Transfer Rumours 2016/17 City Transfer Thread

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I may be wrong about this, but I'm pretty certain the PL don't pay out their big fat wad until the end of the season? I swear I remember reading about their payments being staged with the lions share being the last, and only the guaranteed share of the TV deal being paid up front. Assuming that's the case, where does the cash for player purchases come from?

The payments are staged through the season, but for the promoted clubs, the biggest is the first one.
 
When's hernandez signing?

Clubs tell the press to put pressure on players, nothing more nothing less. If it were a formality, like with clucas, they withhold the news so they can be the ones to break it.
 
When's hernandez signing?

Clubs tell the press to put pressure on players, nothing more nothing less. If it were a formality, like with clucas, they withhold the news so they can be the ones to break it.

Alternatively agents tell the press that contracts talks are ongoing to highlight that they havent actually signed yet.
 
They had no need to announce anything with regard to Maguire or Robertson, with Diame they did, despite it already being a lost cause.

It's really not complicated.

We had no need to announce it with Clucas, so we didnt until he signed.

And it's really not complicated to grasp that offering a contract and a player signing it are not the same thing.
 
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