Transfers (General)

[S-RED]

Will be at Man U soon then....

[Craig_H]

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If this is true, €12m is amazingly cheap for Dybala.

[red g]

So he is going to Chelsea.

[John Barnes]

Brentford boss Thomas Frank says it will take an "unbelievable" offer to prise striker Ivan Toney away from the club this month.

London rivals Arsenal and Chelsea have both been linked with the 27-year-old, who could return from a betting ban to face Nottingham Forest on 20 January.

[SB]

All the ins & outs right here

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/premier-league-completed-transfer-deals-30845725

[The_weatherman]

Circa £100bil is coming into the UK from Saudi. It's why the UK govt. where so keen to get the Newcastle deal over the line (effectively because they were told to). There a good article on Athletic into it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theathletic.com/4375454/2023/04/06/saudi-newcastle-boris-government/%3famp=1

Pretty dark times.

Grim, my local team is in with a shout to become the first Icelandic team to reach the group stage of a European competition (Conference league), reckon my attention might wane in the oil league.

[SB]

I really feel the Saudis are ruining sport on a wider scale and I feel people shouldn't give this nation any support in the form of positive attention, this is important, they kill people, disregard human rights and will continue to do so.

Circa £100bil is coming into the UK from Saudi. It's why the UK govt. where so keen to get the Newcastle deal over the line (effectively because they were told to). There a good article on Athletic into it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theathletic.com/4375454/2023/04/06/saudi-newcastle-boris-government/%3famp=1

Pretty dark times.

Weatherman is spot on & just because the Government are profiting that doesn’t change it though.

[labourRed]

I really feel the Saudis are ruining sport on a wider scale and I feel people shouldn't give this nation any support in the form of positive attention, this is important, they kill people, disregard human rights and will continue to do so.

Circa £100bil is coming into the UK from Saudi. It's why the UK govt. where so keen to get the Newcastle deal over the line (effectively because they were told to). There a good article on Athletic into it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theathletic.com/4375454/2023/04/06/saudi-newcastle-boris-government/%3famp=1

Pretty dark times.

[Doc_Piptorious]

I really feel the Saudis are ruining sport on a wider scale and I feel people shouldn't give this nation any support in the form of positive attention, this is important, they kill people, disregard human rights and will continue to do so.

Said it before, but with oil looking like it will become a thing of the past (to a large degree) in the coming three or four decades it makes sense to take control of other things the West craves.

Be it sports now (Football, Boxing, Golf, wrestling etc etc), tech in the future and so on.

Get things the West needs under Saudi/Middle Eastern control and then there is something the West will pay for for decades to come.

[The_weatherman]

I really feel the Saudis are ruining sport on a wider scale and I feel people shouldn't give this nation any support in the form of positive attention, this is important, they kill people, disregard human rights and will continue to do so.

[Harv]

Actually don't have any issue with a young kid moving there for a couple of years.

He basically gets set up for life and can then come back to Europe afterwards in his prime.

Same as the guys on their last legs getting one last payday.

[The_weatherman]

Good on Kroos to call this out though, this should feel embarrassing, for players to choose this path.

[Scratch]

Altho as Rafa said, there are players that went to the Chinese league for a couple of seasons and are now back playing in the Champions League, so it's not career suicide, it's just a season or 2 in the doldrums.

[Pablo]

That is a depressing career choice.

[danperkins]

He's obviously a greedy cunt that will fade into obscurity