"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

Danilo to City seems like a thing, meaning that City will have spent £76.5m on right-backs this summer.

Presumably Pep is going to play one of them at LB? If he tries that with Walker even once then that's a sacking offence.

lest ye forget kdb at full back last year

What price morata

Hearing Chicarito to West Ham for abt 15m, from Leverkusen.

This was back in February. Our net spend is negative now

http://e1.365dm.com/17/02/16-9/20/skysports-tottenham-spend-net_3890509.jpg?20170213201725

Villa going for some kind of hughesian ideal

Supposedly Pep reckons Danilo can play in midfield too (course he does)

They're still in for Mendy as well

looking forward to pep getting sacked next season

come on, admit it

They bought six players last season of whom you can only say Jesus and Sane were a success, and they could be buying 6-7 this year for 300m odd. He's not exactly looking like the coaching genius of lore

the goalkeeper stuff is ridiculous.

Tend to agree

Think he is a great coach but could not have put himself in a less suitable context.

He seems to be bad at buying the right players.

Brucey knows the Championship, knows you need players who can do it on a freezing Tuesday night in Barnsley, knows you need fans who don't mind being bored shitless

He seems to be bad at buying the right players.

You mean the right players for City, right, because this is complete insanity otherwise.

They bought six players last season of whom you can only say Jesus and Sane were a success

Gabriel Jesus has made 10 appearances, he could still be in his Robinho phase for all we know. You might as well include Gundogan in there who has been similarly unlucky with injuries. Bernardo Silva looks an excellent signing, but no new CB means no title however well anyone else does.

Yeah it's all covered by the 'in this context' bracket there, the city project seems to be impeding his usual effectiveness

You mean the right players for City, right, because this is complete insanity otherwise.

is it? The best players at both his previous teams weren't his signings. He bought loads of flops for Barca. He had a few good signings for Bayern (Thiago and Vidal most notably) but you can't really argue that he improved on what was already there

Hear me out, now

Just......look, hear me out

Sissoko......right back

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Swansea are going to bid £10 m for Billing. Oddly for such a quality prospect he hasn't made much of an impact so far. Mainly because of Mooy's awesomeness and injury problems tho. Wagner has previously said he has the most potential he has ever seen in one of his own players. He showed it against Man City as well, he seems to totally shine in high tempo prem style games against quality opposition with less time on the ball, than he does against lower league riff-raff like Leeds or Wednesday. They ought to say £20m or get fucked imo.

As someone one the lookout for fantasy league deep cuts which Huddersfield players do you reckon will make an impact this season?

Mooy was our consistently best player last season, and even when he was completely drained after travelling to southern hemisphere international games he was still delivering (hence his extended break this summer). He is the best player I have ever seen playing for Town in the flesh. A quality driving force of a midfield player. The £8m and add ons we paid is a bargain for sure.

If he gets back from injury right-back Tommy Smith could be a good under the radar deep-cut.

Center back Schindler is so solid and has a great football brain, if a bit one-paced. But he has this Germanic (never less than a 7.5 consistency) to him.

http://www.htfc-world.com/reports/Bury2/bury160717_r28_c1.jpg

There is a downside to life in the premiership though:p

in a shockingly unprecedented move we're signing a Portuguese lad who's represented by Gestifute

Virgil van Dijk training alone at Southampton after saying he wants to leave

Time to put in a bid lads

Danilo officially takes Man City's spending on full-backs to £132.5m this window.

"Kevin de Bruyne insists Manchester City must buy 'a lot' more defenders if they are to challenge for the title"

Mistranslation

He said a lot better defenders

According to Marca, Real Madrid has agreed a 180m fee for Mbappé.

I know it sounds like a lot of money, but when you realize it's about six Arnautovices that puts it into perspective again.

Euros or pounds

Also is it what real ronaldo would be worth at 18 today

If so, then it's a valid fee

€€€

Ronaldo went for a world record £13.2m fee in 1996. The previous record holder, Lentini, went for £13m four years previously. The current record free is £89m for Paul Pogba one year ago.

When Ronaldo went to Barcelona he'd scored 50 something goals in around the same number of games for PSV, as well as tearing it up for Cruizeiro. Mbappe has scored 16 goals in 40 games for Monaco

Sorry, Mbappe stat was league only. It's 27 in 58

Ronaldo scored 44 in 47 for Cruizeiro

Yep, Ronaldo made 54 goals in 57 games for PSV. xp

Our "bargain buy" man Mounie only scored one less Ligue 1 goal than Mbappe, and this was in a struggling Montpelier side last season. But he possibly isn't a potential global superstar in the making, but you never know! He did a nice Pulisball-style lob the keeper straight from the goal kick against Barnsley on Sunday, that put an extra tenner onto his value.

are huddersfield still favoured by bookies to finish bottom 3? you'd have thought they'd have wised up by now

they're odds-on with all bookies to go down, the only team to be so

if i was a betting man i'd put quite a lot on their survival tbh, this is complete madness

I don't think Wagner could get a team relegated if he tried. He has an uncanny ability of instilling belief + getting a few extra percent out of players, and then some. No new signings this week, but just as importantly new contracts offered to all the vital promotion squad players, to create wage parity with new mega-bucks in-comings. Wagner has said he hasn't spending finished yet as well.

I haven't been studying the relegation because I don't believe it will happen tbh. But I'm sure someone said we had gone odds against to stay up, might be wrong.

A coupla missing words there!

yeah you're odds-on to go down

burnley, swansea, brighton won't get within ten points of you?

*Historical note

*Hans Frank also had an assistant named Bühler

Brighton just signed Izzy Brown on loan from Chelsea. We already have Kasey Palmer on loan, so we had the option to buy him for £8m if we wanted him, and I think the club rightly decided the price was a pisstake. Our 3-1 against Brighton last season flattered the hell out of them, it was a comprehensive fucking. I respect Burnley, and don't fa about Swansea.

Think Swansea will be alright, the manager seems to know what he's doing. One of Palace or Leicester to start the season in a tailspin and never really recover. Would have said Watford on last season's form but Silva makes them much more of an unknown quantity.

I've missed hoping Newcastle go down last year, so them. Plus Palace/Burnley? Stoke?

Mbappe is worth 180m euros idk what else to say.