Let the rebuild start... Summer 2018 transfer thread

The Ornstein replies are far and away the best thing about Twitter. Possibly the only good thing.

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— VSM (@vazzasm) June 12, 2018

 

Finally... we are signing players early... certainly the transfer deadline being moved up three weeks or so... helps but Sven and co. Is the biggest difference...

Hopefully we won’t drop 8 pts in August

Ps
I know very little about torreira but the signing looks apatezing

 

Even if we are done after a GK i am ok with it because we dont want to waste money on crap players. We need enough to fortify the team to ensure champions league so we can draw top talent again. Keep in mind that we need to see what the squad will be like under Emery. Some players may begin to shine that we did not expect to. January could allow us to dip into the market again if we need too. We cant get too ahead of ourselves.

 

You might be right

Can’t help thinking that Letting Szczesny go was silly... still stings

 

Lemar is gonna be a central mid



Also, look out for Jack Butland rumors

 

Butland? YUCK. What about these Leno rumours?

Someone posted this (rumours included) lineup, thoughts?

Leno
Bellerin Sokratis Soyuncu Monreal
Torreira Xhaka
Özil
Ramsey Mkhitaryan Aubameyang

 

Re Sokratis...

Andrew Mangin keeps saying "sah-KRAT-is" which sounds entirely wrong. Wouldn't it be "SOCK-rah-tees"? As in the ancient philosopher Socrates?

 

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I think Orny has been pushed out.

 

Yeah...cannot imagine Lemar playing centrally for simeone
What are his wages at atletico

 

Lemar will play in griezman position when he fcuka off to Barca

Lichtensteiner
Sokratis
Torreira
Leno

And one more, either that Turkish cm or an offensive player? Wonder maybe

 

Simeone may see him as a second striker, behind Costa, i.e. as a replacement for Griezmann if Griezmann moves to Barcelona. Edit: I see thebigman beat me to it.

 

Leno is very much a meh... was promising for leverkusen at. 20 ... no progress

 

You’re mispronouncing the latter.

 

Both pronunciations are wrong. It’s SO-crates

 

I dunno. I'm just going with how I've heard it 100% of my fairly long life. And I'm comforted to be in line with the learned gents who made up Monty Python. (see above clip, if you didn't already)

Edit: If you Google "socrates name pronunciation" 3 out of the top 4 hits pronounce it the way I've always heard it. Maybe the other 1 of 4 is how the Greeks would pronounce it. I guess when the guy actually shows up at Colney, someone will ask him how HE pronounces it, and then we'll go with that.

 

If you look at the phonetics, you're pronouncing it correctly.

 

the footballer's name is anyway pronounced so-KRAT-is

 

The Ted speaketh:

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Sounds too good to be true. Someone else will snap him up.

 

PSG found to not violate FFP (smacks head).

Then, they apparently have to sell sixty million quid (or euros?) worth of players between now and the end of the month to pass FFP.

Then:

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