I'm going to be sick if you sell Cesc and use the money towards James, basically a massive upgrade with little additional cost.
we desperately need 1 defender (since we sold or loaned all the others) maybe 2 in this window. It would be a Chelsea move to buy the luxury player and neglect the needs
No one even knows who owns Milan now, so we will see. Can't be any worse than it has been since Silva and Ibrahimovic were sold for a combined 60M lmbo. Bunch of Chinese companies and billionaires is legitimately all anyone knows about the new ownership group.
We are looking at former Bolton fullback Marcos Alonso. Could be the 16th or 17th best left back in the league if we sign him so we good
Is there more than one Chinese billionaire set of "co-owners" that will be calling the shots together? Or is it like a board setup where one of the companies has a majority ownership and gets to be the chairman?
Newcastle should confirm Achraf Lazaar, left back from Palermo, here soon. He's at the game today. Will be interested to see if this means Dummett is on his way out. There's been rumored PL interest all summer and we've bought replacements before selling
There is at least one team in the Premier League I can think of that should be in the market for a LB like Dummett that is capable of not being humiliated on a semi-regular basis.
West Ham signed Simone Zaza on an initial season-long loan. A permanent fee of €20m will be triggered after a certain number of premier league appearances.
Berahino has a lot of upside though. He's still only 23, ridiculous technical skills, English..... He's jaded as hell and playing on a pretty shit team, but he could do good things at Stoke. He has some awesome finishes in this training session for England U21's (1:06) (2:38). Also Lewis Baker at 0:37 for the Chelsea brethren.
Best case scenario is obviously that a change or scenery makes him rediscover his past form. I'd definitely prefer him to RvP. Hopefully his price has dropped.
If I was WBA I'd feel dumb if I didn't get at least 20m in this crazy market. edit: I think they rejected 20m actually.
Been awol for a while, so sorry if this was mentioned... Sofiane Boufal (Lille) to Southampton. dude is flashy as hell, but disappears in games a lot. He's only 22.