2021/2022 Midfielders Rumours Thread

sdvroot said:

"Roma is ready to release his midfielder Nicolo Zaniolo during the summer transfer window. For this, potential buyers will have to pay 40 million euros.
Currently, among the applicants for Zaniolo there are two clubs - Juventus and Tottenham. The Turin club is considering him as a possible replacement for Paulo Dybala, who will become a free agent by the end of the season.
At the same time, Roma must pay 15% of the amount of the next transfer of Zaniolo to the previous club of the player, "Inter".
This season, the 22-year-old Italian midfielder has 4 goals and 5 assists in 26 games for Roma in all competitions. The transfer value is estimated at 33 million euros.

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So can we get him with 15% discount if we want him back?

"Inter"

According to Diario Sport, Barcelona have retired from the race to sign Franck Kessié because of the player’s economic demands.

According to reports in Italy, Kessié wants a salary between in the region of €8-9m, while the Rossoneri won’t offer more than €6m plus add-ons.

Several clubs have been linked with securing his services in the summer, but according to Diario Sport, Barcelona are no longer in the race to sign the 25-year-old.
The midfielder’s economic demands are described as ‘exorbitant’ and Barcelona can’t afford to match them given their financial struggles.
Barcelona offered Kessié a €5m-a-year deal which Kessié and his agent reportedly turned down.

According to the report, several Premier League clubs are still in the race to sign Kessié and so is Juventus.
Last month, La Gazzetta dello Sport reported that Inter would also make their move to sign the former Atalanta star at the end of the season.

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Just posting this because Beppe loves them free transfers that can be flipped.

At 25 years old he could contribute and them be sold on, however I`m sure there will be higher offers than what Inter can currently offer.

We're monitoring him and Hakan is acting as a trojan horse. I don't think we're going to make a deal but it's not improbable. There's also Dybala on our radar, with Zanetti on alert.

He's not worth the money. But above all, he's not worth the sacrifice required to have him around on very high wages (ie Barella/Brozovic)


Problem is that from a strategy point of view, we can afford to lose Brozovic or Barella to a foreign team if we're going to give a huge blow to an immediate rival by signing a key/core player of theirs that they wanted to keep. So I wouldn't rule it out. From a sporting perspective, it won't be good moves but the strategy in simplified terms is this:
Inter atm: 8/10
Inter after changing the team to accommodate these guys: 7.5/10
Juventus/Milan atm: 7.5/10 at best.
After? 7/10 at best.

So the end game means that we're still ahead of them, but we're not really progressing.

This is how Juventus was turned from a CL contender into a team that wanted to win the Scudetto at all costs when Roma and Napoli came near. The residue effect and the European football environment allowed them to reach the CL final once again but it wasn't sustainable. This forced their management to consider Cristiano as an option to help them on the CL front since they had Serie A locked by various means. And their Cristiano business failed miserably to deliver in Europe because they had to dismantle their midfield in the process.

It's Sport so it's probably bs but 5m a year? Of course he turned it down. That's even lower than what Milan had offered.

I have two issues with a potential signing of Kessie:

1) his wage demands are insane and he isn't worth making him the best paid player in the squad
2) he can only be a Barella backup at Inter. He would be wasted as a DM and a Brozovic-Barella-Kessie midfield trio would lack in creativity big time.

Kessie will end up at Juventus anyway

brehme1989 said:

Kessie will end up at Juventus anyway

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it's so obvious

Il Drago said:

It's Sport so it's probably bs but 5m a year? Of course he turned it down. That's even lower than what Milan had offered.

I have two issues with a potential signing of Kessie:

1) his wage demands are insane and he isn't worth making him the best paid player in the squad
2) he can only be a Barella backup at Inter. He would be wasted as a DM and a Brozovic-Barella-Kessie midfield trio would lack in creativity big time.

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He played deep against us and Milan got overrun for sixty minutes. They took him out, and we got dominated.

ADRossi said:

He played deep against us and Milan got overrun for sixty minutes. They took him out, and we got dominated.

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He wasn’t playing deep though he was actually man marking Brozovic

thatdude said:

He wasn’t playing deep though he was actually man marking Brozovic

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You're correct, I meant to imply that he was being asked to defend.

Kessie can ask whatever he wants, no club is going to pay that. So he needs to come down from his current demand.

CafeCordoba said:

Kessie can ask whatever he wants, no club is going to pay that. So he needs to come down from his current demand.

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EPL club in 4-7th place might if they’re desperate enough.

And that’s how you end up at Arsenal

thatdude said:

EPL club in 4-7th place might if they’re desperate enough.

And that’s how you end up at Arsenal

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PL clubs don't pay that much.

Everton's highest paid player is at 4m net.

Aston Villa is an odd one since they have Coutinho now but he's at 11m net for half a year. Doubt they sign him fully and doubt they can afford that in the long run. Digne for example is next in line with 5.5m net.


Arsenal's highest earners make 6m net and it's just two of them, the next makes 5m.

Leeds highest earners are at ~2.5m net.

Newcastle got Trippier and they're paying him 5m net. Next in line makes at best 3m.

Tottenham doesn't pay Kane more than 6m net.

West Ham pays like 4.5m net at best.

Even Man City doesn't have more than 4 players making over 7m net.
Man Utd does though and they're a possible destination for Kessié, especially with Pogba leaving. But Kessié is demanding pretty much Pogba money himself (it's 9.5m iirc). Would Manchester United give him that?



The narrative about rich PL clubs ends with their huge transfer fees. They don't pay that much to individuals but their teams gather a lot of players who get overpaid, so a player that gets 1.5m in Serie A will get paid 2.5m there. But they don't have that many 7m net and higher players in that league. They just persuade people that they do

If you discount the two Manchester clubs and Chelsea, everyone else including Liverpool, does not pay that much. Not even their top players.

Liverpool's Van Dijk makes as slightly more than Lautaro these days. And Lautaro would be the 2nd highest earner at Liverpool.
Kessié is demanding more than that!
Salah and Thiago make the equivalent of 6.5m net give or take for example.


You could see a random PL club overpay if it's a household name. But no one knows Kessié over there, they'll devour their management in the idea. If it were someone like De Ligt or Barella I could see it being possible.

Can i suggest him to add midfielder depth?

I think he's EPL bound, United etc will surely go after him.

Corrode said:

Can i suggest him to add midfielder depth?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1492236650935640065

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Sure, we have a dedicated thread for this kind of conversation: Player Suggestions

Premier league makes too much money, hope they dont get 6 teams for SUPER LEAGUE

DARi0 said:

Sure, we have a dedicated thread for this kind of conversation: Player Suggestions

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He isnt my primary suggestion for midfield. I'm just see him to sign based his contract remaining.

According to FIF rules, if the player was not linked in the media to Inter, we should not mention it in these "rumours" threads.

Speaking of linked players:

Nahitan Nandez received a ‘concrete offer’ from Napoli in January after Inter and Juventus proposals, said the Cagliari midfielder’s agent.

The Uruguay international is seemingly on the verge of a transfer in every window, with Juve and Napoli the options in January, but the move never seems to go through.

This is partly due to Cagliari’s asking price of €20-25m and the fact Nandez wants guarantees of regular playing time.

At this moment, there is a financial crisis in football, so as Nandez is the most expensive player in the history of Cagliari, it’s only right that the club is asking for those figures to sell him,” agent Pablo Bentancur told Sport890.

“Nandez is worth that money.”

While everyone was focused on Juventus last month as his possible destination, the representative reveals it was another Serie A club who came closer to making the deal stick.

“Napoli made a concrete proposal, while in the past Inter and Juventus had done the same. Now the player is recovering from his knee injury and I am sure he’ll be back soon, as it was only a ligament strain, there is no tear.

“He likes complicated challenges and puts his heart into them. I am convinced he’ll go to a top club.”

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