Other clubs' transfers

Bournemouth have been after him as well, I think.

Cardiff City have completed payments for Emiliano Sala.

They must have deep pockets.

Still pursuing claims against insurers/broker, though not sure much of a case from what I've been told.

Newcastle and Leicester agree on 38M for Barnes. Better value than Gordon at least.

Sky reporting that Mitrovic has said he'll never play for Fulham again.

Cool.

Newcastle sign Harvey Barnes.

If Barnes is worth 38M then Brennan must be etc...

Al Hilal certainly want Mbappe

I wonder if this will get very interesting. He obviously wants to go to Real, and obviously has a deal lined up that pockets him the transfer fee they won’t have to pay next summer. PSG are insisting that this can’t happen.. but they don’t really have a choice if that’s what he wants. If they try to force the matter, it could go legal and involve questions about how contracts and registrations work. They could maybe find a middle ground and loan him to someone he’s happy to play for for a year, but nobody seems to be talking about doing that and, assuming they won’t loan him to Real, the only options would probably be in England and if they could do a deal it may not even cover his salary.

So perhaps the play is to get a Saudi club to stuff so much money down his shorts that he’ll take a year or two off from being a footballer to help hawk their shitty league, and allow PSG to raise a fee. I don’t know what Saudi-Qatari relations are like.. but any deal like the one suggested might get UEFA sniffing around, because it’s a ludicrous amount of money for a short-term deal with massively outsized benefits to one club (and a ‘new money club’, not one of the ones that’s allowed to do whatever the fucks it wants.)

I was having similar thoughts but hadn't quite composed them so well. Thanks for that. Certainly interesting.

He's going to go surely? Plays in Saudi for a year for 750m, then they are happy he goes to Real. Everybody involved wins, though I'm not sure what it does for the Saudis, having him only there for a year seems to detract from their league being serious more than enhance it.