I guess the point is that I’m still not confident in the club’s ability to sell players. We keep hearing that it’s a down market and continental European clubs are broke. Well if that’s the case, how is Lazio paying €20m for Torreira? Or Lyon paying €20m for Lacazette when Ligue 1 is hemorrhaging money? Maybe some English clubs have money to spend but Newcastle don’t have two pennies to rub together for Joe Willock.
So if the club already have a bad track record of selling and are banking on selling players to continental European sides, there may be a slight disconnect in terms of what we want to get back and what’s realistic.
That plus the second ESR bid from Villa got me thinking. Would the club sanction the sale of a guy like ESR for 30-35m in order to jumpstart the summer. While deals for Torreira, Xhaka, Guendouzi, Lacazette and Hector all drag out until mid August.
I’m not saying I’d do it, but it was just a thought. Obviously you need to have some young talent to build around. Just me spitballing a little.
I think there is some sense. We are short on homegrown players. So buying a couple of 1st teamers that meet that requirement is important, but we don’t need to go all homegrown.
Question in White Vs Philips - is White that much better? More established, but what are people’s thoughts in Philips from L’pool. He looked good when he came into the side and would be much cheaper than White. I guess Philips is more a pure defender and not a ball playing one. But sometimes I wish we’d have some defenders that just did the dirty work.
How unstable are Madrid right now?
They change stance every day. By the time we prepare an offer they’ll tell us they’re not selling and as soon as we withdraw they’ll put him back on the market again.
Madrid didn’t give a single fuck about a club legend lately, and seeing how they’re still unsure about Odegaard’s situation, then his agents better start looking for other possible suitors, or he’ll find hismelf playing for la Castilla come september.
Nah, even the reliable ones are reporting this flip-flopping from Madrid.
We saw it first hand last winter, Arsenal enquired for Odegaard in December and Madrid told us there’s no chance and then they made him available for a loan in the last week or two in January.
Too much stuff going over there, Don Perez clearly losing control.
The problem with the Odegaard situation is that dealing with a club that is as unreliable as Real Madrid might see us hanging on until the end of the transfer window and losing out, not only on him, but any midfielder.
Either get him as soon as we can or move on, preferably to Grealish.
I’m sick of those MF tweets .. Keeping it as broad and vague as possible. Very hit and miss: PL experience (currently or previously?) . Under 25 (so many to count). Shock (could swing both ways, either someone highly rated or literally shocking).
