You got any sources on Cameroon -Guinea Nicholas? Trynna win big here

Reus is probably a done dealio tbf, even if Bild never reported any of that sort

Looks like a snag was hit on the Salah deal:

Roma 'not optimistic' on Salah
By Football Italia staff

Roma have been in negotiations with Chelsea for Mohamed Salah all day, but reports are “not optimistic.”

According to Sky Sport Italia, director Walter Sabatini flew out to London for talks and the meeting stretched on from 12.00 GMT to well into the evening.

However, the same report suggests both parties are not optimistic about finding a deal.

Chelsea want £550,000 for the six-month loan with an option to buy at the end of the season for £11m.

Roma are trying to get the loan price reduced or even removed completely for the 22-year-old, as they’d be paying his full wages too.

There are other problems too, as former agent Oliver Kronenberg is said to be lodging a complaint with the Football Association to decide who actually represents Salah.

I don't think that Salah deal - if the info is correct - is good for either club. Roma shouldn't pay £11m for him and Chelsea should look for a permanent transfer, not an option to buy. They want to be sure he's gone. They should just compromise and agree a permanent deal for a fee of £7m and be done with it. That'd be more win-win for both parties.

Wenger: "We identified Di María at 17. We wanted him. He went to Portugal. Why? We couldn't get a work permit."

Same with Messi and Falcao

that's just crazy.

How were Benfica able to get a work permit and not Arsenal? Aren't they both EU? Or did Benfica wait until Di Maria got a european passport?

BarrileteCosmico wrote:How were Benfica able to get a work permit and not Arsenal? Aren't they both EU? Or did Benfica wait until Di Maria got a european passport?

Work permits are harder to get in England than the rest of the EU.

Which is why we loan players to Vitesse before they join us, like Bertrand Traore.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:How were Benfica able to get a work permit and not Arsenal? Aren't they both EU? Or did Benfica wait until Di Maria got a european passport?

UK has a separate border agency and rules. You can't even travel to UK on a Schengen permit ffs.

And work visas are more messy fwik

BarrileteCosmico wrote:How were Benfica able to get a work permit and not Arsenal? Aren't they both EU? Or did Benfica wait until Di Maria got a european passport?

Yea what the others said. Same thing happened with Aguero and Pato. They could only go to non-english clubs in europe.

Art Morte wrote:I don't think that Salah deal - if the info is correct - is good for either club. Roma shouldn't pay £11m for him and Chelsea should look for a permanent transfer, not an option to buy. They want to be sure he's gone. They should just compromise and agree a permanent deal for a fee of £7m and be done with it. That'd be more win-win for both parties.

Yeah agreed. I am indifferent to this honestly and primarily because the areas where Salah plays, we're relatively ok in. There's no real need for him at the moment. No need to overpay for him, but I can't also fault Chelsea for trying to re-coup as much as they can for him as well.

According Pedulla' , Di Marzio , Gazzetta  Inter is on Brozovic and Murillo (Granada defender )

Pedulla' ( a poor man' s Di Marzio ) was the first to say it , he is being GOAT recently , I am going to rate him better than gazzetta , as the most reliable source in Italy after Di Marzio

Brozovic is the confirmation we are trying  to restore Iugoslavia ( Croatia , Serbia , Slovenia , Kosovo , Bosnia .. ) , while about Murillo who saw him playing in Liga here ?

Hearing that M'Vila's loan was terminated by Inter, Robes...

Any truth to that?

Yes he will leave Inter 100 % , confirmed by Mancini , he is going to QPR.
Although Redknapp doesn' t appreciate fat players ...
Osvaldo will leave too because the club doesn't want to keep anymore and QPR wants too.
Basically when you don't have idea where sending out your player , there is QPR at your disposal .
It is a sort of landfill legalized.

Yeah I gathered as much. Poverty-level galacticos and what not.

Osvaldo's been linked with Milan naturally ....that should be fun.

McLewis wrote:Yeah I gathered as much. Poverty-level galacticos and what not.

Osvaldo's been linked with Milan naturally ....that should be fun.

please... stop... galliani noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

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Forza wrote:

McLewis wrote:Yeah I gathered as much. Poverty-level galacticos and what not.

Osvaldo's been linked with Milan naturally ....that should be fun.

please... stop... galliani noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

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"Osvaldo is a champion , Silvio likes him . We thank him for Osvaldo . Without the president it wouldn't have been possible. Details of the loan? It's a loan with option to buy for 4m , paid in installments over 4 years . I would also like to thank Southampton for our quick and excellent collaboration , they will be paying his wages for the entirety of the loan. Will we exercise the option in the summer ? It depends solely on Osvaldo , we did our part , it's up to him now. -Mics off- ....... sure we will yes...-everyone laughs- .. see you all on Pasqual's loan

Football italia cliams that we have a deal for Marcelo Brozovic. 8m plus bonuses. No idea who this guy or how good he is but from what i googled he is an AM/SS, a position we have covered. Any idea how Brozovic can be useful to Inter this season With a 4231 formation?

This thread seems to be highly dominated by Serie A related stuff. I keep thinking it is Serie A thread and have to remind myself that it is the transfers rumours thread.

Serie A dominating something

BarrileteCosmico wrote:How were Benfica able to get a work permit and not Arsenal? Aren't they both EU? Or did Benfica wait until Di Maria got a european passport?

Give Football Manager a try brah.

zizzle wrote:Football italia cliams that we have a deal for Marcelo Brozovic. 8m plus bonuses. No idea who this guy or how good he is but from what i googled he is an AM/SS, a position we have covered. Any idea how Brozovic can be useful to Inter this season With a 4231 formation?

Well after some research, to me he seems like more of a CM/AM,similar to Kovacic.Seems suited for a 4-3-3 or maybe even the position Guarin currently occupies in 4-2-3-1.

Deal is loan with an obligation to buy in 2 years. Gotta love how we're going about business these days. What annoys me about the deal though is that although we've been looking for a holding midfielder we sign a Kovacic/Hernanes type of player. Apparently one of the two will play as a regista and i would hate it if that guy is kova

RealGunner wrote:Wenger: "We identified Di María at 17. We wanted him. He went to Portugal. Why? We couldn't get a work permit."

Same with Messi and Falcao

Wenger: We identified Pele, we wanted. he went to brazil. why? he was already 64

zizzle wrote:Deal is loan with an obligation to buy in 2 years. Gotta love how we're going about business these days. What annoys me about the deal though is that although we've been looking for a holding midfielder we sign a Kovacic/Hernanes type of player. Apparently one of the two will play as a regista and i would hate it if that guy is kova

I remind Croatia coach rotated him with Kovacic , I cared a bit about Croazia for Kovacic and for this reason I met Brozovic, for example in WC he was the starter in place of Kovacic .
He is more defensive than Kovacic.

I am Italian so I saw him playing in last Italia-Croatia as DM and he played a GOAT   match against  De Rossi and Marchisio .
But a match is not enough to rate him competely of course

p.s. Kovacic is CM ( a mezz ala Iniesta-esque type of player ) , not a real regista but not even a CAM (trequartista) anyway

I identified Di Maria at 17 in FM06.

Man Utd are close to finalising a €20m deal to sign Dynamo Kiev defender Dragovic, according to Sport Net.

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Chelsea's backup option if they don't manage to sign Cuadrado is Douglas Costa, according to the Telegraph. Shakhtar want £30m for him.

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PSG coach Laurent Blanc wants to sell Lavezzi this January, according to Le Parisien.

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Real Madrid are interested in AC Milan midfielder Hachim Mastour, according to Marca.

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Real Madrid midfielder Illarramendi isn't exactly thrilled to move to Athletic and he also has a proposal from Arsenal, however a deal would only be possible in June, according to Marca.

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Juventus are interested in Espanyol defender Hector Moreno, according to Sport.

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Roma have reached an agreement with Chelsea for Salah, according to Sky Italia.