Summer Transfer Window 2019

[Lineker]

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Manchester City are set to beat Manchester United to the signature of the Sporting midfielder Bruno Fernandes. Pep Guardiola has been monitoring the Portugal international for a considerable time and City have now lodged a €55m (£47.2m) bid with the team currently third in the Portuguese league.

United inquired about the possibility of signing the 24-year-old last month but City have jumped ahead of their rivals in the queue and expect to conclude the deal in the next few weeks. Fernandes, an attacking midfielder who prefers to play centrally, has 19 goals and 13 assists in 31 league games this season.

City’s sporting director, Txiki Begiristain, has been in discussions with his Sporting counterpart, Hugo Viana, and they have edged towards an agreement in the past few weeks. Fernandes has a buyout clause of €100m (£86m) but City are confident they can secure a deal for considerably less with the help of one or two players going in the opposite direction.

Fernandes has 11 caps for Portugal, winning the first one of those in August 2017. He has had an unusual career path as he joined Novara in Italy from Boavista at the age of 17, without having played a first-team game in Portugal, and represented Udinese and Sampdoria before signing for Sporting for €8.5m in 2017.

[MDK]

United beat City to the signing of Sanchez

[mattu29]

Joao Felix rumoured to follow the same path of choosing city over utd

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Aberdeen captain Graeme Shinnie has signed a pre-contract deal with Derby.

[Gazz]

2 minutes ago, Jericode said:

Aberdeen captain Graeme Shinnie has signed a pre-contract deal with Derby.

But would he choose City over United?

[DavidMarrio]

Get the unlimited oil war chest out lads. We need to sign even more of the best players in the world!!!!!

[Naitch]

Me and @stokeriño will be over here hoping that we at least get something out of this year's summer window 😕

 

[stokeriño]

4 minutes ago, Naitch said:

Me and @stokeriño will be over here hoping that we at least get something out of this year's summer window 😕

Phase 1: Sit by and watch us loan out a tonne of players before we even know if we're allowed to bring anyone in or not.

Phase 2: Experience Hazard's departure stretched out for as long as physically possible just to inflict more limbo and/or false hope on us all.

Phase 3: Convince ourselves that Pulisic is three times as good as he actually is. And that Barkley is suddenly as good as Lampard possibly maybe.

Phase 4: Pin all hopes on RLC and CHO (even though the latter will still be injured for months).

Phase 5: Cry.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

I'm more interested in whether or not we sign Higuain permanently. He's surely not thought of as a long term solution?

[stokeriño]

I doubt we'd sign him on that ridiculous fee (if we're even able to do anything). Didn't his deal also have an option for another year's loan extension?

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Yeah I think it was half of whatever the permanent fee was. Can see that being likely with this potential transfer ban looming.

[Moses Julep]

58 minutes ago, DavidMarrio said:

Get the unlimited oil war chest out lads. We need to sign even more of the best players in the world!!!!!

Didn't Liverpool outspend City last year?  

[Rich]

38 minutes ago, Moses Julep said:

Didn't Liverpool outspend City last year?  

by £109m 

[DavidMarrio]

First time we've actually spent more than we've made in god knows how long but let's ignore that fact shall we...

[Moses Julep]

11 minutes ago, DavidMarrio said:

First time we've actually spent more than we've made in god knows how long but let's ignore that fact shall we...

Just think, if they weren't around you'd be pissing the league! >_>

[DavidMarrio]

12 minutes ago, Moses Julep said:

Just think, if they weren't around you'd be pissing the league! >_>

And you'd still be Tottenham

[Liam]

It'll be interesting to see how many players Fulham sell. Cairney signed a new contract though, which is interesting.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Chelsea lost their appeal so think we can just skip this thread now lads @stokeriño @Naitch

[Lineker]

They'll still take it to CAS.

[stokeriño]

8 minutes ago, Jericode said:

Chelsea lost their appeal so think we can just skip this thread now lads @stokeriño @Naitch

You mean you wouldn't want to keep up-to-date on the latest Hazard-to-Madrid gossip?