Vesper

we won those trophies despite her, not because of her when the books are closed, she will have cost us probably close to 3/4ers of a billion quid since 2016/17 or so in shit buys, shit sales, botched buys, botched sales, and incredibly poor contractual management

But it has now been definitely proven she was THE person in charge, the person who made the final call on basically all transactions, from all transfers, to all sales etc etc

roflmaooooooooooo as opposed to letting them go on a free or panic selling them for SHIT after turning down huge prices before smdh she is a clown

I used to yearn for Romagnoli, for years, but he was went to utter poo poo for the last 2 years or so one of the more bizarre CB collapses out there, especially as it started around 24, 25 years of age, which should be the start of a long peak time

he has the twins to keep him company

A Vesper special, lol bonkers name toss-out https://breakingthelines.com/player-analysis/player-analysis-teun-koopmeiners/ (from November 2020, so a little dated, but tonnes of detail) Teun Koopmeiners: Is the left-footed Dutchman ready for a new challenge? https://totalfootballanalysis.com/article/teun-koopmeiners-scout-report-tactical-analysis-tactics (March 2021, a lot of detail too)

LOL the utter hack Dean Jones has pulled his snout out of the rum bottle long enough to bleat some bullshit Chelsea preparing to make contact to sign £150m midfielder https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/06/24/Chelsea-preparing-to-make-contact-to-sign-150m-midfielder/

use this to avoid many paywalls and geoblocks https://archive.ph/ here is that article https://archive.ph/J5jJb

yes, even my 'on the cheap' comprehensive buy list is likely (although gross, NOT net) over £200m 😿

we were in for Kounde before TT came not going to toss him under that bus

that was NOT Tuchel it has been definitely established now it was MARINA as were so many of the other disasterclass moves her legacy will be poor we won what we won despite her, not because of her and now we are paying the price she will end up costing around £600m, £700m or so in shit deals buys, sales, non sales, non buys of every stripe, plus horrific contract management over the past 5, 6 years only Barca has a worse track record over that span of time Manure third no other teams on planet remotely close to the Big 3 of Fails at least we won some huge trophies, that is the only redeeming value

Kepa is correct, at this exact moment, Snake is best keeper on the planet

exactly!

Bordeaux may take Barca and Sevilla to court on that

his salary alone precludes any of the Neymar talk (unless PSG suck up half of it, and why would they do that?)

IF Arse pull both Jesus and Raphinha and we fail on both Dembele and Sterling plus we (as he is the last truly viable option left) likely fail on Osimhen (the odds against us for him this summer are really high, it is almost pipe dream territory) we are potentially in deep shit, barring some semi-miracles (Broja comes good in a huge way, and we somehow grab Gnabry and/or Christopher Nkunku) many, many of the options in most positions are rapidly drying up us failing on all 6 Jesus Raphinha Dembele Sterling Gnabry Nkunku especially if they end up coming to direct rivals would be nightmarish

here was that post

I already said (in a previous comprehensive 'all buys needed' post) to just buy KK and Demiral (2 for the price of one)

someone is WAY fucking off, lol as that article is more that DOUBLE (due to add-ons) what most all else says

almost everything (including a tonne of Italian sites) says around £200K PW gross BUT from 3 years ago there is this https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jul/18/matthijs-de-ligt-joins-juventus-from-ajax-75m-deal Juventus have confirmed the signing of Matthijs de Ligt from Ajax for a fee of €75m (£67.8m), with the 19-year-old defender agreeing a five-year contract worth a basic €16m (£14.5m) a season which could rise to €24m (£21.7m) with add-ons. The full package could cost the Serie A champions €195m (£176.2m) and earn the teenager a potential weekly salary of €460,000 (£416,000) if all the add-ons are achieved. De Ligt has been involved in a tug of war between Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus for most of the summer but the Turin club managed to convince the centre-back he would be better off joining them. There is a buyout clause of €150m (£135.6m) included in the contract but that will not come into effect until June 2022.

£70m for de Ligt is fair value

fuck all these rumour mongering rags and sites all they do is go down lists and link almost every remotely in play player with us it's a joke

I disagree