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Player Watch Player Watch: Giovani Lo Celso

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panoma

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If Levy fails and the likes of Lo Celso and Ndombele don’t come while Eriksen and Toby leave next year I’d imagine Poch will probably be off as well.

I know it’s said every season but this truly is the season that will define our future. 5-6 top quality players in even if that means a 100-150 mil plus net spend and we are going in the right direction but fail to hit our targets particularly if it’s down to money and the glass ceiling on our ambition will be put in place.

With Arsenal out of the CL, Chelsea with a transfer ban and having 4 CL seasons with a CL final plus the completion of the stadium if not now then never.

If this were to happen I'd honestly think I would lose a lot of my interest in football...
 

n0.1.spurs

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This article quotes 'English reports' saying we've bid €60m but the report originally came from two reliable (apparently) Spanish sources.

Also there's no way JJ would be so optimistic if we'd made such an insultingly low offer to Betis.


It's very confusing to what the original bid was.

Betis fans questioning this journalist - who then went on to reply with highlighted articles in response where he tries to make the point that the €60m figure came from diario de sevilla, and that the €70m came from Sky Sports and now the €40m is made by ABC de Sevilla.



Really hope ABC are full of shit in this case and I agree the thing that keeps me calm is JJ's optimism.
 

McArchibald

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It's very confusing to what the original bid was.

Betis fans questioning this journalist - who then went on to reply with highlighted articles in response where he tries to make the point that the €60m figure came from diario de sevilla, and that the €70m came from Sky Sports and now the €40m is made by ABC de Sevilla.



Really hope ABC are full of shit in this case and I agree the thing that keeps me calm is JJ's optimism.


That 40m could be the base fee without the additional add-ons and performance related clauses. The devil would be in these details...
 

Univarn

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That 40m could be the base fee without the additional add-ons and performance related clauses. The devil would be in these details...
Article specifically says it was 35m rising to 40m. This could have been anything.

We could have said 50-60 and they said 100 so Levy could have bid 40 to make a point.

It could be they are annoyed at Levy and leaked a low bid to voice that frustration.

It could be entirely BS.

Anyone's guess.
 

wrd

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He's playing in an international tournament so chances are that no movement until that's done. If teams start circling after that tournament then that's the time to jump in the bath with the toaster.
 

Fidget

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Without reading the article he looks ridiculously versatile. I’m starting to get excited by us signing him now, which usually means something bad happens!
Well we been told we want these players and that it would be soon, so hopefully that’s still ongoing.
 

fletch82

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This one is the one I would really like to see even more than ndombele.
He looks like the kind of player that could become genuinely world class in a cpl of years.

I would still like both though :whistle:
 

Goobers

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With the Copa going on - how much would that affect trying to sign GLC in this two week window we have heard about this am ?
 

Dirtysanchez6

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Can see what is going to happen from a mile away. We don’t get it done before the copa .... he has a brilliant copa linking well with Messi .... Barca sign him
 

Univarn

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Can see what is going to happen from a mile away. We don’t get it done before the copa .... he has a brilliant copa linking well with Messi .... Barca sign him
Barca are trying to figure out how to afford Greizmann and De Ligt and are begging people to buy Coutinho from them. I doubt he's going there. I'd be more concerned City come in for him as a long term David Silva replacement.
 

stonebrow

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All other teams will be aware if him so not concerned about him having a great tournament then suddenly he becomes hot property. I just think the longer it takes for us to conclude a deal, the longer other teams will have to convince him to join them.
 

JR1994

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Barca are trying to figure out how to afford Greizmann and De Ligt and are begging people to buy Coutinho from them. I doubt he's going there. I'd be more concerned City come in for him as a long term David Silva replacement.

They already have that covered in Foden and Bernardo
 

WiganSpur

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Can see what is going to happen from a mile away. We don’t get it done before the copa .... he has a brilliant copa linking well with Messi .... Barca sign him
Can’t sign anyone until the Champions League Final is over, can’t sign anyone until the Internationals are over. After that it could well be x had a good tournament so now others are circling. Looks like the same patterns from last year but I guess it’s still early days. I’ll be very concerned if nobody has arrived by July.
 

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One thing im curious on. If we werent trying to seal the transfer pre- COPA... why did we make a bid and seemingly leak it pre CL Final? We've effectively shown our hand and now embargoed on progressing further whilst he is at the tournament.

Yes we can negotiate and agree a fee but seems unlikely we can confirm it until after the tournament ends, therefore open to the deal being hijacked by another club. Feels quite un-Levy like. Obviously appreciate its not quite that straight forward, but thats how its played out publicly.
 
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