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I'm not the most avid Serie A watcher, but when I've seen him he's looked good; loads of potential. What's the deal with him?
Was touted as the next big thing a couple of years ago....by Raiola ironically, yes another of his clients. I think he is rough around the edges, but I think we should be in for him, sell Lukaku for £70m and buy Keane for £40m odd would be great business
 

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I've no idea what Bailly ever did for us for so many to still rate him, he's regressed basically every season he's been here.
This is very true, think he looked really good in his first season, if brash. He just seems to have a couple of diabolical games, get dropped, then come back and get injured, a weird cycle.

Saying that, I do still think ability wise, he is still our best centre back with the right partner and I would still sell the likes of Jones and Rojo way before him, but as we are obviously not selling Jones and has he has regressed and not taken any of the last 4/5 chances, think it probably is time for him to go
 

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Aye I quite like Romagnoli, he's a good player I think.
In the top 10 worlds centre backs for me. As somebody else said, he is the captain and would cost a lot of money but if it was a choice of Bailly + £60m or Maguire, wouldnt even be a debate for me.

Romagnoli and Upemecano (bar DeLigt, which never saw as possible anyway) always been my dream centre back pairing for the new season
 

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Norwich tying up Aarons and Godfrey to make sure they get good money for them next summer.
 

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I feel like he'll be the new AWB to go for like £50m or something within 2 years. Could see him ending up at Tottenham or Chelsea.
Funny in 30 odd years England had only really produced Paul Parker, Lee Dixon and Gary Neville. Now we have 5/6 really good right backs all at the same time. Not even biased as follwoed him since he broke through, but I think AWB is the best of the lots (seen very little of Aarons mind you)
 

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if they pay 60m upfront and 15m addons then accept it, no loans etc
 

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Does it make sense haggling with these for 5 million over a player we want to shift anyway. Times running out too. Think we should take the deal
If Redcafe was in charge of our negotiations we'd cough up the "only an extra £10m" on every target and accept "£5m-£10m less because we don't want him in the squad" on every sale and by the end of each summer we'd be £80m worse off than what we should be.
 

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If Redcafe was in charge of our negotiations we'd cough up the "only an extra £10m" on every target and accept "£5m-£10m less because we don't want him in the squad" on every sale and by the end of each summer we'd be £80m worse off than what we should be.
If Woodward was in charge he would probably try and haggle every deal last summer for an extra 10 here and there trying to get a CB and end up with none.. He would also probably try and squeeze an extra 5 million out of intalian clubs for Darmian and end up not selling him and getting even smaller bids in summer 2019.
 

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you know when tweets are fake when they say "submitting a bid shortly" or "bid imminently", like there's a time scale. I know some people like Duncan Castles but in years gone by on here he has been proven a fraud, He is just guessing again like most Jurnos

I listened to the podcast and it was presented as the agent's claim. Castles was quick to point out that there was skepticism about this bid happening as the agent has been making claims like this about bids from various clubs all Summer.

Castles in general hasn't been making outlandish claims or passing off rumour as fact.
 

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In the top 10 worlds centre backs for me. As somebody else said, he is the captain and would cost a lot of money but if it was a choice of Bailly + £60m or Maguire, wouldnt even be a debate for me.

Romagnoli and Upemecano (bar DeLigt, which never saw as possible anyway) always been my dream centre back pairing for the new season
I think he is too, he’s quality. I mentioned that he is Captain yeah, and I used that to say that he has leadership qualities we could definitely do with. I’d rather have Romagnoli than Maguire but it’s a shame there is no interest from us. I’d love us to sign him.
 

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I think he is too, he’s quality. I mentioned that he is Captain yeah, and I used that to say that he has leadership qualities we could definitely do with. I’d rather have Romagnoli than Maguire but it’s a shame there is no interest from us. I’d love us to sign him.
Maybe he doesnt want to leave Italy.
 

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18 months ago Laporte cost City £57m.

Some would say he is in top 10 in the world

He is the same age as Bailly and granted has not got the same injury record, but statistically you can see Bailly might be underrated

Per game
Tackles
Bailly (B) 1.3
Laporte (L) 1.2

Interceptions
B & L 1.1

Fouls
B 0.4
L 0.6

Clearances
B 3.1
L 2.7

Blocks
B&L 0.3

Bad control
B 0.4
L 0.3

Dispossed
B&L 0.1 each

Dribbles
B 0.3
L 0.1

Key Passes
B 0
L 0.4

Passing accuracy
B 87.1
L 92.3

Passes per game
B 25.2
L 85.6

Long Balls
B 1.6
L 4.9

Yellows
B 0
L 0.1

Red
B 0.1
L 0

In summary, Bailly looks a marginally better defender, but not as good at passing or providing long ball options, but hard to read into that given the possession based game of City so more of the passes are probably low risk and the long balls to high energy wingers.

This is based off a relatively small sample of games for Bailly, so hard to read into it, but i do think the potential is there. If he can avoid injury and keep discipline he could be a useful asset.
Then you actually watch them play and realise Laporte is miles ahead of Bailly.
 

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Is the £80m we want for a permanent transfer or just a loan?

Either way £63m for a 2 year loan seems fantastic, he'd still have year left on his contract plus 1 optional year on our part after that so we could sell him after the loan. What am I missing?
 

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Is the £80m we want for a permanent transfer or just a loan?

Either way £63m for a 2 year loan seems fantastic, he'd still have year left on his contract plus 1 optional year on our part after that so we could sell him after the loan. What am I missing?
The loan would include an obligation to buy. We would be effectively selling him for £63 million.
 

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Is the £80m we want for a permanent transfer or just a loan?

Either way £63m for a 2 year loan seems fantastic, he'd still have year left on his contract plus 1 optional year on our part after that so we could sell him after the loan. What am I missing?
From what I understood they could buy him for 63m and will offer us in installments. I don't think that is a good deal for a striker like Lukaku. I do not blame the club for wanting the full money.
 

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I think he is too, he’s quality. I mentioned that he is Captain yeah, and I used that to say that he has leadership qualities we could definitely do with. I’d rather have Romagnoli than Maguire but it’s a shame there is no interest from us. I’d love us to sign him.
Completely agree. Apart from being a very good defender which we sorely miss and the right age he is a captain and that is something we should be looking to sign as we have no leader in our side at all, hence the awful last couple of captains we have had.

Forgetting fees which are irrelevant really to me, I think Maguire is a good signing, but I can think of at least ten that are excellent signings, we have already missed out on DeLigt, Hermoso looks like going to Ateltico, Kabak has gone to Schalke but still 6/7 top centre backs we should be moving for.
Think the young English signing of Bissaka was a great one. Not sure Maguire, Longstaff are at all though when there are so many better players in Europe we dont even seem to be getting linked to, which is weird as we have been linked with so many players this summer already
 

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If Redcafe was in charge of our negotiations we'd cough up the "only an extra £10m" on every target and accept "£5m-£10m less because we don't want him in the squad" on every sale and by the end of each summer we'd be £80m worse off than what we should be but also would have shifted all our deadwood players and have a squad full of quality and hunger able to get a full preseason and maybe even challenge for the title
Added a missing part of that logic. Because we didn't become the best club in England by penny pinching and scuppering deals over 5 or even 10% differences in valuations.
 

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I listened to the podcast and it was presented as the agent's claim. Castles was quick to point out that there was skepticism about this bid happening as the agent has been making claims like this about bids from various clubs all Summer.

Castles in general hasn't been making outlandish claims or passing off rumour as fact.
Wasnt it Castles who first went with the agreed 80m story last week before anyone else?
 

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The loan would include an obligation to buy. We would be effectively selling him for £63 million.
From what I understood they could buy him for 63m and will offer us in installments. I don't think that is a good deal for a striker like Lukaku. I do not blame the club for wanting the full money.
Cheers, thought it sounded too good be true! So a loan with a future fee of £0 agreed? Still a bit confused as to why the offer would be structured that way from Inter's perspective with it technically being called a loan rather than just doing a transfer and paying that over instalments but ok. I too would be holding out for more if £63m is all we'd see.
 

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Cheers, thought it sounded too good be true! So a loan with a future fee of £0 agreed? Still a bit confused as to why the offer would be structured that way from Inter's perspective with it technically being called a loan rather than just doing a transfer and paying that over instalments but ok. I too would be holding out for more if £63m is all we'd see.
Something to do with FFP I think, Italian clubs are fond of these structured deals.
 

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If Woodward was in charge he would probably try and haggle every deal last summer for an extra 10 here and there trying to get a CB and end up with none.. He would also probably try and squeeze an extra 5 million out of intalian clubs for Darmian and end up not selling him and getting even smaller bids in summer 2019.
Please tell me you realise that Woodward isn't the one and only person who identifies targets, negotiates with both club and player and signs off all financial aspects of any deals?

It's like you lot think he's sitting there with his mobile, just making and receiving calls to wrap deals up, doing as and what he pleases.

How many players have you been involved in negotiating for? Just interested in your experience and expertise.
 

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Im sorry but Woodward is entitled to fleece inter, 50 million for Richarlison to Everton ? Lukaku is easily worth 75/80 million in this inflated market.
 

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Does it make sense haggling with these for 5 million over a player we want to shift anyway. Times running out too. Think we should take the deal
feck them. Remember the Perisic deal?
 

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He'll be somewhere like Everton in less than two summers time, possibly even next summer.

Not tactically astute or intelligent enough for Pochettino and Simeone is the same if not even more so. Add in language barrier and new culture etc and this will not end will. Atletico will probably make a profit on him though.
 

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Inter inadvertently saved us from Perisic and we're going to return the favour
 

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Is the £80m we want for a permanent transfer or just a loan?

Either way £63m for a 2 year loan seems fantastic, he'd still have year left on his contract plus 1 optional year on our part after that so we could sell him after the loan. What am I missing?
Wrong currency. Offer is supposed to be €60+15, so €75m or £68m. Straight transfer, not loan
 
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