Summer Transfer Superthread

kane wont go until spurs have a replacement got imo,the price for them will multiply if kane goes first.

I did see reports that spurs "agreed" a deal with inter for Martinez but also seen there's reports that his agent is meeting with Inter today

About 340m in the last three years.

Nor a goal stopper.

I’d be guessing that’s the plan eventually. There was talk of Leno looking for a move this summer and he’s not all that anyway. Personally I haven’t seen enough of Ramsdale to comment on him but everyone else seems to be sniggering 😬

Ramsdale isnt a Premier League keeper.

The Championship is where he belongs.

Lewi saying he wants a new challenge today ,Kane must be crapping himself thinking City will go for him even at 33

Is handing in a transfer request even a thing anymore? He's already said he wants to leave.

Bayern want 100m for 33 year old Lewandowski, effectively hes not for sale so.

lewa to psg,mbappe to madrid ..??

Lukaku may not be to different but Chelsea are very different to United ,

Just look at recent history United don't usually go for forwards like Lakaku but Chelsea do Drogba, Costa, Giroud, even Abraham, Higuain , Crespo , Eto all not very mobile lads in there time there all love to stay high & central

Lukaku suit's Chelsea he did not suit United for that matter he would not suit City or Liverpool either ,

Horses for courses and all that ,

Surely Raul Jiminez is the player Nuno wants if Kane goes? Perfect replacement imo.

He has led the line for various clubs now and a national team full of stars but have any of those teams ever really competed for the biggest prizes? Are top teams really worried about Lukaku?

Serie A was the first thing of note he has won and it is not a great standard these days.

He is a very good goalscorer but his limitations put limitations on how far a team can go.

Did you say the same thing about Henrik Larson when he joined Barcelona?

Dwight Yorke before he went to United?

Fact of the matter is that any conversation today about the best centre forwards in world football include Lukaku.

He has just kept improving himself over the years and at 28 is now rated at the very top of the game.

I don't get where you are going with your thoughts there.

Lonergans having a grand lil career renaissance as a 3rd choice keeper last few years.

Was with West Brom last year after leaving Pool.

Handy gig for a veteran keeper.

He is one of the world's best centre forwards, he is in that conversation along with Benzema, Kane, Mbappe, Haaland and Lewandoski,

Its the big games isn't it ,

People want to see him score the big goals in the big games when they come around,

Just out of interest would you called Immobile world class he has out scored Lakaku over the last two Seria A season's by 9 goals in a worse side but i wouldn't call him world class either,

Both very good strikers but not world class in my opinion ,

Yeah, this is it for me... it doesn't really matter if he's world class, or just very good - he's coming into a team that didn't have a goalscorer, and whatever category of goalscorer you want to call him, he's undeniably a goalscorer. That's automatically going to improve an already very good team, and gives them an option they simply didn't have. He's also a huge disruptor, which is what you want in those troublesome games.

Madrids fire sale continues, letting go of a very promising young player for £30m, all just to try to gather funds to bid for Mbappe.

They really are so badly managed it's untrue. Surely Odegaard could have been a good replacementfor Kroos, who is way past his sell by. Their midfield was overrun in CL last year and shown to be too old, yet they do this now.

All their eggs in one basket.

I'm a united and Inter fan so I have seen a lot of him and he was much better at Inter in an undeniably weaker league. Whether that means he improved or was just playing against worse opposition I guess we will find out. Inter certainly didn't do anything in Europe however last season, and I don't think top defenders are concerned about Lukaku.

Look, Chelsea are the European champions. Lukaku is going to give them another option and his goals will win points for them, and he probably will score 20-30 league goals. What I am saying is that, based on what I have seen of him at United, and with similar strikers, is that he might just be taking goals away from others, and maybe slowing up the play and mis-controlling the ball at important times. I'm not convinced his contribution will be such a net positive that it is worth anything like £97.5m.

I don't think he is in the same class at all as Lewandowski, Ronaldo at 36, Mbappe, Kane, or even Haaland and Benzema. I don't think it was even considered by most before this transfer that he would be of similar stature as all of those players.

In Lukaku's last season with Everton he got 25 league goals. He doens't even need to improve, he just needs to be used correctly. Everton used him right, Jose didn't, Inter did, Belgium do. And I'd guess Chelsea will.

Spurs in for Adama Traore on loan with £40m purchase option after that.

I hadn't previously noticed but it looks like this would be the 3rd summer signing by Spurs of a loan with option to buy for big money. Is money tight in Spurs or they do not know whether Kane will leave or not. Getting the players in now for lower amounts, and if he leaves then they can pay next year when the money has already come in. If Kane stays, they are 'only' stuck with the loan payment and can chose whether to sign the players or not next year.

Aren't Wolves owned by Chinese investors? I think there's something going on where China are restricting the use of wealth outside of China.