I don’t know why they bought him they have St maximin already unless they want to get rid of him
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Interesting take from Vickery
A player who is a lock, not withstanding injury, to play for Brazil in the world. Someone whose strengths are seeing the game quickly enough to make good partnerships with the elitist of players, and a tactical versatility that can see him play in many positions.
My take - West Ham where none of that will be used. He’s going to stand around trying to find someone to pass it to, get bumped around the park with moyes failing to figure out how to use him, and get loaned to Sevilla next summer.
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It’ll be interesting to see if Moyes changes his formation, perhaps going to a 4-2-3-1 with Rice and Soucek at the base of midfield, or maybe a 4-3-3.
Either way, I can see Paqueta working well with Fornals and Bowen, who are both intelligent players with good movement.
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If I’m honest that’s how it sounds.
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It also required them to put numerous already contracted player out to pasture without plans for the exit nor a care for what happens to them. It requires a certain cashflow to enable it, but also an attitude to players as people that not only do we not share, our refusal to take that stance is viewed as a positive with regard to recruitment of the players we want. Some of those cast aside players have found themselves somewhere to land, but PSG are content to have those who dont waste away a season training by themselves like lepers.
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Fofana to Chelsea looks done.
7 year contract - ridiculous!
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Meanwhile, and further to this; BBC reporting;
Tiemoue Bakayoko… remember him?
Chelsea signed the French midfielder on a long-term contract from Monaco in 2017. The 28-year-old has spent the last four seasons out on loan and now transfer expert Gianluca di Marzio is reporting that he’s trying to be released from the final year of his Chelsea contract.
Hasn’t stopped them signing Wesley Fofana on a seven-year deal.
If Fofana flops, he’ll suffer a similar fate to Bakayoko.
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Weirdly, this is the second year of a two year loan spell to Milan, which came with the option to buy. This would be the 6th year since he left Monaco for Chelsea, and if Chelsea expect Milan to buy him from them that would suggest his contract is still good through next season (otherwise why would Milan “buy” him at the end of this year if his contract with Chelsea was expiring). So, either he signed a 7 year contract when he signed, or a player who was pushed out after 1 season somehow signed an extension during that exile
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And Fofana only played 38 PL matches in two plus seasons. Talented fellow but hasn’t showed the discipline yet. Likes to get forward and play like a midfielder. That’s a lot of coin for a 21 yo. Let’s see if he can get into and stay in the side.
Almost all of his missed appearances were down to a broken leg suffered in pre-season last year that kept him out until March.
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Tuchel likes to play 3 at the back with a safety first approach, so plenty of room for that type of player. Plus T Silva is proabably in his final year.
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Was sailing for a few weeks, so to keep you updated on moves lately…
Andrea Belotti from Torino to Roma on a free.
Raphael Onyedika from Midtjylland to Club Brugge for £9m.
Edinson Cavani from United to Valencia on a free.
Kalifa Coulibaly from Nantes to Red Star Belgrade on a free.
Alvaro Gonzalez from Marseille to Al-Nassr on a free.
Renan Lodi from Atletico Madrid to Forest on loan, £4.5m fee.
Nikola Moro from Lokomotiv Moscow to Bologna on loan, £1.3m fee.
Alexander Sorloth from RB Leipzig to Sociedad on loan, £1.3m fee.
Felix Afena-Gyan from Roma to Cremonese for £5.4m.
Sean Klaiber from Ajax to Utrecht on a free.
Wajdi Kechrida from Salernitana to Atromitos on a free.
Fredrik Bjorkan from Hertha to Feyenoord on loan.
Tino Kadewere from Lyon to Mallorca on loan, £360k fee.
Flavius Daniliuc from Nice to Salernitana for £4.5m.
Lucas Paqueta from Lyon to West Ham for £38.6m.
Bartosz Bialek from Wolfsburg to Vitesse on loan, £180k fee.
Sotiris Alexandropoulos from Panathinaikos to Sporting Lisbon for £4m.
Malick Thiaw from Schalke to Milan for £6.3m.
Hannibal Mejbri from United to Birmingham on loan.
Sofiane Diop from Monaco to Nice for £19.8m.
Roman Yaremchuk from Benfica to Club Brugge for £14.4m.
Kingsley Ehizibue from Koln to Udinese for £900k.
Luke Cundle from Wolves to Swansea on loan.
Anthony Musaba from Monaco to Metz on loan.
Damien Le Tallec from AEK to Torpedo Moscow on loan.
Harry Winks from Tottenham to Sampdoria on loan.
Youssouf Kone from Lyon to Ajaccio on loan.
Callum Hudson-Odoi from Chelsea to Leverkusen on loan.
Renato Steffen from Wolfsburg to Lugano for £675k.
Gabriel Vidovic from Bayern to Vitesse on loan.
Mateusz Zukowski from Rangers to Lech Poznan on loan.
Nathan Ngoumou from Toulouse to Gladbach for £7.2m.
Joshua Zirkzee from Bayern to Bologna for £7.6m.
Anass Zaroury from Charleroi to Burnley for £3.6m.
Sergio Reguilon from Tottenham to Atletico Madrid on loan.
Landry Dimata from Espanyol to NEC on loan.
William Boving from Copenhagen to Sturm Graz for £1.9m.
Nicolas Marichal from Nacional to Dynamo Moscow for £3.7m.
Ezequiel Bullaude from Godoy Cruz to Feyenoord for £5.4m.
Calvin Stengs from Nice to Royal Antwerp on loan.
Ohi Omoijuanfo from Red Star Belgrade to Brondby for £1.2m.
Fabian Ruiz from Napoli to PSG for £20.7m.
Denis Cheryshev from Valencia to Venezia on a free.
Patrick Berg from Lens to Bodo/Glimt for £4m.
Mady Camara from Olympiacos to Roma on loan, £1.3m fee.
Mergim Berisha from Fenerbahce to Ausgburg on loan, £270k fee.
Andreas Cornelius from Trabzonspor to Copenhagen for £5.4m.
Bastien Toma from Genk to Pacos Ferreira on loan.
Panagiotis Retsos from Hellas Verona to Olympiacos on loan.
Mateusz Bogusz from Leeds to Ibiza on loan.
Sasa Kalajdzic from Stuttgart to Wolves for £16.2m.
Abdul-Rahman Baba from Chelsea to Reading on loan.
Mariusz Stepinski from Hellas Verona to Aris Limassol on loan.
Edouard Michut from PSG to Sunderland on loan.
Armand Lauriente from Lorient to Sassuolo for £9m.
Marco Carnesecchi from Atalanta to Cremonese on loan.
Nicolo Rovella from Juventus to Monza on loan.
Riccardo Calafiori from Roma to Basel for £900k.
Anwar El-Ghazi from Villa to PSV for £2.2m.
Agustin Rogel from Estudiantes to Hertha for £630k.
Marius Lode from Schalke to Bodo/Glimt on a free.
Leandro Paredes from PSG to Juventus on loan.
Amadou Diawara from Roma to Anderlecht for £1.3m.
Janis Antiste from Spezia to Sassuolo on loan.
Umaro Embalo from Benfica to Fortuna Sittard for £900k.
Joe Bryan from Fulham to Nice on loan.
Kristoffer Olsson from Anderlecht to Midtjylland on loan.
Remi Oudin from Bordeaux to Lecce on loan.
Filippo Melegoni from Genoa to Standard Liege on loan.
Adnan Januzaj from Sociedad to Sevilla on a free.
Maxime Awoudja from Stuttgart to Excelsior on a free.
Dariusz Stalmach from Gornik Zabrze to Milan for £630k.
Amad Diallo from United to Sunderland on loan.
Anastasios Donis from Reims to APOEL Nicosia on loan.
Ricardo Pepi from Freiburg to Groningen on loan.
Lucas Ocampos from Sevilla to Ajax on loan, £3.6m fee.
Wahid Faghir from Stuttgart to Nordsjaelland on loan.
Melayro Bogarde from Hoffenheim to Zwolle on loan.
Maurice Malone from Ausgburg to Wolfsberger on loan.
Maryan Shved from Mechelen to Shakhtar for £900k.
Kasper Dolberg from Nice to Sevilla on loan.
Marko Pjaca from Juventus to Empoli on loan.
Manuel Akanji from Dortmund to City for £15.7m.
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Jack Hendry from Club Brugge to Cremonese on loan, £540k fee.
Jorgen Strand Larsen from Groningen to Celta for £9.9m.
Ajdin Hrustic from Eintracht to Hellas Verona for £450k.
Dendoncker to Wolves for 13m 
Which probably means Luiz going to Arsenal
Stevie trying to save his arse with a fridge.
Was always a weird signing for Barce. Looks like they’ve caved in and paid him off to move.
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