Summer Transfer Window 2022

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According to Di Marzio Roma are close to agreeing a loan deal for Gini Wijnaldum with the obligation to buy him (less than €6m) if he play 50% of their games.

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Is he really that good?

Ā£50m + Levi Colwill for a wing back who isn’t better than our current backup LB. City and Chelsea are shit at this.

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My feeling is that he is a superb player on the rise. He seemed to be involved in every good attacking move they did last season.

Good luck to him i say. Doesn’t strike me as a one season wonder.

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Cucurella was statistically comparable to Diego Dalot and Stuart Dallas last season.

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I found Brighton difficult to get my head around last season. Everytime I saw them they impressed me, and often when you see a side like that so exceed expectations you can identify one or two players who seem to be driving that. Players who clearly are meant to play at the next level. But I never got a sense of that watching them, albeit the limited number of times I did.

If people told me were interested in Bissouma I could accept he was driving it. If I see City in for Cucurella I could accept it was him. But I never saw a single performance from any of them that necessarily stood out over the rest of the team.

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Huh? Isn’t he about 45 by now?

He’s 35.

Riechedly Bazoer from AZ to Vitesse on a free.
Filip Djuricic from Sassuolo to Sampdoria on a free.
Rodrigo Riquelme from Atletico Madrid to Girona on loan.
Matias Vecino from Inter to Lazio on a free.
Joe Rodon from Tottenham to Rennes on loan.
Chidozie Awaziem from Boavista to Hajduk Split on loan.
Valentino Lazaro from Inter to Torino on loan.
Ruben Semedo from Olympiacos to Al-Duhail for £3.1m.
Aaron Ramsey from Juventus to Nice on a free.

He’s also now a co-owner of the club, who were recently promoted to Serie B.

That’s not a terrible landing spot for a guy who needed something before the world cup. It will be better preparation than going to the championship as lots of places were assuming would happen.

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I’m sure I read somewhere, either the BBC or the Guardian, that Leicester have to comply with FFP requirements before they can spend.

They are now saying it would cost NUFC 60 million for Maddison. Newcsstle would be fools to pay that much, it would just be boosting the sportswashing premium.

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Really hope pSG don’t get a transfer fee for Gini.

Italian club? Option to buy?

Don’t worry about it.

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Well shit

Is it too much to ask that Chelsea pay a king’s ransom for De Jong, whose transfer fee Barcelona will then use to get Bernardo Silva from Man City, who will then use that money to supply their fans on Twitter with plenty of arguments for tweets where they can show that Guardiola can compete with Klopp’s net spend, all while finishing fifth in PL table behind us, Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal, in that order, as well as crashing out of CL in the quarterfinals?

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But remember ā€œtheyā€ walked away from Darwin.

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Brighton bringing in Levi Colwill in a separate deal while still banking over 50m for Cucurella. Great business by them, Colwill is a top prospect.

If I was a betting man I’d put money on Chelsea also selling Ian Maatsen to Burnley then in two years time looking to replace Cucurella with Maatsen and also bring Colwill back - for hugely inflated fees of course.

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