I’ve not seen that rumour but he’s a top talent.
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Did I dream it or did I read a few weeks back that Gerard had been approached by a Middle Eastern club to manage them and he'd knobbed off the idea saying he'd prefer waiting and working over here ?
Seems he's changed his mind perhaps...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65889461
He apparently did go out to SA and after talks turned the offer down. Several days of silence and he suddenly accepts. One can only assume they upped his financial package.
He should have stayed at Rangers and built a bit of a reputation. Both him and Lamps try to run before they can walk and it all goes tits up.
He should maybe take over at Leicester for example and bring them back up, that would restore his reputation.
Taking a job in SA is just lining his pockets and nothing else, it won’t impress any of the top clubs in the future. He will end up on BT sports as a pundit again in a couple of years.
He has arrived !!!
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Not quite premier league news but interesting non the less. Jota (the other one not the Liverpool one) from Celtic has signed for Saudi club al-Ittihad for 20-25m (Depending on who is running the story) Interesting in that the manager is ex Wolves and Spurs manager Nuno (who is Portuguese like Jota) Neves is also playing for a Saudi club both players sort of contradict the idea that players are just going over there at the end of their careers and considering the Saudi national team have in the past played some decent football in World Cups it could see a significant increase in the quality of their own players.
Will be interesting if this takes off over the next few years if they start looking at the market in places like Turkey and North Africa.
Anyway, enough of this childish who’s club is best and pure and who’s bought the best summer signing.
It’s FPL time again soon with some of the new player prices released yesterday.
Haaland not surprisingly increased to a record £14M.
Son dropped down £3M after a very patchy season.
Trippier no longer a bargain points scorer in defence at £6.50M.
Bruno Fernandes and Odegaard also have big price changes after contrasting seasons.
More to come later this week. [emoji3]
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Arsenal submitted a 100m Euro offer for Tchouameni having had an 85m offer turned down by Madrid.
Where the heck have we got this money from? Down the back of Kroenke's sofa?
Looks like City are trying to retain the net spend trophy .
£10 million off Spurs for Porro and it looks like Burnley will be taking Academy player James Trafford for £19 million .
This kid will be Ingurland keeper within 5 years . He’s that good .
I'm a typical one-eyed football fan, but I think Villa are in for a very good season. I think we were third in the form table since Emery took over, and that was with him only buying one player of his own in Moreno at left back. We've already added Tielemans in midfield and Pau Torres in defence, and have been linked with numerous decent forward players. If we can get improvements for the distinctly underhwelming Leon Bailey and Emi Buendia we'll be set for a crack at the top 6.
Where's Ryan with the updates? Mount deal done.
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Have Everton even realised that the transfer window is actually open. If nothing else a chance to sell some shit and raise some cash, a bit like SC really :icon_biggrin:
Looks like Onana to Man Utd also gaining traction with an initial bid made this week.
https://twitter.com/AfcBanks_/status...14602908291074
It’s started already .
This you Ryan ?
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It's interesting seeing who Villa are linked with, and I appreciate a lot of the rumours are made up. We're very short on attacking talent and despite the owners having a LOT of money and ambition, a plan to keep building and a world class manager, the lack of Champions League football seems to be the main reason to not come to the club. There was a lot of talk in 2021 about Julien Alvarez from River Plate, now at Man City. Nicolas Jackson is now at Chelsea. Nico Williams, Federico Chiesa and Marco Asensio have apparently all turned down an invitation to move this summer. Ferran Torres is still being linked, but who knows. Had we had Emory from the start of the season it might have been a different outcome and Villa could be in the position Newcastle are in now, It'll be interesting to see who comes in now but if the Europa Conference League doesn't distract us too much, I think you're right about the top six.
Oh good grief I hope that is a spoof account/ done to create clicks and responses rather than their "no bias" deeply researched colour dot evidence based belief...
Ryan is at SoToNmyArse on Twitter ;)
Is Rice coming to Arsenal? I wish there was some coverage on this closely guarded secrets only you insiders know about:barbershop_quartet_
Ferran Torres has got a distinctly average record, so I'm not arsed about him. I think somebody like Johnson from Forest would be a good shout, as would another raid on Lestah for Harvey Barnes. A couple of attacking players like that and I think we're good to go, plus I really want to see Cameron Archer given a chance next season, that lad is going to be brilliant.
Not many people would have thought Villa would end up where they did after Gerrard's start and his purchase of Moreno was a masterstroke so I'm happy to see who Emory brings in. Archer and Ramsey (Aaron) are certainly two excellent players to look forward to.
Not me and FWIW they are different types of players and Rodri is the best in the world in his position, no question. Rice had real leadership qualities though (a likely future England captain) and maybe if we'd had Rice in the games we threw away 2-0 leads at Anfield and West Ham then maybe we don't draw those games. Who knows.
What I'm still trying to figure out is whether Rice and Havertz as a duo are better than Partey and Xhaka. Have we spent £170m for potentially a lower quality midfield pairing - remember that Partey was terrific until the last month of the season.
Xhaka gone official. Havertz stats aren't far off Xhakas from last season, same goals but less assists for Havertz but given most of the team couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo last year that's probably be expected- I've a weirdly positive vibe about him (therefore will get injured in pre-season and spend the first half of it with his arse in a sling). I'm hoping Partey stays so Rice doesn't have to pull a Saka/ Saliba and play every second they are fit, and for all the Saliba chat I think Partey rotation was the trial that didn't pay off. We need to have more players in the squad of similar quality otherwise we haven't learnt anything from last season.
Saliba and Reiss both have signed new deals 4+1 (the later is "official" on arse.con)
Is it Pat Rice being compared?
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Xhaka has left Arsenal, seems a strange decision. He had his best season last year - scored well and was playing great football, as an added bonus he seemed to finally not get booked every match. I know Rice is coming in but we really lack strength and depth in CM, for 21mil I would have just kept him!
Unless of course he really wanted to leave.
Everton looking to sell Simms to Coventry for 10m. They are apparently looking at a forward in Spain to bring in.
Thought they would be getting rid of some of their big earners and promoting youth players but it seems to be the opposite.
After over-performing last season, we literally have 13 first team players that are fit at the moment so if Gyokores goes to Sporting, they will need to have a replacement to sign at the same time or every club in the league will hold the sky blues to ransom knowing we have no players and money to re-cycle!
First home game versus Toon has been moved to 8pm on a Saturday night !!!!
No thought whatsoever for matchgoing fans .
I get that , but an 8 pm kick off is weird for a weekend . It’ll be interesting to see last train times etc for the travelling hordes.
Not that it matters but it’s TNT (or the old BT Sport) that are filming this one .
Looking forward to seeing how Tonali and Bruno work together. I think the Italian is the signing of the summer so far .