| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso 18:11 - Jun 27 with 2449 views | le2blue |
That's a bit inconvenient for Sunderland
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| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 18:36 - Jun 27 with 2266 views | squiz |
Good news for us. They'll be weaker without him |  | | |
| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 18:37 - Jun 27 with 2251 views | Churchman |
| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 18:36 - Jun 27 by squiz |
Good news for us. They'll be weaker without him |
Just a load of rumour nonsense is my guess |  | | |
| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 18:40 - Jun 27 with 2218 views | squiz |
| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 18:37 - Jun 27 by Churchman |
Just a load of rumour nonsense is my guess |
Fabrizio Romano is tweeting about it | | | |
| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 18:54 - Jun 27 with 2126 views | King_of_Portman_Rd |
I’m probably old fashioned and behind the times. But why / how can a buying club and player agree ‘personal terms’ before buying club has approached selling club?
I can’t remember that being ‘a thing’ years ago. I guess there is logic to it being accepted and part of the norm but I’m sure that used to be very much not the done thing and ‘tapping up’ etc. |  | | |
| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 18:57 - Jun 27 with 2094 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
Not just a big loss on the pitch but losing their leader. Sunderland fans are understandably gutted. |  |
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| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 19:01 - Jun 27 with 2060 views | Gary_Knows |
| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 18:54 - Jun 27 by King_of_Portman_Rd |
I’m probably old fashioned and behind the times. But why / how can a buying club and player agree ‘personal terms’ before buying club has approached selling club?
I can’t remember that being ‘a thing’ years ago. I guess there is logic to it being accepted and part of the norm but I’m sure that used to be very much not the done thing and ‘tapping up’ etc. |
I think it’s fairly obvious that everything is done via agents now, so they’ll get a feel for whether a player wants to join and I’m sure numbers etc are laid out during those talks and then it’s just up to the clubs to agree a fee.
Otherwise, there’s no point the buying club making an offer for a player they know won’t join/demand to much money. |  |
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| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 19:06 - Jun 27 with 2026 views | Churchman |
| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 18:40 - Jun 27 by squiz |
Fabrizio Romano is tweeting about it |
I always think of pizza when I hear that blokes name. ‘I’ll have the Fabrizio Romano with extra mushrooms and lots of Parmesan cheese please’.
Back to reality, he might be better than most of the speculation spuds but I’ll believe that one when I see it. Why leave a progressive club like Sunderland after a terrific season for a basket case like Chelsea? Especially as he must have trousered more money than he can ever spend.
It’ll be interesting and nothing in the wacky world of football would surprise me. | | | |
| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 21:26 - Jun 27 with 1666 views | Ace_High1 |
| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 19:06 - Jun 27 by Churchman |
I always think of pizza when I hear that blokes name. ‘I’ll have the Fabrizio Romano with extra mushrooms and lots of Parmesan cheese please’.
Back to reality, he might be better than most of the speculation spuds but I’ll believe that one when I see it. Why leave a progressive club like Sunderland after a terrific season for a basket case like Chelsea? Especially as he must have trousered more money than he can ever spend.
It’ll be interesting and nothing in the wacky world of football would surprise me. |
Because Alonso was his manager at Leverkusen and they won the league. |  | | |
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| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 22:40 - Jun 27 with 1398 views | ringwoodblue |
If this happens, it just goes the prove that if any of the smaller PL teams (us included) manage to recruit really good players that the bigger fish will swoop in and take them away. The knack is to be able to do what Bmth, Brentford and Brighton do and that’s replace them with a player that’s equally as good.
However, Sunderland will find Xhaka very hard to replace. |  |
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| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 23:19 - Jun 27 with 1253 views | squiz |
| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 19:06 - Jun 27 by Churchman |
I always think of pizza when I hear that blokes name. ‘I’ll have the Fabrizio Romano with extra mushrooms and lots of Parmesan cheese please’.
Back to reality, he might be better than most of the speculation spuds but I’ll believe that one when I see it. Why leave a progressive club like Sunderland after a terrific season for a basket case like Chelsea? Especially as he must have trousered more money than he can ever spend.
It’ll be interesting and nothing in the wacky world of football would surprise me. |
Yeah the padana on a romana base is a top tier pizza at Pizza Express. | | | |
| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 00:37 - Jun 28 with 1090 views | ParisBlue |
| Granit Xhaka heading to Chelsea to re-unite with Alonso on 18:57 - Jun 27 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
Not just a big loss on the pitch but losing their leader. Sunderland fans are understandably gutted. |
He's 34 in September, 2 years left on his contract so should get decent money for him.
Hopefully it's a prolonged transfer and he gets a bout of "August Cough" around 20th August. |  |
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