Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

I've seen so many prices for Seri that I've got no idea what he cost. Everything from about £18m to roughly double that.
Still surprised that he ended up at Fulham, though.

 

true, it's like the richarlison deal, ranges from 40m -> 50m with 35m of it being upfront.

Think the Seri deal is sort of confusing because it was a double deal with the left back too

 

Hasn't he got some condition that makes playing in cold weather a real problem? If that's true then some serious add-ons linked to appearances may have swung it to Fulham on a lower up-front payment?

 

He's got a condition that makes playing in cold weather difficult and he moved to England to play for a club whose stadium is on the river?!
Has anyone told him about the Christmas football schedule yet?

 

Don’t get what people see in Doucoure. Started well last season, but faded massively. He’s a prime example of a player i’d be mortified if we spend £40-50m on, when we supposedly don’t have money to splash around.

Rumour has it Levy was still trying to strike a deal with Moutinho until just before he signed for Wolves, in a saga that lasted nearly 5 years.

 

Any chance of snow by August 18th?

 

You are defining the big games as the ones we lose so the argument becomes circular. As I pointed out the games in the League were just as big. Man U played better in the Cup. You are reading too much into random things.

 

It gets cold down there. I used to work in a Thameside office years ago - it was ****ing freezing after September until April/May..

 

So the football season, then?

 

Would be so funny if i wasn't convinced it was actually true.
We're probably still after Damiao

 

The big games are the ones which could lead to us winning trophies. Semi finals and crucial games like Battle of the Bridge etc. Beating Man Utd at home to cement a top 4 spot isn’t as big a game as those imo.

 

Sissoko part 2

 

I've said about Doucoure before, bloke's a beast and would be even better around better players/ coaching/ facilities.

As for Moutinho, nowhere near as good as he was in his Porto days. £5m is a still a steal though.

 

As I've said many, many times (basically every time HITC suggested him as a signing, so quite a lot of times over the past eighteen months...) that Poch would never touch him with a bargepole due to his reputation for being a stroppy teenager in Schalke's dressing room - and it says a lot that his contract expired at the end of June, yet so many clubs were willing to sign him that he's being linked to Palace with little over a week before the transfer window slams shut.

The point is that Suarez wouldn't have been the big man, he'd have been the bloke loitering around the penalty area waiting for knock-downs, which is a gross waste of the ability Suarez had at the time because he'd have been reduced to little more than a Uruguayan Kevin Phillips.

The question about what would've happened with VDV is also an interesting one, because for the past six years Luis Andre de Pincha Cabral e Villas-Boas has been a pariah for selling him - yet if Harry Redknapp sold him now that Suarez was at the club, and it's worth remembering that Redknapp essentially dismissed the possibility of signing Suarez (after the fact, it has to be said...) by saying that Suarez wasn't needed as we had VDV just as he was happy to bin Crouch the moment we loaned in Adebayor, that certainly changes the Narrative about our former managers.

 

There was nothing wrong with Pochettinos tactics in the 'Battle of the Bridge' that match was ruined by a referee who has admitted that he reffed the match to his own set of rules because he wanted Leicester to win the league (which they would have regardless of that result as Chelsea were always going to lay down in their match on the last day of the season). The Chelsea semi final was an excellent match between the best 2 sides in the country and Chelsea won as they got the rub of the green that day.

Last seasons semi was more disappointing as was the Juventus match as we were 'out experienced' in both matches, losing the lead in both and then being given 2 masterclasses in the dark arts of stopping the match from ever flowing once we were behind and that is real lesson that we have to learn and why its experienced winners that we need to add to the squad.

 

Suggestions of his agent demanding an £8m signing-on fee and £160k per week for him will have put everyone else off. Rightly so, too.

 

Palace have obviously decided that, if they're spending 80+% of their income on wages to finish mid-table, spending 90+% is enough for a title challenge...

 

If they win the title having signed Kouyate, Jordan Ayew, Meyer and possibly Antonio to play alongside Benteke, Andros and the like, it'll make the parting of The Red Sea look very ordinary indeed.

 

By complete coincidence, with that lineup, whenever the opposition have the ball their entire team will look like the parting of the Red Sea...

 

Oh bollocks, Harry Hotspur's about to jizz all over his keyboard...


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