The Transfers/Transfer Rumours Thread

Actually a decent signing for Chelsea, Giroud is a bit one dimentional but after getting linked with Carroll and Crouch and even Dzeko for massive money its good signing for quite cheap and he'll do a job there as back-up for a good 3 years.

 

Giroud is massively under rated really good player

 

Was he not linked with us at one point.

 

Jamie Jackson

Understand that City never made even one bid for Mahrez, there were informal discussions, Leicester City made a proposal worth £95m this morning and City walked away. Their absolute “top valuation of player was £60m”, no more. And: Mahrez was a target for long-term position of wide player post-Sanchez not happening, not a short-term fix because of Sane’s ankle injury.

 

Poor guy

 

Cost 300k 7 months ago..

 

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His stats at Madrid are incredible so hopefully having someone as mobile as Aubameyang in front will bring out the best in him. I think if he had a destroyer like big Vic behind him so he could ignore any defensive duties would make a huge difference. He is frustrating.

 

Everton manager Sam Allardyce confirms image rights prevented Davy Klaassen from joining Napoli.

The Partenopei had a deal in place to sign the attacking midfielder yesterday, but the deal collapsed.

While there was some speculation they hadn’t realised Klaassen was cup tied, it was immediately rumoured that a familiar problem with image rights was behind the failure.

“I got the weirdest situation,” Allardyce marvelled in a Press conference.

“A contract he has with a sporting company is one of the reasons why it failed. We are disappointed but he should be far more disappointed than us that he is not playing for Napoli in the Italian league.

“I don't know why they couldn't get over the hurdles.”

Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis insists players hand over 100 per cent of their image rights to the club when they sign.

That means they must terminate all existing deals with sponsors, which takes time and can even cause deals to collapse.

Other clubs usually take just 50 per cent of a player’s image rights, allowing them to use the image in club promotional material as long as it doesn’t clash with other sponsorship deals.

For example, a club sponsored by Adidas could use a Nike athlete to advertise their new kit as long as other players are present and it’s only to promote the club.

 

In the huff

Leicester should have let him go for £65m.

 

Looking to get a bit more him.

 

Greedy buggers.

 

Atletico have contacted Aguero's representatives to assess his possible inclusion in the team for next season.[ Radio MARCA]

 

Facundo Ferreyra allegedly agreed a deal with Benfica. 30 goals in 40 games for Shakthar this season. Was about time we signed someone decent but better wait and see.

A little worried that this means we will sell João Félix before he even plays for the first team. Bernardo Silva played 3 games for Benfica's main team, Renato Sanches played less than 12 months and now there are two players being eyed: Umaro Embaló and João Félix. Umaro Embaló turned 17 this month and Leipzig was willing to pay 20M€ a few months ago (apparently the deal failed because his agent got greedy). João Félix was the youngest player to start for Benfica B and has half Europe trying to sign him. Benfica's youth ranks are a gold mine nowadays and our president likes short term money way too much.

 

Hopefully you can hold onto him, Luz. He looks like he could be an amazing talent. One of the hardest things to swallow about modern football is that talent is squandered so much and players fly from one club to the next so predominately.

 

Di Maria looks like heading back to La Liga, both Atletico and Barca interested.

 

Clement Lenglet agreed terms with Barcelona for 5 seasons, €35 million transfer fee

 

Is this a good signing for Barca? I've hardly seen any football in La Liga this season.