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this is the head cunt billionaire (net worth of £5bn) Zhang Jindong

I still cannot wrap my head around the imminent insta-destruction of a team (Inter) that was just a few players away from being potentially in top 5 in the world and massive threat in the CL all they needed was a couple better MFers like Rodrigo de Paul and Boubacar Kamara (or Bruno Guimarães) and had these to sell or get off the books Roberto Gagliardini Stefano Sensi Matías Vecino Radja Nainggolan Arturo Vidal a LWB (Gosens) and have these fullbacks to sell Lazaro, Matteo Darmian, and Dalbert and a RWer, like Berardi or Gabriel Veron NONE of those buys are huge money, all listed are sold as fuck players but nope they are going to destroy the team I would be fucking losing MY MIND if Inter was my main team its taken them over a decade to get back to great team status, and now, after one year, down the shitter insanity 😪

Real can still get their young star back. According to a report from Edu Aguirre, via @Ultra_Suristic, Los Blancos have the right of first refusal for Hakimi over the next three years. Meaning Real will have a chance to match the highest transfer offer Inter receive for Hakimi and buy him back, which may be even better than a straight-up buy-back clause. Inter, agreement for the arrival of Hakimi. Real will have first refusal on future resale https://x-sport.news/inter-agreement-for-the-arrival-of-hakimi-real-will-have-first-refusal-on-future-resale/ Real Madrid will have first refusal on any future resale – Already in the day today, says the Corriere dello Sport, the exterior Achraf Hakimi should arrive in Milan for medical visits and signing with Inter. The former Borussia Dortmund will sign a five-year deal with the nerazzurri from nearly 6 million a season including bonuses. Real Madrid, instead, will be 40 million more bonus (you will be able to tap the 50 plus the opportunity to “put hands” on him in the future: the Blancos, in fact, have obtained a future right of pre-emption in the case in which the Inter decide to sell it. Real Madrid, thanks to this option, you may match any bid accepted by Inter and return to valdebebas aimed the management of the external.

Jonas Hofmann? Again, for the 3rd straight year? FUCK NO Plus he is 29yo in 6 weeks. so dead money if he flops. 🤬 wtf

I used to think so, not so much now he really did have a poor year other than some bright minutes in the CL

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Willy! He is the pen master https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/clubs/52914--Chelsea/squad/

that podcast got off to a shit start shilling for one of the worst yank 'beers' out there I would rather go full ayurvedic and drink my own piss 🤢

West Ham will want at least £80m for Rice that is simply too much buy Aurélien Tchouaméni and have him pair with and/or learn from Kante We are supposedly putting a big in for £65m for Lukaku that is £70 to 85m less than Håland or Kane would cost we have such an CRAZY amount of players to sell, and other than Citeh, and PSG, everyone else is fucked financially (and us of course) those 2016 to 2018 insanely bad buys, non sales, botched sales, etc are really going to bite us in the arse hard if we do not sort some shit, players like Sancho, Bastoni, Marquinhos, Rice, and Camavinga (let alone Mbappe, Kane, Oblak, and Håland) are going to be crazy hard or more likely impossible to get in the gate we can try for Varane (RM will try and rape us even though he leaves on a free in summer 2022 if they do not sell this summer), but we may end up buying Maxence Lacroix IF Aouar is indeed only going for £25m, he is deffo worth a stab too Rodrigo De Paul is another class CMF/winger who was a huge reason Conte quit inter, and he is going for only around £30-33m I am still gutted that Silas Wamangituka blew his knee out and is out until October or so (and then of course it remains to be seen how damaged he is) he was the perfect Azpi long term replacement/depth for Reece at RB, RWB, RMF, RCB 1.89m, explosive pace (around as fast as Davies from Bayern pre-injury) look at his numbers for Stuttgart, hardly a powerhouse side LB is such thin pickings only 3 I really rate Theo Hernández (I so doubt AC Milan sells) his brother Lucas (Bayern will not sell) and then another reason Conte quit and my suggestion last year Robin Gosens , 1.84m, far faster than Alonso, and huge numbers for a pure LWB/FB 22 goals (20 of those league), 16 assists (14 league) the past 2 seasons on the cheaper side another LWB/LB who si even bigger (1.86m) and scored 7 goals in only 2500 minutes

wingers I rate Kylian Mbappé (CF also) Jadon Sancho Massive drop-off Mikel Oyarzabal Hirving Lozano Leon Bailey Moussa Diaby Pedro Neto Gabriel Veron

looks like NO untouchables anymore bitch!

you honestly think we are a small club? you do realise there is a pandemic going on? many EU countries still will not even let tourists in and LOL, have you looked at our net profit even during COVID? We are one of the very few to turn one, and that is after spending shedloads you are sadly mistaken if you do not think we can fill up a brand new, best in world (or top 3 at least) stadium during normal times it was not the fans fault: Chelsea return 800 unsold Champions League final tickets to Uefa It follows criticism from supporters' groups about prices with the most expensive tickets costing £515 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/05/26/Chelsea-return-800-unsold-champions-league-final-tickets-uefa/ Supporters of Manchester City also expressed outrage although Telegraph Sport understands their allocation of 6,000 has now sold out. Chelsea, however, returned just under a sixth of their allocation, mostly charter packages, which included subsidised flights to Porto. Supporters said the return of tickets showed "Uefa's lack of care for fans has again come to the fore". A total of 5,800 tickets had been taken up by the London club for Saturday's game. There had been high demand for 2,800 tickets which were sold with independent travel. A Uefa spokesman confirmed the highest price for a seat was £515, although tickets start at £60.50. However, Chelsea Supporter Trust board member Dan Silver said prices were "outrageous when there were obvious solutions closer to home." The financial blow for City had been softened last week after club owner Sheikh Mansour announced he would fund the travel costs of supporters travelling to their first-ever European Cup final. The Estadio do Dragao had been confirmed at the 11th hour after the final was moved from Istanbul due to UK travel restrictions. However, Kevin Parker, general secretary of Manchester City's Official Supporters Club, was angered ticket prices were not reduced by Uefa too after plans to move the game to Wembley were torpedoed. "It could have gone to Wembley, but they didn't go because they've got the VIPs who they wanted to go," he told Telegraph Sport. "They kept us waiting and waiting." Silver, meanwhile, told BBC Sport: "They (Uefa) came to be our friends over the European Super League but now they have turned their backs on us again. Uefa's insistence on having charter flights - initially linked to 90 per cent of tickets, which the clubs pushed back on - spending only 24 hours in Portugal with added Covid testing and additional costs have made it very prohibitive." now as to our 'small size' https://www.goal.com/en-ph/news/which-football-teams-have-most-fans/1qmg4j3457wvh1kxkb7qbdo7qn England rankings on a number of factors Top 10 Highest Selling Football Clubs Jerseys Globally https://www.sportingfree.com/football/highest-selling-football-clubs-jerseys/ https://blog.playo.co/5-football-clubs-that-sell-the-highest-number-of-their-club-merchandise/ even after a shit year (2015-16) we sold just over 3.1 million shirts, so it isn't like it was all glory hunters

there are very few who will make me go WOW, we have just purchased a WC CB (for all of these I list height if 1.90m or taller) Marquinhos (DMF too) Alessandro Bastoni (left footed) 1.90m Raphaël Varane 1.91m (last year, as like several others he turns 30yo in the season after the next one) Matthijs de Ligt (cannot see Juve selling) José María Giménez (injury history is poor though) then the really good ones Milan Skriniar Pau Torres (left footed) 1.91m Edmond Tapsoba (massive upside, is only 22yo) 1.94m Wesley Fofana (I want to see another year in the EPL, plus Leicester has already said they value him at £70m, which is madness) 1.90m Gianluca Mancini 1.90m Alessio Romagnoli (left-footer Milan is selling him supposedly https://sempremilan.com/cm-maldini-and-massara-decide-to-sell-romagnoli-no-renewal-offer-will-be-sent-to-raiola ) Duje Caleta-Car 1.92m Evan N'Dicka (massive upside, is only 21yo, and a left-footer) 1.92m Maxence Lacroix (massive upside, is only 21yo) 1.90m youth Benoît Badiashile (left-footer) 1.94m Sven Botman (left-footer) 1.95m Odilon Kossounou 1.91m David Carmo (left-footer) 1.96m Zinho Vanheusden Sebastian Walukiewicz Loïc Badé 1.91m Josko Gvardiol (left-footer) pass on Kalidou Koulibaly (too old for huge dosh, he turns 30 in just 24 days, and has already been showing signs of age, I do not think he is a 'great until 34yo' type) Stefan de Vrij (too old for huge dosh, he turns 30 in 8 months) Niklas Süle (if he really was all that and a bag of crisps, why are Bayern willing to perhaps sell him?) Ibrahima Konaté (Liverpool bound anyway) Jules Koundé (too short, far too short) Dayot Upamecano (Bayern-bound anyway) David Alaba (wage demands are insane, he would only get one fill sub 30yo season out of him, and he is not that big, nor strong, plus he wants Real only) Diego Carlos (too rash, overpriced, and turns 29 this coming season, so only one fill sub 30yo season)

its that Emery EL voodoo we are the only team to solve it (it massively helped that he had a bottler supreme Arse side to choke for him)

I am the same m8 the main thing is that it is our last chance (and Cieh and all other teams) to wi the FIFA world Club Cup and be crowned world champs before it gets insanely hard to win it it is the only trophy still contested we have never won (the Intercontinental Cup ended in 2004 with the revamped FWCC taking its place) that and Roman deserves a Super Cup trophy Ironically, Mou left Porto and Inter right after winning CL, so never won either one Chelsea won the Super Cup on 1998, but lost (under Roman), THREE times, 2012, 2013, 2019 the only 2 clubs to lose more Super Cups are Sevilla ( 5 times, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020) and Barca 4 times (1979, 1982, 1989, 2006) with 3 of those 4 before they ever even won the CL before Messi, the only Barca CL win was 1992, that great Cruyff-managed side (and even then, they barely won, in extra time against a meh Sampdoria side, in old Wembley), they were hardly a world dominant power until the 2000's

not good enough (big names in bold) David de Gea Sergio Romero gone Lee Grant gone Eric Bailly Axel Tuanzebe Phil Jones Brandon Williams Nemanja Matic Paul Pogba Donny van de Beek Fred Juan Mata likely gone Daniel James

prescient tweet eh

we suffered it already 2nd worst night of my life (after my brother's suicide, so not remotely close to worst, obviously) 2008, Moscow

Ole is absolutely shell-shocked

Mou having a right proper laugh at the moment Ole got bossed by Emery and no clue why he did not make subs earlier than the 101st minute Manure had like 5, 6 players who were well spent and let Villarreal back into the game

IF, if the CL goes to pens is Willie able to play? Mendy is HORRID, so is Kepa

Villarreal were not that bad with the shenanigans NOTHING like Sevilla and Real

so if we beat Citeh SURELY we can beat Villarreal in the Super Cup and finally get it for Roman (the one we won was before he bought us)