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Author Topic: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.  (Read 918293 times)

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1980 on: June 02, 2023, 09:21:31 AM »
I am sure i read back in the day that after the French won the world cup Marcel Desailly was all sealed to join Liverpoo but his wife after living in Marseille, Milan wanted London and not the bin dipping, house breaking capital.

I am sure wives, kids school, friends & family all play a part in where a player ends up - unless they are young and single then anywhere your money would be welcome

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1981 on: June 02, 2023, 09:35:21 AM »
Strong rumours Enrique will be new PSG boss, plus with Messi leaving he probably does have a first team slot at RW

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1982 on: June 02, 2023, 09:36:31 AM »
I bet Paris is a wonderful place to be a twenty something multi millionaire.

For every Totti (and not even sure he’s a good example as Roma was his club) there are thousands of Asensio’s in terms of how they decide where to go.
I mean, being paid a ludicrous sum of money to live in Paris and not needing to exert yourself as much as you might be expected to elsewhere but still win loads of trophies doesn't sound *that* bad a deal when you think about it.

Especially when you’ve already won a ton of trophies in Madrid, so even if you only win the French league it’s no big deal.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1983 on: June 02, 2023, 09:37:19 AM »
I am sure i read back in the day that after the French won the world cup Marcel Desailly was all sealed to join Liverpoo but his wife after living in Marseille, Milan wanted London and not the bin dipping, house breaking capital.

I am sure wives, kids school, friends & family all play a part in where a player ends up - unless they are young and single then anywhere your money would be welcome

Marseille is a shithole though, go back a couple of streets from the seafront...

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1984 on: June 02, 2023, 09:38:00 AM »
It seems Joao Felix is on Villa's radar.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1985 on: June 02, 2023, 09:39:06 AM »
I am sure i read back in the day that after the French won the world cup Marcel Desailly was all sealed to join Liverpoo but his wife after living in Marseille, Milan wanted London and not the bin dipping, house breaking capital.

I am sure wives, kids school, friends & family all play a part in where a player ends up - unless they are young and single then anywhere your money would be welcome

Marseille is a shithole though, go back a couple of streets from the seafront...

...and you encounter a really nice and very cool town. The banlieues are a different story, but most of Marseille is beautiful and awesome.

Also, I don't know, isn't it time to ditch 'bin-dipping'?
« Last Edit: June 02, 2023, 09:41:02 AM by Monty »

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1986 on: June 02, 2023, 09:42:44 AM »
I really can't seem Emery suggesting that we should go and get Tammy Abraham.

This would be extremely meh.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1987 on: June 02, 2023, 09:43:32 AM »
Was in Marseille about 6 years ago. Didn't seem the best place to wander too far from the main centre to be honest.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1988 on: June 02, 2023, 09:46:51 AM »
Jaoa Felix looks crap to me and I can't spell his name properly. It's a no from me.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1989 on: June 02, 2023, 09:47:45 AM »
I used to go to Marseille a lot with work, late 90s. I always used to like going there but it's a proper rough, characterful city.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1990 on: June 02, 2023, 09:50:29 AM »
Was in Marseille about 6 years ago. Didn't seem the best place to wander too far from the main centre to be honest.

But the experience of a millionaire footballer playing for Marseille and their family, that's not really much of an issue.

I imagine they are far more acquainted with Saint-Tropez and Cannes than the Hauts de Mazargues.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1991 on: June 02, 2023, 09:50:52 AM »
Jaoa Felix looks crap to me and I can't spell his name properly. It's a no from me.

He’s not crap. If someone plays him correctly he’d be excellent.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1992 on: June 02, 2023, 09:50:58 AM »
Depends what you mean by the main centre, but really you'd have to work quite hard to find the areas with high crime (16th or 9th arrondissements). In the core town only Bellevue has a rep, and even that's kind of an outdated preconception now.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1993 on: June 02, 2023, 09:52:03 AM »
There's something about port cities that makes them have a different feel.

Genoa, Naples, Marseille, for example. Even Liverpool to a degree.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1994 on: June 02, 2023, 09:56:22 AM »
If only Liverpool had the weather...

Yeah Palermo's another one, though a bit more on the melancholy side due to the recent, well, war. Barcelona is like if all of these got the piss gentrified out of them.

And Naples is the best.

 


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