Players Linked Summer 2016

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Mr Pine

Mr Pine

Thought you might like to keep up with who we have been linked to, by who and what happens in the end. I have cross referenced one I was doing anyway to the one put on the Summer transfer thread from Reddit and this is the comprehensive list! I will keep updating as and when.
 
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So far though…… we have been linked to 88 players from 58 clubs (and 2 free agents!) Of those we are apparently in for 3 players from each of Real Madrid, Athletico Madrid, Lyon, Inter Milan, Leicester and Southampton.

Forwards, make up the bulk of what we are looking at with (34 players, 38.6%). Midfielders I have split between Wingers (11 players, 12.5%), attacking midfielders (14 players, 15.9%) and Defensive Midfielders (14 players, 15.9%). If we just look at the attacking positions for a moment this is means 67.0% of the players we are apparently in for are attackers!

Adding to the Defensive Midfielders above we have Defenders (11 players, 12.5%) and Goalkeepers (4 players, 4.5%)

The average age of players is 22.9 years old, with Goalkeepers at just 18.8!
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A fine bit of graft. Good to have a mildly useful cunt on here. Rare
 
Who doesn’t like a good stat? No one I bet. So I thought I could spoil you all with pie charts!

So of the 108 players we have been linked to where have ‘sources close to the club’ been speaking to? The way I do this is finding the earliest report I can when linked of which most of these say (or have been referred) to as the source.

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The UK press have only broken 45% of the linked players, what surprised me most was only 13% were ‘clickbait’ sites just would have thought this would have been higher. I would also assume that most linked players come from agents so would probably be interesting to cross reference this with the agents of players to see if there was a pattern. But alas, believe it or not I don’t have the time to find the names for all 108!

Another thing we can look at now is what is happening to the players we are linked with? What this is really going to tell us is probably not much, but pie carts are fun!

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I suppose I was expecting to see contract extensions be higher as leaking a link can negotiate a new contract at current club as we have seen before. Yet the transfer window is young and I expect this will change.
 
So far though…… we have been linked to 88 players from 58 clubs (and 2 free agents!) Of those we are apparently in for 3 players from each of Real Madrid, Athletico Madrid, Lyon, Inter Milan, Leicester and Southampton.

Forwards, make up the bulk of what we are looking at with (34 players, 38.6%). Midfielders I have split between Wingers (11 players, 12.5%), attacking midfielders (14 players, 15.9%) and Defensive Midfielders (14 players, 15.9%). If we just look at the attacking positions for a moment this is means 67.0% of the players we are apparently in for are attackers!

Adding to the Defensive Midfielders above we have Defenders (11 players, 12.5%) and Goalkeepers (4 players, 4.5%)

The average age of players is 22.9 years old, with Goalkeepers at just 18.8!
 
We now have 3 green lines! And it is only 12 July! Amazing!

We have 108 players linked, across 70 different clubs. Please spare a thought for Inter Milan as they must be tired of us calling as we after 5 of their players. :allitongue:

If I have missed anyone please let me know. Roll on Icardi and Goetze going green……
 
So with a week to go i have updated the opening post with the latest on the 136 players we have been linked with! Of which 75 of them are still available, 38 have been transferred elsewhere and 10 have had contract extensions. 3 have signed for Spurs so far so 2% of players linked we have signed!

My this is exciting stuff ...... :sonlol:
 
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