The generic transfer thread

[Winston Biscuit]

Trossard reportedly off to Besiktas

[BRO_BOT]

About time Spurs started acting like a big club and just getting the transfers done rather than haggling and ending up with a £50m average player after panicking late in the window

Isn't that the criticism that always gets thrown at them, and they think they are a big club but don't act like it?

You've paid over the odds, but I think you've done the right thing. WhoTF do Utd go for now? Tchouaméni seems to be the only one left who is any good, and I'm not sure he's even gettable. Scott would be a decent signing, but he raises the floor rather than the roof. I bet we end up paying £85M for Baleba!

They're really letting Carrick down here. We currently have one (1) functioning midfielder

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[genome]

Spurs dropping £100m on a player. I am sweating

[South Coast Royal]

About time Spurs started acting like a big club and just getting the transfers done rather than haggling and ending up with a £50m average player after panicking late in the window

Isn't that the criticism that always gets thrown at them, and they think they are a big club but don't act like it?

You've paid over the odds, but I think you've done the right thing. WhoTF do Utd go for now? Tchouaméni seems to be the only one left who is any good, and I'm not sure he's even gettable. Scott would be a decent signing, but he raises the floor rather than the roof. I bet we end up paying £85M for Baleba!

They're really letting Carrick down here. We currently have one (1) functioning midfielder

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Regarding Baleba.

Brighton had Bissouma who looked good at Brighton who sold him to Spurs and he has gone backwards.

Brighton had Caicedo who was really good at Brighton, then sold to Chelsea, wasn't very good in his first season there but has become the player again of his Brighton days..

Brighton have Baleba who was very good after Caicedo left but didn't feature much last season and when he did he wasn't very effective.

I'm not sure which Baleba any club that signs him will get but I think his cost will have dropped considerably over this past year.

Brighton do have to be admired for spotting these and many other players over the years and improving them.
Their owner Tony Bloom really has the midas touch (see also Hearts Fc and a number of racehorses).

To think, its not so long ago that we saw Reading as being equal to Brighton (and of course Bournemouth and Brentford).

[Sanguine]

Leeds goalkeeper Illan Meslier to join Arsenal on a free transfer, likely as third choice.

[Sutekh]

About time Spurs started acting like a big club and just getting the transfers done rather than haggling and ending up with a £50m average player after panicking late in the window

Isn't that the criticism that always gets thrown at them, and they think they are a big club but don't act like it?

You've paid over the odds, but I think you've done the right thing. WhoTF do Utd go for now? Tchouaméni seems to be the only one left who is any good, and I'm not sure he's even gettable. Scott would be a decent signing, but he raises the floor rather than the roof. I bet we end up paying £85M for Baleba!

They're really letting Carrick down here. We currently have one (1) functioning midfielder

<worlds_smallest_violin.gif>

Regarding Baleba.

Brighton had Bissouma who looked good at Brighton who sold him to Spurs and he has gone backwards.

Brighton had Caicedo who was really good at Brighton, then sold to Chelsea, wasn't very good in his first season there but has become the player again of his Brighton days..

Brighton have Baleba who was very good after Caicedo left but didn't feature much last season and when he did he wasn't very effective.

I'm not sure which Baleba any club that signs him will get but I think his cost will have dropped considerably over this past year.

Brighton do have to be admired for spotting these and many other players over the years and improving them.
Their owner Tony Bloom really has the midas touch (see also Hearts Fc and a number of racehorses).

To think, its not so long ago that we saw Reading as being equal to Brighton (and of course Bournemouth and Brentford).

We were and more - the club made a complete cock up of the 2 chances given to it by being, first, cheap then, secondly, being totally unable to attract any investment whatsoever even though the club was actually in the PL. Seems to me that Reading and the PL go together as well as Reading and Wembley in terms of taking chances/getting good luck etc.

[Winston Biscuit]

Man Utd signing Andrey Santos from Chelsea for £50M

[BRO_BOT]

Man Utd signing Andrey Santos from Chelsea for £50M

Would've been £25M last season

[Orion1871]

About time Spurs started acting like a big club and just getting the transfers done rather than haggling and ending up with a £50m average player after panicking late in the window

Isn't that the criticism that always gets thrown at them, and they think they are a big club but don't act like it?

You've paid over the odds, but I think you've done the right thing. WhoTF do Utd go for now? Tchouaméni seems to be the only one left who is any good, and I'm not sure he's even gettable. Scott would be a decent signing, but he raises the floor rather than the roof. I bet we end up paying £85M for Baleba!

They're really letting Carrick down here. We currently have one (1) functioning midfielder

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Definitely isn't now that he's just renewed his contract until 2031.

[BRO_BOT]

About time Spurs started acting like a big club and just getting the transfers done rather than haggling and ending up with a £50m average player after panicking late in the window

Isn't that the criticism that always gets thrown at them, and they think they are a big club but don't act like it?

You've paid over the odds, but I think you've done the right thing. WhoTF do Utd go for now? Tchouaméni seems to be the only one left who is any good, and I'm not sure he's even gettable. Scott would be a decent signing, but he raises the floor rather than the roof. I bet we end up paying £85M for Baleba!

They're really letting Carrick down here. We currently have one (1) functioning midfielder

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Definitely isn't now that he's just renewed his contract until 2031.

Jesus H. can I not bask in the glory of signing Chelsea's fourth-best midfielder for a few hours without some bad news

Will LOL if CFC uses the money to buy one of our targets

[Winston Biscuit]

Sounds like Mason Greenwood is off to Fenerbahce

[From Despair To Where?]

Leeds goalkeeper Illan Meslier to join Arsenal on a free transfer, likely as third choice.

That's got to be in order to fulfil registration quotas because I'd be pissed off if we signed him, let alone the reigning champions.

[Sanguine]

Leeds goalkeeper Illan Meslier to join Arsenal on a free transfer, likely as third choice.

That's got to be in order to fulfil registration quotas because I'd be pissed off if we signed him, let alone the reigning champions.

Meslier 'homegrown'? Joined Leeds at 19.

[From Despair To Where?]

Just seems a very strange signing for Arsenal. He was 3rd choice at Leeds and hadn't played in over a year. I guess he'll be cheap and purely warm the bench if Kepa or Raya get injured. There is a suggestion that it gives Arsenal the opportunity to loan out their current 3rd choice keeper.who's part of their academy.

[6ft Kerplunk]

Man Utd signing Andrey Santos from Chelsea for £50M

Would've been £25M last season

Should've signed him then, sounds like a bargain.

[Sutekh]

Leeds goalkeeper Illan Meslier to join Arsenal on a free transfer, likely as third choice.

That's got to be in order to fulfil registration quotas because I'd be pissed off if we signed him, let alone the reigning champions.

Meslier 'homegrown'? Joined Leeds at 19.

In the PL I believe a foreign player has to be signed to an English team for at least three years before the age of twenty-one to be able to be seen as homegrown, he’s now 26 so I don’t think he can ever be classified as “homegrown”.

[Winston Biscuit]

he was reportedly on £30k a week at Leeds and is now a free agent. I can see the appeal from his point of view. Likely earn more money and spend a couple of years working in a system with the highest possible standards.

[Sutekh]

he was reportedly on £30k a week at Leeds and is now a free agent. I can see the appeal from his point of view. Likely earn more money and spend a couple of years working in a system with the highest possible standards.

All the while completing his studies into benchmark testing

[Winston Biscuit]

Johan Manzambi on his way to Newcastle for €60M

He is the Swiss lad who grabbed a lot of headlines last season with his Europa League performances for Freiburg

[Uke]

Sounds like Mason Greenwood is off to Fenerbahce

Fenerbahce believe they can strike a deal of around 45m euros (£38.36m) with Marseille for Greenwood, who has scored 48 goals in 76 appearances in all competition since he joined them from United in a £26.6m deal in July 2024

Seems like a good deal, he'd find it hard to beat that