"We've got bucketfuls of agents throwing players at us. We'll trawl through it." - The PL/CL/EL/world off-season transfer thread '17-'18

75m is low taking into account that this is for all intents and purposes a proposed swap, and therefore the difference in wages over what, three years? is likely to run to something like 3x52xc.100k

That's not even taking into account that lukaka will be worth something in three years and be worth something ito onpitch in the interim whereas Rooney has been worthless for ten years and in three years will only be of interest to Japanese fishermen

I'd imagine they'd see Giroud as closer to a direct replacement and Rooney as more of a stand-in for Barkley, but idk. They can probably still shift him to China or the MLS for a few mil at the end of the season however badly he performs.

Rooshi roll xp

Rooney being transported on tarpaulin spread between two flatbeds constantly doused with lard this summer will certainly be the last move of his career and Everton must know that, SV

Giroud makes total sense for them, Rooney at this stage is not just the answer to a question nobody is asking but he's a tetsuo in waiting

Everton have been busy in the market, dunno if they're pulling up any trees exactly. Pickford and Keane are solid signings (but Utd have better) Klaasen is quality (but Utd have better) and then the two young forwards could go either way (Utd have a few of those too)

Regardless, there was no scenario in which Lukaku stayed at Everton this season anyway

The latter is true the "betters" are up for discussion as is the question of what exactly the riddler mourinho will attempt to confound us with next tbh

If Koeman brought a contagious disease into the dressing room, it wouldn't do as much harm as Ronney's presence will. And would also be a man sight cheaper.

Freudian typos ahoy!

Selling your best player/attacking threat for crazy money and spending the money on seven or eight new signings at once. That always works.

Ha

I like to think that purchasing seven or eight good players might've made a difference but the point certainly is well made

Rooney gone on a free!

and somehow they're still getting shafted

Selling your best player/attacking threat for crazy money and spending the money on seven or eight new signings at once. That always works.

everton have sold michael jackson but signed blazing squad

You guys are cheering me up! You have to laugh, or you'd choke on yr own vomit.

it's a vile swindle.

i'm mildly worried about how effective united's premium pulisball could become with lukaku the target man.

Shame I've got work to do because the lure of visiting EFC fan forums is nigh on impossible to ignore:

So did everyone forget when he kissed the United badge? Or spouted a load of shite in his book about Moyes?

6 months ago (when the possibility of him returning was shy) half of the people on this forum didnt want him at Everton. He was "past it" and not the right choice to take us forward.

As soon as he's potentially going to sign people all of a sudden want him to "come home". Get a grip fickle fans.

I certainly won't be supporting him, blue shirt or not. I've got too much integrity to.

Id like to think any real fans of the club wouldn't disrespect the club like he did if they moved on to develop their career.

6 months ago (when the possibility of him returning was shy) half of the people on this forum didnt want him at Everton. He was "past it" and not the right choice to take us forward.

As soon as he's potentially going to sign people all of a sudden want him to "come home". Get a grip fickle fans.

i love this sort of rhetoric - it's very common. like "some people said different things yet in my mind every person except me is just one huge person, and therefore a hypocrite."

Yeah I love that. Sticking up for Moyes and saying 'get a grip fickle fans' is just the icing on the cake.

i'm mildly worried about how effective united's premium pulisball could become with lukaku the target man.

If Raiola or Jorge Mendes can unearth the Portuguese Rory Delap then the title is theirs.

Nothing to suggest that the original delap couldn't still perform at exactly the same level he always did rly

which reminds me, walters>burnley and whelan>villa - stoke seem to be selling all their most stoke players :'(

hopefully a £12m bid for jack rodwell or darron gibson is on the cards

stoke just shipping out the irish post-brexit

Kelechi talking to @LCFC. Looks like he will leave @ManCity, which is a shame given form in 2015-16 if inevitable given circumstances.

— Simon Stone (@sistoney67) July 6, 2017

Charlie Taylor to Burnley might seem like small beer in the scheme of things, but is has got all the Leeds fans bawling louder than when the Bremner statue was vandalised. He was already a hate figure for refusing to play the last game of the season!

Just bought him in FM, every good boy deserves to leave Leeds

new upgrade to FM'18 - Quotes from 30 odd page Charlie Taylor thread on WACCOE.

"Said on radio lancs he delighted to join a club with the stature of burnley.
thick fuk they r a micky mouse club with micky mouse support."

Logic's never stopped a Leeds fan

Zanka to Huddersfield... He was a big flop at PSV. Hope he finally learned how to defend at Kopenhagen.

well if he isn't good enough to force his way past Hefe or Schindler, he can at least chat about Scandinavian matters with Billing + Lossl on the bench!

It's ok I have done some due diligence youtube scouting on him and he gave an impressive interview, so obv a shit hot signing!

I don't mind a maverick, but he better not try any of this shit:

He likes to leave it late before passing back to his goalkeeper, a trick he uses to draw in a striker and then complain to the referee when the inevitable contact is made.

This didn’t work too well in 2014 when a misplaced back-pass to his goalkeeper let Son Heung-Min pounce and score for Bayer Leverkusen three minutes into a Champions League qualifier. Copenhagen lost that match 4-0.

It's stuff like that he's most remembered for here. But this is the PL we're talking about, I'm sure he'll be fine.

Reports this morning that Chelsea were so confident Lukaku was signing that they never actually got around to making an offer

This kinda puts the van Dijk fiasco in the shade

wouldn't be surprised if liverpool still signed vvd

Naby Keita the latest Liverpool transfer saga. Saw some YouTube highlights he looks all right. Anyone got any inside scoop on his prowess?

Keïta would be a saga if there was anything to report on it but Pool seem to be keeping a bit more schtung since Virgil's Blackpool escapade got publicised.

Reports this morning that Chelsea were so confident Lukaku was signing that they never actually got around to making an offer

lol

My teenage years all over again

But with United poised to sign the Everton striker Romelu Lukaku from under Chelsea’s noses for about £75m, it is unlikely they would sanction Matic’s move to Old Trafford. As a result United are considering a further push for Dier, who has always been Mourinho’s No1 target in the position, and a bid of about £50m may change Spurs’ thinking.

why tf would spurs sell dier to some shitheads who finished 6th?

Selling someone who isn't good enough to start ahead of Wanyama and Dembele in midfield and should probably, by rights, be behind Wimmer as a CB option for £50m would possibly make sense if you were looking to bring in dedicated DM and CBs. He spent about two thirds of his time in the back four, rather than midfield, last season and was constantly making mistakes.

He does offer the opportunity to change formations mid-game, which is obviously useful, but depending on who they brought in, I wouldn't mind if he did go.

#MUFC is delighted to announce a fee has been agreed with Everton for the transfer of Romelu Lukaku, subject to a medical & personal terms. pic.twitter.com/O7oQJWzYHo

— Manchester United (@ManUtd) July 8, 2017

✍️ We are delighted to confirm the arrival of Rúben Neves who joins from @FCPorto on a five-year-deal. #WelcomeRuben pic.twitter.com/zjcQbv0z4N

— Wolves (@Wolves) July 8, 2017

Congrats!

I don't think anyone else in the Champo will lick the Neves signing in this window, even if it is more money it will probably be some last minute panic-buy purchase of whoever has become the new Jordan Rhodes.

i guess here is vaguely the place for it but i find this bradley lowery stuff pretty weird. it is obv horrible that a child dies so young but the amount of publicity is strange, and the weird fusion of sport and fame and celebrity culture attached to society's obsession with misfortune befalling children.

xpost

On our football messageboard a lot of the sensitive UKIP thugs who start threads about deporting terrorists and how race is a social construct and racism doesn't really exist, they all agree that a child dying of a terminal illness is very sad.

If we sent child soldiers to Afghan, and one of them became terminally ill - that would be a Princess Diana level event in football grounds.

The fact that much is being made of a black footballer's goodness and humanity offsets a little of the people's princess* posturing for me

*jade goody obvs

social media and its influence on traditional media tends to increasingly reify the most uncomplicated human emotions i guess - innocent sanctity of the children, hatred of The Other, proving you're not a bigot by singling out "the good ones" for praise