Summer Transfer Window Thread 2016

[Lineker]

Bayern Munich have beaten Manchester United to the signature of Benfica wonderkid Renato Sanches.

 

[stokeriño]

Clearly the main factor in his decision was whether he preferred the moniker 'Wonderkid' or 'Wunderkind'. Good choice.

[Lineker]

Busy morning.

[Baddar]

We'll take Benatia a couple of seasons late. 

[DavidMarrio]

But....United signed Sanches about 6 times already according to the press. 

[Gazz]

It's Mikel all over again!

[Lineker]

Roma have rejected Chelsea’s bid of £23m plus performance-related bonuses for the midfielder Radja Nainggolan. Antonio Conte has made the 28-year-old Belgium international his top priority this summer but Roma are reluctant to lose one of their best players.

The Roma president, James Pallotta, wants at least £32m for Nainggolan but said this week that most of all he would like to keep both the Belgian and Roma’s other in-demand midfielder, Miralem Pjanic.

“I have already said that we will not sell Pjanic and Nainggolan,” Pallotta told Gazzetta dello Sport after the 3-0 win against Chievo at the weekend. “I would like to see them continue playing for Roma.”

Conte is also keen to explore the possibility of bringing the Roma centre-back Kostas Manolas to Stamford Bridge. The Greek international, whose contract has three years to run, was close to joining Chelsea in 2015 but Roma pulled out of the deal as they could not find a replacement for him.

[stokeriño]

Yeah, it became clear a couple of weeks ago that Nainggolan was going to be another of those Serie A players that we're never going to sign...

[Lineker]

Leicester City are hoping to start an extensive summer of transfer recruitment by arranging a deal with Deportivo La Coruña for their leading scorer, Lucas Pérez, that could see the Premier League champions break their transfer record and provide competition for Jamie Vardy in attack.

Claudio Ranieri also confidently expects to bring in at least one more player from Spain with Leicester in advanced negotiations to finalise a free transfer for Luis Hernández, a central defender from Sporting Gijon, who will help provide cover for Wes Morgan and Robert Huth.

Lucas, as he is commonly known, is regarded as having similar attributes to Vardy after a season when the Spaniard’s 17 league goals for Deportivo represents over a third of their entire total. He is 27, like Hernández, and equalled a 22-year club record this season when he emulated Bebeto’s achievement of having scored in seven successive games for the Galician club.

Apart from the forwards of Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid, only two other players have scored more in Spain this season. Lucas has never been capped by Spain but has been in the best form of his career and will not come cheaply bearing in mind his contract does not expire until 2019.

[DavidMarrio]

Leicester in linked with top goalscorer of a European team is gonna be happening all summer ain't it. 

[Lineker]

@Part-Time Davidmarrio Yup!

Sunderland defender Sebastian Coates has extended his loan at Portuguese club Sporting until the end of next season.

Real Sociedad are on the verge of signing Southampton forward Juanmi, reports AS.

[Hobo]

Sebastian Coates is always out on loan somewhere!

[DavidMarrio]

He did score that great overhead that one game. 

[FLiam]

 

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Arsenal are nearing their first major piece of summer transfer business, reports ESPN FC.

The Gunners have reportedly upped their offer for Borussia Monchengladbach midfielder Granit Xhaka to £33m not including bonuses, and now must negotiate personal terms with the midfielder.

The Premier League club had hoped to sign the Swiss international, 23, for £30m but have met Gladbach's asking price after further talks.

 

From Sky Sports. 

 

He would be an absolutely solid signing, but I am a little concerned he may be our main summer signing. Priorities are clearly CB and CF, but no doubt he would be a massive signing.

 

Hopefully this is just sign of things to come this summer and we have a few more signings like this.

 

Wtf has happened to my formatting. :-\

[MDK]

Liverpool's new keeper

[DavidMarrio]

49 minutes ago, MDK said:

Liverpool's new keeper

Still an improvement on the current one. 

[Lineker]

@Jimmy

 

[TCO]

Look at the perfectly kempt hair and immaculately tucked-in shirt. 

Edited May 11, 2016 by TCO

[MDK]

And the passion in his eyes

[Adam]

He's no Mark Noble.