Transfer: 2023 Summer Transfer Rumors and Discussion - Closed Window Edition

[Bringer of Jollity]

FWIW He was still very good the last time we saw him on the pitch for them

Blink and you'll miss him until his next recovery though.

Tapsoba isn't german, you're thinking of Tah...who's also looking at an EPL move this summer. Tapsoba's a huge talent, but just like Tah he hasn't been very consistent for Leverkusen. Although both are coming off good seasons where they were very solid after the coaching change.

Tough to say if they'll rise to a new challenge or if this is just who they are.

I think he's a lot less frustrating than Tah, but maybe just hasn't had as many seasons to get to that point.

 

[bluesfan94]

Thanks, totally forgot that he's French and yeah I was totally misremembering him and Tah. Would you think Tapsoba needs a couple more seasons of development in BuLi before heading to the exceptional EPL?

He's Burkinabe, not French.

 

[cgf]

Blink and you'll miss him until his next recovery though.


I think he's a lot less frustrating than Tah, but maybe just hasn't had as many seasons to get to that point.

I think it's that. At 24 it's just starting to get frustrating that his focus comes & goes, at 27 it would be just as annoying as Tah has become...

Even though they've both actually been quite solid since Xabi took over...as I often found myself getting annoyed at how well Tah was finally playing, so many years after I had given up on the light coming on for him.

 

[cgf]

Thanks, totally forgot that he's French and yeah I was totally misremembering him and Tah. Would you think Tapsoba needs a couple more seasons of development in BuLi before heading to the exceptional EPL?

*Burkina Faso and came through Portugal

I think he needs a bigger challenge than the pill pushers can provide. He might not make that next step, and it could take him a while even if he does eventually make it, but without that greater challenge, he'll continue to stagnate...just like Tah did.

 

[Evilo]

Yeah it definitely stopped PSG from signing a half dozen midfielders last summer

It stopped PSG for years, whether you like it or not.

 

[les Habs]

Thanks, totally forgot that he's French and yeah I was totally misremembering him and Tah. Would you think Tapsoba needs a couple more seasons of development in BuLi before heading to the exceptional EPL?

He's already 24. If he needs a couple more seasons then he'll be a late bloomer even for a CB. I would imagine that Bayer aren't going be offering discounts and that better value for money might be had elsewhere.

 

[Savant]

It stopped PSG for years, whether you like it or not.

Can you please clarify what exactly it stopped? Because if PSG is what “stopped” looks like….. which isn’t making a point about PSG for the record

 

[Evilo]

Can you please clarify what exactly it stopped? Because if PSG is what “stopped” looks like….. which isn’t making a point about PSG for the record

I don't know if you've followed PSG transfers, but they had to cut into the budget plenty of years instead of "unlimited money" like people keep on saying. That's also why they let Di Maria go last summer for instance.

 

[les Habs]

PSG are about to realize a windfall of savings with regards to wages considering everyone who is leaving or rumored to be leaving this Summer.

 

[Evilo]

PSG are about to realize a windfall of savings with regards to wages considering everyone who is leaving or rumored to be leaving this Summer.

But they get their loan army back. Except Icardi who's performed greatly and is rumored to be staying in Turkey.

 

[bluesfan94]

But they get their loan army back. Except Icardi who's performed greatly and is rumored to be staying in Turkey.

They should have some other sales of loan players. Navas apparently wants to stay in the EPL, for instance. I'm sure they'll be able to move some of the others. Paredes, Kurzawa, Wijnaldum

 

[les Habs]

But they get their loan army back. Except Icardi who's performed greatly and is rumored to be staying in Turkey.

Yeah, but I'm sure plenty of them are going to be flogged and Messi's wages alone are surely notably more than the lot of them combined. Now throw in Ramos and maybe Neymar and you've still got a huge windfall.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

What they do in the future isn't really a counter to what they've done in the past. It's pretty laughable to pretend they've been appreciably hamstrung by FFP.

 

[les Habs]

And that's a quote folks. Still a lot of fire around that for it not to be the case, but happy to have him stay.

 

[cgf]

Japhet Tanganga is being linked to a 12.5-14M euro move to Bayer, Union, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, or Hamburg.

Yann Sommer is being linked to Leicester, Monaco, Valencia, and Villareal.

Real, LFC, & ManU have reportedly joined the mix for Pavard.

Sky says that Newcastle have been scouting Szoboslai twice in the last two weeks.

Oliver Christensen to Brighton has a lot of steam.

Nicolas Jackson is the latest striker that Leipzig have been linked to...as well as french RB Sacha Boey.

Bild is linking Gladbach & Burnley to Tom Krauß.

Alderete is leaving Hertha for Getafe. Deal already done.

AC Milan seem to be close to signing Kamada.

And Marseille have enquired about Azmoun.


If Berger says it then there's a good chance it's coming right from BVB:

 

[robertmac43]

Oliver Christensen to Brighton has a lot of steam.

This is needed. Sanchez is on the outs due to his lack of ball playing and Steele lets in a lot of soft goals.

 

[Evilo]

Yeah, but I'm sure plenty of them are going to be flogged and Messi's wages alone are surely notably more than the lot of them combined. Now throw in Ramos and maybe Neymar and you've still got a huge windfall.

Sure not denying that. But for the house cleaning they really do need to sell. And the insane wages are preventing that.
Paredes is coming back. Wij too. And plenty of others.

 

[cgf]

This is needed. Sanchez is on the outs due to his lack of ball playing and Steele lets in a lot of soft goals.

He's certainly been the most solid thing about Hertha this season.

 

[phisherman]

 

[maclean]

Does that mean we're actually counting on him going forward then or is it just to keep from losing him on a free?

 

[phisherman]

Does that mean we're actually counting on him going forward then or is it just to keep from losing him on a free?

I'd assume counting on him.

 

[bluesfan94]

Does that mean we're actually counting on him going forward then or is it just to keep from losing him on a free?

He makes sense to keep as a RW option. If he stays, I have the shopping list as 2 CM (1 if Xhaka stays) and a RB/LB. Nice to get would be another CB.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Yeah thhis as good as done

 

[JeffreyLFC]

Yeah thhis as good as done

Funny admission, many time as I watched Argentina play at the WC, I confused Mac Allister with Messi because they are lookalike and they dribble kind in a similar way...

PS I know one is right footed and the other left footed.

 

[Savant]

Everyone take notes



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