2017/18 Premier League & General Football Discussion
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- Willful-Underdog
I predict a Top 5 finish for Everton if the matches find their players in good form.What's actually going on at Everton? Ignoring the fact that Lukaku has gone, as he's been leaving since about January, here's who they've signed just in this transfer window:
GK - Jordan Pickford - £30m, Sunderland
CB - Michael Keane - £30m, Burnley
MF - Davy Klaasen - £24m, Ajax
(FW - Henry Onyekuru - £7m, Eupen)
FW - Sandro Ramirez - £5.2m, Malaga
FW - Wayne Rooney - Free, Manchester United
And they've still got Leighton Baines, Ross Barkley, Aaron Lennon, Kevin Mirallas, Phil Jagielka... And they've got them all in before pre-season starts properly.
Could be a decent season for them. Any money on Everton finishing above Liverpool?
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- koszak27
Could be a decent season for them. Any money on Everton finishing above Liverpool?
They should have a really good season and they are now reportedly going after Benteke as a Lukaku replacement. They unfortunately lost Deulofeu to Barcelona because of his buy-back clause, although they made 12 million Euro from the move.
Chelsea have reportedly bid £62 million for Morata as well.
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- koszak27
Donnarumma has finally extended his contract at Milan until 2021. He will still probably leave in a year or two but his release clause is rumored to be around 70 million Euro (potentially less if the team fail to qualify for the Champion's League). Either way, I look forward to at least one more season of this:
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Happy with this signing. Ntcham could be one for the future. 
Now I just need to learn how to pronounce his name.
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Now I just need to learn how to pronounce his name.
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- GTP_daan
Gimme an N! Gimme a... what is it!?Happy with this signing. Ntcham could be one for the future.
Now I just need to learn how to pronounce his name.
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- Jamobomb86
Pre-season stuff starts tonight with a few PL clubs either taking on teams in Europe or Lower league teams, Liverpool take on Tranmere, West Brom face Young Boys of Switzerland and Stoke face Slavia Prague, The Premier League Asia Trophy starts this weekend with Liverpool v Palace and the International Champions Cup gets started soon too.
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You also mentioned lower league teams, so it should be evident that you didn't mean just Premier League teams:
Some of us lower league teams already started pre-season. As have Stoke and Watford.
Meanwhile, CIES Football Observatory has published its list of the world's most valuable players, ranked by how the player and clubs performed last season, international status, contract status, age and position.
The current top 10 are:
Neymar - €210.7m
Dele Alli - €155.1m
Harry Kane - €153.6m
Lionel Messi - €151.7m
Antoine Griezmann - €150.3m
Luis Suarez - €140.8m
Paul Pogba - €134.3m
Gonzalo Higuain - €120.2m
Eden Hazard - €117.2m
Paulo Dybala - €115.3m
Interestingly it suggests that Manchester United heavily underpaid for Lukaku (€105.4m)...
List is here.
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- The__Luke
Fans say that transfer fees are crazy at the moment, but I believe they haven't fully kept up with football inflation. None of these transfers are as big a dent to a clubs finances as the big ones 15 years ago.
I remember around the time Pogba came to United and there was a lot of Utd fans trying to justify spending so much on him, a table comparing fees to annual revenue showed that Juan Sebastian Veron cost a bigger portion of United's finances.
Also, in 2017 money, Zidane's World Record Transfer Fee is more like €188 million.
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That baffles me as well. They have multi-kerjillion pound transfers and medicals in hospitals that would put Voyager's sick bay to shame, but nobody spots a congenital heart defect.
Kanu (not dead), Muamba (was dead, isn't), Ekeng (dead), Nsofwa (dead), Okwaraji (dead), Foe (dead), Tiote (dead), Nouri (not dead)... it's not a short list.
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- GTP_Liquid
Are all of those players from (or have origins in) the same region of Africa?
There might be some sort of genetic predisposition.
Tranmere are in Birkenhead on the Wirral about 5 miles away from Liverpool; it's a local concession type friendly.
Tranmere fans swear that Liverpool and Everton are actually their rivals when it's just local idiots wanting to fight.
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Swansea rejected a £40 million bid for Sigurdsson from Everton, Sigurdsson hasn't travelled with the club on their US pre season tour.
Man City have agreed a fee in excess of £50 million with Spurs for Kyle Walker.
Both are insane transfer fees, cant quite believe that Swansea rejected that, I would've accepted £30 mill!!
Man City have agreed a fee in excess of £50 million with Spurs for Kyle Walker.
Both are insane transfer fees, cant quite believe that Swansea rejected that, I would've accepted £30 mill!!
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- RacingAtHome
HUGE SOUTHAMPTON SIGNING!
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