The Official Silly Season Summer Transfer Thread 2018/19

[Barrett487]

https://www.football.london/crystal-palace-fc/transfer-news/wolves-favourites-ahead-fulham-derby-14729349

Wolves ahead of Fulham and Derby as favourites to sign Crystal Palace star this summer

Premier League new boys Wolves are the current favourites with bookmakers to sign Crystal Palace forward Bakary Sako this summer.

The Malian international is out of contract this summer and has previously been linked with a return to his former side, having left Wolves for Palace on a free transfer in 2015.

It is understood that Palace have offered him a new contract and are hopeful that he will sign it to extend his stay in south London, but Bet Victor are still offering odds of 2/1 that he will rejoin his old side this summer.

Wolves are looking to strengthen their side ahead of their return to the Premier League, having won the Championship title last season.

And Sako is reportedly one of the players under consideration, with the Molineux outfit said to be monitoring his contract situation at Palace.

But the latest odds suggest that they are not the only ones, with Bet Victor also offering odds of 6/1 that he will join another newly-promoted side in Fulham.

Derby County, who have just appointed Chelsea legend Frank Lampard as their new manager, are third favourites to sign Sako at 8/1, the same price as West Brom, who were relegated from the Premier League.

Sako was a firm fans' favourite during his time at Wolves, helping the club to promotion from League One in 2013/14 and being named in the divisional team of the season in both that year and the following year in the Championship.

Since joining Palace, he has been dogged by injury troubles, but showed form last season when played by Eagles boss Roy Hodgson in a more advanced position, scoring six goals in all competitions.

His season was cut short though when he suffered a fractured ankle and damaged ligaments in a 1-1 draw with West Ham in January, and he has not featured since.

[hovewhite]

Can't see sako joining derby,taking a step down no way.

[deano_632]

https://www.football.london/fulham-fc/exclusive-ryan-fredericks-fulham-contract-14729391

[Luffy86]

We've got to make Ollie Norwood a permanent player.. said in a interview on sky, He wants to be a Fulham player!! Great footballing brain on him.. and can score penalties

[Pavel Dempsey]

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Fulham are in talks with Manchester City about the possibility of re-signing Patrick Roberts, Leicester also interested, City want loan deal or buy back option #FFC #LCFC #MCFC

[FirstCoastFulham]

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Fulham are in talks with Manchester City about the possibility of re-signing Patrick Roberts, Leicester also interested, City want loan deal or buy back option #FFC #LCFC #MCFC

£40m optional buyback, Etihad FC have the money

[Mince n Tatties]

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Fulham are in talks with Manchester City about the possibility of re-signing Patrick Roberts, Leicester also interested, City want loan deal or buy back option #FFC #LCFC #MCFC

Can get better than him,has struggled at Celtic this season,so doubt will be success in premier.

[Tabby]

According to the press the asking price for Kalas is £10 million. Not too sure at that price seeing as he was pushed out of the team by Odoi in the second half of the season.

Any thoughts?

[bencher]

According to the press the asking price for Kalas is £10 million. Not too sure at that price seeing as he was pushed out of the team by Odoi in the second half of the season.

Any thoughts?

Kalas lost his man (Hogan) for the late chance which he couldn't quite reach sufficiently well to direct towards goal. He is a good player, but I wonder if there are better defenders out there for that price?

[Lighthouse]

According to the press the asking price for Kalas is £10 million. Not too sure at that price seeing as he was pushed out of the team by Odoi in the second half of the season.

Any thoughts?

Not a fan myself. But at that price would we get a better defender? We do need a couple of central defenders but are we willing to pay out?

[Nasty Neil]

well spotted MCG Charlie's back with his usual.B/S . I C he has dropped the Sports bit from his name.

[ffc73]

I am a fan of Kalas but at 25 years old, he has probably peaked and i don't think he's at the level which justifies a £10m fee. If you take youth out the equation and you're buying someone in their late 20s, then for defenders IMO £10m should buy you a really good, international class player

Compared with the reported £20m Bournemouth paid Chelsea for Nathan Ake this time last year, £10m for Kalas in the Premiership / Sky pricing market does not seem unreasonable.  Especially as he knows us, we know him and he seems to want to play for us. 

[Tabby]

I am a fan of Kalas but at 25 years old, he has probably peaked and i don't think he's at the level which justifies a £10m fee. If you take youth out the equation and you're buying someone in their late 20s, then for defenders IMO £10m should buy you a really good, international class player

Compared with the reported £20m Bournemouth paid Chelsea for Nathan Ake this time last year, £10m for Kalas in the Premiership / Sky pricing market does not seem unreasonable.  Especially as he knows us, we know him and he seems to want to play for us.

Ake was the best defender in their team and had a year and a half of Premier League at 22 when they got him. He played almost every minute last year for them and is a key player.

Kalas on the other hand has a couple of seasons in the Championship and was pushed out of the starting lineup for us when we only had 2 recognized centre backs going into the season, including Kalas.

[filham]

Can we open a book as to the date the first post appears here from someone claiming he's worried that we haven't made any signings yet?

I read yesterday that Fredericks is in talks with  West Ham but in fact I suspect it is just paper talk. This could go on all summer with Fredericks just letting it run on and on to ensure he gets the best offer.

[Jonaldiniho 88]

I am a fan of Kalas but at 25 years old, he has probably peaked and i don't think he's at the level which justifies a £10m fee. If you take youth out the equation and you're buying someone in their late 20s, then for defenders IMO £10m should buy you a really good, international class player

Do CB's peak a 25? I think more like 30 personally. He wasn't the player we hoped he would be last season but it's hard to improve when sat on the bench. I think he has the potential to improve to PL quality.

[Jonaldiniho 88]

In hindsight 30 is a bit old. Timmy's probably an exception. Wouldn't write off a 25 year old as peaked however

[Roberty]

Can we open a book as to the date the first post appears here from someone claiming he's worried that we haven't made any signings yet?

I read yesterday that Fredericks is in talks with  West Ham but in fact I suspect it is just paper talk. This could go on all summer with Fredericks just letting it run on and on to ensure he gets the best offer.

At the end of his contract he no longer gets paid - zero income usually speeds things up

[hovewhite]

Kalas not good enough I believe, great lad but not at 10 mill.

[Tabby]

According to Turkish papers we're in for Youness Mokhtar (winger who plays in the Netherlands). Would probably be a depth option if anything.

[sunburywhite]

According to Turkish papers we're in for Youness Mokhtar (winger who plays in the Netherlands). Would probably be a depth option if anything.

I can never fathom out depth options