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ducavis said:
Italians are cheapskates & will probably want him on a 2yr loan with a low option to buy. The Saudi’s will pay us a transfer fee & pay him very well. Unless it’s a straight swap for Onana, we shouldn’t be speaking to the Italians.
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While it's annoying I don't actually blame them (outside of the way Inter and Lukaku behaved last summer).

They simply don't have the money the English clubs do due to the TV deals.

 
ducavis said:
Italians are cheapskates & will probably want him on a 2yr loan with a low option to buy. The Saudi’s will pay us a transfer fee & pay him very well. Unless it’s a straight swap for Onana, we shouldn’t be speaking to the Italians.
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Lol amen to that mate. By priority signing they a priority to rip us off.

Early links to this said Inter want a loan for Lukau for less than the 8mill euros they paid for the last loan, us paying the majority of his wages, a loan for Koulibaly with a small loan fee and us paying most of his wages, and still 60mill for Onana!

 
Argo said:
While it's annoying I don't actually blame them (outside of the way Inter and Lukaku behaved last summer).

They simply don't have the money the English clubs do due to the TV deals.
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True enough, Saudis have money though. Tell Rom the choice is a big fat payday there or being paid to stay at home.

Hopefully those reports that Pochettino/the club will tell unwanted players to find new clubs or stay away from training are true.

 
KK and Kante won’t be the only players heading to Saudi I reckon.

Big money being offered. Lukaku, Mendy could end up there too. It will be interesting when the Saudi’s start paying transfer fees. They could turn their sofa upside down and find £30 million for KK. 
  
This window is going to be mental.

 
19seventyone said:
KK and Kante won’t be the only players heading to Saudi I reckon.

Big money being offered. Lukaku, Mendy could end up there too. It will be interesting when the Saudi’s start paying transfer fees. They could turn their sofa upside down and find £30 million for KK. 
  
This window is going to be mental.
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Although the WAGs might find it a bit of a culture shock by some accounts

https://cairoscene.com/lifestyle/7-things-women-in-saudi-arabia-still-can-t-do

Not sure if anyone's going to be watching the Real Housewives of Riyadh!

 
Why don’t we just sell the Saudis a complete team? With our unwanted and want aways a first 11 plus as many subs they are allowed. A complete package, plus we could recommend a couple of managers.

 
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He is their priority target apparently, however that means they want a loan deal and for us to pay a large share of his wages.

Inter are either really poor of or really cheeky, or both.

Koulibaly has been a professional, unlike Lukaku. So whereas I would treat the latter with disdain of he refuses to go to Saudi we should just be honest with Koulibaly and say he is 3rd choice behind Colwill and Badiashile. If he is OK with that then ok we signed him, is on us. If not find a club that will buy you.

 
axman2526 said:
He is their priority target apparently, however that means they want a loan deal and for us to pay a large share of his wages.

Inter are either really poor of or really cheeky, or both.

Koulibaly has been a professional, unlike Lukaku. So whereas I would treat the latter with disdain of he refuses to go to Saudi we should just be honest with Koulibaly and say he is 3rd choice behind Colwill and Badiashile. If he is OK with that then ok we signed him, is on us. If not find a club that will buy you.
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Both. They're on financially very shaky ground despite the CL run and qualifying for next season's CL. They borrowed a quarter of billion from an American hedge fund a year or so ago. The debt is due next year. Either they borrow similarly again to repay the debt or the hedge fund owns the club.

 
axman2526 said:
He is their priority target apparently, however that means they want a loan deal and for us to pay a large share of his wages.

Inter are either really poor of or really cheeky, or both.

Koulibaly has been a professional, unlike Lukaku. So whereas I would treat the latter with disdain of he refuses to go to Saudi we should just be honest with Koulibaly and say he is 3rd choice behind Colwill and Badiashile. If he is OK with that then ok we signed him, is on us. If not find a club that will buy you.
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Italian club with Chinese owners. Double whammy. 

 
Honestly thought he'd be the one we couldn't shift so delighted with this.

Shame we didn't get him in his prime but what's done is done.

 
The fee for Navas, and PIF bottomless pits of cash, gives me hope we can make book value, and maybe even actual value, profits on Aubameyang, Ziyech, Mendy and Koulibaly.

I mean 55mill for Neves with 1 year on his deal is nuts so could well be the case for us to.

Mendy and Koulibaly have yet to indicate they want these moves though, so will see. Ziyech and Auba have.

 
Saudi’s really saving our club. Hopefully this means we don’t have to sell Chalobah. 

 


 
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Sconnie Blue said:
Saudi’s really saving our club. Hopefully this means we don’t have to sell Chalobah. 

 
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Now why would Koulibaly, who has a much bigger reputation in the game, be worth 25mill euros but Neves be worth 55mill euros?

That is basically 20mill pounds and would be a book value loss for us. We need at least 26.6mill pounds so we can consider Koulibaly a wash, and that won't help us with this year's FFP although for for team and the business overall will be a big help.

 
axman2526 said:
Now why would Koulibaly, who has a much bigger reputation in the game, be worth 25mill euros but Neves be worth 55mill euros?

That is basically 20mill pounds and would be a book value loss for us. We need at least 26.6mill pounds so we can consider Koulibaly a wash, and that won't help us with this year's FFP although for for team and the business overall will be a big help.
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Neves is 26, Koulibaly 31. Age matters. If you say 35 is the best you could hope for you have 4 years from Koulibally and 9 from Neves. Makes Neves worth more than 2x Koulibaly.

 
ozboy said:
Neves is 26, Koulibaly 31. Age matters. If you say 35 is the best you could hope for you have 4 years from Koulibally and 9 from Neves. Makes Neves worth more than 2x Koulibaly.
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Fair point. Did not realize Neves was so young. that is really early to go to such a league.

 
Sounds like we are finally getting the out of jail card. If we could get out money back, happy to send him out. Although our backline is short of experience, my guess is we will buy another defender.

WTH is Neves doing in the Saudis league? This is a player good enough to play for the elite teams in Europe, at least Oscar played a couple of years of CL football before he went for the big money.

 
icecoolguy22 said:
Sounds like we are finally getting the out of jail card. If we could get out money back, happy to send him out. Although our backline is short of experience, my guess is we will buy another defender.

WTH is Neves doing in the Saudis league? This is a player good enough to play for the elite teams in Europe, at least Oscar played a couple of years of CL football before he went for the big money.
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Must be a huge wage.

Including Kante all the players of ours the PIF have target are Muslim I believe, which is apparently important to the Saudis.

 
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