Ighalo was too old and not good enough in the first place.I wasn't sure about Arnautovic at all and Weghorst is a short term loan so we'll see.
A 33 year old who can't stay fit so save his life, absolute no brainer
Lumping Wout in with those two is so disrespectful. He’s clearly at least a level above.
What would you guys say about a swap deal with Elanga going for Moukokou?
I haven't watched much of Dortmund since Sancho (and Haaland) left but even a couple of years ago he was a really good player and plays the no.10 role really well. If his fitness was there, I think he would be a good VDB replacement and would fit in with ETH's football. Seems to be a good character/leader too.
After this comment watch him get sidelined for 2 months after his 1st game.
I once represented a listed football team who was charged by the financial supervisory authority since they didn't ensure that insider information about a big transfer was kept confidential. Examples like this shows just how impossible it is to keep information about these things confidential. In this case, it is of course possible that these guys are just watching a good football game for the fun of it, but with the media getting a hold of tidbits from all possible sources, so much can be pieced together. We are so big that most transfers probably aren't insider information, but for most other teams its an issue. Like if West Ham was listed and got an offer of 150m for Declan Rice, its hard to argue that it wouldn't be insider information.
I was just about to ask what’s happened to this guy? I haven’t seen him playing for Everton at all.
But even relegation fodder teams have competition for places. Apparently he just doesn’t perform well enough
He looked good in the small cameo he came on against us, put a few dangerous balls in if I remember correctly.
I guess I could see a 2 year deal if we want to loan out Amad to get a season of tier 1 football (Ligue 1 would be my guess) and sell Van Der Beek. Backup for Bruno, and then we sell McTominay and buy a #8 to properly backup Casemiro. Reus becomes the 3rd choice CF too as he can still do most of the stuff Martial does for us.
Not with new owners! The budget will be much bigger.
A few very dangerous balls into the box, if I recall.
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We need to give them a deadline. Like the next 37 minutes or so.
Sweetener to get Moukoko here hopefully.
If we do a Moukokou for Elanga swap — we not only sort all issues out on both sides of the transfer, we also improve our earnings a lot. What value would each player be assigned in such swap, 20m? 25m? That is a straight profit for both clubs. Ka-ching.
Elanga must be worth around 15m easily, 6 months of Moukokou can’t be worth more than say 10m. Or?
No you’re not imagining it. He is
10 years too late. I was a big muppet fan of him around Fergie' last and Moye's first season.
But not legal trouble, right? He has never played for a Dortmund youth team that wasn’t like an age group 5 years ahead of his listed age and only 2 caps for Germany’s youth side. The fact that he only has 2 youth caps — despite destroying all youth goal scoring records in Germany — must be evidence of that there are legit concerns about when he was born. Nigeria has been suspended from all youth football when using players with incorrect age listings.
Oh I meant just loan them to each other, by the looks of it Moukoko won't be signing a new contract there, leave Elanga there for 18 months and them loan us Moukoko for 6 months.
He was born in Cameroon not Nigeria, he has 11 youth caps for Germany and 2 senior caps for Germany.
If he plays there - which is by no means a given…
Woops, my bad…
Think only a straight sale make sense. Would Dortmund really invest in Elanga if they only had him for a loan?
I don't think so. They already have several young forwards in their lineup, so they don't necessarily need a straight-up loan for Elanga. If we do loan him out, then I wouldn't be surprised if Dortmund negotiate a purchase option into the deal.
Seems Fred is staying after all, which means Jaime Jackson was wrong again. I'd love to know who that guy's sources are, or if he even has any.
