Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

30, and that may include wet wednesdays in Stoke (if we draw them in the League Cup) .

 

It definitely says forty here
https://as.com/futbol/2019/07/05/primera/1562315570_626712.html

 

He's been linked with Leeds too, so perhaps he'll join Clarke there on loan as part of Pochettino's Bielsa training club?

 

Samir Nasri signed for Anderlecht this morning.

RCL must be distraught.

 

Kompany signing as many of his ex-teammates as he can afford

He must be living that Yaya Toure buggered off to China a couple of days ago...

 

Oh balls...

 

I'm sure there's nothing shonky about someone who writes for The Gambling Times suggesting this...

 

Ceballos Watch

 

While this mainly applies to Franco FC, this is a useful guide for the credibility of transfer rumours

...and, yes, I do see where AS are placed, which is really what we wanted to see as they're the ones providing the Ceballos updates

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Daily Mail claiming Davies is set to sign a new 5 year deal.

Noooiiiiice!

 

Mr Reliable

does a job no glitter

 

Absolutely. So underrated too, even by a lot of our own fan base.

 

Lower League Rando Watch

Dammit, I was hoping we'd do them over for the whole Berahino farce...

Exodus Watch
The Daily Wail have taken two minutes out of their schedule of ****ing themselves raw over Ann Widdecombe's batshittery to say the following players have been made available for transfer
Serge Aurier
Cameron Carter-Vickers
Marcus Edwards
Vincent Jansson
Josh Onomah
Danny Rose
Kieran Trippier
Vincent Wanyama

Looking at this list, I can easily break it down into the following categories

The fact they're not included instantly makes me suspect that this list is complete bollocks
Georges-Kevin Nkoudou

Well duh...
The Enigma of Vincent Janssen, What Remains of Victor Wanyama

Both reached the "Play them or sell them" stage
CCV, Onomah (with Onomah linked with a permanent move to Sheffield Wednesday in the last week or so)

Obviously pushed his luck once too many times
Edwards (which was expected the moment he posted a highlight reel of his time in the Eredivisie to Twitter, presumably at the suggestion of the agents he signed with back in March)

Sounds suspiciously like the plan is to offload one of the two instead of both
Aurier or Trippier (Trippier linked to Juve, and there were rumours of Aurier being shopped around late last season)

The point where it's obviously bullshit
Rose, as selling him would **** up our squad for the CL. We need four Club Grown players, and at present here is the complete list of CG players in the squad: Harry Kane, Harry Winks, Danny Rose, KWP, CCV, Josh Onomah, Luke Amos - and with Amos out on loan for the season, selling three of the six CG players we have isn't going to happen as we'd like to have a full quota of players in our squad, thank you very much

 

It's interesting to read that we've employed Pini Zahavi in the negotiations with Betis on the potential Lo Celso deal.

For some time, Daniel Levy has wanted to free himself from significant levels of involvement in all transfer negotiations but Mauricio Pochettino's desire to avoid working with a DoF has made that difficult. Could it be that bringing Zahavi in, to conclude deals that are stuck or going off the rails, is the answer?

It was notable that Baldini got those 7 deals done in 2013. In this window, we just can't miss out on who we need, after last summer's failure. Especially so, as it looks like we're not anywhere near finished replenishing the squad. So, an outside troubleshooter on the really difficult ones would allow the club to get on with advancing Sessegnon/Ceballos/whoever else at the same time?

It looks like a good idea to me and could prevent us getting stuck on deals over sums that shouldn't be deal brakers, for the right players, given our new financial status and the disaster area of Arsenal's finances, Chelsea's ban and United's Pogba problems. It'll be harder to sign talent next summer.

I'd presume that payment would be heavily incentivised and if Zahavi can bring Lo Celso in for around the Ndombele fee, everyone can feel rightly pleased with the outcome. It's time to expand our practices and I like the look of this.

 

As long as Zahavi doesn't also suggest he fly back to say goodbye to his former teammates on a cesena, which is exactly what happened when Cardiff let an agent do the legwork on their deals...

 

Charter a Cessna?

DL would have him travel on Ryan Air - "Levy out!"

 

Let him jog to Hotspur Way and call it part of his pre-season

 

Can he take Eric Dier with him? He could do with the exercise...