Rival watch

He'll probably offload that to Everton too, which would make Goodison Park the first Premier League ground to have three dressing rooms.

 

This sums up the rumoured opposition to his appointment by the likes of Bobby Charlton

 

As opposed to the opposition to him opening his gob fro the likes of everyone other than Chelsea fans and the besotted members of our media.

 

Effin hell. Liverpool and saints have agreed a £75m deal for Van Dijk.

 

City are gonna be pissed off

 

Too late for their PL top 4 ambitions this season ??

 

Holy crap. That's a lot of money for a centre half.

 

The way that team defend, he'll be worth half that by the end of May.

 

Mourinho will be on about them next and looking for another 300 million to waste

 

I suspect some of the total may be a punitive charge
for the Poool summer tapping up debacle.

 

Apparently Celtic had a 10%sell on fee so they get £7.5m from it too

 

Wow, a sell on fee that’s more than the combined value of their entire team!

 

Foreign clubs selling to PL teams call the doubling or trebling of expected transfer fees, 'The English Tax'. They know that there's so much money sloshing around that they can make up a stupid figure and some stupid ****er will pay it. It comes from having too much money and no idea what to do with it. Money will corrupt everything, eventually.

A few years ago, when you could make a fortune smuggling in cigarettes from abroad, a couple of blokes I knew from the pub, were at it. They were buying cigarettes in Luxembourg and bringing them back through Belgium, they had distribution sorted in pubs and shops and were making thousands of pounds a day, each. Of course, they couldn't bank it or buy anything large that was legal with it or they would come to the attention of the authorities. One day, I watched them playing pool for £5,000 a frame. It meant nothing to them at all.

 

Wouldn't pay that for a van Gogh

 

The football world now shudders at the thought that
Levy will demand at least 100m for Alderweireld.

 

That's just absolute madness. Football is the only profession in the world where an employee can shave 5 months off their contract, get injured and spend the remaining month sulking and still emerge out of all of that apparently worth more than when they started.

The good news here is that anyone approaching for Toby in the summer will now have to open negotiations at £75m for Levy to even answer the phone to them.

 

Not at all. They weren't prepared to go higher than £60m. Made that very clear in the summer. Van Dick is good but blow me he's not THAT good. Soton will be laughing all the way to the bank.

Now I wonder if they'd be interested in a French international with experience of PL relegation battles

 

Simply meant that to me City and United (and to a lesser extent Chelsea) seem to be hoovering everyone up so they stop others getting stronger.
Agree about Southampton laughing all the way to the bank...that is a lot of money for a defender.

 

Kompany limps off for Citeh after 10 minutes.

 

The other Moussa is worth more than that and Rodgers is being very vague about a possible move in January.
Counts as homegrown in England, won't be CL tied because Celtic are in the Europa and being linked with various Premier League clubs.
I can see him going for £20m-odd.