2015/16 Summer Transfer Rumours Mk.VI

RealGunner wrote: Northampton youngster Ivan Toney Montana set to move to St James' Park - Mirror

This lad has a bright future ahead of him with this name.

Chelsea sign Augsburg left-back Rahman Baba for a fee of more than €25m, according to Sportbild.

dronte wrote:

RealGunner wrote: Northampton youngster Ivan Toney Montana set to move to St James' Park - Mirror

This lad has a bright future ahead of him with this name.

Should i tell him RG? or hope he figures it out lol.

RealGunner wrote: Northampton youngster Ivan Toney Montana set to move to St James' Park - Mirror

Wow you can't even make up a name that good. What a lad.

At the unveiling, McLaren will lift the curtain with Toney standing behind it, and tell the media to say hello to his little friend.

Ffs that's not his last name people

Spoiler:

A simple google search revealed that. I was trying to make a joke.

The internets.

Curtinho wrote:A simple google search revealed that. I was trying to make a joke.

But of course.

ffs

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

dronte wrote:

RealGunner wrote: Northampton youngster Ivan Toney Montana set to move to St James' Park - Mirror

This lad has a bright future ahead of him with this name.

Should i tell him RG? or hope he figures it out lol.

Ruined my day

Angry Schalke tell Juventus to end interest in winger Draxler

Schalke have told Juventus that Julian Draxler is "not for sale" and "not to contact them again" after rejecting another bid for the player.

http://www.foxsports.com/soccer/story/schalke-tell-juventus-that-draxler-is-not-for-sale-and-to-stay-away-073115

Angry Germans are angry

I'd back off

junkyard wrote:Chelsea sign Augsburg left-back Rahman Baba for a fee of more than €25m, according to Sportbild.

Will be interesting to see how below the radar that signing flies before it goes mainstream.

McLewis wrote:

junkyard wrote:Chelsea sign Augsburg left-back Rahman Baba for a fee of more than €25m, according to Sportbild.

Will be interesting to see how below the radar that signing flies before it goes mainstream.

So Chelsea bought a great LB in filipe Luis, didn't use him, sold him back for a lower price and now they are paying 25 millions for a .... LB  ???

When was the last time a young player ( u21) made chelsea's first team ?

LeBéninois wrote:

McLewis wrote:

junkyard wrote:Chelsea sign Augsburg left-back Rahman Baba for a fee of more than €25m, according to Sportbild.

Will be interesting to see how below the radar that signing flies before it goes mainstream.

So Chelsea bought a great LB in filipe Luis, didn't use him, sold him back for a lower price and now they are paying 25 millions for a .... LB  ???

When was the last time a young player ( u21) made chelsea's first team ?

John Terry.

Chelsea's youth policy is the biggest disaster in the footballing world, if you consider just HOW MANY *bleep* U21 players they amass and how none of them ever plays for Chelsea.
It's a disgrace, and a bad joke, and it's also talent mass murder.

Anyway, Baba to Chelsea not done yet.

Roma have Gerson deal?
By Football Italia staff

Roma reportedly have an agreement with Fluminense for Gerson, cornering competitors Barcelona.

The Brazilian appears set to join the Giallorossi for an agreed fee of €15m, according to Spanish outlet El Mundo Deportivo.

Barcelona paid €4m to have transfer precedence on the player and are still in the race. Fluminense have already informed them of their agreement with Roma.

Now the Blaugrana have 48 hours to match the Roman offer, or they'll lose their rights over the 18-year-old.

Juventus were also linked with the player and might make another bid.


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Because we totally can blow 15m on a midfielder we don't need. I just don't get it.

Clearly need a RB/LB....but no, let's spend that on a midfielder when we're already stacked there.

Hapless_Hans wrote:

LeBéninois wrote:

McLewis wrote:


Will be interesting to see how below the radar that signing flies before it goes mainstream.

So Chelsea bought a great LB in filipe Luis, didn't use him, sold him back for a lower price and now they are paying 25 millions for a .... LB  ???

When was the last time a young player ( u21) made chelsea's first team ?

John Terry.

Chelsea's youth policy is the biggest disaster in the footballing world, if you consider just HOW MANY *bleep* U21 players they amass and how none of them ever plays for Chelsea.
It's a disgrace, and a bad joke, and it's also talent mass murder.

Anyway, Baba to Chelsea not done yet.

nothing more to add to that post. spot on.

Fabulous post Hans. Groundbreaking stuff that's never been said before. Top notch posting. One of the greatest posts in Goal forums/GL history.

Thanks Gil. Means a lot.

Not sure how disastrous that policy is for Chelsea, to be fair. More than half of those young players they sign end up moving on for a net profit and helping to fund Chelsea's bigger moves.

Hapless_Hans wrote:Thanks Gil. Means a lot.

I'm sure it does

Hapless_Hans wrote:Thanks Gil. Means a lot.

I wish jill liked me as much as he likes you.

RedOranje wrote:Not sure how disastrous that policy is for Chelsea, to be fair. More than half of those young players they sign end up moving on for a net profit and helping to fund Chelsea's bigger moves.

Sure.

It's disastrous though if you consider the target of a club's 'youth policy' to be to develop players for your first team so you don't have to make big money moves and also get a team identity.
Not being a marketplace to indiscriminately buy and sell 25 young players, going to 50 different loan clubs a season.

And I'd maintain it's disastrous for the players, on the whole.
Sure, some of them end up decent players in midtable teams.
Most of them though started out, and thus were acquired by Chelsea, as top prospects yet NONE end up top players.

As I said, talent mass murder.
No player can develop properly if he's signed to a club where he's got no perspective ever to actually play for the team (there's just too many young players), and then going to 4,5 different loan clubs in different countries, half a season here and there.

Talent mass murder

Hans

Sure, it's certainly less than ideal for the players themselves, but then again they've seen it happen a dozen times and STILL make the move to Chelsea initially anyway.  At some point the question becomes whether we should really feel sorry for them too much if they're unwilling to learn from the experiences of others.


And honestly, I'm not sure Chelsea's youth policy has much of anything to do with producing players for the first team.  I think they're achieving exactly what they want to between the player turn-over and third-party ownership deals/ties.