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💥🗯Harry Hudson, Joe Shields, Glen van der Kraan, and Dan Hogan really emptied the U21 and U18 teams on the last transfer day! Dujuan Richards will also be following soon to Leicester City.

I’ve not really thought much about this but yes, perhaps this does really play a part too. A…View the full article

Chelsea are into February, having navigated one of the most chaotic Januaries in memory. It started with a…View the full article

How did you acquire Lilly Phillips and Bonnie blues Christmas presents?

I case of we flushed the turd and can't see it but know it's lurking in the u-bend..

I want us to sign Nat De Cat just for his name. 6'4 at 17 would help give us some extra height too..

He's gone, that's all that matters right now. WHU will be picking up some or at least half his wages I hope. Let's hope he has a few good games and they think he is prime Nesta

I got excited for a bit, and then I remembered it was only on loan.

No, you are off by a year. That (Chels trying to buy him) was in summer 2018. In summer 2017 Alisson was coming off a year of being the Roma backup keeper, but I so wanted him then as my Brasilian/Swedish friend in Porto Allegre (she is a huge Gremio fangirl) tipped me off about him from his Internacional (Gremio's hated Porto Allegre derby rival) days. I knew then, in 2017, that there was no chance Cuntois would renew, as we stupidly loaned him for three straight years to Aletico Madrid, and he put down roots with the city. Marina was in utter denial of this, insisting he would renew. She turned down insane money from Real that summer of 2017. Then, in summer 2018, when Marina finally realised Cuntois was not going to renew she cocked it all up. Tried to buy Allison but he said no, I want to be a scouser. Then she met Atletico's €100m release clause for Oblak but he told us to piss off. So we panic bought shit Kepa for £72m (inflation-adjusted to around £97m in February 2026 pound sterling) and panic sold Cuntois to Real for likely 2 and a half or so times LESS cash than we could have had the year before.

The same window we tried to sign Alisson Becker as well

Good post. I agree that you are inhabiting a sound logic area of thought.

If Anderson and Wharton are too much I think Barco will be the guy. Would be an incredibly easy move to do I would assume. Of course the wildcard situation is if Enzo continues this form the rest of the season and we miss out on UCL he could ask to go to Madrid. That’s the only scenario in which I could imagine us spending gigantic money again to replace him. I could see us going for Tonali then.

I thik the only ones on that list we would MAYBE make a move for would be Sandro Tonali (I think he would cost £60 to 70m) Adam Wharton Elliot Anderson Felix Nmecha (maybe) after that, going down in age I see us sniffing around (remember these are all CMFs or DMFs) Valentín Barco (already a BlueCo player) plus Ayyoub Bouaddi Senny Mayulu (TOUGH PULL, as it is PSG) Johan Manzambi Victor Froholdt Jobe Bellingham Noah Sadiki Marc Casadó (Barca DMF) Kees Smit Nathan De Cat plus Kennet Eichhorn (summer 2027, as he is too young to move until then) Bayern want him SO badly, so probably not going to happen

I’d take Tonali here in an instant as would every big PL club. I just cannot ever see us spending mega money like that again on a single player. Especially not in midfield after we already bought 2 £100m guys. Do I think BlueCo would sanction a midfielder for £50-70m? Probably. But never £100m again. Not with Andrey Santos gaining in stature.

Transfer windows have lost all the fun they used to be. Somewhat like getting socks and underwear for Christmas.

Tonali is close to, if not now world class for me. A great MFer and is only 25yo, a close to perfect age for me (in terms of being a very experienced vet but not closing in on 30yo) but NOT BlueCo! Ffs, VITINHA is older than Tonali, would we say, OMG, he is too old!!! Here are the top DMFs and CMFs in the world, just to show where he fits in (he can play either one to a uper high level) The ones older than Tonali are in italics. Many of the ones younger than him are only 1 or so years younger than him as well. In order of valuation (I personally would take Caicedo over any of them, even Pedri) and also, every single CMF or DMF valued over €40m is listed here: Pedri Federico Valverde Declan Rice Moisés Caicedo João Neves Vitinha Ryan Gravenberch Enzo Fernández Alexis Mac Allister Bruno Guimarães Sandro Tonali Martín Zubimendi Rodri Aurélien Tchouaméni Aleksandar Pavlovic Tijjani Reijnders Adam Wharton Elliot Anderson Nicolò Barella Carlos Baleba Pablo Barrios Warren Zaïre-Emery Eduardo Camavinga Manu Koné Morten Hjulmand Felix Nmecha Scott McTominay Frenkie de Jong Nico González Angelo Stiller Amadou Onana

Tonali's agent is offering him to clubs. Not sure he will cost more than the others when the resale value for all of them will be much higher as they are 3-4 years younger than Tonali.

thanks to cucurella and pedro for winding up mavropanos so that he gets suspended for 3 games

Tonali would probably also be a £100m player unless his contract is running down, surely? Also likely to be even more sought after than the other two if he’s available. Wouldn’t be shocked if United try sign 2 of Anderson, Wharton, Baleba, or Tonali if they finish in with UCL football. So hopefully we’re laying the groundwork with whichever midfielder we want already.

why??? he needs actual sr minutes

Tonali is 5 years too old for us