Pension mode. VDV is the standard by which I measure such players. Dropping down from the apex with a big wage cut to boot, but determined to make an impact for the better and show they still have it.
Drink Update Sam Johnstone (Murdoch's Hate Comic, 1st Jan) Dean Henderson (Murdoch's Hate Comic, 1st Jan) Diego Costa (La Razon, December 30th)* Ivan Perisic (Eurosport, January 1st) Merih Demiral (CalcioMercato, 3rd Jan) Paolo Dybala (FootMercato, 4th Jan) Ozan Kabak (Sky Germany, 4th Jan) Bottle Update The Sheikh Mansour Team readying a €100m bid for Harry Kane (Murdoch's Hate Comic, January 1st) We also have David Hynter talking about bringing Eriksen back on loan
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Names You're Going To Hear A Bunch Watch The Pathetic has fired up their copy of FM21 again, which means it's time for one of their Sensible Transfers videos. So to spare you a click, ten quid, or five minutes of watching a Youtube video, here's the players they have listed Ryan Gravenberch (18yo, CM, Ajax, contracted to 2023, has Mino "****" Raiola as an agent) Mohammed Camara (21yo, CM, G Fuel Vienna, contracted to 2025) Diadie Samessekou (24yo, DM, Hoffenheim, contracted to 2024) Nikola Milenkovic (23yo, CB, Fiorentina, contracted to 2022, ) Loic Bade (20yo, CB, Lens, contracted to 2023) Matvey Safonov (21yo, Krasnodar, contracted to 2023) Adrian Semper (22yom, Chievo, contracted to 2024) So to break them down Gravenberch: the lazy version is just to point in the direction of either Frenkie de Jong or Donnie van der Beek due their being CMs who came through Ajax's system, although he can certainly be compared to Ndombele as he can play as a 6, 8 or 10 - in other words, we'd be spending big on an 18 year old version of Ndombele Camara: arguably closer to Sissoko, in that he works his bollocks off in the middle, but has better control...and, yes, I know this is basically the same as what I said about his teammate Enock Mwepu for the last one of these Samessekou: if you shove Hojbjerg and Sissoko into a teleporter and wait to see what comes out the other side, here's what you get as he drops back to receive the ball from defence like Hojbjerg does, but unlike Hojbjerg he carries the ball forward closer to how Sissoko does Milenkovic: habitually linked with us, and as mentioned various times before he has the aerial presence that our CBs lack, and while I do believe the comparisons with Nemanja Vidic are lazy as hell he is a bugger to get past and does have a little bit of ****ehousery to his game - and with Fiorentina being crap this season coupled with his contract ticking down, he's certainly gettable this window Bade: similar in style to Vertonghen or Foyth, as he brings the ball out of defence rather than laying it off to the DM/FB - although it has to that this season is his first experience of top flight football, having broken into Lens' team late last season while they were in the second tier, so he's basically the "Look how clever we are!" entry on this list Safonov: remember how, a decade ago, we were hearing how Igor Akinfeev would soon be leaving CSKA Moscow to join one of Europe's elite teams? There's a reason why I bring this up: Russian players rarely leave their domestic league these days, with Golovin, Cheryshev and Miranchuk the only members of their national team to break this pattern, so it's highly unlikely he'll be headed west, and this is before considering how communication is important for keepers yet I'm not even sure Safonov speaks English Semper: oh bloody hell, where to begin? The fact he joined Chievo from Dinamo Zagreb last summer so they're not going to sell anytime soon, or the fact that Chievo are playing in Serie B? On top of that, while Chievo paid around £1.35m for him last season, they would certainly be wanting a sizable return on that, so to call this a "sensible transfer" is borderline insulting as even in a game of FM you'd have Chievo telling you va ffanculo if we made an offer this month
Ajax coach Erik ten Hag has confirmed that Ajax were in for Hojbjerg this summer and he wanted to join them before we moved for him. Once our interest was known, that was it. He made his mind up and only wanted to go to Spurs.
West Brom are reportedly interested in Danny Rose Is there a polite way to suggest the club employ someone to hit him with the door on the way out?
They've dropped Gibbs and played two different players out of position there in their last two fixtures, losing 5-0 and 4-0. Might make sense, though he'd probably take ages to get up to speed.
Think Rose was linked to Trabzonspor as well. One way or another he'll be gone though I'd imagine, either a transfer or his contract being paid up. I hope he can a move somewhere, don't wanna see him fade into obscurity.
Franck Kessie, Nikola Milenkovic and Demarai Grey are all showing up in today's rumours You know what that means...
With the conflicting reports of whether Dele will be allowed to leave this window, one interesting little titbit has come up, namely he's quite the asset for our marketing department and, as a result, is our third-highest seller of club merch While that may sound barely significant, considering it is safe to assume there's a noticeable drop between the top two of Son and Kane before we reach third-placed Dele, given the generally ****ed up world we live in now it does beg the question if the club is willing to sacrifice the income from x-many shirt sales with Dele's name on them, which in turn paints the Bale signing in a different light as surely that would have moved a fair number of shirts Of course, the whole HG thing might also have a lot to say in the situation...
I don’t see the point of loaning him out unless there is some sort of a replacement lined up. Obviously the replacement would have to be HG and hopefully can play in CM but I’m struggling to think of anyone linked that fits that bill right now
