Summer Transfer Window Thread 2015

[The Lusophone]

Gotta give em some credit for choosing a new person to link us to though.

[Kyle]

Gotta give em some credit for choosing a new person to link us to though.

Just realistic enough to not get completely laughed out of the building as well. They're learning, bless'em. 

[Baddar]

I wouldn't call Neymar a "realistic" signing for United, tbh.

[Lineker]

Kevin De Bruyne has agreed personal terms with Manchester City, with the deal to make the Belgian Manuel Pellegrini’s fifth major acquisition of the summer now dependent on the club offering a fee that is acceptable to Wolfsburg. The German club’s position is that they do not have any financial imperative to sell De Bruyne. City acknowledge this but believe a third bid of £50-55m should secure De Bruyne’s signature. The 24-year-old is thought to have been offered a five-year contract worth in the region of £200,000 a week. De Bruyne is keen to make the move back to the Premier League after his failed stint at Chelsea. He departed the west London club for Wolfsburg after two years in January 2014. Should De Bruyne finally arrive for £50m City’s total spend for the summer – including the £2m spent on 18-year-old Enes Unal – would reach £152m.

West Brom's bid to sign Federico Fazio from Tottenham has stalled. The 28-year-old defender had a medical with the Baggies on Friday but no agreement has been reached over his personal terms. There is a chance the deal could be resurrected as a loan move but manager Tony Pulis is looking at other options.

Everton are close to signing the Argentina central defender Ramiro Funes Mori in a £6m transfer from River Plate.

Burnley have signed Brentford striker Andre Gray for an undisclosed club-record fee, believed to be £9m. The 24-year-old striker has signed a three-year contract with the Championship club.

Hull City are set to sign Chicago Fire forward Shaun Maloney for an undisclosed fee.

After saying every senior Sunderland player is available for sale Dick Advocaat declined invitations to confirm he intends to see out his one-year contract. “I don’t want to discuss that now,” he said. “It’s not an issue, we’re concentrating on the Swansea game.” Even so, it is clear he is not exactly thrilled with a side tthat have conceded seven goals in two games. “Every player is for sale,” said a man already braced for a relegation battle. “If the player wants to go then he can go.” He hopes any departures would fund new arrivals. ”I have definitely said to our owner [Ellis Short] we needed five or six new players,” he said. “He says we have four or five [already]. But I said we need quality players. You always get what you pay for. But I have to be fair to the owner; he never mentioned a figure to me.

Bournemouth have submitted a new bid of around £5m for the Crystal Palace striker Glenn Murray as Eddie Howe attempts to strengthen his squad before the end of the transfer window. Palace themselves have been tracking the Reading central defender Michael Hector and are keen to push through a deal this month.

Juventus have continued their extensive summer recruitment by signing Alex Sandro from Porto for €26 million, with the Brazil left back agreeing a five-year contract with the Italian champions on Thursday. Sandro, who has made six appearances for Brazil, completed a morning medical at Juventus after flying to Turin on Wednesday night.

 

 

[Cheeky Hughes]

Kevin De Bruyne has agreed personal terms with Manchester City, with the deal to make the Belgian Manuel Pellegrini’s fifth major acquisition of the summer now dependent on the club offering a fee that is acceptable to Wolfsburg. The German club’s position is that they do not have any financial imperative to sell De Bruyne. City acknowledge this but believe a third bid of £50-55m should secure De Bruyne’s signature. The 24-year-old is thought to have been offered a five-year contract worth in the region of £200,000 a week. De Bruyne is keen to make the move back to the Premier League after his failed stint at Chelsea. He departed the west London club for Wolfsburg after two years in January 2014. Should De Bruyne finally arrive for £50m City’s total spend for the summer – including the £2m spent on 18-year-old Enes Unal – would reach £152m.

 

See they say £200,000, what they really mean is something like "around £140k with bonuses based on performance like every other top player at City".

But of course that doesn't sound as good.

[Whisper]

Neymar rumours are hilarious. At least The Sun won't be able to print "YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST", when we sign Charlie Austin on deadline day...

[The Lusophone]

Why, when looking at signing a defender from River Plate, would you not go for Eder Alvarez Balanta? >_>

[Colly]

Kevin De Bruyne has agreed personal terms with Manchester City, with the deal to make the Belgian Manuel Pellegrini’s fifth major acquisition of the summer now dependent on the club offering a fee that is acceptable to Wolfsburg. The German club’s position is that they do not have any financial imperative to sell De Bruyne. City acknowledge this but believe a third bid of £50-55m should secure De Bruyne’s signature. The 24-year-old is thought to have been offered a five-year contract worth in the region of £200,000 a week. De Bruyne is keen to make the move back to the Premier League after his failed stint at Chelsea. He departed the west London club for Wolfsburg after two years in January 2014. Should De Bruyne finally arrive for £50m City’s total spend for the summer – including the £2m spent on 18-year-old Enes Unal – would reach £152m.

 

See they say £200,000, what they really mean is something like "around £140k with bonuses based on performance like every other top player at City".

But of course that doesn't sound as good.

Genuinely not sure what your issue is here.

[FLiam]

City have had a really, really good transfer window.

[Dynamite]

Does FFP not exist any more? Hard to see how City are spending around £150mil this summer and it not being an issue for them.

[stokeriño]

The tweet pretty succinctly summarises the past 12 hours spent in the Chelsea/Pogba corner of Transfer Gossip Wacky Land:

So according to Twitter we are signing Pogba or not for £69m £86m €120 with or without players included, deal has been agreed & turned down 

Yawn, next. 

[Jimmy]

@DeadlineDayLive: Chelsea have agreed a £69m deal to sign Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba, with Oscar and Cuadrado heading the other way. (Source: Sun Sport)

Ooh here's another!

Edited August 22, 2015 by Jimmy

[stokeriño]

^ That was the source of the first of the three figures in the tweet I posted.

It's a little amusing that The Sun had the balls to plug for "fee agreed" rather than "bid made" like all the others. Even more so in that they lobbed two player exchanges in there...although I did see one which cited those two AND Willian in a deal. Honestly, I can't remember the last time a rumoured transfer was so wild in the range/scope of its ridiculousness - usually they're just circling around a proposed figure with £10m, maybe £20m variation each way, but this is all "And we'll throw ALL THE PLAYERS in with the deal too! Argleflarglebargle..."

In more direct news, Mourinho has been quoted as saying that Pedro's arrival means that one of our right winger contingent will be heading out. When question on Cuadrado, Moses and Willian, he said that Chelsea are open to offers for the first two but definitely not Willian.

I guess this mean "we really hope someone will take Cuadrado but I suppose it could be Moses if that isn't possible..."

[Jimmy]

Having been linked to nearly every player ever, we are now at the point of being linked with a move for Pato.

Never gonna happen, but would take him as a back up on the cheap.

[stokeriño]

Although his work permit etc. was sorted out a little while ago, Kenedy's move to Chelsea is now official (not sure why that took so long). He will take the number 16 shirt.

[Lineker]

Victor Wanyama has told Southampton he wants to leave the Premier League club, according to Sky sources.

The Kenyan midfielder has been linked with a move to Tottenham, forcing Southampton manager Ronald Koeman to insist the player is "not for sale". 

According to Sky sources, Southampton have informed the 24-year-old of their intention to offer the player a new contract. 

But the former Celtic player has responded by telling the club that he has not been entirely happy at St Mary's for some time and that he sees his future elsewhere. 

Southampton manager Ronald Koeman has insisted that Wanyama is not for sale

It is understood that Tottenham want to sign Wanyama before next month's transfer deadline, and that the player is open to a reunion with Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino. 

Pochettino brought Wanyama to Southampton two years ago for what was believed to be a club-record fee of around £12m.

Wanyama has since made 57 Premier League appearances for Southampton, scoring three goals. 

[stokeriño]

Juventus chief exec Guiseppe Marotta has said that a deal for Juan Cuadrado to move from Chelsea to Juventus should be officially announced tomorrow. It will be a season-long loan but there are currently conflicting stories concerning whether it includes a set option to buy.

[FLiam]

So today's nonsense is made up of an Italian journalist claiming Karim Benzema will fly in today to complete a move to Arsenal and be confirmed before tonight's game.

Whilst a Spanish journalist is claiming the same thing, albeit with Edison Cavani rather than Benzema.

Something tells me the transfer window must be closing soon.

[Baddar]

Well, Benzema was "injured" and not involved in Real Madrid's opening league game...

[DavidMarrio]

Rumour going around regarding Liverpool is that Balotelli might be heading back to AC Milan.