Every Major Transfer That Could Happen On Deadline Day
Marc Cucurella to Man United? Matheus Nunes? To Man City? Ryan Gravenberch to Liverpool? The transfer window might nearly be shut, but there are still a number of huge moves between Europe's biggest clubs.
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00:00 Ah, so that's how you spell Suboz like.
00:06 Oh hello everybody, what a read this is by the way.
00:08 Adam Cleary from 442 here and just like me in university, football clubs absolutely love
00:15 leaving everything to the last possible minute.
00:17 In fact there's so much excitement at the end of the transfer window that Jim White
00:21 managed to carve out a career as a beloved television broadcaster purely by virtue of
00:26 being on shift when Man City signed Rubinho.
00:29 So with approximately I don't have a watch on left in the window, what big deals could
00:34 we still possibly see?
00:36 Let's look at all of them right now.
00:39 Alright we're going to start with a weird one that has literally only just broken as
00:44 I sat down to record this and that is Cole Palmer to Chelsea.
00:48 So yeah, bit of a weird one this.
00:50 Fabrizio Romano, my friend and yours, reported that Chelsea have added Cole Palmer to their
00:55 list of attacking signings.
00:56 Now Chelsea are still definitely in the market for one more attacking signing.
01:00 You'll remember they went after Michael Alissie at Crystal Palace, that got rebuffed, then
01:04 they wanted Brendan Johnson from Nottingham Forest but didn't quite like the £40m fee
01:08 and it looks like Palmer is now their biggest target.
01:11 Now Man City's position on this remains a little bit unclear.
01:14 You remember he starred in the Community Shield, looked like he'd gone and won the thing for
01:18 him and he was fantastic in the under 21 Euro so this really does feel like a season where
01:23 he needs to start getting proper game time but Pep, when questioned about it, was like
01:27 "I dunno".
01:29 City traditionally don't really favour the loan market for players like this so it did
01:32 kind of look like he might be open to leaving but couldn't really find the right club.
01:36 Now Chelsea would obviously be a great place for him to go and play his football, he does
01:39 feel like he would fit into that Pochettino side really, really well but it's whether
01:43 or not Man City currently see Chelsea as a direct rival.
01:47 If they do, it's unlikely they would allow that move to go through but the early reports
01:50 of this are that Palmer would be interested in that transfer so, want to watch in the
01:55 last couple of hours.
01:56 And speaking of Man City, probably the biggest Premier League transfer still on the table
02:00 this summer is indeed Wolves Mateus Nunes to Manchester City.
02:04 Now this one isn't a question of whether or not City are interested, they definitely,
02:07 definitely are.
02:08 They have put in bids to Wolves and they have so far been rejected.
02:12 The latest, a £51.5m bid was knocked back and Nunes responded to this very professionally,
02:18 very sensibly by just going on strike and refusing to play.
02:21 Gary O'Neill was obviously asked about this after their Carabao Cup game and he said as
02:25 far as he's concerned the situation is very clear, they have a valuation for the player,
02:29 if that's met then he will be allowed to leave and if it's not, then he won't.
02:32 Now you would imagine City will be coming back in with another bid because there's obviously
02:36 not long left and they were desperate to add another sort of midfield option following
02:41 the injury to Kevin De Bruyne.
02:42 They went after Paqueta originally and well, we all know how that one ended up so Nunes
02:47 is definitely their top target.
02:49 Guardiola has even said he thinks he's one of the best players in the world.
02:53 Basically one of two things is definitely going to happen here, either Man City are
02:56 going to get their man or Nunes is going to have one of the most awkward training sessions
03:01 you've ever seen come about Monday.
03:03 Now moving across to the other side of Manchester, there's a bit of a, how do I put this, mad
03:09 one.
03:10 Injuries to both Lukeshaw and Molassi mean that they entered the last few days of the
03:13 window probably needing to go out and get a left back.
03:16 Certainly that's the noises coming out of the club.
03:18 And while I think everybody expected them to follow their usual pattern of just looking
03:22 at all the players that Eric Ten Hag has managed previously and picking one off there, hello
03:26 Tagliafico, instead they've just gone bananas and are going for Marc Cucaracha.
03:31 Now just put aside the fact that Brighton are probably wetting their pants at this,
03:35 having just sold them for 65 million last year and now seeing them getting turfed out
03:39 on loan is hilarious to them.
03:41 Cucaracha is still a really, really good player.
03:45 And as a result of this, the main sticking point seems to be that Chelsea want a simply
03:48 eye-watering loan fee rumoured to be around the £7 million mark.
03:52 And it's not even believed Man United have that kind of budget to play with given how
03:56 close they're pushing to their current FFP limit.
03:58 But despite all that, the noises coming out of journalists covering both Man United and
04:02 Chelsea are that this deal is actually quite likely to happen.
04:06 There'll be some kind of compromise on the fee.
04:08 There might even have to be an obligation to buy somewhere down the line, but it is
04:12 believed the two clubs will come to an agreement.
04:14 Now obviously what would make life a lot easier for Man United is if they could get any outgoings
04:18 happening in the next two days.
04:19 And that brings us very nicely to Harry Maguire going to West Ham United.
04:24 Now being a bit of a soap opera this one, already it looked for all the world that Maguire
04:27 was going to go to West Ham.
04:28 I think there was a fee agreed and they had pretty much everything worked out.
04:32 But then Maguire decided he didn't like that move and wasn't going to take it and wanted
04:35 to fight for his place at Man United instead.
04:37 Now that probably seemed like quite a good idea at the time, but in Man United's opening
04:40 game against Wolves, Ten Hag hauled Martinez off because he was on a yellow card and he
04:44 was in the danger zone and brought on Viktor Lindelof instead, despite that left-sided
04:49 centre-back position very much being Maguire's.
04:52 And then following the injury to Luke Shaw, there was some talk that maybe they would
04:55 go to a back three and that would give Maguire a way back into the side.
04:58 But now of course they're going to spend quite a bit of money on Kukerea, so that's not even
05:02 happening.
05:03 So it's all well and good fighting for your place, but you might not even get the chance
05:06 to do that.
05:07 And as a result, with West Ham seemingly the only club who were interested in bringing
05:10 him in, that looks to have reopened that situation, potentially as an initial loan, but also possibly
05:16 he might just have given up on staying at Man United and will be open to the full transfer.
05:20 Weirdly, if you're looking for an opinion on this one, I think despite the fact it is
05:23 a little quiet at the minute, I think that's probably going to go through on deadline day.
05:28 I just think Maguire is going to look at the situation and think, I want to stay here,
05:32 but I'm never going to get a fair crack of the whip.
05:34 So I might as well go and play football in what is an international tournament.
05:38 Yeah, he does not want to lose his place in that England side.
05:41 Now while we're on the subject of Manchester United, one player they have been linked with,
05:45 but almost certainly don't have the necessary funds to go out and get, now looks like he
05:49 might be moving closer to a move to Liverpool and that is Ryan Gravenbach.
05:53 It is Gravenbach, it's not Gravenbert, it's Gravenbach.
05:56 Was it Gravenbacht?
05:57 I'm never quite sure on the end of that one.
05:59 Going to go with Gravenbach.
06:00 Now despite how well they controlled the midfield in the game against Newcastle, videos there
06:03 if you want to have a watch of how they did that in an 11 versus 11 game, they do still
06:07 look a little bit fragile and it's believed they want another midfielder in there just
06:11 to steal things up a bit.
06:13 Now Bayern Munich absolutely do not want to let Gravenbach leave, but he is also not getting
06:18 in that side.
06:19 He stayed on the bench at the weekend when it looked like he would have been the most
06:21 logical player to bring on.
06:23 So it's possible he's getting impatient with the development plan they have there and Liverpool
06:27 do see him as a first team player.
06:30 So he may well be internally pushing for that move.
06:33 Now I personally think this one's unlikely both for Man United and for Liverpool at this
06:37 late stage of the window, but might be one that gets picked up again in January.
06:41 Now just finally on Manchester United, it does seem like Dean Henderson may well complete
06:45 a move to Crystal Palace and the reason I say that it looks like that's going to happen
06:48 is because I just went to quickly check to see if it happened or not and it has.
06:52 As I've been recording this, so that's, he ticked that one off.
06:56 £15 million up front and I think another £5 million in add-ons.
06:59 That's good news for Man United because if they weren't going to play him, they'd get
07:02 a bit of money for him that might enable them to go out and get a Kukerea on loan or go
07:06 out and get a Gravenberch.
07:07 So that would, that would, you'd think something might happen for Man United in terms of incomings
07:12 now.
07:13 You'd think.
07:14 Oh, and finally, finally, finally on Manchester United, they are being linked with Pierre
07:17 Emmerich-Huyberg, which is a bit of a random out of left field one, but you could see how
07:21 he could come in and do the kind of job they're looking for somebody to go and do.
07:25 They're certainly looking at the profile of players they've been after in central midfield.
07:28 I'm thinking Amrabat, which now looks like it's not going to happen and Gravenberch,
07:32 which may or may not happen.
07:33 Huyberg's in a similar mould.
07:35 That's another one we could potentially see.
07:37 And speaking of Tottenham Hotspur, I'm really pleased with how nicely these segues are lining
07:42 up.
07:43 By the way, they look like they might still be in for Brennan Johnson from Nottingham
07:46 Forest.
07:47 Now, as I mentioned at the start of the video, Chelsea were having a look at him initially,
07:50 liked him, but didn't think he was necessarily worth the £40 million.
07:54 But Tottenham, they seem to think he is.
07:56 The price we are being told has not changed.
07:59 Forest still value him at around about the £40 million mark after he had such an impressive,
08:04 impressive-ish debut season for them last year.
08:06 The goals weren't exactly off the charts.
08:08 It wasn't like he had to move to a bigger club, but he's definitely someone with a really
08:13 specific skill set.
08:14 And if you look at how Tottenham have been playing already this season, a lot of drive,
08:17 a lot of directness, a lot of pace, a lot of just going at teams.
08:20 Does feel like a really good fit there.
08:22 Again, though, given how late this one is in the window and how Forest would almost
08:25 certainly need to replace him if he did leave, that does kind of make you feel like it's
08:29 more of a January thing than a summer thing.
08:32 But they've got the Kane money, might as well spend it.
08:36 Going abroad now and there are two major transfers still on the cards for Spain's two biggest
08:41 clubs, the first of which being Jao Felix to Barcelona.
08:43 Bit of a weird one, this.
08:45 Almost just sort of feels like Barcelona were like, "Oh yeah, we'll go out and get Jao
08:48 Felix this summer."
08:49 And have just completely forgotten to go and do it.
08:51 Like, there's been all these reports linking him with Saudi Arabia and all these other
08:54 clubs and every single time the feedback is just, "No, he's not interested because he's
08:58 going to go to Barcelona."
09:00 But again, we get here at a hair past a freckle and he still hasn't gone to Barcelona.
09:06 Almost certainly he is going to move in the next two days and you would imagine Barcelona,
09:09 because they do want him and apparently it was all sorted ages ago, is the most likely
09:13 destination.
09:14 There is also talk of two Premier League suitors for him.
09:18 First off, and if you're a Liverpool fan, cover your ears now, if Mo Salah does end
09:21 up going to Saudi Arabia, which I have to be completely honest, I don't think is going
09:24 to happen in a million years, but you just never know, he's apparently the main name
09:29 in the frame, say that ten times fast, to replace him.
09:32 And also, just because Aston Villa haven't done an absolutely mad transfer in a while
09:36 and seemingly learned nothing from getting Philippe Coutinho, apparently Aston Villa
09:41 are interested in him as well.
09:42 You'd have to rate that particular idea pretty far down the list of options for Jao Felix.
09:47 No disrespect to Aston Villa fans because he wants to go to Barcelona, he loves the
09:50 club and he's desperate to go there and that's probably going to happen, but if that doesn't
09:53 happen he can then go to Saudi Arabia and make a bajillion, gillion pounds and if that
09:58 doesn't happen he can potentially go to Liverpool and replace Mo Salah.
10:02 What a transfer that is for him and then after all of that doesn't happen, none of that comes
10:06 to pass, he can go to Aston Villa.
10:08 Again, no disrespect to Aston Villa, that's an incredibly exciting club to be playing
10:12 for right now, it's just, it's not Barcelona and it's not Liverpool and it's not more money
10:18 than Scrooge McDuck.
10:19 And finally, I've saved the most tedious until last, Kylian Mbappe to Real Madrid.
10:25 Now you're an intelligent person, you may well think, look, if this one was going to
10:28 happen then it would have already happened, it's one of those big summer transfers like
10:33 the Kane one and while they do drag out they always tend to end before the end of the window
10:37 because there's so much logistically going on you can't leave them that late, so there's
10:40 probably no way Mbappe's going to Madrid this late on, but nah, nah-ah.
10:46 The reports coming out of Madrid all summer were they were going to leave the Mbappe thing
10:50 for now, see what happened with PSG, see if he did get his head turned by Saudi Arabia
10:55 and then go back in for him specifically in the last 48 hours of the window.
11:00 The reason for this is obviously quite tactical because if you have the entire summer to negotiate
11:04 with PSG they will make things an absolute nightmare, they will get every single euro
11:10 out of Madrid they possibly can, but if you go in late and they've already made the decision
11:15 of 'oh maybe we should move him on, he doesn't want to be here, it's a situation we could
11:20 do without' then you kind of force their hand to just accept the first thing that comes
11:24 in because if they don't it ain't going to happen.
11:26 Now of course on the PSG side of this he was out of the side and he was back into the side
11:30 and they reintegrated him and their start to the season was really bad but he's back
11:33 in now so it does look like that has settled down, but they are attempting to build a very
11:38 different PSG now without the sort of mega superstars like Messi and Neymar and build
11:43 a team from the ground up that the fans actually like and are just committed and dedicated
11:47 and not just a bit of a circus freak show and Mbappe, while he's certainly not Messi
11:52 and not Neymar in terms of the circus that surrounds him and he's still a young French
11:57 lad and he probably does love playing at the club, if this one does happen it will probably
12:02 be one of the most exciting deadline day signings you have ever seen and if there are two clubs
12:08 as just insanely run as Real Madrid and PSG, let's not rule it out.
12:15 Right so there you have it then, that is every single major transfer currently on the table
12:18 unless of course you count Wilfred Ndidi going to Nottingham Forest which you probably don't
12:22 and Isaac Hayden going to Luton which you probably don't and again no disrespect to
12:26 Forest or Luton but we've all got stuff to do today, I can't sit here forever.
12:30 Oh and of course while we are on the subject of transfers another major institution looking
12:34 to add to its books this summer is none other than 442, not the magazine obviously us right
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12:53 you ask the question whoever gets this job we will do a funny video of them holding the
12:56 shirt announcing them like a signing so you'd have that to look forward to if nothing else.
13:01 As ever we would love to hear from you so whatever club it is you support please let
13:04 us know in the comments below who you think they need to add in the last few days of the
13:09 window or if you're a club and you don't think you need to add anybody just be smug
13:13 about it, tell us how good your shopping was, you get me on twitter @adamclearyclery442
13:18 the socials are always in the corner of the video I don't know why I bother pointing them
13:21 out and until next time happy transfer deadline day everybody, leave your little mince pie
13:27 out for Jim White and wear your yellow tie and I'll see you then, bye.