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I call BULLSHIT on this Chelsea 'open talks over Jonathan Ikone deal' Lampard considers two strikers https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/transfer-news/chelsea-transfer-rumours-blues-eye-18584287 Ikone is almost 15cms shorter than Havertz, is NOT a CF, and has THREE league goals all year the other one (Jovic) has TWO league goals and has been an utter bust at RM (who paid £54m for him)

I know I will LOSE my mind if we literally do nothing at LB it is like a soon to be 8 year non stop torture point (Conte's wing-backs were not fullbacks in terms of roles) Alonso is soon 30 there is only one remotely class LB over 29yo atm Jordi Alba (who is showing drop off now, go watch Barca games if you doubt me and if you have not seen him play lately) Marcelo was washed up over a year ago (and was always shit on defence anyway, but RM could cover for him) zero others Alonso has one advantage he always was so so slow, so age doesn't have much to take away there, lolol

he cannot play every game, and is overall lacking (fine as a backup) it is suicidal to roll with an out of position Azpi as the only other LB option (Emerson is so so gone)

makes sense I would certainly be happy with that amount, maybe £35m (extra 5m for the ubiquitous English tax)

I have documented this all so many times and with enough collaboration to warrant that posting. Go search the site.I am done with this subject.

I deal with financial transactions that, when taken as a whole, dwarf the scope of this. I am extremely well versed in hyper-complex 'mega money' transactions. Have you every read a standard derivatives contract involving a synthetic CDO (collateralised debt obligation) that utilises credit default swaps in fully distributed tranches (ie not a single-tranche structure)? The average one is around 35,000 pages long. I have not (obviously), but I do have a team of quants to break down even that level of complexity into a manageable form in order to estimate the overarching fundamental risk v ROI vectors. The same premiss works for rough estimations of the transfer balance sheets. You do not have to have extreme granular detail to get a general grasp on the amounts, amounts which I NEVER claim to be exact nor definitive. I do not have access to the actual club ledgers, but it certainly is not that difficult to keep a running tally on transfers in, transfers out and the associated monies (ie fees, salaries, etc) involved. I have no desire to do a truly deep forensic dive into the underlying financials of the club (unless they pay me a shedload of cash) but you do not need an electron microscope to see a boil. You have no clue what Abramovich's pain tolerance is when it comes to balance sheets for CFC (both those innately germane to FFP strictures and also exogenous profit/loss totals that fall outside of that purview), so tossing out a simplistic 'oh, if she actually was that bad she would have been sacked' positing is pure tosh. I suggest you go learn the history of Roman (if you have not) and how he rose to become a multi-billionaire (and the people involved, especially those colloquially known as the 'SIBNEFT mafia', of which Marina is definitely a long time member as he sold it off back in 2005 well after she started at the petrol firm) before tossing out simplistic and futile rejoinders like that. He has a tremendous sense of loyalty toward his inner core from everything that I have witnessed to date. He obviously chalks off a tremendous amount of financial loss tied to CFC, which I have ZERO interest in as a methodology of operation, as it is his billions not mine. I care only when the losses interface in a negatively impactful way with FFP constraints and preclude many advantageous moves we otherwise could have quite possibly completed.

smdh

this is (until recently) a big myth, that I dealt with so many times I have lost count, including MASSIVE posts that dealt with dozens of players but we are where we are now mind you, I can go ahead and post another monster post detailing all this yet again, but would really rather not, as it gets me so argy bargy over it all (hundreds and hundreds of millions of pounds shit away at the end of the day (not all on her, but a chunk of it for sure) between her refusing sales, bad board/scouts buys, absolute shit contractual management, and bollocksed up buys that spiralled into panic buys to replace the lost sheep that would not come into the Blue pasture)

which dross? we have dross IN SPADES!! (I do not know whether to laugh or cry, but I think I chose to sob like a baby) it is insane how many shit (and many were very expensive) players we have on the books

If no COVID and Werner had 3 years, 4 years left on his contract, GOOD LUCK getting him for less than £80m or £90m the bloke just turned 24 a few months ago, accounted for almost 50 goals in 3500 minutes (including 34 scored on his own) is a German national team starter, and one of the fastest CF's on the planet people are acting like he is some sort of consolation prize SMDH

this is what we are looking at in terms of sales £500 to £550m or so (it dicey to say exactly) worth of players here en toto (pre-COVID valuations are over £600m when you count every single one listed) but obviously not all can be sold in one window We need to sell Álvaro Morata (Done) Mario Pasalic (Done) Andreas Christensen (he has GOT to go and be upgraded upon, I would prefer both he and Zouma be sold, but that is not happening in one window unless we get 2 incredible buy deals tossed into our laps, which is so unlikely) I just do not see what Lamps sees in our 4 main CB's, they (and Kepa) make my tummy churn every game. Even Alonso has not done that for ages. Ross Barkley (if we can get say £30m, 35m for him, he will never be worth more (well COVID maybe lowers that a bit)plus Bayer failed to get CL, then a Barks sale plus Havertz buy is only around £40m or so net spend) Tiemoué Bakayoko Emerson Michy Batshuayi Davide Zappacosta Danny Drinkwater Jorginho (Juve need to cough up serious cash or work a swap deal involving de Ligt for Jorgi plus cash or maybe Emerson, which is a little steep from our angle as I rate those 2 as being worth £85m-ish and not sure if de Ligt is worth that atm, that is a shedload of money, but I think I would pull the trigger, as then we only need the less costly Abdul Rahman Baba Victor Moses Kenedy Marco van Ginkel Juan Familia-Castillo (as Ajax did not exercise their option to buy, or keep him and see if he can ever be a decent LB) Nathan Charly Musonda Jr. Danilo Pantic Matt Miazga Lewis Baker Jamal Blackman Lucas Piazón Jake Clarke-Salter Izzy Brown Josh Grant Richard Nartey Luke McCormick Jacob Maddox We could sell Kepa (not likely, especially due to crazy wages for the next 5 years and his £72m transfer fee, ie. how much are we willing to lose of that overall) Zouma (sorry, he is shit too) Marcos Alonso (only if we buy two LB's which is not likely this window, I am oki with him as a the backup as he is curveball option in certain types of games) N'Golo Kanté (not at all likely apparently) Olivier Giroud (I would keep him) Leave on a free Willian (unless he renews for 2 years, which he still says no way to, the prick) Pedro we need a GK (just buy some decent backup if we do not want to splurge for Kepa actual long term replacement atm). 1 CB for sure, would prefer 2 with both Zouma and Ac shown the door, a LB, and Havertz (on so many levels, ie blocking Victimpool and Manure and Shitty and Bayern and Real), plus he takes pressure off in so many areas, even winger, as we are down to only 2 true wingers, plus Ziyech who may be need at limes as an AMF) it is just a matter of selling the insane amount of dregs we are carrying on the books

he tied his all time high scoring year tonight 16 but the first one, at Marseille, was in 53 games this is in only 38 games, all comps

Youssef En-Nesyri

2 nil

Ocampos off tactical, not injury-driven

he has been a beast in every game I have seen him play this year, roughly 6 or 7 he has been on a tear in 2020 and scored tonight (pen)

last game I watched him he scored the winning goal and then, because their GK Tomáš Vaclík tore his knee up late and they had no subs left he played emergency GKer for Sevilla and saved the game with an insane save from a corner near the death, it was fucking wild

Lucas Ocampos is a badass big (1.87m) strong as a bull pacy winger who is also ambipedal so can play anywhere up front he is also such a hard worker on defence scored tonight so has 16 goals in around 3000 minutes well worth a watch IF we fail on Havertz, would LOVE to get him and Saïd Benrahma in

La Liga | Sevilla vs Mallorca http://www.sportnews.to/sports/2020/la-liga-sevilla-vs-mallorca-s3/ https://www.totalsportek.com/sevilla/

roflmaoooo he looked well on the lash

I do not hate Rugby, but it is not my favourite thing, although there I have zero split allegiance, 10000% all England I have several South African and NZ close mates who are obsessed with it they call footie a bitches game, lololol

I am half Bajan, half Swedish, West London (South Kensington) born and raised, we have lived in Sweden for several years now wifey is all Swedish but also born in London, and raised for years in Belsize Park My parents met in London mummy was studying at uni and my father was already a City banker, as was his father before he retired and moved back to Stockholm London is little Sweden, lololol

I am half Bajan, and have been to Kensington Oval more than a few times and my gran's maiden name on mummy's side is Sobers yes that one

it is possible SOTON are playing pretty well 3 wins, 1 draw one loss in last 5 and one of those wins was Shitty