Vesper

He is not a good fit for Manure, as I have stated in the past. TBH, Rice would be a much better fit for them. Or Casemiro. Kalvin Phillips to, to a point, although, like Camavinga, he like to wander around further up the field and not be a stay-at-home hammer. Aurélien Tchouaméni would be a better fit as well, as would Wilfred Ndidi.

well, it is truly conformed now only thing left is the obligatory new kit pic might as well draw a line under it

Achraf Hakimi flying to Paris with his agent. Done deal, contract until June 2026 with Paris Saint-Germain and here-we-go confirmed #PSG Exclusive pic by @CLMerlo

you are really going to get all 'NO, waste of money' over around £25m? Rice is likely FOUR TIMES that. The lad has true WC potential. Have you watched him? I have, extensively for the past 2 years. He was extreme athleticism, can drive the ball forward, tackle, pass, a motor that runs for 90 straight minutes if need be, etc. He also is a hybrid, can play CMF or DMF. as for Renato Sanches, helllllll no I have seen very few suggest we buy him never buy players off Euros or WC performances, that will fuck you in the batty (and no chocolates before or after) most every time (exhibit A for us, Bats) finally this is a massive pet peeve of mine when people try and slag off others by insinuating they are FM or FIFA console jockeys I know it is not directed at me in particular THIS time, but when I first joined it was all the time (it soon stopped, thank fuck), and I have NEVER, ever once played either computer games are a ridiculous way to scout players, and I doubt anyone on here that is a regular is so utterly braindead to think it is a valid method

no, only around £25m (€30m) which is what is really killing me 🤬

Issa Kabore £4m Pedro Porro £11m Angeliño £11m Oleksandr Zinchenko £2m Yan Couto £5.5m João Cancelo £58.5m Danilo £27m Kyle Walker £48m Benjamin Mendy £52m plus, if you want to count him Nathan Aké £41m

so they will end up paying £56-58m or so, £60m max £10 to 14m LESS than we offered for Alex Sandro, who is so not a weapon like Hakimi (better on defence in his day though, but Hakimi is young so can learn) and that is not even inflation adjusted as Alex Sandro was 4 years ago Pep has spent £219m on fullbacks, £260m if you count Ake (who he played at fullback at times) smdh

because he is under contract for until summer 2026 and they would demand Coutinho level money why would we help bail them out when there are similar level (at least in the ball park) MFers at a fraction of the cost?

I remember the chip, but the video just triggered my memory for all the rest at that time in my life I was BURIED in uni (2 honours bachelors, 2 masters degrees in a 4 year span as a teenager, with dual master thesis defences going on that spring CL run) and was not all deep-divey with footie

IF we do buy a CMF, I SO hope he comes from this list of 10 (plus two youth who I would let them develop more where they are) Sergej Milinković-Savić Nicolò Barella (can play in a double pivot DMF role as well, as close as your see out there to Kante atm, but with more technical skils, a pitbull) Eduardo Camavinga (DMF as well) Youri Tielemans Franck Kessié (had a monster year, 20 total goals produced, 14 goals + 6 assists) Houssem Aouar Carlos Soler Saúl Ñíguez Ryan Gravenberch Bruno Guimarães the 2 youth Jude Bellingham (I would wait a year or two and let him further develop) Ilaix Moriba (I would wait a year or two and let him further develop)

We so could have handled the whole thing better

these are ones on the list I am comfortable (some only if we fail to bring in replacements for) with keeping Sr team (some will be loaned out) Tammy Abraham Marcos Alonso Ethan Ampadu (loan out for sure, I am starting to think sell) Tino Anjorin Armando Broja Conor Gallagher Olivier Giroud (I would keep him one last year) Marc Guéhi (loan out for sure) Callum Hudson-Odoi Tino Livramento (we CANNOT lose this lad, I will have an absolute FIT, I do NOT want a Musiala disastrous repeat) Malang Sarr (loan out for sure, hopefully he comes good and we can sell him for a great profit, as he is not Chels level) exception: Kurt Zouma (it will be bad news if we do not sell and replace him IMHO, Tuchel clearly does NOT rate him for our side) If we had kept we would not have to look for a creative MF'er, ffs massive cock-up Youth 3 big prospects here atm Thierno Ballo Lewis Bate (potential baller) Lucas Bergström Josh Brooking Juan Castillo (probably sell, very disappointed in his play, ajax could have had him for only €4m and they passed) Trevoh Chalobah (getting to the point he might soon be on the sell list if he doesn't show a big move up in play) Jamie Cumming Ben Elliott Bryan Fiabema Joe Haigh Henry Lawrence Ian Maatsen Xavier Mbuyamba (hopefully he finally is healthy and starts to live up to his insane potential) Sam McClelland Luke McCormick George McEachran George Nunn Myles Peart-Harris Dion Rankine Jon Russell Teddy Sharman-Lowe Dynel Simeu Xavier Simons Jude Soonsup-Bell (potential big BALLER, scores for fun as a youth CF) Ike Ugbo (probably will soon go on my sell list) Tariq Uwakwe Ethan Wady Jayden Wareham Karlo Žiger Edited 5 minutes ago by Vesper

the new ones are from the reserve teams Jayden Wareham Josh Brooking Ben Elliott Xavier Simons Joe Haigh and the sorted ones have been sold or loaned out or released plus 2 I pulled off and sorted myself as there is sub zero chance they leave AC and Jorginho oh it is down one more so 56 now, not 57 Marcel Lewis was allowed to go on a free transfer I will edit it

I had forgotten what absolutely monster goals Ramires and Raul Meireles scored in that run ht

(other than Rudiger and Giroud, disastrous, save for Barkley, BUT we will be lucky to break even now on him) (+£9m is salary) plus all those fucking INSANE turndowns of great offers for shite like Willian and Alsoso (£110m turned down just for those 2) (and we lost £50m + difference on Cuntois sale versus the year before, and that also led to panic buy of Kepa, so a close to £200m cockup on GOALKEEPERS) summer 2017 through January 2018 damn near killed us it will cost us over half a billion quid at the end of the day when all is said and done in lost revenues, shit buys, shit contract management, botched buys, botched sales via refusals, insane loans, etc

PSG would be a MUCH better fit other than Verratti and Wijnaldum their MF is shit

Update making headway 17 sorted (plus 5 new ones came in) we now have 55 players to sort out, whether sell, keep on main team, loan out, renew, release, or keep on reserves/youth Red means SELL/Release them FFS! (there is around £150 to £175m to be had (granted we will have to eat some of Kepa's salary I am afraid, just to move him even at a massive loss in terms of fee), and that is at super cut-rate prices, near zero in multiple cases, the depressing part is almost all are still fairly young and the total transfer fee cost was around £300m (some are academy), again just for those in red, and that is NOT counting massive salaries we have eaten on them, nor is it taking into account tens upon tens of millions in turned down decent offers (FAR greater than we will sell them for now) that we fucked off on and demanded insanely too high prices) biggest font were just HORRIFICALLY stupid buys Tammy Abraham Marcos Alonso Ethan Ampadu Tino Anjorin Tiemoué Bakayoko fuck off Lewis Baker insane he is still on the books, he turns 27yo this coming season, he has been here since 2005 (we had not yet even won our first EPL title under Roman yet when he joined in January), he is only a little over 2 years younger than me, ffs He has ONE appearance EVER for us, for THREE minutes, 7 and half years ago in a 3rd round FA Cup game v Derby Thierno Ballo Ross Barkley Lewis Bate Michy Batshuayi insane he is still on the books Lucas Bergström Armando Broja Josh Brooking Juan Castillo Trevoh Chalobah Jake Clarke-Salter Jamie Cumming Danny Drinkwater so fuck off, release his arse if need be, surely he has somehow violated his contract Ben Elliott Emerson Bryan Fiabema Conor Gallagher Olivier Giroud Marc Guéhi Joe Haigh Callum Hudson-Odoi Kenedy insane he is still on the books Kepa fuck this shit Henry Lawrence Tino Livramento Ruben Loftus-Cheek Ian Maatsen Xavier Mbuyamba Sam McClelland George McEachran Matt Miazga Charly Musonda Jr. insane he is still on the books George Nunn Myles Peart-Harris Abdul Rahman Baba insane he is still on the books Dion Rankine Jon Russell Malang Sarr Teddy Sharman-Lowe Dynel Simeu Xavier Simons Jude Soonsup-Bell Dujon Sterling Ike Ugbo Tariq Uwakwe Ethan Wady Jayden Wareham Davide Zappacosta insane he is still on the books Karlo Žiger Kurt Zouma

Ligue 1 (other than PSG, and they have contractual issues with Mbappe) is FUCKED financially, as in close to a mini Armageddon bargains galore to be had (not just for us, obviously) Kylian Mbappé Eduardo Camavinga Houssem Aouar (they are talking that £18-20m or so gets him) Boubacar Kamara Jonathan David Lucas Paquetá Bruno Guimarães Amine Gouiri Jonathan Ikoné Aurélien Tchouaméni Sven Botman Benoît Badiashile Rayan Cherki Jeff Reine-Adélaïde Jérémy Doku Moussa Dembélé Yusuf Yazici Kasper Dolberg Julian Draxler Gerson Zeki Celik Alphonse Areola Maxence Caqueret Youcef Atal Romain Faivre Maxwel Cornet Angelo Fulgini Lucas Gourna-Douath Terem Moffi Adil Aouchiche

We still have close to 60 (maybe closer to 55 now, I will do a new updated list) to sort out. It was 67.

Leicester got Boubakary Soumaré, whom Lamps had the hot n' bothereds for (and who was being quoted at as high as £60m, roflmaoo) for £18m, ffs edit to add I am NOT saying I rated him ever, in fact I was completely against buying him

lol Manure may get 2 players whose combined highest price point at one recent time was over £200m, for UNDER £100m their combined age is 39, the same as Caballero, who actually turns 40yo in September, lol and watch us shithouse our way to dropping £90-100m on Declan Rice alone BUT I am going to go out on a limb and say we do NOT buy Rice, maybe ever (or at least we never pay remotely that type of cash) we let him go, released him, said he would never be good enough he is NOT like Mbappe he is NOT some otherworldly talent, he is a very solid ENGLISH DMF (a very rare thing these days, which adds to the hype, as after Rice and Kalvin Phillips you, INSTANTLY get into utter dogshit, Jake fucking Livermore, for instance, was a part-time England starter just a few years back, ffs) nothing more, nothing less the embarrassment is too great to pay a unit (£100m, 2 units is £200m, etc etc etc) for a player we binned 7 years ago

Camavinga could cost United just £25.7 million https://www.unitedinfocus.com/transfer-talk/camavinga-could-cost-united-just-25-million/ Eduardo Camavinga could be available at a knockdown price. We knew there would be a discount due to the French wonderkid having just one year left on his contract. But we had not thought the price could be this cheap. Journalist Fabrizio Romano says Rennes may be willing to cash in for just 30 million Euros; that’s £25.7m. Camavinga is one of the best young talents in European football and could be a long term replacement for Paul Pogba. While he is not stylistically the defensive midfield player United need at present, he could grow into that role, or simply become a replacement for Pogba, short term or long term.

of course, he is a farmer flat track bully in a farmer league he will never do shit in a big boy league the Eredivisie is a fucking joke overall unfortunately we likely got fucked with Ziyech the only players in it I remotely rate atm are Ryan Gravenberch André Onana (do not want him though, more AFCON bullshit) then youth who I need to see a lot more of Noni Madueke (19yo London born and raised lad who I think could be converted to LWB) Mohammed Kudus Orkun Kökcü Mohamed Ihattaren

lol, the clown car is well into gear