Transfers and Rumors

[Messi983]

He was close to sign with Al Nassr but the deal fall apart and now already official for Atleti. They don't mess around with long transfer sagas, they just go and sign who they want.

 

[khaled_a_d]

He was close to sign with Al Nassr but the deal fall apart and now already official for Atleti. They don't mess around with long transfer sagas, they just go and sign who they want.

Didn't Atletico chase him all of last summer?

 

[Porque]

He was close to sign with Al Nassr but the deal fall apart and now already official for Atleti. They don't mess around with long transfer sagas, they just go and sign who they want.

Capital increase counting as income but pre-sale of tangible asset sales like VIP seats do not. Yeah that would do that.

 

[khaled_a_d]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1950436192614486340

Zeze to Neom.
He was mentioned as a CB that has massive potential, iirc many expected him to be Huijsen replacement in Bournemouth

 

[Porque]

Villarreal also wanted him but couldn't compete with Saudi wages.

Be sad to see Bouabre go that way too.

 

[Messi983]

Just came here to post this. Very disappointing but they'll both be back in Europe in two years anyway just like Gabri Veiga and Jhon Duran.

 

[Messi983]

Didn't Atletico chase him all of last summer?

Yep but then they still had Andrea Berta (who is now at Arsenal - and we've seen their Gyokeres saga though tbf that's more down to Sporting), their new SD seems to be working in the background and faster. He hijacked Pubill's deal in a few hours and then also signed Hancko (maybe less than) 24 hours after his expected signing for Al Nassr fall through. Almada's transfer was also done quickly. They also had Baena and Cardoso's signings wrapped up but took some time to make them official, probably because they were playing in the CWC and also had to ship out some players to have room for new signings.

As @Porque said Atleti have ways around SCL that we don't but still impressive how they've moved so far. Next up seems to be Millot from Stuttgart who reportedly has a 23m clause but they are trying to negotiate a better deal. Everyone is talking about Liverpool's transfers but cost to quality (or expected performance) wise I think Atleti could have the best TW in Europe from all the teams spending big. They basically got 6 quality players (I expect at least four of them except Pubill and Almada will be immediate starters) for price of Wirtz (or probably closer to Isak's fee if his transfer will also go through). We'll see what Cholo will do with this team though.