Nobody realistically expect Leicester to make it next season, c’mon. They’d be happy just to stay up. Klopp has a transfer window for his signings now, Mourinho’s at United, Pep just got to City, Conte’s at Chelsea — Leicester won’t be contenders next season. I highly doubt selling Vardy or inserting that release…

The release clause is for clubs that have CL football only.

As far as long term bets go, Zaza trumps Vardy any day. He has the highest goals per 90 ratio out of Juve’s strikers, he just happened to be 4th in their pecking order. Obviously he wouldn’t be expected to replicate what Vardy did last season but it’s not the end of the world if the walking, talking, scoring Meme King…

I follow closely enough to know that De Laurentiis just affirmed Higuain isn’t moving this window because there were even talks of moving his release clause up. I also follow closely enough to know Wenger didn’t stump up the cash on Higuain before he went to Napoli, there’s no way in hell he’d stump up the cash for…

You have Iwobi and Giroud, plus Welbeck who’s out with injury. That’ll be 4 strikers, Arsenal won’t add more. Walcott won’t be sold for more than 20 million pounds, that’s optimistic even in this market.

Higuain’s release clause is 90 million euro or something absurd for a striker that age. Nobody’s going to buy Walcott on those wages. The ubiquitous rumors are about Ricardo Rodriguez who has a release clause from Wolfsburg and that’s about it. Lacazette seems intent on going to West Ham, Aulas isn’t selling Fekir,…

Bellerin was a free transfer.

Like who? Batshuayi from Marseille would cost the same, Janssen would cost 15 million euro, maximum. Higuain isn’t being sold at any price. The prices quoted by Real Madrid for Morata indicate they probably want to keep him, he’s homegrown, Spanish, born in Madrid and has Raul’s shirt number.

They’re buying Simone Zaza from Juve who’s 24 and will be playing for Italy at the Euros. They should be fine.

This whole Vardy transfer business reads like Wenger’s swan song in the same way RvP to United was Fergie’s. I can see this going horribly wrong, they should just stump up the extra money and pay for Morata. Madrid probably isn’t going to sell Morata this window, they’re still waiting on the outcome of the Benzema…