Football Season 2017/2018 & 2018 Summer Transfers

[Mazza]

if barca get kante and hazard rip chelsea

Barca seems pretty serious about William as well. Plus, there's been rumors since last season that Courtois will go to Real Madrid.

[Cairhiin]

He's coming home!

[sheffield]

surprised United got that much for him

[Jessicka]

He's coming home!

Good player, shame Mou only likes tall defenders, not ones that can play football. I think that may be a theme in general.

[Cairhiin]

Good player, shame Mou only likes tall defenders, not ones that can play football. I think that may be a theme in general.

What I like about Blind is that he can play on multiple positions including as 6. For Ajax this is an enormous deal. It's the second under 30 PL player Ajax manages to buy this season, the other one is Dusan Tadic. Of course, while Ajax has money to burn at the moment, the flip side is that we've become a seller's team really. It is what it is and I totally understand the Dutch league is shite but it is somewhat depressing.

Next up Barcelona offering 50m for Frenkie de Jong.

[Zelk]

I see Chelsea have hired a homophobic racist as their new manager. Never going to change at that club, is it?

[Jessicka]

I see Chelsea have hired a homophobic racist as their new manager. Never going to change at that club, is it?

If he can add antisemetism to the list, then they might have found the perfect match. Might even last more than 2 years.

[Cren]

Good player, shame Mou only likes tall defenders, not ones that can play football. I think that may be a theme in general.

Well he did buy Lindelöf. He is not very tall and is actually pretty good with the ball

[Jessicka]

Well he did buy Lindelöf. He is not very tall and is actually pretty good with the ball

Became a regular too.

Oh wait.

[Cren]

Became a regular too.

Oh wait.

Nope but he still bought him

[Cairhiin]

I never understood why ManU bought Lindelöf, he's a much poorer player than Daley Blind. At least Blind can be played as CB, WB and 6, and is better with the ball. True, Blind's main weakness is off the ball, why Mourinho doesn't much like him.

[RobertoCarlos]

Good player, shame Mou only likes tall defenders, not ones that can play football. I think that may be a theme in general.

Blind was alright but you're not winning the prem with him in midfield and we have better defenders already.

Darmian next to sell please and then buy Sandro

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I never understood why ManU bought Lindelöf, he's a much poorer player than Daley Blind. At least Blind can be played as CB, WB and 6, and is better with the ball. True, Blind's main weakness is off the ball, why Mourinho doesn't much like him.

Dude hes been at the club one season learning a new league that is completely different to the one he was in.

And at the end of the season he was far better than smalling/jones

he was solid for Sweden at the world cup, hes way better than blind.

[Cren]

Reports coming in that Liverpool and Roma have a greed on a 75 million euro deal for Allison. If that goes through Liverpool have spent almost 300 million euros on transfers this year (if you count Keita as this year). Sure they sold Coutinho for like 120 million, but still..... They better start winning something now.

The fans sure cant be martyrs and keep going on about how the other top teams just buy their teams for shit loads of money while they dont!

Now if United could just make a proper transfer this window maybe id feel abit better

[Mazza]

Reports coming in that Liverpool and Roma have a greed on a 75 million euro deal for Allison. If that goes through Liverpool have spent almost 300 million euros on transfers this year (if you count Keita as this year). Sure they sold Coutinho for like 120 million, but still..... They better start winning something now.

The fans sure cant be martyrs and keep going on about how the other top teams just buy their teams for shit loads of money while they dont!

Now if United could just make a proper transfer this window maybe id feel abit better

On a side note, this seems to be putting the Courtois to Real Madrid transfer on hold. Chelsea was chasing Allison as a replacement for Courtois, they now need to find another option before they want to let Courtois go.

[RobertoCarlos]

Hoping that Juve need to get a bit of cash back from the ronaldo deal for FFP and will sell Sandro, would love to see utd line up like this next season

Moving to a 4-2-2-2 instead of the 4-2-3-1 which struggled breaking down stubborn teams and needed them to attack so we could counter.

Imagine the line up of,

Sanchez Lukaku

Pogba Lingard

Matic Fred

Sandro Lindelof Bailly Valencia

De Gea

Return to the classic two up front which seems to be coming back in to fashion and give big Rom some help up top and Sanchez some help also. They can pull and move defenders around together and should get plenty of service from that midfield

[Zantera]

Where are the wings in that side though? I think a lineup like that would get very cluttered centrally and then other teams would use their strong wingers to punish us.

[RobertoCarlos]

Where are the wings in that side though? I think a lineup like that would get very cluttered centrally and then other teams would use their strong wingers to punish us.

It doesnt shape up like that on the field. They would move out to the wider areas when attacking and come in compact when defending.

When the RB bombs forward the LB moves into the center and makes it a temporary back 3 while in possession and vice versa on both sides depending on whos running forward and leaving room behind them.

Both Sanchez and lukaku would be out on the wings pulling defenders out making space for each other and coming in centrally etc

Matic and fred do the dirty work in covering and pogba and lingard get freedom to find pockets of space

[Northern Goblin]

Heads up, this thread will be replaced on the 1st of August.

[draykorinee]

Yay new thread! New terrible predictions from me.

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Alisson is never worth what Liverpool are paying.
Like, not even close.

One decent season and the guy is worth a fortune? Nah.

Just hope nobody gets any ideas about Lopes. We've always been blessed with good keepers, from Coupet to Lloris and now Lopes.

I seem to say this every transfer window ... but football really has gone to ratchet.