Quick rumour rundown: >Antoine Griezmann has struck fear into the hearts of idle rumourmongers everywhere by hinting that he might stay at Atlético Madrid after all, because he wants to “win trophies with this team”. Encouragingly, the news hasn’t held anyone back, with news of his imminent departure, as part of what the Times’ big headline describes as “United’s £200m spree”, on most of Friday’s back pages.
It turns out the details of the “£200m spree” in Friday’s paper are very much identical to the details of United’s less fully-costed spree that have been all over the same newspapers for months now. The Star features Griezmann prominently in its list of the players United have identified to correct “a lack of swagger and stardust” in their current side and insist his £86m buyout clause “will not stop United from writing a cheque”.
>Also on their shoping list: Real Madrid’s Raphaël Varane, Monaco’s Tiemoué Bakayoko, Chelsea’s Willian, Romelu Lukaku of Everton, Eric Dier of Tottenham and Burnley’s Michael Keane. The Independent agrees, saying a move to sign Griezmann is “well under way”, with United honchos “confident” of success and “determined to avoid a long public saga”. Given that this one has already been going for at least eight months, they’ve already made a right hash of that. The BBC says that “United are likely to limit their summer spending to three or four key signings”, so just a third of an entirely new team, while the Times says “up to four” new arrivals – signed at a cost of some £200m – will include “a defender, a central midfielder, a forward and possibly a No9”.
Milan aren’t hanging around: having already convinced Álvaro Morata to agree a £7.5m-a-year (after tax) contract, leaving the Rossoneri to simply rummage around the back of the sofa in search of £35m or so they need in order to convince Real Madrid to play ball, they are now working on target No2. And that target is a certain Marko Arnautovic, who both Milan and Paris Saint-Germain consider worth the £15m Stoke are asking and believe – to use the Sun’s phrase – he is “a special talent capable of changing games with his off-the-cuff skills”. Mark Hughes has meanwhile taken a fancy to the £3.5m Nancy centre-back Modou Diagne, who “would relish the chance to move to the Premier League”, according to the aforementioned tabloid.
>Wayne Rooney has decided to swap Britain for Beijing – or somewhere else in China that doesn’t alliterate quite so nicely – with the Mirror announcing that the deal could be done in a matter of days; the transfer window is due to open on 19 June. “Rooney’s advisers expect to negotiate a £600,000-a-week deal for him,” it announces. That’s six hundred thousand pounds a week. The Mail knows of “at least two £50m offers” for the pug-faced poacher, though it thinks that works out at a relatively meagre £480,000 a week. Or he can join Everton on a little under a third of that, a possibility that “could persuade him to stay” in this green and pleasant land. Diego Costa’s £60m move to the same country could be scuppered by a new 100% tax on enormous international transfer fees being imposed by the Chinese FA, which would turn it into a £120m move that represents particularly poor value for money, even for China’s soccer spendthrifts.
Alexis Sánchez is mulling over yet another contract offer, with Arsenal’s latest proposition being that they pay him only £270,000 a week. “However,” the Mail notes, and happily for the charming Chilean, “the offer is loaded with incentives.” Alternatively he could just go to Bayern Munich, Juventus or Paris St-Germain.
Jordan Thomas
>West Bromwich, Leicester and Everton are all interested in Troy Deeney, or at least they will be until they hear that Watford want £35m for him. The Mail has uncovered an escape clause in the striker’s contract that allows him to leave if the Hornets can bank a clean £25m as a result, but given the amount of money they will have to pass on to his former club, Walsall, any offer will need to comfortably exceed that amount if his departure is to be green-lit.
Watch out Glasgow! News is a-breakin’ that Rangers want to sign the midfielder Carlos Peña, who is known in his native Mexico as “Gullit” – after examining several photographs the Mill can only assume this is because Mexicans have forgotten what Ruud Gullit looked like – and has something of a reputation for his hard-partying ways. “They tell so many lies about me,” Peña says of the media. “I have just started to ignore all the things coming out. It’s gossip. They say I’m a drunk and chase women. I don’t care. It doesn’t hurt me because I know they are lies.” The media is full of gossip, you say? Never!
Jeremiah Sanders
Entire monaco to manchester.
Austin James
If Everton replace Lukaku with Troy Deeney I will never stop laughing.
Jaxson Jenkins
Dybala and Bonucci to United
Joshua Ward
who Sup Forums here
Jordan Campbell
Rescue your father
Cooper Anderson
>Dybala and Bonucci >Boipucci and Boipucci
Hunter Powell
Ty Based Rafa.
Jaxon Gomez
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Henry Sanchez
>implying they would get any playing time with The Rash and Bailly both GOATing it up
Carson Ward
Im NAWT doin it BUCKO
Grayson Campbell
greaseman transfer is done, all these recent 'doubts' are simply so atletico can sign more players without every other team knowing they have lots of money to spend
Jordan Peterson
Squad depth la just like Pogba
William Adams
>The Mersey Billionaires strike fear into the football world with the swift acquisition of Troy Deeney
Lucas Young
lyl
Kayden Collins
How long until the Dutch faggot returns, these big money transfers must be very pleasing for him
Alexander Wood
He never left
Kevin King
What is Chelsea looking to do?
Levi Ward
Hi
Oliver Morgan
Havent seen a clueless post from him in ages, I remember him claiming the treble at the start of the season
Connor Moore
He went off on honeymoon with his 7 foot African boyfriend after Monaco knocked out city
Asher Parker
Bernanrdo Silva to City when
Brandon Myers
Signing for swansea right now. Good replacement for siggurdson
Isaac Gray
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Jaxon Rivera
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Chase Watson
Kek
Christian Edwards
BREAKING: Wayne Rooney to retire from football and may join Sunderland.
William Barnes
jej. I bet he'd join them if they paid him enough.
Mason James
>all the good Monaco players are leaving
Bentley Bailey
>implying they wont just buy some unknown guys from Portugal/Brazil/ligue2 who'll become great and sell them 2/3 years later for obscene ammounts of money again they are the rich Dortmund now
Parker Reed
>allegro confirmed that he will be staying at juve next year lol arse will stuck with wonga next year
Brandon Sullivan
the bernardo silva sale makes sense because Saint-Maximin is coming back from loan and easily has the level to be a starter but for mendy and fabinho i don't know.
Brandon Rogers
Tielemans is there for Fabinho. He's better.
Logan Gray
Thank you based chameleon transfer maestro
Jordan Jenkins
Imagine the AFTV when Wenger signs a 2 years contract
Jacob Morgan
From italian media: >Mou's budget around 340mil >Belotti as a target >Lukaku, Burnley, Griezz and Keane as other targets >Allegri stays at Juve >Conte stay at Chelsea (sorry interisti)
Kayden Ross
What kind of striker is Belotti? I've literally never seen him play
Josiah Perry
Yeah they already got Tielemans who could easily overtake any of their current CMs within a season or two
Bentley Walker
Tielemans is ready.
Benjamin Mitchell
>>>Mou's budget around 340mil Is it possible to waste all that money or they will be forced to buy at least one good player?
Michael Adams
Old style #9, clutch in the box and good at holdup play.
Grayson Kelly
Fast and "opportunist", as we say in Italy "ha il fiuto del gol" "smells goals".
Leo Bell
ty, fãm
Colton Richardson
classic italian #9 super strong with good positioning and finishing
Hudson Martinez
Bonucci to partner Bailly, thick cunt
Blake Nelson
A better Kane
Cameron Wood
>talks of Conte at Inter will finally end for good thank god, now hopefully >we can manage to have a decent pre-season preparation.
Lincoln Lewis
How does Pep manage and play Sterling, Sane, Silva, de bruyne, B.silva enough to keep them happy
Or will Pep convert KdB into a DM
Charles Torres
is morata a meme or will he be successful at milan?
Cooper Powell
sterling will be benched and the rest will fight for a spot
though I wouldn't look for much logic in poop's transfers, remember he signed fabregas and then wasn't able to fit him in
Nicholas Gonzalez
Sfinter update: Negotiations are advanced between Barcelona and Inter Milan regarding left-back Lucas Digne [loan]. Inter's Sabatini already signed Digne once before when he was working with Roma.
Anthony Lee
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Benjamin Torres
He's a good player but Milan's midfielders means that that club is a graveyard for strikers.
Daniel White
>Digne wasn't he godawful for both Roma and Barca? why are there no good fullbacks around?
Dylan Baker
they're signing RR from wolfsburg and conti so he should have plenty of crosses
plus Kessi and rumored for a major midfielder
Hudson Robinson
They just bought Kessie wich is good, Bonaventura is great too, Suso is good at crossing to. And they are going to buy one more winger (Keità or Papu) and a DM (Biglia) , it's a good set of player to give assists
Cooper Bell
Arsenal & Everton interested in Thorgan Hazard, brother of Eden hazard
Gavin Harris
is rodrigo rodriguez actually good or just fm/fifa/pes meme player?
Luis Reed
he was ok for Roma imo, can't be worse than Nagatomo or Ansaldi
Nathaniel Adams
he was pretty good in WC and I read the reason hes been struggling lately is because wolfsburg has been playing him at cb
either way he'd be the best fullback milan has fielded in years and bought for a decent price
Zachary Martinez
we thought the same about ansaldi in comparison to d'ambrosio and santon and we were very unpleasantly surprised You can always expect something crazy from >Inda
Lincoln Murphy
Any good?
Nathaniel Nguyen
Ansaldi is great going forward but sucks at defending, wich wasn't clear at Genoa because he played as a wingback, and he was still marginally better than Santon and Nagatomo (D'Ambrosio is on the other flank)
Carson Adams
>Birmingham manager Harry Redknapp targets Benoit Assou-Ekotto capture >but former Tottenham full back would rather become a pornstar >The 33-year-old has previously described playing football as 'just a job', and a career in the adult industry could well beckon for the maverick left back
Based Assou-Ekotto.
Zachary James
Swap Brown and Sterling
Blake Rivera
He is good. Problem is we have an absolute shit midfield, we bought Kessie but he is a defensive midfielder and not a playmaker. Months ago there were rumors about Fabregas, but I doubt he'll leave.
Blake Wright
ah yes because morata is well known for being very good in the air and has scored lots of goals using his head
Wyatt Walker
Lapadula and Bacca had plenty enough chances. They are just shit. Kessie/Bonaventura would already be good start. Kessie is more of box to box.
Nathan Edwards
Gazzetta: Mou wants Morata, ready to offer De Gea. Tell me it's not true, please, you fucking bastard. Take Antoine, Lukaku, Kane, Belotti, whatever just not Morata.
Logan Rodriguez
Kessie is not a defensive midfielder, he's a box to box. Jack is great at giving assists and so is Suso. Plus there's going to be another winger and they bought Rodriguez too who is great at crosses. Bacca and Memedula also wasted many chances this year
Liam Torres
Remember when people rated Lapadula?
Hunter Watson
>le he is good because 31 goals in Serie B ah the good times
Sterling is going to be keeping the bench warm next season. It's a bit of a shame as he was pretty good this year and was their only English regular, but I don't think his technique and intelligence is high enough for Pep
Owen Miller
He's in the group for the match agaisnt San-Marino... Not the first time this year.
Zachary Torres
>However, a transfer fee of £50m could tempt them into reconsidering and would shatter Liverpool’s current record spend of £35m for Andy Carroll in January 2011.
>The Reds are prepared to surpass that figure multiple times in the summer to enhance the quality and competition in the squad.
HOOLLLLLD MUH DIQ
Adrian Ramirez
I read somoeone unironically rate him in some forum and bviously fb. I was always doubtful desu
Jonathan Ross
>Portieri: Pierluigi Gollini (Atalanta), Simone Scuffet (Udinese); Difensori: Cristiano Biraghi (Pescara), Davide Calabria (Milan), Mattia Caldara (Atalanta), Federico Ceccherini (Crotone), Andrea Conti (Atalanta), Emerson Palmieri dos Santos (Roma), Alex Ferrari (Verona), Gian Marco Ferrari (Crotone); Centrocampisti: Daniele Baselli (Torino), Danilo Cataldi (Genoa), Roberto Gagliardini (Inter), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Sassuolo); Esterni: Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina), Matteo Politano (Sassuolo), Simone Verdi (Bologna); Attaccanti: Diego Falcinelli (Crotone), Roberto Inglese (Chievo), Gianluca Lapadula (Milan), Andrea Petagna (Atalanta).
It's obviously a meme callup
Blake Fisher
I don't watch madrid much so thats why I was asking if he will be a success at milan
i fell for highlight vid meme and saw him score a few headers
Andrew Ortiz
he only has himself to blame, his finishing and decision making are abysmal most of the times
Jordan Scott
>Caldara >Conti >Gagliardini >Pellegrini >Berardi >Falcinelli Would kill to have these lads be dutch and in our NT desu
Anthony Gutierrez
What the fuck. How many of those guys have dual nationality and are there only to be capped once and get locked to Italy?
Lucas Ward
Only Emerson Palmieri and Lapadula (who alredy played for Italy). It's against San Marino so he's going to try new players
Julian Clark
We have a good bunch of young players, let's hope they develop well. Also if Di Biagio doesnt winw The U21 Euro this summer he should kill himself
Joseph Johnson
Literally drooling at the future of the Italian national team
Matthew Watson
Yes. POTY when on loan from Chelsea. Would plug a major hole in Everton's squad. Much better than that gorilla looking fecker.
Easton Myers
lol not /trans/ related but Juventus midfielder Marchisio made a post pro-rapefugees that turned people mad
Connor Cruz
Where, I want to see some salt
Jaxson Stewart
his profile on Instagram
Brandon Watson
Poop did it.
Jeremiah Sullivan
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Sebastian Bailey
>Trips of hope ending in tragedy for many people! >Still lifeless bodies in #mediterraneo >Like Manchester's tragedy, a few days ago, we continue to see, hear and read heartbreaking stories and absurd stories! >How is the world changing? woke
Alexander Reed
Enrico with the truth bomb desu
Logan Lee
Why are people getting mad at that post?
Austin Ward
Mind translating what he said? I just copied it of twitter