Summer Transfer Window 2023

IronHerb

OldCastleSwift said:

IronHerb said:

OldCastleSwift said:

I mean, it's C&H so who knows, but this piece is claiming we may not actually sign JWP 🤔

"Our key source told Claret and Hugh exclusively a few minutes ago: “We’ll sign Ward-Prowse or the Scottish midfielder from Man Utd in next 72 hours, but sadly not Friday in time to get either registered for the game at Bournemouth.”

SKY reporting JWP is having his medical.

As in having it now? Some saying it was tonight, some saying tomorrow. If it's happening now, you'd think they'd be able to register him by midday tomorrow.

That was the impression I got, but who knows?

Lukerz

It took us two days to do the Alvarez medical/complete the deal. I hardly doubt we’ll get this done in 16 hours or so.

Barney

What is bigger than MASSIVE???

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

I know it's a bad time, but if they've really bid upwards of £80mil I don't really see how you can expect the club to reject that

1 season with us, where he was very good but not a £80mil talent though

Not that I trust Moyes with £80mil though

claretandbluesky

Not sure what has gone on at Spurs as Kane is apparently wanting to remain. Although I think it's the right decision from his point of view someone must be wondering what he is playing at. They have been negotiating a deal for the last six weeks involving offer and counter offer when he could have decided if he fancied it before they got going.

I wonder if it's Levy trying to pressure him into going as he wont sign a new contract, yet dictate that he goes abroad. So deliberately didn't even consult Kane.

steve

Perhaps we can club together and rent a plane to fly him to Germany

OutcastLondoner

I just don’t get the appeal of Bayern. You’ll win things but you’ve made no difference to whether they win anything because they’re so dominant in Germany, so where’s the satisfaction? Going there just for trophies is just stat-padding - a pretty empty achievement. Winning the Champions League would be worth it doesn’t feel like they’re real challengers these days.

Bazshuayi

If I was Kane I'd stay for the Prem scoring record. Next year he can go where he pleases. Seems like a no brainer to me

buffybegood

Spurs are very lucky if he does go now, £100m or so is going to help them a lot more than him going for nothing next summer.

Bazshuayi

Yep, I'd have been driving him to Germany when they made their first 80M odd bid

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Kane should leave, he can spend 3/4 years in Germany, win a couple leagues, maybe even compete in the champions league and then he can come back to the Prem

Even if he's 34, I can't imagine Kane slipping too much, the guy is like Lewandowski/Benzema, their games are not based off pace and he'll be hitting 10-20 goals a season still when he comes back

3 or 4 more seasons at that level he still beats the Shearer Record all before the age of 40 but with a couple trophies to go with it

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Mental that many fans have slammed us for overvaluing Rice, a guy whos been the mainstay of our team for the past 5 years

Yet no-one is going to bat an eye-lid when Caicedo, with 1 full season of top flight football, goes for £110mil

Football is truely broken

ASLEFshrugged

Caicedo joining Liverpool will end any chance of Gallagher leaving Chelsea

Fortuneseeker

Harry Maguire still stewing over West Ham move despite Man Utd accepting £30m bid reports The Mirror. IF he doesn't want to join us fair enough then let's get a younger Centre Half in who does?

Lukerz

Mixed rumours over this; Sky say personal terms are agreed & just a small financial settlement between MU & Maguire is delaying the deal. Think The Mirror is guesswork based on no news recently.

ASLEFshrugged

Mirror article is based on an original piece in the Daily Mail (link in the 4th paragraph) which claims

"Maguire could yet insist on staying at United, where he is contracted until 2025 with the option to extend for a further year, or wait to see if other offers arrive for him in the summer's transfer window."

So no actual quote from Maguire or another "source" at Man Utd's training ground, just "Kieran Gill for Mailonline" speculating. Maybe he's a mind reader...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12394413/West-Ham-waiting-Harry-Maguire-choose-join-30million-fee-agreed-Manchester-United.html

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/harry-maguire-transfer-westham-manutd-30677199

BerlinHammer

Id rather win the bundesliga and have a chance to win the CL, then have the goal scoring record. No one can take your titles from you, but someone can take the record.

OldCastleSwift

Slight concern now that Brighton are after a midfielder and Spurs are after a striker, with both clubs having £100m in their pockets.

They're two positions that we're still looking at, so we have extra competition within the league now.

ASLEFshrugged

I think Kane doesn't actually care where he goes, he just wants away from Daniel Levy after the whole "gentleman's agreement" fiasco

BerlinHammer

If he really wanted to hurt Levy, he would stay for free and go to a rival next season.

EXETERHAMMER

McTominay has Spurs written all over him. They can have him.

ASLEFshrugged

EXETERHAMMER said:

McTominay has Spurs written all over him. They can have him.

Spurs are pretty well stocked for central midfielders with Hojbjerg, Bissouma and Skipp plus Ndombele due back from injury soon with Bentancur due back in a month or two.

There have been rumours that Hojbjerg, Ndombele and Skipp could be leaving but no actual offers so far

McTominey isn't really an upgrade on the players Spurs already have

OldCastleSwift

BerlinHammer said:

If he really wanted to hurt Levy, he would stay for free and go to a rival next season.

If he really really wanted to hurt Levy he could come to Stratford.

BerlinHammer

Apparently Levy has stopped Kane from talking to Bayern now. I cant keep up with this one 😂

ASLEFshrugged

Not that much of a problem, they probably wouldn't understand him anyway

BBC 8:40am he's been given permission to travel to Munich for his medical

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66276899

Can't wait for Sunday 2pm and all those glum Spurs faces in the away end live on Sky

OldCastleSwift

Not West Ham, but gave me a chuckle:

https://twitter.com/AverageStriker/status/1689895367809138688

Fortuneseeker

OCS, I don’t know what our scout in South America does as we have missed out on several good young talents from there recently. Didn’t Rob Newman set up some kind of scouting network in Brazil still yet to see any evidence of that bearing fruit?

ASLEFshrugged

Fabrizio Romano on Twitter says JWP arrived in London yesterday for medical today

OldCastleSwift

Fortuneseeker said:

OCS, I don’t know what our scout in South America does as we have missed out on several good young talents from there recently. Didn’t Rob Newman set up some kind of scouting network in Brazil still yet to see any evidence of that bearing fruit?

I'm not sure that it's the scouting necessarily. We were said to be one of the teams interested in Caicedo back in 2021 but decided against matching Brighton's £4.5m bid.

It looks more like the decision making that is somewhat lacking.

alderz

It's funny to me that Jurgen Klopp said how there was no way Liverpool could afford Jude Bellingham, and they are now dropping more than the Bellingham fee on Caicedo.