The Official Silly Season Summer Transfer Thread 2018/19

[Marcel_Gecov]

http://www.skysports.com/transfer-centre


ROBERTS TO LEICESTER?

Leicester will look to sign Manchester City forward Patrick Roberts as part of a deal which will see Riyad Mahrez head to the Etihad, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Be intriguing to see if he can live up to the hype as a youngster or will be the next Berahino...

[Milo]

Seems a good fit I'd think

[Barrett487]

https://www.turksvoetbal.net/besiktas-nieuws/48642-opare-naar-besiktas-goekhan-goenuel-naar-fulham.html

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Can't see this happening... he's 33 years old.

https://turkish-football.com/fulham-make-e4-5m-bid-besiktas-star-gokhan-gonul/

[Barrett487]

http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2018/06/05/report-fulham-join-race-to-sign-norwich-citys-james-maddison/

Fulham have joined the race to sign Norwich City midfielder James Maddison, according to the Daily Mirror (liveblog entry 12:04).

Maddison scored 14 goals and set up eight in his breakthrough season at Norwich, who it is claimed are set to cash in after coming to the end of their Premier League parachute payments.

The England Under-21 international is said to have attracted interest from top four clubs Manchester City, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur, however they have yet to firm up their interest, according to the Daily Mirror.

And the report adds that a door has now opened for 'lesser top-flight outfits like Fulham and Southampton' to seize on Maddison, who is likely leave Norwich for a fee ranging from £20million-£25million.

Landing Maddison would leave Fulham in excellent shape, not only to survive their first season back in the Premier League, but establish themselves in the top-flight in future.

[HobGoblin]

https://www.turksvoetbal.net/besiktas-nieuws/48642-opare-naar-besiktas-goekhan-goenuel-naar-fulham.html

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Can't see this happening... he's 33 years old.

https://turkish-football.com/fulham-make-e4-5m-bid-besiktas-star-gokhan-gonul/

33 no thanks. Feel he will struggle in PL

[cmg]

https://www.turksvoetbal.net/besiktas-nieuws/48642-opare-naar-besiktas-goekhan-goenuel-naar-fulham.html

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Can't see this happening... he's 33 years old.

https://turkish-football.com/fulham-make-e4-5m-bid-besiktas-star-gokhan-gonul/

33 no thanks. Feel he will struggle in PL

Not only that, he has had quite a few injury problems. Transfermarkt records two operations (has had hamstring problems) last season.
Has been a top quality RB but Besiktas has already bought a replacement. They, and he, are probably keen to move him on.
The only good thing in this one is that I can't imagine the Turkish linens are any more reliable than ours.

[Sherlock]

http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2018/06/05/report-fulham-join-race-to-sign-norwich-citys-james-maddison/

Fulham have joined the race to sign Norwich City midfielder James Maddison, according to the Daily Mirror (liveblog entry 12:04).

Maddison scored 14 goals and set up eight in his breakthrough season at Norwich, who it is claimed are set to cash in after coming to the end of their Premier League parachute payments.

The England Under-21 international is said to have attracted interest from top four clubs Manchester City, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur, however they have yet to firm up their interest, according to the Daily Mirror.

And the report adds that a door has now opened for 'lesser top-flight outfits like Fulham and Southampton' to seize on Maddison, who is likely leave Norwich for a fee ranging from £20million-£25million.

Landing Maddison would leave Fulham in excellent shape, not only to survive their first season back in the Premier League, but establish themselves in the top-flight in future.

£20m spent on James Maddison would be money well spent in my opinion. Would fit very well in our midfield with KMac and Cairney too. I would not be surprised if he ends up at a more established PL side though.

[Barrett487]

http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2018/06/05/report-fulham-join-race-to-sign-norwich-citys-james-maddison/

Fulham have joined the race to sign Norwich City midfielder James Maddison, according to the Daily Mirror (liveblog entry 12:04).

Maddison scored 14 goals and set up eight in his breakthrough season at Norwich, who it is claimed are set to cash in after coming to the end of their Premier League parachute payments.

The England Under-21 international is said to have attracted interest from top four clubs Manchester City, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur, however they have yet to firm up their interest, according to the Daily Mirror.

And the report adds that a door has now opened for 'lesser top-flight outfits like Fulham and Southampton' to seize on Maddison, who is likely leave Norwich for a fee ranging from £20million-£25million.

Landing Maddison would leave Fulham in excellent shape, not only to survive their first season back in the Premier League, but establish themselves in the top-flight in future.

£20m spent on James Maddison would be money well spent in my opinion. Would fit very well in our midfield with KMac and Cairney too. I would not be surprised if he ends up at a more established PL side though.

On Sky Transfer Centre

14:00
MADDISON TO LEICESTER?

Leicester are in pole position to sign Norwich midfielder James Maddison, according to Press Association Sport.

The Foxes are leading the chase for the 21-year-old and pushing hard to complete a deal.
Norwich are likely to demand over £20m for Maddison, who scored 14 goals in the Sky Bet Championship last season.

Leicester are poised to sell Riyad Mahrez to Manchester City and landing highly-rated Maddison would be a coup for the Foxes. Everton remain interested following Marco Silva's appointment but Maddison is keen on a switch to the King Power Stadium, which would take him closer to his home town of Coventry.

[wheelerdeeler]

Talkadoodle saying Fulham in for Stoke Starlet,believed to be Ryan Shawcross.

Doesn't starlet mean young player? Sobhi?

Isn't Sobhi signing for Huddersfield? Shaqiri would look good in a front three with Sessegnon and Mitrovic.

Read the same on twitter, doesn't mean we aren't in for him though. I would stay away from relegated sides if I could - Shaqiiri aside. I just hope we also keep Berahino at arms length too.

There's quite a few players from the relegated teams I'd happily take this year.
Mawson, Fabianski or maybe Clucas as an option from Swansea.
Rondon, Jay Rodriguez, Oliver Burke, Evans, Hegazy and Ben Foster from WBA.
Bauer, Ndiaye, Allen, Shaqiri, Martins Indi and Butland from Stoke

That's not to say we should be signing all of them (and in the case of Mawson, Butland and Shaqiri in particular they'll be out of our price range) but there are some good players in the 3 teams this year.

Why is Mawson out of our price range? We've just secured access to Premier League renevue streams, have a billionaire owner no longer shackled by FFP who said that significant funds are available for the right players - Mawson is exactly the profile of players we should look at (young, good defender / confident on the ball / fits our system, has a good potential sell-on value, in a relegated team so likely looking for a move to stay in the Prem). It may be that other Prem teams may also go in for him, but if it's Shad's intention to "not just survive, but thrive" then this is exactly the sort of signing we should be looking at.

There's being ambitious, and then there's being stupid. I've seen Arsenal, Everton, Spurs and Liverpool linked with him off the top of my head who would all be able to offer 2 or 3x what we can in wages and be a lot more comfortable offering upwards of 20-30 mill which he'd probably cost. He'd probably start for all of them except Spurs as well.

[S.F.Sorrow]

Maddison would be an excellent signing!

[mkras99]

https://www.football.london/fulham-fc/fulham-transfer-gossip-wilshere-maddison-14635067

[Count Flapula]

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There's being ambitious, and then there's being stupid. I've seen Arsenal, Everton, Spurs and Liverpool linked with him off the top of my head who would all be able to offer 2 or 3x what we can in wages and be a lot more comfortable offering upwards of 20-30 mill which he'd probably cost. He'd probably start for all of them except Spurs as well.
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Bidding £20m+ on a young player with high potential resale value is not stupid in today's market. I acknowledge other bigger name teams are linked with him but it doesn't hurt bidding - what do we have to lose? We have been quoted as looking at Maddison for similar prices - personally I think we need a CB more (not saying I wouldn't take Maddison but agree we can't be flashing too much cash about - if the opportunity cost is bidding on either / or rather than both then I'd go for the CB all day long). We only lose out potentially by not putting an offer in. We may not get him but if you don't but a ticket you don't win the raffle. Ambition is not a dirty word if done in a reasonable way.

[wheelerdeeler]

Bidding £20m+ on a young player with high potential resale value is not stupid in today's market. I acknowledge other bigger name teams are linked with him but it doesn't hurt bidding - what do we have to lose? We have been quoted as looking at Maddison for similar prices - personally I think we need a CB more (not saying I wouldn't take Maddison but agree we can't be flashing too much cash about - if the opportunity cost is bidding on either / or rather than both then I'd go for the CB all day long). We only lose out potentially by not putting an offer in. We may not get him but if you don't but a ticket you don't win the raffle. Ambition is not a dirty word if done in a reasonable way.

I'd just rather not chase unrealistic targets like we did with Lewis Dunk a few summers ago, especially with us needing to sign players ASAP in my opinion. You can't genuinely expect to sign Mawson. Plus there's a lot better value out there in my opinion given as you say he's young, english and highly rated. Personally I think we need to spend/will spend in the region of 60-80 Million this summer.

[Rambler]

Sky Reporting Maddison.

No smoke without fire. I think this story is gathering speed. Must be a little bit of truth in it.

[Bassey the warrior]

Bidding £20m+ on a young player with high potential resale value is not stupid in today's market. I acknowledge other bigger name teams are linked with him but it doesn't hurt bidding - what do we have to lose? We have been quoted as looking at Maddison for similar prices - personally I think we need a CB more (not saying I wouldn't take Maddison but agree we can't be flashing too much cash about - if the opportunity cost is bidding on either / or rather than both then I'd go for the CB all day long). We only lose out potentially by not putting an offer in. We may not get him but if you don't but a ticket you don't win the raffle. Ambition is not a dirty word if done in a reasonable way.

I'd just rather not chase unrealistic targets like we did with Lewis Dunk a few summers ago, especially with us needing to sign players ASAP in my opinion. You can't genuinely expect to sign Mawson. Plus there's a lot better value out there in my opinion given as you say he's young, english and highly rated. Personally I think we need to spend/will spend in the region of 60-80 Million this summer.

Mawson is at a relegated team, so he's not an unreasonable target. Rumours that bigger teams want him are just that, rumours and until they place a bid we don't know how accurate they are. Not saying we would sign him but let's not assume he's out of reach.

Furthermore, Arsenal are about to sign a centre back, Liverpool recently signed one and Spurs are well stocked there until they sell one.

[wheelerdeeler]

Bidding £20m+ on a young player with high potential resale value is not stupid in today's market. I acknowledge other bigger name teams are linked with him but it doesn't hurt bidding - what do we have to lose? We have been quoted as looking at Maddison for similar prices - personally I think we need a CB more (not saying I wouldn't take Maddison but agree we can't be flashing too much cash about - if the opportunity cost is bidding on either / or rather than both then I'd go for the CB all day long). We only lose out potentially by not putting an offer in. We may not get him but if you don't but a ticket you don't win the raffle. Ambition is not a dirty word if done in a reasonable way.

I'd just rather not chase unrealistic targets like we did with Lewis Dunk a few summers ago, especially with us needing to sign players ASAP in my opinion. You can't genuinely expect to sign Mawson. Plus there's a lot better value out there in my opinion given as you say he's young, english and highly rated. Personally I think we need to spend/will spend in the region of 60-80 Million this summer.

Mawson is at a relegated team, so he's not an unreasonable target. Rumours that bigger teams want him are just that, rumours and until they place a bid we don't know how accurate they are. Not saying we would sign him but let's not assume he's out of reach.

Furthermore, Arsenal are about to sign a centre back, Liverpool recently signed one and Spurs are well stocked there until they sell one.

Spurs are selling Alderweireld, Arsenal are signing Sokratis, which leaves them with Sokratis, Mustafi, Holding and Chambers with Koscielny out long-term (and I could see them selling Mustafi), Everton's Centre-Backs are genuinely tragic and Liverpool may want to add to Lovren and Matip as far as partners go for van Dijk.

It's not out of the realm of possibility that he is a possibility for us, but I'd say there's about a 0.01% chance. As I say, I think we'd spend max 80 mill this summer- and Mitrovic would be 20 right off the bat. I can't see us spending 20+ on a Centre-Back.

[OMalleyCat]

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Targett and mitrovic ✅
Interest in Gönul - concerns about age.
Watch out for movement from Napoli (Elsad Hysaj)
Interest Badelj and Delaney but moves to bigger clubs may suit.

I'm half convinced Mitro will stay but surely won't happen until after the World Cup.

[Bassey the warrior]

Bidding £20m+ on a young player with high potential resale value is not stupid in today's market. I acknowledge other bigger name teams are linked with him but it doesn't hurt bidding - what do we have to lose? We have been quoted as looking at Maddison for similar prices - personally I think we need a CB more (not saying I wouldn't take Maddison but agree we can't be flashing too much cash about - if the opportunity cost is bidding on either / or rather than both then I'd go for the CB all day long). We only lose out potentially by not putting an offer in. We may not get him but if you don't but a ticket you don't win the raffle. Ambition is not a dirty word if done in a reasonable way.

I'd just rather not chase unrealistic targets like we did with Lewis Dunk a few summers ago, especially with us needing to sign players ASAP in my opinion. You can't genuinely expect to sign Mawson. Plus there's a lot better value out there in my opinion given as you say he's young, english and highly rated. Personally I think we need to spend/will spend in the region of 60-80 Million this summer.

Mawson is at a relegated team, so he's not an unreasonable target. Rumours that bigger teams want him are just that, rumours and until they place a bid we don't know how accurate they are. Not saying we would sign him but let's not assume he's out of reach.

Furthermore, Arsenal are about to sign a centre back, Liverpool recently signed one and Spurs are well stocked there until they sell one.

Spurs are selling Alderweireld, Arsenal are signing Sokratis, which leaves them with Sokratis, Mustafi, Holding and Chambers with Koscielny out long-term (and I could see them selling Mustafi), Everton's Centre-Backs are genuinely tragic and Liverpool may want to add to Lovren and Matip as far as partners go for van Dijk.

It's not out of the realm of possibility that he is a possibility for us, but I'd say there's about a 0.01% chance. As I say, I think we'd spend max 80 mill this summer- and Mitrovic would be 20 right off the bat. I can't see us spending 20+ on a Centre-Back.

It all comes down to whether these clubs would deem him good enough or want to aim higher.

[Flupp]

For me the "problem" is the different kind of football we have to play next season ....
There will be more and more of defending football from our team an allot of counter attacks
we need pacy winger and striker (for me Mitro isn`t that kind of player)

[Flupp]

I´d love to see Lewis Holtby back at the Cottage ... at his time hera he was very passionate for the club and the fans :)
But he will stay at the relegated HSV :(