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

I don't think the draw of a guaranteed league medal at a club guaranteed to win the league anyway gives that much personal satisfaction. if we're that fickle about someone needing a medal for their legacy, i think we're a bit dumb. do i honestly think Kane becomes a better player if he wins a league title with a team guaranteed to win it? Not a chance. If he wins the Champions League with them, yes.

Haaland ain't staying at City longer than 5 years. and that's being generous. it's well documented that his career path is being meticulously planned out. he won't be at City long enough to destroy the record.

Harry Redknapp has come out saying Kane won't be going anywhere, that he won't be uprooting his family to Germany and he'll stay at Spurs next season.

Rodri and Rice double pivot with Grealish, KDB and Silva in front of them would be a brilliant midfield.

That age profile looks absolutely perfect to me. Just going off the top of my head but I'd say Liverpool were looking like that around 2018. The problem there was they let too many just age without replacing them gradually.

edit: nope, took a quick look on wiki and most of Liverpool's main players were hovering around 26/27 in 2018 rather than closer to 23/24. So a little out, so you can see why Liverpool peaked around 2018-2020, while you can argue Arsenal won't peak for another 4 years or so, possibly.

It's clever from Arsenal. They are building out a squad with an excellent age profile.

They'll be able to look at 1/2 replacements or upgrades a season after this summer like City can.

Also they have the stadium paid off the last few years haven't they? That's free'd up a lot of money you'd imagine.

They really got themselves into shape the last few seasons. Fair play

Quite the clear out from Chelsea the last year

As for Harry Kane, I'd love to see him in Munich and I'd love to trust the rumours but I believe it when it's 100% done.

Like someone else said moving to Germany is a big move culturally and everything especially when there is a family involved. One thing for a young kid like Belliongham another thing for a 29 years old England captain expecting their 4th child. Not saying it won't happen but I believe it when it actually happens.

West Ham decided Rice was a 100 million player, and some mug payed it. Bang average no vision, mentally not all there.

Havertz fee is demented , 65 million on a total schmuck. Chelsea struck gold, should have been the bones of 30.

Arteta will have no excuses this season.

Chelsea have offloaded 4 players to Saudi Arabia this week, plus another 2 to other PL clubs, and RLC to Milan; while signing Jackson on yet another 8 year contract (I thought UEFA had banned that). It's all go at the Bridge, isn't it?

was that not the only reason for doing 8 year contracts? no one else is doing them.

Yeah, we weren’t in desperate need for a CB, but this guy was always linked with bigger moves than Villa before now.

I think Mount is a good addition for United but not quite sure how he reached 60 million with 1 year left on his contract

£55m + £5m for a player in the last year of his contract.

£250k a week, with the ability to bring it up to £300k a week with bonuses.

With those sort of numbers, it's easy to see why Liverpool cooled their interest from earlier this year. They would never make Mount their second highest paid player at this stage in his career, relative to the others in the squad currently.

Good player, but those numbers are a bit crazy IMO.

Wouldn't be so certain on the wages, or else of course people could have just got it wrong when they were saying that Ten Hag had implemented a wage cap on base pay.

He wanted parity at Chelsea to what Reece James is getting with his new contract, around £250k. One of the main reasons why he left - wanted the bigger contract.

Man Utd have been handing out stupid contracts in recent years, so there is a trend there. Maybe there that new ETH thing with contracts but we haven't really got any proof of it yet. Maybe the base wage cap is £250k? Massive amount for base pay.

Also, Matt Law is reporting it.

I think he's a good player and can thrive in a system that suits. Pressing machine so I can see why Klopp was interested. I wouldn't count the last 6 months at Chelsea tbh as there was that impasse with the contact and Chelsea were not picking him as a result. From within FPL circles, there were times that Chelsea were publicly saying Mount was injured and unavailable for games but in reality he was fit and being left out of the match day squad because he wouldn't sign a new contract. That has an affect on a player.

My thinking is that Liverpool thought that they could exploit his situation with being in the last year of his contract and maybe picked him up around the £35m mark. Maybe £150k ish. I'd harbour a guess that that is what Alexis McAllister is getting, maybe even £100k. But when Mount is close to double that in both transfer fee and wages, you can see why they made the decision that they did.

Liverpool moving onto Red Bulls Szoboszlai.

Mount will be an excellent signing. He'll start most weeks, he'll get plenty of assists and chip in with goals as well. He'll probably be one of the United players with the most ball recoveries next season as well.

It's a good chunk of money given he'd one year left and the situation Chelsea were in but he'll be at United for 8 - 10 years so it's not overly bad.