Kim is comfortable on both sides of central defense and has got everything to succeed in the PL. Would be foolish not to try get him. Another advantage would be that if Casemiro gets a ban, we could use Licha as DM (or DM/CB hybrid) with Kim and Varane behind him. He is also pretty stable and hasn't had a worrisome injury record so far.
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Please, just No.
This would be a great deal - we dont seem to utilize release clauses enough. But in terms of the position and FFP/credit to buy, I think we'd need to look at selling at least one of maguire/lind as well as two 'minor' defenders (Williams, Telles) before this becomes viable, given money that needs to be spent elsewhere.
Get him. Can't trust Varane anymore.
Ten Hag prefers to play 3-1-6 anyway. He needs 2 solid speedy defenders behind 1 ball-playing central one (Licha). Kim would be pivotal to this scheme.
Impressive, but the least likely of options given that Napoli want a lot of money and ETH will almost certainly want to Varane - Martinez next year.
Rumored to have 60m release clause
Doesn’t he have a release clause that’s reasonable?
According to Google its 40m, which is quite reasonable. If true, it would be a good buy.
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Please make this happen. By most accounts he’s a really high quality CB. Good age too.
I don't see us having the budget to go for Kim. What's the point in having Varane if we were to get Kim? Just not a big enough upside to the signing when you consider we have to prioritise striker, cm and rb ahead of it in that order. Maybe if we get all those positions sorted and get more from sales than expected he would be an option but I don't believe he's being looked at as a realistic option. Evan Ndicka seems like a more realistic cheap cb option who could come for the depth we lose with Maguire, Bailly, Tuanzebe (all of whom will hopefully be sold).
Given Varane's amount of injuries this season I suspect there would be plenty of matches for them both.
One of the stupidest tweets I've ever seen. You'd need to be extremely dumb to believe anything like that could ever happen. You offer more money for no reason, a team can still offer less money and he can join them regardless
But when everyone's fit do you expect Varane to start over Kim? I can't see Kim coming in to be a backup or squad player even if Varane does pick up injuries regularly. If Varane doesn't start when fit then you really have to question the logic of paying £350k per week to a player that isn't even a starter.
Yep, the only reason you’d ever pay more is if the fee has to be paid in full all at once and you’d rather pay in instalments. Basically what Chelsea did for Enzo Fernandez I believe.One of the stupidest tweets I've ever seen. You'd need to be extremely dumb to believe anything like that could ever happen. You offer more money for no reason, a team can still offer less money and he can join them regardless
The reason this loser gives is a load of rubbish. Makes no sense for us or the player. Makes no sense for us as we’d end up paying more to Napoli and more to the player to convince him to go along with the whole thing. And makes no sense for the player as it removes any competition from the process which would help him bargain a better deal by playing clubs off one another. Add in the fact that the player has an agent who’s best interest us to make as much money for the player and themselves.
I believe nonsensical is the word I’m looking for.
The release clause is only active the first two weeks of the 2024 summer transfer window
If we make top 4 I think there will be plenty of games and rotation will be needed. It will also give Ten Hag more tactical options. Its all speculation whether the players would be satisfied with that or not so its difficult to comment on, but from our perspective I think its worth a shot.
And it's been reported that he'll be doing military training in Korea during that period which makes it awkward for anyone interested in signing him.
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Cool. Sounds like a narrow window to buy him.
We love us some concrete
And with our "luck" the Glazers will Rub the sale of the club till then and we'll never get him
Any chance of signing this guy is slowly fading unless we get our selves sorted and do what we need to do to get top 4
With the Glazers in charge our efforts to sign him will be as quick as concrete as well.
Well apparently we are willing to go beyond that value this summer, to avoid everyone triggering his release clause at the same time next year.
At £50-60m we'd be spending over half our budget on him. Definitely not worth it when it's not even the second most important position we need to strengthen and arguably not even the third.
Think I will lose it if he goes to Newcastle
FFS not another one
Thought Barca were in for N'dicka and generally they don't miss out on a player when that happens much like Madrid
Rasmus Hojland stated that Smalling was the best defender he has come up against in Serie A.....let that sink in before everyone starts doing a ' Sancho day' on this donkey.
Right ok
What makes him a donkey?
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Ed, is that you?
Smalling... even at this stage of his career is rated higher by one of the top strikers in Italy.What makes him a donkey?
Why would we be interested in bringing a player like that to the club for 50mil?
He isn’t rated higher than Kim. One player saying that doesn’t mean it’s the actual truth. Smalling has been good but Kim has been better and was apart of a title winning team.
Also one of the top strikers? He has 7 goals
And still wondering how you conclude he’s a donkey. I assume you’ve seen him play to come to that conclusion?
I think I will go with the opinion of a striker that has played in the league before anyone on here if you don't mind and if he is not one of the top strikers I assume we will get him cheaply if we move for him???
No of course not. Amad cost a lot from the same team and played about 20 minutes. So why would you think teams would sell cheaply when an English team is after them?
Also you seem to thrive on shitting on other leagues so you clearly have some sort of agenda against everything on EPL.
So how many times have you seen Kim to conclude he’s a donkey?
About as many as I saw Nunez play for Benfica before he went to Liverpool.
So what does he do that makes him seem like a donkey? you’re just posting shite aren’t you?
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