Ongoing Transfers thread

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Fri 25 May 2018, 10:59 am

Klopp, who doesn’t spend money, looking to spend 60m on Fekir to go with 50m Keita

by **Hero** Fri 25 May 2018, 12:30 pm

Man Utd target Fred states he's not wanting to move until after the World Cup

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Fri 25 May 2018, 12:59 pm

Also seen links of Arnautovic as a back-up target for Man United. His figures since he's moved up front are incredible, it would kill us. Guy would be perfect for Mourinho as a striker, but I don't think the age or profile fits the club, even as a backup to Lukaku.

by **Hero** Fri 25 May 2018, 1:01 pm

Yeah seems one of the oddest links for us though rumour mill also has Utd linked with a swap deal of Mandzukic & Darmian with Juve.

by Marky Fri 25 May 2018, 1:58 pm

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Klopp, who doesn’t spend money, looking to spend 60m on Fekir to go with 50m Keita

To play alongside £75m Van Dijk

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Fri 25 May 2018, 4:41 pm

Arsenal in talks with Lichtsteiner on a free. Not a wild one, but an experienced head in defence. Although I think it’ll worry some that Bellerin (who has stagnated a touch) will be off.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Fri 25 May 2018, 4:43 pm

Also being reported that Emery will now have £70m before sales. Not a bad budget considering there’s players there to sell and they spent big on Aubs in the winter

by Guest Fri 25 May 2018, 4:50 pm

Lichtsteiner is in the same bracket as the Zabaleta signing for WHU. Given great service at a big club, but legs have completely gone. Not surprised he wants a final PL payday.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Fri 25 May 2018, 5:07 pm

Zabaleta did play 37 games for us. He’d get a 6/7 out of 10, so as long as they’re smart with him there’s value to these players. Our problem was playing him in a slow defence anyway and not being smart enough to play him correctly for his pace.

by lfc91 Fri 25 May 2018, 10:37 pm

About time Liverpool spent more than they sold! Glad to see it. Can't compete for the Prem if you are selling your best players to buy new players.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sun 27 May 2018, 11:21 pm

Apparently Liverpool will look to buy a new keeper, with Allison a £50m+ target.

by Guest Mon 28 May 2018, 8:05 am

More likely Butland, in my opinion.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Mon 28 May 2018, 2:50 pm

Which is funny as he’s about as good as the two they have and full of mistakes himself

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Mon 28 May 2018, 8:08 pm

Liverpool want Fabinho. A non-flashy player!

by Guest Mon 28 May 2018, 8:21 pm

They’re signing Fabinho for £43.7m

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 28 May 2018, 10:19 pm

That is an annoyingly good signing

by LivinginItaly Tue 29 May 2018, 7:28 am

With the signings of Fabinho, Naby Keira and potentially Fekir Liverpool could have a much stronger midfield next season. Just need to buy a quality keeper and another centre back to have a really strong team for next year.

by Beer Tue 29 May 2018, 9:39 am

It seems like you're trying to say that next year is going to be their year?

by LivinginItaly Tue 29 May 2018, 9:42 am

ahahaha I see what you are saying. No I wouldn't make such a prediction, coz just as Livepool are looking like they will be stronger next year I fully expect Man Utd, Chelsea Man city and arsenal to be stronger.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Wed 30 May 2018, 12:30 pm

Looks like Barca are trying to offload as many fringe players as they can to raise money for Grizzlemanbearpig. Selling young Brazilian centre back Marlon to us, they’ve offered out Digne, Vidal and Gomes too.

by gazzyD Wed 30 May 2018, 3:27 pm

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Also seen links of Arnautovic as a back-up target for Man United. His figures since he's moved up front are incredible, it would kill us. Guy would be perfect for Mourinho as a striker, but I don't think the age or profile fits the club, even as a backup to Lukaku.

Think this was just a case of transfer roulette picking a name that has the vaguest of links to Mourinho and making a story out of it. The story all but dies on the spot and hasn't been mentioned since

In other United news we're apparentlty in the final stages of signing Porto RB Diogo Dalot, another one that came out of the blue last night but seems to have some legs to it. Can't say I had heard of him before the story broke, only played for Porto a handful of times but we've trigged a 20m euro buy out clause in his contract. He's expected to come in and put some pressure on Valencia who was all sorts of woeful last season (the odd game aside)

by Guest Wed 30 May 2018, 3:42 pm

Smart move by Mourinho. Started to feel like Valencia's legs were starting to fade last year, not surprising, given his ten years of service. Majority of the fee should be paid for by the outgoing Darmian deal to Juventus, which is rumoured to be around £12m.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Wed 30 May 2018, 4:28 pm

And, with that, Sky Sports today reporting Man United wanting Marko

by gazzyD Wed 30 May 2018, 4:54 pm

Just heard on talk sport and 50m quid being quoted. Outrageous fee regardless of how much I like Arnautovic

by compelling and rich Wed 30 May 2018, 7:42 pm

now i know we've been excellent at wasting money recently but why on earth would we spend 50mil for a guy to sit on the bench all season

right wing, right back, left back are much more important first team signings than a bench warmer. looking like a cm with fred already signing

by gazzyD Wed 30 May 2018, 9:14 pm

Newcastle have confirmed the signing of that goalkeeper they had on loan, now a permanent transfer. Looked a decent keeper, granted only seen him a few times

I'd agree with that compelling, but would add a centre back in to it too

by Nathaniel Jacobs Wed 30 May 2018, 9:30 pm

I could see the upscale of Arnautovic to Manchester United tbh. But not at a ridiculous £50m price tag. Perhaps £20m with Martial on loan. Probably best deal all round

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Wed 30 May 2018, 10:14 pm

We signed him for more than that last year. And he went up front and scored basically 1 in 2 and contributed to something like 17 goals in 20 games. We’d be mad to take that deal!

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Wed 30 May 2018, 10:32 pm

Marko has been outstanding for us since moving up top and would suit many attributes Mourinho likes, but if they’re spending 50m on Fred, 20m on Gal Gadot (people loved that film) and another 50m on Aldeweireld, you’d have to question being nearly 200m down for those four

by Guest Thu 31 May 2018, 7:47 am

Nothing story, like the Benitez one. Marko is levels below United. Good player, but not the answer for Mourinho, in order to catch City.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Thu 31 May 2018, 2:08 pm

Jorginho and Mahrez for City.

Unsure on Mahrez.

by Guest Thu 31 May 2018, 2:43 pm

I’d imagine that there’s a general ‘meh’ feeling about these acquisitions from City fans. Pep should be looking at players that are capable of elevating them to another level in the CL. Not sure these do anything other than providing depth.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Thu 31 May 2018, 2:46 pm

Just John wrote:I’d imagine that there’s a general ‘meh’ feeling about these acquisitions from City fans. Pep should be looking at players that are capable of elevating them to another level in the CL. Not sure these do anything other than providing depth.

Isn't depth really what they need though? Guys like De Bruyne, Sane, Sterling etc clearly got tired as the season progressed, so these type of signings help that?

Albeit I think they need to sign a top class CB

by Fernando Thu 31 May 2018, 3:04 pm

Thiago, Vidal, Boateng up for sale by Bayern

by Fernando Thu 31 May 2018, 4:12 pm

SSN - Chelsea to sell Courtois to fund a move for Alisson from Roma

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Thu 31 May 2018, 5:55 pm

Or Courtois wants to leave and they need to replace him.

Barca and Bayern will move on some good players this summer

by Guest Mon 04 Jun 2018, 9:28 am

Fred having medical at United. £52m deal.

by compelling and rich Mon 04 Jun 2018, 10:03 am

havent seen enough of him to comment massively, was always impressed with shaktar teams of brazilians when they had him, costa, willian etc though. we are missing a player who could fill the gap between matic's sitting and pogbas roaming. hopefully he's the man, although jose needs to teach his team to stop missing his midfield by going up to lukaku too soon

by compelling and rich Mon 04 Jun 2018, 10:05 am

be enjoyable to watch him at the world cup, always liked signing before the comp so you can get a early look in. also stops you signing the klebersons

by Guest Thu 07 Jun 2018, 9:49 am

Jonny Evans joining Leicester City

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Thu 07 Jun 2018, 5:56 pm

The Man United interest in Arnautovic is very real

by compelling and rich Fri 08 Jun 2018, 1:05 pm

evans to leicester for 3.5mil, wba must feel like lemons now rejecting that 25 mil bid from city

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 11 Jun 2018, 11:29 am

Seems Cardiff are going to get Josh Murphy off us for £10m+ - good deal for us, he's got the potential, but some way off being a consistently good championship player, let alone PL

by **Hero** Mon 11 Jun 2018, 12:17 pm

How is Maddison considered worth £25m yet Grealish £30m+?

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 11 Jun 2018, 12:48 pm

Hero wrote:How is Maddison considered worth £25m yet Grealish £30m+?

Because the media has had an obsession with Grealish since he was 18

Grealish has never had a season close to the one Maddison just had

by westisbest Mon 11 Jun 2018, 9:20 pm

Err the season just gone.
Also Grealish has played in the prem and done well, not all the time granted.

He is a quality player. Madison is good.

I thought Murphy was quality this season.
Defiantly championship quality. Reckon he will do well in the premiership.

Fair to say you saw more of him this season.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Mon 11 Jun 2018, 11:04 pm

I’m gonna side with Olly, I’ve never got Grealish. Fancy feet and no end product, basically if Ravel Morrison want mental but had average talent

by Guest Tue 12 Jun 2018, 10:09 am

Justin Kluivert joining Roma for £17.6m

by BamBam Tue 12 Jun 2018, 11:23 am

The Sporting Lisbon meltdown continues

Rui Patricio, Gelson Martins, William Carvalho, Bruno Fernandes and Bas Dost have all requested to cancel their contracts and may become free agents

by Fernando Tue 12 Jun 2018, 12:09 pm

That's cos fans broke into the training ground and assaulted them.

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