Totally agree - the guy looks excellent, has a similar profile to Alisson, and if he's been identified as the long term replacement it's better to get him on the books now than to be scrambling whenever Ali does leave or age. Think it's really sensible.
Summer Transfer Thread 24/25
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Done deal! What a window.
Georginio Rutter: Brighton sign Leeds forward in £40m club record deal
Brighton complete the signing of forward Georginio Rutter for a club record fee of £40m from Leeds.www.bbc.co.uk
I'm genuinely interested in how he gets on in the PL. He is brilliant to watch but equally frustrating as hell. He gives the ball away a lot, I'm not sure he will have the freedom to do what he does in the Championship and you take that away from him and I'm not sure how affective he will be, he doesn't score enough, his shooting is pretty terrible. He had a woeful end of the season, but I'm not sure how much the hernia op affected that. I would have snapped someone's hands off to get what we paid for him after the play-off ended, different story when we have sold everyone around him and not replaced them, Rutter became more integral to the team then.
Sounds like a deal for the Valencia keeper is almost done. There had been talk that he'd sign and be loaned out to Bournemouth but it looks like he's going to stay at Valencia, at least for this coming season.
The Athletic are also reporting that a £20m+ sale of Sepp van den Berg is also close, although they don't say to who, just that Brentford are strongly interested.
The Athletic are also reporting that a £20m+ sale of Sepp van den Berg is also close, although they don't say to who, just that Brentford are strongly interested.
I don't understand how he can be so well regarded, and so in demand in Germany yet so unwanted by us when we really need cover at CB for when Konate inevitably gets injured, especially if Gomez is also being allowed to leave.
He did very well last season for Mainz (was their player of the season i believe), and as to why he won't stay at Liverpool, well he's said numerous times he wants to be a starter which he won't get here.
If we can get 20-25 for someone that we bought for 1.5 (some addons aswell that will never be triggered) that would be outstanding business.
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I understand that, but he doesn't even seem to be getting a look in at all.
Because he isnt any better than VVD/Quansah/Konate/Gomez..?
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Chelsea signing Felix. Amazing.
This is mental. There has to be more to this as Sham said, it’s just too weird. He was garbage for them a couple of seasons back.
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Would have preferred that we kept Pellestri as a youth prospect and sold Anthony instead along with Eriksen/Lindelof/McT/Sancho. Anthony's had enough chances, has Pellestri had any? I suppose he's not done enough in training to give ETH reason to play him in the first team. Getting rid of those players would help bring wages down too. Haven't heard much about Maguire or Casemiro going this summer so I guess we're keeping them.
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Was just reading that. Less and less excuses for ETH to hide behind if we don’t start to perform at consistently higher level than last season.
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Thought Pellestri was younger and Anthony older. I just meant as one of the younger players in the first team it'd have been nice for Pellestri to have a few more chances but the Utd site says he's made 25 appearances, which is more than I thought, although some of the 25 would have been subs. Still this summer Ineos and Utd seem to be working on cleaning out the 'deadwood' of players on the edge of the first team who haven't got a clear route so best to sell them, get a few £££, save their wages and streamline the squad.
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I did say not to get your hopes up over Guehi mate.
Tbh I'd be snapping their hands off at that sort of money, 20-25m for him is good money.
Wish I could be more excited about the Marmalade signing but it just doesnt generate much interest in me.
Same my initial reaction is just meh not arsed
Rather we were improving other areas myself
Nobody is going to get excited about signing somebody, potentially, for 2 years down the line but it doesn't mean it's not a good deal.
It's not a case of one or the other Mark. If the club believe they can improve other areas then they will, regardless of this deal.