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Yes I think Diarra would have been a class signing but not for £30 million although I know you stagger the payments over 3/5 years so £6/10 million a year doesn't sound that expensive but we'll see how he does at Sunderland with the pressure on his back as their record signing.

Anyway it's not to be and we'll look elsewhere and there's plenty out there in Noah Sadiki, McAtee, Onyedika, Uche, Longstaff,Luiz, Hamer and Buendia.

"Douglas Luiz formally joined Juventus in a €50m deal from Aston Villa a year ago, but has struggled with injuries and limited playing time in Turin, accumulating just 877 minutes on the pitch without contributing to any goals." Posted by Italian media.

Also says Juventus will be trying to get the amount back
they shelled on him. And needs to be done by June 30.

40 mill for a player who was injury plagued.

comment by HaveFaithInLeeds (U8688)
posted 22 minutes ago
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 17 minutes ago
Who said we absolutely wanted him?

Any official source?

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Think it's quite clear we bid for him.

Saw a denial from the club through local journalists that they had improved the bid when this rumoured this week.

And contrast with the rumours that we have submitted a bid for Krstovic at Lecee, the YEP have been in contact with the club who have stated clearly that they have not made a bid for this player.

Just like the Bijol news, the muniz news, I would say that the Diarra news was genuine.

It's a case of assessing the sources making a judgement on it's reliability.

If you are just going to dismiss every report that hasn't come from the club then the same would go for all the reports about Bijol for weeks that the club never confirmed either, and yet here he is. Why would the club make an official statement about interest in a player.
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I don’t dismiss anything but from past experience I just know most links will be bullsheet!

comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 54 minutes ago
Who said we absolutely wanted him?

Any official source?


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My point exactly.

Also since promotion I think we have been linked with at least 12 new strikers. Not sure I'm that excited about any of them listed below as they're either overpriced,injury prone or unproven like Guessand who looks great on YouTube but would he be able to be as great in the EPL is the big question???

Ferguson
Wilson
Muniz,
Vardy
Abraham
Sargent,
Beto,
Calvert Lewin,
Krstovic,
Vanat,
Geubbels,
Guessand.

I've not taken any notice of even the Yorkshire Evening Post for years now.

I gave up on that the summer Phil Hay kept saying we wouldn't be signing Saiz or Alioski & we signed both!! Most of the chatter is just nonsense.

Sargent

^^^

My biggest fear is Farke signs him and keeps Bamford.

On the opposite side of this, we haven't heard a thing regards outgoings. 49ers do keep a tight lid on things.

I assume once we hit midnight June 30, things change.

Maybe we were just bumping up the price for Sunderland to pay.
Sometimes it better to know when to back off.

comment by Batty (U4664)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
Sargent

^^^

My biggest fear is Farke signs him and keeps Bamford.


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Ouch! Yes, I know what you mean.

Also, regarding Douglas Luiz, again, not a bad age and has some good experience … but/and (depending on your proclivities😁) I hope his character is ‘sound’ i.e. he’ll fit in with the vibe Farke et al have been able to create at ER these past couple of seasons. No room for prima-donnas please👍.