

Dont bold deals until they are actually done, everytime you do this a little piece of our beloved mod dies inside.

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CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
Didn't he tell Gatuso to gently caress off during a match?

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
Apparently he wants more control at PSG and wants more input in transfers and was quoted saying "Don't bring in any more Brazilians"

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
https://www.agi.it/sport/calcio_accordo_juve-guardiola_firma_4_giugno-5528607/news/2019-05-23/


quote:

Guardiola and Juve have reached a 4-year, €24M/yr agreement to be signed on June 4th. Guardiola will be officially presented on June 14th.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

advanced statsman posted:

wasn't expecting this. were there rumors about this already? is this a boldable deal?

Not bolding that until its actually confirmed.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

blue footed boobie posted:

City aren’t sensibly run, but yeah Guardiola should ride this out as long as he can.

From the past he seems to get "bored" at clubs pretty quickly after winning a lot. So he might see a challenge at Juve with their european woes, but then again, he has the same challenge at City so :shrug:

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
I dont know if the prospect of having Ronaldo on one of his teams might tempt him

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

pik_d posted:

I wonder how much sway Ronaldo has over Juve transfers, and how much he'd like someone who clearly see's Messi as the superior player being his manager.

Dunno, but hes just been subpoena'd for this rape allegation so...ruh roh

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
How is Raiola organising this poo poo... I thought he was banned for 3 months.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

habeasdorkus posted:

I wonder what American teams would end up paying players without a draft and rookie contract salary scales/arbitration? Mookie Betts is probably no worse than the 3rd best player in baseball right now, and he's stuck waiting for six full years of service time to accrue before he can be a free agent. He's only making $20m this year at age 26, and won't be a free agent until he's 29. But if a team could sign him when he was coming off his breakout age 23 season, he'd have gotten way, way more than that (and he only earned $950,000 for his age 24 season since he was still pre-arbitration under the union contract).

You just need to go back and look at what Sam Bradford's rookie contract was when he started in the NFL, that contract caused a huge shift which caused a cap on what you can pay rookies.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

trem_two posted:

The Italian journo that keeps insisting that Pep to Juve is a thing is now saying that City are talking to Pochettino to be Pep's replacement. The guy is either going to be hailed as the ultimate ITK lol or ultimate clown.

Didnt he also say they were going after Klopp too

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
Fairly sure this is BS but apparently Real will need to pay Neymar £1.2m a week to get him to sign with them....

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

BWV posted:

i'm always confused if these numbers are net or gross. Some articles I've read say these are after tax numbers meaning Messi pockets around 50 mil a year but Barca pays out closer to 100 mil but I have no idea and it seems to differ from report to report. If it's net that's a big difference from north american sports where the pre-tax numbers are the only ones reported on.

Not that tax matters to Messi much anyway.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
Hahahah apparently Barca's squad vetoed Griezmann's signing, meaning hes left in limbo.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

an_mutt posted:

My favourite Griezmann memory is him going blackface for Halloween a couple years ago

Surprised a team with Suarez in it vetoed his move there

Suarez isnt a fan of French cuisine

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Gigi Galli posted:

Why wouldn't it happen? CL finalists, possible champions, PL runners up by a miniscule margin? Liverpool's a big deal again.

We wont spend the money required

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

quote:

Real are making a final push to sign Belgium forward Hazard, 28, for 120m euros (£107m). The Spanish club are sending a representative to London to meet Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia. (Goal)
And Real are worried Manchester United and Bayern Munich will compete with them to sign Egypt forward Mohamed Salah, 26, from Liverpoolthis summer. (AS - in Spanish)

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

mila kunis posted:

Are Real not interested in signing people at positions other than forwards

***Looks at Real's history***


Nope

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

big crush on Chad OMG posted:

Is this from last year or wtf

Nope, this morning...apparently.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
I'll miss Sturridge, Moreno I genuinely forgot he was still here until I saw him at the final cup ceremony

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

big crush on Chad OMG posted:

There’s two ways to read this headline

First time i read that i thought he said "Any move would be a step up"

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
Hazard to Real is expected to be announced in the next few hours. Rumoured price is £100m

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Healbot posted:

Didn't know you played for Liverpool.

:jerkbag:

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Der Shovel posted:

And the posters too.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
Conte would absolutely not take any of Icardi's poo poo either

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
BBC did a write up of some clubs state of squad:






CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
Guarantee if Utd sign Bissaka before the end of the U21 Euros he will break his leg or something.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
City have put in an £80m bid for Harry McGuire...

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
Much like Kyle Walker, hes not that good but will look like a loving worldbeater in a City team that doesnt need to rely on a strong backline.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Xabi posted:

Remind us when Kyle Walker looked like a world beater.

World beater might be a stretch.

Did he not get in the PL team of the year over TAA somehow?

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

wooger posted:

Bad deal for Palace and Bissaka imo, wonder why they caved.

£50m for Palace is a shitload of money and will go a long way to getting their squad shored up a bit more probably.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

fifty mil is like couch change in this market though

Not for a lower table team it isnt, especially for one player

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

sassassin posted:

lmao

Fans of the big money clubs have lost all sense of perspective.

For a club like Utd, £50m is absolutely worth the punt. In the same sense that Liverpool were right to spend £70m on VVD

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Jose posted:

VVD was the finished product though and wan-bissaka has a single seasons worth of football lol

lol newcastle's budget was £60m with whatever was made from transfers. this was supposed to be the same as last season before ashley decided to take £34m from the club

Ok so maybe its not quite the same.

Its still a £50m punt to shore up a Utd defense thats been pretty awful recently.

CyberPingu fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Jun 26, 2019

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

sassassin posted:

If he fulfils his "potential" then £45m might eventually justify itself but the 7th or 8th highest ever transfer fee for a defender will never be a "bargain".

It is if he helps win them multiple trophies....

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShamoonHafez/status/1143962360039792641

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
Lets talk about Sepp. Baby



Because honestly, i have no idea who this guy is

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
Gonna be funny watching him sit on the bench all year behind Young

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
https://twitter.com/RobDorsettSky/status/1146009801379520512

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CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
That would be pretty low on the list of African Footballing scandals tbh

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