Transfer Deadline Day

[MomoWASright]

Directly from the London office:

RIP. Taken so young.

 

[rurikbird]

How can Barca of all clubs afford Auba's £350,000/week salary? Must be yet another creative accounting trick.

 

[dee]

How can Barca of all clubs afford Auba's £350,000/week salary? Must be yet another creative accounting trick.

By offloading dembele

 

[rurikbird]

By offloading dembele

Good luck with that.

 

[rurikbird]

Newcastle took their January transfer spend to almost £90m yet still ended up harbouring a sense of frustration after failing in attempts to bring Manchester United’s Jesse Lingard and the Reims striker Hugo Ekitike to St James’ Park.
Despite agreeing a £20m-plus deal with Reims for Ekitike, a 19-year-old forward dubbed the “new Kylian Mbappé”, the player declined to board the plane Newcastle had laid on to transport him to Tyneside, expressing a reluctance to leave France at this juncture in his career. It is thought Ekitike was concerned that Howe’s team remain in the bottom three and wondered whether he really wanted to become embroiled in a relegation struggle.

 

[keniget]

It's hard to believe Aaron Ramsey is going to end up at Rangers. I know he's pretty much been rotting away at Juventus - what a horrible career move that was - but still... Scottish football? That's rough.

 

[Hansern]

He turned down a move to the Premier League as well.

 

[737Max]

He turned down a move to the Premier League as well.

He turned Burnley down. I imagine most people would. It's a shithole

 

[Beamrider]

How can Barca of all clubs afford Auba's £350,000/week salary? Must be yet another creative accounting trick.

Expect they’ll have signed him on a deal where he gets buttons for the next 6 months and then shitloads in July. Which will work out fine, obviously. Nothing can go wrong with that plan.

 

[Fabio]

He turned Burnley down. I imagine most people would. It's a shithole

Glasgow or Burnley. Me oh my

 

[rurikbird]

By offloading dembele

 

[rurikbird]

Expect they’ll have signed him on a deal where he gets buttons for the next 6 months and then shitloads in July. Which will work out fine, obviously. Nothing can go wrong with that plan.

Didn't the Spanish league bust them for trying exactly this in regards to Messi, which led to the enforced sale?

 

[Markeh]

How can Barca of all clubs afford Auba's £350,000/week salary? Must be yet another creative accounting trick.

I’m starting to think they engineered Messi’s exit or at least didn’t do everything they could to prevent it

 

[Fabio]

Fuck my life. I would have thought someone would take him

 

[Beamrider]

Didn't the Spanish league bust them for trying exactly this in regards to Messi, which led to the enforced sale?

Yeah, but I think the thing with Messi was they were trying to do it over a longer period by which time he’s probably have retired (so they’d have ended up paying him a huge wedge for lying on the beach somewhere). They’ve apparently been doing it over shorter periods with other players and got away with it.

 

[rurikbird]

Yeah, but I think the thing with Messi was they were trying to do it over a longer period by which time he’s probably have retired (so they’d have ended up paying him a huge wedge for lying on the beach somewhere). They’ve apparently been doing it over shorter periods with other players and got away with it.

Those Barca accountants, absolute geniuses of their craft.

 

[dee]

Slamming time!!

 

[darkstarexodus]

Yeah, but I think the thing with Messi was they were trying to do it over a longer period by which time he’s probably have retired (so they’d have ended up paying him a huge wedge for lying on the beach somewhere). They’ve apparently been doing it over shorter periods with other players and got away with it.

You see this in the NFL all the time, most notably by the New Orleans Saints. Keep signing extensions that allow them to reamortize. Eventually they'll have to pay the bills and rebuild but they use keep pushing that date further out.

 

[Rosco]

Directly from the London office:

More fake news from Hansern

 

[jan]

A decent thread on Bentancur. For what it's worth, I think Kulusevski fits Spurs even less.

Bentancur sounds like a proper Lucas

 

[jan]

Everton's business this window has been delightfully tragic again

 

[Hyena]

Bentancur sounds like a proper Lucas

If we signed him, he'd be Bentacunt within six weeks

 

[Hyena]

Everton's business this window has been delightfully tragic again

It's tragically delightful

 

[StevieM]

If we signed him, he'd be Bentacunt within six weeks

6 minutes of his debut more like.

 

[StevieM]

So… did the transfer window slam shut without any further bannings?

 

[doctor_mac]

Everton's business this window has been delightfully tragic again

In the short term Lampard will be happy. OK, the Alli deal has the potential to be a disaster, but there is a very good player in there, and I could see him starting well for Everton. With the loss of one of their main creative midfielders to, erm, pedophilia, de Beek is a great loan for them surely? He hasn't had a chance at Utd, but looked like an excellent player for Ajax. I think they've done enough to push them into their mid-table home.

 

[keniget]

Van De Beek *and* Alli though?

 

[The Nomad]

Van De Beek *and* Alli though?

Both are better than what they had. Van de Beek a bit deeper and Alli in the lampard role.

Still, they didn't strengthen elsewhere.

 

[MomoWASright]

In the short term Lampard will be happy. OK, the Alli deal has the potential to be a disaster, but there is a very good player in there, and I could see him starting well for Everton. With the loss of one of their main creative midfielders to, erm, pedophilia, de Beek is a great loan for them surely? He hasn't had a chance at Utd, but looked like an excellent player for Ajax. I think they've done enough to push them into their mid-table home.

None of that Ajax team has surmounted to much have they? Were they a group that were greater than the sum of their parts?

 

[jan]

They're both shit, as is their new manager