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Transfer speculation

Legohamster said:
Liverpool are not fudging around are they!

2 signings almost done, annoyingly ones a CB
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Liverpool and City, early movers in England.

Incidentally, given the prices they're paying for their players, I'm really not sure we should be settling for 50m for Walker. English, PL-ready, in his prime...should be 60m+ or f*ck off. The point is to make it brutally hard or impossible for domestic rivals to come in to sign our players - and if Iheanacho's agent comes out and says that City won't sell to us because we're rivals, I don't see why we can't at least extort a stupid fee from them in the same vein.

50m is not 'f*ck off' crazy. 60m+ is.
 
DubaiSpur said:
Liverpool and City, early movers in England.

Incidentally, given the prices they're paying for their players, I'm really not sure we should be settling for 50m for Walker. English, PL-ready, in his prime...should be 60m+ or f*ck off. The point is to make it brutally hard or impossible for domestic rivals to come in to sign our players - and if Iheanacho's agent comes out and says that City won't sell to us because we're rivals, I don't see why we can't at least extort a stupid fee from them in the same vein.

50m is not 'f*ck off' crazy. 60m+ is.
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I've said this all along; if we sell to City, it should be for ridiculous money, simply because they can afford it and have a history of overspending. You don't get the best right back in the league for peanuts.
 
I see we're being tenuously linked with Karim Bellarabi by HITC and Football.London. Not the most reputable of sources, but I feel like that might be more on the mark than some of the other rumors floating around. He seems to fit a lot of the parameters that (imo) we seem to be looking for in an attacking midfielder - hard-working, (lightning) fast, good technique, versatile (can play across the attacking midfield slots) reasonably physical and with a taller-than-average build for an attacking midfielder. Plus, he's played in a high-energy, high-pressing system very similar to ours at Leverkusen, so adaptation wouldn't be as much of a problem as it otherwise might have been. And, of course, we have Son here to ease his transition into the Premier League - a former team-mate who made much the same sort of switch. And Wimmer, if we need German speakers to help him adapt.

This one makes a bit more sense than some others. Not saying it will happen by any means - but it's more likely to, perhaps. He'll cost a fair bit, I suspect, but Leverkusen's horrible season makes it likelier that they'd be open to selling him - especially over the prospect of selling someone like Julian Brandt instead. He's just turned 27, which is one of the few possible downsides I can see with this move (one of the others being that he only returned from a serious injury in January), but otherwise he ticks all the boxes - and 27 isn't even that old, relatively speaking. It might even be before his prime.

Here's a video of the guy from 2015/2016, with the standard truly horrible accompanying music - I haven't been able to find one from this season, although that may be because a) Leverkusen were pretty brick, and b) he missed the first half of it.


Edit - one other downside is that he's somewhat one-footed - it shows in the video as well. Predominantly uses his right peg.
 
Legohamster said:
Pool deals fallen through

Basically because they have been caught tapping up
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Very difficult for all the clubs up north......and it's getting worse.
I think the Manchester clubs will also suffer to attract the top top players.

They are now having to pay a "up north" premium to their players.....
 
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