The generic transfer thread

[Sanguine]

Surprised to read given the Iraola link that seemingly every team except Liverpool is sniffing around Bournemouth's Alex Scott. He's exactly the sort of high energy, between-the-lines midfielder that Liverpool were missing last season.

[Orion1871]

Rumours in Spain say Real Madrid are set to bid for Rodri, after Florentino Perez changed his mind on signing the player.

[Sutekh]

Surprised to read given the Iraola link that seemingly every team except Liverpool is sniffing around Bournemouth's Alex Scott. He's exactly the sort of high energy, between-the-lines midfielder that Liverpool were missing last season.

Liverpool have been linked previously but now the standard FSG “let’s have a cr@p transfer window” has kicked in so they’ll be out of the running for anyone that they might actually need. Anyway Bournemouth have said that all of Scott, Kroupi and Rayan are not for sale at any price (which probably means they’ll all have left by the end of next week).

[Sanguine]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 5934j1jmdo

Bizarre stuff at Wolves, where striker Tolu Arokodare forced the cancellation of a training session by sitting down in the middle of the pitch and refusing to move - in protest at the club blocking a move to Fiorentina.

[Sutekh]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 5934j1jmdo

Bizarre stuff at Wolves, where striker Tolu Arokodare forced the cancellation of a training session by sitting down in the middle of the pitch and refusing to move - in protest at the club blocking a move to Fiorentina.

According to wiki Wolves have now increased security at their training ground to prevent Tolu from returning.

[Sanguine]

So, this is a thing of wot I did not know.

In the MLS, transfers are impacted by 'discovery rights'. Every team can put five players on its 'discovery list', which gives them first dibs on players not contracted to an MLS side. That's it, they just register them on their list. If more than one team wants a player on their list, they join a queue based on who applied first.

So Casemiro is supposedly joining Inter Miami, but he was on LA Galaxy's 'discovery list'. There's a review going on as there appears to be some debate as to whether Inter Miami have properly compensated LA Galaxy, and more importantly, whether they did so in a timely manner (i.e. before negotiating with Casemiro). All very....American.

[Winston Biscuit]

Lacroix from Palace to Chelsea for £52M

Chelsea must have so many players again

[Sanguine]

Lacroix from Palace to Chelsea for £52M

Chelsea must have so many players again

I can't begin to understand how Chelsea aren't running straight into total financial annihilation. They can make player sales each summer, but at some point the long contracts, which means they have large player assets to write down against those sales, will begin to bite. Surely? Example Cucurella - £47.5m fee from Real Madrid, offset by two years' of his six-year deal left, means they also have to book £20m as his 'asset' (transfer fee from Brighton was c. £60m) leaves the club. That net £27.5m only pays for, in accounting terms, 18 months of Morgan Rogers.

[Royal Rother]

Lacroix from Palace to Chelsea for £52M

Chelsea must have so many players again

I can't begin to understand how Chelsea aren't running straight into total financial annihilation.

They'll get there - just give it a bit more time.

[Sutekh]

Lacroix from Palace to Chelsea for £52M

Chelsea must have so many players again

Rumours that Chelsea are now working to hijack the Guimares to Arsenal deal.

[Winston Biscuit]

Vozinha joins Colo Colo in Chile! (They are quite a big club in South America)

[Orion1871]

Arsenal looking at trying to sign Vini jr. Would actually make them interesting to watch.

[Sutekh]

Arsenal looking at trying to sign Vini jr. Would actually make them interesting to watch.

Agent stirring, trying to get a new deal at RM sorted.

[Sutekh]

Barcola the the ‘pool likely.

[BRO_BOT]

Yan Diomande signs for Real Madrid, so Vini might be on his way

[Orion1871]

Yan Diomande signs for Real Madrid, so Vini might be on his way

Quite possibly the most ridiculous signing of the summer. Diomande hasn't even played 50 league games and they're signing him for €120m.

[WestYorksRoyal]

Arsenal looking at trying to sign Vini jr. Would actually make them interesting to watch.

How often to "superstar" signings actually work? Look at PSG - they still spend big, but on hungry young talent who buy into the collective. And they're much better for it than in their own Galaticos era.

Can't deny Vini's talent, but how much do you reckon he'd be a flop on club record wages?

[Sanguine]

Barcola the the ‘pool likely.

I don't get Bradley Barcola, tbh. I don't see him as a difference-maker.

[Winston Biscuit]

Diomande would become the 14th signing to go over the £100M mark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m ... _transfers

If we ignore Rogers and Anderson as they haven't played for their new clubs yet, how many of the other 11 would you say had been big successes? I would say only Mbappe to PSG and Rice to Arsenal. Wirtz & Isak you could easily say too soon to tell. But that leaves a lot of big money moves that have been underwhelming, or just total flops.

[Sutekh]

Chelsea reportedly have put a £100m tag on Pedro Neto desperate to recover some financial outlay of course but is he really worth that?

More likely to get close to that by selling Fernandes, Palmer or a youngster like Acheampong or Estevao.