Transfer Rumours Summer 2022 Transfer Window

I do wonder how much Norwich would want for him though as he is a known quantity for them. Not sure of his contract situation

 

This is fair enough. There seems to be a range of definitions people use for it - hence the Ben Mee example who doesn’t really fit your definition but fits others

 

Wasn’t Rory Delap our record signing at one point?

The universe is calling it.

 

This transfer window will be one of those where we're either looking back on it in years to come as a masterstroke, or we'll be trying to recall the names we signed as some sort of pity-quiz while we languish outside the PL. Buckle up - at least it isn't boring any more.

 

City have just signed a striker who is the next big thing who is only a few years old older than Delap as well as the argentine. They then also play with a false 9 regularly in the form of Foden or sometimes others

So I wonder what Delap thinks about this. I guess we have bid hoping that he will ask for a permanent transfer with a buy back like the others? He might not of course but I don’t see where he fits in. Pep doesn’t play traditional strikers. I remember he tried to drum Aguero out in his only years only to be forced to admit how stupid that was (never openly of course). Haaland is an exception and if that fails to work I can’t see him suddenly turning to Delap. Especially if that fails as it would be, in Pep’s mind, an ultimate vindication of his apparent view on strikers. That said, he won’t be there forever and I assume potential replacements will use strikers

 

I’ve wondered this before but WTF is wrong with most of the people who reply to Fab’s tweets?

They basically ignore the topic of the tweet and scream about “big club” news

Most of the replies to this one are about Kounde (and who isn’t exactly the most exciting transfer rumour out there. So they are either mostly Chelsea fans, Barca fans or people who hate Chelsea and want to see them lose out on players. Or a mix. But it is weird. He tweeted about Kounde yesterday! So why spam his unrelated tweets about it. I guess the answer is “it is Twitter”.

 

Twatters on twitter, they do get bitter.

 

We’ve got that covered already then

 

I like Pukki and he works hard, but he doesn’t score a lot which is what we need in a striker

He could be our new Shaney

 

Embarrassingly for a loooong time

 

He scored 11 PL goals last season in a **** Norwich team. That's pretty good in my book.

 

I should have looked that up before I opened my mouth

I thought it was only 2 or 3
I only ever remember him running a lot and missing

Were they mainly against us?

 

Pukki has 8 non penalty goals in 37 games. Adams had 7 in 30. I use non penalty goals as he would be unlikely to take them here.

 

Yep £4mm for a one trick long throw pony.... But worth it for that scissor kick

 

I don't recall him being a proper long throw specialist until after he left. Or at least we didn't utilise it.

 

Signings so far.

Average age in, 21.4
Average age out, 29.0

Source: https://www.transfermarkt.com/south...180/plus/?saison_id=2022&pos=&detailpos=&w_s=

 

City willing to let McAtee go out on loan

 

There are rumblings linking Kane to Bayern. I wonder who Spurs would look to for a replacement should that happen? Not that it seems very likely