With under a week to go and with Lukaku done (?) What else is on the go and who needs to go out. I think

Kepa, Broja,  Anjorin (?) are/were happening 

Sterling, Chilwell, Casadei, Carney, Datro Fofana, Chalobah have had mentions at some point.

Who do we think are in line to move on in this remaining week.

Still 17 to sell/loan I reckon ... 

GK: Kepa, Bergstrom, Petrovic

DEF: Chalobah, Chilwell, possibly one of Disasi/Badiashile

MID: Casadei, Matos

ATT MID: Sterling, Chukwuemeka, Vale, Anjorin, Angelo Gabriel

FWD: Lukaku, Broja, D.Fofana, Washington

 

Hopefully sign a striker and a centre back.

Never happening in 4 and a bit days is it?

Just now, WhiteWall said:

Never happening in 4 and a bit days is it?

🙂 

I thought Casadei to Napoli would be the sweetener for Osimhen in addition to the Lukaku deal, but this McTominay thing might put the kibosh on that as well.

20 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

I thought Casadei to Napoli would be the sweetener for Osimhen in addition to the Lukaku deal, but this McTominay thing might put the kibosh on that as well.

It looks a lot of transactions to conclude, but I reckon 90% of them are fairly well advanced now ... the SDs have been quite good at the selling side of things so far ... 

6 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

Never happening in 4 and a bit days is it?

There's a very good chance a lot of these deals were being done days/weeks ago, I don't think every club waits until the last day.

13 minutes ago, dkw said:

There's a very good chance a lot of these deals were being done days/weeks ago, I don't think every club waits until the last day.

Still think there's a lot to be done tbh and i don't think many clubs have so many moving parts going on at the same time. Seems that medicals seem to take about 2 days nowadays as well 🤣

Edited August 26, 20241 yr by WhiteWall

We arent brilliant with paperwork, other clubs would be wise to get things done asap 😂

It probably depends on who wants to continue playing and who prefers to stay in London and collect their wages. With his family probably settled it would be a surprise if Sterling went too far from London and, given his age a return to the England team is unlikely, so his motivation might be an issue. 

9 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

Still 17 to sell/loan I reckon ... 

GK: Kepa, Bergstrom, Petrovic

DEF: Chalobah, Chilwell, possibly one of Disasi/Badiashile

MID: Casadei, Matos

ATT MID: Sterling, Chukwuemeka, Vale, Anjorin, Angelo Gabriel

FWD: Lukaku, Broja, D.Fofana, Washington

 

Hopefully sign a striker and a centre back.

We will be lucky to get 5 of these done with the time left. All priority should be the high earners, Sterling, Lukaku and Kepa. 

After that Chilwell, Disasi/Badiashille

the rest? Not fussed (except Chuck, wouldn’t mind him going on loan, but do not sell!) 

Edited August 26, 20241 yr by SimonH

Easy.

57 players in and 70 out. 
Most will be keepers 😀

Media confirming Kepa contract extension to 2026 and loan to Bournemouth. Hopefully we can waive the rule that prevents loanees playing against the parent club. 

1 hour ago, BS66 said:

Media confirming Kepa contract extension to 2026 and loan to Bournemouth. Hopefully we can waive the rule that prevents loanees playing against the parent club. 

I think they had to do that as you can’t loan a player out who is in their final year of contract. 

50 minutes ago, JM7 said:

I think they had to do that as you can’t loan a player out who is in their final year of contract. 

I read that in here but searched online and couldn’t find a rule about it. I’ve read other comments that teams do it because they don’t want players increasing their value while away and then leaving on a free transfer. If Kepa makes a few saves at Bournemouth that makes the difference between survival and relegation he probably goes from a 10m player to a 40m player. 

1 hour ago, JM7 said:

I think they had to do that as you can’t loan a player out who is in their final year of contract. 

No, it's to avoid the situation of Kepa leaving on a free transfer at the end of the loan. Along with the extension he has taken a pay cut to help facilitate the loan.

21 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

Still think there's a lot to be done tbh and i don't think many clubs have so many moving parts going on at the same time. Seems that medicals seem to take about 2 days nowadays as well 🤣

Todd made Wesley Fofana fly to America for his medical before we bought him !

It's gonna be a rush to get players out to other teams , unless stuff has been going on in the background.

If Kepa is in goal against us in a few weeks we need to shoot even if it's unlikely to get past most keepers .

And terrorise him with a barrage of crosses.

He'll probably have the game of his life though,knowing our luck .

9 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

If Kepa is in goal against us in a few weeks we need to shoot even if it's unlikely to get past most keepers .

And terrorise him with a barrage of crosses.

He'll probably have the game of his life though,knowing our luck .

I doubt he will be allowed to play against us if it is a loan

11 minutes ago, forbzy said:

I doubt he will be allowed to play against us if it is a loan

Yeah probably. Shame 

 

If we keep up this «buy one to sell one» strategy we’ll never reduce the actual amount of players we need to sell, so I’ll be happy just to see some pure sales

23 minutes ago, AndyDowsleftflank said:

If we keep up this «buy one to sell one» strategy we’ll never reduce the actual amount of players we need to sell, so I’ll be happy just to see some pure sales

Ahem. Needle mover here.

 

28 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Ahem. Needle mover here.

 

Lol! So its possible, all it takes is for them to pay no money for our players. Good to know

So the remaining window time has halved since i started this thread and still very little concrete movement.

A lot of posturing around Lukaku for Osimhen and Sancho/ Sterling but Anjorin is still the only done deal so far. Harvey Vale to Saudi seems to be the next most reported.

If there are any real designs on getting sales completed for Broja, Chalobah, Disasi, DD Fofana, Washington, Petrovic, Carney, Chilwell and Sterling then i reckon somebody is going to have to get a wiggle on.

Expect a lot of last minute loans that don't make sense.