2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

If we are tight on FFP, we will be in the old position of selling somebody like Luiz, because we need the money and we can’t match his ambitions.

If there’s truth in the rumour Man City want him for £100m I can see that happening.

[ChicagoLion]

If we are tight on FFP, we will be in the old position of selling somebody like Luiz, because we need the money and we can’t match his ambitions.

If there’s truth in the rumour Man City want him for £100m I can see that happening.

There isnt

[KevinGage]

It looks like we're treading a bit of a fine line with FFP, in common with just about everybody else. But it seems strange that you'd go to all the bother of trying to bring in that bloke from Barcelona, then bring Monchi in, for our main target to be some kid from Middlesbrough with wholly unexceptional stats.

Rogers looks like the sort of player that Lange would have been aware of, particularly with the Mark Harrison connection. Emery and co have shown they're not averse to using existing knowledge by keeping on Nanny McPhee and signing Tielemans (who we'd been linked with under Carpethead and had obv been watching for a while).

There are few secrets in the game, so if Citeh were prepared to spend money on a 17-year-old in 2019, it's possible Emery and the Arsenal set up knew of him too.

It's not a deal that jumps out at me as a priority this winter. And I didn't see anything in the cup game that made me want to keep an eye on him in the future (unlike Foster at Burnleh or Kluivert at Bournemouth etc).

But I assume Monchi et al aren't just throwing a few darts around and hoping for the best.

[Rigadon]

Probably old news, but I just read that Chelsea and West Ham would like Duran on loan with an option to buy.  Weird. 

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

I’m not saying Monchi hasn’t got a great book of contacts and doesnt know up and coming players but the days of discovering Dani Alves and Julio Baptista are long gone, that was around the turn of the century. A lot of other clubs have caught up and the world’s a smaller place.

[Dante Lavelli]

If we are tight on FFP, we will be in the old position of selling somebody like Luiz, because we need the money and we can’t match his ambitions.

That might be the case but there won’t be many clubs which will have the spare cash/FFP headroom to afford him.

Selling well will be critical for growth but not easy to do. Hopefully Monchi can repeat his Seville success.

[N'ZMAV]

Danny Ings to Turkey.

Not for a transfer.

For his hair.

[OCD]

If we are tight on FFP, we will be in the old position of selling somebody like Luiz, because we need the money and we can’t match his ambitions.

If there’s truth in the rumour Man City want him for £100m I can see that happening.

As good as he's been for us, £100m could be hard to turn down. It would set us up with FFP for the next 3 years and I'd back Emery and Monchi to find his replacement and turn them into a top midfielder too.

[Percy McCarthy]

Talking of 3 year cycles, we’ve got a £99.5m loss dropping off the accounts this year, so that’s good.

[VillaTim]

If we are tight on FFP, we will be in the old position of selling somebody like Luiz, because we need the money and we can’t match his ambitions.

If there’s truth in the rumour Man City want him for £100m I can see that happening.

We'd be mad to turn £100m down for him if anyone offered that, whilst he's been very good every player has a price and that would be excellent business

[pablo_picasso]

If we are tight on FFP, we will be in the old position of selling somebody like Luiz, because we need the money and we can’t match his ambitions.

If there’s truth in the rumour Man City want him for £100m I can see that happening.

We'd be mad to turn £100m down for him if anyone offered that, whilst he's been very good every player has a price and that would be excellent business

And yet, playing right into the hands of the media favourite status quo clubs & fuck all changes...

[VillaTim]

If we are tight on FFP, we will be in the old position of selling somebody like Luiz, because we need the money and we can’t match his ambitions.

If there’s truth in the rumour Man City want him for £100m I can see that happening.

We'd be mad to turn £100m down for him if anyone offered that, whilst he's been very good every player has a price and that would be excellent business

And yet, playing right into the hands of the media favourite status quo clubs & fuck all changes...

It's not happening anyway so don't panic

[Ian.]

I’d hate to lose Dougie. He oozes quality and one of the reasons we’ve been so good for the last 12 months.  Now we have very wealthy owners this shouldn’t happen unless the players wants to leave. It stinks.

[ChicagoLion]

No one s paying £100 million for Doug, so we can all calm down.

[PeterWithesShin]

No one would have expected the inferior Caicedo to go for £100m.