¡Hala Juve! - The 2018-2019 Other Players (and Teams) thread

Looks like Chelsea are close to buying Arrizabalaga from Bilbao for Euro 80 million, which would mean Courtois is off to LPB for sure!

 

Real was going to sign Kepa for about 20M midseason, ZZ did veto it, yes, we all joked about how it would push his son from 3rd to 4th string. Now they have Courtois on strike at Chelsea but found a nice solution in sending their own on-strike Kovacic to Chelsea on loan with a buy option, to ease the Chelsea pain in losing Courtois, Real gets Courtois, and ManU has more money on hand (due to borrowing K now, paying later to keep him) to fund Kepa for more than they would have paid for Allison but they balked at Allison's fee.

Meanwhile Keylor is stuck as a back up? That's rude but OK.

The human upside is that Courtois's former partner and two kids still reside in Madrid (he was on loan at Atletico for 3 years which is when they met) so he is at least closer to his kids, albeit for the evil empire.

 

Pretty much. Too bad for him he's not Spanish or even European else he'd have that position locked-down for the next 5 years for sure.

He should demand a transfer away from Madrid ASAP.

 

Navas was fine tbh. LPB didn’t even need Courtois.

 

World class keeper for the better part of the next decade for Euro 40mn in this market? Its a no brainer.
Navas is pretty good right now, but could go on the decline at any time.

 

Good long-term move by RM.

Don't they understand how much they would benefit from signing a goal-scorer?

 

📊 | Leo Messi has scored 9 goals past Courtois in 13 games played against him. pic.twitter.com/aN4F3XoIjV

— BarçaTimes (@BarcaTimes) August 9, 2018

 

Guess the question is, who? I think LPB are ok upfront. Between Bale, Asensio and Isco they could easily score as much as Ronaldo, Bale and Benzema scored last season in the league. CL is another story tho...

 

Lol and Chelsea signing Kepa for a higher price is dumb af. Kepa isn’t a special Goalie at all.

 

That's what happens when teams get desperate. Happened to Barca last summer when they blew two-thirds of the Neymar money on an unproven player.

For Chelsea their backup is Willy Caballero so they needed somebody.

 

I hope Dembele turns out to be really good. Btw is Kepa good with his feet otherwise the club wouldn’t have gone with him. In lot of ways Courtois departure can be good for Sarri’s Chelsea since Courtois is pathetic ball distributor. It’s like how Cruyff kicked out Zubi to fit our system.

 

Bale and Benzema were just minions controlled by Ronaldo. Now they’re free and can do better.

 

Bale's best ever Liga tally is 19. Isco's best is 10. Asensio 6. Benzema 24 (but in his 9 seasons, he has scored 20 goals only twice). Cristiano played 9 seasons, smacking Liga goals: 26, 40, 46, 34, 31, 48, 35, 25 and 26.

The world is full of attackers. To me, they're betting that their current attackers will step it up so much that they can afford to lose their best attacker and not sign anyone, and still improve from the last season (like, challenge for Liga).

 

Yeah, but its the goal tally of the last two seasons by Ronaldo (bolded above) which I think is very attainable for Bale if he stays healthy. Especially since some of those were PKs.

But yeah.. .nobody will fill 2012 Ronaldo's boots, nor 2016-18 CL Ronaldo who scored about 3 goals every 2 matches.

 

I don't know. Perhaps, just maybe, if he stays fit (which he likely won't). And indeed in CL he scored left and right. To me, they're saving money at a wrong spot.

 

Nikola Kalinic goes to Atletico from Milan.

Atleti is going to have some serious depth this season. Granted he didn't have a good season at Milan but the environment sucked by all accounts. If he can get back to his Fiorentina / Croatia NT form its a good addition.

 

I'd be a little surprised if Real Madrid don't sign at least 1 forward, I know it is late in the transfer window and it will be hard to sign someone from EPL now that they cannot seek and register a replacement, but there are plenty of other good leagues which can sell and also buy including La Liga.

 

Rumour about Thiago and LPB having an agreement. WTF! Disaster!

 

Isn't he kind of expensive to ride the bench? That deal would make no sense!

 

If he ends up going to LPB I hope he's not even on the bench but on the stands or rehab.

 

i'm happy with Arthur.