Madridistas All Over Copa And Euros Collide While Colombians Dominate - The Other Teams Thread

You make it seem like we have Maldini-Nesta in CB. We only have Rudiger who is WC and he's at the tail-end of his career.

We better be scouting for top-class CBs or we'll end up in the Pavon-Helguera era again.

 

Militao when healthy is twice the player Ligt is. At RM, a CB who won CL at 23 as a starter is criticized while Ligt after flopping at Juve and Bayern is rated because his passing is pleasing to the eye. But his job is to defend and even in Serie A where slow defenders like Walter Samuel fourished, Ligt flopped.

And if comparisons are with RM, we went for Rudiger as 3rd choice CB that summer (see whom Carlo started). Mentality wasn't 3rd choice signing doesn't have be to world class. Nacho and eventual Alaba replacement will be scouted with that mentality.

 

Looking at the people you've suggested we buy we would have ended up in the Pavon-Helguera era faster... probably by now

 

Samu didn't pass medical so going for Felix who didn't workout there on loan before. Chelsea squad building is hilarious.

🚨💣 BREAKING - pending confirmation: Samu Omorodion had a physical issue during his medical examination at Chelsea and did not pass the assessment satisfactorily. The player is already returning to Spain to rejoin Atlético de Madrid.

The operations for Julián Álvarez and Conor… pic.twitter.com/RlrVtZoKHT

— Atletico Universe (@atletiuniverse) August 11, 2024

🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea and Atlético Madrid are now discussing João Félix to #CFC as part of Gallagher deal!

Samu Omorodion deal collapsing and the two clubs don’t want Gallagher and Julián Álvarez deals to collapse too…

João Félix, being discussed with Jorge Mendes in London. pic.twitter.com/l3N4axmceS

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 11, 2024

 

🚨🔵🔴 Yes, Désiré #Doué has decided to join Paris Saint-Germain over FC Bayern - confirmed ✔️

… as several French medias reported first.

Bayern had a slight lead recently as confirmed from all parties involved. Final decision now. Great disappointment and defeat for Bayern… pic.twitter.com/Hzm0kxaKVA

— Florian Plettenberg (@Plettigoal) August 11, 2024

 

Atleti prepared to sanction a Joao Felix sale for around €50m.🇵🇹 https://t.co/3KA2xYqFUb

— Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) August 11, 2024

Typical Mendes package deal.

🚨 Super agent Jorge Mendes is in London, he brought Pedro Neto to Chelsea, and then met with Chelsea, that’s when they started talking about Felix. (@FabrizioRomano) #CFC pic.twitter.com/eJijWI9csx

— Pys (@CFCPys) August 11, 2024

 

Juve revamping midfield. Signed Khephren Thuram and Douglas Luiz already.

⚪️⚫️🇳🇱 Despite denials, Juventus bid for Teun Koopmeiners is now being confirmed… and it’s on the table since Thursday.

€55m package, add-ons included as revealed. This is the fee being negotiated by Juve-Atalanta.

To be precise, €50m plus €5m add-ons.

Talks continue. ✅⤵️ https://t.co/xgmZlrztS5

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 11, 2024

 

I know that overall, it's the Glazers and the legacy of Fergie that can't be easily replicated, but that Pogba signing really set the tone and killed whatever fumes they had left.

 

Chelsea going down the route of trying to sign the last player whose name they heard.

 

Barca in latter years of Bartu was a bit like this. Hijacking Malcom from Roma after showing no interest until he was about to have a medical at Roma, random signings like Andre Gomes and Alcacer from Valencia.

 

Barca media yesterday including Sport were like Nico said yes to Barcelona. This is funnier than their annual Bernardo Silva drama every summer. Common sense says no way Nico messes around with Athletic Bilbao fanbase like this to join Barca at the end of the window.

🔴⚪️🔟 Nico Williams: “I’m proud to get the shirt number 10 from Muniain and to make history as he did”. pic.twitter.com/JsUbDiFbmi

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 12, 2024

 

🦁❤️@willliamsssnico y @AlvaroDjalo, felices con sus nuevos números 🔥 pic.twitter.com/46xzvyk5vm

— Athletic Club (@AthleticClub) August 12, 2024

Can't afford Leao and Diaz so Coman probably.

(🌕) BREAKING: Barcelona have started looking for alternatives to Nico Williams - with Diaz, Leao, Coman among those players in their radar. @ffpolo #Transfers 🔵🔴🔎

— Reshad Rahman (@ReshadFCB) August 12, 2024

 

Lol that kind of bully attitude won't end well with Bayern squad.

 

I swear, he even sounds like Pep from whenever those behind the scenes videos on the training grounds and locker rooms get released.

 

Kompany hiring was just weird, full stop. Not sure on the logic behind it all other than being rejected by anyone and everyone at the time.

 

What a twat.

 

Agree, awesome player when healthy. He’d be one of the elite players in the world today if it wasn’t for his injuries imo.

 

First Xavi and now him. Not so great summer to Bayren with this 2 big targets they wanted denied them.

This is the most dumb thing i ever seen.