Weird so Cali a few days ago and now Paris, dude likes Disney. Whoever he goes to, he is going to be unfit as fuck.
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Football Thread 2016/17 & Offseason |OT2| Wenger In Fam! Wenger Out Blud!
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Weird so Cali a few days ago and now Paris, dude likes Disney. Whoever he goes to, he is going to be unfit as fuck.
Not to mention guys like Otamendi and Mangala
Dutch Gronk
Banned
Mangala - 25.93m
Otamendi - 37.91m
Stones - 47.26m
Walker - 43.35m
Danilo - 25.50m
Mendy - 48.88m
In pounds, from Transfermarkt.co.uk, brings it to a nice total of 228.83 million since the 14/15 season on defenders alone.
I wouldn't even do that on Football Manager :/
RocknRola
Member
Wow. If going by value alone they should have a fantastic defense. Alas, money really isn't everything.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
lol I think we (Arsenal) have you beat there
Dutch Gronk
Banned
To be fair, it's only like 30 million more than a Neymar apparently.
Hes got more fight than the entire Arsenal squad lol
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
😭
Xhaka would have broken his legs.
Fixed
A Serious Man
Member
Kinda bummed Neymar is staying, that move and the ensuing moves from Barca would have been delicious.
Some still think he will go. 🤔
CecilRousso
Member
Jairo Riedewald finally announced for Palace, moving from Ajax.
Any good?
Any good?
Young and decent. I watched a few games of his and he seems to make a lot of mistakes, needs a leader next to him.
Great potential. Wish he stayed at Ajax.
He can be nonchalant at times tho. He needs to get rid of that in the EPL.
That first one on Keita is nasty too, no wonder he did a revenge one
CecilRousso
Member
He's being described as someone who can play on the left side of the defence, as a centre back or a defensive midfielder.
If he's playing defensive midfielder, then have the leaders, in Jason Puncheon, Mighty Luka Milivojevic, and even Yohan Cabaye (if he stays).
If he's playing centreback, then we have Scott Dann and Damien Delaney, although the latter seems to have had his best years as a footballer.
Doubt that he will play left defender, as we spent £20+ on Jeffrey Schlupp and Patrick Van Aanholt on that position in januari, even if they weren't De Boer's signings.
Yeah Delaney has to be done - the lad must be signing as a CB with Sahko not an option as well.
CecilRousso
Member
People thought he would be released after the last season, but was supringsly given a new contract. Could have been from the owner, Steve Parish, who doesn't want to many of the old squads leaders to leave at the same time.
I want Sakho at Palace, but with the rumours that we're close to announcing Callum Chambers, I cant see us spending £9m on Riedewald, £20+ on Chambers, and then up to £30m on Sakho, while still needing a new right back/right wing back, a new goalkeeper, and two new strikers (of which have been linked with none so far).
GoldenCrow
Member
And still haven't solved the problem of Kompany. Txiki is so shit. There are so many problems caused due to his inability to sign the right kind of players.
If you look at the squad as a whole the main spine of Kompany, Toure, Silva and Aguero all came from Marwoods signings and he got pushed out in 2012. Almost every area in the squad got weaker under Txiki until Pep came along.
Defence: Hired crap and massively overpaid, ignored the wing back positions until there were no options and got bent over by Tottenham and Monaco (though those signings are almost perfect). Issue of Kompany is still a massive problem even though he has known since 2015 that Kompany has serious muscle problems. Stones is ok however he has a lot of development to do but that is a Pep player.
Central Midfield/Defensive Midfield: Apart from Fernandinho (who he also massively overpaid for at the time) the signings have been lack lustre. Still relying on Yaya to dictate the pace of play. Delph and Fernando are very likely to get sold this window and have basically done nothing since they arrived. Gundogan is a great signing but has been injured and only joined due to Pep.
Attacking Midfield: Before it became known that Pep was coming the only player he signed in the position was Navas. Since Pep that area of the squad has got strong but one signing prior to him is a joke. Only reason we got KdB and Sterling was because of Pep.
Forwards: Before he came the line up was Aguero, Dzeko, Tevez and Ballotelli. They all left except Aguero, he brought in Jovetik who hardly played and Negredo who looked great for half a season then that was him done. Iheanacho was great but has rarely played and likely to be sold. Again it wasn't until Pep that Jesus was signed.
If City want to be a top quality squad in all competition they need to get rid of a lot still and strengthen. Both Chelsea and Tottenham have more balanced squads and unless the centre backs and centre midfield is sorted they will remain to do so.
(The keeper issue is all Peps problem though. However I have a feeling Bravo will come good this year and adjust to the league like most from La Liga do in the second year.)
Heebie Jeebies
Banned
Ederson isn't first choice?
GoldenCrow
Member
I'd assume so. However there are a lot of games for Bravo to reassert himself, he was a decent keeper at Barca with the right skill set so I also assume he won't lie down and take defeat especially after the pens in Russia.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
fucking hell
Hahaha. All that money for set pieces and nothing else.
WhateverItTakes
Banned
Something in the Mersey making clubs splash the big bucks...
"Javier Hernandez joins West Ham from Bayer Leverkusen for £16m, signing a 3-year contract."
I wish him all the luck in the world, against every team that isn't us.
So glad we finally got this one over the line.
https://twitter.com/WestHamUtd/status/889581049537277954
WhateverItTakes
Banned
If they aren't a Guinean journalist does it really mean anything?
This should hopefully be the last bid we need to move on.
Who's he going to spear if that gets turned down?
Crazy money, but fair play to them if they stick to their word and turn it down.
Daniel Ricciardo
Sounds dodgy man
Dutch Gronk
Banned
"Javier Hernandez joins West Ham from Bayer Leverkusen for £16m, signing a 3-year contract."
Absolute bargain.
Absolute batshit insane money.
s'ok I'm not murican or nuffin
Can't believe people get that defensive they start calling out my roots. 😂
Nova Prime
Member
Why do Pool want Keita so badly, for that money they could surely get a different cm, hell maybe even 2.
Goddamn it.