Football transfer rumours: Yannick Carrasco and Alex Sandro up for grabs?

Today’s fluff ain’t, it ain’t too much stuff

And lo, it came to pass that before the last lazy layabout had cleared away the snapped crackers and swept up the torn party hats the Mill had been given the greatest Crimble gift imaginable – never again, or at least not for a long while, would we be forced to write the words Virgil van Di … no, we’re not doing it. You can’t make us.

The funny thing about the whole business is that, according to the Liverpool Echo, Liverpool were so worried about Manchester City beating them to a deal for the Dutchman that they “flew a medical team to Bournemouth Airport so they were ready to complete the formalities as soon as a fee had been thrashed out”, only for it to turn out that City didn’t want him at all. That’s what Pep Guardiola said, when asked later that evening if he ever had any interest in signing the player: “Nope. No, no no.”

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/dec/28/football-transfer-rumour-mill-yannick-carrasco-alex-sandro-transfer-january