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I see him much more as a MFer but sure, he could fill in at LB if need be LB is VERY light position-wise in terrms of REAL quality LBs who will actually want to move, and who will come here (especially if we have no CL) and all those will have all or most of the 10 to 12 'Big Boy' clubs chasing them Of the clear top 3 I listed Nico O'Reilly (1.93m) Alphonso Davies (1.85m) Nathaniel Brown (the one I would try to go for first, BUT so so many clubs want him) (1.76m, he is the only sub 6 footer (under 1.83m) on this list) only Brown is at a selling club Then you have a big drop off (at least for NOW as 3 of the 4 listed below are youth) Antonee Robinson would have been perfect 5 or so years ago, but now he turns 29yo in only 3 months (1.83m) Davide Bartesaghi of AC Milan is deffo a 'BlueCo' type of buy (20yo, tall,same height as Nico O'Reilly, and pacy) BUT he has every top 6 to 8 club drooling (1.93m) over him Dayann Methalie of Toulouse FC is also tall and pacy, and is also 20yo, and is less costly, less coveted (atm) so he is proably the one BlueCo move for (1.88m) Kauã Prates (turns 18yo in mid-August so JUST makes the age cut-off for the summer '26 window) is off the board, as Dortmund just signed him for this summer (1.84m) Diego Moreira of Strasbourg would be a wild card, he has exploded as a LeftMFer since he left us and is a left-footer. He just still needs work defensively. the other non-listed TOP top LBs are all unavailable AND/OR would never come here now, atm, or, in Balde's case, are too injury-prone IMHO Nuno Mendes best LB on the planet by far Álvaro Carreras (why would he leave Real madrid for us?, plus I really do not tate him as high as many do) Alejandro Balde (doesnt want to leave Barca, BUT they are sick of his injuries. That said, they will want BIG money probably) Riccardo Calafiori (main place he would leave for is back to Italy, Inter most likely, or perhaps Real or Barca. No way he comes here) Federico Dimarco (doesnt want to leave Italy and I cannot see him coming here, plus, like Carreras and Balde and Lewis-Skelly (Myles NOW, after his regression) I just do not rate Dimarco all THAT much) Jorrel Hato (already Chels) Myles Lewis-Skelly (has regressed a lot and also openly said he does not want to play for Chels, he absolutely wants to stay at Arse, especially IF Calafiori leaves) Lewis Hall (he is pissed we sold him, he would be PERFECT to replace CuCu) Ian Maatsen (another pissed-off ex Chels) Andrea Cambiaso turns 27 in February '27, and says IF he was to leave Juve, he wants a CL club for sure, plus Juve want cray money for him Theo Hernández is too old now for BlueCo (basically same age as Antonee Robinson at Fulham), plus is making insane Saudi money, plus has always been suspect defensively, especially for the EPL El Hadji Malick Diouf might be worth a look but pass (in most cases HARD pass) on many other LB big names: Milos Kerkez Rayan Aït-Nouri Patrick Dorgu Destiny Udogie Djed Spence Ferdi Kadıoğlu Carlos Augusto Tyrick Mitchell Carlos Romero Adrien Truffert Gerard Martín Maxi Araújo Neco Williams Vitaliy Mykolenko Alejandro Grimaldo Matteo Ruggeri Leif Davis Ryan Sessegnon Lucas Hernández Quilindschy Hartman (still has not FULLY recovered from a terrible injury) Maximilian Mittelstädt Miguel Gutiérrez Caio Henrique Mathías Olivera Rico Henry Pervis Estupiñán Renan Lodi Fran García Angeliño Oleksandr Zinchenko Luke Shaw

How about Barco?

Yes, its a shame. Rosenior has susequently said he sat down with Cucurella, and said it is all now cool. Rather believe him than Blueco, but Enzo, yeah good player but hes no Essien 😃 We've had it before -remember Gallas...

LB options (IF CuCu leaves) who are actually even remotely available and who would come here perhaps (Calafiori would not) the ones in bold will be so hard Nico O'Reilly Alphonso Davies Nathaniel Brown Antonee Robinson ? (turns 29yo in August so very likely too old for BlueCo) Davide Bartesaghi Dayann Methalie Kauã Prates Dortmund just signed him for this summer

Absolutely. Its less about Enzo and more about the club. Cucurella also came out and pretty much said the same thing, minus the shameless advertising for a club transfer. Wish it was Fofana that did this tbh. He's a real poison in this squad, IMO. Not too long ago when he was pining for a move to Marseille.

absolutely he is an key pass and assist machine and doing it on a club that is not exactly loaded with weapons, Strasbourg are nowhere near a Bayern/Barca/PSG/Real Madrid offensive level

6 losses in a row...but this isnt in a row soooo we have a chance! 🤣

Well, I think we COULD, if we get the right draw and Citeh is upset by one of the other sides (or us, in which case the draw does not matter all that much, as IF you guaranteed this statement to be true: 'Vesper, we will beat Citeh at some stage in the 2025/26 FA Cup', then that means we would now be, given that statement to be true (which of course it is not guaranteed at all, quite the opposite I fear), the clear favourites to win it all). Massive ask, yes, of course, But I want silverware (and to break that fucking Wembley curse, especially the FA Cup Final one).

That is expected when we have no good experiened CB's. Would Fofana/Badi/Tosin/Chalobah start at CB for the other clubs around the top 5 race? The standard for getting defenders has dropped at this club.

The youngsters are exciting but we can't expect Quenda/Estevao to be ruthless with chances, consistent over a season. We'll have another season where we have flashes of good football but can't dominate for 90 mins or close out games.

But..if we get to the final and its against City surely we'll be underdogs and might work against us!!! When it came to Leicester. Arsenal. Think we were favs? Not sure about Liverpool. 3 losses in a row is shite...plus the other losses for Carling cups in a row. Weve gotta win it this time! If if if we get there..

We ain't winning the cup.

I would take West Ham or Leeds as well or best SOTON in the Semis West Ham in the Final or vice versa

the 4 worst individual signings were Raheem Sterling Wesley Fofana Mykhaylo Mudryk Jamie Gittens 3 of the 4 are fucking LWers too!!!

Gittens reinjuring himself before even returning. Doubt we’ll be able to sell him this summer.

You shall ask.... Nothing is a given tho, as Arsenal have just shown.

Probably a few howlers against City

That signing represents everything that is wrong with the club.

sell him what a fucking STUPID buy fuck off Winstanley, Shields, and Stewart

Thing is we can! Problem is when they do stupid things!

We'll smash em. Carefree...

City..yay...

A win is a win. There isn't much more to say about this performance. It comes down to our next league game.

77 per cent possession