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Rudiger disasterclass vs Bayern Thread

Dominic Calvert-Lewin as well, although Everton will want a shedload of cash, thus my positing we should toss in Zouma and/or Bats only 22yo (soon 23, in 18 days), and HG he is so pacey, decent at pressing, has a great motor he is on a bit of a run since December 9 goals in 12 league games, including his brace against us

Romagnoli signed with Mino Raiola months ago, in October he will never come here with that cunt as his agent I must have posted this 25 plus times now as he was for years one of my top CB targets it is like nobody reads what people type Mediaset: Romagnoli chooses Raiola as new agent – his Milan career is at risk https://onefootball.com/en/news/mediaset-romagnoli-chooses-raiola-as-new-agent-his-milan-career-is-at-risk-en-27820051?variable=20200227 Milan, Romagnoli va con Raiola: rinnovo pesante o addio https://www.calciomercato.com/news/milan-romagnoli-va-con-raiola-rinnovo-pesante-o-addio-34478

De Bruyne is Manchester City’s galactico talent – but without the ego https://theathletic.com/1638360/2020/02/27/kevin-de-bruyne-manchester-city-real-madrid-champions-league-real-madrid-champions-league/ As inch-perfect as it might have been, the cross itself was not what took the breath away. Far more than that, it was the audacity, the imagination, the ability to master space and time in a high-pressure situation on one of the great stages in world sport. Time was running out for Manchester City at the Bernabeu when Kevin de Bruyne received the ball on the corner of the Real Madrid penalty area. More than that, it looked like the walls were closing in. There were four opponents within five yards of him and another six holding their positions nearby. He had only one team-mate in the box. There was nowhere to go. De Bruyne’s first touch took him away from Luka Modric, but Federico Valverde was still snapping at his heels as he headed towards the by-line. Raphael Varane, Casemiro and Dani Carvajal converged on him at once like a trio of cartoon henchmen. De Bruyne’s second touch seemed to have taken him down a one-way street, but then, like one of the great matadors, he turned sharply and sent his opponents in the other direction. In the same movement, he produced a cross of such precision that Gabriel Jesus was able to rise above Sergio Ramos to score the goal that changed the course of this last-16 tie and potentially this Champions League campaign. “He turns away from goal, he’s being pushed away from goal and there’s a simple pass,” Graeme Souness, the former Liverpool captain and manager, said on Virgin Media TV after a famous 2-1 win for City. “Ninety-nine out of 100 footballers would just lay it out to Raheem Sterling. He doesn’t. He whips it in and catches everyone by surprise — nearly including his own player [Jesus]. “He’s the best midfielder around. I’ve said best in Britain, but I will take that to Europe now. He would get in Real Madrid’s team, he would get in Barcelona’s team, he would get in Bayern Munich’s team, and he would get in Liverpool’s team. ” Would anyone disagree with that? There are many different types of midfielder but in terms of combining energy, drive and creative threat, there is arguably nobody else in the De Bruyne class right now. He set up the equaliser against Madrid before scoring the winner from the penalty spot, but even before that, his all-round contribution, in an unfamiliar role in the unfamiliar system chosen by Pep Guardiola, was of the highest quality. Even in the first half, as City took time to settle into their rhythm, there were sublime through-balls for Jesus and for Bernardo Silva and a cute little dummy that created an opening he could not seize. He twice won the ball from Carvajal in dangerous positions. Every time the ball was at his feet, possibilities emerged and expectations soared, as did the sense of unease among the home crowd. It was easy to imagine Florentino Perez, the Real Madrid president, watching in a growing state of agitation before announcing to his fellow directors, with a cursory flick of the wrist, “That one”. That is how Perez operates, working on the assumption that if he sees a player he likes, he can sign him. There was an article in Marca yesterday morning about how Perez had set his sights on Ilkay Gundogan after the midfielder caught the eye on that extraordinary night when Jurgen Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund beat Madrid 4-1 in the first leg of a Champions League semi-final in 2013. Gundogan’s brother and agent was summoned to the Spanish capital that summer to finalise a transfer but “Operation Gundogan” fell through at the last moment and three years later the player ended up signing for City, where he is so integral to Guardiola’s plans. Next to that article, there was a smaller piece that listed another four City players who “could have” — coulda, woulda, shoulda in the eyes of the Madrid sports media — signed for Real: the story of unrequited love for David Silva, whose then-club Valencia set too high an asking price before he went to Manchester in 2010; Sergio Aguero, whose hopes of engineering a controversial cross-city move were blocked by Atletico Madrid president Gil Marin; Jesus, who was close to joining Real in the summer of 2016 “until a telephone call from Guardiola changed his destiny” (though there was also the claim that the forward still wanted to join Real two years later); and, most intriguingly, Kyle Walker, who was said to be a target in 2014, only for Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy to raise obstacles that were “impossible to overcome”. Then there is that ongoing narrative about a potential move for Raheem Sterling, who had a highly significant impact as a substitute last night on his return from injury. To a certain level of bemusement at City, the England winger conducted an exclusive interview with Madrid-based newspaper AS in the build-up to this tie, appearing on its front page with the shirts of both clubs on his shoulder. In Madrid, not least in the president’s office, there is still a certain assumption that what Perez wants, Perez gets. Over the 11 years since his return to the presidency, Real Madrid have signed Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United, Xabi Alonso and Alvaro Arbeloa from Liverpool, Modric and Gareth Bale from Tottenham and Thibaut Courtois and Eden Hazard from Chelsea. City, who have had the most desirable group of players in the Premier League over that period, have been left unscathed by football’s apex predator, other than the departure of Brahim Diaz, a young Spanish midfielder who has found it hard to force his way into Zinedine Zidane’s plans. It must seem delightfully incongruous from City’s perspective that De Bruyne barely gets a mention in those Madrid-based newspapers that are so closely connected to Perez and the Real hierarchy. Perhaps, for a club whose transfer policy has had a clear commercial dimension under Perez’s presidency, the rosy-cheeked, spiky-haired bloke from provincial Belgium has been felt to lack a certain galactico appeal — unlike, for example, Paul Pogba, whose lack of consistency over his four seasons at Manchester United has not stopped him being linked with Real, Barcelona and Juventus. (Souness might have a view on this too…) De Bruyne is a player who was so frustrated by his lack opportunities as a youngster at Chelsea that he left the bright lights of London behind in order to relaunch his career amid the Volkswagen headlights of Wolfsburg. He is not a player with a superstar entourage or a superstar mentality. People at City describe him as “the quietest guy in the building”, “no trouble at all”. He can be opinionated and tetchy but he is regarded as an ultimate professional who gets his head down and works. As his perfunctory post-match interviews showed last night, he does his talking on the pitch. Along with their agents, so many leading players in the Premier League down the years have flirted with Real Madrid, particularly when the time has come to negotiate a new contract. De Bruyne has never seemed the type for that. With his stock at an all-time high midway through City’s record-breaking 2017-18 season, he signed a new five-year contract with the minimum of fuss, a deal that went almost unnoticed amid the fanfare over Alexis Sanchez’s move to Manchester United. At Old Trafford they drew gloating comparisons between the social media impact of those two announcements. At City they prefer to point to the contrasting contributions on the pitch over the two years since. There were murmurs of interest from Real Madrid back then but there was nothing to suggest it was ever a priority for De Bruyne or indeed his agent Patrick De Koster. In fact, De Koster appeared on a Belgian football podcast yesterday in which he gave a novel explanation for not attending the game at the Bernabeu. “I’m not going to Madrid,” he said. “I don’t want to cause controversy. If they spot me there, they’ll say, ‘He’s in Madrid to negotiate a move.’ Let’s rule it out. I have a big TV at home. No controversy.” Unless, of course, you conclude that De Koster is saying that as a means of flirting with Real now that contract discussions are coming around once more… But no, it genuinely seems not. Among those close to De Bruyne, there is no desire to talk up the possibility. There is vague talk of interest, a suggestion that Zidane is a known admirer, but also a firm assurance that the player is very happy in Manchester both personally and professionally. As a sign of that, he is having his house rebuilt. De Bruyne will be 29 this summer. He has already agreed to commit the best years of his career to City. As with several of these players, there is the nagging concern that some might find they have cause to reconsider their future if the club fail to overturn a two-year ban from European competition for alleged breaches of UEFA’s financial fair play regulations. The message from the club to all City players and their representatives, though, has been a calm one: Trust us. We are appealing the sanction. We will be in the Champions League next season. For Guardiola and his players, the only thought about their future in the Champions League is about trying to win it this season. “If we don’t win it, everybody is going to say we are failures, like the last five years,” De Bruyne said, tongue in cheek, in the build-up to this tie. How things had changed since City were last here to face Real. That was a semi-final second leg in 2016 — still their high watermark in this competition but a night that is remembered with regrets. De Bruyne, having not yet really made his mark at City, was stationed on the left wing by Manuel Pellegrini, while Jesus Navas was preferred to Sterling on the right. Vincent Kompany limped off in the early stages and Yaya Toure, at 32, looked like a player struggling to defy the sands of time. Just one goal in the Bernabeu would have taken City through but Pellegrini stuck with Fernando alongside Fernandinho in midfield throughout a frustrating evening. As if to reflect the changing of the guard over the four years since, De Bruyne was one of only two survivors from that line-up who started for City last night (The other was an unlikely one: Nicolas Otamendi). With Fernandinho, Silva and Sergio Aguero all left out of the starting XI, De Bruyne was captain this time. Rather than drive City forward from midfield, he (17 in the pitch map below) and Bernardo Silva (20) were deployed as twin false nines, with Riyad Mahrez (26) and Jesus (9) patrolling the flanks in just about the most unorthodox 4-4-2 you could imagine. As with a similar set-up in that Carabao Cup semi-final first-leg victory away to Manchester United last month, De Bruyne relished it. City’s average position map against Real Madrid, with De Bruyne (17) their most advanced player Guardiola freely admits he asks a lot of his players — physically, technically, psychologically, tactically. There was so much for all of them to take on and contend with last night, but their collective effort was defined by the industry and intelligence that Jesus brought to that unfamiliar left-wing role and perhaps above all by the discipline, vision, creativity and leadership that De Bruyne demonstrated in a match where he spent much of the time with his back to the opposition goal. De Bruyne has had an extraordinary season; for all Liverpool’s dominance of the Premier League, he remains a strong contender for the individual awards. This was another superb performance, culminating with an ice-cool finish from the penalty spot — making it look easy, which, as City’s struggles from 12 yards this season confirm, is not always the case. De Bruyne’s touch map against Real Madrid There was another moment early in the second half when, just short of the centre circle, he took the ball on the half-turn, raced 45 yards upfield and then laid it off perfectly to Mahrez, whose shot curled just wide of the far post. This was the point at which City were building momentum, growing in belief, turning the screw on Real. As Guardiola said recently, De Bruyne “sees passes and actions that normal humans can’t see”. One hesitates to say it, but there was something almost Zidane-like about his performance against Real last night and particularly about his contribution to that equalising goal in the 78th minute. It was a point when, having fallen behind after a disciplined performance for the first hour, City were crying out for inspiration, for someone to seize the moment and produce a little bit of magic. For those City supporters whose celebrations continued well into the early hours in the bars around the Bernabeu, it got better on every viewing. After two weeks dominated by talk of FFP sanctions, adjudicatory chambers and appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, here was a wonderful and very timely reminder of what, on the pitch at least, the modern Manchester City is all about. De Bruyne, a galactico talent with a distinctly sub-galactico ego, is the embodiment of that.

Chelsea’s heaviest-ever European home defeat

I surely must get points for being the first and most persistent little poster on this from the start though!

Valid points in the short term, I just think that there are so many clubs in for Upamecano that we may miss out, and Konaté may, may be a tad cheaper due to his injury. That said, RB will never let both go in the same window, so Konaté is more than likely not going to happen, in fact, I doubt the board is even seriously looking at him atm.

Werner is waiting on Liverpool and they have until April to complete £51m move https://theathletic.com/1624500/2020/02/27/timo-werner-liverpool-barcelona-manchester-united-transfer/ Jurgen Klopp had steered his Opel Insignia past the vast walls of the sprawling Ince Blundell Estate beside Formby’s bypass last autumn when he realised he needed to have a conversation with his wife, Ulla. Earlier that day, Klopp had been in Kirkby — the site of Liverpool’s new training ground, which is expected to open this summer. He had seen the outstanding facilities, the close proximity to the club’s youth academy a little further up Arbour Lane and Anfield’s main stand shimmering in the distance, recognising that he had helped establish a visible, practical and emotional connection between three significant locations. Then he looked at the open shell where his office will be and imagined someone else looking out at the view, directing operations from a space created at his command. Klopp had told Liverpool’s owners in 2016 that a new training facility was a priority. Fenway Sports Group (FSG) had already done their research, knowing it would cost more than £50 million. They also knew the Liverpool squad needed improving. This meant that extra funds were not lying around in the bank waiting to be used on other projects. Klopp’s request had the potential to impact on their reach in the transfer market, but he didn’t mind. ‘We’ll just have to work harder,’ he thought. FSG, led by Mike Gordon, listened to Klopp’s suggestions and four years later Liverpool will soon enter a new era away from Melwood just at the point the team’s development is accelerating and the possibilities seem greater than they have been for generations. On that drive home, Klopp tried to imagine himself being anywhere else and could not. Liverpool’s owners had long feared he might walk away at the conclusion of a contract that ran to 2022. They had reassured him that negotiations on a new deal were only ever a phone call away. Klopp had resisted because he’s not the sort of person to peer too far ahead. His father had looked forward to a retirement that ended up lasting only a couple of months before his own death. This had prompted a re-think in Klopp’s own life. He tries his best to live only for the moment. Still, an important matter had germinated in his own mind and later that night, Klopp and his wife allowed themselves to consider what the future might hold. Spain was an option. For Klopp, there would always be offers. Yet La Liga had never captured Klopp’s imagination like the Premier League did. Language had long been one of his most powerful tools and he does not speak Spanish. Would his words have the same impact there? Would Spanish fans appreciate his style of football the way they do in England and Germany? Would time run out quicker on him than in places he knew better, considering how differently his teams play compared to those that traditionally represent Real Madrid and Barcelona? What about a return to Germany? He would not enjoy the control he has at Liverpool at Bayern Munich — where there are plenty of admirers, despite him being their enemy in a previous life as Borussia Dortmund coach. The national team? Klopp is a great unifier but that job is not available and maybe it is for later in his career anyway… Ulla Klopp loves living on Merseyside, and so does her husband. They were not keen to move away from a region where they are able to lead relatively normal lives despite its passion for football. Klopp had helped engender a triangle of trust between himself, his players and the owners. When that happens, the fans follow. Both in a social and sporting sense, the conditions were right for them to stay. Klopp told his agent, Marc Kosicke, to have a chat with Gordon and it did not take long to hammer out details. Gordon, needless to say, was relieved as well as delighted. Crucially, Klopp had concluded, the prospect of a new challenge was within the framework of an environment he’d already fostered: the rebuilding job to come after this current team’s cycle is done. He realises the trick is not to make it seem like a rebuilding job at all, rather a smooth transition from one to the next: where outstanding players are replaced by other outstanding players ready to carry on their good work. He recognises the conditions at Liverpool are there for him to do what Sir Alex Ferguson did at Manchester United and what Arsene Wenger did at Arsenal, albeit to a lesser extent because he does not see himself still managing Liverpool a decade from now. He believes he can build a second great team — something he has not managed in his previous jobs, and nor has any other German coach working abroad. At Mainz, he never had an opportunity to maintain a culture of relative success because his better players always got sold to the sort of clubs hoping to push into the Bundesliga’s European qualification places and Mainz were not a big enough deal to attract ready-made replacements. With Dortmund, he never had it because his best players moved either to Bayern, Spain or England. At Liverpool, he has more of a defining influence on the future because of the team’s achievements, the club’s rediscovered status and what else might happen. He can dictate the market more than he has ever been able to. Klopp’s and Liverpool’s strong position is reflected in their stance on Timo Werner. After scoring the winner against Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League last week, the RB Leipzig forward could not have made it any clearer that he would relish a move to Anfield if an offer came his way. “I know that Liverpool is the best team at the moment in the world and when you are linked with that team it makes me very proud,” Werner said. The Athletic understands Werner has already received proposals from Barcelona and Manchester United but is waiting to see whether Liverpool make a move. There is a clause in his contract which means that he can agree a £51 million move away as long as it is negotiated before a deadline in April, which would then give Leipzig longer to make their own plans to replace him for next season. It was put to The Athletic by a key source this week that if Klopp chooses to go for Werner, who has 28 goals this season, negotiations are most likely to start in the middle of March. That is the month when discussions really got going in previous years on the eye-catching deals that brought in Fabinho and Alisson from Monaco and Roma respectively. Immediately, Klopp is thinking about his attacking options for next season because of the scheduling of the Olympic Games (July 22 to August 8) and Africa Cup of Nations (January 9 to February 6). Both tournaments might have an impact on a campaign that’s unlikely to involve either Adam Lallana and Xherdan Shaqiri, who are both expected to leave the club in the summer. A longer-term consideration is that his brilliant front three are roughly the same age — Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah both turn 28 in the next four months while Roberto Firmino is 29 in early October — and though Klopp wants them to finish their careers at Liverpool and achieve plenty more before then, the introduction of a younger forward (Werner is 24 next Friday) could be beneficial. Werner would not be signed as anyone’s replacement but as competition, someone who has the ability to push one of Salah, Mane or Firmino out. Of the three players currently at Klopp’s disposal, only Firmino does not kick up a fuss when he is substituted — yet he is arguably the most valuable of them all. Even on Monday night against West Ham United, Mane seemed frustrated when he was taken off in stoppage time until a greeting from the Kop distracted him. Mane and Salah have a healthy, competitive rivalry and Klopp benefits from this but he does not want to disrupt the balance. Loyalty is also a big deal to him. Both players signed for him and have given him their all. It will take conversation and careful reasoning if he is to convince each of his present front three of the benefits of heightened competition at a point in the calendar where promises of the earth from elsewhere will probably come to their agents. The timing of such conversations will also be crucial considering what Liverpool can win from here. Werner, meanwhile, is said to be perceptive. He has seen the struggles of Philippe Coutinho after a big move from under Klopp’s Anfield wing to Barcelona and knows that club’s current team is probably its weakest since before Frank Rijkaard took charge in 2003. He also knows Manchester United have been in flux since 2016. It has been suggested Werner also does not want to waste prime years waiting for Liverpool’s star players to move on, but surely Klopp has noted another comment from last week where he admitted, “I know that Liverpool play a lot of good players and I have to improve myself and I need to learn many more things to get to that level and to play there.” Those who have followed Werner’s career closely in Germany say his character is a mature mix of talent, patience and perseverance. He is strong-willed. There had been an agreement for him to go to Bayern last summer but they messed him around by pursuing Manchester City’s Leroy Sane more aggressively instead. When that move broke down in August because of a serious injury to Sane, it was too late to turn back. Werner was said to be so disappointed by the way Bayern handled the matter that he instructed his representatives to return the contract — an indication it would never be signed. He has gone from strength to strength this season, emerging as one of Europe’s best forwards, and is still wanted by a section of Bayern’s board, who were banking on his original Leipzig deal running out so they could sign him on a free transfer this summer. This left Werner feeling like he wasn’t a priority — or, at worst, not really wanted — so he agreed a new contract which gave him freedoms around fresh options over the next few months. Though Klopp and Werner come from the Swabia region of south-western Germany and both grew up supporting Stuttgart — the club where Werner began his career — there is a clearer link between the pair: the involvement of Karlheinz Forster, Werner’s agent. Forster was Klopp’s boyhood hero, a pillar in the Stuttgart defence that helped secure only the third Bundesliga title in the club’s history in 1984, shortly before the future Liverpool manager turned 17. Klopp’s grandmother Anna had knitted him a white jumper in the style of Stuttgart’s kit with Forster’s No 4 on the back. Klopp then clung to the No 4 in his own playing career, even when he was used as a centre-forward by Mainz. It is claimed that when they first met decades later, Klopp did not arrive with the sort of big gestures we are now familiar with. Rather than greet Forster with a bear hug, he stretched out his arm and offered a rather more restrained handshake, such was his respect. There might be a convenient arc to this relationship, because their next handshake could prove to mark the beginning of Liverpool’s next stage.

it will never happen but every one of these needs to go and actually only 9 (in bold) will still be under contract come summer (not counting those loanees dregs who are technically on the main roster) so the rst leave anyway, hopefully (if we renew that cunt Willian I am DONE) Kepa <<<< go board! lol, ffs, £142m down the shitter you fucking twats, could have had Strakosha for 30-35m euros and half hsi salery, but NOOO, had to break the world record, and for a piece of shit Willy Caballero dogshit, shameful that he is now out number one Kurt Zouma meh, work a deal with Everton where he is makeweight for Calvert-Lewin, say Zouma plus £25-30m or Zouma plus Bats Andreas Christensen dogshit, weak as fuck, sell him back to Germany or Barca (no clue why they have made multiple approaches, he is a pussyclaat) Emerson doghsit Marcos Alonso doghsit Jorginho <<< cash in now as he will start to depreciate soon, he turns 30 at the end of next year (2021) N'Golo Kanté (cash in now or get fucked, plus he is now seemingly perma injured. The only way keeping him makes sense is if we sack Lampard and hire a defensive minded coach like Simeone) Ross Barkley doghsit Marco van Ginkel so unlucky with injuries Lewis Baker <<<<<<< wtf is he still here??? Danilo Pantic <<<<<<<< see Baker Willian <<<<<< get the fuck out of my club!!!! Pedro <<< thanks for the memories, but you are now dogshit m8 Michy Batshuayi pure, unadulterated, 100% non filtered doghsit, Marina can go fuck herself with a rusty pipe after demanding £45m and turning down £35m or so multiple times over the past couple years Olivier Giroud <<<<<<<< he will never stay as a 3rd striker, not playing him and play the horrific Bats was one of Lamapards most massive cockups

how shit the EPL is this season Chelsea at 41 points before the Spuds game were the worst 4th place team points-wise 26 games in since 2003/4 if we won EVERY remaining game left we would only end up on 77, ffs that would still be THIRTY-FIVE points behind the bindippers if they win out

lol ludicrous to call (not saying we will even try to sign these, other than Chilwell, thsi summer) Declan Rice <<< perfect signing, as he plays DMF and CB (his future position with us I see this) he has had great games over and over against top teams Ben Chilwell <<< I just do not think he is worth £80m, £40-50m fine Jack Grealish <<< I SO want him, complete package, so creative, driven, great leader, if we fail on Sancho, Ziyech will play far more at Rw than AMF, mount is shit atm, RLC is a massive question mark Dominic Calvert-Lewin << deffo think he is a great option as Werner is dipperpool bound and Lyon want an insane 100m euros for Dembele, his price is the main issue, like Chilwell James Maddison <<< I prefer Grealish Dean Henderson << so doubt Manure will sell him, especially to us trash even Lewis Dunk would be an upgrade at CB, although his age (29 this coming November) makes him a pass for me at the cash level Brighton will demand I would add in the 16yo wunderkind CMF Jude Bellingham as well

I know he has been injured with a hip flexor muscle fibre tear, but I still think Ibrahima Konaté has a higher upside than Dayot Upamecano Konaté back in Leipzig training: Poulsen and Ampadu are missing https://www.welt.de/regionales/sachsen/article206146701/Konate-zurueck-im-Leipzig-Training-Poulsen-und-Ampadu-fehlen.html

Best AMF by far on the planet. Biggest gap between top and 2nd best at any position is AMF. Fuck Mou and the board forever!!! We had just turned 21yo (so old enough to legally drink finally in the land of the yanks lol) and were in NYC visiting some friends, so went out to a pub near Gramercy Park and drowned tears of sorrow in some dirty martinis when he was sold. I still cry a wee bit at times.

Really harsh on İlkay Gündoğan and Rodri, especially Rodri, IMHO, who is one of the top DMF's in the world and far from unathletic. Gündoğan has been a decent player for ages as well.

The old smoker, weaving his magic back in the motherland, roflmaooooo

If we bought Oblak and sold Kepa, that would mean we will have spent at least £250m NET for 7 years of GK play (trans fees plus salaries minus Kepa sell price) Quarter of a billion quid on fucking the lowest cost position and that doesnt include backups. It is so not happening.

he can go play at West Sham or Palace if he wants to stay in London watch him go and sign up with Spuds and Mou!!! complete sellsword he would be

the way the board seems to be going, my lists just depress me further, lolol If we cave in and renew that rotter Willian for 3 years at a further £30m shit flush, I am going to lose my bloody mind that will put the total (including the summer Marina turn down of £65m from Barca) quid burn at damn near £100m just on that fuckstick alone it is utter madness

I just think you are being a bit harsh on the board on general and thank you for the compliment

Alphonso Davies epitomises Bayern Munich evolution with dominant display against Chelsea Chelsea 0-3 Bayern Munich: The Canadian youngster shone down the left as Hans-Dieter Flick’s side all but secured a Champions League quarter-final place https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/chelsea-vs-bayern-munich-alphonso-davies-champions-league-a9359281.html The game is changing and Alphonso Davies epitomises the way in which Bayern Munich have rapidly evolved since the departure of Niko Kovac. The Canadian youngster is thriving from left-back, rather than at left-back, under Hans-Dieter Flick and Chelsea were the latest side to feel the force of the youngster in a dominant 3-0 win for the Bundesliga champions, which sees them all but through to the Champions League quarter-finals. The 19-year-old ensures Bayern’s asymmetrical shape works perfectly, even if it takes a few minutes to decipher where all the pieces fit on the pitch. In essence he is a positionless player, able to roam free and wreak havoc. Except he doesn’t neglect his defensive duties like many luxury players, his searing pace allows him to stretch the pitch and always recover. Mason Mount discovered just how quickly your window of opportunity closes when up against Davies. The England midfielder had quickly left his mark on his opponent with a nasty challenge on his ankle, yet Davies quickly removed the grimace from his face and began to own the left flank, denying Mount any joy on the night. Davies extinguished a first-half opening as Mount raced through on goal. First to stagger Mount’s progress towards goal after catching him easily, then imposing his strength to shield the ball away from his opponent and allow his side to reset from a goal kick to the glee of the travelling supporters in the Shed End. A gifted dribbler, the former Vancouver Whitecaps starlet is equally adept at punching the ball down field and collecting it on the other side. The one-two routinely undid Frank Lampard’s side throughout Wednesday’s night’s lesson at the hands of the Bavarians. Initially part of a back four, Flick’s side routinely sent Davies into Chelsea‘s half, even occupying a position beyond right winger Kingsley Coman. Benjamin Pavard tucked inside to form a back three, but the Frenchman is not neglected and is more adventurous than, say, Eric Abidal, who balanced Barcelona’s back line for years when Dani Alves stormed forward. Davies was roommates with Chelsea youngster Fikayo Tomori during their time in the Canadian youth set-up and has made great strides since making the leap to the Bundesliga just over a year ago for £9 million. snip

we HAVE to CL qualify or we are even more fucked I only care about top 4 (or 5 if shitty ban is upheld)

lol you seem nice

he isnt coming here, he is going to Liverpool every time he opens his mouth in Germany it becomes more clear that that is where he is going