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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4695836, member: 405"] Rumors and newspaper articles - deals that could happen in the next week (or not): Man United & Chelsea are about 10M apart on a deal for United to take Mason Mount. United threatening to walk, but their alternatives (Caicedo or Declan Rice) are 30-40M more. Now, they may be looking at Adrian Rabiot of PSG, who may be a free agent. United's real needs are for another striker and a replacement for DeGea in goal, so why are they jerking around with these other guys (Caicedo or Rice) who they are unlikely to sign? Unsettled potential sale of the team hangs over their summer moves, too. Liverpool have done well to get MacAllister, a WC champion with Argentina, from Brighton on a bargain. They need someone more athletic beside him, just like Chelsea does with his WC teammate Enzo Fernandez. Liverpool are looking at Romeo Lavia of Southampton, who were relegated. His asking price is around 50M. Arsenal have seen 80M and 90M bids for Declan Rice batted back by West Ham, despite Rice only having one year left on his contract. Interesting article in the Athletic about Kylian Mbappe telling PSG that he won't take up his player option next year. He's apparently watching people like LeBron and Kevin Durant and thinking that short term deals maximize your options. But Mbappe is already on such high wages that really, only a couple teams can afford him. So how much "leverage" does he really have? If he's sold this summer, it will be to Real Madrid, who is the only team that can afford to pay a transfer fee of around 150M for him, plus his wages. Like Chelsea, United have a massive list of contracts they'd like move out - a total of 18 guys in all, for whom they'd like to get around 150M. United doesn't have any sales of any of those guys yet. Chelsea have done a lot of work early, and already have 170M in sales - on the 2022-23 season's books, which close on June 30. That doesn't count Mason Mount, who is likely to go for 60M. Juve is looking at losing Vlahovic as center forward this summer, and a swap deal with Chelsea is being mooted for Lukaku (plus around 30M or so, I would guess). That could be a "win win" for both teams. Bobby Firmino is also looking like he will leave Liverpool for Saudi Arabia, like so many others this summer. Central defender Aymeric Laporte may be the next to leave Man City, having fallen down to 5th choice center back. City will look to Josko Gvardial of RB Leipzig if Laporte leaves. Gvardial had a great World Cup for Croatia. Jaden Sancho is on the block for Man United, too. Dortmund expressing some interest in taking him back. One Chelsea beat writer suggested a swap of Mount for Sancho, which is pretty interesting. French striker Marcus Thurham is about to move on a free transfer this summer to Inter. Chelsea won't loan Lukaku back to them this summer, and Lautauro Martinez is looking to leave, with Pochettino interested in his fellow Argentinian, who is shockingly still only 25 years old. Now they've got some cover, although they lost Dzeko, too, to a team in Turkey. [/QUOTE]

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