Real Betis are under pressure to accelerate Giovani Lo Celso's move to #thfc, otherwise they will be unable to sign more players this summer. | @ElTransistorOC
Haha.
Not to tempt fate, but it sounds like the game of poker Levy has been playing with them and Herc alluded to all summer, may have worked.
They need to sell and they're not going to get that fantasy figure from any other club. Let's see, I still think this is more likely than Coutinho/Dybala...
As long as lord levite has his priorities right and gets ryan nelson over the line, I won't fussAhh shit, I don't even know who I want anymore. It's all a bit mental.
Good analysisI think we were looking at two anyway, regardless of whether Erikssen signed or not. At this point, Erikssen needs to go. Attitude is terrible. The four are very different players. We need legitimate competition for places. Erikssen played when healthy regardless. He also took corners and free kicks whether he had any success or not. How many games could we have scraped points rather than lost had we scored on the odd corner or free kick? He went three years of PL games without scoring from a direct free kick. 3 years!!!!
Clearly Lo Celso wants us and we want him. Real Betis Valuation is crazy. 88M is the price you throw out there when you don't want to sell the player. When a team is in that position, they do not normally sign a replacement, as Real Betis did. Real Betis also needs the sale money to buy the players they need, so no clue where they are left if we just walk away.
Juve is good with us taking Dybala and he apparently wants to come. His numbers at Juve have been excellent, though this last year he was squeezed out by Ronaldo. Only one ball, as they say and when Ronaldo is there, he gets his fair share of the ball, and then some.
Fernandes, like Lo Celso, has already agreed terms (so is willing to come). Not sure Sporting would mind selling, they just need to show the fans that they got all that they could for him. My worry is his foot speed. Not sure how he would do in the Pochettino press
Coutinho is the interesting one. Like Ceballos, there is no way we contemplate it without a reasonable option to buy and intent from the player to stay if all goes to plan.
Now, if all four become doable, and Erikssen to ManU goes through, Fernandes does not come. The other three are just so much quicker of mind and feet IMO. The upside on Lo Celso is through the roof.
Even as the window started, I'd have been ecstatic with Lo Celso, Sessegnon and Ndombele, so would be hard to see all three over the line as a great window.
I think we were looking at two anyway, regardless of whether Erikssen signed or not. At this point, Erikssen needs to go. Attitude is terrible. The four are very different players. We need legitimate competition for places. Erikssen played when healthy regardless. He also took corners and free kicks whether he had any success or not. How many games could we have scraped points rather than lost had we scored on the odd corner or free kick? He went three years of PL games without scoring from a direct free kick. 3 years!!!!
Clearly Lo Celso wants us and we want him. Real Betis Valuation is crazy. 88M is the price you throw out there when you don't want to sell the player. When a team is in that position, they do not normally sign a replacement, as Real Betis did. Real Betis also needs the sale money to buy the players they need, so no clue where they are left if we just walk away.
Juve is good with us taking Dybala and he apparently wants to come. His numbers at Juve have been excellent, though this last year he was squeezed out by Ronaldo. Only one ball, as they say and when Ronaldo is there, he gets his fair share of the ball, and then some.
Fernandes, like Lo Celso, has already agreed terms (so is willing to come). Not sure Sporting would mind selling, they just need to show the fans that they got all that they could for him. My worry is his foot speed. Not sure how he would do in the Pochettino press
Coutinho is the interesting one. Like Ceballos, there is no way we contemplate it without a reasonable option to buy and intent from the player to stay if all goes to plan.
Now, if all four become doable, and Erikssen to ManU goes through, Fernandes does not come. The other three are just so much quicker of mind and feet IMO. The upside on Lo Celso is through the roof.
Even as the window started, I'd have been ecstatic with Lo Celso, Sessegnon and Ndombele, so would be hard to see all three over the line as a great window.
Best case scenario is Eriksen gives MU the finger and goes to Barca as part of the Coutinho deal.
I’d prefer it if he went to Juve and we ended up with Dybala and GLC. All fairly fanciful at this point - so hard to know how it’ll end