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the % is unknown https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/manchester-united-city-transfers-lukaku-20717781 I would be surprised of it was 25%

My essay: Sod off.

40m for the transfer (staggered over multiple years I guess)?

also what part of IF in that post do you not comprehend?

Sarri damn near destroyed him and at that time it would have been over £100m Tuchel re-invigorated his career, plus he thankfully recovered from a horrid run of injuries if Lamps had stayed and just lumped on we would not even be having this interaction both Sarri and Lampard completely misused him my recco of selling was based of that continued mis-use and his continuing run of injuries I stand by it FOR THAT TIME I put myself out there A LOT, so I am bound to be wrong on occasion but overall I would stack my record up against yours any day of the goddamn week

Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel 'ready to sell 12 players' including Callum Hudson-Odoi https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1471241/Chelsea-transfer-news-thomas-tuchel-callum-hudson-odoi-tammy-abraham-premier-league-news The likes of Erling Haaland and Romelu Lukaku have reportedly been tailed by the Blues this summer, the kind of players who are not simply purchased on a whim. Thankfully for Chelsea, their tendency to loan out fringe players normally leaves them with a substantial amount of ‘deadwood’ in and around the squad. To raise the kind of funds necessary to land one of Europe’s hottest strikers, there may be next to no deadwood remaining when the window slams shut, with a 12-man transfer list reported by The Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/08/02/romelu-lukaku-back-top-chelseas-new-striker-wish-list/

Arsenal's James Maddison transfer hopes crushed by Leicester - 'The players want to stay' https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1471485/Arsenal-transfer-news-James-Maddison-Brendan-Rodgers-Leicester-City-Mikel-Arteta-Edu

so he will swap wonderful northern Italian healthy cuisine for dodgy midnight roti and doubles runs and boom

Marina is HORRIBLE negotiating with Italians we all have known this for years

'Impossible': Leboeuf says there's no chance Kounde starts ahead of £29m man at Chelsea https://www.thechelseachronicle.com/club-news/impossible-leboeuf-says-theres-no-chance-kounde-starts-ahead-of-29m-man-at-Chelsea/ Frank Lebouef doubted that Jules Kounde could cement a regular slot over Antonio Rudiger or any of the defenders currently in the Chelsea squad. Speaking on ESPN, Lebouef questioned where Kounde would fit into the Blues defence if he were to be signed from Sevilla. The France international is under serious inspection from the Stamford Bridge chain of command. They have wanted to add a new centre-back to Thomas Tuchel’s roster for some time. It seems they finally have found their winner in the shape of Sevilla’s sort-after 22-year-old. But recruiting Kounde will certainly mean displacing one of the players already stationed in Chelsea’s back-line. Kurt Zouma appears to be out the exit door but heading in the direction of West Ham United instead of Spain. Even if Zouma did disperse, Tuchel would still have several superstars that served him well last season to try keep happy. A Jule amongst diamonds Lebouef felt this may work against Kounde, as he would not be guaranteed a starting position every single week. He said: “They have lots of players: (Andreas) Christensen, Zouma, (Reece) James, (Cesar) Azpilicueta, Emerson, (Ben) Chilwell, and now maybe Kounde. “Christensen had a fantastic Euro. Thiago Silva is the skipper of that team. “You have Azpilicueta who does the job. Nobody deserves to be on the bench at the back of this Chelsea team. “They did fantastically last season. Do you think it’s normal to put Thiago Silva or Christensen on the bench? I don’t think so.” Cannot remove Rudiger One man in particular who Lebouef insisted would be ahead of Kounde was Rudiger. “You want to put Rudiger on the bench? Impossible. The guy had a fantastic season. We never thought he would come back at that level.” The £29m (BBC) man from Roma was arguably Chelsea’s best performer in the second half of 2020/21. His return to the team following Tuchel’s appointment looked like a stroke of genius at the time. In reality, it was quite a simple decision, considering the German’s love for defending. To dislodge him would simply reverse the good work already in place. Yet, Rudiger’s contract runs out next June and there is no indication of an extension being offered. Therefore, Kounde may well be the successor to his throne, if not now, but in the near future.

insane risk on a £300m deal

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Azpi is basically 32 (in 25 days) Tuchel doesn't rate Reece at RWB and now we have sold a potential super RWB for peanuts (and with a goddamn $40m buy-back!) in Livramento utterly failed at Hakimi (in retrospective we always were going to fail) if you slide Reece to RCB our fullbacks/wingbacks, other than Chillwell, are Azpi at 32yo, who offers little on offence reserve team/loanee player for years Dujon Sterling Zappadappafuckingcosta (surely loaned or sold) Alonso (and we are desperately trying to sell him) Emerson (see Alonso and take it down a notch in quality) and the 'why the hell is he still here' Baba so is it really going to be CHO at wingback a lot? I am just seething over Livramento

yep. started to slow down as he approached 31yo if same things happen with Lukaku, we are dumping out what will likely be £120/130m (WELL over £200m when salary and fees/add-ons are tossed in) for 2 prime years, 3 max, and a rapid decline with fuckall for resale value shit business that is

FUCK

Vlahovic is deffo the way to go Patson Daka was sold to Leicester by Salzburg 5 weeks ago this is all they have for CF's, and the top one, Koita, is out till next year with a ripped up knee, plus he is a dwarf, like an inch or so taller than Messi If we are going to by a teen striker the we should be all over finally, Isak's new release clause is €90m https://www.si.com/soccer/liverpool/transfers/liverpool-target-signs-new-contract#:~:text=Despite all the interest in,at a staggering €90million. https://as.com/futbol/2021/07/01/primera/1625154607_222746.html?smm=CM_ES_TW&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1625156421

over £100m in cash and player value is madness for Lukaku, especially as it is mostly cash and as Inter have turned it down, IF we do do the deal it will likely be over £120m he turns 30yo in the 2022-23 season (at the end) he is a huge, bulky player, utterly dependent on his burst speed, which will quite possibly start to go by then

he is looking like a bust I warned on this we got mesmerised when that loaded Ajax team played us in the CL and he had a worldie so stupid to buy players based off that does this production scream BUY? He already had reverted to norm he was already too old to buy for my taste (he turns 29yo this season, so whoever buys him next summer (if he stays here this year) will be getting an almost 30yo player) buying a player at that age with NO big league experience is risky AF had a bad attitude (Ajax fans warned on this) and was from a dodgy farmers league (Dusan Tadic, enough said), seriously FUCK the Dutch league, Gravenberch is literally the only one in there I remotely rate it really is shit, thank fuck we never shit away money on Nicolás Tagliafico or that donkey Dumfries the 6th highest valued player there is a CB (Lisandro Martínez), who is Neymar's height, lol 1.75m (and I think he is more like 1.73m) David Neres turns 25yo this season, there is a reason he is still at Ajax, despite an insane amount of rumours that this huge team or that huge team would surely snap him up (for years) its because he is a typical Eredivisie flat track bully Onana is leaving, so IF Gravenberch was sold, that makes, lololol, .............Sébastien Haller the top most valued player in the whole league atm, come the fuck on and those two above are barely rated at more also, so many shit attitudes there one of the (at one time, a year or two ago) supposed next young superstar AMF's has just been banned from the first team by PSV

Barkley was horrific

he tried to score and soared the ball 10m over the bar

Chalobah is shit

so fucking WASTEFUL grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

boom 1 2 Tammy

lack of height on multiple corners and so many want to add the dwarf Kounde