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Shrapnig posted:Dwight Gayle is cool and good, and he is my friend. He is. Shame his hamstrings are more like cheese string
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Real Name Grover posted:Figure of speech — but don't tell me that having the most popular American soccer player won't be a boon to Chelsea's popularity stateside. To what end? I mean, shirt sales don't go into the hands of the club really, so having a bunch more American plastics isn't really going to matter in that regards. They're not going to be going to the games. Does TV viewership matter? Not really. I suppose they can get a good pre-season tour out of it. Buying players to supposedly "increase foreign support" or whatever has always seemed weird to me. I've never seen any real evidence that it does the club any favours over, you know, actually being good at football.
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Yeah I think the big winner in that whole sense is NBC, not the club.
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sassassin posted:Who is going to match Drinkwater's insane wages? Chelsea will have to subsidize his wages for sure, but it sounds like multiple PL clubs are interested
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This level of move is unprecedented for an American. All I'm saying is that it factored into that transfer fee. Speaking of American moves, check out this sweet graphic ESPN tweeted (and has since deleted)
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Real Name Grover posted:This level of move is unprecedented for an American. All I'm saying is that it factored into that transfer fee. Wow what a great graphic I had no idea Freddy Adu played for Sunderland Hint: he didn’t
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Spurs also have no money, and making any signings is contingent on a load of players leaving, notably Dembele, Wanyama, N'Koudou, and Llorente. Highest priority is definitely a replacement for Dembele, and Ndombele is the name I've seen the most. Would love that but it'd be beyond foolish to have any hope. Looks like we're also planning on raiding the lower leagues for the likes of winger Jarrod Bowen and maybe Norwich fullback Max Aarons. Anyone have any idea if they're worthwhile? BSE?
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gtkor posted:Would not make a ton of sense with Leno moving over not that long ago Arsenal need a good keeper though Solanke's move to Palace has supposedly fallen through because Big Dom isn't actually fit and Palace need goals immediately. There's talk that Schalke are interested though.
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brasstassels posted:Spurs also have no money, and making any signings is contingent on a load of players leaving, notably Dembele, Wanyama, N'Koudou, and Llorente. Aarons is quality and destined for a bigger club than Norwich but I doubt it happens this window. We have no need to sell right now and if we don't get promoted its not like his price will be any lower in summer. I reckon its just press talk, big clubs must send scouts to watch every teenager getting minutes in the Championship but don't bid of most of them. Haven't Spurs got the second coming of Kyle Walker as their future right back anyway?
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Blue Star Error posted:Aarons is quality and destined for a bigger club than Norwich but I doubt it happens this window. We have no need to sell right now and if we don't get promoted its not like his price will be any lower in summer. I reckon its just press talk, big clubs must send scouts to watch every teenager getting minutes in the Championship but don't bid of most of them. Haven't Spurs got the second coming of Kyle Walker as their future right back anyway? Poch won't give Kyle Walker-Peters minutes. Honestly there really doesn't seem to be any real need for Spurs to be messing around with Aarons unless he will be better than Aurier in short order.
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Leicester don’t seem likely to buy this window, it’ll be more clearing out of failed purchases from the last few years of joined up management. Would be nice to do something with the Maheez money but no urgency to it so anything like a new striker to eventually replace Vardy will prob wait til the summer at least.
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brasstassels posted:Spurs also have no money, and making any signings is contingent on a load of players leaving, notably Dembele, Wanyama, N'Koudou, and Llorente. Jarrod Bowen is a good player and has been in really good form but I think even if he exceeds expectations I don't think he's good enough for spurs
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brasstassels posted:Spurs also have no money, and making any signings is contingent on a load of players leaving, notably Dembele, Wanyama, N'Koudou, and Llorente. Bowen's lighting it up at the moment. Dunno if he could do the same job up a tier (lot of direct running through central midfield when they trounced us for 10 minutes) but he's certainly a Championship standout right now.
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TelekineticBear! posted:Jarrod Bowen is a good player and has been in really good form but I think even if he exceeds expectations I don't think he's good enough for spurs Not too worried about that if Poch stays. The man can get world class performances out of the most mediocre players. Saw some rumors about Trippier leaving, which would explain the Aarons interest. Probably just media speculation though.
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Bundy posted:I'm surprised Moses hasn't had any time given his work rate. Need a manager who picks from more than 14 players.
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Soulex posted:Every single one of you fucks stay away from Milenkovic and Chiesa. I'm sure Juve already have a contract for Chiesa waiting for the summer when they resell a broken Bernardeschi back to you guys.
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Gigi Galli posted:I'm sure Juve already have a contract for Chiesa waiting for the summer when they resell a broken Bernardeschi back to you guys. Hell, they can have a broken Cuadrado too to help sweeten the deal
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EvilHawk posted:To what end? I mean, shirt sales don't go into the hands of the club really, so having a bunch more American plastics isn't really going to matter in that regards. They're not going to be going to the games. Does TV viewership matter? Not really. I suppose they can get a good pre-season tour out of it. Having more plastic American fans raises the profile of the club in a major overseas market which then increases social media engagement (twitter followers, instagram followers, fans on facebook, etc.) which they can then leverage to get more money from sponsors, get more prestigious sponsors, help with recruitment, etc. Suddenly, American companies that wouldn't give the time of day to some football club based in London might start thinking about whatever co-branding opportunities they can have with the club if they can plaster Pulisic's face on their ads. I think the shirt-selling thing is important in that it also helps raise the profile of the club overseas (my pizza delivery guy showed up wearing a PSG jersey, which i was a little taken aback by) even if the club doesn't make a dime off the actual sale of the shirt.
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Jose posted:Ben Arfa was unable to play for Nice for months because he played for Hull on loan and a single Newcastle Under 21 match Probably because the Community Shield isn't considered a competitive fixture.
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Shrapnig posted:Probably because the Community Shield isn't considered a competitive fixture. Certainly wasn't this year lmao
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Sky Sports are running with Rangers signing Jermaine Defoe on a loan deal. He's 36 but that's not a bad option to have on the bench, assuming they keep Morelos. Rangers are also likely to sign Steve Davis again from Southampton. They've got a real chance to win the league this year so no doubt they've decided that now's the time to push the boat out. Meanwhile Celtic are possibly maybe signing a striker from the Slovakian league. Lol.
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Many places reporting that Ramsey signed his pre contract today with Juve. 5 year contract, €6.5m annual wages. That last contract extension for Khedira was so dumb.
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Shrapnig posted:Bayern have apparently made a bid of £30m for Hudson-Odoi. Dear God why?
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sassassin posted:Been a while since Rangers went out of business. while i doubt they're paying all of Defoe's £100k a week wages he'll probably be on more than most of the squad put together still lol trem_two posted:Many places reporting that Ramsey signed his pre contract today with Juve. 5 year contract, €6.5m annual wages. Not like they would expect to get ramsey on a free normally
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Jose posted:while i doubt they're paying all of Defoe's £100k a week wages he'll probably be on more than most of the squad put together still lol I understand that transfers are a sore subject for you (goondolences) but what is this shite?
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Swansea's Aaron Lewis has joined high-flying Doncaster Rovers on loan in League One for the rest of the season. There used to be a video of him as a ten year old doing 1000 keepie uppies in his garage on youtube. Must've deleted it. Good player, hope he gets games for them.
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Total Meatlove posted:I understand that transfers are a sore subject for you (goondolences) but what is this shite? jemaine defoe earns £100k a week and a quick google for Rangers suggests their average wage is £9k a week
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