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Transfer Tittle-Tattle

What are they going to do without their "best" defender

Play Mustafi more?

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Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny stump up the money and buy himself out of his £90k-a-week contract after he refused to go to the club's U.S. preseason tour, the Evening Standard reported.

Arsenal were left angered when their 33-year-old captain refused to go on tour with the squad in an effort to force through a move to French club Bordeaux.


You know it's bad when your players are trying to force a move to... Bordeaux. Probably for less money too. Lol

Still surprised to see him wine about it.
 
Real Madrid want to sell Gareth Bale and FIVE others to fund Paul Pogba transfer or move for Christian Eriksen
"Real Madrid take off," Marca's front page said on Wednesday. "With excess baggage."

The Madrid squad travelled to Canada on Tuesday to kick off their pre-season training, ahead of International Champions Cup games against Bayern Munich, Arsenal and Atletico MadridZinedine Zidane had hoped to fly out to North America with his squad complete for next season, but Los Blancos are no nearer to securing a new midfield signing, while the future of six players remains unresolved.

Gareth Bale is one of those. Zidane wants the Welsh winger to be sold, but the player is in no hurry to leave and Standard Sportunderstands he will only consider a move to one of Europe's elite clubs.
That rules out a transfer to China, which was rumoured in the media on Tuesday, but offers from elsewhere are not forthcoming at this point.

Madrid had hoped to use the winger in a deal to bring in Paul Pogba from Manchester United, but the Red Devils have no plans to sell the France midfielderOle Gunnar Solskjaer looks to bring in young British talent

Madrid are looking to make around €200million from player sales in the remainder of the window, with Bale, Isco, Mariano Diaz, James Rodriguez, Lucas Vazquez and Keylor Navas all available.

Without recouping close to or at least half that amount, Los Blancos are unlikely to be able to afford Pogba or Tottenhammidfielder Christian Eriksen ahead of the 2019-20 season, having already spent in excess of €300m this summer on Eden Hazard, Luka Jovic, Ferland Mendy, Rodrygo and Eder Militao.

The Brazil defender was presented at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday and had to cut short his press conference due to a dizzy spell just as he was asked a question about Neymar.

Real hope there will be at least one more player presentation this summer and Los Blancos will turn their attentions to Eriksen if a deal for Pogba proves impossible, but the World Cup winner is still priority for Zidane.

Los Blancos have raised close to €150m so far this summer with the sales of Mateo Kovacic (to Chelsea), Marcos Llorente (to Atletico), Theo Hernandez (to AC Milan) and Raul de Tomas (to Benfica).

But more are needed and as the squad train out in Montreal, the club will continue to work on the sales of Bale, Isco, James, Mariano, Navas and Vazquez.

Selling is the priority before buying and making money back on those players seems set to be the key to bringing in either Pogba or Eriksen later in the window

Something doesnt add up in all that, as swapping eriksen (with a year left) for isco would br a no brainer.

Sign lo celso and then do the above swap and we’d almost be good to go.
 
Something doesnt add up in all that, as swapping eriksen (with a year left) for isco would br a no brainer.

Sign lo celso and then do the above swap and we’d almost be good to go.
I'd say that's the only terms we should deal with Madrid. If they wasn't eriksen then it's Isco straight swap
 
I'd say that's the only terms we should deal with Madrid. If they wasn't eriksen then it's Isco straight swap

Its very strange because zizou has always loved isco and immediately restored him to the team when he returned as manager.

They must be desperate to raise funds for pogba but ditching isco to sign eriksen makes no sense.
 
Its very strange because zizou has always loved isco and immediately restored him to the team when he returned as manager.

They must be desperate to raise funds for pogba but ditching isco to sign eriksen makes no sense.
Why would any team want to sell Isco to raise just a part of the fee for Pogba? Does that mean that Isco actually isn't very good? Is there some baggage that comes with him? Or are Real Madrid just a complete basket case?
 
Why would any team want to sell Isco to raise just a part of the fee for Pogba? Does that mean that Isco actually isn't very good? Is there some baggage that comes with him? Or are Real Madrid just a complete basket case?
Isco has flattered to deceive for a few years now, looks good but no consistent impact. I think they are done hoping he will progress, 27 now so not a kid. If he wasn't Spanish they would have let him go a while back imo.
 
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