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Transfers Summer 2019 transfer thread

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That would still be our second most expensive fee of all time, Levy is not going to just throw money at players. We have limitations and concluding deals will take time. If Levy can save £10m by haggling then he will do it, he is never going to change.

A. How do you know this?
B. £35m sounds a reasonable opening bid. I've heard some ridiculous buyout fees quoted in Spain for players that are never met. The club would look like mugs if they rocked up and got bent over straightaway.
C. You're a notorious melt.
The club has to complete signings early before pre season. That's what Poch wants.

Couldn't care less how they do it or how much they pay.
 
Poch is on a well earned holiday, so I don't expect movement until July.

It's been a seriously stressful season and the boys need a good time to unwind and release.

Like Winksy is doing running Ibiza.
 
I've heard some ridiculous buyout fees quoted in Spain for players that are never met.

This is only partly true. It certainly is at the biggest clubs (Ronaldo's release clause was €1 billion), but as you go down the scale it fast becomes less and less so (remember that every professional footballer here, however lowly, has to have one by law). Such clauses are inextricably linked to a players wages, so whenever a club wants to increase the clause, the players agent will want this to be reflected in an equivalent pay hike, thus restricting how high the club can set the buy-out amount. Such clauses set by such clubs are regularly met.

Just guessing but I'd imagine that a middling club like Betis would expect to get 70% and hope for 80% of the release clause in this case, so expect to see him go for €70 million+

£35 million (€40 million and falling, as the pound tanks) is a laughably low starting point as far as Betis will be concerned
 
More of a central midfielder than Lamela I'd say. But they have some similarities in play style. Their biggest difference is that Pellegrini is double footed.

we're not looking for carbon copies here but players who can fill in the same sort of role. We need depth for all the games, injuries and when form drops. This is one of those mid-level signings that are needed along with top level and youth.

He looks decent, thinks quick and seems to have purpose and urgency.
 
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