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not free, his release clause (which had a fixed fee of €60m OR £54m) had to be paid the fee in pounds was set when 60m euros equalled £54m, and was not a floating (at current FOREX) rate many reports looked at the 60m euros and just did a real time conversion to pounds, thus yielding £51.5m, but this was not the case

with who? there simply are few true quality options left even if you broaden it to either side winger (instead of the RW we need) and either foot or ambipedal there are THREE atm (in bold), and I list the others we trued or could but will not do Christopher Nkunku we will not buy him now, his release clause kicks in next summer Jadon Sancho Manure will not sell him to us, and I am not at all sold on him Rafael Leão crazy hard pull, so expensive, and he very rarely plays on the right, but I am listing him Federico Chiesa no chance we buy him now, as he is just getting back from a horrid knee injury Serge Gnabry doesn't want to come here Moussa Diaby we should be bearing down hard on him Mikel Oyarzabal out for months now with a bad knee injury Kingsley Coman doesn't want to come here Leroy Sané doesn't want to come here so far Jarrod Bowen number once choice, but he be a crazy hard pull Florian Wirtz out for months now with a bad knee injury Arnaut Danjuma would be smart buy as he is primarily a CF now Big drop off 'best' of the rest Wilfried Zaha Yéremy Pino Antony lefty Domenico Berardi lefty Pedro Neto lefty Cody Gakpo Yannick Carrasco Lucas Ocampos ambipedal Hirving Lozano Dominik Szoboszlai Ismaïla Sarr Kamaldeen Sulemana Rayan Cherki lefty Noni Madueke lefty

According to Sky in Germany, a fee of £25.3m (€30m) plus bonuses has been agreed

Barca payroll department entrance

Barca board

he had a bit of a regression, as did all of Wolfsburg, but I just mentioned him as a cut-rate price/high upside option

abused wife syndrome? 🤣

Sebastian Kehl was and is so fucking hawt

good question I think we did he can fuck off I am more upset about Raphinha, but NOT mad at him at all, just disappointed

Bayern Munich star Leroy Sane has no desire to join Manchester United https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1651736/Manchester-United-transfer-news-Leroy-Sane-Bayern-Munich-decision

all these dreg buys and refused sales over the years are biting a nice 10 kilos of flesh out our arse we are still the most complicated major club in the world (especially when the stadium situ is tossed in like a 2 billion pound hand grenade), although Barca are in more chaos atm, same for Manure I wager

please I BEG of all the board we DID NOT lose out to Barca on Kounde we pulled the plug, got cold feet (thank fuck) Monchi confirmed this over and over, as did the the Sevilla president, Jose Carmona we DID, disastrously, lose out to them on both Raphinha and Dembele

and (I edited him off already) Oyarzabal is out for months with a bad knee injury Leao is no good for many reasons atm, especially as he never plays on the RW and is a right footer, we need a lefty Silva is not happening, you are correct soooooooooooo its Diaby or Bowen by process of elimination for a lefty RWer and go for Danjuma for CF (bonus is winger depth), if not, just grab a cheapie for this season no clue what we are doing at RCB, we obviously are not going to go for Škriniar this year (or ever if he renews) and Fofana is insanely expensive, maybe revisit a bargain buy of Maxence Lacroix (a bit desperation there I do admit, BUT he is still young (22) and has a massive potential) for DMF and box to box I am convinced we should make a move for Kouadio Koné as a bargain price, HUGE upside smart buy Joakim Mæhle for Right-Back

fuck I forgot Oyarzabal is out for months with a bad knee injury grrrr

We need a RWer, preferably a lefty, and a CF hardly any left at either position who meet my test of quality we may have to do a dumpster dive of desperation, arrrffff Only RWers I really rate that we have a shot at atm are Jarrod Bowen left footer Moussa Diaby left footer Leroy Sané left footer plays either wing, but huge salary and doesn't want to really leave Kingsley Coman, exact same as Sane Rayan Cherki ambipedal (soon 19yo youth from Lyon) dice roll IF we expect him to step in and play huge minutes, but has a huge upside Bernardo Silva can play there, but doubt Citeh would sell him to us Rafael Leão is a LWer, right footed, crazy expensive, almost never plays on the RW, so he is a pass atm Bonus and the CF Arnaut Danjuma who is a CF (my 2nd choice remaining after Osimhen) but also plays either wing, downsude for him as a winger, he is a right footer, and plays more on the LW

yes! I cannot believe we missed out on BOTH, ffs RW is a fairly weak global position, especially left-footers after Salah, Foden, Saka, and Bernardo Silva (who is a MFer as well) all 4 of whom are are left footers, there is a large drop off in RWers overall, down to the injured (if he fully recovers he joins the top group) Chiesa (who is a right footer anyway and often plays on the left) and then true RWers Raphinha (left footer, who can also become truly elite) and Moussa Diaby (left footer, same as Raphinha) and Jarrod Bowen (perhaps eleite), then 3 more right footers, Gnabry, Coman, and Rodrygo the ONLY remotely decent left footed (or ambipedal) wingers (not just RW) out there atm are (RWers in bold. and there are, atm only 6 elite left footed RWers out there, plus the ambipedal Dembele) the ones in red are players I would take (I am listing many who are not even available, like Son and Salah, etc) (I am not even bothering with Messi on the list) Mohamed Salah Phil Foden Bukayo Saka Bernardo Silva can play almost anywhere in MF (other than DMF) or on either wing Moussa Diaby Mikel Oyarzabal plays majority at LW (bad knee injury, not available until summer 2023) Leroy Sané plays majority at LW Raphinha grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Jarrod Bowen Dejan Kulusevski Riyad Mahrez big dropoff Marco Asensio Antony Domenico Berardi Nicolò Zaniolo Pedro Neto plays majority at LW Charles De Ketelaere Filip Kostic plays majority at LW/LWB Michael Olise Thomas Lemar Nicolás González plays either wing Leon Bailey plays majority at LW Viktor Tsygankov Pablo Sarabia Maxwel Cornet plays majority at LW and LWB grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Noni Madueke Bryan Mbeumo Romain Faivre Tetê Malcom David Neres Francisco Trincão Samuel Chukwueze Dwight McNeil plays majority at LW Kayky Luiz Henrique Ángel Di María Giovani 18yo Palmeiras and 5 ambipedal wingers Heung-min Son plays majority at LW Ousmane Dembélé grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Rayan Cherki 18, very soon 19yo youth on Lyon, has a BIT of Eden Hazard about him Lucas Ocampos plays majority at LW Khvicha Kvaratskhelia plays majority at LW 21yo just joined Napoli or would be red Rayan Cherki

Pedro Neto simply doesn't score nearly enough hard pass

tragic more like another in a long series of crazy bad buys thank fuck the good ones panned out enough that we have now won every single real (so no preseason friendly bullshit) major possible (still contested, so no Intercontinental Cup, we would have had to win the CL in Roman's first year for a shot at that, as Porto, sans Mou (he was here at Chels, obviously), won (barely) the last one ever played, against a shit Once Caldas side, on 12 December 2004, as they won the CL with Mou in spring 2004) trophy for a European club to win, barring the brand new 3rd tier (so not desirable as you have to be poor in the League to qualify and winning it only gets you into the Europa League if you do not qualify for the CL in league play) UEFA Conference League

cervical discomfort when I first read that I thought it was a troll calling him a pussy 🤣🤣 The cervix or cervix uteri (Latin, 'neck of the uterus') is the lower part of the uterus (womb) in the human female reproductive system. (of course it means his neck)

Gary Neville was losing is shit on telly over that

no, we are talking about summer 2021, before Putin fucked the world (and of course us more than any other major sports team on planet)

Real Madrid, for sure, Benz is soon 35yo and even he is going to not maintain current level for that long plus, Håland and Mbappe will both end up at Real someday (within the next 3 or 4 years max is my prediction)

the same fools who said Rice and Mbappe were not good enough, and agreed with that cunt Mou that De Bruyne should be sold with no buyback, same for Salah, that neither were Chels EPL quality at end of the day look at those names Håland Best CF on planet VERY soon, almost for sure next season (as soon as Benz (35yo in a few months) and Lewa (34yo in 14 days) wind down) Mbappe Best LW on planet by a mile, probably best overall player De Bruyne Best AMF on planet by a mile, I will never forgive the sale with no buyback, NEVER Salah Best RW on planet by a mile (very few truly WC RWers out there, Chiesa, who is injured is probably 2nd, and Raphinha has the potential to be 3rd, Pessi is pretty rinsed, other than one giant last push to win WC finally in December) Rice 2nd Best DMF on planet after Kimmich now IMHO (but two different styles, Kimmich is not a cruncher)