| What we learned from the 2016-17 season: - Real Madrid have cemented their position as Europe's top dogs with a third Champions' League trophy in the past four years. Florentino Pérez has built arguably the strongest squad that football has ever seen. - Italian football is still a mess, but Juventus offers hope. A club that continues to dominate Serie A while also remaining competitive in Europe despite losing their best players season after season. All Directors of Football and scouts should follow The Old Lady's template. - In Germany, a newly promoted team managed to finish second in the league table. What in tarnation? - A return to normality in the Premier League this season after Leicester's bizarre title triumph in the 2015-16 season, perhaps the only shock being Arsenal's failure to retain Champions League qualification. The best managers are all managing in the Premier League and the money involved is getting more and more ridiculous with each passing season, yet performances in Europe continue to disappoint. One of the most competitive and exciting leagues in the world, but not the strongest. With that said, it's now on to silly season. |
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| well time for transfer window saga now... Also OP add Spain not leaving anyone without tax evasion accusations |
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| First for Arsenal hopefully winning the UEL next season. Lets go Gunners. |
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| I'd normally start with some predictions but honestly I have no idea what we've gotten ourselves in for. Only things I know for certain are that there's going to be a lot of dodgy pronunciation around Carra this year and we'll probably sign a few more players before Wednesday even get started. |
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| 1. Norwich 2. Sheffield Wednesday -- 3. Nottingham Forest (P) Town to stay up and Swansea to win the premier league. Just to make for a happy sawker thread this coming season.. |
| Oscar banned for 8 games for starting a fight. Fucking lol. |
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| bored sign players now that fixtures are out please....no predictions for me until end of July at least |
| SWFC We're all Wednesday arent we? |
| @gallivant Just read that the Mighty Swans, as well as several other Premier League clubs, are interested in Jacob Murphy. Looks as if he enjoyed a good debut season in the Championship. How would you rate him? Anywhere near Redmond's level when he left? |
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| he's more explosive than Redmond and has a better eye for goal. less good at finding space between the lines so unlike redmond he can't really play 10. https://twitter.com/BobRutler/status/877899987736305667 Iwan Roberts (probably) says no though in regards to Swansea. |
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| Oh shit, new thread :P At least Brereton's signed up long term, it'd be nice to get a couple more deals tied up. Luongo linked atm. He was decent for QPR a couple years back, love him on FM too ngl. Boro and Wolves fans on twitter for whatever reason believe Assombalonga has an 8m buy out clause in his contract (we bought him for £5.5m with add ons to £8m). Hate it when other teams fan bases buzz off one of your players. Disgusting... Don't think they've ever even see him play a game. Lazy af 99% of the time. Love him, though. |
| I say Manchester United win the EPL, Juve and Bayern win Serie A and Bundesliga again, Real Madrid take La Liga, PSG or Monaco for Ligue 1, and Porto win the Portuguese League I think Real Madrid will get a "hat-trick" of UCL titles or Manchester United win their 4th UCL. |
OBruxoJun 23, 2017 9:57 AM
| "Estamos en la mierda joder" -DJMaRiiO |
| We finally signed him. Finally, after 3 years, we finally signed him. Him, Firmino and Mane up front with Coutinho supplying them from behind. Now all we really need is a proper center back, a left back and some cover for our midfield. |
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| Norwich are truly the thinking man's football team. http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/10923795/young-lions-quiz |
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| Our only activity so far is receiving about £800k for Rotherham selling Danny Ward to Cardiff. Enthralling stuff |
| aren't you about to sign a striker for like 13 million? Also Mooooooy for 8? |
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| I'm a bit surprised about how little effort there seems to be for big clubs to sign Aubameyang. I feel like he should be a priority for many clubs. His price tag seems pretty low considering how incredibly good he is. |
| Looking at Dortmund's transfer so far, it it seems they continue to sign young players except for Toprak, with a new manager hoping for a title this season it's been 5 years. zodd0 said: I'm a bit surprised about how little effort there seems to be for big clubs to sign Aubameyang. I feel like he should be a priority for many clubs. His price tag seems pretty low considering how incredibly good he is. I think £63 mil is a reasonable price. |
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| Aubameyang is 28. Hardly any 28 year olds would go for that much. |
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| Don't rate Aubameyang that highly tbh. Most teams that are able to afford him already have a better striker too. Definitely not worth £63m. |
OBruxo said: I say Manchester United win the EPL, Juve and Bayern win Serie A and Bundesliga again, Real Madrid take La Liga, PSG or Monaco for Ligue 1, and Porto win the Portuguese League I think Real Madrid will get a "hat-trick" of UCL titles or Manchester United win their 3rd UCL. For Madrid, 3 consecutive CL titles seems not very possible though I'd love it. I'm more interested in them retaining La liga. Mourinho does usually give a better second season compared to his first season with a team like in Inter and Real Madrid, but not sure he'll get EPL this time. I wonder if Liverpool can make it this time. My guess for CL, Juventus as going to do another Bayern. Lost 2010, 2012, but won 2013. (For Juve it's 2015,2017, and just maybe they'll be capable in 2018) what do you think @zodd0 ? |
Shishou_23Jun 23, 2017 12:37 PM
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| Bakayoko doing medicals next week, finally gonna announce our first signing.. also we're splashing so much cash on Alex Sandro but he's a quality player and still young so it's gonna be worth, not sure for Dijk though.. 60 million are just too much but meh |
| Would like to see Juve win a CL, they definitely deserve it. Transfer business been quiet on my end. Only significant news is that we are close to signing Tammy Abraham on loan. Any Championship fans seen much of him last season? @gallivant @Kilnerbanker @earnshaw30 @Fang |
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gallivant said: aren't you about to sign a striker for like 13 million? Also Mooooooy for 8? Apparently so, but I dont really read rumour sites and stuff and I've given up on the transfer thread on our forum which is just 70 pages of utter and complete bollocks |
KilnerbankerJun 23, 2017 2:25 PM
| We've not had many proper silly season rumours this year. Webber is actually giving local press real information and I suppose agents know we're poor now so they're not using us to help drum up interest. Abraham didn't play well at CR but obviously had a good season. Thanks to offering more in terms of physicality I'd imagine he's less likely to straight up flop like the last Chelsea forward to tear up the Championship.  2 more Germans confirmed today, and this is looking pretty complete. Surprised we've kept Fat Frankie (Niel's number 2) on when Alan Irvine was released. He'll be a transition coach apparantley, focussing on getting development squad players into the first team. Fluthmann is heading up the video analysis department as well as coaching. Interesting times. |
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| I didn't see Abraham play at all last year but Bristol City would probably have been shafted without him |
DragonSlayer_19 said: My guess for CL, Juventus as going to do another Bayern. Lost 2010, 2012, but won 2013. (For Juve it's 2015,2017, and just maybe they'll be capable in 2018) what do you think @zodd0 ? Yeah, perhaps. Depends on signings though. If they could get a winger Douglas Costa, that would be great and maybe an offensive midfielder like James Rodriguez. A good right-back is needed as well with Alves gone. The squad needs some improvement. gallivant said: Aubameyang is 28. Hardly any 28 year olds would go for that much. Higuan went to Juve for way more than that, from a rival club however. I think Auba would be of more use to Juve, especially in the CL. I wish they would have signed him instead of Higgy. |
Zoldra0Jun 23, 2017 1:03 PM
Kilnerbanker said: Our only activity so far is receiving about £800k for Rotherham selling Danny Ward to Cardiff. Enthralling stuff Never mind, just signed some bloke from Porto called Laurent Depoirte. Didn't play a great deal at Porto but has a decent goal scoring record. Club record fee, but it didn't really take much to break that tbf Edit: unless someone has gone on to wiki and changed his goal scoring stats his record isn't as good as I first thought. Oh well |
KilnerbankerJun 23, 2017 3:53 PM
Find a better silly season picture than this. Pro tip - you can't. |
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the great Tonny van der Linden, responsible for my hometown's 1st and only football championship ever, passed away on Friday. truly an underrated gem in Dutch football history. |
| ALEX SANDRO BBY COME TO CHELSEA <3 |
| https://twitter.com/TransferCentreL/status/878873254080983040 Oh fuck off Bournemouth. |
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| I take it Demin and Abramovic are old buddies? |
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| I wonder why clubs are not trying to sign Marchisio. A world-class midfielder left on the bench for most of last season, partly due to injuries but Allegri seems to prefer Pjanic and Khedira in the middle. If I were Klopp I would try to sign him to Liverpool. |
| fuck man i don't really want to sell ake.. i've liked that guy since he was 17-18 so it's really gonna suck if we sell him.. let alone for 20 fucking millions IN OTHER NEWS FUCKING HYPE FOR ALEX SANDRO LET'S GO BBY |
| Why did OP also use the retarded spelling for SOCCER as last year's thread?! You understand that we (Americans, Canadians, Australians, Japanese) don't call it SOCCER out of disrespect, right?! We didn't even invent the word....ENGLAND invented the word "SOCCER"! Whatever, here's to another year of SOCCER! |
| fuck off back to your apehopp meme thread. thanks. |
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| I wonder where all that leaves Marcos Alonso. He had a decent season and can't see him playing centrally like others are suggesting. |
| marcos alonso is a murderer. |
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| I know like there is the entire month of July to come but......do something please im bored |
| SWFC We're all Wednesday arent we? |
gallivant said: I take it Demin and Abramovic are old buddies? Presumably. Still pisses me off that the media glosses over the fact that Bournemouth have had a Russian billionaire in the background to help them along, I suppose that would spoil the underdog narrative. Can't compare Bournemouth to clubs like Burnley, Norwich, Swansea and most recently Huddersfield who did it the right way. |
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| >tfw Arsenal fan so I got nothing to talk about transfers, even the rumours surrounding us are stupid. Like who the hell came up with Alexis-Aguero swap thing? I'll see you lads at the start of the season when we announce that single signing we did and that's it. |
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| The rumors will continue until the last few days of transfer window so hang in there |
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| Apparently, Liverpool aren't gonna be punished for approaching Van Dijk... I wonder if we're gonna go back for him. Properly, this time. Ramkec said: >tfw Arsenal fan so I got nothing to talk about transfers, even the rumours surrounding us are stupid. Like who the hell came up with Alexis-Aguero swap thing? I'll see you lads at the start of the season when we announce that single signing we did and that's it. Arsenal is like United. They're linked to everyone but unlike United, they usually end up signing someone no one really knows or cares about. Same is gonna happen this season. You really think your board is gonna pay what 50+mil for Lacazette? |
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| Juve might be planning to sell Sandro and keep Bonucci. Sounds like a big mistake to me. Should be the other way around... |
Frostbytes said: How the fuck are they gonna replace Sandro btw? that guy is too good, the only guy who is somewhat a good replacement for him is Mendy but looks like he is off to city now. Yeah, that's the thing I don't understand. |
yhunata said: Apparently, Liverpool aren't gonna be punished for approaching Van Dijk... I wonder if we're gonna go back for him. Properly, this time. Ramkec said: >tfw Arsenal fan so I got nothing to talk about transfers, even the rumours surrounding us are stupid. Like who the hell came up with Alexis-Aguero swap thing? I'll see you lads at the start of the season when we announce that single signing we did and that's it. Arsenal is like United. They're linked to everyone but unlike United, they usually end up signing someone no one really knows or cares about. Same is gonna happen this season. You really think your board is gonna pay what 50+mil for Lacazette? I guess they're still waiting on the Alexis and Ozil situation, they said they'll discuss it after the Confederations Cup. If they decide to go the board must have some kindof back up plan, so maybe in a sticky situation they might, unless they plan to finish even lower next season without proper striker. Tbh I just hope Alexis and Ozil sign da thing. |
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