Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

We're at the domino effect stage of the window. Something needs to give to get other processes moving.

The Amrabat deal is the sort we have the financial elasticity to pull off irrespective of outgoings. Loan to buy at £12-15m and a relatively low wage.

Traore and Diaz need others to first move on though and right now we are no closer to that than we were 3 weeks ago.

We went into the window needing a ST, CM and CB. If we end it with a RW, DM and LAM, I for one will be quite confused.

 

Looks like ITK's actually had some legit info for once, Jonathan Veal has said we do hold interest in him, whereas a local Hull source reckons we're planning a bid to buy and loan him back, as the insider suggested.

 

I remember the good old days where Spurs fans waited for our players to have a run of poor performances before ****ting on them, rather than ****ting on players as soon as they're linked with us...

 

There's also the small detail of needing to keep £50m, or at the very least a large chunk of it, in the kitty to make Romero's loan permanent

Hopefully that isn't the big announcement for February 1st

 

I’m assuming you’re on about Sofyan Amrabat, Mohamed Cho and Adama Traore?

 

Among many, many others

 

Kulusevski might still be in play after all

Yes, the word might is doing some heavy lifting there...

 

Reminds me of when we were linked with Bowen and didn't get it done.
Hopefully this one won't go the same way.

 

DISCLAIMER: the bloke writes for both CalcioMercato and Fichajes, so he's down on the tier list

Anyway...

Matteo Moretto claims the reason Traore isn't done yet is because, ever since he was linked with Barca, he's not willing to commit to us just in case they make a late bid this window

...although the obvious counterpoint to this is that Fichajes are the only source running Traore to Barca that I can find

 

Santi Aouna reporting that Leicester are preparing an offer for Mohamed-Ali Cho

So I take it he's not longer "dross" then?

 

They have around 5 strikers in their squad so I'm calling early bird bs on that.

 

Vardy and Perez both have one year on their contracts, and Vardy will be 36 when his contract's up next summer so isn't exactly a longterm option

Realistically that could leave them with Daka and Iheanacho eighteen months from now, and when you consider Iheanacho has only scored 10+ league goals once in his career I can't see why anyone would shrug off their reported interest from someone who is usually pretty accurate

 

To counter that, we have some fans that hype up anyone linked with Spurs

 

Mainly because they're having to battle a tide of people ****ting on anyone and everyone we're linked with

 

So they don’t even rate the players, they’re just doing it to be different.

Explains a lot

 

No, they're trying to talk sense into people whose automatic reaction is to **** on something they don't know about

Something which Man Utd fans are just as bad for, which is no doubt the reason Diego keeps upvoting your comments...

 

Why do you assume that people who slate players know less about them than those who big them up?

 

Mainly due to how they demonstrate the only thing they know about the player is their name, and they only knew that when we were linked with them

Seriously, watching one AFCoN match would've made anyone more knowledgeable about Amrabat than any of the dickheads using the NoToAmrabat hashtag yesterday, and there were an awful lot of dickheads doing that

 

I didn’t see one #NoToAmrabat on here yesterday.

 

Seriously, watching AFCoN would give no indication of of a players level at all.