2019/20 Soccer Thread

best transfer tracker I've found

City officially announce Rodri.

Leicester get Perez from Newcastle.

Spurs actually spend some cash and get Ndombele. Arsenals answer is some 18 year old Brazilian.... Right.

I'd take it in a heartbeat.

Damn, they're offering Isco? I know they don't want Bale, for whatever reasons, but I rate Isco quite highly. I like him better than Ascensio, although Zidane obviously doesn't.

Would consider Isco, would not want Bale unless Real Madrid are paying almost all his wages going forward.

As someone who wants to see United lose every game, a Pogba/Bale swap would be amazing.

Meanwhile apparently Arsenal are lining up Zaha for 60m....

I dunno. He clearly would start and can get it done in the PL. He's also turns 27 in November.

The only way it makes sense imo is if Arenal get out of Ozils contact and Zaha is reasonable on wages. If you balance those all out I guess.

Raiola has made it clear that Pogba wants out.

Him and Neymar, man. Two players who left their teams in these big time moves that fizzled (in a sense).

£26.5m for Tyrone Mings is... wow.

Meanwhile in Newcastle, rumours 10,000 season ticket holders have cancelled or not renewed.

It's 1-1 in the Copa America final after an Brazil goal was nullified by a Peru penalty just before the half (I'd call it harsh, but these new rules are rough as hell). Neat game though, streaming on ESPN+, if you've got access.

EDIT: Dammit, I literally hit post and 10 seconds later Gabriel Jesus makes it 2-1.

Pontus Janson on his way to Brentford, while Roofe is rumoured to be going to Rangers. Janson is a player who has bled Leeds since coming, gutted to see him go but in Bielsa we trust...

Selling Josh Clarke to Spurs for 10m and loaning him straight back is a great bit of business though.

I have no idea how Fulham convinced Mitro to sign an extension, but I will take it.

Prederick wrote:

I have no idea how Fulham convinced Mitro to sign an extension, but I will take it.

Mitro is actually good is still a hill I would die on.

Is it much of a hill to die on? He was arguably the only good thing for Fulham last season.

Prederick wrote:

It's 1-1 in the Copa America final after an Brazil goal was nullified by a Peru penalty just before the half (I'd call it harsh, but these new rules are rough as hell). Neat game though, streaming on ESPN+, if you've got access.

EDIT: Dammit, I literally hit post and 10 seconds later Gabriel Jesus makes it 2-1.

3-1 it finished and Brazil are back on top of South America.

Prederick wrote:

Is it much of a hill to die on? He was arguably the only good thing for Fulham last season.

It is among Newcastle supporters.

Enjoying the Guardian tracker for transfers.

Has funny things like:

Samir Nasri Midfielder — West Ham United to Anderlecht.

Will be interesting to see who United end up getting if they unload both Lukaku and Pogba.

All the money in the world but no CL no big name coach to lure players. At least is Arsenal fans know we are currently a 2nd rate club.

Arsenal signing Malcolm from Barcelona instead of Zaha would be such a good move for them.

Shifted
* Williams - ✅ out of contract
* Jagielka - ✅ out of contract, hope he gets to play somewhere though
* Jonjoe Kenny - ✅ (Schalke 04) Loan
* Vlašić - ✅ (CSKA Moscow) Undisclosed
* Sandro Ramírez - ✅ (Real Valladolid) Loan
* Brendan Galloway - ✅ (Luton Town) Free transfer

Inbounds
* Jonas Lössl - ✅ (Huddersfield) free transfer
* André Gomes - ✅ (Barcelona) £22 million

We're apparently in for Zouma, who was decent for us last season, but I can't imagine that Chelsea will let him go for any kind of reasonable fee.

Apparently more signings beyond that are in the works, though I have to assume the bulk of Marcel Brands' work this summer is trying to offload bodies. Hopefully my earlier outbound wishlist will have a lot of candidates - our squad is horrifically bloated (and in many cases, reported to be on exorbitant wages as well).

Saw a rumor we were linked with Diego Costa of all people, but though he can definitely score, can't imagine us actually signing him.

Prederick wrote:
Prederick wrote:

It's 1-1 in the Copa America final after an Brazil goal was nullified by a Peru penalty just before the half (I'd call it harsh, but these new rules are rough as hell). Neat game though, streaming on ESPN+, if you've got access.

EDIT: Dammit, I literally hit post and 10 seconds later Gabriel Jesus makes it 2-1.

3-1 it finished and Brazil are back on top of South America.

Messi isn't happy. Not hapy at all.

We may have an African Portugal. Benim is in the quarter finals of the African Cup without a win in the regular 90 minutes. Go Benim! I don't even know where that country is located... To the Google Maps!
And South Africa kicked Egipt to the curb. Salah, would you be interested in a Portuguese citizenship?

Neymar vs PSG is kicking off:

https://en.psg.fr/teams/first-team/c...

slazev wrote:

We may have an African Portugal. Benim is in the quarter finals of the African Cup without a win in the regular 90 minutes. Go Benim! I don't even know where that country is located... To the Google Maps!
And South Africa kicked Egipt to the curb. Salah, would you be interested in a Portuguese citizenship?

Hell Madagascar's made the QFs, and I didn't even know Madagascar had a team.

Roke wrote:

Neymar vs PSG is kicking off:

https://en.psg.fr/teams/first-team/c...

Athletico are having the same problems with Grezimann, although to be 'fair' to him his transfer to Barcelona is all done, bar actually paying for him.

*Atlético.

After the crazy stunt they did with João Félix, it's no wonder they want all the money up front.

LOL

Turkish club Fenerbahce say it is not viable from an "economic" point of view for them to sign Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil.

No sh*t. There is no way in hell they could afford his wages, much less his transfer fee.

Anyway, it is currently very, very boring in football, and the most interesting thing that's happened in the last 48 hours is Daniel Sturridge got his stolen dog back.

Wow, CONCACAF managed to make their Men's World Cup Qualifying process even worse.

Steve Bruce has emerged as a potential front runner for the Newcastle job. That'll go down well considering his Sunderland connections.

Sorbicol wrote:

Steve Bruce has emerged as a potential front runner for the Newcastle job. That'll go down well considering his Sunderland connections.

Also, Sam Allardyce was apparently offered the job, with Kevin Nolan set to be his assistant, but turned it down because he wouldn't have control of transfers.

Steve Bruce is a good hire if:
1) You're a Championship club trying to win promotion.
2) You're a Premier League club trying to get relegated.

Or at least that's been the case up until the last couple of years. He's genuinely a good Championship manager but once he gets to the Premier League you're screwed.

Any decent manager (better than Bruce) is going to look at Newcastle, see they have Ashley over a barrel, and demand control of transfers or balk. I'm dreading the potential Tim Sherwood link.

Roke wrote:

Any decent manager (better than Bruce) is going to look at Newcastle, see they have Ashley over a barrel, and demand control of transfers or balk. I'm dreading the potential Tim Sherwood link.

Surely the problem is you don’t have Ashley over a barrel? He will not let his managers have that level of control. It’s partially why Benitez left. You go into that job knowing thats the case.

Offseason of the disgruntled?

Pogba, Neymar and Lukaku all looking to get out. Koscielny also but not exactly same caliber of player.