Jase

Did you take that post seriously?

Haaland farewell video incoming... 🙃

Only possible if a club can afford his wages or the club cover most of his wages.

With Wayne Hennessey gone to Burnley, I guess Bettinelli might be our 3rd choice keeper...

So, the squad have travelled to Ireland for the training camp in Dublin and the club haven't released the list of players that traveled......although I believe it's the same group that have trained so far. Think The Athletic have no clue on when the players are returning and they just counted 3 weeks from the day their nation got eliminated from the Euros...

But anything from reliable sources? The media outlets just seem to recycling the same stories every day because no club are really doing anything for them to get clicks, views etc.

Cheers for the bait. MARCA quoted Daily Mail who quoted Sky Germany...

That could happen or maybe not at all. The thing with letting a tribunal decide a fee is that it could go either way, no? Given the hoo-ha we went through last time with Solanke, the club probably want to avoid that.

True but last year's award got "conveniently" cancelled and nothing since the start of 2020 has made sense anyway.

I don't disagree that Messi will likely win it but Lewandowski still ended up winning everything possible with Bayern and he still scored a ridiculous amount of goals (including breaking Gerd Muller's Bundesliga goal record), the kind of number that saw Ronaldo/Messi won it in previous years. On top of that, you had someone like Modric winning it a few years ago, as a culmination of his brilliance (not sure if that's the right word) etc.

Leeds are supposedly one of the two clubs pushing hardest to sign Bate. So, I'd assume Bielsa/Leeds have plans for him. Think the reason Bate (and the other two) wants to leave is because we still have Kante, Kovacic and Jorginho while Gilmour is out on loan AND we are supposedly looking to sign a midfielder. It's understandable if the likes of Bate doesn't see a pathway to play regularly in the first team in the near future and wants to leave. As Pizy mentioned in the other thread, when these young players see others are making a name for themselves elsewhere, it's probably hard for them to just sit around, bide their time and hope something will fall their way. Can't blame them if they want take control of their future, especially when we look to be heading back to pre-2019. Also, the problem with them signing an extension, even a year or two, is that they will give almost all the control of their future to the club. With a year left now, they have practically forced the club to sell them now or get nothing.

Lewandowski should be getting it after he was "robbed" last year.

Everton fans are cursing their luck right now. They got Ancelotti, they had hopes to qualify for the Champions League but that didn't happen, Ancelotti jumped ship to Real Madrid, Benitez took over and now this...

My point is if Rice won't sign a new contract, which doesn't seem like he will, then West Ham have to sell him at some point. They can't afford to let him run down his contract if they want money.

Just saw that. Where did that come from?

Name not mentioned for legal reasons but he's 31 years old apparently.

But will West Ham allow that? They aren't exactly a rich club.

Only 1 year left on his contract as well, I believe.