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Transfers January 2020 transfer thread

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BF3 said:
Gedson, Piatek and Bergwjin would somehow be a great and not great window at the same time.
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It would be good for me. I think Aurier can do a decent job until the end of the season, and Tang can easily cover for him. If we managed to get Piatek, that would be 1 of our major problems solved, and Piatek is quality. Gedson is a bit of a weird one for me, because I think we have players who can do his job, although in different ways, but saying that, José must have seen something in him. Bergwijn is a very good deal. Young, dutch winger who can cover for Son and Lucas, and might even do a decent job as a striker. IF, and knowing how Levy works, that's a big IF, we got Bergwijn and Piatek alongside Gedson, while shifting deadwood like Rose and Wanyama, unhappy players like Eriksen and players that we think that will not cut it like KWP and Foyth (the latter of which I don't agree with), I would consider this an extremely positive window.
 
I'd really like to think that the standoff over Piatek is just posturing to knock a couple of million off. The supposed Chelsea interest is classic AC Milan/agent stories to the press to hurry us up.

We are so desperate for a striker that surely a breakthrough happens before/on Friday.
 
Airfixx said:
Tbh, I think being a bust at Spurs gave him the required kick up the arse to step his shit up. He was often a ghost for us.
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Capoue wasn't with us for very long. He showed some really good glimpses after he first transferred, but had that nasty injury in his first season that put him on the sidelines for a good while and he never looked like the same player or ever really recovered his form.
 
Thin Lilywhite Duke said:
I'd really like to think that the standoff over Piatek is just posturing to knock a couple of million off. The supposed Chelsea interest is classic AC Milan/agent stories to the press to hurry us up.

We are so desperate for a striker that surely a breakthrough happens before/on Friday.
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I usually don't mind the long negotiations that much, but it's sad to think that if we would sign him tomorrow then we could start/play a striker against City, but now we won't be able to.
 
greenmanRD said:
My understanding of Piatek is he's not a target man/back to goal sort of player. He's more a fox in the box and doesn't do much in terms of build up play. The way he was described reminded more of like Roberto Soldado than say Fernando Llorente.
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Watching how many chances Lucas and Sonny have fluffed since Kane went out I'd be ok with a goal poacher. I think taking that pressure off the wide forwards could possibly help their form.
 


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Bill Madrid said:
I imagine the "£60m 28 year old" bit is a dig at William José. I don't know how many times I have to explain this but he isn't a £60m 28 year old, he's a £21m 28 year old. £60m (well, £59m/€70m) is his legally-required buy out clause, there's no suggestion whatsoever that Real Sociedad have ever sought that. Indeed, if they were, a club interested in signing him wouldn't have to negotiate a damn thing with RS, they'd only need to agree wages with WJ and then pop into the offices of La Liga with seventy million euro coins and buy his existing contract (contracts here belong to the league).

From all reports in the local press, Real Sociedad want €25 million, Spurs won't budge from €15 million (£21m/£11m).

I've no idea which is the better player (personally, like most I suppose, I'll be delighted with which ever one JM prefers) but it doesn't help if the facts aren't being presented accurately
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i wish i had a pound for everytime someone had to explain a buy out clause, its not a difficult concept is it?:vdvcry:
 
BF3 said:
Gedson, Piatek and Bergwjin would somehow be a great and not great window at the same time.
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I think because we didn’t sign players in the numbers needed for quite sometime we left ourselves massive work. We needed to buy probably about 7 players last summer and get rid of 4-5 and instead we just got 3 so we needed another big window.

To be fair if we get Gedson, Paitek and Bergwjin we are really only short a DM, right back can wait till summer. So we have fixed our mess mainly in good time if we have a stormer this window.
 
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