Twitter Transfer Rumours

[Trelleh]

13 hours ago, HybridFox said:

Brendan's motivational mixtape 

 

Edited 1 August 2023 by Trelleh

[lfu]

4 hours ago, Finnegan said:

His agent is going to be working overtime to get him a move to Europe. You'll see hundreds of links. 

 

Given how non existent our South American scouting / recruitment is and the fact the only source was lcfc Arg who links us to every Argentinian player ever, I really don't think it was ever worth any kind of excitement

 

 

Have to get Willy C to drop his agent a line to convince him to come here!

[Tommy Fresh]

1 hour ago, sacreblueits442 said:

...it is a pipe dream so far as this club is concerned, we are not going to be fishing in that pond!!!

When we have failed to master the pond just across the way, why would you believe that Rudkin could operate in the South American environment?

Norwich have picked up players from there so I'm not having it we couldn't if we wanted to. Also Rudkin isn't the one deciding where we are scouting is he? Likely our Head of Recruitment is, also when it comes to Rudkins part in all this I imagine a number of clubs from the smaller nations in South America are fairly easy to deal with, they aren't making huge demands.

Edited 1 August 2023 by Tommy Fresh

[teblin]

Maybe they’ll anouce a player at this open training?

[sacreblueits442]

1 hour ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Norwich have picked up players from there so I'm not having it we couldn't if we wanted to. Also Rudkin isn't the one deciding where we are scouting is he? Likely our Head of Recruitment is, also when it comes to Rudkins part in all this I imagine a number of clubs from the smaller nations in South America are fairly easy to deal with, they aren't making huge demands.

...we can see that it can be done, but we are not doing it!!!

We do not do a lot of things that other teams do, in regards to picking up quality players from abroad, whether it is down to the DoF to oversee the scouting department, it is not being done and we are losing out.

[MPH]

2 hours ago, Tomek said:

Verbally. 

 

 so they called them?

[justfoxes]

On 31/07/2023 at 23:53, HankMarvin said:

What’s a verbal bid package?

 

A voice memo, on a usb stick tied to a pigeons ankle?

More like a Snails shell 

[ozleicester]

On 01/08/2023 at 04:23, CosbehFox said:

Fair to say he’s leaving to someone soon 

hmm intrigued by the sponsor 

[Lambert09]

i know this isn’t footy related, but this is superb 

[FrankieADZ]

one we was "linked" with 
no surprise really, be sold for 100mil in 4yrs time

[StriderHiryu]

12 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

one we was "linked" with 
no surprise really, be sold for 100mil in 4yrs time

Perfect club for him. Expecting a 17 year old Argentinian kid to move to England and be in the first team at a club in turmoil would never have worked out.

 

As you say, I expect to see him at Chelsea for monster wages and fee in 3-4 years time!

[Ric Flair]

22 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

Perfect club for him. Expecting a 17 year old Argentinian kid to move to England and be in the first team at a club in turmoil would never have worked out.

 

As you say, I expect to see him at Chelsea for monster wages and fee in 3-4 years time!

Joao Pedro did OK doing just that at Watford.

[StriderHiryu]

1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

Joao Pedro did OK doing just that at Watford.

I don't think his family had just been assaulted by Ultras and told that they knew where his mum lived...

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

Joao Pedro did OK doing just that at Watford.

I think it helps Watford and Brighton at the close proximity to London for the South American lads they pick up. 

[Ric Flair]

30 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

I don't think his family had just been assaulted by Ultras and told that they knew where his mum lived...

I get that but why would Benfica erase that trauma from him any more than pitching up at Leicester? 😂

[Ric Flair]

18 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

I think it helps Watford and Brighton at the close proximity to London for the South American lads they pick up. 

Oh don't get me wrong, we'd absolutely ruin him but the point still stands 😂

[StriderHiryu]

4 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I get that but why would Benfica erase that trauma from him any more than pitching up at Leicester? 😂

Because he won't start for them, he will play in their B team with a handful of first team appearances in the cup. If we signed him, it's to be at minimum a squad rotation option. Benfica have a proven pedigree of finding South American talents, developing them over a few years and then selling them on for monster fees. David Luiz, Darwin Nunez, Ederson, Talisca, Di Maria, etc, etc. If we signed him in the same way Brighton sign South American players, then he'd be an outstanding pickup, but we aren't that club right now. There he can better adjust to their culture with the warm weather and language similarities and do the business when he's a man not a kid.

 

I can't remember the last time a 17 year old was a first team player for us regularly, it's a rarity for it to happen for a domestic player, yet alone a foreign one.

[Ric Flair]

2 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

Because he won't start for them, he will play in their B team with a handful of first team appearances in the cup. If we signed him, it's to be at minimum a squad rotation option. Benfica have a proven pedigree of finding South American talents, developing them over a few years and then selling them on for monster fees. David Luiz, Darwin Nunez, Ederson, Talisca, Di Maria, etc, etc. If we signed him in the same way Brighton sign South American players, then he'd be an outstanding pickup, but we aren't that club right now. There he can better adjust to their culture with the warm weather and language similarities and do the business when he's a man not a kid.

 

I can't remember the last time a 17 year old was a first team player for us regularly, it's a rarity for it to happen for a domestic player, yet alone a foreign one.

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I'd understand if we were still in the PL.

[Tommy Fresh]

7 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

Because he won't start for them, he will play in their B team with a handful of first team appearances in the cup. If we signed him, it's to be at minimum a squad rotation option. Benfica have a proven pedigree of finding South American talents, developing them over a few years and then selling them on for monster fees. David Luiz, Darwin Nunez, Ederson, Talisca, Di Maria, etc, etc. If we signed him in the same way Brighton sign South American players, then he'd be an outstanding pickup, but we aren't that club right now. There he can better adjust to their culture with the warm weather and language similarities and do the business when he's a man not a kid.

 

I can't remember the last time a 17 year old was a first team player for us regularly, it's a rarity for it to happen for a domestic player, yet alone a foreign one.

Ederson was already in Portugal when Benfica picked him up (still their record for doing it is obscene). It'll be easier to settle and he probably won't be in the spotlight as much at Benfica and knows he's in a good place to develop and get a bigger move in a few years, but not sure how that changes what happened to him.

Edited 4 August 2023 by Tommy Fresh

[Tommy Fresh]

8 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

I think it helps Watford and Brighton at the close proximity to London for the South American lads they pick up. 

A Norwich side with Dean Smith at the helm signed Sara and Nunez, which sickens me

[Lesta Legend]

8 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

I get that but why would Benfica erase that trauma from him any more than pitching up at Leicester? 😂

Culture, language play a huge part. 

 

Benfica will have a huge network of Spanish / Portuguese speakers working in and around these countries and have a good reputation within these countries. 

 

It's evident our club has nothing. 

 

Imagine old del boy Rudkin throwing out the ay up me ducks when trying persuade a family of a young Portuguese speaker to choose us. Not even worth thinking we'd be getting these player's at present because we won't. After the lack of joined up thinking on transfers over the last few years I don't believe in a couple of months since their board meeting that we've got the structure in place to nab the hot talent in South America. 

 

I'll wait for the genuine links before getting upset by losing out to Benefica on transfers. 

[Tommy Fresh]

26 minutes ago, Lesta Legend said:

Culture, language play a huge part. 

 

Benfica will have a huge network of Spanish / Portuguese speakers working in and around these countries and have a good reputation within these countries. 

 

It's evident our club has nothing. 

No one has debated that though?

[moore_94]

https://anfieldwatch.co.uk/exclusive-kiernan-dewsbury-hall-liverpool-transfer-leicester/

 

Liverpool are looking at Leicester City’s Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall over a possible move, Anfield Watch understands.

 

Sources close to the situation suggest that Liverpool's scouting team has been closely monitoring Dewsbury-Hall's progress over the past season, and the club's interest in him has grown substantially.

[Les-TA-Jon]

1 minute ago, moore_94 said:

https://anfieldwatch.co.uk/exclusive-kiernan-dewsbury-hall-liverpool-transfer-leicester/

 

Liverpool are looking at Leicester City’s Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall over a possible move, Anfield Watch understands.

 

Sources close to the situation suggest that Liverpool's scouting team has been closely monitoring Dewsbury-Hall's progress over the past season, and the club's interest in him has grown substantially.

KDH is no-where near good enough for Liverpool. 

[Happy Fox]

Just now, Les-TA-Jon said:

KDH is no-where near good enough for Liverpool. 

 

As a squad player he would be, probably see him as one for the future to develop.