Transfer Rumours 2015/16

Sky Sports using FM stats for their reporting is kind of funny

BBC Sport had people on the page just to write about how that player develops on FM

Fantastic.

Some claims in Spain say De Gea is going to sign a new contract. Would love it to happen. Obviously he'll still leave eventually, I imagine the contract will have an exit clause, but it'd be a brilliant 'fuck you' to Real.

Dunno, to be fair, the most likely outcome is he'll still leave on a free.

By most accounts though he doesn't particularly care about playing for Madrid, he's an Atleti boy at heart of course, but realises that to guarantee his place in the national team he needs to be playing for one of the big two. A fair amount of Spanish journalists have said that his desire to play for Real Madrid has gone thanks to the blasé nature with which they've dealt with the whole thing, whether thats just Spanish journalists venting their frustrations at Real or true is, obviously, anyones guess.

The biggest stumbling block, I would say, to the theory that he'd sign a new contract with a buy out clause is there's no guarantee whatsoever that Real would actually pay it. They've spent all summer fucking around when they knew that a bid of around €40m was always likely to be accepted, assumedly the buy out would be set at around about €50m, at least De Gea knows that he's going to get the move next summer if he doesn't sign, its all about whether he still wants to play for them.

If he wants to be certain of a deal to Madrid then not signing a new deal and going for free will confirm this. Plus himself and his agent will make a lot more money if its a free transfer.

If he wants to be certain of a deal to Madrid then not signing a new deal and going for free will confirm this. Plus himself and his agent will make a lot more money if its a free transfer.

Am I right in thinking that he can't go to another club until January now because he wasn't released during a transfer window?

We've been linked with Ayoze Perez today

Can't say he'd be my first choice, but what do the Newcastle fans think? Got enough talent to make it for us?

Gary Neville appointed manager of Valencia

I guess being buddies with Peter Lim has its benefits.

I would've put my money on Phil getting promoted from assistant though.

ffs Neville and Carra was the one positive about Sky's coverage

I know it is a week or two old now, but I saw that Sinama Pongolle has signed for Dundee United! Didn't even know he was still playing.

How is he only 31? Thought he would've been way older than that, I remember seeing him score for Blackburn against Spurs once.

Aye that was his only goal for us. We played ace that game, but you won 3-2....that was the season it was you, Arsenal and us battling for 4th! Good times.

What the fuck