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Imagine the scenes if Telles, Upemecano and Sancho all arrive over the next two weeks.
Unlikely I know, but that would be the levels of recruitment needed to take us up a level.
Unlikely I know, but that would be the levels of recruitment needed to take us up a level.
Very good deal for Barca that.
Boot up Football Manager 2020. Let us know how it feels. That’s as close as we’ll get.
Even if the club do manage to pull off the the above transfers, highly unlikely, the pressure should still be applied to ownership and the board.
Unless Some sheikh buys the club in the next few days and starts playing his own real life footy manager that’s a pure pipe down.
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Did they? Who did RB buy?
The 18 yo CB from Dinamo Leeds were after.
Agreed and also a good deal for Wolves
Selling Smalling would pay for Telles pretty much. Ideally we could do with getting rid of Jones, Rojo, Lingard and AP. Sancho and Upamecano would be dream signings and would take us up to the next level. But I don’t believe the current owners and board have that ambition.
No idea who but hope he’s the replacement
I bloody hope so too after this weekend!No idea who but hope he’s the replacement
That Wolves right wing is going to be frighteningly fast. Semedo and Traore - they could have a relay.
Here is a thought on Upamenco as our 1v1 defender....
Isn't Smalling quick and great 1v1? Our issue is Lindelof couldn't mark a SAT Math paper let alone a PL level striker. We need a good 1v1 defender with pace, Smalling as understudy to Upamenco should we get him? Smalling as starter should we not get Upamenco...
Isn't Smalling quick and great 1v1? Our issue is Lindelof couldn't mark a SAT Math paper let alone a PL level striker. We need a good 1v1 defender with pace, Smalling as understudy to Upamenco should we get him? Smalling as starter should we not get Upamenco...
Why do we have to offer him 4 times his current salary? If he doesn't work out, we are left with another overpaid player we can't shift. Why don't they offer half that, with a 12 month review based on performances/appearances?
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Morata will go on loan to Juventus.
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I agree in theory but it does depend on what he’s being offered elsewhere and how much of that is being driven up by his agent etc.
However we do absolutely pay over the odds more often than not.
Yes. But many are too snobby to take Smalling back.
Smalling is good at the things Upamecano is good at (the latter obviously has a higher ceiling/potential.)
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It is pretty crazy. However I believe he's on something like £25k a week, so that would still only be £100k a week.
I would imagine the agent says "well you've told him he'll be a first team left back. Luke Shaw earns £195k a week, Phil Jones who's a backup earns 70k a week". So £100k a week seems reasonable.
Funnily enough I was asking myself this exact same question earlier this morning. I appreciate he’s not great with the ball at his feet but he still needs to be a defender first and foremost. We need somebody dominant in the air and difficult to beat on the deck. Is that Maguire? I don’t know. Lindelöf? Forget it.
We really struggle to play out from the back anyway so that has to change in any event.
I am very happy for English journos, they understand a lot of things.
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Suarez and Simeone. What a combo.
Bad news for Bayern, this would mean Barca can buy Sergio Dest as it was required to sell Semedo first.
He's 18 years old, it's more in preperation for Upamecano to leave next season. They would not want to let their best defender leave and replace with an inexperienced youngster. You can imagine 1 year with the squad would be great preperation to take over next season, Konate will be ready to fill Upamecano's shoes as the leader in defence by then also.
Is Upamecano really good at trying to clear balls into the box with the wrong foot as well?
Ah come off it. He was never that bad here and then proved himself again in Italy.
He's far better than many give him credit for here, he get's lumped in with Jones unfairly.
No doubt in my mind that Smalling would have been better next to Maguire since we signed the big fella, I said that before we saw Smalling's form in Italy.
We have got really good at identifying £20m fullback options this summer. But doesn't doesn't a top fullback cost about twice that these days?
He was regularly that bad here, and gets remembered through rose tinted glasses because he left first, especially after playing a couple of good games (well ignore the fact he got progressively more average as the season developed) in the same league that made Darmian look like a young Zanetti.
Smalling was and is a liability of a defender. Jones makes silly faces and has legs made of papier mache but for me, he's always been the better centre back. He's still not the first cousin of a Manchester United centre back, just better than Smalling.
A progressive and well run football club preparing for the future shocker. I know we aren't used to that sort of thing but this doesn't mean Upa will leave this window
Yeah well who was that genius giving perms crock Jones a new contract
Disagree, smalling is quicker, better 1v1, better in the air. Pretty much better at everything than Jones. And the latter definitely has more of a clanger in him.
Respectively disagree.
Has Simone signed a striker yet who’s been a success, or an attacking player in general
Can only think of Villa’s brief spell
If they kept Costa as well it’d be an absolute pantomime villain furore
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