Transfer Rumours Summer Transfer window

A part of me feels xhaka might be a smokescreen as well, I'd love xhaka but also wonder if the club are happy for all the talk to be on him as we try to get another big deal sorted - could be diakite

 

Hamer could be off to psv, cracking move for him that - league suits him to a t

 

There’s more to the battle with Bournemouth for him than petrovic.

when petrovic chose them he probably didn’t even have to move far if even move at all to go there. He’s settled down south.

financially we can compete for this deal

diakite would come over into a primarily French squad. You’d say we have a real chance if we go for it

 

Theyve also just signed Plea - always thought he would of ended up at a prem team

 

Any good midfielders abroad who’ve played prem?

FZA and Xhaka are clearly part of a recruitment focus. Who could they be smoke screening

 

Not sure I see us paying €40m like

 

if we've offered 27 and they want 40 I could see an agreement being possible at 35 maybe?

 

No idea tbh, I believe we are pushing for xhaka but just a gut feeling we might have something else big being worked on

Hope my gut feeling is right as last time I said that Diarra got a here we go the same day out of nowhere

 

I could but depends on the structure, if jts €40 million with no bonuses then i can't see us doing it but if we have bonuses to take it up to that then we could

 

I like this part:

He has already reached a contract agreement with Bournemouth, as revealed on this site on July 3 , but the idea of playing under Régis Le Bris at Sunderland does not seem to displease him either.

 

I could. But it also doesn’t mean they won’t settle below that with sell on etc

 

That’s around £35m. £30m + £5m add ons seems somewhat feasible to me (given how we are attacking this window)

 

Exactly no club is going to say we want exactly x amount. They aim high and negotiate a happy middle

 

yeah I could see the latter like, feels like lucumi could have been a smokescreen

 

ok, erm, wow. that changes everything if true.

 

For a MAJOR CB too. He’s a top level defender

 

Let's bring singo, Amad and the lad from Leicester in

Sunderland AFCON

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1HhyS34bGs/

 

Seriously if we can request (and receive) postponements for AFCON that gives us a huge advantage of a winter break that other clubs don't get as well