Football Transfers Thread

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Apparently it was £42.9 m overall.

I saw those reports and they go by the assumption that if Porto were payed £24m (they announced this to the stock market) for their 56% then the 3rd party that owned the other 44% would get something similar, fair assumption but then I question where the £32m that's reported in the English media is coming from, either way, should've got Benatia instead.

what about wages (same like last season ??)

No idea.

 

[thedon5]

I saw those reports and they go by the assumption that if Porto were payed £24m (they announced this to the stock market) for their 56% then the 3rd party that owned the other 44% would get something similar, fair assumption but then I question where the £32m that's reported in the English media is coming from, either way, should've got Benatia instead.

It's Portugal so you can't expect anything less than third-party ownership. Perhaps that is what the hold-up was? Standard Liege also got some of the fee. Awful deal IMO, had it not been for Luiz it'd look a lot worse.

I don't think Benatia was available and a year after signing he has no power. Roma should be favourites for the title this season so keeping their top CB is more important than money for Benatia, especially since he'll command more next season you'd think.

 

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It's Portugal so you can't expect anything less than third-party ownership. Perhaps that is what the hold-up was? Standard Liege also got some of the fee. Awful deal IMO, had it not been for Luiz it'd look a lot worse.

I don't think Benatia was available and a year after signing he has no power. Roma should be favourites for the title this season so keeping their top CB is more important than money for Benatia, especially since he'll command more next season you'd think.

That's definitely what the hold up was, I've seen 3 different reports regarding the price, one is what the major English media sources like BBC, Sky and The Guardian ran with, £32m, the other being the one I posted in my earlier post (£24m to Porto for their 56% and something similar to the 3rd party for their 44%) and the 3rd report being the one where Porto got £24m and Mangala's agent £12m with Liege getting £4m.

Imho, the money spent really is irrelevant, especially if Benatia was unavailable, what else were we going to do with this money? We have no other positions to strengthen and even if we wanted to do what Real Madrid do and rotate out good players for even greater ones, we wouldn't be able to do that under the FFP sanctions and we already have 18 non-homegrown players, the PL only allows 17 and we're only allowed 16 in the CL this season as part of FFP sanctions.

 

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BBC Sport - Manchester United: Luke Shaw out for weeks with hamstring injury

Well they def got to get Blind now..

 

[War]

AC Milan confirm signing of Pablo Armero from Udinese and Diego Lopez from Real Madrid - ESPN FC

Good to see Armero at such a club, best all-round S America full back. Can attack like Marcelo, but can also defend like Luis Felipe, if not as perfect. How he was at West Ham last season was puzzling.

 

[Champagnepapi]

I don't know why, but I think Barcelona went corrupt again with the Suarez deal again. It all seems very odd to me. I'm not complaining that he shouldn't have went, I just think that something about this whole saga isn't just right, I mean before the world cup Suarez was worth more than what 80-90 million? and Barcelona chairman in the interview said before the world cup that a deal was "agreed". Real Madrid were also involved in a bid war with Barcelona and you'll think Real will come out as winners, but no the bite came and for some reason from that 80-90 million, his priced tag went down to 75 million and of course Real weren't gonna do it as they like their squad being ready on time, being the good and gentleman club why were Barca still interested? And the weird thing was that "Sorry" from Suarez, I'm not sure, but I think it was on Sky Sports news where they said that Barcelona "told" him to say that, I might be totally wrong with that one, but I think this is all a well planned business hack almost. This will be investigated soon in my opinion, like the Neymar thing.
P.s. nothing copied and pasted, you can even Google whole of this post.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

AC Milan confirm signing of Pablo Armero from Udinese and Diego Lopez from Real Madrid - ESPN FC

Good to see Armero at such a club, best all-round S America full back. Can attack like Marcelo, but can also defend like Luis Felipe, if not as perfect. How he was at West Ham last season was puzzling.

not sure we're really such a massive step up these days, haha.

nah, actually Lopez is a functional goalkeeping signing, and Douglas Costa would make the summer a surprisingly good one if that rumour is to be believed.

not sure about inzaghi's tactics but he is certainly moving towards using the right players, was encouraging he was ready to kick mexes out the door in favour of zapata as while zapata has had some horror seasons his potential is a lot higher if motivated and used right.

 

[ankurcshah]

Football transfer rumours: Ángel Di María to United for £100m? | Football | theguardian.com

Di maria 100 m pounds, damn, that's too much

 

[SpitfiresKent]

Indeed, but he's just the type of player that United need right now.

 

[War]

Ye Di Maria is perfect for United, but i'm not sure. There was strong rumour recently that Di Maria might be going to PSG to help Madrid fund their purchase of Falcao.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Football transfer rumours: Ángel Di María to United for £100m? | Football | theguardian.com

Di maria 100 m pounds, damn, that's too much

£100m for Di Maria? Madrid can take a flying leap off the White Cliffs of Dover!

Edit: OK - that makes a lot more sense: a £100m package - that would include his £50m transfer fee and wages.

 

[Haarithan]

Di Maria is obviously world class, but it doesn't make much sense to go for him, unless of course van Gaal thinks Mata as the "1" in his 3412 isn't good enough. Someone like Cuadrado (playing on the right of the "4") would be downright perfect for Man Utd though.

 

[P Squared]

Transfer news: Sporting's Marcos Rojo ready for Manchester United move | Football News | Sky Sports

He has apparently confirmed it.

One more CB please, CM as well.

I'd rather those 2 positions were sorted before signing someone like Di Maria, would be difficult fitting him into the new system anyway.

 

[thedon5]

Average defender. Disappointing signing and as a South American from the Liga Portuguesa expect a long settling-in period. At least he's versatile I guess.

 

[Haarithan]

What's the point in loaning out Nani to Sporting if United are still paying 100% of his wages? Makes me feel slightly better about the farce last year, when we loaned Reina out to Napoli (who were on a spending spree), only to pay 55% of his wages...