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make it an OBLIGATION to buy and deal massive win for us as it also gets him away from EPL teams who could be REALLY improved by him

they will have over a quarter of a BILLION euros to spend in the biggest buyer's market of the century surely they can shore up the team ina MASSIVE way, and future-proof it as well by buying young and/or in early prime players with players like Boubacar Kamara PLUS Aouar going for a combined £30m quid or so! they can just rape and pillage Ligue 1, plus so many other players out there at bargain basement prices they could, for instance, buy Lautaro (who does slot in perfectly for their style) for €80-90m and still have €170m or so left to spend for a NET ZERO outlay

lololol I may be wrong but IF Brasil wins tonight and then wins the World Cup next year Neymar will only be a case of the mumps (he missed the 2015 UEFA Super Cup when Barca won, because of the mumps) and the Campeonato Brasileiro (he did win the Campeonato Paulista) away from being the first player in history to win EVERY major trophy on TWO continents for club and country that are possible he has won all in Europe except the Supercup (his team did win), including EVERY domestic trophy possible for both Barca and PSG, both domestic super cups, and all 3 domestics cups (now only 2 are left, as France shut down the minor league cup after he won it for the last time), plus league titles for both he won the CL and the FWCC with Barca he won the Campeonato Paulista, the Copa do Brasil, the Copa Libertadores, plus the Recopa Sudamericana (like the Super Cup for South America) with Santos and he will have won Confederations Cup, the Olympic Gold, the Copa America and the WC with Brasil that is crazy (and I so wager he goes back and take a stab at the Campeonato Brasileiro, but the UEFA Super Cup will be a bitch to get now, unless PSG win the CL OR he moves to another team towards the end of his euro career and they win it)

not saying the pressure here would not have been worse, but it hardly will be non-existent in Paris the French press is HORRID too

tell that to the trillion quid sheiks

he is an idiot then (not for wanting to go play at RM) EOS

does he not think the pressure on him will be insane at PSG???? he is a fool if he thinks it will not be

here is the truly big picture (as is my want to do) Real Madrid is soon going to be sitting in the catbird's seat even more so, especially as they will sort their finances out 1 billion euro new giant stadium, most successful club in history, a name and brand so huge they are overcoming loss of a top 5 player in history (CR7), the team almost ALL the best players DREAM (that is a TRULY powerful thing) of going to play for Barca is in the process of imploding over a multi-year period we lack (the soonest it could happen is 7 to 10 years from now) a world class stadium. so just cannot compete on imagery (never underestimate that) PSG, despite a trillion quid backing them, is being exposed as a feeder club Bayern simply lack the funds to compete Juve were never a true threat in terms of beig able to beat them to every great player, and they got sloppy seconds on CR7 Manure and Pool are hamstrung by cheap-ass yank owners (as is Arse, and spuds have a cheap-ass Brit owner), plus only Maure really has the sizzle in terms of brand, and that is fading as they fail season after season (plus the cities they are in are shit. It is NOT like they are in world class Madrid or Paris or London or Barcelona or Milan) that leaves the other trillion quid plus backed club, Citeh, as their only true competition, and it is also in shit Manchester and has only a 10 year history of league success (and ONE euro trophy in their 142 years, the 1969/70 Cup Winners Cup), plus if Pep goes, I say they shrink down a lot in terms of success

Good buy for them.

Explain this please. You are saying the fact we have won a HUGE trophy (biggest club trophy on the planet) without him makes him not want to come?

€150m makes sense, it's double the highest quote of his release clause next summer if they try and go for €175m + add-ons/bribes to the cunt Mino and his father + a 3 years or so escape hatch then fuck the deal buy Vlahovic (DCL I fear will be close to 90-100m quid or so) and see what happens and ffs (not yelling at you, lol) sort out all the rest of our weak points if possible it's a buyers market like I have NEVER seen in my life

It's been €150m (not pounds) for ages, now all of sudden it is going up? Not buying it. I have been all over this, and I am by far the FOREX conversation stickler on here since I joined, so it is not me making a conversion. His release clause has been quoted as between 65 and 75m euros. If is the lower, then €175m is only 20m away from being TRIPLE that. 150m euros is double the higher quote of €75m, which if fair. IF the price they demand IS truly €175m, (and you know add-ons are not included in that) and IF that cunt Raiola insists on a 3 years or so and out escape hatch, then FUCK THE DEAL. FUCK HÅLAND, as IF those are the conditions and price, he is NOT worth it. I draw lines in sand.

Dortmund are fools if we offer them €150m for Håland and they turn it down do you realise what over a quarter of a billion euros (between Sancho, Håland plus the smaller sales they have already done) can do IN THIS market, this once in multiple decades market? they can buy up players for pennies on the pound radically transform the team and its depth and youth for a decade plus via the synergistic knock-on effects they lose Håaland next year anyway, and for a sheload less dosh and I so doubt the market will be as low priced as now

Ings has immense disasterclass signing potential

Boubacar Kamara for only £12-13m is an absolutely blinding steal look at my DMF (and CB as well before he was switched out) lists over the past couple years he is always in the mix class player, can play DMF, CMF, CB, and I wager, with his pace, he could fill in at wingback in a pinch

a good laugh here (they have only been chasing Zouma for 3 plus years) Chelsea defender a shock transfer target for Everton http://www.thehardtackle.com/news/2021/07/10/transfer-news-tottenham-everton-interested-in-Chelsea-ace-kurt-zouma/ smdh

Chelsea call Kenedy back for preseason, leave Flamengo hanging — report Who will blink first? https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/Chelsea-fc-transfer-rumours-news/2021/7/10/22570570/Chelsea-call-kenedy-back-for-preseason-leave-flamengo-hanging-report Flamengo’s “cautiously optimistic” attempts to acquire Kenedy are turning less cautiously pessimistic, despite their charm offensive aimed at “seducing” the 25-year-old to stay in Brazil. They may have convinced him that it would be a good thing for his career, but Chelsea are not too keen on just letting him stay there. In fact, according to Globo Esporte, Chelsea have called him back to London for the start of preseason training, just like all other non-vacationing players and Loan Army members. That said, Chelsea do not have a set plan for Kenedy, it would appear, though we reportedly want to arrange a transfer rather than just another loan. Flamengo have not put forward a formal bid yet, while Chelsea are apparently happy to wait until the end of the transfer window on September 2 to find a solution. Should Flamengo get their act together and put their money where their promises to their fans are, perhaps Kenedy will end up joining them at some point. But for now, this looks to be not happening.

When Serie A Was King ROY HODGSON Inter Milan, 1995-1997 https://www.coachesvoice.com/serie-a-roy-hodgson-crystal-palace/ When my first spell as manager of Inter Milan started, the Premier League was still in its infancy. It was 1995, and Italy was the country the top players gravitated to – it's also where the money was. There weren’t £1m wage earners in England then, but there certainly were in Italy. Many of the world’s stars were playing there – the finest Netherlands, Germany and Brazil internationals all came to Italy. In that respect, it was a fascinating league. It was much like the Premier League is today. Every week you’d look at the teams, and each would have three extremely good foreign players who were household names. The passion in Italy was also just like it is over here. Clubs mean an awful lot to their fans, who showed up in big crowds, because every game was of vital importance. That intensity was the biggest change from anything I had previously experienced in my career. At Malmo, for example, the pressure was nothing like that. When you’re winning all of the time there, life can even become quite easy. It was amazing to work for Inter when I did. But I wasn’t as prepared then as I should have been for the enormity of the club. Even if I wasn’t young in terms of age, I was probably quite young in my mental preparation for taking on such a big job. I was fortunate that the two men who meant most during my time there, Massimo Moratti and Giacinto Facchetti, supported me through that by constantly encouraging me – and not taking the chance to get rid of me. Juventus and Inter were the two biggest Italian clubs by a street. We had several hundred fan clubs dotted around the whole of Italy, so it wasn’t a question of half of Milan being interested in our fortunes – it was virtually the whole country. The biggest derby is still Inter-Juventus, not Inter-Milan. That intensity. Giacinto used to say to me: “This will come to England. We’re advancing at the moment, but you’ll certainly catch us up, and it wouldn’t surprise me if you catch us up and go beyond us." I sometimes used to complain about certain aspects of Italian football. One of them, which was big at the time, was the judicial processes that the television companies ran after every game. A panel of experts would pull the team apart – that meant the coaches, and the players, and the owners. When I went back to England with Blackburn after leaving Inter, I came across people like Gianluca Vialli and Ruud Gullit (above), who had played in Italy. At that time, it was considered a different world. The Premier League was viewed as a much better environment than Serie A. It was so much more relaxed. It was all about the football in England then; you didn’t feel like you were in such a goldfish bowl, and that your life wasn’t worth living if you hadn’t scored a goal on the Saturday. But that's changed. Very common in Italy was the suggestion that this coach or that coach wouldn’t be mangiare il panettone. That was the classic, every day of every week, when there was speculation about whether a coach would still be employed when the panettone goes around at Christmas. “Who’s going to be the next to go?” Of course, the flames were being fuelled by that speculation as well. It often led to the fans turning against people, and at that point it takes strong owners to really fight that sort of thing off. I arrived in Milan with a certain confidence, because I was coming off the back of so many good results and slaps on the back with Switzerland, and before then in Sweden. But that didn’t prepare me for the type of reception that all managers get in Italian football. I found dealing with the press very difficult. I perhaps would have found that easier had I been more fluent in Italian, or if I’d been doing it in my own language. It was the first time that I’d ever had that situation where there were so many sporting newspapers that had to fill at least one page, every day, on Inter. So every day there were press conferences at the club. I didn’t have to do every single one myself, but every day so much was being written in La Gazzetta dello Sport, Tuttosport, and more. There was an aura about the club and the place that I hadn’t experienced before – maybe in the odd international game, but nothing like that. It was a baptism of fire. Unless you’re Pep Guardiola or Jürgen Klopp, every job that becomes available in England leads to: “Is he the right man?” Even José Mourinho had that when he joined Tottenham – even a manager of that quality. During my two years at Inter, Milan were one club that had multiple different coaches. They were quick to get rid of people – even those of the quality of Arrigo Sacchi and Fabio Capello (above). There are very few managers these days who are going to get the wholehearted backing of large groups of fans, because you have to have an almost faultless position in terms of perception. I was unfortunate, in that sense, with the timing of my arrival at Inter. In the 1990s, there were a lot of foreign managers in the country – it would have been better if I’d been one of only two or three. There were only three foreign players allowed then in a matchday squad, so it was different in that way to what the Premier League has become. While I was England manager, I attended Premier League games in which there might have been only one or two Englishmen playing. That certainly wasn’t the case in Italy. Every game you went to would have featured 16 Italians from the 22 out on the pitch. Italy is also a cultured place, and Italians have an enormous sense of style. People came from miles around, right to the north of the country to Milan, to do their shopping at the Via Monte Napoleone. As has also become the way in England – though less so in London, because it’s so cosmopolitan – you couldn’t go out too often without people either looking at you or wanting to talk to you. It was certainly like that in Milan. It was a difficult place to go wandering the streets if you didn’t want to get involved with the fans. There was never anything I found too intrusive, though – nine times out of 10 people were pleasant and positive. Inter was an amazing club to work for. But it was the quality of the people, and the fans, that was particularly memorable for me.

please be fake news, ffs Transfer News: Tiemoue Bakayoko exit blocked by Chelsea https://astamfordbridgetoofar.com/2021/07/10/thomas-tuchel-blocks-summer-exit-for-forgotten-Chelsea-midfield-star-report/ According to transfer news from Mirror, Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has blocked an exit for Tiemoue Bakayoko. A proposed loan deal to AC Milan is now on the rocks as Tuchel wants to give the French midfielder a chance in the squad. Bakayoko burst onto the scene at AS Monaco in 2016/17. His impressive showings prompted Chelsea to splash a decent £40m on him in 2017. Despite having a number of opportunities, the Frenchman failed to impress and struggled to assert himself under Antonio Conte in his debut season. It got so bad to the point that every time he stepped on the field, he committed an error that would end up costing the side. He has since been sent out on temporary spells thrice. First, he went to AC Milan in 2018/19, then returned to Monaco for 2019/20 and finally he spent the last season at Napoli. Even this season, he was expected to go out on loan or permanently. AC Milan had proposed another loan deal for him. But it seems that Tuchel is not going to allow an exit for Bakayoko (h/t Mirror). The German manager wants to reintegrate him into the side and give him another chance.

oh totally agree it's like a Telenovela, lolol

Kounde's shortness Illustrated in another fashion Verratti is Kounde Verratti's GF, Jessica Aidi (ten cm taller at 1.75m, so hardly some massive glamazon) is a NORMAL CB or we can really see the difference with Verratti's ex, Cindy Bruna (who is basically almost as tall as I am, maybe a half cm shorter or so at 182.5cm the difference between these 2 girls and Verratti is the difference between Kounde and AC (current GF) or Kounde and Sule or Botman or VVD or Tapsoba, etc, etc (ex GF)

lol I am not even going to dignify that with a reply

erm, most of them

no Spanish media outlets are reliable the whole country's sports journos are shit

roflmaoooo €70m for that dwarf??? and in this market????? Sevilla have lost their fucking mind!!!