Men's Soccer (Football) Thread [ARCHIVED] Soccer • Page 794

In all seriousness, we could be one of the few clubs who will be quite active this summer.

Sell Lacazette, Nketiah, Guendouzi, Torreira, Bellerin. I would aim for £85-90m in total minimum.

Apparently the Kroenkes have been scared into giving us money for transfers due to the protests and how shit we are. Could have £130m to spend on a forward, right back and central midfielder.

of course we’ll waste it, but it’s the hope that kills you.

 

Bissouma, Max Arons, Buendia, Tariq Lamptey, and Edouard are all names I have seen mentioned.

 

It appears that Dembele, Umtiti, Coutinho, Pjanic, Braithwaite, Neto, and Firpo are the first team players Barca want to offload this summer, and there's quite a few "B team" players like Riqui Puig, Konrad, Fernandes, Alena, Emerson, and Wague on the list too.

Arsenal going for Riqui Puig to go alongside Odegaard wouldn't be the worst move, now that I'm thinking about it.

 

ETH

 

Been hearing about us wanting Puig and Umtiti for a while now.

Also apparently you are getting rid of Trincao? Has he just not progressed as he should have? He looked great before you signed him.

 

Lacazette ~25m
Nketiah ~10-15m
Guendouzi ~15-20m
Torreira ~10m
Bellerin ~15-20m

Can't see much higher figures than this, and Laca is being generous.

 

Maitland Niles, Elneny and Willock are all potentially moving on as well (although I'd quite like to keep Willock in all honesty).

 

It'd be interesting to see if he could fill the ceballos role in midfield. See him flourish surprisingly like how Coquelin did a number of years ago.

 

Yeah, that's £90m which is the top end.

Honestly I'd expect:

Laca - £20m
Guendouzi - £15m
Torreira - £10m
Bellerin - £20m
Nketiah - £15m
AMN - £15m

Would be a pretty good window in terms of out goings.

 

Tonight’s match is like Batman vs Superman except if they were both sexual predators

I guess I “prefer” PSG cause their fans are less annoying.

 

Rooting for PSG because of Poch

 

Haven't heard anything about this. Would be a shame, as I think he can settle in and develop. He's only scored twice and maybe that many assists, but youth isn't a bad thing to work with in his case.

If we stay in the 3-5-2, he's "surplus," though, as Sergi R. and Dest are both ahead of him on the right wing, so maybe that's where the rumor is coming from.

 

City, because at least if they "buy" a champions league, they play in a much tougher national league and had to fight to earn it a bit more. (I say this more over the scope of the last decade, than particularly this year in both of their cases).

I also think it would just be really funny if PSG splashed all that money on Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva and Cavani and Mbappe and Neymar (to go for the biggest five names they splashed on; there are dozens more) and then never won it.

 

That Paredes tackle was… interesting

 

Marquinhos scores. This opening 15 is very similar to last night. City are all at sea. Rodri is having a nightmare.

 

City look better since PSG scored. They really should be attacking Bakker more, he’s woeful

 

PSG’s passing and movement to open up space is fantastic. So much pace and accuracy.

 

Terrifying movement and flow from PSG right now. Wow

 

That looked a penalty?

I don’t fecking know to be honest

 

PSG are their own worst enemy haha

 

I suppose this is true. Can’t think of any that can touch it at the moment.

 

Is there a particular reason Aguero or Jesus aren't playing as the striker? I haven't watched City much at all this season. (Our cable package no longer has NBCSN.)

 

City have barely played with a striker through their whole good run since December. It’s just Pep doing what’s worked for them.