Pickford and Gibson look the best of the two relegated clubs' players and ought to be playing in the PL next season. Any takers?
Both will be pretty expensive, I'd have thought. I'd take Pickford as backup and competition for Lloris, if Vorm wants to leave. The same's probably true of Gibson and Wimmer. I suspect that we'll probably go for targets that are deemed to be better value, though.
£30m fees have been talked up for both, and given they're contracted until 2020 and 2021 respectively the only way those fees'll significantly drop is if one of them forces the clubs' hand.
Harry Maguire for us methinks. Pickford probably should stay put or go somewhere to learn without too much pressure. However, the premium on English players means he could end up becoming another Shaw, Stones, Sterling, etc. Is it only players begining with 'S'? Scott Sinclair - whatever happened to him?
Scottish Player of the Year Which is probably the equivalent honour of Best Cricketer in Moldova or similiar
Danni Alves scores a 'Danny Rose v Arsenal' type volley, including hopeless goalkeeper pawing at thin air. Great goal!
Football Leaks has just dug up something pretty damn interesting about Man Utd's transfer business last summer (original article by FootMercato, via Google Translate - hence the occasional crimes against linguistic logic...) As Mediapart revealed on Tuesday night, Football Leaks have offered new elements on the transfer of Pogba to Manchester United this summer and in particular the disturbing role played by Mino Raiola. FIFA has opened an investigation into the player's agent for a conflict of interest. He received €49 million in commissions in the transfer. It had been a while since we had had any revelations from Football Leaks.In December, a media consortium revealed the existence of some files on Paul Pogba, his transfer, his sulphurous agent and an offshore company based in Jersey to hide certain income that would avoid him paying more taxes. This Tuesday night, the Football Leaks remake of them with new revelations rather annoying for Mino Raiola. According to Mediapart, which just released a new survey, the transfer of the player from Juventus Turin to Manchester United last summer for around €105 million is full of irregularities. Raiola would have dressed at the same time acting as agent of Pogba, Juventus Turin and Manchester United and thus receive commissions from all sides. Problem, he would not have told the Old Lady that he was also working for the Red Devils.This practice is forbidden by FIFA because of a flagrant conflict of interest. The institution of world football has opened an investigation on this subject. The Dutch agent is a big risk, since in the event of proven misconduct, the sanction could go as far as prohibiting him from performing his duties. In fact, Raiola would have packed his pockets. Juventus paid him 27 million commissions. He also negotiated a huge check for €19.4 million thanks to his contract with Manchester United, plus €2.6 million to be Pogba's agent, but paid by the Red Devils. The latter paid him €22 million. If we calculate the whole, the transfer of the French actually cost €127m to the English club but €49m, that is 40% of the total price of the operation, returned directly in the pockets of Raiola. For its part, Juventus Turin has cashed €78m. Revelations that follow the many revelations already released in recent weeks as we evoked at the entry of this article.The agent and the clan of the French should react in the coming days to the opening of the FIFA investigation and possible sanctions.
Not even nearly a revelation Every man and his dog new that Pogba's contract stated his agent would get that money on his sale, that is why the whole thing took so long, Juve wanted us to pay it and we said no, your contract you pay it.
Wasn't the other revelation recently the fact that Ibra is being paid something like £367k per week? http://www.skysports.com/football/n...a-year-at-manchester-united-new-figures-claim Which is about 100k more than people thought. As well as condemning such a figure as ludicrous for just about any single player, shouldn't it also be mentioned that with those sorts of wages and the money paid on transfers, and one of the "world's best managers", ManU should be doing a little bit better than they are? Oh I forgot, they are in transition again this season, while Spurs who have a fraction of the wage bill and a net spend of not very much at all have apparently bottled it.
