Transfer rumours

[Mase]

[PeterParker]

[john@staustell]

So they need to lower their wage bill to register Torres. So Villa get Coutinho on loan, Barca are so desperate. So if his loan falls flat/breaks leg etc etc, would he be left unregistered etc??

Hope he has a good agent!

[Dimples]

No idea who where Haaland goes but it is unlikely to be us?
We did not get Lukaku end of the 19/20 season.
We did not get Kane end of the 20/21 season.
There was not a long queue of suitors for either.
We are going for Haaland end of 21/22 season and everyone wants him.
Real are sponsored by the Spanish state. Never forget that they are called Real (meaning Royal) for a reason.
Barca represent Catalonia and the money follows.
Ditto for Munich and Bavaria.
IMO those three are favorites ahead of us. These are the original State sponsored/sports washing clubs. The money will be available and the rules bent accordingly to facilitate the signing.
Outsiders are the Rags. A money generating machine with massive influence and Chelsea who could splash the cash. So could Newcastle but it is to early in their project to interest Haaland? Dippers don't have the money. The Italians don't have the money.
The money involved will be huge, more than we have spent on a single player before.
I put us joint fourth favs with the Rags and Chelsea. I make the Spanish favorites.
La Liga will be desperate for Haaland to join and the money could be found and legitimized. Also, all sorts of obstacles will be put in our way if we get close to a deal. No way will the continentals want to see it happen. Same goes for Rags, Dippers and Chelsea. They would do whatever they can to stop it.

[PeterParker]

[Hazy2]

[Paul68]

[Outcast]

[hayling22]

I would never rule The Rags out of signing Haaland....They love bright new expensive toys to unwrap...The problem is once the novelty has worn off, they lie broken and discarded on the floor, ready to be chucked out, beyond repair

[Kippax Sean]

Did I hear right Pogba has been offered an new lucrative contract with scumbags? Lol. Hopefully he signs.

[Dimples]

[sheblue]

[Two's Kompany]

Bayern and Real will go head-to-head in my opinion.
I listened to an educated journo, on the European round-up on 5Live, after PSG had rejected Real's summer bid for Mbappe. He said Real were all over Mbappe AND Haaland because they could get the pair for less than £70m in the summer of 2022. Yeah high wages but they have always paid top whack.
Since 2019 they've been fairly prudent so have been working towards it I reckon.
Bayern will lose Lewandowski and go all out for Haaland.

[Mase]

Rags paid Raiola €27m via Juve for Pogba. A similar thing will happen here and it’ll just depend who pays him the most. I can’t see Bayern doing that. Real and Barca will. 50/50 if we decide to.

The way around it for us is paying Alfie a fee - we cancelled his contract a year early because it had an injury clause in it, so I’m sure we can pay him a fee for that year plus a bit more for the suffering it caused.

[blues2win]

I don’t know about 50 50. If we want Haaland we have to go all in or not bother. That means sucking up a fat fee for Raiola whichever way it’s done. If he prefers La Liga that’s that. If he wants the most competitive league in the world with the best manager in the world and a fantastic squad we’ll get him. It would help if Pep would extend by June. It could be the difference. I can live with Haaland going elsewhere as long as we go all in and as long as he doesn’t go to the rags. The latter seems very unlikely.

[Outcast]

[PeterParker]

I agree with all the Haaland post, but I think we need to ask ourselves, what is our plan B if we fail to sign him.
Last summer we did not have any, are we going to do that again this year?

Vlahovic, Kane, Nunez and maybe Isak are the names that keep on poping out.

[john68]

I keep reading all this hupeabout Haarland and wonder if we really need him.

Our recent buying strategy has been to ignore the media superstars and go slightly under the radar.
None of City's recent signings have been in the media 'superstar bracket' despite reports we were interested. (I think Grealish being the exception)
Ronaldo. Messi, Van Dyke, Sanchez, Pogba, Mbappe, and a number of others were all linked by the media with City at some point and for a variety of reasons never landed. City never paid the price and in fairness, it didn't stop us forging on, winning trophies and dominating English football, breaking record after record, like no other team in English football history.

Maybe we City fans underrate the reputations of Bernardo, Dias, Rodri KDB, Cancelo etc.

Considering the way we play, the balance of the team, the way that individual egos seem to be subservient to the team ethic, and, to me importantly the manner in which our own kids like Foden, Palmer have played, and the likes of McAtee pushing....Do we really need to chase the likes of Haarland?

[nottsblue]

[dick dastardley]

How can Barca get haaland they can't even get Torres onboard!!