Transfer rumours and speculation to take us through to summer.
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There seems to be an effort on here sometimes to discredit ITKs. I know the majority are as ITK as I am, but Ex does genuinely appear to have contacts within and around the club.
Genuine question; have you ever listened to one of his podcasts? Or follow him on Twitter?
No.
I don't seek to discredit ITKs per se, I simply look at what they say, and judge on that.
Looking back, C&H said it was what Pelle had been reported as saying in Chile, and his article was 3 weeks after the Standard's.
What I find dispiriting, especially re: transfers, is when people take what an ITK/Twitter type or gossip rumour has said as gospel, and berate the club as a result, when time out of number it then turns out the original comment.
Yeold
£25m gets you 7 Balbuena's
That would already put the budget at the best part of £60m & we already have a decent squad & management.
Pelle isn’t selecting Hernandez for nothing. He knows he is gonna need him to be persuaded to stay as come the summer he could be our only striker on the books.
I mean he is working hard and always gives 100%, but he's 31 this summer, doesn't really fit into our team and is out of contract in 2020 so could go for nothing
The Chinese aren't going to come back with another offer in the summer because they'll be halfway through their season, no other club is likely to offer more than £35m and he's not going to get anywhere near the wages the Chinese were offering.
If we wanted to cash in on Arnie we had our chance and missed it. If the Chinese do come back it won't be until January 2020.
I trusted him when, after losing the first four games, people were questioning him, me myself included, he turned around and said, "I have been a manager for over thirty years, I know what I am doing"
In Pelle I Trust.
Who worked with Manu at Malaga
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11685/11671671/real-madrid-target-west-hams-felipe-anderson-if-chelsea-wont-sell-eden-hazard
It's not that I don't think Anderson is a great player, but I don't think he actually changes the amount of games his talent threatens to.
Having said that, if someone offered 65M for rice, although its a massive price, I dont think I'd be happy with him going... (Although I know theres an inevitability to it). He really is crucial to our team whereas a flair winger like Andersen is someone we could replace and still have plenty of change from 65M. Players like Rice are tough to find and anyone in a certain class would be heading to a top 6 club. So it'd have to be a young, up and coming player and there's not many of a certain skill, class and maturity level who'd do what Rice does (and will get appreciably better at doing it too)
Can’t say I watch a lot of Ajax but I believe he’s a defensive midfielder. He’s 21 years old.
De Jong has played about 80 games for the first team. Rice has played 64 games.