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loool wtf this is scandelous

Many people also said the same about cucurella and Caicedo. So they are not always right. With this guy I'm going to give them the Caicedo treatment. Rather wait next season as he is too raw.

we played at west ham and brentford stadium and we will play at old trafford next week three stadiums that we have difficult to win games last seasons

Romano has to be getting paid by the shitrag Fichajes. He is openly pushing so many bullshit stories by them. He is a fool to destroy his credibility like that.

Seems like both him and Disasi were listed in the PL squad because we had space. Estevao, Gittens, Facundo are all in the U21 list as per PL webpage

I agree but I was more saying that Kudus would have offered a different physical profile to the rest of our attack. It would be similar to Arsenal getting Eze when they have Odegaard already. Arteta wanted that technical skill and they will have more than enough game time over the season. Surely Maresca would have found a way to play with Simons & Palmer 😄

He was brought up round Wembley way and there was an interview where he said he and his family were happy in London - even after the burglary where jewelery and watches (who spends half a million on a fucking watch ? 😅 obviously overpaid footballers) were taken. Although in the 'bomb squad' hes listed in our 25/26 PL squad.

Teams like Real Madrid Liverpool and Bayern Munich wanted to steal Josh Acheampong from Chelsea. Can't start for us over Chalobah and Adarabioyo, this is why top young talents leave the club. Maresca always says he loves him, fucking play him.

Bayern Munich inquired on deadline day about Sterling when they were in negotiations with Chelsea over Jackson. Napoli were also interested. For reasons that are not clear, Sterling seemed reluctant to move overseas, or potentially even away from London. Manchester United were interested in the summer of last year and got little encouragement from the player. (@SamWallaceTel)

Yeahhhh hopefully yesterday will be a case of that

Right? Doesn't have to be on the pitch mate, cheating comes in many forms etc, no one saying we cheated on the pitch, we could get anything from a fine to trophy’s removed and the extreme end demoted from the league, we don’t know how serious the punishment will be until we get it, fine or points deduction is the more likely scenario

What cheating? This is related to agents payments... Zero influence on the pitch.

Why would I complain at the time when no one knew? What a stupid argument to make, fact is we all up in arms about Man City should get this Man City should get that, but now it’s us it’s a different story 😂, been charged with 74 counts, you can sugar coat it all you want but it’s cheating, also the last part of your message I never said anything about loosing titles you have just plucked that out of thin air, what I originally said was I’d blame the previous owners over the new as it was Roman era where it happened, I don’t blame any one for paying 3 billion pounds for a company to then find out it’s had some dodgy stuff going on in the back ground and then bringing it forward willingly, saying it was never going to come out isn’t a bet I’d like to take after spending 3 billion. are we that pathetic as fans that we would rather win at any cost that cheating is now acceptable as long as we don’t get caught? If so football is done.

Will never understand these type of transfers where 99% of fans are strongly against it and ends up exactly how everyone thought it's going to be. We had many... Bakayoko, Drinkwater, KDH, Disasi, Badiashile, Felix... How is it possible that average football fan has better knowledge than highly paid professional in a top club? How they cannot see something so obvious?

Never scored more than 1 league goal in a season since arriving in Europe. Now already 2 after 4 games. Not his job or something we expect from him but if he adds that to his game we are talking about perfect player.

Pochettino loved Disasi. Was number one in minutes that season. No wonder we almost conceded 2 goals per game.

So we've wasted hundreds of millions of pounds and we still have a mediocre goalkeeper and defense...

It's been done. Man city did it and won many titles. Yes, of course the coach has to pick and choose the games, but the key to it is the depth of quality in the squad. Numbers alone won't cut it if you intend to be competitive into the latter stages of multiple competitions. There are at least two more games in a Champions League campaign than when we last won it, plus individual games in all competitions last longer than they ever have before. Obviously there are domestic games where only the top team will do but the ability to rest 4 or 5 players before a big midweek fixture, and 4 or 5 others the weekend after, is a massive advantage for any manager aiming to go deep in all competitions. The problem of course is being able to afford to recruit and pay such a squad. We aren't there yet.

Different sides though. Kudus looks a good player in parts but would frustrate the life out of you. If he gets that real ruthless streak in him, he could potentially be a very good player but it remains to be seen if he can deliver at a much higher level week in week out. He has only hit double figures for goals 3 seasons in his whole career. One of Gittens or Garnacho shouldn’t of been signed so we could have made a move for a more established left winger for them to learn from (and to be more likely to be aboe to contribute directly from the get go). Or even someone more in the mould of Pedro Neto’s age bracket perhaps. Simons wouldn’t have came here to essentially be a back up to Cole either I think. I know we were short on the fee but he went to PSV & Leipzig to play regularly instead of being a back up/squad player at PSG. I cannot see how a player of that quality would have been happy to sit on the bench while his primary position is occupied by our best player who plays when he is available 90% of the time. He plays out on the left also but he is definitely more of a central player.

I would take Kudus over Gittens any day of the week Such a shame that Spurs got him and Simons.

Agree with this. PSR rules are arbitrary & made to benefit some groups more than others. If we unfairly took direct advantage over other teams in securing multiple top players, or directly influenced match results through unscrupulous means, that's a different story because it mocks the competition and puts other teams on the back foot. The only way BlueCo will look good from this, is if they manage to stave off serious punishment from the FA & the Premier league. Anything else will look like an own-goal from the owners.

Even if Maresca wanted to rest some players or rotate, this isn't the way to do it. Who rests both available starting full backs (not to mention both right back options in James & Gusto), and plays CBs all across the back line? He did this last season too,.ahead of one of the conference league games

That approach won’t work. The quality of the English league is too high - we cannot afford to play passengers for a league game I would argue Europe is still where we need to play a lineup like the one today

Think it’s going to be made clear to Maresca VERY soon if it hasn’t already today that Gittens won’t be the starting LW any time soon. Garnacho being PL proven and having a bit of arrogance about him will see him being the main man there quickly. Hopefully starting with the next game if he’s fit enough. Gittens looks shellshocked that he hasn’t been able to just blast by everyone in the PL so far. Looks like a timid child every time they show a close up on him after a failed move. Very Mudryk like. Still don’t get why we decided to go for him at that silly price and did so in an expedited way. Like someone at the club genuinely thought he would immedietly be a top player. Looks really dumb so far. It’s like he’s 100% a data driven signing. You see the dribbling/take on data being amongst the best in Europe and think that’ll instantly translate to the PL. But even most of us who watched his footage could see he was nowhere close to a £50m+ winger.