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2019-20 UEFA Champions League, Quarterfinals Barcelona v Bayern Munich http://www.sportnews.to/sports/2020/bar-vs-bay-s1/ https://www.totalsportek.com/highlights/juventus-vs-lazio-live-stream/

whatver it is is it will be a shedload more than any of the other options and IF we do it now (buy Chilwell first) we are stuck with 3 left backs and will have a tonne less leverage to recoup much on either of the two dregs on our books atm

Chelsea to sell Emerson for £25 million to fund move for £80 million England international https://www.therealchelseafans.com/2020/04/chelsea-to-sell-emerson-for-25-million-to-fund-move-for-80-million-england-international/ According to Daily Express, Chelsea are hopeful of selling left-back Emerson Palmieri for £25 million this summer to fund a move for Frank Lampard’s key target. Serie A side Juventus are reportedly interested in signing Emerson and the Blues hope to receive £25 million for the transfer to fund a move for Leicester City left-back Ben Chilwell, valued at around £80 million.

because IF it is around £80m that is around £55m or so (Reguilon, Tags, Telles all in the £20m to £30m max range) that could go towards buying a damn good CB or towards Rice FFP kneecaps us so does the lack of timely sales on all the dregs

if it is for £80m

it damn well better be for a reasonable price

Sarina Wiegman will take over from Big Phil Neville as the new England Women head coach, starting her role in September 2021. “I’m very much looking forward to contributing my experience and expertise to this ambitious team,” she roared.

The relegated Stoke squad of 2017-18 had players who played in the 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020 [Big Cup] semi-finals.’ The list is: 2005 Glen Johnson, 2007 Peter Crouch, 2008 Darren Fletcher, 2009 Fletcher, 2010 Bojan, 2011 Fletcher, 2013 Xherdan Shaqiri, 2015 Jesé, 2016 Jesé, 2019 Shaqiri, 2020 Choupo-Moting.

Callum Hudson-Odoi caught browsing Sergio Reguilon posts https://www.chelsea-news.co/2020/08/video-callum-hudson-odoi-caught-browsing-sergio-reguilon-posts/

not British, but Nuno Espirito Santo is a BAME manager then there were Chris Powell Teams managed 2010 Leicester City (caretaker) 2011–2014 Charlton Athletic 2014–2015 Huddersfield Town 2016 Derby County (caretaker) 2018–2019 Southend United 2019–2020 ADO Den Haag (assistant) and Sol Campbell Teams managed 2018–2019 Macclesfield Town 2019–2020 Southend United Black managers start at the bottom while their white peers start at the top - that's racism Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard are both in high profile jobs while their former England team-mates Ashley Cole and Sol Campbell have not had similar opportunities https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/black-managers-start-bottom-white-22188816 Black football coaches: What holds us back https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-52979173 Raheem Sterling says there are not enough black managers for young football fans to aspire to. He's got a point. There are currently only six black or non-white head coaches in the top 92 clubs in the English professional leagues. In 2018, the Football Association announced a plan to increase the 5% of its leadership roles and 13% of England coaching staff that are currently filled by people from a BAME background. There are around 500 players in the 20 Premier League squads. More than a quarter of those are black or mixed-race, but when they retire few are moving into senior management. Iuri Baptista is a coach based in West London, who says at grass roots level you tend to see a mixture of BAME coaches but "as you progress towards academy you start to see fewer". A brief history of BAME managers in England: from Wharton to Ince The list of black and ethnic minority managers in English football may be short but their history stretches back to 1895 https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jun/10/bame-managers-english-football-history The list of black and ethnic minority managers in English football may be a short one but their history stretches back even beyond the last century. When Arthur Wharton joined the Lancashire League side Stalybridge Rovers in 1895, the Gold Coast-born goalkeeper who had become the first black professional player a decade earlier took his first steps into coaching while continuing to play. “They were known as Wharton’s Brigade because he was very much in charge,” says Phil Vasili, author of Colouring Over the White Line: the history of black footballers in Britain. “He even helped them to sign Herbert Chapman before falling out with the owners and moving to Ashton North End.” Chapman went on to win a combined four league titles with Huddersfield and Arsenal and is regarded as one of the most influential coaches in history, but it wasn’t until June 1959 that a Football League club appointed the first BAME manager. Frank Soo, the son of a Chinese father and English mother, was born in Buxton and brought up in Liverpool, going on to make almost 200 appearances for Stoke and representing England during the second world war. His managerial career began in Finland and took in spells with St Albans City, Padova and the Norway national team before he was named as the Scunthorpe United manager. He earned praise from the future England manager Alf Ramsey having guided them to 15th place in the Second Division but resigned at the end of the season and returned to Scandinavia. Two months later Tony Collins – who never met his African father and was brought up by his white mother in London – became the first black manager in Football League history when he succeeded Jack Marshall at Rochdale of the Fourth Division. “We are aware that some eyebrows will be raised because of his colour but that made no difference and we sincerely hope it will make no difference in his career as a manager,” read the statement from the club chairman Freddie Ratcliffe at the time. Within two years Collins had led Rochdale to the final of the 1962 League Cup, where they lost against Norwich over two legs. He is still the only black British manager to have reached a major final and lasted for seven years before becoming a celebrated scout for Leeds and Don Revie, among numerous others. But while English football had to wait three more decades for another black manager, there was another coach with Asian heritage who made a significant contribution in the intervening years. Sammy Chung was a striker who played for Reading, Norwich and Watford before working as an assistant manager to Bill McGarry – one of Ramsey’s successors at Ipswich. Having helped them to promotion in 1968, he also spent time in Scandinavia before returning to McGarry’s side at Wolves and helping guide them to victory in the 1974 League Cup. Chung was appointed manager in 1976, when McGarry was fired after Wolves were relegated, and they returned to the First Division as champions in his first season but was later sacked after a poor start to the 1978-79 campaign. When Edwin Stein took over from Barry Fry at Barnet in April 1993 – just beating Lincoln’s Keith Alexander – almost 15 years had passed since the previous BAME manager in English football, with the South Africa-born former winger and son of an anti-apartheid activist helping the north London club to achieve promotion to the third tier for the first time in their history. Stein left to link up with Fry again at Southend the following season and has admitted feeling “uncomfortable” when he attended the end-of-season managers’ meeting at the Savoy because he was the only black representative. Alexander went on to manage Lincoln, Peterborough and Macclesfield before his death in 2010, two years after Paul Ince, with Blackburn, became the first British-born black man to manage a Premier League club. He is one of nine black managers in the history of the competition.

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The bottom line is Willian can play Arteta’s idea of football https://theathletic.com/1992107/2020/08/14/willian-arsenal-arteta-tactical-fit/?source=dailyemail Controversy seems to be stalking Arsenal at present. There aren’t too many Premier League clubs who could sign a seasoned Brazil international and have it greeted with raised eyebrows. Nevertheless, the free transfer arrival of Willian on a three-year contract has prompted fierce debate. Some of the cynicism around the deal is entirely understandable. Chelsea have allowed a number of their experienced players to move to the Emirates Stadium over the past two decades — William Gallas, Petr Cech, and most recently David Luiz — with decidedly mixed results. At Arsenal, landing a player from a rival club has become regarded as a warning sign, with Mikael Silvestre’s 2008 move from Manchester United another notable example. Willian is also the third of Arsenal’s last four permanent signings to be a client of Kia Joorabchian, prompting questions as to whether the club are casting the net sufficiently wide in the search for new recruits. Furthermore, a three-year deal for a player who just turned 32 feels generous. The moralising appears to have partially obscured the quality of the player, though. This is someone who has won six league titles, seven domestic cups, and twice lifted European silverware. While the perception in Brazil is that he has underachieved at international level, Willian has won 70 caps and a Copa America title. His seven years with Chelsea saw him win five major trophies and finish with a record of 63 goals and 65 assists from 343 appearances. He was once voted the Fans’ Player of the Year there, while his own team-mates made him the Players’ Player of the Year on two separate occasions, most recently at the end of the 2018-19 season. This, unlike Luiz a year ago, is a player Chelsea actively wanted to keep. Mikel Arteta and Arsenal believe they have added someone who can bring a winning mentality to their squad, as well as acting as a mentor for their younger players. Speaking in November last year, Arteta’s Chelsea counterpart Frank Lampard said of Willian: “On the ball, we all know his ability. But his off-the-ball work is an outstanding example for Callum Hudson-Odoi, for Christian Pulisic, for other young players who think the only part of the game is going by people, crossing or shooting. He does the other side brilliantly, with absolute humility.” For Hudson-Odoi or Pulisic, read Gabriel Martinelli, Bukayo Saka, Reiss Nelson or Emile Smith-Rowe. Yes, Willian is at the age where players typically start to drop off. However, Arsenal have determined that he is not your typical player. They have taken a calculated gamble, hoping the benefit of the Brazilian’s ability and experience outweighs the detriment of his decline. Arsenal have tried to sign Willian before. Sandro Orlandelli, who was their lead scout in South America for a full decade, identified his talents when he was still a teenager. “I recommended Willian before he had moved up to the first team at Corinthians,” Orlandelli explains to The Athletic. “I had a big advantage: I had actually trained him for a while, back when I was a youth coach at the club, and always had an instinct about him.” Orlandelli saw in Willian a raw but remarkable talent. “He played in bursts,” says Orlandelli, now technical co-ordinator at Red Bull Bragantino of the Brazilian top flight. “He did something, then disappeared, then did something else and disappeared again. “That could have been an issue in the Premier League, where you have to run non-stop. But I saw that this wasn’t down to genetics. It was a behavioural thing, a result of the way he had been trained. Nobody had taught him that he always needed to be on the move. No one had demanded that. But I saw that he was intelligent and understood the game. I saw how explosive he could be. So I judged that his inconsistency was just a habit and something that could be worked on. That happened over the following years, allowing him to become the Willian you see today.” Arsenal’s initial attempts to sign Willian were thwarted by his inability to qualify as an EU national — a fact he has recently rectified by passing the requisite tests for British citizenship, albeit at the third time of asking. Arsenal failed to land him as a promising youngster. Fourteen years on, Willian has finally arrived in north London — this time as the finished article. Willian’s move to Arsenal sees him reunited with David Luiz. “I’ve known Willian since I was eight,” says the 33-year-old centre-half. “We played together when we were young in Sao Paulo. So we met each other at school, we played together until we were 10 or 11 and then he went to Corinthians, I went to Sao Paulo and then we met again in the (Brazil) Under-17s.” The players moved to opposite sides of the European continent: Luiz to Benfica in Portugal, Willian to Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk. Willian left Brazil aged just 19, and settled into a growing Brazilian community in Shakhtar’s squad. Between games he’d study the bible with Jadson and Fernandinho, and it was in Donetsk that he was baptised as an evangelical Christian. Willian was wildly successful in Ukraine, winning four league titles, three domestic cups and the 2009 UEFA Cup. In 2013, he moved to Russian outfit Anzhi Makhachkala, who were in the midst of an ambitious project that had included recruiting Roberto Carlos, Samuel Eto’o, Lassana Diarra and Christopher Samba. However, just eight months after signing Willian, billionaire owner Suleyman Kerimov imposed dramatic budget cuts. The entire squad was put up for sale, including Willian, who attracted interest from a number of Premier League clubs. At the time, Arsenal were already engaged in early discussions with Real Madrid that would ultimately lead to Mesut Ozil’s move to the Emirates Stadium. Willian’s suitors were Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. Brendan Rodgers had enlisted Steven Gerrard to launch a charm offensive on the Anfield club’s part. Via text message, a conversation ensued in which Gerrard explained, “I think Liverpool would be a great move for you. The fans are amazing, the history is there and we’re building a good team. You could do something great here — and we’d love to have you.” Willian’s response? He was concerned the Anfield club could not offer him Champions League football. There was also the lure of London to consider. Willian got as far as undergoing a medical at Spurs, before Chelsea and their then-manager Jose Mourinho stepped in. The intervention of childhood friend Luiz helped tip the balance in their favour. “The Brazilians at Chelsea called me, especially David Luiz, who told me to come quickly,” says Willian. “I was very happy to have them around.” The manner of his signing made Willian an instant Chelsea hero. It is reminiscent of the story of Emmanuel Petit, who held talks with Tottenham before then-chairman Alan Sugar unwittingly paid for a taxi to take him to Arsene Wenger’s house to meet the Arsenal manager and vice-chairman David Dein. Willian’s decision has been immortalised in song: “…they bought his flight, but Willian he saw the light. He got the call from Abramovich and off he went to Stamford Bridge. He hates Tottenham, he hates Tottenham.” Any enemy of Spurs is a friend of Arsenal. At Chelsea, Willian became the “non-stop” player Orlandelli had envisaged. He swiftly learnt the tactical discipline Mourinho required of him. By 2014, his new manager said: “I have Dr Paco Biosca, the doctor at Shakhtar Donetsk for many years with Willian, and he says he doesn’t recognise Willian now: the professional, the player, the commitment. The only thing he recognises is the talent.” Mourinho’s admiration for Willian is such that he later tried to take him to Manchester United. That mission was doomed to fail. Willian quickly grew to love life in London, especially with Chelsea’s Brazilian clique around him. He had a close circle of compatriots in Oscar, Ramires, Filipe Luis, Diego Costa and, of course, Luiz. His twin daughters have grown up in the capital, where Willian and his wife have established a digital branding agency. Together, he and Luiz invested in a west London Italian restaurant called Babbo. With the help of a self-testing phone app, he eventually passed that pesky citizenship test. London has become his home. When his contract ran out at the end of last season, Willian had offers from Chelsea, Barcelona, Inter Miami of MLS and Arsenal to consider. It was Arsenal’s proposal that matched his preferences: the opportunity to remain in London, on a three-year deal. A move to the US would have been more lucrative, and Barcelona had offered a higher salary, but Willian was swayed by the vision presented by Arteta and technical director Edu. Most concern among Arsenal fans relates to the length of that contract. In recent years, Arsenal have made a bad habit of handcuffing themselves to ageing stars. Willian turned 32 on August 9. He arrives at Arsenal as a Champions League-calibre player, but it will be difficult to maintain that level until he is almost 35. Arsenal will hope a so far near-spotless injury record will slow the pace of his decline. Arteta has backed the Willian deal throughout, and is insistent his team requires an injection of such ready-made quality. “Everything that comes through our door has to be something that significantly increases the level of the team,” he explained in July. “You need players that have the experience in the Premier League and they’ve done it here, so in terms of adaption the process it is much quicker.” The coach prizes experience. It’s why Sokratis Papastathopoulos has remained among the core group, despite the fact that, from a technical perspective, he does not meet Arteta’s desired criteria for a central defender. Sokratis’s attitude has been exemplary throughout, and that’s in part why Arteta was prepared to use him in the final few minutes of last month’s FA Cup Final. Willian ticks the “experience” box, but he can play Arteta’s idea of football too. Tactically, he opens up a number of possibilities. Although most of his football for Chelsea and Brazil has been played from the right, he is also capable of operating from the left or through the centre. Given Arsenal’s struggles to create goals from central areas, it would be no surprise to see him deployed in the No 10 role. He’s also an effective dead-ball expert with his right foot, something Arsenal arguably lack. He joins a growing Portuguese-speaking enclave at Arsenal. As well as Brazilians Luiz and Martinelli, there is Cedric Soares, Pablo Mari and the bilingual Emi Martinez. The Athletic understands Edu hopes to add highly-regarded Brazilian physio Bruno Mazziotti to the contingent. At Shakhtar and Chelsea, Willian was able to help foster a little community that felt like Brazil. Given Edu’s connections in the South American market, it may be a smart move to do the same. It’s telling that when Arsenal released the majority of their international scouts, they retained Jonathan Vidalle and Everton Gushiken in South America. Seven years ago, it was a phone call from Luiz that helped persuade the 25-year-old Willian to join Chelsea. Perhaps Arsenal’s burgeoning Brazilian community could help them attract the next generation of stars. For now, Arsenal welcome Willian. Where he came from and who his agent is will matter much less than the performances he produces. Time will tell whether this proves to be a good deal for Arsenal in the long-term. In the short-term, however, they appear to have got themselves a very good player.

Can Chelsea shift the deadwood? https://theathletic.com/1993603/2020/08/14/chelsea-deadwood-drinkwater-batshuayi-zappacosta-bakayoko-moses-kenedy-rahman/ Chelsea have big plans for this transfer window, the majority of which have been well documented: Frank Lampard wants Kai Havertz to bring more goals and creativity to his team in the final third, Ben Chilwell at left-back, Declan Rice at centre-back and a goalkeeper he regards as more assertive and reliable than club-record signing Kepa Arrizabalaga. It’s unlikely he will get all of his first-choice targets, in part because the top prices touted for each would take Chelsea’s total outlay — not counting the £85 million already spent on Hakim Ziyech and Timo Werner — north of the £300 million mark. UEFA’s decision to relax financial fair play for the remainder of 2020 means Roman Abramovich is limited only by what he is prepared to spend, but there are no indications that he wants to depart from the more self-sustaining philosophy that has governed the club’s transfer strategy for much of the past decade. That means Chelsea also need to sell, and finding willing partners for the players not in Lampard’s plans is expected to be Marina Granovskaia’s biggest challenge in the coming weeks. “The market at the moment is really difficult,” one agent who represents Premier League players tells The Athletic. “It’s a buyer’s market, that’s for sure. “For clubs, players and everyone else associated with the industry, fantasy football is over. This is a global economic crisis that has affected football in the same way as every other business in the world, and it wasn’t planned for. Who would have said in February that we’d be looking at no income through gate receipts, commercial sponsorship, hospitality and so on? Clubs are now looking at their playing staff and saying, ‘We can’t afford to carry deadwood’.” Chelsea have more than a few players who fall into that unflattering bracket: Danny Drinkwater, Davide Zappacosta and Tiemoue Bakayoko, the lingering mistakes of that disastrous summer of 2017; Michy Batshuayi and Victor Moses, solid contributors in Antonio Conte’s time but unwanted by the current regime; Kenedy and Baba Rahman, neither of whom are regarded as viable alternatives to Marcos Alonso or Emerson Palmieri. Others are less obviously finished at Chelsea, but clearly aren’t key to Lampard’s future plans. Offers for Jorginho and Ross Barkley will be listened to, while there arguably isn’t a senior left-back or centre-back currently on the club’s books who couldn’t be had for the right fee. Then there is Kepa, whose overinflated purchase price in the summer of 2018 and plummeting form this season presents a challenge to Granovskaia all of its own. Throughout the 2010s, her skill as a negotiator shone through primarily in her ability to extract maximum value for those no longer wanted at Chelsea: Oscar and Ramires, sent to China for a combined £90 million; Diego Costa, returned to Atletico Madrid from self-imposed exile in Brazil at a £25 million profit (bought for £32 million, sold for £57 million); Alvaro Morata, sold to Atletico for the same £58 million fee Chelsea paid Real Madrid to sign him 18 months earlier. Last summer, Juventus were even persuaded to pay £5 million to hire Maurizio Sarri, a deeply unpopular figure at Stamford Bridge who lasted only one season in Turin. However, the market has changed. Even more important than selling unwanted players to bolster the transfer budget is shedding their salaries. Chelsea’s wage bill for the year ending June 30, 2019, was £285.6 million, fourth in the Premier League and representing 63.9 per cent of the club’s turnover; with future accounts set to be hit badly by a prolonged stretch of playing matches behind closed doors, bad-value contracts will be more damaging than ever before. “Ordinarily a club might say, ‘Well, we can afford to keep him and things might turn around, someone might come in for him’,” the agent adds. “That’s all changed, and recruitment departments at clubs are now looking at it in terms of smaller, more effective squads. The problem with that, though, is that the contracts in football are very different from standard employment contracts. You can’t just make a footballer redundant.” If we estimate that the average wage of a Chelsea first-team player is around £80,000 a week (and we can only estimate, since player contracts are confidential), it becomes easy to see how the salary costs of the above list of surplus players begin to add up. Drinkwater and Batshuayi are both known to earn around £100,000 a week; taken with Zappacosta, Bakayoko, Moses, Kenedy and Baba Rahman, the annual financial commitment could be more than £30 million if other clubs are not found to shoulder the burden. Loans are the tools that Chelsea have often used to relieve themselves of unwanted salaries, often sending players to clubs prepared to pay significant loan fees to secure their services and provide a stage on which they can try to shine and increase their value. But in the cases of Batshuayi, Zappacosta, Moses and Kenedy, who are all in the final year of their contracts, this window might be the last realistic chance to get a reasonable fee from any sale. The equation is complicated for the players too — particularly the ones earning the kind of money that Drinkwater and Batshuayi are on at Chelsea. “Age is going to be a massive factor,” another agent operating in the Premier League tells The Athletic. “If you’re at the end of your career or in your late twenties, the reality is you might never get the money you’re currently earning again. But if you leave on a free, in principle you’re going to be able to secure a bigger contract at your next club. “If you’ve done enough over your career to ensure there will still be interest after a year spent sitting on the sidelines doing nothing — other than the odd run-out in development football — then there’s an argument to sit on your current deal, see it out and hope there’ll be clubs out there who’ll retain an interest given your reputation once you have been released at the end of the contract. It is a risk, though. “Clubs will look at you and wonder whether you can still do it. They might question your motivation, too, to just sit on a contract knowing you’ll never play.” That is Chelsea’s nightmare scenario with Drinkwater, who still has two years left to run on the five-year deal he signed to join from Leicester in 2017. Another possibility is that he is prepared to take a little less to play regularly elsewhere. A creative solution could be found to bridge the gap between his old salary and his new one — provided that there is a club interested enough to sign him following two deeply underwhelming loan spells at Burnley and Aston Villa this season. “My advice to a player would always be it’s worth taking one step back if you can take three forward later,” one agent says. “It depends on how the player wants to see it, but they should be playing football. There might be a club that comes along and says they can pay 60 per cent of his wages, Chelsea might pay him off a little bit, and the deal gets done. But first, there needs to be a club that says, ‘He’s going to affect us and make a difference’.” “There might be an argument to accept your next contract elsewhere will be on a lower salary, but might be for a longer period of time, which serves almost to compensate for the loss in wage,” another agent adds. “So, for example, if you’re earning £6 million a year and have 12 months to run on your deal, is there a case for going elsewhere and earning, say, £3.5 million a year on a three-year contract? “Yes, you have to take a short-term hit compared with what you have been earning, but you’ll be playing and you’ll have more long-term security. Of course, that scenario also depends upon the buying club striking an acceptable fee with your current team. So you have to weigh up those two things: generally speaking, there’s a lot to be said for leaving on a free and earning well at the next place given your new club will not be paying a transfer fee, but if a suitor is willing to pay a fee and the package, overall, works out in the long-term, then that might be a more palatable option.” Some of Chelsea’s unwanted players will be on the target lists of other domestic and European clubs, but not necessarily at the very top. As a result, a genuine market might not develop for them until the final weeks or even days of the transfer window, right up to the revised deadline day of October 5. Granovskaia has always been prepared to play the long game to secure the best value deal, but waiting to sell won’t help the club in their attempts to establish just how much money they can afford to throw at Lampard’s first-choice targets. Chelsea have made an excellent start to this transfer window by securing Ziyech and Werner early for reasonable fees. Bringing in Havertz next would supercharge Lampard’s rebuild. But buying the players you want is only one half of success in the transfer market and, with football still reeling from the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, unloading the players not wanted at Stamford Bridge will be a formidable test of Granovskaia’s famed negotiating skills. full list of the players who need to go here

not counting the complicated Messi/CR7 valuations (due to insane marketing values) almost ALL the most valuable players on the planet are black or at least non white these are the clear top ten in value, we can argue over the costs other than Mbappe and Sterling only 2 'white' players at this exact minute white is really nebulous too, many I put in bold (and thsu count as white) would never be accepted as white by neo nazi types they are 'white' Latinx pull them out, only 16 of the top 50 are 'white' Kylian Mbappé Raheem Sterling Neymar Sadio Mané Mohamed Salah Kevin De Bruyne (would be number two IMHO except for age, as he turns 30yo in ten months) Jadon Sancho Harry Kane VVD (age will soon take him off the top ten, and Alphonso Davies will take his place if he continues to explode) Trent Alexander-Arnold below them (and some are young so will probably move up) its a little more mixed no real order Alphonso Davies Antoine Griezmann (age will take him off) João Félix Kai Havertz Marcus Rashford Bernardo Silva N'Golo Kanté (was in the top ten) Leroy Sané Paul Pogba Jan Oblak Alisson Eden Hazard (was in the top ten) Joshua Kimmich Erling Haaland Frenkie de Jong Koulibaly (age prevents him from top ten) Paulo Dybala Serge Gnabry Saúl Ñíguez Romelu Lukaku Marco Verratti Roberto Firmino Bruno Fernandes Matthijs de Ligt Aymeric Laporte Casemiro Lautaro Martínez Rodri Sergej Milinkovic-Savic Timo Werner Raphaël Varane Lucas Hernández Marquinhos José Giménez Milan Skriniar David Alaba Alessio Romagnoli Andrew Robertson Richarlison Mauro Icardi of the most valuable teenagers ONE is white Dominik Szoboszlai

speaking golden trophies (The WC trophy is almost all gold and worth around £25m), the Ballon d'Or (partially gold) is made in Italy with the coolest blowtorch in the world

this is why those last two FA Cup final losses to them enrage me so (besides the fact it is 2 less major trophies he have and would have put us on course to eventually, down the road, overtake them and Manure as the top all time FA Cup team in history, we would be at 10, and both those 2 cunts would only be at 12 each) take those away and they literally have NOTHING to hang their dirty red cap on

they are fucking delusional the minute anything happens they they go insta billy big bollocks IF the roles were reversed and we signed a 32yo Arse winger who scores 5, 6, 7 league goals on year on average, to a potentially £34+m (just in salary and add-ons) THREE YEAR deal we would be going full rage mode

my initial hot take was a bit harsh he did not go as batshit as I thought he was and I am NOT happy about this, especially if we sign no wingers and Havertz falls through I hate when a decent player (unlike Luiz) goes to a direct rival straight from us

we SO need to sell him!!! and to think he blocked Pašalić from getting a true look

does Robbie actually believe the tosh he is spewing???? wtf 7 great seasons??????, Willian as our mainstay player?????

IF Lampard (I so hope not, as that means a disaster has occurred) is sacked down the road whilst Nagelsmann is still at Leipzig, we are cray to not go after him hard, especially if we are loaded up with a German core I think the bloke has future Klopp level written all over him and 3 weeks ago he was still 32! Nagelsmann was appointed head coach of 1899 Hoffenheim on 27 October 2015, just 3 months after he turned 28, so only 6, 7 months older than I am now. Insane.