Having a Twitter account as an athlete seems like a life leak

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Auba not to China, it has closed now. Turned down 30m/y net wage apparently. Or whatever happened in this case.

Costa and Matic aren't travelling on Chelsea's pre season tour.

they changed their rules, so the offer was probably never really there

probably would have been a good time to move on from Pedro as well

oh well, can't win 'em all

Are Spurs going to sign literally anyone?

Rumors swirling that bakayoko either failed his medical or Monaco blocked the transfer

looool this seems to be picking up steam

the medical thing makes more sense, especially given that i read he currently had something that would keep him out for ~10 weeks
(so maybe it's more serious than that? or just a way to knock the price down some)

Bakayoko did look like he played while injured latter part of the season.

Still can't quite believe that Bonucci is gonna be playing for Milan.

It's a long time since a big transfer has surprised me like this.

Maybe the biggest since Beckham to RM materialized, though maybe I was easier to surprise way back then.

Kyle Walker playing for Pep will be fascinating.

For many years his decision-making was almost intolerable to me. Not that he was dumb, except for various defensive mistakes, usually to do with position, but you'd just see him do things in places, find himself in places, that you'd never see from other right-backs.

For a while now the Poch system has run so well and Walker arguably improved enough that those things are less common but he's still something of a raw wild card with how he plays.

One who most importantly is talented enough though, to do so many things that City right-backs couldn't last season and even a very subjective impression of mine that he isn't quite the athletic beast that he used to be, seems to be mostly brushed aside by him still recording highest top speeds for his position (WHICH COULD still be him simply freelancing like no one else going on some crazy extended sprints but who knows).

Bjorn do you know anything about Douglas Luiz? 19 year old Brazilian midfielder

Never seen him play unfortunately. I've seen some Brazilians on twitter calling him a big talent.

I was glancing at his numbers but only 990 to go from, so it's a lot of guessing.

He's been shooting a lot. More than anyone on their team besides veteran striker Luis Fabiano.

Definitely too much from outside too but combined with barely having missed a selective number of dribbles and then I'm guessing finding himself with space and time, it's probably a good sign overall.

He's also created chances from crossing, so maybe he's freelancing some. That it's a high number key passes from crosses compared to short, could just be that he's playing with Luis Fabiano who at 36 is probably more box oriented than ever. He's a guy that Jesus Navas used to feed a lot from the wing at Sevilla!

Overall Douglas Luiz clearly does the most passing on the team (including nice accurate longer passing which no one else on the team is doing), so definitely a go to guy already on the team.

He's been taking setpieces which always tell you that he's a top ball-striker on the team.

He's also fouled like the most attacking players on the team besides veteran Nene (former PSG and one the greatest crossers of the ball in recent times).

Thanks

looks like city will loan to girona unfortunately

Seems increasingly likely with other clubs just throwing $ around that Sanchez will either go for way less then he should in late August, or he leaves on a free next year.

What about the following scenario?

We're in January and pep's patented 3-6-1 formation hasn't been working for him. His 560M squad is not getting the job done and they're currently sitting at a frustrating 4th in the league and out of the title race. Eltbus is full on rage at this point.
Luckily for them, they managed to scrap to the CL last 16 by beating FC Kazakhstanville and Dinamo Split, so now all their eggs are in the CL basket and the Sheik is going big on this one, he absolutely wants Alexis to help him win the CL and is ready to pay big money.

Meanwhile Arsene is looking at his 600 employees and the prospect of them not getting paid at the end of the month is making him nervous. he's got the choice to receive 50M pounds now for a player that is going to be leaving the club in 5 months anyway.

Too unrealistic? Can a player transferered at the winter break even play in the CL if he's already played in the EL?

Could he be CL eligible in January? I know CL to Europa isn't allowed but think E to C is?

Our minds will be blown when Sanchez puts pen to paper and stays at Arsenal

not really

Shirley they have the money to pay him

wouldn't be at all surprised for him to stay if they're willing to pony up

yes a lot is possible:

If he stays I think it's likely it's a one year extension with some "if we don't get back in the CL you can leave" handshake kind of deal.

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Didn't know than Chalobah and Ake had buybacks.

Mourinho confirms he wants 2 more signings. Matic and a unknown.

I think if you can keep this band together it will be a great summer for spurs. Where would you guys like to sign players? I guess if Dier goes it would be nice to get a DM and perhaps a RB. But some Spuds fans suggest Trippier will be getting the nod.

Also if we think Janssen is to stay I'd doubt Levy pays for a new backup striker

how many of us expects that to happen though?

it would be a pretty big surprise imo