Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

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There have been a few deals which left me scratching my head...the Grealish one you've mentioned. Remember when we 'signed' Moussa Dembele (the other one) from Fulham, but then the deal collapsed as we wanted him straight away but they wanted him on loan until the end of the season. For the sake of £5m and a dash of pride, we missed out on a striker who has gone on to average a goal every other game wherever he's played. Five million. And then refusing to pay £30m for Sessegnon 2 summers ago (we offered £22m) but then panicking this summer and giving them £30m plus Onomah for a player with 12 months left on his contract.

Sometimes, we're so clever we're actually astoundingly stupid.

Agreed. Although based on how the other second strikers were treated, Dembele would’ve only gotten 5 minute cameos here and there so we’d have probably sold him by now, having scored something like 6 goals in 40 sporadic and short appearances.
 
What’s baffling is why would he come if he knows he can’t spend? I know he’s on a nice wedge but I believe it’s more about winning for him though...his trophy haul backs that.

so that makes me think...has he been promised funds? Will Levy fulfill his promises? It’s on record that he has broken promises in the past

Because if he does fail (I think he will), then he will be sacked and receive his usual compensation of tens of millions of pounds
 
Spanish outlet El Desmarque have claimed that the agent of Barcelona right-back Nelson Semedo has already ‘approved’ a move to Tottenham Hotspur – but the clubs are apart in their valuation of the defender.

Source: The Boot Room

12 mill apart apparently

Semedo can play on the left or right so would be a good signing.

For the money he would cost, I can see Spurs going for Max Aarons instead
 
if he’s good enough @humanbeingincroydon to confirm

then he improves us and that’s worth more than the 6mill or so Levy will barter the **** out of
Semedo's one of those players who is perpetually linked with a move but never does, sort of like Isco, so I'm not convinced - especially since we've been linked with him repeatedly for at least a year

Anyway, in other news...

Soumare Watch
Lille say he can go this month for €50m (which is approximately £47.6bn thanks to some dullards getting duped by a bus four years ago) - although RMC report he wants to sit tight until the summer. Don't worry, I have a gif for that...

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...on the other hand, a spanner being thrown into the works with only a couple of weeks of the transfer window to go? Sounds like he'll be a Spurs player come February 1st to me

Lower League Rando Watch
It's been...almost three days since we were linked with one, so today we've been linked with Middlesbrough's 19-year old right back Djed Spence, presumably because he looked pretty good against us in the FA Cup the other day

Somebody might want to tell our scouting team the way our team was set up might have had something to do with him looking pretty good against us in the FA Cup the other day...
 
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Some striker at AC Milan being linked with us.

Piatek

apparently it’s between us, Villa, Palace LOL

Geezer has the best celebration in football. **** so far this season (so he’d fit in well here) but was unreal last year. I’d rather a loan to buy move as it could be risky.
 
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Some striker at AC Milan being linked with us.

Piatek

apparently it’s between us, Villa, Palace LOL
Good return of goals the last couple of seasons (13 in 19 for Genoa, 9 in 18 for Milan) but just 4 in 18 this season...although that makes him their joint-top scorer this season, so the fault doesn't necessarily lie with him

That being said, he's a classic poacher, and given I was saying for a couple of years that our system needs a poacher off the bench rather than a target man he could prove a useful option on loan - and the following passage on his Wikipedia page is interesting...

Although flattered by the comparisons with a star compatriot Robert Lewandowski, Piątek has named Harry Kane as his role model.

Anyway, let's get to the important things, namely stalking his wife...

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Sources in Croatia have linked us with Rijeka's 20-year old DM (Ctrl + C) Ivan Lepinjica...and the fact I managed to copy his entire name put me one ahead of Spurs Web, who had me trying to find info on "Ivan Lepinji" for ten minutes that mainly took me to Croatian cookery sites as a lepiniji is a staple of Croat cuisine that can best be described as a sausage donor

Where was I?

Oh right, Lepinjica is reportedly available for £4.2m, which in this day and age is an absolute steal and he's the exact sort of player we should be scouting as it will piss off both Danny Rose and Harry ****espout to the point one of them might do us all a favour and **** the **** off - although to be brutally honest, finding any hard data is pretty goddamn difficult and I'm basing a lot of what I'm saying on him being a potential beast in FM20, albeit a beat in the Winks/Skipp role which we're pretty well stocked in with...well, Winks and Skipp
 
Right...

With Harry Kane ruled out until April (see Physio Watch) we need to plug the gap and we need it plugged PMFQ

Obviously this means Son'll start up top at the weekend, at least until he gets sent off while conceding a penalty when the ball hits him on the shin near the centre circle, but for the immediate future we have to acknowledge that Parrott is an asset and needs to be used as such and he needs to get time on the pitch instead of once again thinking that Lucas can do a job up there because he's quick

If there's substance to the Piatek loan rumours, push the issue. We need a striker and we don't want him showing up at the end of the month - and if we're thinking that Son will play up top, the same goes for the Lemar loan rumours

But more than anything else, don't pretend that our midfield doesn't exist...actually, wait, acknowledge that our midfield doesn't exist
 
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Rabiot Watch?
Shyte Sports report that we're considering a loan signing to fill the central midfield gaps rather than make a signing

Juve seem to be determined to offload the stroppy bugger six months after signing him, although said stroppy bugger says he's really, really happy

There's only one way this is going to go, isn't there?
 
Piatek rumours increasing tenfold now. More I hear of it the more I want it to happen, not even because of Kane's injury and the need for a new striker, I just want this celebration at WHL:

PUM PUM PUM PUM PUM!

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Piatek rumours increasing tenfold now. More I hear of it the more I want it to happen, not even because of Kane's injury and the need for a new striker, I just want this celebration at WHL:

PUM PUM PUM PUM PUM!

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You know he'll rupture his meniscus the first time he does it...