Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

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Vulture Watch

Today I'll wrap up the relegated sides who I haven't already covered

Werder Bremen
Milos Veljkovic (25yo, Serbia, centre back, contracted until 2022, counts as HG & CG)
Josh Sargent (21yo, USofA, striker, contracted until 2022)
Maximilian Eggstein (24yo, Germany, centre midfielder, contracted until 2023)
Christian Groß (32yo, Germany, defensive midfielder, contracted until 2022, clearly here for ****s and giggles)

Valladolid
Shon Weissman (25yo, Israel, centre forward, contracted until 2024, would quite possibly finish Baddiel off)

Huesca
Gaston Silva (27yo, Uruguay, left back, free agent in the summer)

Nimes
Andres Cubas (25yo, Paraguay, defensive midfield, contracted until 2024)
Birger Meling (26yo, Norway, left back, contracted until 2023)

 

Maximilian Eggstein isn't here for ****s and giggles?!

 

Carter-Vickers in talks to join Bournemouth permanently. Has just a year left on his deal so he won't be fetching us a fortune (I'd guess around £2m) but at least it's a start of getting that cull going, lol.

 

Tbh I have a MASSIVE dislike of Bournemouth...wouldn't sell em the steam off my piss on a cold day in all honesty....



























But I would sell them Dier, Doherty and Aurier...and give them rose

 

What’s the matter with you, man, who the **** hates Bournemouth?!

 

You have no idea how much irrational hate one man can have...and people trust me to teach their kids ffs

 

Weymouth

 

Fun fact: the Lunatic Fringe are blaming Hitchen for spending £30m on Sissoko

Who was signed when Paul Mitchell was our DoF

Gee, I wonder why I coined that name for the easily-led, reactionary dullards...

 

Was thinking about the Bale comment re his decision causing chaos...think he may well retire after the Euros.

 

I think he will go back to Madrid because Zidane is becoming our next manager

bare chaos

 

With another year left of collecting £600k a week, I doubt it

 

If Zidane was ever coming to Spurs, I'd rather he came out of retirement and played. Almost certain that at 48 he's still miles better than any midfielder we currently have.

Which is funny and depressing in equal measure, lol.

 

Zidane goes from managing Modric, Ramos, Bale etc in their prime and gets the arse and walks away before returning... to managing us with Aurier, Sissoko and Doherty?

 

Mike Maignan set to join AC Milan for just €15m. Feels like a snip for one of the best performing keepers in Europe this season.

Romano claims we weren’t in talks with him as we have different GK targets in mind.

 

Dan Kilpatrick's published a sell list, although it does come with a heavy "I reckon" energy to it
Hugo Lloris
Davinson Sanchez
Eric Dier
Serge Aurier
Matt Doherty
Ben Davies
Moussa Sissoko
Harry Winks
Erik Lamela
Lucas Moura

Long story short, while I believe parts of that list, I don't believe all of it, for the following reasons
i.) Selling both Aurier and Doherty leaves us needing two RBs, so the likely scenario is we sell Aurier and Doherty gets a second season
ii.) Selling both Lamela and Lucas only makes sense if Bale gets a second season and rotates with Bergwijn, otherwise only Lamela's off
iii.) Selling both Sissoko and Winks leaves us desperately short in centre midfield, which is already a problem area, plus the HG implications of Winks leaving

It's also a surprise that the following players aren't on the list
Toby Alderweireld
Juan Foyth
Paulo Gazzaniga

 

Also, it's been widely suggested that Lille are having a fire sale because their finances are pretty goddamn bad, so even though they won the league a chunk of the team that won the league will be moved on in the summer

Sven Botman, anyone?

 

Marcus Edwards is being linked with a €13m move to Sporting Lisbon who just won the Portuguese League title.

We have a 50% sell on clause so would pocket €6.5m from the sale should it happen.

Didn’t have the best of seasons this one otherwise that fee would be a lot higher and possibly to a team in Europe’s top five leagues.

 

I noticed we weren't seeing many videos of him dribbling past three players and smashing it into the net after November

Considering how Guimaraes finished seventh (oh look, another contender for Vulture Watch...) and conceded more than they scored, either they had an overly-defensive manager or Primeira Liga defences are getting smart to him

 

This is why a new manager is needed ASAP. Would be foolish to sign a player before the new manager is in place as he might have other preferences. On the other hand, delaying it will mean targets will sign for other clubs or new contracts

Time is of the essence