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Author Topic: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread  (Read 864591 times)

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7830 on: September 24, 2020, 11:59:57 AM »
I'd rather buy Tammy and loan one of the others or loan Tammy and buy one of the others.
I think we have more chance of securing Loftus-Cheek than Berkley either way.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7831 on: September 24, 2020, 12:01:23 PM »
I'd be disappointed if he chose west ham over us really if it wasn't a London thing. They're in a mess with players slagging off the board, they've basically told the world how skint they are, and if Rice goes he'd be joining a team who've sold their best player. I've always seen Barkley as quite ambitious with a high opinion of his own worth, so fecking off to them would be a bit strange when you can join a side the likes of Grealish in it. Okay so we're a work in progress, but west ham look like they're only going one way.

That's my take on it too, but with £80m from the Rice deal they could afford to give him a fat contract and he wouldn't need to move house. West Ham is a graveyard for once-promising players though.

If you'd heard Sullivan's interview yesterday, there's no way they're paying massive salaries any more.  The £30m for Tarkowski and his wages is all the money they've got, and even that's a stretch.  Even with £80m for Rice, don't think they'd be splashing £20m+ on Barkley and £5m+  year on wages.  They are, to quote PWS, skint pricks.  Their defence is shit, and they're fairly well stocked with attacking players.  If they do sell Rice, they'll end up paying £45m for Tarkowski.

Signing for West Ham always has a ring of 'end of career' about it.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7832 on: September 24, 2020, 12:05:27 PM »
if Chelsea want to offload any of Tammy, Barkley, Loftus-Cheek and Hudson-Udoi we shoud be trying to buy or loan to buy as many as possible. All good young players better than we have.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7833 on: September 24, 2020, 12:06:24 PM »
They have David Moyes as manager. The most grim, grey, never won anything boring as fuck manager from a period long gone you can ever imagine. And they brought him back after firing him. The porn twats deserve all of the failure coming their way.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7834 on: September 24, 2020, 12:10:14 PM »
Not sure it's been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but premier league rules mean we can only loan two players at any one time, and only 1 from any other premier league club.

So if we're interested in Barkely and Loftus-Cheek, we're only going to be able to loan one of them - and then a loan for Tammy is definitely off the table.

We could of course just buy all three and be done with it.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7835 on: September 24, 2020, 12:12:02 PM »
It's a good year to be approaching English fringe players at the top clubs, given the Euros are at the end of the season.  Jack's broken into the squad ahead of people like Barkley and RLC, so there's definitely a selling point that playing regularly - and well - for us, gets you a place in the England squad.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7836 on: September 24, 2020, 12:13:31 PM »
I reckon Barkley is worried that Jack will make him look shite in comparison if he joined us.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7837 on: September 24, 2020, 12:20:29 PM »
if Chelsea want to offload any of Tammy, Barkley, Loftus-Cheek and Hudson-Udoi we shoud be trying to buy or loan to buy as many as possible. All good young players better than we have.

I am not a big fan of Barkley. The other three are quality and at the right age.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7838 on: September 24, 2020, 12:26:35 PM »
Don't like Barkley. A rubbish run of the mill midfielder. A Southgate type of player. No.

Loftus Cheek, yes!

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7839 on: September 24, 2020, 12:27:19 PM »
Ross Barklay is just what we need imo. He will allow McGinn, Luiz and the front line to play their natural games.  Would love him here.

I'm not sure what you mean by saying it would allow McGinn and Luiz to play their natural game.

Luiz can sit and McGinn can go chasing the ball knowing a quality midfielder is beside them.  I like Conor but not sure he has the same effect on the team in open play.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7840 on: September 24, 2020, 12:34:48 PM »
Not sure it’s nothing to see. Losing Jota and Doherty is a blow for them, yes. But they’d already got podence and neto in last season, both who look decent.
They’ve then gone and bought one of the most highly rated youngsters in Europe in silva and Barcelona’s right back. Irrespective of whether they think he’s surplus to requirements, he played 30-40 games last year for one of the biggest clubs on the planet.
Now I don’t think we’re q there yet and they have the Mendes factor but they are definitely statement signings.

But why then are one of the biggest clubs on the planet getting shot of him and replacing him with a promising kid that has had one season of top flight football?

Teams like Barcelona don't generally give up players they rate, they don't get their arms twisted by the likes of Wulvz. The deal suits them and suits Mendes, and may well suit Wulvz, but the priorities are in that order.

And the boy wonder may well be that, but 18 is very young to adapt to another culture and style of play. Good luck to him, if it doesn't work out for him he could make a career as a Harpo Marx-a-like.

I was going to comment on the Harpo Marx reference but I couldn't find my bulbhorn.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7841 on: September 24, 2020, 12:38:47 PM »
I wouldn't swap McGinn for Barkley.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7842 on: September 24, 2020, 12:43:58 PM »
I wouldn't swap McGinn for Barkley.

I wouldn't swap Lansbury for Barkley. Haha.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7843 on: September 24, 2020, 12:53:53 PM »
I wouldn't swap McGinn for Barkley.

I would, and give them some cash too. I like McGinn but he has shown nothing like the quality Barkley has at this level and is in terrible form following two injuries.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7844 on: September 24, 2020, 01:01:51 PM »
I wouldn't swap McGinn for Barkley.

I would, and give them some cash too. I like McGinn but he has shown nothing like the quality Barkley has at this level and is in terrible form following two injuries.

I think that's a terrible idea personally.

 


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