2016/17 Summer Transfer Rumours Mk. I

Man United meet Kostas Manolas' agent, move hints at Mourinho's incoming [Di Marzio]

Zlatan Ibrahimovic could be too old
-Van Gaal
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic is reportedly willing to move to Manchester United in the summer transfer window, provided Louis van Gaal is not at Old Trafford next season.
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Zlatan wrote:Mourinho would become a guy I was basically willing to die for.

Mourinho and Ibrahimovic to ManUtd confirmed!

Di Marzio is all in on Mourinho to United, surely it's happening or else he wouldn't be putting his rep on the line like this.

unless he has subscribed to the notion of just mention United for click bait as all english papers do

It will happen. Not that I am happy or anything about it. At least it will be better than the current regime. So thats there.



and managed by Mourinho.

Mourinho to sell all the youngsters

We should get on those Man U kids and find us another Pogba.

rincon wrote:Mourinho to sell all the youngsters

We should get on those Man U kids and find us another Pogba.

Biggest myth ever. Just because Mourinho doesn't promote or buy scrubs doesn't mean that he doesn't play youngsters. With the Portuguese if you're good enough you're old enough.

Valkyrja wrote:

rincon wrote:Mourinho to sell all the youngsters

We should get on those Man U kids and find us another Pogba.

Biggest myth ever. Just because Mourinho doesn't promote or buy scrubs doesn't mean that he doesn't play youngsters. With the Portuguese if you're good enough you're old enough.

How is it a myth? What is Mourinho's celebrated history with youngsters? Can't say I followed him in the portuguese league, but at Chelsea, Inter and Madrid its pretty abysmal.

Criticize Van Gaals terrible results all day, but the Dutch plays the kids at every chance he gets.

rincon wrote:

Valkyrja wrote:

rincon wrote:Mourinho to sell all the youngsters

We should get on those Man U kids and find us another Pogba.

Biggest myth ever. Just because Mourinho doesn't promote or buy scrubs doesn't mean that he doesn't play youngsters. With the Portuguese if you're good enough you're old enough.

How is it a myth? What is Mourinho's celebrated history with youngsters? Can't say I followed him in the portuguese league, but at Chelsea, Inter and Madrid its pretty abysmal.

Criticize Van Gaals terrible results all day, but the Dutch plays the kids at every chance he gets.

Just because Mourinho will never play the likes of Blackett this doesn't mean he doesn't play young players. They have to be good though. Ozil, Marcelo, Varane, Robben, Zouma are prime examples of world-class players that were developed by Mourinho

Valkyrja wrote:

rincon wrote:

Valkyrja wrote:


Biggest myth ever. Just because Mourinho doesn't promote or buy scrubs doesn't mean that he doesn't play youngsters. With the Portuguese if you're good enough you're old enough.

How is it a myth? What is Mourinho's celebrated history with youngsters? Can't say I followed him in the portuguese league, but at Chelsea, Inter and Madrid its pretty abysmal.

Criticize Van Gaals terrible results all day, but the Dutch plays the kids at every chance he gets.

Just because Mourinho will never play the likes of Blackett this doesn't mean he doesn't play young players. They have to be good though. Ozil, Marcelo, Varane, Robben, Zouma are prime examples of world-class players that were developed by Mourinho

He plays the bare minimum, and when players are mostly there. Van Gaal focuses on developing players, denying that there will be a decrease in youngsters playing is absurd.

Mourinho sure as hell didn't develop Ozil. Ozil was a starter for the German NT and a star at that point. He exploded at the 2010 world cup after becoming the top assist man in the Bundesliga.

Mou has a long history of buying short term solutions to his squads instead of trusting youth.

rincon wrote:Mourinho to sell all the youngsters

We should get on those Man U kids and find us another Pogba.

Andreas Pereira might be available and so as Januzaj. These two kids are basically frozen out of the 1st team by lvg cos of their attitude issues.
Pereira for instance is much better than someone like Lingard who LvG trusts and is a regular starter for us. Yet he cant get games. PSG approached to sign him last season infact.
Can surely see both of them leaving despite a change in coach.

And among the youngsters LvG is actually trusting, sadly can see Rashford getting loaned out and we going for Ibra and Lukaku. With Rooney and Martial also being there, Rashford will be sidelined, loaned out and eventually sold.

Fosu Mensah luckily though is a Mourinho type player. Thats why I even put him in a probable Mourinho 11 for next season. He will like the kid and can develop him as our own hybrid of Essien/Alaba/Pogba. He is the most safe among our prospects.

As for the other promising youngsters like Tuanzebe and Williams, well I am not entertaining much hope honestly under Mourinho.

Then theres a kid called Angel Gomes, apparently our biggest ever talent. Already called English Messi and stuff. Luckily though the kid's only 15. So by the time he turns 17-18 Mourinho will be at the helm of a different club in all probability and so wont be able to do harm.

Talking about this said problem, yea I am indeed worried that Mourinho will turn us into just another mercenary club if he arrives.
More Pedro like players will come and Rashford like players will leave. Well, at least thats what hes been doing all these years.

Man City close to signing Ilkay Gundogan. Dortmund want £36m for midfielder. City offering £28m. His contract runs out summer 2017 #mcfc

Will be an Instant upgrade.

Dortmund want 36m pounds for a player with 1 season left on his contract?

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Dortmund want 36m pounds for a player with 1 season left on his contract?

Same team that preferred to let Lewandowski's contract run down rather than sell.

Still a ridiculous decision, and this is different because they would be selling to a different league as opposed to a direct competitor

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Dortmund want 36m pounds for a player with 1 season left on his contract?

only because they know city will pay it.

Jurgen Klopp has targeted highly rated Borussia Monchengladbach starlet Mahmoud Dahoud as he looks to reshape Liverpool’s midfield.


Dahoud, 20, who was born in Syria and has played for Germany U21s, is one of the rising stars of German football with his energy and recovery of the ball two of his qualities.

His passing ability, both long and short, also appeals to Klopp, who is looking for someone who can dictate from deep.

Both Manchester clubs, City and United, have followed Dahoud, who is rated at about £20million, while Liverpool know Thursday’s Europa League opponents, Borussia Dortmund, are interested in the player.

Dahoud shares the same agent as Liverpool duo Emre Can and Samed Yesil, who is on loan at Swiss side FC Luzern.

As well as Dahoud Klopp is also interested in Udinese’s Poland midfielder Piotr Zielinski, who has spent the season on loan at Empoli.

“There is a lot of truth in rumours about Liverpool,” said Zielinski. “Jurgen Klopp is interested in me, we had some talks.”

Klopp has already set up a deal to sign Schalke’s Joel Matip on a free transfer and wants to recruit Mario Gotze from Bayern Munich as he looks to stamp his own mark on the club.

Source: Daily Express

Tons of links saying we have decided to jump on Berardi this summer for the agreed 25 mill

25m for Berardi Poor man's Morata.

I wish Morata was that good. Berardi having his worst season so far, 2 years younger, playing as a winger, playing at a much much worse team, has the same goals and assists as Morata while being more important for his team.

Berardi for 25 mill is the deal.

rincon wrote:I wish Morata was that good. Berardi having his worst season so far, 2 years younger, playing as a winger, playing at a much much worse team, has the same goals and assists as Morata while being more important for his team.

Berardi for 25 mill is the deal.

Well said. He's very talented and young, already made a name for himself with Sassuolo and has a number of Serie A goals.

With that being said, it somewhat stinks of a player that won't get the proper amount of minutes at a bigger club. I'm not sure if it is the right time, but given the interest he is (apparently) drawing, I would like to see what he can do at Juventus.

Juve preparing an offer for Gabriel Jesus for 25m

Gabriel Jesus is legit. I don't think Palmeiras will let him go anytime soon since they're in a better financial situation than the typical Brasilian club.

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Liverpool are set to appoint Bayern Munich fitness coach Andreas Kornmayer to Jurgen Klopp’s backroom staff this summer.


Klopp has hand-picked the 41-year-old as the perfect replacement for Ryland Morgans, who parted company with the Reds last month.

Kornmayer has worked with Pep Guardiola, Jupp Heynckes and Louis van Gaal during a decade of service with Bayern. He progressed through the ranks before being promoted to first-team duties in 2010.

Now he’s keen to take on a new challenge and is expected to start work as Liverpool’s fitness coach prior to the start of pre-season training in July.

Kornmayer will have a key role to play in ensuring that Klopp’s players are in the best possible shape for what will be the German coach’s first full season in charge, Liverpool head to California for a training camp in mid-July and will play three friendlies in the States.

Morgans, whose contract was set to expire at the end of this season, left his role as head of fitness and conditioning a fortnight ago.

Liverpool U21s fitness coach Andy O’Boyle has taken on the first-team duties for the rest of this season.

Source: Liverpool Echo