Andy Delort says he is playing on Tuesday in Coupe de la Ligue vs Dijon. I think this is down to the Chairman of Tours putting pressure on us to up the offer. I still cannot see this happening, it has dragged on too long.
Isn't that from the Facebook page that I think claimed he signed for us the other day? (And seems to have been taken down). Don't think it's the player himself posting on there, but may be wrong.
Wouldn't write anything off either with with Delort.
Wouldnt write anything off happening with Andy Delort signing but at the same time just gonna take everything with a pinch of salt until its confirmed on the O/S
Andy Delort says he is playing on Tuesday in Coupe de la Ligue vs Dijon. I think this is down to the Chairman of Tours putting pressure on us to up the offer. I still cannot see this happening, it has dragged on too long.
If Delort plays in that game I'd imagine our interest in him is dead.
Following a conversation on twitter about Celso Borges' talks with us.
Ed Malyon - Mirror sports deputy editor and South American football expert Tor-Kristian Karlsen - Guardian football writer that profiled Costa Rica during the World Cup
Both seem to think it would be a huge coup if we were to sign Borges. Karlsen seems completely bewildered that we would have any chance at all of getting him at all.
A balanced YouTube clips video, some misses, but some good goals and assists in there. Suspect there is something in this, but in some respects wish that this was totally under the radar until done, if we are interested, as I would expect a few bigger fish to be interested. Feels great to be linked with this sort of quality again after recent years' scraping the barrel the best we could.
According to our information, the transfer of Andy Delort (22 years) is not on track. The attacker has actually agreed with the club Charlton but the Touraine president is not at all satisfied by an offer from the English club in the second division.
Charlton offers 2.8 million euros plus bonuses, while Jean-Marc Ettori claims 1 million more have we learned from a reliable source.
The English club could therefore decide to drop the case. Today, it is planned that Andy Delort resume training with Olivier Pantaloni group. The attacker hopes to play Tuesday against Dijon in League Cup or next Friday against Valenciennes, tired of waiting.
Tours need to raise 5m don't they before they can sign any new players? Delort seems to be their only saleable asset
According to the DNCG which is the French FFP Tours already promised them 3mil euro from the sale of Delort so they really don't have an option other than to sell him.
Another problem is that they will owe something like 40% of his transfer fee to his previous club/agents etc so it sounds like they are trying to inflate the price as much as possible.
The closer to the end of the transfer window the stronger our hand gets.
Think it's dead in the water tbh. We can't hang around playing a waiting game as we need to start negotiations for another striker. I would tell Tours that it's over unless a deal can be struck in 24 hours. Time to move on.
I agree with others that we need to set some deadlines so we can look at other options. He looks like he would be a good player to have and i would welcome him to the club, but we shouldn't (and i doubt we are) be putting all our efforts into one player. We have to take our own FFP into consideration. If we over spend we could be caught by the same sanctions by spending outside our limitations.
Hopefully we wil sign him for the fee we offered. In an way its nice to know RD won't be held to ransom on money matters.
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Wouldn't write anything off either with with Delort.
Ed Malyon - Mirror sports deputy editor and South American football expert
Tor-Kristian Karlsen - Guardian football writer that profiled Costa Rica during the World Cup
Both seem to think it would be a huge coup if we were to sign Borges. Karlsen seems completely bewildered that we would have any chance at all of getting him at all.
High praise. Nice to see a journalist shocked we might sign someone but then again he was in talks with Evian - hardly a footballing superpower
According to our information, the transfer of Andy Delort (22 years) is not on track. The attacker has actually agreed with the club Charlton but the Touraine president is not at all satisfied by an offer from the English club in the second division.
Charlton offers 2.8 million euros plus bonuses, while Jean-Marc Ettori claims 1 million more have we learned from a reliable source.
The English club could therefore decide to drop the case. Today, it is planned that Andy Delort resume training with Olivier Pantaloni group. The attacker hopes to play Tuesday against Dijon in League Cup or next Friday against Valenciennes, tired of waiting.
Another problem is that they will owe something like 40% of his transfer fee to his previous club/agents etc so it sounds like they are trying to inflate the price as much as possible.
The closer to the end of the transfer window the stronger our hand gets.
Does the French Ligue 2... (A) Have a window (B) Does it close before / after / or at the same time as ours?
Hopefully we wil sign him for the fee we offered. In an way its nice to know RD won't be held to ransom on money matters.
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I've been informed that Delort will/will not sign today. I am very well informed.
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@DELORT1960: @Tony_Marsh1980 Andy hope of any court porter quickly the colors of Charlton
The Mirror: "Charlton are in talks to sign Costa Rica international midfielder Celso Borges."
Evian? Would he be their water carrier...
Don't be naive....