Summer Transfer Window 2017

Tel001 · April 22, 2017

Deulofeumygod said:
Few weeks ago, he scored two worldies from distance, one with each foot, and has generally been the business for a while. A manager like Koeman could really make him quite something. Look at Davies flourishing so quickly having moved from the u23s

Never seen him play but did see his goals the other week... maybe koeman is considering him as barkleys replacement if he doesn't sign..

jonnyboy316 · April 22, 2017

Looks like the competition is now hotting up for Keane with Man U now favourites.

Groucho · April 22, 2017

Note to all - can we stick to potential transfer discussion please, and not whether someone is a lurker/multi or not.

Thanks.

bullybeef · April 22, 2017

Keane is signing for Man Utd.

Time to scratch him from the list.

Westend Blue · April 22, 2017

jonnyboy316 said:
Looks like the competition is now hotting up for Keane with Man U now favourites.

Man utd would have the most opinions in regards to Keane sell on % first refusal ect. Would of thought they wouldn't go for Keane but with Rojos injury I can see it. Personally think it will come down to either us or man united

bluestevon · April 22, 2017

Jack1882 said:
Watched both legs of United vs Anderlecht and for the wonder kid status Tielemans has I didn't think he impressed much at all like. I was more impressed with their other centre mid Dendoncker.

Sometimes with these young players the name gathers momentum without people actually watching them play much. One recent example was Memphis Depay, by the time he got his move to United he was being compared to Ronaldo, it was ridiculous.

he looks decent, but nothing in those games made him stand out as amazing.

Then again could watch a couple of games of any player including the likes of Barkley and Alli and come away unimpressed at times as well

bluestevon · April 22, 2017

toffeejack said:
just the way it is these days, any young footballer who does well for about 10 games seems to get a bumper contract on a 5 year deal. With all this sports science and technology used and millions being used towards this, the standard of top footballers should be at an all time high, but instead it's really poor. This is shown at world cups when you see squads like Brazil's, france's netherlands' etc. no where near the quality and quantity of it was say in the 90's.

But the worst thing is just the over-glorifying of something good. Commentators, pundits, journalists are all at it with "that's the best goal i've ever seen", just general useless comments like that, everyone is just impatient at waiting for the good things and trying to force it instead. i've seen scholes today saying rashford can be as good as neymar, i mean come on, behave, that's outrageous, rashford looks alright, but macheda was lauded as the next best thing by scoring 2 goals in 2 games, when in actual fact he was utter rubbish. Let these kids get on with the game and just enjoy them instead of trying to hype them up and compare them to messi etc. It's Stupid.

If Rashford was one of our academy lads mate, we'd be absolutely creaming over him, he actually could go on to be an exceptional player as he has something a huge amount lack, the right attitude and workrate to go with the obvious talent.

bluestevon · April 22, 2017

jonnyboy316 said:
Looks like the competition is now hotting up for Keane with Man U now favourites.

According to the bookmakers and apparently thats enough of a source for the express etc to run as story about how he's off to United, or maybe just a few mancs have put a tenner on him to be signed

bluestevon · April 22, 2017

bullybeef said:
Keane is signing for Man Utd.

Time to scratch him from the list.

He's not though really is he?

Left them as he wasn't gonna be first choice originally, why would he go back to the same situation - especially in a world cup year, nothing links

Eggs · April 22, 2017

...Abdennour linked again;

https://www.francefootball.fr/news/Mercato-aymen-abdennour-valence-une-vraie-piste-pour-l-om/794276

Simon baker · April 22, 2017

bluestevon said:
He's not though really is he?

Left them as he wasn't gonna be first choice originally, why would he go back to the same situation - especially in a world cup year, nothing links

Exactly if he comes to us & we manage to finish above this year which I expect we will & perhaps get top four he will become a media darling & almost certainly start for England

bluestevon · April 22, 2017

Simon baker said:
Exactly if he comes to us & we manage to finish above this year which I expect we will & perhaps get top four he will become a media darling & almost certainly start for England

Mourinho will go abroad for 1-2 centre backs - and go for ones already more proven (especially in Europe), the bringing Keane home thing is just some hopeful Mancs and some rags churning out easy click bait stories.

The lad has his head very screwed on and apparently is very open to the idea of joining us. Which for his career would be a very good move - not like we havent got a good track record with players getting into the England team (especially defenders) - Jagielka, Lescott, Stones, Baines

Jags..class · April 22, 2017

bluestevon said:
Mourinho will go abroad for 1-2 centre backs - and go for ones already more proven (especially in Europe), the bringing Keane home thing is just some hopeful Mancs and some rags churning out easy click bait stories.

The lad has his head very screwed on and apparently is very open to the idea of joining us. Which for his career would be a very good move - not like we havent got a good track record with players getting into the England team (especially defenders) - Jagielka, Lescott, Stones, Baines

Tbf Jose does like a British spine in his English teams so wouldn't be surprised if Keane is the one.

JLW · April 22, 2017

bluestevon said:
Mourinho will go abroad for 1-2 centre backs - and go for ones already more proven (especially in Europe), the bringing Keane home thing is just some hopeful Mancs and some rags churning out easy click bait stories.

The lad has his head very screwed on and apparently is very open to the idea of joining us. Which for his career would be a very good move - not like we havent got a good track record with players getting into the England team (especially defenders) - Jagielka, Lescott, Stones, Baines

And no better manager for a young CB to learn from in Koeman.

orly · April 22, 2017

Jags..class said:
Tbf Jose does like a British spine in his English teams so wouldn't be surprised if Keane is the one.

Jesus wept. 'Spine' of a team - goalkeeper, centre backs, centre mids, centre forward(s)

2005

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/4528525.stm

Chelsea: Cudicini, Johnson (Jarosik 72), Ricardo Carvalho, Huth, Gallas, Geremi, Tiago, Makelele, Lampard, Cole (Grant 90), Gudjohnsen (Nuno Morais 86). Subs Not Used: Cech, Forssell.

Three english players - a Right back, left wing, centre mid.

8 years later

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/23653975

Chelsea

01 Cech

02 Ivanovic

03 Cole

24 Cahill

26 Terry

07 Ramires

08 Lampard

11 Oscar (Van Ginkel - 85' )

15 De Bruyne (Schurrle - 67' )

17 Hazard

09 Torres (Lukaku - 75' )