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The Centre Back thread

Atalanta will sell to us, they have been trying to get other club involved but they are broke.
Didn’t know about their finances
But I think part of the issue is then getting in their replacement too.
And of course sorting their deal with Juve
As always it’s complicated
 
2 weeks until city and the only centre halves we've seen so far in pre season are Dier, Carter Vickers and Tanganga. Get a move on and get it done !!
 
We have tried to get a shimmy on with this alas, the selling club are not selling yet, can hardly blame us for that.

they have every right to squeeze, we have to remain steadfast because he’s worth the wait, if we can’t get cbs in for city it’s tough for us but it’s more important we get our primary target.
 
Apparently it is not the amount that is at issue, it is the timing of the payments. Atalanta have Romero on loan with an option to buy, for EURO 16m I think. So if we are only offering payments over a period, Atalanta would have a cash deficit for whatever period before our payments exceeded 16m. Maybe, our ex-Juve DoF could persuade Juve to accept the 16m on a matching schedule. Bit like a house purchase chain, it'll go through if all four parties want it to.
 
Fantastic news if true! Now just need the Japanese lad finalised and then if the window were to SLAM shut without us doing any more (incoming) deals, at least we'll have covered the bare minimum of a new CB and new RB

edit: probably need a back-up CF too, in order to cover the bare minumum, but we'd be in a great place with c. 4 weeks to go
 
Dragon:

We are close on Romero now but differing to some media posts no agreement has been reached But we are close on numbers and player wants the move

in a twist they want the Japanese lad as his replacement , we have an agreement in place for the boy and not willing to let Atlanta have him which slows the Romero deal down as they want a replacement in before letting him leaves
 
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