Summer 2023 Transfer Window - [Excluding Transfers to Saudi Arabia 25.07.23]

Some rumours of Ruben Neves leaving Wolves to go to Saudi Arabia.

Seems like a waste of talent to move there just before you are about to hit your peak age.

TBH I'm not surprised with him though. He left Porto (while in the CL) to move to Wolves (playing in the Championship at the time) for a few extra pounds.

A year left on his contract, Wolves will feel like they have won big time.

Shame to see a 26-year-old head in that direction though.

With Bellingham at Madrid, that midfield is scary dangerous for years to come. Tchoucheni, Camavinga, Bellingham with Vinny Jr Rodrygo and Mbappe.

Thats scary and some front 6 from the defence. Would probably want a out and out striker but still, they look sorted for years to come.

Its inevitable at this stage, if not this summer will be the next. Still have a young squad that if gel together will dominate.

Not so sure it will dominate. City will still be very strong and will be strengthening with top players too.

It'll all count for nothing unless madrid can defend too.

Yeah, was a total disaster of a move for everyone except Napoli. They might not have had such an easy run through the league had Koulibaly still been there too, his drop off has been huge, while his replacement Min-jae Kim was consistently one of their best performers this year. Napoli really judged that one perfectly. Wonder how much of that 33m Chelsea will get from the Saudis.

Shady? Chelsea?

Really..... tell me more!

Wouldn’t Rice be a direct replacement for him? The money being splashed around by the Saudis at the minute, whatever fee they get for Partey would go an awful long way to paying the Rice bill.

Rice would be wasted as Partey replacement. Rice is the Xhaka replacement imo. Rice needs to be given the freedom to attack and progress the ball, should have a DM beside him, as he has had at West Ham. At United I'd love him, to play beside Casemiro, with the ability to step in for him should he get himself suspended yet again.

Selling a player before he could maybe get taken off their hands wither way and lose him for nothing. Washing their hands of him at the same time. Can get an upgrade. Works out well for Arsenal.

That money was just resting in my account ... and I have no idea who all those random one club then retire managers were.

Reports - 'Man City and Newcastle are bringing corruption and dodgy ownership to new levels in the EPL'.

Chelsea - "Hold my beer"....

£60m will be a good fee for someone who'll be there for at least 6-7 years. He had a bad season last year but was excellent for three years before that.

If his wages were more reasonable then I'd have loved him at Liverpool (rumoured to want the same as James who's on £250K) but those combined with the fee would have meant Liverpool may have missed out on a fourth signing this summer.

Whatever about the shady goings on, which are undoubted at this stage, i cant stomach Neville whinging about it. The champagne socialist who went to Qatar to commentate on the world cup after denoincing it for years. And presumably will have less of a problem with them once they buy man u.

G Nev is 100% a 'do as I say, not as I do' merchant. Where did Peter Lim get the money to financially dope Salford in recent years?

He's jumped onto the Saudi bandwagon alright, as he did the Super League bandwagon a year or so back,ans of course he's also very anti - Glazer now that he knows they're bound to leave. t's hard to take him seriously though, even though he does sometimes hit on a good point (the stopped clock method)

While I was a fan of Stephen Gerrard on the field, he has made some strange decisions since when and after his playing career finished. However, to my knowledge, he's the only big name I've heard that has turned the Saudi money down recently.

Yeah, himself and Messi (edit: and Son!) are the only one's I'm aware of to turn down big Saudi offers so far. Though I'm not sure how much those decisions were moral... certainly not in Messi's case given that he's taking a shït-tonne of Saudi money for other things - which is a bit hilarious, given that on the one hand he's a tourism spokesman, while on the other he's effectively saying "you literally couldn't pay me to live in that place for a year or two!".

Messi is getting Saudi type money in the US from Adidas and Apple deals.

Helped ease the pain of turning the Saudis down..

And I'm sure West Ham would rather have the full fee paid in one go, rather than installments.

I wonder which club is offering which.....

Garvidol meant to be going as well.