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Summer 2018 transfer thread

BREAKING NEWS

Saudi Sportswashing Machine have spoken to West Brom over the potential signing of Solomon Rondon. We understand the striker has a £16m release clause in his WBA contract.

However Saudi Sportswashing Machine are unlikely to meet that clause until they sell Aleksandar Mitrovic.

Fulham want to buy the Serb on a permanent basis following an impressive loan spell last season, but would need to pay in the region of £18m.
 
nayimfromthehalfwayline said:
BREAKING NEWS

Saudi Sportswashing Machine have spoken to West Brom over the potential signing of Solomon Rondon. We understand the striker has a £16m release clause in his WBA contract.

However Saudi Sportswashing Machine are unlikely to meet that clause until they sell Aleksandar Mitrovic.

Fulham want to buy the Serb on a permanent basis following an impressive loan spell last season, but would need to pay in the region of £18m.
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Hahahaha! Only Saudi Sportswashing Machine (and probably West Ham) would sell Mitrovic and replace him with even less effective Rondon.
 
Finney Is Back said:
Which sub-standard players are we linked with? And who is linking them with us?

From what I can make out so far this summer the main links would seem to be:

1. Grealish.
2. Gomes.
3. De Ligt.
4. Martial.

I'm not sure that any of the above could be considered as 'sub-standard' players. Looking at each in turn:

1. Grealish is Villa's most valuable player and they need to sell due to their precarious financial situation. They will be looking for a large up-front/guaranteed transfer fee whereas we will be looking to do a deal that is heavily instalment based. The deal is therefore likely one that will take a lot of negotiation.

2. Gomes was a fantastic player for Valencia, but has struggled with Barcelona's tika-taka since going there for a big fee. Barcelona will want to recoup what they paid for him, but the player's wages mean that it would be a big total deal for any club. Again I would imagine that there would be a lot of negotiation on the deal with Barcelona probably wanting upwards of £30 million and us looking at the fact that he has only 1 year left on his deal. There is also added complexity where the player's agent knows his client can sign a pre-contract deal for a Bosman in 6 month's time and therefore the wage ask is likely to be high.

3. De Ligt is likely to cost upwards of £50 million. I think we can only spend that amount on a new centre back if Alderweireld is sold. There is probably also added complexity of interest from other big clubs (Emirates Marketing Project for example). If they are going to lose him then Ajax will want to create an auction for the player.

4. Martial is a player that Man Utd do not want to sell.... Or more pertinently a player that Man Utd do not want to sell to us. That means we either need to pay massively over the odds for him or be patient and play the waiting game and use the fact that Mourinho seemingly wants Alderweireld to try to do a deal that involves the players swapping clubs.

IMO both of the last two players are worth waiting for, as opposed to going out and buying alternatives - who are actually likely to be "sub-standard".

The four players above would likely cost around £140 million in total. Clearly we can only bring those players in if we can shift some players for decent fees.
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Far too much sense in this posting.
 
EVERTON MAKE MALCOM BID

Everton are in advanced talks to sign Bordeaux winger Malcom, Sky sources understand.

Bordeaux's chairman is due to meet the Toffees on Thursday, with a £30m deal plus add-ons being discussed.

The club are considering offering the Brazilian winger a five-year deal worth £80,000-a-week.
 
AdamB said:
Fingers crossed that doesnt happen - they've already done some very decent business this window. There were rumours that Real were after him; hopefully he'll go there
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Fee has been agreed with Roma according to most media outlets this afternoon.
 
AdamB said:
Fingers crossed that doesnt happen - they've already done some very decent business this window. There were rumours that Real were after him; hopefully he'll go there
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Liverpool are easily Man Citys biggest threat this season as things stand....
 
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