Are we spending 150m on Bellingham?

[peekay]

Waiting for two seasons to buy a player who may or may not join, at a price that has not been agreed, is a strategy that, if true, makes me very jittery.

In the meantime, other good midfield options get snapped up and our league position(and attractiveness) suffers.

I hope this gambles pays off.

I am with you on that.

 

[Farkmaster]

There's no issue in waiting for players who are good, it's just what "waiting" means. We don't need one midfielder. We don't need two...

 

[Hyena]

There's no issue in waiting for players who are good, it's just what "waiting" means. We don't need one midfielder. We don't need two...

.... Let's buy Gakpo!

 

[Dreambeliever]

John Obi Mikel won more important trophies.

A player like Bellingham wants to be winning multiple CL and league titles.

He’s 19 not 29

 

[Fabio]

He’s 19 not 29

Short of a massive investment, if he comes to us, by 29 he won't have won any more

 

[Fabio]

We are pitching the Gerrard dream to him after all

 

[Dreambeliever]

Short of a massive investment, if he comes to us, by 29 he won't have won any more

Stop it. Went from Woy to champions of everything in 10 years.

There will be investment and we will win again.

 

[My_Blood_Bleeds_Red]

How funny would it be if our owners are actually currently glued to their screens watching and waiting for Bitcoin and the S&P prices to go up so they can cash out and go to the shareholders and tell them - there you go, here's your transfer kitty for Jude ?

 

[Frogfish]

Kamada is better than Harvey Elliott. He is over 6ft tall has 12 goals and 4 assists in 24 games.
Tielemans we all know about.
The other two I have no idea how they have been doing.

I'd take Skriniar

Besides, they are all Barca bound

Barca under the weight of all the transfers assigned to them on this forum :

 

[bluebell]

Barca under the weight of all the transfers assigned to them on this forum :

How many signings did they make in the summer?
I wouldn't be surprised if Barca bought 5 new players in the summer all free agents

 

[tomasjj]

for each day, the bellingham pursuit gets nearer a definition of hubris

 

[binomial]

Request to the site mods/admins if we can please close this abomination of a thread? Or at least give a change in title to "Are we tight arses going to be spending a dine on a midfielder?"

 

[The Nomad]

Request to the site mods/admins if we can please close this abomination of a thread? Or at least give a change in title to "Are we tight arses going to be spending a dine on a midfielder?"

Nope.. or a pickle.

 

[King Binny]

 

[Judge Jules]

Brief overview: this is a list of six people the article says will be influential in the decision over where Bellingham goes (and the article says he defo will move on at the end of the season). They are his parents, his bro, a current Sunderland coach who worked with Bellingham at Birmingham City, that guy's brother who scouts for Dortmund in this country and whose advice carries weight with the whole family, and a London agent who is close to the family (though not at decision-making level), all in addition to the player himself of course.

The article ends by saying Bellingham will take his time to decide, and speculates that one thing he may take into account is whether we make the CL. That's obv.partly a worry but it's interesting that, after Real and the two Manc clubs are namechecked along with us early in the article, we're the only club that rate a second mention.

 

[Silver Sean]

No

 

[rurikbird]

 

[MomoWASright]

No shit, Simon.

 

[darkstarexodus]

I'm going to go with we're not buying him but more because he'll choose not to come than because we won't stump the cash.

We've put all our eggs in this basket but will get Isco's corpse on a free from Union Berlin instead.

 

[Raz]

We are NOT signing Bellingham. Jesus wept. Unless the ownership changes! And that's unlikely.