Transfer Tweets - Summer 2017 | Keep it on topic

endless_wheelies said:
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Probably still 80M guaranteed and possible 60M in add-ons, if Coutinho wins the Ballon d´Or, Brazil wins the World Cup and Barcelona wins the Premier League all in an odd year.

The Goretzka news is the first piece of transfer news that makes sense. Young, position of need, can probably be had for €50-60M, and you prevent him going to Bayern for free.
 
Bloody hell Barcelona, £138m for Coutinho is just ridiculous. I understand Liverpool not selling since they likely couldn't replace him now (though maybe they could, if Draxler's available he would be a good replacement) but how can Barcelona justify spending that on Coutinho? He'll never be capable of justifying that fee.
 
ValenciasDrilledCrosses said:
Yeah I watched him a few times last season and he looked good but not as good as some people were hyping him up to be. But those were only 3 or 4 games so I'm guessing I didn't see him at his best. Very poor over the two legs against Napoli though, did not look like he would be a gamechanger for Barca at all, could just be some off games though.
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That's probably because they play with him in Fifa and his physical attributes are all in the 80s.
 
Imagine Woodward reacted to a player suggestion from the Caf.
Joey Barton was considered a viable option at one stage
 
Imagine hacking Barcas twitter and not announcing they'd signed Ronaldo. Oppertunity wasted.
 
JustFootballFan said:
Probably still 80M guaranteed and possible 60M in add-ons, if Coutinho wins the Ballon d´Or, Brazil wins the World Cup and Barcelona wins the Premier League all in an odd year.

The Goretzka news is the first piece of transfer news that makes sense. Young, position of need, can probably be had for €50-60M, and you prevent him going to Bayern for free.
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Apparently it's £101 million with the rest in add-ons, but that £101 million would probably be in yearly payments or something.
 
Is that not illegal without permission? They were hardly being paid to test their security as they asked Barca to get in contact with them.
 
Irrational. said:
Why sign a 6 year deal? Utterly brainless decision by Alli/ his agent and probably music to the ears of Levy when he signed it. Good luck with following your ambitions/ moving to a bigger club in the next 2-3 years.
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TBF, his initial wage was dirt cheap, as he was bought not as first team player. Must have been too excited with the raise and not actually think thing through. His previous agent sucks though for signing that long extension with such low improved wage.
 
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Flying_Heckfish said:
I don't know what's worse, honestly!

Barca are dumb for offering that much, but Liverpool to reject it?
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I can't wrap my head around two clubs willing to make or reject bids over £60m for Coutinho. Before the Neymar deal the numbers being thrown around would have shattered the world record. Coutinho is a very good player but he's not that good.
 
If Barca has any sense they'd wait, don't spend it now. Save 220mil and rebuild over next year or 2. They could sign Coutinho or Dembele or both and still not be close to Real.
 
Womp said:
Is that not illegal without permission? They were hardly being paid to test their security as they asked Barca to get in contact with them.
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Technically, it's 100% illegal but if they get the account back, don't have to pay that big a bribe, they'll probably just forget about it and fire some PR team to limit the embarrassment.
 
Flytan said:
Did anyone think going into this summer that it was even fathomable for a club to resist 138M anything for a player of Coutinho's caliber? (He's good, but not transcendent)
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Liverpool will surely regret this in the long term. They will have an unhappy, unsettled player and Barca (or anyone) will surely not come knocking again with anywhere near this amount of money. I think in those situations, as hard as they are, you just have to let the player go, get as much as you possibly can for them and use the money to restructure.
 
Is Wenger just going to gut their squad and then leave? Lol if they lose Sanchez and Ozil with no fees, a board that refuses to spend big, and a manager of several years ready to retire. If all of that happens, they'll crash a lot harder than we did when we hired Moyes.
 
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