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Is this the penultimate ride of this transfer window a bit strange?
You can bet your bottom dollar on what it is – this time next week Jim White will put on his tie and we will all remember the wild ‘Limit Day’ fun we’ve all had over the years.
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Chelsea broke their transfer record to sign Kai Havertz this summer
The sensible clubs, not that there are many out and about, of course they will do all their business long before the closing sound that only a transfer window can make, but until then the rumors continue to circulate.
Chelsea still needs to start Operation Clearout under the vague assumption that they can’t sign anyone else.
Edouard Mendy is the last to pass through the entrance, but there is quite a line forming at the exit.
Frank Lampard is still hopeful that there is someone who hasn’t seen Kepa play in 2020 and who can take the beleaguered shooting stopper far, far away from London.
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Lampard has spent more than £ 220 million in the summer after Mendy arrived.
Antonio Rudiger appears to have been the last man standing when Chelsea played an impromptu game of musical chairs to see which central defender would leave the club.
Lamps is also very keen on bidding for Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Ross Barkley, and that’s not to mention the 10 players you’ve probably forgotten are still registered at Stamford Bridge.
If he can clear some space, Roman has promised he can try to get West Ham’s Declan Rice, in the classic case of eight out, one in.
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Will Rice end up in Chelsea?
Also in dire need of getting some players off their books is Arsenal.
Mikel Arteta has made it clear that he wants a photo of Alexandre Lacazette if only so that we do not have to see that celebration with Yo-Pierre again.
The scent of Lucas Torreira will be used as bait to get Thomas Partey out of Atlético, finally offering Simeone a Uruguayan who loves a little powder is currently in fashion.
If Arteta can get rid of Shkodran Mustafi, Matteo Guendozi and Mesut Ozil by now next week, he will be a very happy man, especially if he can then get his hands on Jorginho, who is reportedly available at Chelsea. even though it doesn’t really take up much space.
Liverpool really want to not put Fabinho behind one thing So happily it would be the club that finally signed Kalidou Koulibaly from Napoli, a player who was probably pretty good when all the transfer talk around him started four seasons ago.
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Arteta’s best signing this summer is likely to be Aubameyang putting pen to paper in a new deal.
José Fonte backs Ruben Dias to impress in Man City
Manchester City are prioritizing a central defender over the fact that they have not had a fit central forwards in over 17 years and have signed Ruben Dias from Benfica for a fifty-something great. The added advantage for Peppy G here is that Nicolas Otamendi is going the other way.
José Mourinho would still like to spend money on a number 9 who will only play one month into the season and his current target is Wout Weghorst; all it tells us is that if your list of goals is in alphabetical order, you are running out of options.
Naturally, we all thought that it was Tanguy Ndombele for whom José Mourinho had daggers, but it turns out that we were wrong: the early bromance between Mou and Dele Alli was nothing more than for the cameras.
There is being promoted with almost as much urgency as Kepa of Chelsea. PSG is not ruling it out, which means it will be available on loan from January and we all know how much Spurs love to bring back former players on loan.
Alli and Mourinho seem to have a difficult relationship
Manchester United are still hovering around Borussia Dortmund in hopes of turning everything they’ve consistently said ever since news broke of United’s first Jadon Sancho investigation.
But, if they can’t get Sancho, then they’d love a bit of Dominic Calvert-Lewin, a play that makes perfect sense given he’s been pretty good for five minutes and not very similar to Romelu Lukaku in terms of playstyle. absolutely.
As you flick through his player roster named Dembele, imagine Ed Woodward’s delight when he realized there was another one on the market.
With Ousmane Dembele as unlikely as Sancho, United is now believed to be in the mood for Moussa Dembele, a different player in almost every way imaginable.
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Sancho has been Man United’s main target all summer
For a team that was relegated, Norwich City have done very well in getting a lot of interest in their defenders: Barcelona are looking for right-back Max Aarons.
Everton, who now have a decent midfield, means that homegrown Tom Davies, distinctive only for his hair, is now looking to move on, and Southampton is keen to make him the opposite follicle to Oriol Romeu.
West Ham and Leicester compete for Burnley’s James Tarkowski and have Wesley Fofana regularly mentioned in this column as their respective Plan B.
Surely they can meet up with a smoothie and fix it like gentlemen? Well maybe a video call in the David Moyes case, huh?
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Davies seems ready to move to the south coast this summer
Sean Dyche made Dale Stephens feel 20 feet tall when he announced that “he was the kind of transfer that shows where we are financially” or words to that effect.
A more realistic summary would have been that it is exactly the kind of midfielder Sean Dyche is excited about: British and hardworking.
West Brom fans will hope that scoring three against Chelsea has eliminated Slaven Bilic from sack-inducing plans to sign Emmanuel Adebayor.
And finally, it was all very well for Joe Hart to realize that the goals were a bit small in Spurs’ Europa League tie this week, but given his recent track record, wouldn’t it have been better to keep the shtum?
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