Unrealistic summer transfer wankfest III

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JoelfuckingGlazer wrote: 10 months ago Talk of Mason Mount for 50m. Never rated him and 50m for a player with 1 year left on a contract at a massively oversized Chelsea who need a firewall, is fucking ridiculous. So we'll probably do it.

We should be in for Ward-Prowse. Better and cheaper, and a proper set pieces specialist.
The guardian are reporting this too.

Mount and Kane have been targets for ages, before Hag took over. Kane fits the bill but Mount? Not really.

The recruitment is still shit. Other than the ex Hag players, the targets are terrible - like Arnoutavic ffs.
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Aye. Same with Rabiot, who there's talk over. There are a shit ton of sensible buys out there.

Tielemans on a free, decent squad cover. Ward-Prowse you'd get for 25-30m. Neves has 1 year on his contract and would be a similar price. Marcus Thuram on a free as cover for whoever our main striker target is. James Maddison - Leicester going down, only a year left, Ndidi is the same. Dani Olmo - only a year left at RB Leipzig and miles better than Mount.

That's just a quick search. We seem completely unwilling to go after sensible targets.
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Felwin wrote: 10 months ago Worse case scenario for us is if Qatar win the bid, get out of PSG because they can't stand the hassle, and go all in on United being their flagship project.

Neymar would be the first of many and if he wants out, there will only be a few possible destinations. United with Qatar would be one of them.

As for other possible destinations. Barca's finances are fucked. Perez at Real could possibly pull it out of the hat - never write them off, epsecially as Mbappe snubbed them. City wouldn't bite. Newcastle maybe but I reckon they're being cautious until City buy their innocence and the rules basically become null and void. Apart from that... maybe MLS? Seems to expensive though and maybe too early. He's very famous there though and 31 so...
Qatar would probably learn from its mistakes with a new club and not go full Galactico.
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JoelfuckingGlazer wrote: 10 months ago Talk of Mason Mount for 50m. Never rated him and 50m for a player with 1 year left on a contract at a massively oversized Chelsea who need a firewall, is fucking ridiculous. So we'll probably do it.

We should be in for Ward-Prowse. Better and cheaper, and a proper set pieces specialist.
Not sure we can carry a player just for his set pieces. Never been overly impressed with his all-round game. He'd be filler at best. Think I'd prefer giving Hannibal a go to signing Ward-Prowse.
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JoelfuckingGlazer wrote: 10 months ago Aye. Same with Rabiot, who there's talk over. There are a shit ton of sensible buys out there.

Tielemans on a free, decent squad cover. Ward-Prowse you'd get for 25-30m. Neves has 1 year on his contract and would be a similar price. Marcus Thuram on a free as cover for whoever our main striker target is. James Maddison - Leicester going down, only a year left, Ndidi is the same. Dani Olmo - only a year left at RB Leipzig and miles better than Mount.

That's just a quick search. We seem completely unwilling to go after sensible targets.
I get why a lot of those are "sensible" but there are question marks too.

Tielemans has flattered to deceive IMO. Neves is solid but slow, not sure we can accomodate another slow midfielder. Thuram has had his moments at Gladbach but I'm not sure his level is much higher than Weghorst's. Maddison would be sensible - bit expensive because he's english. Ndidi has been part of a shockingly poor midfield, do we really want to raid Leicester for players who have just had a season of getting battered? Olmo has the technique and as a Leipzig player should be physical enough but will he get game time at 10 with Bruno?

I'd welcome depth but if we're punting €100m+ on 3-4 squaddies then we might have to endure a bit more mediocrity. I think Hag might look to youth for depth and use the available funds to get 2 first teamers.
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I say let's get our resident Statto aka Dozer on the case.
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Links to Rice now too. The only way we're landing Min-Jae, Rice, Mount, Kane and Neymar (£300-400m) is if the magic Qatar money tree lands. Noise has built up on transfer links from credible journo's over the last day or two. Just silly season, or do those in the background have a nod as to ownership changes....?
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JoelfuckingGlazer wrote: 10 months ago Links to Rice now too. The only way we're landing Min-Jae, Rice, Mount, Kane and Neymar (£300-400m) is if the magic Qatar money tree lands. Noise has built up on transfer links from credible journo's over the last day or two. Just silly season, or do those in the background have a nod as to ownership changes....?
Thing is the Qataris can't afford 3-400m and be within FFP.

If they do a City and sign a bogus 100m a season shirt deal, it would fall foul of the Prems new rules on sponsors having to reflect market rate.

So it's a bit harder for states to dope now. It's gonna take a few more years.
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Obscenly rich people don't give a fuck about rules Sid. They always find a way.

300m could be possible. I could see us generating 100m in sales.

But it's all moot really, we don't have any fucking idea whats going to happen.
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fat maradona wrote: 10 months ago I say let's get our resident Statto aka Dozer on the case.
He's got to find us the right manager first, mate.
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