Summer Transfer Window 2022

[The Lusophone]

Dortmund have confirmed their fourth signing of the summer already. Midfielder Salih Ozcan joins Karim Adeyemi, Niklas Sule and Nico Schlotterback as summer arrivals.

[Matt]

16 hours ago, Szumi - A Polack said:

Brendan Aaronson is set to make his move to Leeds finally official as well. Happy to see by dear Medford Messi go from the Philly Union to the Premier League in under 18 months.

Hopefully the first of about half a dozen if not more. We need a left back, a right back, at least one central midfielder, a striker and a back up goalkeeper. Presumably on top of that we'll need a Raphinha replacement. I wouldn't be opposed to getting shut of Firpo either and replacing him with someone who can play football.

 

But most importantly Tyler Roberts needs to fuck off to Yeovil or Exeter or Rothwell Girls U11s or something.

[Szumi]

1 hour ago, Matt said:

Hopefully the first of about half a dozen if not more. We need a left back, a right back, at least one central midfielder, a striker and a back up goalkeeper. Presumably on top of that we'll need a Raphinha replacement. I wouldn't be opposed to getting shut of Firpo either and replacing him with someone who can play football.

 

But most importantly Tyler Roberts needs to fuck off to Yeovil or Exeter or Rothwell Girls U11s or something.

Leeds are also heavily linked with Kai Wagner at left back, from Philly Union. He's been linked with moves to Europe since January 2021, not sure how we've kept a hold of him honestly. He's been the best left back in MLS by some distance. Amazing deliveries, always getting forward, but still good defensively. His playing style would fit the Leeds style, but obviously, big jump in quality.

[Malenko]

On 21/05/2022 at 21:07, Twist said:

Apparently La Liga (not Real) are reporting PSG to FIFA, French authorities and the EU. I haven’t seen a translation so I’m at a loss as to why?

La Liga (pretty much Real Madrid) are reporting PSG to FIFA, French authorities and the EU.

Does that help a bit?

Anyway he's complaining that no club should spend 600M euros in salaries alone. I actually would like something done about this because it just assures rich clubs will have all the best players and while obviously that's been like that for a long time it's undeniably getting worse every year.

 

But why is La Liga complaining? La Liga's president is a Real Madrid fan as are most people in power in Spain. Also a far-right clown who's very anti-catalonia. He'd like to be able to force PSG to keep their salaries at a cap the same way he did with Barcelona but has no jurisdiction there. So he tried to appeal to international governing bodies to see if they'll force the French League to do the same.

 

 

[Matt]

Apparently we've turned down a his for Raphinha from Barca.... So I expect that'll get done within a few weeks. It's a shame but I'd rather Barca take our best players than trading them to Norwich for Steve Morison. 

 

Hopefully he's the only one to go... You know outside of Roberts. And maybe Rodrigo if we can offload his wages.

[Gazz]

1 hour ago, Malenko said:

But why is La Liga complaining?

Because they had Messi and Ronaldo, the two biggest stars in world football and they thought they were going to be getting Haaland and Mbappe, the future two biggest stars in world football, and now they've got neither.

[Malenko]

Yeah, obviously Tebas would love Madrid to have both Haaland and Mbappe and since it didn't happen he's not happy. Real Madrid's salary cap allowed by the league is actually higher than PSG current wage expenses. Theoretically they could get both if the players wanted and if both salaries were kept decent - as in a level below astronomical but still ridiculous. All that is true.

However, Barcelona would still have Messi if it wasn't for La Liga. The french league hasn't enforced UEFA FFP on PSG who broke it in 2013/14, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2019/20, 2021/22, probably this year too. So even if there's a breach according to UEFA as it was the case, the french League does nothing about it. Other french clubs such as Lille filed complaints to the french league to no avail. They have good lawyers. They find ways around it, mostly reporting extra income through sponsorship deals, many through companies owned in part by Tamim bin Hamad's close circle. They appeal. They win. Nothing gets done - besides fines, I suppose but they won't care. Obviously Barcelona could and would try to do the same. They have enough money and could appeal to UEFA and manage to keep Messi, but there's not much you can do if the governing body of your own league won't allow you to play it. If Barcelona kept Messi they'd be breaking UEFA FFP as well. No doubt about it. It's just obvious to me Tebas doesn't care as much about a team that "hates the country so much they can just leave and never play the league again" as he cares about his own. I obviously know he was saying this out of spite and it's not something he wants to happen. From a financial standpoint the league needs the clasico or it will lose a lot/most of its value.

 

The bottom line is he didn't waste his (or La Liga's) time complaining about PSG signing Messi (Barcelona did and lost) but he does about Mbappe. The weirdest thing about living in Spain even though I've been here for many years now is how transparent everything is. I still get surprised when I see titles like "Let's win the league!" in one of the main newspapers but people complain about it while accepting that this is how it is and has always been.

[Lineker]

Conte's got his backing - big-time: 

 

 

[gunnar hendershow]

That's how you win with Conte if history is any indication.

[Moses Julep]

It's just a pity that 150m only gets you two or three players nowadays. 

[Matt]

You can have Tyler Roberts for fuck all if that helps?

[Gazz]

4 hours ago, Moses Julep said:

It's just a pity that 150m only gets you two or three players nowadays. 

CONTE gets £150m TRANSFER WARCHEST for SUMMER SWOOP

[Benjamin]

He already has to spend some of that money on Romero, Kulu and Fraser Forster, right? How much more does that leave him? 

[RazorsEdge]

11 minutes ago, Benjamin said:

He already has to spend some of that money on Romero, Kulu and Fraser Forster, right? How much more does that leave him? 

Fabrizio has been saying that Kulusevski might not be made permanent this transfer window, instead Spurs will wait until his loan is up at the end of next season to trigger their buy option. He also said the buy option is €35M to be paid in five installments, so they're spacing that fee out as well.

[Jimmy]

49 minutes ago, Benjamin said:

He already has to spend some of that money on Romero, Kulu and Fraser Forster, right? How much more does that leave him? 

Romero will be in instalments as well & yeah supposedly Kulu stays on loan for a bit longer. I doubt Forster is gonna cost us much either. 

I've read we're in for Kostic for 12mil. Bastoni seems to be our no.1 target to splash on. 

6 hours ago, Moses Julep said:

It's just a pity that 150m only gets you two or three players nowadays. 

Thing is, maybe a few summers ago, but also I think we'll be smart in the window and a lot of the foreign clubs are still hit financially by the pandemic. 

Forster as back-up HG GK. 
Kostic as a specialist LWB. 
Potentially Eriksen on a free. 

That's two areas of the squad upgraded for 12mil transfer fees plus wages. Leaves a tasty amount to try and get 3-4 more players through the door. We should also make some money off any of Lo Celso, Reggy, Winks, Rodon or Sanchez, Bergwijn (). I'd also 100% sell Lucas if the opportunity came up. 

Fuck knows what will happen with Ndombele. 

Right now it feels like it could be a defining summer for us, which probably means Conte will resign August 1st. 

Edited May 25, 2022 by Jimmy

[METALMAN]

7 hours ago, Moses Julep said:

It's just a pity that 150m only gets you two or three players nowadays. 

Back in my day you could get original Ronaldo for 20 million and still have change for an ice cream and the bus home.

[Gazz]

I still run in CM2 mode where anything over £12m and £30k a week was obscene.

[Hobo]

2 minutes ago, Gazz said:

I still run in CM2 mode where anything over £12m and £30k a week was obscene.

Could finish the Pentagon on that in  no  time!

[Szumi]

@Jimmy*edit* NVM, confused names!

[Lineker]