The Official Silly Season Summer Transfer Thread 2018/19

[bornafulhamfan]

Don't know if anyone agrees, but I would consider signing Howedes from Schalke. Apparenlty they want just 4.5 million for him, has a ton of German nt, Bundesliga and Champions league experience and he played in Juventus during last season. Only problem is he is 30 years old. And i forgot to say he is a cb, but can play rb and even lb if needed.

Is he a good ball playing defender ?.I have heard his name but not seen him play.If so then could be quite a bargain and a very useful addition.

It's not necessarily his best attribute, but I wouldn't say no to him if he was on offer. He's played all over the defensive line for Germany as well. He was their starting LB when they won the World Cup.

I just looked his passing stats from last season and they are better than ream's and he played in italian first division while ream played in championship.

[wheelerdeeler]

Won't happen in a million years, but it's the Silly Season thread (emphasis on silly) so...

@ALANMYERSMEDIA
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Fulham reportedly looking to buy Kieran Tierney from Celtic, fee £25M being reported

[Rambler]

Great news about Mitrovic.
But I don't believe the fee will get up to £27 million. It seems absurd. I know Ashley is a very hard businessman but if we are to believe the press NUFC wanted £20 mil for him. Now why would it suddenly escalate up to £27mil?

[davew]

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Sky sources understand that the fee Newcastle have agreed with Fulham is £22m, in a deal which could rise to £27m with potential add-ons.

Thats quite a bit more than I was expecting

Maybe people will be more understanding as to why the club didn't just bid £20 million and get it sorted.

I must be missing something, they wanted 18m, we were only willing to pay 16m, reported that a deal had been done at 20m and now higher figures are apparently being quoted, wtf is going on?

[wheelerdeeler]

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Sky sources understand that the fee Newcastle have agreed with Fulham is £22m, in a deal which could rise to £27m with potential add-ons.

Thats quite a bit more than I was expecting

Maybe people will be more understanding as to why the club didn't just bid £20 million and get it sorted.

I must be missing something, they wanted 18m, we were only willing to pay 16m, reported that a deal had been done at 20m and now higher figures are apparently being quoted, wtf is going on?

Ashley/Charnley want an ego boost.

[davew]

MITROVIC FEE LATEST

Sky sources understand that the fee Newcastle have agreed with Fulham is £22m, in a deal which could rise to £27m with potential add-ons.

Thats quite a bit more than I was expecting

Maybe people will be more understanding as to why the club didn't just bid £20 million and get it sorted.

I must be missing something, they wanted 18m, we were only willing to pay 16m, reported that a deal had been done at 20m and now higher figures are apparently being quoted, wtf is going on?

Ashley/Charnley want an ego boost.

They need it but have we been suckered in? Whatever the price (within reason) Mitro will prove to be a great signing to keep us in the PL, a few more quality signings and we will finish top half, shame that football is all about spending power though these days!

[Deeping_white]

Bearing in mind it was made public that Newcastle wanted £18m for Mitro, why would the fee suddenly be almost £10m more than that with add ons?? The media does chat some nonsense sometimes

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[Twig]

I care and I am not sure we should be paying 20m or north of that for Mitro. He was a hero
last season but is unproven in the prem.

10 goals in 40 PL games in what really equates to 25 full games.
Maybe not proven over two or three years but if he gets ten plus goals for us then that's a good return.

Mike you are taking average game time I assume?  Not a bad return but definitely not the finished article. I was fine when we were talking 16 - 18m but 22m seriously?

[DevonFFC]

Won't happen in a million years, but it's the Silly Season thread (emphasis on silly) so...

@ALANMYERSMEDIA
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Fulham reportedly looking to buy Kieran Tierney from Celtic, fee £25M being reported

Maybe the draw of playing with Cairney and a big sesh in London with Kmac could swing it

[Nero]

I care and I am not sure we should be paying 20m or north of that for Mitro. He was a hero
last season but is unproven in the prem.

10 goals in 40 PL games in what really equates to 25 full games.
Maybe not proven over two or three years but if he gets ten plus goals for us then that's a good return.

Mike you are taking average game time I assume?  Not a bad return but definitely not the finished article. I was fine when we were talking 16 - 18m but 22m seriously?

it will all depends on how the deal is structured, they may be a sell on % meaning paying more now meaning pay less in the future, or it could have been they want 18m with pl survival an extra 5m we may pay 22m and save a mill at the end of the season,

[FFC1987]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/6887210/peter-crouch-burnley-stoke-500k-bid/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SprnklrSUNOrganic&UTMX=Editorial:TheSunFootball:TwImageandlink:Statement:Sport

Must of failed his Fulham medical but another club have an easier one maybe?

[Barry@ENF]

I care and I am not sure we should be paying 20m or north of that for Mitro. He was a hero
last season but is unproven in the prem.

10 goals in 40 PL games in what really equates to 25 full games.
Maybe not proven over two or three years but if he gets ten plus goals for us then that's a good return.

Agreed - and I think it's reasonable to "add" another two for key interventions at the back.

[wheelerdeeler]

The Sun (Alan Nixon) are reporting the Tierney link.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/2993464/kieran-tierney-celtic-fulham-transfer-news/

[Ordar]

Isnt Tierney meant to be super good? And one of the best young prospects around?

[FFCFOREVER]

Don't know if anyone agrees, but I would consider signing Howedes from Schalke. Apparenlty they want just 4.5 million for him, has a ton of German nt, Bundesliga and Champions league experience and he played in Juventus during last season. Only problem is he is 30 years old. And i forgot to say he is a cb, but can play rb and even lb if needed.

Is he a good ball playing defender ?.I have heard his name but not seen him play.If so then could be quite a bargain and a very useful addition.

It's not necessarily his best attribute, but I wouldn't say no to him if he was on offer. He's played all over the defensive line for Germany as well. He was their starting LB when they won the World Cup.

I just looked his passing stats from last season and they are better than ream's and he played in italian first division while ream played in championship.

Worth a punt then I reckon.

[Deeping_white]

The Sun (Alan Nixon) are reporting the Tierney link.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/2993464/kieran-tierney-celtic-fulham-transfer-news/

Hard to take any story seriously that says he's a replacement for our current "left back" sessegnon

Also a bit of a nothing story as it says we'll bid if we sell Sess but we've already said we're not selling him this year so unless he's taking a punt on a story that potentially happens next year, I don't see the point of him writing this! Also fails to mention the clubs who might want to spend £100m on Sess so a waste of time reading it in all honestly so I agree with you

[Bryanthebroom]

Isnt Tierney meant to be super good? And one of the best young prospects around?

Yep.
Wow we're certainly shopping in Selfridges for our players this window.
We've spent - what, about 52m so far? How much more do people expect Fulham to spend this window. Another 100m?!? Still so many gaps to fill!

[wheelerdeeler]

Isnt Tierney meant to be super good? And one of the best young prospects around?

Yep.
Wow we're certainly shopping in Selfridges for our players this window.
We've spent - what, about 52m so far? How much more do people expect Fulham to spend this window. Another 100m?!? Still so many gaps to fill!

Let's say we are hypothetically spending 25m on Tierney (highly doubt it) and 20m on Mawson. Could see us padding the squad out with a freebie or two and maybe a loan and that'll be us done. Think we will spend another 40m or so on top of Mitrovic which'll take us up to what? 85-90m total?

[wheelerdeeler]

In-terms of reputation/potential to grow Tierney would be our biggest signing this summer. Play our cards right and we'd easily double or even triple our money on him in a few years time given how rare good full-backs are and how in demand they are for the top clubs. See Mendy and Walker going for 50 odd mill each.

Can't see it happening though. Encouraging if we're looking at spending that much on a full-back though. Means we'd be in the ball park for Plattenhardt or potentially signing someone like Ismaily (Shakhtar) or Philipp Max (Augsburg) (no links, just two Left-Backs I'd really like to see us bring in).