Summer Transfer Window 2023

[Szumi]

1 hour ago, damhausen said:

I fully expect him to spend his summer with Miami and then get loaned to Barcelona when, conveniently, Miami is still wildly out of contention.

It's Messi, whatever rules the MLS may want this is the single biggest player to come play here since late-career Beckham. Just let him do what he wants.

He's not expected to debut until August per Jonathan Tannewald's reporting, which I can definitely believe. So at that point, not much time to already leave!

Lucky for him it's really easy to make the playoffs in MLS now!

[Szumi]

Even the tap in merchant is reporting it now. Hilarious that he was wrong about Messi for months, was out sourced about him leaving PSG, and was outsourced big-time by American journalists even about him coming here. 

[Naitch]

4 hours ago, stokeriño said:

Isn't it super how Chelsea entered this window in a quandary of having too many players and needing to trim the squad, and yet are imminently going to be in the position of having almost no central midfielders.

If the rumoured exits of Kante, Kovacic, RLC, Mount, etc. go ahead, then for the base of a probable 4-2-3-1 team we're left with Enzo and... Gallagher, maybe? 

That's immediately 2 (preferably 3) more signings required, just to get the base level of 4 players covering those 2 positions.

I feel like rather than working towards a planned end state, our squad just keeps lurching from one extreme to another, with the board invariably backing themselves into make bad deals to get out of their latest self-inflicted crisis (nevermind how obvious this all makes it to other clubs how poor our leverage is in these transfer deals).

Who needs central players when we have a squad full of defenders and wingers? Chuck Gallagher up front and we don't even need to play Enzo!

		Kepa
	Badiashile	Silva	Koulibaly
James				Chilwell
Hudson-Odoi				Mudryk
Pulisic				Sterling
		Gallagher

[DFF]

21 hours ago, Twist said:

£35m for Alexis MacAllister. By today’s market that is ridiculous bargain.

Plus £20m in add-ons apparently. 

 

We finally published our retained list. We've released Billy Sharp, Jack O'Connell, Enda Stevens and Kyron Gordon. 

It's a shame about some of them, but it's time. Sharp is barely a Championship level player now, JOC knees don't look like ever healing up and Enda is sadly now surplus to requirements when we have so many people who can play LB. Gordon was a young, fringe squad player. 

Rumours are Sharp might end up back at Doncaster. League Two should still be fine for him (he'd probs be fine in League One), plus he gets to continue his personal feud with Wrexham haha. 

I suspect JOC retires. Enda should get a Championship spot. 

[Captain Kirk]

18 hours ago, METALMAN said:

Wonder how Messi will adjust to the step up in quality after two years in Ligue 1

Just remember James Sands captains a team there. It’s probably on the same level.

[Baddar]

West Ham just confirmed Rice is leaving this summer. They offered him a new deal 18mths ago worth 200k a week and he turned it down, so wherever he goes he'll get 300k+ you'd imagine.

[Naitch]

Have to imagine he's off to a team that qualified for the Champions League too. Mount/Rice reunion at Man Utd maybe?

[Baddar]

Arsenal seem to be linked to him more than we do tbf.

[Lineker]

 

[gunnar hendershow]

He just turned 18, interesting bit of business for Benfica if he develops into something.

[Naitch]

Todd Boehly is already en route to Lisbon to sign him for £40m in January.

[stokeriño]

If Boehly were able to hold off until the next transfer window, that would be immense personal growth for him.

[METALMAN]

1 hour ago, Lineker said:

 

Benfica is a great place for a young American player because as we all know this is where Freddy Adu blossomed into the best player the world has ever seen.

[Naitch]

2 hours ago, stokeriño said:

If Boehly were able to hold off until the next transfer window, that would be immense personal growth for him.

You must've seen the statement the club put out. He be tryin'!

[stokeriño]

That statement said many things. Being less deranged in the transfer market was not one of them. 😅

[Szumi]

8 hours ago, damhausen said:

He just turned 18, interesting bit of business for Benfica if he develops into something.

He's done well for the U20s I believe! Definitely disappointed that MLS rules are stupid. He'd be playing for the Union right now otherwise. Alas.

[Szumi]

Here's hoping he stays healthy! 

 

 

[Szumi]

 

 

[Liam]

2 minutes ago, Szumi - A Polack said:

 

 

Now that's a good signing.

[Cymbols]

Could definitely be on board with this one for sure.