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Barty 6:15 Fri Apr 12
Official Transfer rumours and gossip thread

The time has come :)

So what do you think has got to be done in the summer regarding ins and outs?

Russ of the BML 5:08 Wed Jul 24
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Just been told that we offered Villareal £25m for Sorloth but they rejected. We were going back in with £30m (expected to be accepted) but held back due to a thigh injury and awaiting assessment. That's now completed and its said that he would pass a medical as it stands even with the injury which is expected to keep him out for 2 to 3 weeks. So we are going to up the offer and it should be accepted. This is why its taken a while.

Russ of the BML 2:06 Wed Jul 24
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I'm not sure how highly rated Irving is but his recall may be the reason we cashed in on Downes?

He seems a very positive bloke though.

https://www.whufc.com/news/irving-be-involved-brilliant-and-im-loving-it

ludo21 1:15 Wed Jul 24
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dealcanvey - Mazraoui was very highly regarded at Ajax and was born and lived in Holland all of his life until the move to Bayern.

Seems to be first choice RB at Bayern in that he played 29 times last season inc. the CL semi final v R. Madrid.... I think he would be the more exciting option with a small element of risk attached.

ludo21 1:10 Wed Jul 24
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If the papers thread can be believed Man Utd have to sell AWB before they can sign Mazraoui which presumably gives us the upper hand in either getting Mazraoui ahead of them or getting AWB on the cheap.

Also read that Mazraoui's old Ajax teammates Kudus and Alvarez have been on to him to tell him to come to us so hopefully Sullivan will get his cheque book out and do the business.

I haven't paid too much attention to AWB but by all accounts he is a very defence minded RB which doesn't seem to fit with JL's desire to have attacking full backs?

dealcanvey 1:00 Wed Jul 24
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Dont know a thing about the Moroccan RB at Bayern.

Surely AWB or KWP would be the better options? Proven premier league players.

LJC 11:45 Wed Jul 24
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I thought it was all a PR/build relationship deal but he seems to be doing ok in preseason.

Fauxstralian 10:42 Wed Jul 24
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Strange that he went from Hearts to what I think was a 3rd tier German team
Think that team might even gone out of business so he moved to Austria a year later
Understand Steidten had noticed him so we signed him & loaned him back
Was all a bit of a mysterious purchase

Takashi Miike 10:38 Wed Jul 24
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played for a lower league german side before he ended up in austria

LeroysBoots 10:12 Wed Jul 24
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What's Germany got to do re Irving ?

He played in Austria

Full Claret Jacket 12:42 Wed Jul 24
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There is rightly a lot of impatience over signings. We have been let down in previous windows with selling players and watching targets go elsewhere. It would be no surprise for some deals not to happen or to happen late in the window. Agents want to tout their players around clubs to make the most money for them.
Clubs come up with unrealistic deals whether they want to sell the players or not.

One thing which is clear is that there are clubs about who need to sell to buy and we don't appear to be one of them yet. FFP is coming home to roost for a lot of clubs hence the shocking ticket pricing. The bubble is bursting, greed has overinflated transfer fees and wages. Anyone piling in now is going to end up losing millions on some of these players.

british is best 8:42 Tue Jul 23
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I saw an article from June last year on X . Urging Brighton to sign Irving saying he was the perfect replacement for macalister .it Wouldn't surprise me if this is a steitden masterstroke . Here's hoping.

ludo21 8:08 Tue Jul 23
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Forgot about Irving..

Having been based in Germany for a while you have to assume that he is a TS signing so hopefully he will prove to be useful.

Stubbo 6:59 Tue Jul 23
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As it stands, Cornet and Ings are to all intents and purposes new signings given Moyes decided to totally disregard them.

They might prove to be shit, they might not. But they're players we couldn't factor in last year.

Irving is also a 'new' signing. Might be good enough, might not be...but maybe he's shown as much as Downes already to be thought of as a more likley contributor.

As pointed out by someone else, we've been after both Garcia and Kante, so it seems pretty likely he considers another CM as a key part to add to the squad.

Agreed though, if we add in Duran, one of the three RBs linked (I'd quite like to poach the Man Utd Moroccan target and leave them with the player they don't want), a Centre Back and another Attacking wide player, maybe with Soucek leaving and either Cornet, Ings or Antonio leaving...then we'll be in decent shape.

ludo21 6:47 Tue Jul 23
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If, as looks likely, we end up with something like

Guilherme
Kilman
Fotheringham
Duran
Jota Silva
AWB (or other RB)
Another CB

then it will have been a pretty good window and the squad has definitely been improved.

Presumably we will also bring in another CDM but I would have been perfectly happy keeping Downes and doubt his replacement will prove to be better in the long run.

As others have said the 3/4 youth team players that should join the first team squad this season will also provide better depth and will hopefully prove to be great long term assets.

LJC 6:05 Tue Jul 23
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Nutsin, I don’t think anyone has a clue. The only thing that we know for sure is that Tim come out and said we are in a very very good position financially.

LJC 6:04 Tue Jul 23
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According to KUMB, Duran is done and will be announced by the weekend. Don’t get the delay? Maybe we are announcing more than one?

Nutsin 6:03 Tue Jul 23
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Looks like we have cleared some wages off the books with the departures, so the question becomes just how big or little is our transfer budget this window? Anybody care to comment on how much they expect us to be spending the rest of this window?

RM10 4:47 Tue Jul 23
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Not agreeing with this,we are not in Europe buisness,

LJC 3:35 Tue Jul 23
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*wouldnt

LJC 3:33 Tue Jul 23
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Russ it’s his new “character” I couldn’t pay much attention to it. It’s like a poor man’s vexed.

onsideman 3:27 Tue Jul 23
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Lee Trundle 1:41 Tue Jul 23
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Sir Alf - what I find weird about solely blaming Sullivan, is that we went out and overspent (in my eyes) on a mid table centre back pretty easily, so why would he hold up similar transfers?


It seems clear to me that Sullivan had no choice but to bring in Kilman... whatever the fee. With Lopetegui making it clear he was central to his plans, and with Lopetegui having previous for storming out if he feels unsupported (and for the selling club knowing that fact better than anyone). Inevitable

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