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Transfer Rumours 21/22

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None of them are recent though. The most recent one on that list is van Dijk in 2013.

Anyway from what I experience here in Amsterdam there's a lot of footballers caught between different worlds. Much how I imagine it to be in London

Well, the original example you used was Babel. Didn't Van Persie, Robben, Van Nistelrooy overlap with Babel?
 
My assumption - largely from looking at their national team over the last few years - was that they're going through a bit of a lean period talent wise at the moment.

Which big talents have fallen by the wayside due to off field issues?
 
I find the Mbappe thing weird. Why not stay one more year with Messi and try and win the CL? And Real - spending 200M or whatever on a player who is available for free the following year? Nuts.

I was wondering the same thing. But then I realized, we would never know how clubs that want to win now and not compromise on that, operate, right.
 
Depends on the system..


We simply are not going to spend money on another DM. Its utter madness... Unless you can get a decent freebie somewhere, that won't command a high wage. Or get low profile signing and wait 12 months before he can be bed into our system.

If we want another DM we would have kept Gruijc.. But he wanted to leave for game time .

The side can be rejigged to cope with fabs loss..

As we have already have done and played two games without him.. and won them both

So that tells me we have a plan to manage his game time.

Do we really need fabs to play against the likes of Norwich, Burnley and Brighton etc. Nope.. We have the squad to cope,. If players stay fit..
Grujic wasn't good enough.
We were screaming for a DM before Fabs joined and you know what happened after that.
Yeah I'd argue that we do need Fabs in those types of games. Just based on that Burnley game, we really need Fabs back.
 
Babel used to drive me nuts. Imagine what a player he would have been if he'd had Dirk Kuyt's attitude and professionalism.

One of my favorite players from that time, Kuyt, not Babel. On a different note, Dirk Kuyt seems to have an image makeover since he retired:

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That’s what I think about Origi.

In a weird way, I totally get Origi. If I had scored the winner against Everton, two against Barcelona, and the CL final and LFC offered me an extension. I think I would have given up and behaved the same way. Anything you do further, you just cant beat those goals. Life has peaked and it is downhill from now. Might as well enjoy being around LFC for some time.
 
In a weird way, I totally get Origi. If I had scored the winner against Everton, two against Barcelona, and the CL final and LFC offered me an extension. I think I would have given up and behaved the same way. Anything you do further, you just cant beat those goals. Life has peaked and it is downhill from now. Might as well enjoy being around LFC for some time.
There’s always more though, isn’t there. Banging in a hat trick in a final. Pushing yourself to be better. He really has given up.
 
I find the comment about owing part of the money to Monaco interesting. It sounds like they've agreed a sell-on fee that is either a percentage of the total fee received, or a percentage above a certain minimum amount (which is lower than what PSG paid to sign him).
This surprises me.
Usually (but not always) a sell-on would be drafted as a percentage of any fee received in excess of the original amount paid. This wasn't always the way in the past but clubs are wise to it now as this has been a sticking point in some deals in the past (think it was an issue when we signed Lallana from Southampton, for example). Bit of a schoolboy error by PSG.
He might be saying this to try to get Monaco to compromise - it would be in Monaco's interests for this deal to go through, even if they have to waive part of their sell-on to make it happen, because they'll get nothing next summer.
I did see a situation once where a club agreed to "buy-out" the sell-on fee due to the club they bought a player from to protect against this kind of situation. In that case, the original selling club needed the cash so were willing to do the deal.
Or it could be that there are payments to Monaco are still outstanding and not related to a sell-on fee?
 
Or it could be that there are payments to Monaco are still outstanding and not related to a sell-on fee?
I don’t think so. it’s unlikely they’d still owe anything of the original fee after all this time and Leonardo does seem to link it to PSG receiving a fee for the player.
French media are suggesting it’s a €35m add-on fee if either they sell or if he signs a new deal, so it might not be a sell-on percentage in the normal sense. Seems like an odd clause.
 
Or it could be that there are payments to Monaco are still outstanding and not related to a sell-on fee?
That’s what I thought at first but that would mean he cost a hell of whole lot more than has been let on or the initial payments were nothing more than chicken scratch.
 
Question.

How the fuck have Madrid for 160m to fork out on Mbappe? Weren't they in financial troubles themselves.
They would be mad too.I feel it was a cmessage to M'bappe to reasure him that Real wants him
PSG are wanting 220m Euros for real to sign him this summer..
Why pay that when Real could wait for next summer and sign him for free
 
They would be mad too.I feel it was a cmessage to M'bappe to reasure him that Real wants him
PSG are wanting 220m Euros for real to sign him this summer..
Why pay that when Real could wait for next summer and sign him for free

I think they've been spooked by the stories an English side is in for him. Only reason I can think of.
 
They would be mad too.I feel it was a cmessage to M'bappe to reasure him that Real wants him
PSG are wanting 220m Euros for real to sign him this summer..
Why pay that when Real could wait for next summer and sign him for free
Mbappe can sign pre contract in Jan right? Surely Perez and Carlo will choose to wait, maybe if Benzema were out with long injury then maybe….
 
Mbappe can sign pre contract in Jan right? Surely Perez and Carlo will choose to wait, maybe if Benzema were out with long injury then maybe….
But then every other club could offer a stupid signing on bonus to him.
 
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