Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

What do you reckon, true or BS

 

Great place for pubs and and far to cold for a cardigan in the winter ,Scott could be in trouble

 

The cited source writes for The Star

Certainly not worth warming up the siren yet

 

Not been Bruges but been Brussels and Ghent and they too are fantastic for pubs and beer. Delirium in Brussels is (or was) in the Guinness World Records for having the most beers available, over 2,000 iirc. I blacked out after walking out of that place and had to be carried back to our hostel by my cousin and mate, to which I then had a few Italian girls who were sharing our room nurse me throughout the night, absolute angels…

10/10 would do it again.

 

At the same time, or...?

 

I can recommend Bruges great town but cannot comment on post alcohol induced coma care

 

Looks like Football BSider was living up to their name, as Emerson's on the bench today

 

Delerium Brussels is a haven. Brilliant bar

 

Is it like the Porterhouse...only not an overrated ****hole?

 

The Porterhouse is as you describe

Delerium miles clear

 

It’s so dangerous too, start the night drinking “normal” beers then by the end you’re drinking this black stuff that’s like 20+% and then wondering why the room is spinning like mad as you’re jamming out to the live act in the bottom bar. Then bang, you walk outside and it’s lights out.

 

Normal Adult Men Watch
Hotspur Related churnalised an Italian headline about how we're looking to sign Dumfires and De Vrij this month, and the comments are full of people having meltdowns because it's not Porro

So once again our fanbase is currently filled with shouty boneheads demanding we sign players - and then screaming "NOT THAT ONE!!!" when we're linked with the "wrong" players...

 

Lyall Thomas says we’ve cooled interest in Porro due to Sporting insisting he’ll only leave for his release clause of £40m.

I don’t usually do it, but I thought I’d read replies because I knew there was gonna be furore, this one got me:

Spurs will try to negotiate a lower fee over the next couple weeks. Then another team will come in and pay the asking price…. Meanwhile Doherty and Emerson will continue to make every left winger in the league look like prime Gareth Bale.

 

Martin Terrier subbed off in the first half of Rennes' match with Nice

My immediate thought is "Oh bugger, there goes a January target"

 

Let's see if we're being linked with any creative players today...

Anatoly Trubin (Shakhtar) - is a goalkeeper
Stefan de Vrij (Inter) - is a CB
Pedro Porro (Sporting) - is a RWB
Denzel Dumfires (Inter) - is a RWB (and a sideways step to Emerson, given he's been dogshit for club and country all season)
Franck Kessie (Barca) - is a box-to-box midfielder
Sofyan Amrabat (Fiorentina) - is a deep-lying playmaker...with World Cup tax tripling his asking price
Anthony Gordon (Everton) - well at least he plays in the right end of the pitch
Jack Harrison (Leeds) - pretty sure no young winger wants to join us from Leeds after they see what happened to the last one...

 

Very much a clip to avoid watching, I'm afraid.
He was absolutely howling in pain and his knee went a funny colour almost immediately.
I hope that he has a quick and full recovery, but that looked extremely grim. Haunting.

 

World Cup Tax Watch
La Republica have decided we're interested in Azzedine Ounahi, claiming that Angers are willing to listen to offers around €35m...no, wait, I got that wrong: Angers have said that €35m is the buy-in for the auction they're hoping starts

The best way to look at it is that Angers aren't in full pisstake mode like Fiorentina are with them now expecting £40m+ for Amrabat when he was reportedly available for £20-25m last January due to them already looking doomed in Ligue 1, which especially sticks out given Ounahi is contracted until 2026 after signing a new contract last August (that's August 2022, for anyone still affected with New Year Brain)

However, he's yet another box-to-box midfielder to add to the pile. A more dynamic one than Hojbjerg or Bissouma, and also one who doesn't become a passenger when we don't have the ball like Ndombele routinely did, no question about that - but hardly the creative player we need

And this is where it gets somewhat annoying: he ticks so many boxes as he could drive us up the pitch in a Dembele-like manner that we've been crying out for since the 2017-18 season when Moose's legs started to go and could rouse the crowd every time he pushes forward, yet at the same time we're also crying out for somebody who can make defence-splitting passes and he's not it

That being said, if 352 is back on the menu, a midfield three containing both Ounahi and Bentancur could have the ball going in this direction which people call "forwards"

 

The Daily Wail is jumping on the Edwards/Porro double deal bandwagon that either A Bolo or O Jogo mentioned 2-3 weeks ago

Meanwhile, on an unrelated tangent, r/coys are now throwing their weight behind Ruben Amorim instead of Marcelo Gallardo

 

We've been linked with 6'7" Ukrainian goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin.
He's 21, he's got 3 caps for his country and his contract with Shakhtar Donetsk has 18 months left.
No idea if he's any good, but it sounds like a risky move for all parties, to me.

 

Poking around the various scouting sites, he's got a potentially useful combination of reflexes, aerial ability, distribution and not shirking high balls

If he can be bought in for a reasonable fee we could have a legacy keeper in place