2017/18 Summer Transfer Rumors Mk. I

That was then, this is now. We have him for another 3 years so we don't have to budge at all. DDG won't push for anything after how it broke down last time either.

Quote this post in 3 months. Huge money + a top player or nothing, IMO.

Freeza wrote:

sportsczy wrote:Made his mark moving from fullback to DM.  He's naturally a B2B though since that's really what you do as a fullback when you think about it.

LMAOOOOOOO

S wrote:

       According to Corriere dello Sport, Fabio Paratici and Beppe Marotta from Juventus are due meet with officials from the Bavarian club to discuss the situation with Medhi Benatia and Kingsley Coman.

During these negotiations, it’s reported that the Bianconeri will lay the foundation for summer negotiations over Costa, with whom they have been linked with over several months.    

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Bench : Donnarumma, Rugani, Fabinho, Schick, Pjaca, Cuadrado

Looks great

LOL we gonna go down this DDG saga again Madrid fans

well last time you cave, you will cave again lol

there wont be much of a fight

BILD | Marco Verratti's preference if he leaves PSG is to join Bayern. Bayern would spend up to €120m for the Italian and Alexis Sánchez

BILD | Verratti prefers to play for Carlo Ancelotti again if he leaves PSG, he would cost around €60m, talks can start at the end of May

(60M is probably a hoax, will more likely be 80M +)

Firenze wrote:I think this summer would be a good time to sell Vidal tbh, Goretzka looks a top talent. Could see Vidal at Arsenal tbh.

0% chance. We play with 3 in the mid-field usually & with 3 competitions, we need 6 players ideally. Lasts season we had 5 & it looks like it will be the same this time.

Current mid-field - Thiago, Vidal, Renato Sanches, Rudy, X (New Guy)

Carlo has announced that Kimmich will be the starting RB next season.

And Thiago & Vidal are literally the 2 key players in mid-field that we have, Vidal is 29, is his peak & has 2-3 good years. Neither Renato nor Goretzka (if he comes) will be ready to be WC (CM's typically get there at 24/25) & they are are too young ! We also don't need any money or to sell Vidal.

Vidal has a contract till 2019, so depending on his performances this season he will probably get an extension with better wages (he is on pretty moderate wages) or maybe we will consider a sale in 2018 !

Firenze wrote:That was then, this is now. We have him for another 3 years so we don't have to budge at all. DDG won't push for anything after how it broke down last time either.

Quote this post in 3 months. Huge money + a top player or nothing, IMO.

Tbh seems to me like you're setting yourself up for heartbreak. Unlike the Hazard story, this one seems to have a lot more teeth, especially seeing as both clubs have come to an agreement before.

But I hope he stays. Sick and tired of the best PL players going to La Liga. We need to start telling Madrid and Barca to *bleep* off. It's no coincidence that since they started this whole buying off the best PL players thing, they've had a period of sustained dominance in the CL. It needs to end now.

Again, it wasn't a saga. De Gea literally agreed to leave, signed a contract and everything. This wasn't Calderon chasing Ronaldo for an entire summer to get Van der Vaart in the end.

Pepe close to signing for Inter apparently

http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/inter-can-close-the-deal-for-real-madrid-defender-pepe-the-latest

Vidic 2.0

Marca are running the story as well, that Pepe has decided to go to Milan or Inter next season.

ES wrote:Vidic 2.0

Nah Vidic was past it long before he went to Italy.

Pepe is still one of the best defenders around.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

ES wrote:Vidic 2.0

Nah Vidic was past it long before he went to Italy.

Pepe is still one of the best defenders around.

Agree with this. Besides his pscypathic tendencies he is quite good defender.

Pepe is still great but why go to Milan when he can go in CHina and make millions

Maybe he still wants competitive football

Foreign concept these days I know lol.

He can just as easily go to Chine next year or in 2 years. The world cup is coming up.

Still boggles my mind we aren't letting him go on a free, I don't understand it. Defender should peak from 27 onwards what is this trend where you replace a world class defender with some wannabe 20 years old who is barely learning the game? For forwards I would understand it, it's about speed and technique but for defenders? Is this a joke? Is perez not watching Juve? Their defenders average 32 lol, ok they are old and they need to play 3 at the time to keep it together but ffs

Mr Nick09 wrote:Pepe is still great but why go to Milan when he can go in CHina and make millions

Thats basically what he's doing.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

ES wrote:Vidic 2.0

Nah Vidic was past it long before he went to Italy.

Pepe is still one of the best defenders around.

Wasn't Vidic playing at a high level (before his injury) before joining?

Mr Nick09 wrote:Still boggles my mind we aren't letting him go on a free, I don't understand it. Defender should peak from 27 onwards what is this trend where you replace a world class defender with some wannabe 20 years old who is barely learning the game? For forwards I would understand it, it's about speed and technique but for defenders? Is this a joke? Is perez not watching Juve? Their defenders average 32 lol, ok they are old and they need to play 3 at the time to keep it together but ffs

we K.O'd Barca playing 4-2-3-1, and our season went from good but underwhelming to what it is now playing 4 at the back. the back 3 was just to mess with Monaco's plans and it worked.

i knew tom would pick up my dig at their poverty 3 man back line

According to AS, Inter are trying to sign Pepe as well

Back 3 or 4, we're still gonna smash you in the final (:

I agree, Juve are favorites for the game anyway

ES wrote:

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

ES wrote:Vidic 2.0

Nah Vidic was past it long before he went to Italy.

Pepe is still one of the best defenders around.

Wasn't Vidic playing at a high level (before his injury) before joining?

No, he had massively dropped off for Man Yoo at least 2 seasons before joining Inter.

It's just no one criticised him because he's a legend.

Yeah Vidic was shite after that fat lad from Basel smashed his knee in.

Even some United fans were starting to moan, but they were moaning more about the injury than the fact their undisputed starter was a liability.