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dtxspurs

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Ah. May still be worth it, though. Aurier was thought to be a bit of a headache when he was there, but he's turned out to be fairly harmless (at least off the pitch!). Maybe getting Rabiot out of France and under a strong manager would curtail some of his dickishness.
I could also very easily see this report as a "please come make us an offer" sort of report so they can avoid losing him on a free.
 

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I could also very easily see this report as a "please come make us an offer" sort of report so they can avoid losing him on a free.

In a typical transfer situation (not coming out of contract) I'd bet he'd go for 50M. If you can get in on him for 20-30M you do it.
 

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Le Parisien saying PSG's sporting director is making a contingency plan to sell Rabiot to either us or Juve in January. Usually a top tier source when it comes to PSG. Interesting as I thought he was off to Barca

Fingers crossed there's some truth in this. Good relations with PSG, cut price deal and class act. We've also been interested for awhile.
 

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Le Parisien saying PSG's sporting director is making a contingency plan to sell Rabiot to either us or Juve in January. Usually a top tier source when it comes to PSG. Interesting as I thought he was off to Barca
This baffles me a bit, in Jan he will be free to talk to any club he wishes. If PSG want to sell early for a nominal fee that's up to them, but they don't really have any say over which team he is allowed to talk to. I still don't see him coming to us. His mother/agent will ask for crazy contract and agent fees. Could maybe see him going to Liverpool as they will pay. But Levy won't pay.
 
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dtxspurs

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This baffles me a bit, in Jan he will be free to talk to any club he wishes. If PSG want to sell early for a nominal fee that's up to them, but they don't really have any say over which team he is aloud to talk to. I still don't see him coming to us. His mother/agent will ask for crazy contract and agent fees. Could maybe see him going to Liverpool as they will pay. But Levy won't pay.
Thats why I see this as a report leaked by PSG to hopefully get bids in during January.
 

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This baffles me a bit, in Jan he will be free to talk to any club he wishes. If PSG want to sell early for a nominal fee that's up to them, but they don't really have any say over which team he is aloud to talk to. I still don't see him coming to us. His mother/agent will ask for crazy contract and agent fees. Could maybe see him going to Liverpool as they will pay. But Levy won't pay.
I actually think this is an instance where Levy would be willing to pay what it takes. If (and it's a big if) Rabiot were to be sold in January it'd be at a massive discount because of his contract situation. Even factoring in a big agent fee and a big sign-on fee, the moment he signed a contract his transfer value would instantly be significantly greater than he would cost. As far as wages are concerned, his reported demands are in line with the £150-200k/w we are paying Dele and Kane.

I don't think the difficulty with this transfer would be a case of the financials being out of reach so much as it not being possible to convince the player to come. PSG can try all they want to sell him in January but if he's been tapped up by Barca and has made up his mind to leave on a free in the summer then there's not much they can do.
 

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Le Parisien saying PSG's sporting director is making a contingency plan to sell Rabiot to either us or Juve in January. Usually a top tier source when it comes to PSG. Interesting as I thought he was off to Barca
i prefer Lo Celso to Rabiot though...
 

Lilbaz

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We still have to offload players before we can buy. Is foyth even in the cl squad this season?
 

yiddo

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Betis declared they will use of the transfer option in the loan contract (20m euros). So he's no longer a PSG player

If that is true then I would say he is quite an unlikely target for us, for the next 12 months at least anyway. It is possible to nick players when they are in this type of situation but its rare.

There is still several quality options out there for us, I am not expecting to get many or even a couple of these but if we cant land 1 proven or at least hot prospect to show some intent and keep the best coach we've had in most our lifetimes happy then... :cry:

CM - F.De Jong, Ndombele, Rabiot

LB - F.Mendy

CB - De Ligt

1 of the above and maybe another 1 or 2 from the below list of players who may not make an immediate impact for us. Then we would have made significant strides in repairing the mess of the last window.

Grimaldo, Tierney, Chilwell, Ake, Diop, D.Rice, Barrios
 

yiddo

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We still have to offload players before we can buy. Is foyth even in the cl squad this season?

This is true for right now but Dembele is as good as gone at the end of the season. Is Toby really still going to be here next season? Very unlikely I think. Throw in Llorente too. So there is 3 less before we even try to move on the likes of N'Koudou, Vorm, Janssen etc...

The situation probably makes moves in Jan difficult but not for the summer I dont think.
 

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Also think ffp might have something to do with it.

He'll wait for barca. No chance he comes to us over them.

(Please someone quote me in jan and laugh at me for being so wrong).
Agree- this is s player whose arrogance has ruined his chances of playing under Deschamps for France. Very disappointing.

He thinks his next move should be to the top level so if a superclub comes in for him January then everyone will be happy. Otherwise he’ll take his pick.
 
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