Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread

[chrisw1]

It's shouldn't be a massive surprise that he's not that keen on joining a club that just avoided relegation when he's as highly rated as he seems to be and has had his head turned by the the potential of Champs League football at Leipzig.  We'll just need to move on to other targets.

[LeeB]

Need to make a statement you say?  Go get him.

https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/champions-league/messi-tells-barca-he-wants-to-leave-after-bayern-humiliation-39454361.html

Too old. We could have just kept Glenn Whelan.

[mr underhill]

i think we're too big for Messi now.

[ozzjim]

Ah but could he do it on a cold, wet night in Rochdale....

[CT]

Ah but could he do it on a cold, wet night in Rochdale....

If we sign him, he may get a chance to do it on a cold wet night in Smethwick. Same thing 😉

[Ads]

Need to make a statement you say?  Go get him.

https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/champions-league/messi-tells-barca-he-wants-to-leave-after-bayern-humiliation-39454361.html

Going to the Wolves.

[john e]

Need to make a statement you say?  Go get him.

https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/champions-league/messi-tells-barca-he-wants-to-leave-after-bayern-humiliation-39454361.html

I can just imagine him hanging round the mail box
doing the Peaky Blinders tour and visiting the Black Sabbath museum

before taking the wrong turn on spaghetti on match day and ending up in Cannock Chase with Stan

[AsTallAsLions]

Need to make a statement you say?  Go get him.

https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/champions-league/messi-tells-barca-he-wants-to-leave-after-bayern-humiliation-39454361.html

Going to the Wolves.

#Levels

[Ads]

A Spanish news outlet saying Man City want to reactivate Luiz's buy back. Hopefully not true.

[Dave P]

A Spanish news outlet saying Man City want to reactivate Luiz's buy back. Hopefully not true.

I suppose this is the news we've been dreading all summer.  His performances since the restart have been stunning and they can buy him for a stupidly low fee.

[ChicagoLion]

A Spanish news outlet saying Man City want to reactivate Luiz's buy back. Hopefully not true.

I suppose this is the news we've been dreading all summer.  His performances since the restart have been stunning and they can buy him for a stupidly low fee.

seeing where they have problems he will add strength to their squad.
Let’s see if the permit theorist on here are right.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Milan's left back Diego Laxalt is going cheap, around £9m. Could be a tidy bit of business to replace Taylor (and hopefully Targett).

[richardb]

A Spanish news outlet saying Man City want to reactivate Luiz's buy back. Hopefully not true.

I wonder if there's scope for us to buy out the buy back clause? It'd be an interesting statement of intent on our part, although I accept, wholly unrealistic.

[chrisw1]

A Spanish news outlet saying Man City want to reactivate Luiz's buy back. Hopefully not true.

I wonder if there's scope for us to buy out the buy back clause? It'd be an interesting statement of intent on our part, although I accept, wholly unrealistic.

I wonder if that is what City are looking for.  It would be frustrating to have to spend £10-£15m of our budget buying out a clause, but possibly worth it?

[brontebilly]

I'd be worried, with Heaton's injury record & age, that a goalkeeper might be a note pressing concern than we'd hoped.

I'd go based on who Neil Cutler thought was the best / has the most potential regardless of price. Less "he'll do" attitude, and more buying the best players available. We need to be qualifying for Europe - maybe not this coming season, but we need to be preparing a side to be playing European football in 2/3 years time. All about showing ambition higher than being the best side in Birmingham.

Presume Cutler gave the ok to Kalinic, Heaton and Reina? I don't think it's any surprise we are looking to strengthen our options at GK. I didn't think Heaton was anything more than ok before his injury and Smith has never seem sold on Steer or Nyland, with good reason regarding the latter. We can't afford another season like the last going through four keepers.

It does seem a little strange that Bournemouth conceded 65 goals last season but might get the bones of £65m back for their main defender and goalkeeper! Has anyone seen much of Ramsdale? Seems a very steep price. English goalkeepers tend to be wildly overrated e.g. Pickford.