Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

[remembercolinlee]

Laporte all day long would be a good signing. Jesus isn’t all that. 50 league goals in 5 seasons for Man City when you’re a striker isn’t great. In fact I’d take Danny ‘always injured’ Ings over Jesus and I’m not really a fan of Ings either.

You (like @Spurlock ) need to stop beating round the Bush mate

 

[Dier Hard]

So is this Romero the dogs bolx like?

don’t know much about him…I mean I know he won best defender in serie A etc…but when he plays does he look like a leader of men? Is he commanding, which player does he compare to in style and output?

Titus Bramble, bro.

We’re going to the top!

 

[humanbeingincroydon]

Vlaovic Watch
One potential development to keep an eye on: for a while the fee getting bandied about was €60m, but apparently Fiorentina have dropped that to €50m

I'm currently looking to see if Paratici has told the Gazetta dello Sport that, if they don't sell him to us this summer, we will buy him for less next summer - only for Fiorentina to mistakenly consult a Gregorian calendar?

 

[The Huddlefro]

If we’re talking players in the deal, I’d take Laporte but doubt he’d want to join us. Building the defence around him and Romero would be nice.

Rather have cash than Jesus or any of the other names mentioned though.

 

[yossarian]

The PFA were actively telling their members not to take paycuts during Lockdown I

Then the PFA started hand-wringing about clubs potentially hitting the wall during the pandemic

Yes, the same PFA who were actively telling their members to not allow their clubs to reduce the largest expense of their running costs which were not being offset by ticket sales or TV money...

I always thought that they could have been publicly vocal in telling the PFA that it was the right thing to do rather than hiding behind the PFA because it suited them to do so

 

[Spurlock]

Titus Bramble, bro.

We’re going to the top!

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[Citizen Kane.]

Yeah we obviously won’t sign anyone as good as Kane but I think Jesus is a couple steps down. With de Bruyne, Bernardo, Mahrez, Sterling and David Silva (minus last season) all supplying him, I’d say he probably looks better than he is due to the chances he has created for him. Here Jesus wouldn’t get that level of supply and I don’t think he’d be good enough to make chances for himself like Kane or link the play to the wide forwards well enough either, he’s more of a poacher and I think we need a more complete striker to lead our line if Kane were to go.

I’d take CK’s favourite, Jimenez, providing we could be certain his old head injury won’t affect him mentally. I do also like Ings but he’s a risk due to his injuries. As most know I like Ollie Watkins as well, though he’d cost a bomb now, still say we should’ve went for him a couple years ago.

We’ve also been linked with that Vlahovic of Fiorentina. More of an unknown than the others but seems to be in a that complete striker mould.

Ultimately I just think that Jesus, outside of City, would struggle at a lot of Prem sides.

It was great to sew Jimenez back in action (and scoring), if only for a friendly. But most online chatter suggests it'll be a long while yet until he's back to his best, if ever. He'll probably be a bit-part player for the first half of the season if not longer and slowly reintegrate into first team action.

Still worth a gamble if he can be got on the cheap but we'd need to sign another striker anyway to replace Kane from day 1.

 

[humanbeingincroydon]

I always thought that they could have been publicly vocal in telling the PFA that it was the right thing to do rather than hiding behind the PFA because it suited them to do so

The problem there was a united front was needed, so saying that Kane and Lloris should have done so wouldn't have been enough

If the entire England team did so that's heading in the right direction, all the Home Nations even better (although also difficult, what with other bodies covering the wages of the likes of Gareth Bale or a large chunk of the Scotland team, and for that matter Jadon Sancho) but what really needed to be done was a group of clubs banding together

Instead we got a group of clubs banding together to join the ESL while also trying to use the pandemic as a shield as if two of those clubs didn't have bottomless pits of money

 

[humanbeingincroydon]

It was great to sew Jimenez back in action (and scoring), if only for a friendly. But most online chatter suggests it'll be a long while yet until he's back to his best, if ever. He'll probably be a bit-part player for the first half of the season if not longer and slowly reintegrate into first team action.

Still worth a gamble if he can be got on the cheap but we'd need to sign another striker anyway to replace Kane from day 1.

I guess that rules out Rashford, then, as he's ruled out until either October or January depending on who's saying it

 

[yossarian]

The problem there was a united front was needed, so saying that Kane and Lloris should have done so wouldn't have been enough

If the entire England team did so that's heading in the right direction, all the Home Nations even better (although also difficult, what with other bodies covering the wages of the likes of Gareth Bale or a large chunk of the Scotland team, and for that matter Jadon Sancho) but what really needed to be done was a group of clubs banding together

Instead we got a group of clubs banding together to join the ESL while also trying to use the pandemic as a shield as if two of those clubs didn't have bottomless pits of money

This is why having the England and France captains set the example, especially given that we were one of the few clubs that was going to furlough it's staff, was so important. My hope was that it would shame other players into doing the same.

 

[Citizen Kane.]

This is why having the England and France captains set the example, especially given that we were one of the few clubs that was going to furlough it's staff, was so important. My hope was that it would shame other players into doing the same.

Instead, we had former England captain Wayne Rooney bleating in various newspaper columns how calls for players to take pay cuts were leaving them feeling "victimised" and "discriminated against".

The heart bleeds...

 

[Shuckspurs]

What is a gentlemans agreement, if you don't want to commit to the club don't sign the most expensive contract that the club has ever offered, or get any changes that 'you' want added in writing which if all parties are in agreement shouldn't be hard.

Kane is being foolish if he think that' a conversation between him and Levy is binding, and even if they have some sort of agreement its quite likely that Levy will have said that it can only happen if the clubs valuation is met and that clearly has not happened yet.

It will be a shame if Harrys time ends in this fashion but won't be a surprise, we have lost players before and recovered and we will miss him for sure, but if he doesn't want to be here then we have to move on.

To be honest, Levy hasn't said he wont sell him. City haven't come up with an acceptable bid. I'm fairly sure if they do have a gentleman's agreement it would be on the basis of an acceptable offer being made. If Kane has thrown his toys out of the pram he needs to grow up, nobody held a gun to his head and forced him to sign the contract.

 

[humanbeingincroydon]

This is why having the England and France captains set the example, especially given that we were one of the few clubs that was going to furlough it's staff, was so important. My hope was that it would shame other players into doing the same.

The obvious problem there is that if, for the sake of argument, Jamie Vardy and Anthony Martial didn't follow their captain's example it would have collapsed on the spot

What was needed was the PFA to be publicly shamed for their baffling stance and their mealy-mouthed explanation for it, but they got a free pass from players and pundits alike

 

[Citizen Kane.]

Re potential replacements for Kane, I've been mulling over us going for PL-proven options.

Calvert-Lewin or Bamford spring to mind. Of the two, the latter strikes me as more versatile and is entering his peak years. The former is still relatively young and definitely has scope to improve.

Both players good at hold-up play. Bamford's assist rate is pretty good for a lone striker plus he is entering the final year of his contract. I dunno, there's something about him I like. He did things the hard way. Made a naiive decision joining Chelsea as a youngster who then dicked him around for years on end. But he kept his head down, grafted at Boro then grafted more at Leeds and is now one of the top strikers in the PL.

I think we should test Leeds' resolve. Get another fanbase to hate us before the end of the summer.

 

[Billy The Spur]

Kane is the one engineering this. There were reports two weeks ago he wouldn't turn up for training, and look what has happened today.

The bloke is putting his desire to win cheap and hollow medals before Spurs, he is trying to get us to fold so he gets what he wants and has been promised by £ity. His brother and the media have had plenty of blame, but Kane is the driving force behind every part of this saga.

He may have done legendary things on the pitch for Spurs while he has been here, but these actions mean he is no legend. The club and fans should be disgusted by his actions, no true legend shiets on his boyhood club in this way.

I hope Levy rinses those oil money doped caaants for more than £150m, and I hope Kane goes on to win fack all.

 

[Shuckspurs]

Re potential replacements for Kane, I've been mulling over us going for PL-proven options.

Calvert-Lewin or Bamford spring to mind. Of the two, the latter strikes me as more versatile and is entering his peak years. The former is still relatively young and definitely has scope to improve.

Both players good at hold-up play. Bamford's assist rate is pretty good for a lone striker plus he is entering the final year of his contract. I dunno, there's something about him I like. He did things the hard way. Made a naiive decision joining Chelsea as a youngster who then dicked him around for years on end. But he kept his head down, grafted at Boro then grafted more at Leeds and is now one of the top strikers in the PL.

I think we should test Leeds' resolve. Get another fanbase to hate us before the end of the summer.

I don't know who we could get to fill Kane's boots but Bamford isn't the answer.

 

[Dier Hard]

Re potential replacements for Kane, I've been mulling over us going for PL-proven options.

Calvert-Lewin or Bamford spring to mind. Of the two, the latter strikes me as more versatile and is entering his peak years. The former is still relatively young and definitely has scope to improve.

Both players good at hold-up play. Bamford's assist rate is pretty good for a lone striker plus he is entering the final year of his contract. I dunno, there's something about him I like. He did things the hard way. Made a naiive decision joining Chelsea as a youngster who then dicked him around for years on end. But he kept his head down, grafted at Boro then grafted more at Leeds and is now one of the top strikers in the PL.

I think we should test Leeds' resolve. Get another fanbase to hate us before the end of the summer.

Jesus Christ I’m glad you’re not in charge of our transfers .

They’re the types of striker you’d sign as a Kane backup, not a replacement.

 

[Shuckspurs]

Jamie O'Hara saying Spurs fans wouldn't begrudge Kane going on strike to force a move. I don't know how he has got a job in broadcasting and it really annoys me that he has become some sort of spokes person for Spurs fans. He has the same IQ as a brick.

 

[Spurlock]

I’ve always liked the look of that Martinez chap at Inter…feisty and clinical from what I’ve seen…and if I was going to take a gamble it would be him.

 

[The Changing Man]

Jamie O'Hara saying Spurs fans wouldn't begrudge Kane going on strike to force a move. I don't know how he has got a job in broadcasting and it really annoys me that he has become some sort of spokes person for Spurs fans. He has the same IQ as a brick.

He is a spokesman for no one other than Jamie O'Hara