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we don't have a dodgy, fake 'time-barred' argument to play and now with fucking Putin perhaps trying to assassinate his chief political rival, Alexei Navalny, the heat is getting cranked up by Democrats in the US (Trump is a Russian puppet) and governments across the EU to crack down even harder on all things Russian politics spills over into footie big time

and he was actually really good at AC Milan and his return at Monaco not world class (obviously) but more than decent in the 6, 8 games I saw, plus from what my father said (his time at Monaco)

Do you have a secret plan to blow up UEFA and FFP? Maybe we can dress up Marina as Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan's cousin and bribe our way around it Marina bin Zayed Dubai does have a marina

Angelino: Barcelona interested in signing £27m Man City full-back https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11679/12054409/angelino-barcelona-interested-in-signing-27m-man-city-full-back Barcelona have made an enquiry for Man City full-back Angelino, who is valued at £27million. That's around 30m euros Barca are mad as ass I would lose my mind if we signed him, he was utter dogshit at Shitty he is just being hyped because Leipzig made it to the semifinals in the CL one word Bakayoko

he scored yesterday rocket

Bruce Buck did not help matters when he said in early spring 2019 that marketing to the US was part of the reason they bought Pulisic Chelsea hope Christian Pulisic arrival will raise its US audience https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/11691966/chelsea-hope-christian-pulisic-arrival-will-raise-its-us-audience "He's a personable boy. He's well-liked in this country," Buck told The Associated Press. "So of course I would expect him when we come here and play some friendly matches, which is what our objective is in the summer of 2020. Then yes, I think he will he will be helpful." Manchester United has the highest average US viewers among Premier League clubs this season at 630,000 on NBC, NBCSN and their digital streams, topping Arsenal (573,000), Liverpool (563,000) Chelsea (534,000), Manchester City (494,000) and Tottenham (477,000). However kick off times and appearances on the late Saturday NBC match can impact audience figures. "The surveys tell us that we're very strong on the two coasts," Buck said. "We have some work to do in Middle America. I think we're doing in round terms as well as any other big club."

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I so fucking hope not

Shitty will challenge it and take to cash n' carry CAS

ahh I just caught it 71m, up from 70m, lolol

€95m (85.6m quid) with £70m up front, the rest stagered out over 2 years is fair I would take the deal and it still keeps Pogba as the most expensive EPL transfer, so there is that the entire 23 man Bayern CL squad cost less for them than just Neymar and Mbappe did of the top 20 biggest transfers only Mbappe, CR7 (both times, as he added so much money to Juve via marketing), VVD, Lukaku to Inter (not to Manure) and Suarez were good buys so far (unless PSG wins the CL later today, as that is what Neymar was bought to do) a horrid record for huge money buys

1999 (taking 2000 as the lowest possible amount of 'thousands') to go 1998 actually, as I will spot you Vardy too Drogba was 24 during most of his first 20 goal topflight season, and as I posted above, he also had a very unique background that prevented him form developing (actually simply playing a lot) at a young age (he had basically no academy training) finally, the entire thing was sort of a misunderstanding, as I have zero quibble with saying that many (but certainly not all) players continue to improve after they turn 25yo my point was that very few show little to nothing pre 25yo, but then explode out of nowhere, it just is not borne out by the totality of top level football over the past 20 years edit to add NON GKers

if Chilwell is not a massive improvement over Alonso and especially Emerson at LB, we are well fucked

those numbers do not add up, sorry if the had paid another €20m (£18m), Hazards fee would be sitting at £121.5m it is not they qualified for CL ages ago (they ended up 27 points above the 5th place team, Villarreal) and yet no bonus was not added in, whilst as soon as they won the league, the bonus was added on immediately, plus why would they make such an easy thing (simply qualifying for the CL, as it was the 1995/96 season in which they last failed to qualify for the CL, so they missed the 96/97 CL, as did Barca) force them to pay MORE than a much harder thing (winning the league) T-Markt is very fast fastidious when updating for bonuses, and the only one they added in (and I showed this with proof) was the 15m euro (£13.5m) bonus add-on for them winning the league show me definitive links and I will retract 1995–96 La Liga

here are my debbie-downer prognostications we are going to get absolutely split from mouth to cunt on Emerson Alonso Jorginho Bats Bakayoko Barkley AC Zappacosta Danny Drinkwater Abdul Rahman Baba Victor Moses Kenedy was should be (and this is my COVID-19 reduced fair sale price total) getting around £240-250m for those 12 (don't even get me started on the offers we have turned down for some) we will end up being around £150-160m MAX or so, £170m if we are super lucky The total cost for those 12 in just transfer fees and add-ons (NOT counting wasted massive salaries that we have paid out/subsidised) was around £300m the only two we will make a profit on will be Barkley (hopefully, if not then you can whack another £10-15m off my final intake tally) and AC the rest will be massive write-offs

but newer tweets/posts said we went up to €90m total (do not know the splits in terms of cash up front) Neverkusen still want €100m

we sold him? I was not aware of this link please

I saw some that claimed it was a net final tally from when we bought him obviously (and I am not being snarky towards you at all, so please do not think that) if we are only talking about wiping out future-forward salary obligations, then yes, it does clear the books anyway we slice this, buying him was a disaster

we have not gotten all the add-on's triggered only some (RM winning the league his first year was the major one) but nowhere near €35m worth some are basically impossible (like him winning the Ballon d'Or, etc) we got between £10m and £15m for RM winning the league (T-markt says 13.5m as they added on £13.5m to his original £90m t-fee) IF all are met, we end up with around £130m wayback machine snapshot

chalk and cheese, and I never discussed Lamptey v Chilwell (which, tbf, you did say it was another poster) Lamptey is not remotely in Chilwell's league atm, if you want my opinion on those two (although they do not play the same position) if we waved a magic wand and Lamptey was trotted out for 35, 36 games as our EPL-game-starting RB, I would be tearing my hair out he is a dwarf in footie terms (20cms shorter than me the last time his height was listed by CFC) and that utter lack of height would have killed us over the long run (he was listed at 1.63m on our club, and Wikipedia keeps getting edited to 1.65m, maybe he grew 2cms I suppose) IF this shite is true we are well fucked

its a JOKE that the Italian press claim we break even on Bakayoko if we flat our perm sell him for €15m (£13.5m) when the finally tally (transfer fees in and out, total salary (minus the part the loaners paid, which was never 100%) paid from our end over the years, and then with loan fees given to us as positive credit) is added up, its a massive loss

what is it with Marina and these fucking Italian clubs, they always end up raping us, when it is a sale or a buy or a loan smdh

that is not how it works you cannot go back and reverse engineer the past 25,000 games for could-haves, should-haves, would-haves not my problem those Manc cunts fucked up good chances they left Germany with nothing in terms of medals or trophies

it’d be a loan with buy option in June 2021 FUCK they will screw us again