Summer summary 2016

[rurikbird]

Final table of transfer links, comings and goings in the summer transfer window of 2016.

GK
Loris Karius signed for £4.7M
Alex Manninger signed (free)
Timo Horn (£7M release clause)
Ter Stegen (Barcelona)
Pepe Reina (Napoli)

CB
Joel Matip signed (Schalke, free transfer)
Ragnar Klavan signed (Augsburg, £4.2M)
Antonio Rudiger (Roma, £20M+)
Thomas Vermaelen (Barcelona, £8M)
Niklas Sule (Hoffenheim)
Jonathan Tah (Bayer)
Jeremy Mathieu (Barcelona, £5.9M)
Bruno Martins Indi (Porto, went to Stoke)

LB
Jonas Hector (Cologne, £25M)
Ben Chilwell (Leicester, £10M, staying put)
Aaron Cresswell (West Ham, signed a new contract)
Raphael Guerreiro (Lorient, signed for Dortmund)
Andrew Robertson (Hull)
Mattia De Sciglio (AC Milan)
Lucas Digne (£16M, signed for Barca)
Jordan Amavi (Aston Villa, £10M)
Jetro Willems (PSV, £10M)
Jordy Gaspar (Lyon)

CM
Marco Grujic signed (Red Star Belgrade, £5.1M)
Mahmoud Dahoud (Borussia M, £25M+)
Piotr Zielinsky (Udinese, signing for AC Milan)
Danny Drinkwater (Leicester, £14M)
Samuel Bastien (Anderlecht, around £4M)
Ruben Neves (Porto, around £17M)
Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle, £25M)
Gary Medel (Inter, £10M)
Leandro Paredes (Roma, £16M)

AM
Sadio Mane signed (Southampton, £34M+ add-ons)
Georginio Wijnaldum signed (Newcastle, £23M + £2M in add-ons)
Mario Götze (back in Dortmund)
Ousmane Dembele (Rennes, £28M, signed for Dortmund)
Leroy Sane (Schalke, signed by Man City)
Thomas Lemar (Monaco, stayed put)
Dennies Praet (Anderlecht, signed for Sampdoria)
Filip Kostic (Stuttgart, £20M, went to Hamburg)
Ante Coric (Dinamo Zagreb, £12.8M stayed in Zagreb)
Emre Mor (Nordsjaelland, signed for Dortmund)
Marko Pjaca (Dinamo Zagreb, signed for Juve)
Max Meyer (Schalke, £28M)
Christian Pulisic (Dortmund, £11M, stayed in Dortmund)

CF
Kevin Volland (Hoffenheim, signed for Bayer)
Breel Embolo (Basel, signed for Schalke)

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SALES:

Benteke – joined Crystal Palace for £27M + 5M in add-ons
Ibe – joined Bournemouth for £15M (with buy-back clause)
Allen – joined Stoke for £13M + 2M in add-ons
Luis Alberto – joined Lazio for £4.3M + £1.7 in add-ons (if Lazio qualify for Europe this year) and a 30% sell-on clause.
Smith – joined Bournemouth for £3M with £3M in add-ons and buy-back clause
Skrtel – joined Fenerbahce for £5.5M
Canos – joined Norwich for £2.5M up front, 2M in add-ons and buy back and sell-on clauses
Sinclair – joined Watford for up to £4M
Vigouroux – joined Swindon for £400,000
Rossiter – joined Glasgow Rangers for £250,000 (training compensation)
Teixeira – joined Porto for £250,000 (training compensation)
Toure – released
Enrique – released
Yesil – released
Balotelli – signed for Nice on a free transfer


LOANED OUT:

Ward – Huddersfield
Fulton – Chesterfield
Bogdan – Wigan
Kent – Barnsley
Flanagan – Burnley
Wisdom – Red Bull Salzburg
Markovic – Sporting Lisbon

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Total sales: around £83.6M*
Total spending: around £72M*

*I count 50% of the add-ons in the total amount

 

[Arn]

Emil Forsberg. Been linked with us for almost a year now.

 

[Hansern]

Bild linked us with Embolo

 

[rurikbird]

Bild linked us with Embolo

Was it recently? The only links I found on Embolo were from December and the source seems to be Calciomercato.

 

[King Binny]

Was it recently? The only links I found on Embolo were from December and the source seems to be Calciomercato.

Dated 11 May 2016

http://sportbild.bild.de/fussball/p...e-stars-beim-fc-liverpool-45767024.sport.html

 

[rurikbird]

Dated 11 May 2016

http://sportbild.bild.de/fussball/p...e-stars-beim-fc-liverpool-45767024.sport.html

Thanks, added

 

[Mystic]

Have we seriously been linked with Sane, or is your admiration for him showing through there Rurik??

 

[Mystic]

Also, would you consider the Joe Hart stories last week reputable enough for this list?? I can't remember who linked us, hopefully someone reading this can.

 

[the count]

We've been linked with Aaron Cresswell, the West Ham left back.
He's a boyhood red as well apparently.

 

[Hansern]

Kicker reporting that Gotze can leave Bayern for 20-25 mill euros.

SIGN!

 

[Hansern]

Manchester United are among the frontrunners to sign Chelsea defender John Terry. (Source: Daily Star)

Hahahahaha! God I hope this happens.

 

[rurikbird]

Cresswell added. I think Hart stories are bollocks. @Mystic, we've been seriously linked with Sane in January-February, but it's gone quiet for now.

 

[Modo]

We've been linked with Aaron Cresswell, the West Ham left back.
He's a boyhood red as well apparently.

Boyhood red?
He used to play in the youth teams.

 

[SummerOnions]

Manchester United are among the frontrunners to sign Chelsea defender John Terry. (Source: Daily Star)

Hahahahaha! God I hope this happens.

I'd say its a guarantee of Mourinho going there

 

[Windom Earle]

Shouldn't Sinclair be on you outgoing list? Watford are linked. It would either be fee agreed or set by tribunal.

 

[rurikbird]

Karius added

 

[Hansern]

I'd say its a guarantee of Mourinho going there

Read that he had been offered a new contract at Chelsea. Terry for one more year

 

[rurikbird]

Updated with Drinkwater, Coric and Gotze sour grapes

Mods, would you mind "sticky"-ing this thread please?

 

[reuque]

Add Jonathan Tah to the CB list. His name came up last week on Bild: http://sportbild.bild.de/fussball/2...ersatz-liverpool-will-tah-45889156.sport.html

 

[rurikbird]

Guerreiro added

 

[rurikbird]

Did I miss any solid links in the past 3 weeks? Something more substantial than a run-of-the-mill newspaper rumor?

 

[Windom Earle]

I haven't seen anything new and solid.

However, if you are looking for some totally-made-up-bollocks then Emanuele Giulianelli (no idea, apparently a Gazzetta dello Sport journalist) is linking Liverpool to a bid for Hamsik.

Here is his "article" Giulianelli: Liverpool table Hamsik offer; Pep wants Firmino; Sterling to Bayern (Warning: directs to Tribal Football!), with details of the bid along with a few other things that EG just made up.

Then there are the links to 'dros Townsend... Slow going for solid, exciting links right now.

 

[rurikbird]

It would be a full-time job to follow Giulianelli's imagination.

 

[rurikbird]

Updated with Robertson and some departures and tweaks

 

[rurikbird]

Updated

 

[goodspam]

Cresswell has signed an extension at West Ham, so likely won't be going anywhere.

 

[rurikbird]

Updated

 

[YNWA]

Updated

Antonio Rudiger has done his knee ligaments, and wont be back till Dec '16

 

[rurikbird]

So far 10 (!) of our players have already being sold or released and around 9-10 more will probably leave before September 1st. That's some clear-out! Let's hope this season we don't lose any players we'd rather keep. So far I like the business we are doing.

As for incomings, so far we have 4, of whom 3 will probably walk right into the first team. I think Klopp will probably add 4-5 more – a 3rd choice GK, a LB, a CM (unless he decides to wait one more year for Dahoud) and probably at least one more young attacking player (Coric?). So far all the signings seem to follow a very clear blueprint and vision, which is something that couldn't be said about our transfers in recent years.

 

[rurikbird]

Updated