Vesper

good guess I can see that

Diaby maybe but £50m sounds slow

the no CL part makes it harder as no Oblak (his contract runs out next summer)

Depay off for good

first guess, Toney

I am going to think on this

so Romano just said we offered £50m this morning for a player (non CL team is all he will say) and were turned down he will not reveal and said no one will ever guess he said he will reveal soon

watch this lad 19yo LWer with massive pace

INSANE we only got £9m for him! ffs

Saul is one of the most perplexing utter collapses (started long before we loaned him) in recent history went from WC to utter shit at a prime age, and no real injuries involved I have no explanation for it at all, none, zero

Spain's economy has been in the shitter for ages, and they have huge foreign gang issues, same for Italy (less economic issues though) Sweden has crazy gang problems too, especially when judges on a Nordic scale I have connections (some secondary) to many people who have had ultra violent incidents, including deaths (wish I was joking 😞 )

the Dybala live announcement greeting the fans at night in Rome was utter madness, goosebumps

we are nowhere near a league winning team, but I will more than happily accept CL and domestic Cup wins (we are SO unxed i the CS, the League Cup, and the FA Cup, it is insane), plus the supranational trophies (Super Cup, FWCC) I can lay out MY idea of league winning squad, but it is hard as hell to get the players I deem necessary atm and YES, the big missing pieces are mostly offensive players CF Osimhen or Lautaro or Vlahovic (youth prospect Karim Adeyemi) AMF/SS Nkunku or maybe João Félix (also try for the Russian lad again, Arsen Zakharyan) Winger a fully fit Chiesa and perhaps Diaby (if he keeps blowing up) or (better) Rafael Leão MF Declan Rice and Bellingham or Barella (De Jong is a pipe dream) plus maybe Kouadio Koné (I so rate him, he was NOT a 'let's settle' push) CB Josko Gvardiol, Milan Skriniar RB Hakimi (pipe dream), same (pipe dream) for LB Theo, leaving RB Joakim Maehle as realistic buy better keeper, maybe finally Oblak ship a TONNE of dregs and not good enoughs crazy expensive and hard pulls, but there it is

Zakaria £30m buy option Artur Melo, straight loan, no option

lol, they are slamming beers

Live Romano stream https://www.twitch.tv/fabrizioromano

Italian too look at those insane AC Milan teams and Juve back in the day (more recently) look at the Italian WC winning sides and finals sides too, super defense, GKers and a hot player scoring or bossing the pitch (Paolo Rossi, Dino Zoff, Salvatore Schillaci, Roberto Baggio, Gianluca Pagliuca, Roberto Donadoni, Buffon, Pirlo, Totti, etc, plus those CB's: Fulvio Collovati, Gentile, Baresi, Maldini, Nesta, Marco Materazzi, Cannavaro, etc)

again with the EPL/Serie A symmetry, look how many older CFs in both leagues end up having Indian summers (one of my favourite yank idioms)

this is what worries me, he had a horrid knee injury

thank you, this is what I was trying to say above Serie A is strange, as it is the only league other than the EPL where many good players can look shit and shit players look good

only downside to Auba for this season is his tragic broken jaw but I am not going to go negative from the start I think he still has something to offer

so 2 Juve DMFs shipped off on deadline day

Ndidi at CB is a disaster waiting to happen, and it happened

shocking defence by Leicester Sancho now has 2 EPL goals already this season, including the winner v Pool