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Ampadu is gonna be a special player. Still not quite sure if he'll play his career as midfielder or central defender though

Good burst of speed from Bats there, didn't know he had it in him

United keep buying overpriced players that can only barely play football. In that sense this buy would not be a surprise

Considering Pedro is our best finisher anyways, it might be worth a try to play him as striker/false9. He's also got speed, off the ball movement, technique and ability to press which none of our current striker options really have

That looks great. I hope its real

Martinez could be a decent option. However, let's hope those already with us deliver. Looks like Martinez will be Inter number 1 striker in the upcoming season so his price tag could possibly be sky high next summer

Azpilicueta, Rudiger, Kepa, Jorginho, Kante and Pulisic pretty much guaranteed starters against United in my opinion. Interested to see who Frank chooses for the "vacant" positions. Does he go for Christensen instead of Luiz, Emerson instead of Alonso or some surprise option like Castillo, does he prefer Pedro over Willian, who starts up front and does Mount get ahead of Barkley in the middle of the park in RLCs absence.

These ESPN pundits are the most clueless people in all of sports

Isn't it kinda weird to start the pre-season on Friday instead of this or next Monday? Or do they not have weekends on pre-season either

Such a well-spoken man this lad. Class apart from most other English football players

Gotta laugh at all these "This is how Lampard's Chelsea will lineup in 19/20" articles from several different newspapers which state that Lamps would want to play Barkley, Mount, Drinkayoko or Ampadu in place of Jorginho.

Pulisic and Hudson-Odoi might be the most promising pair of wingers we've had since the days of Cole and Robben. Really looking forward to see these two play and improve

All of this sounds too good to be true

Kovacic as Kante backup and Drinkwater as Jorginho backup with Bakayoko out of the door seems like the most likely scenario to me

How much did we pay tho. 50 million is what I'm hearing but including add-ons so is it like 35 million + 15 in add-ons or?

Joao Felix just cost 126 million and Bayern think they can get perhaps the biggest English talent for 25 million?

Finally a manager that speaks good English too

Exactly what I was thinking. Our pivot in those years around 2011-13 was simply dreadful. Jorginho, Kante and Kovacic are all exactly the kind of players the fans were begging for back then

Not crazy at all. There's a player in him and in a right role (LCM in Sarriball definitely wasn't it) he could become a star. If we could largely fund his transfer by selling Bakayoko then why the hell not. There's not a whole lot of midfielders with his skillset in world football and I don't see any players like him coming from the academy either so he wouldn't directly block anyone's path to the first team.

I hope Lamps has the balls to start playing youth straight away

Could have signed two Mbappes and still had enough money to buy Rudiger, Jorginho, Kepa and Kante with that 600m

Sounds good enough to me. We were never gonna get rid of Iron Lady entirely so maybe this is the best solution in these circumstances However, does this mean that the club is still looking to fill that sporting director role with someone else?

Its possible because Juve have such good fullbacks. He could never pull off that formation in here because of the lack of width and non-existent attacking ability provided by our Azpi, Alonso etc

How far has Brazil fallen from their glory days lol

Kante, Jorginho, Azpi and Kepa should all be there before Barkley. Hell, when everyone's fit Barkley doesn't even make it to our starting XI. Bizarre choice