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Offline AV84

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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1080 on: December 17, 2023, 07:34:43 PM »
Joshua Kimmich apparently available in January. He's a RB, isn't he?
We should do some kind of swap deal if they want Lenglet.

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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1081 on: December 17, 2023, 07:39:27 PM »
Joshua Kimmich apparently available in January. He's a RB, isn't he?
We should do some kind of swap deal if they want Lenglet.

Not sure they'd take that swap - Kimmich would probably cost £65-£75m, and we don't even own Lenglet.

Would be a statement signing for sure; but not sure how we could get around FFP for someone like that.


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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1082 on: December 17, 2023, 07:45:04 PM »
Joshua Kimmich apparently available in January. He's a RB, isn't he?
We should do some kind of swap deal if they want Lenglet.

Not sure they'd take that swap - Kimmich would probably cost £65-£75m, and we don't even own Lenglet.

Would be a statement signing for sure; but not sure how we could get around FFP for someone like that.
Ffs - surely this Monachi bloke can spin it somehow. 

Offline AV84

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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1083 on: December 17, 2023, 07:48:05 PM »
Joshua Kimmich apparently available in January. He's a RB, isn't he?
We should do some kind of swap deal if they want Lenglet.

Not sure they'd take that swap - Kimmich would probably cost £65-£75m, and we don't even own Lenglet.

Would be a statement signing for sure; but not sure how we could get around FFP for someone like that.

Didn't realise he was worth that much!

There's rumours he's had a falling out with Tuchel. I thought if he really wanted out a loan might be an option. Someone else could buy him in the summer. I see he's being linked with Man City already though.

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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1084 on: December 17, 2023, 07:48:26 PM »
The way Barca pay their bills not sure they own him either

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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1085 on: December 17, 2023, 07:58:11 PM »
Kimmich is an exceptional player.

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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1086 on: December 17, 2023, 08:44:41 PM »
3 goals and 4 assists in your first 17 games for a club isn't bad.  Don't knock Diaby.., you can keep swinging at Zaniolo though

I'm not knocking him, but the idea that we didn't need to sign another out and out striker came from the idea that Diaby and Zaniolo could be played instead of Watkins if necessary. That's clearly not the case at the moment, and so I wouldn't be against signing an actual striker in January.

Oh Amen brother! Diaby isn't a striker and Zaniolo doesn't look like a professional footballer at the moment. Just felt you were a little harsh on Diaby.

Offline AV84

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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1087 on: December 17, 2023, 08:47:08 PM »
Oh Amen brother! Diaby isn't a striker and Zaniolo doesn't look like a professional footballer at the moment. Just felt you were a little harsh on Diaby.

Diaby started brilliantly and if we say he's not looking right at the moment it's against his own amazing standards we're comparing him. But yeah, definitely not knocking him, talking purely about our options for strikers.

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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1088 on: December 17, 2023, 08:50:48 PM »
Kimmich is traditionally a central midfielder but has played a fair few games at full back. I get the impression he’d rather play in midfield. Even with our current status I’d think he’d have plenty of options ahead of coming to us.

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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1089 on: December 17, 2023, 11:17:35 PM »
Football Insider still trying to sell Luiz for us with the other media (including the super supportive local paper) are joining in.

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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1090 on: December 18, 2023, 05:41:20 AM »
We need to add a midfielder, not shed one in Jan.

Striker is the hardest one to fill. Who is going to come to be the Ollie sub.

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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1091 on: December 18, 2023, 06:54:45 AM »
Striker is the hardest role to fill, as it will either need to be an up and coming one (like Duran) or, as a previous poster said, an experienced head like Giroud.

Shame Defoe is retired as that’s the sort of player I would like, experienced but has plenty of nous and knows where the back of the net is.

Perhaps we will end up with Moreno or Williams from Spain

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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1092 on: December 18, 2023, 06:39:47 PM »
Some links to Waldemar Anton at Stuttgart. CB, I believe.

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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1093 on: December 18, 2023, 06:44:20 PM »
Some links to Waldemar Anton at Stuttgart. CB, I believe.

Described as a CB / RB, could be something in it.

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Re: 2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #1094 on: December 18, 2023, 06:45:52 PM »
Football Insider still trying to sell Luiz for us with the other media (including the super supportive local paper) are joining in.

I think I read the other day that there may not be a release clause.  If that’s the case, there is no way we are selling Douglas Luiz at the moment.

 


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