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I am going to stop posting for a few minutes we are raging atm and I don't want to go cray full stop argy bargy

I HATE this lineup FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK only Kovacic, Jorginho, Reece, and Rudiger are decent and playing in a correct position so so fucked up we are a broken club I will be shocked if we pull this out why the fuckery is Giroud not starting??? only consolation is Manure has a shit lineup as well my dog how far BOTH clubs have fallen disgraceful finally, I do not want to ever again hear about, 'Oh, 3 wingers are enough for a 55 game season' that is bullshit

the first 2, along with RM, Barca and Manure, are untouchable those are the 5 clubs that FFP was put into place to protect

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they can go FUCK themselves the head choppers can go abu dhabi a bag of goat dicks for all I care

He must be bullshitting to play diplomat

Realistic targets assuming we do not go for Sancho or do and fail GK Sven Ulreich (backup and competition for Kepa, who I cannot see being sold at what will surely be a £60m or more lose when his crazy salary has to be partially paid just get a team to pay us half what we did in fees) Ulreich is a tested keeper who is now 3rd at Bayern. CB Nothing. Lamps likes his 4 he has, but I would LOVE AC to be sold and replaced with Declan Rice, who I see as our future at CB and or DMF if needed. LB Chilwell and nothing more, meaning we disastrously keep one of the dregs yet again. It damn well better be Alonso sold, as he is soon worthless or near worthless if not dumped tjis summer. If Chilwell goes down we are FUCKED. RB Nothing. DMF I want Declan Rice (who I see as our eventual top CB tbh, see above) and want Kante sold. Neither happens. I have no idea how badly we want Soumare from Lille. CMF Nothing AMF Grealish, a MUST if no Sancho, as Ziyech will thus be a locked down starter at winger. RLC is a massive gamble, Mount is not good enough, Barkley needs to be cashed in on. Winger Ziyech is a done deal maybe Boga will be purchased. FFS bin fucking Willian and Pedro!!! CF Werner is not coming here, and we might even miss out on Dembele, in which case I would go for Victor Osimhen. That is it, best case on the realistic end, and even some of that is probably not going down. I trust our biatd as far as I can spit into a gale.

And it is only £16.7m up front! £25m MAX if he hits every bonus. So stupid. Obviously Ajax have scouted the hell out of him too.

This is one of the hardest games to predict in the last 5 years. So many crazy abnormal factors tossed into the mix. Literally any scoreline with 4 goals max per side or a nil 4 or 4 nil right down to a nil nil or any combo in between would not shock me. I would love to see a 2 nil clean sheet win for us. Even a 1 nil but that will make my tummy burn with anxiety all 90 minutes. A draw is disastrous. Spuds can still leapfrog us then next game.

You and me both. Next game too, especially after that smash n' grab job the cunts pulled out in the 94th minute. Luck like that usually means a good finish in terms of place.

2 points. €145m is the exact same £120m we all have been saying is probably a good guess for what he might go for. Point 2, Dortmund will never see the full €145m payout for Dembele, as he is damaged goods who will never hit all the bonuses, just like we will never see the full payout for Hazard from RM. So yes, lets do a deal like that. Win win, as if he is that good and hits all the bonuses, he will be a CL winner with us and a Ballon d'Or winner as well. If not, we get him for far cheaper.

The Ake buyback is history. Expired. Done. Gone. Kaput. He is never coming here. Lampard said he is weak within a high pressing schema. Pulisic is not going to be sold back to Dortmund for Sancho. They will simply find another teen or two and develop them. If we sold Pulisic after just one year, the USA market would turn on us with a vengeance. Ampadu was a flash in the plan so far. Multiple managers now have not rated him. He may come good yet, but I am not holding my breath atm. We cannot even figure out his correct position. I am also not sold on Guehi yet either. Mount I agree on. I would loan him out and buy Grealish for sure if we fuck up the Sancho deal, as no Sancho means a lot more time at RW for Ziyech. Until RLC shows he is fully recovered back to pre-injury form I do not count on him for much. I just hope the board has plan B and plan C for positions if/when plan A goes to shit.

Ed The Specialist In Failure Woodward is ready to sack OGS. I think us smashing them would do it.

I do not like the Chilwell option as the price will prevent us, more than likely of dumping both of the two absolute pieces of shit we have now. IF we dump both and buy Chilwell and say, Telles, then oki, but even if we get £50m for both Alonso and Emerson, means a net spend of around £63m for both Telles and Chilwell. I think that is doable, and the sad fact is that is we buy Chilwell and only unload Alonso, that still will cost us around £55m, but I just do not see the board thinking like that, and that £63m is a shit tonne more than selling both our current dregs and buying Telles and Gosens, or even Telles OR Gosens and then Theo Hernandez, who will (Theo) cost around 40m to 50m or so. If we just buy Chilwell, and then sell one of the dregs, we are FUCKED when Chilwell cannot play. This azpi at LB shit HAS to fucking end. It is a bloody capitulation every time we do it. He is dead on fucking shit as a LB. All 3 option we have now are. It has been the thing that has most driven me bonkers since after Conte's first season at least. We are now almsot 3 seasons in and it just gets worse, plus all our fullbacks except for Reece are rapidly depreciating in value as each year spins by., even Emerson, as his play is now so poor it is a wonder we can get even £25m for him. Fuck Marina for turning down £45m from RM for Alonso in 2018, and then playing the same game with Inter and demanding £45m after they offered £35m this January. even if they offered £30m she should have bitten their hands off. If we do not sell him thsi summer, we are going to get fuckall, as he turns 30 thsi year, and then his value really plummets. People like to say (and not just at FB) 'Oh, we cannot have a really decent backup becuase they will get pissed at less playing time.' Bollocks, many teams have 2 deep quality in multiple positions, and furthermore, thsoe same people are amongst the biggest whingers when our starters (and only decent players) go down and we have fuckall for replacent. And, if they are not whinging on, some of the others try to gaslight and say bollocks like 'Oh, Azpi is perfectly oki at LB', which is just pure fucking tosh. Same goes for CF as well, although the most vocal ones who tried that 'oh, we cannot go for a good backup for Tammy cuz they will never play and Tammy is more than good enough' have shut their pie-holes lately, as they see the devastation of having shit for a backup actually means. I do not think Chilwell goes to Shitty now, as they have the bans and I think Pepe is 60/40 likely to bail out, and for sure if they get both years upheld. Manure has even more issues that we do, so I do not see them going for an LB this window, especially one who costs 80m quid. Sancho is going to be the one we brawl with them for I think, and maybe our Dembele as well. Grealish too, if we make a move for him. They want a CB too. Just those four will be over 300m. They are going to sell Pogba as well, so lets say after we goes, they still end up spending around 200m, PLUS then need to replace Pogba. Toss in Chilwell, and that spend becomes around £350m AFTER Pogba revenue is detected. No way can they pull that off, their board is as bad, and probably worse in some aspects, than ours.

Alaba is still truly WC, it is just he was played at CB now due to injuries. Bayern also have the best new young (he only turned 19 in November) LB on the planet now in Alphonso Davies anyway, so they have not been hurt there. Alaba is still probably the 2nd best LB after Robertson, but only has 2 or 3 prime years left there. He might be able to extend his career as a CB for a couple years after he hits 30. Thomas Müller has been poor since after 2015/16 (32 goals that season, but only 42 in the next 3 and 2/3rds seasons since) His crashout is bizarre, as he was one of the top SS in the world for 7 years,, and then just POOF, as soon as or right before he turned 27. And Manuel Neuer has never been the same since the end of 2016–17, when he started off his series of foot fracture injuries. He is not remotely close to the top 5 keepers in the world now. He always was overrated IMHO, he takes too many chances and makes too many stupid errors now. He is still a more than adequate keeper, but is not a dominant force anymore, like Alisson and Oblak are atm (no other keepers are close to those 2 atm, not even ter Stegen) and Buffon was for a crazy amount of years. Injuries have really fucked up Bayern for ages now.

given that Tammy has cooled off a tonne (3 league goals after November 9th, so 3 in our last 13 EPL games, staggering that he may not hit 20 league goals after having 10 in the first 12 EPL games), that lineup is HORRIFIC at scoring goals terrible offensive firepower Azpi at LB is black hole in terms of offensive flow that midfield of Kante/Jorginho/Kovacic can't consistently score even if their lives depended on it, between the 3 they have 5 total non pen league goals, with 3 of those 5 from Kante (and he has not scored in any comp since November 23rd) Mount has one league goal since October 6, none since December 4th Willian, other than his brace versus Spuds has no league goals since October 26th, and a total of only 4 all year so fucked in terms of scoring overall if Tammy cannot go we are well and truly doomed more than likely if you swap him out and toss in pants Bats

Samir Handanovic probably would have stopped that winning goal though Padelli is a big drop off

wow, Inter chokes again

he has been in full beast mode all game, looks fully back to the WC level of 2 season ago incredible player

I so hope this is pure bullshit, as it makes ZERO sense Chelsea set to complete £23m transfer move for Matias Vecino https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/16/chelsea-set-complete-23m-transfer-move-matias-vecino-12248524/?ito=newsnow-feed Chelsea have reportedly agreed to meet Inter Milan’s asking price for Matias Vecino in the summer. Frank Lampard, who was less than impressed after Chelsea failed to make any immediate signings in January, has told the club he wants to strengthen his squad as many as four new additions to follow Hakim Ziyech through the doors at the end of the season. The Blues will prioritise a move for a central midfielder and 28-year-old Inter star Vecino has been identified as a realistic target ahead of the 2020/21 campaign. According to The Daily Express, Chelsea are ready to pay up the €28million (£23m) fee Inter are demanding for the Uruguay international snip so much wrong with this move Vecino is soon 29yo, so zero long term Sarri wanted him bad and we said no almost 2 years ago we already have a tonne of CMF's and he is not even close to the best MF on Inter Marcelo Brozovic <<< HE would make more sense, but we have had him as a target of interest since he was at Dinamo Zagreb in summer 2014 (time flies!) and nothing ever happened, and he is crazy pricey now, as he is one of the top deep holding DMF's in the world now for many years Nicolò Barella <<< damn ban, grrrrr, but zero chance he leaves Inter now atm Stefano Sensi Roberto Gagliardini <<< he has regressed this year due to injuries so maybe is about the same level, but is also 3 years younger. That said I have no interest in him either anymore. are all better (with possible exception of Gagliardini) and all younger

Marco van Basten blasts Ajax over signing of Antony https://en.onefootball.com/marco-van-basten-blasts-ajax-over-signing-of-antony/

I did, lol. goes to show 3 things at least. Conte is very good at identifying players who fit into his rigid system. Serie A is the league best suited to older players. Manure is a shit club that ruins or misuses most players now. I hate Young because he was a real thug in his latter years at Manure.

I am convinced we end up with Chilwell, now that Shitty are banned and Pep may leave the big thing is the price I would love to have Alaba, but doubt the club is going to make that move He turns 28 in June, so this is deffo the last summer Bayern can get max money as fullbacks generally fall back rapidly once they turn 30. However buys him only gets 2 sub 30yo season out of him. Say he is still pretty much prime at 30, and that is 3 years max. £60-70m for 3 years prime is not good value IMHO, and I cannot see Bayern letting him go for less than 60 or 70m quid. Telles is 6 months younger and roughly half the price, which is why I prefer him as one of the two LB's we should buy, along with either Gosens or Theo Hernandez. Either two of those 3 would cost less than just Chilwell, plus we can sell both Alonso and Emerson, so the net cost is very low. If we only buy Chilwell and no one else, we only can sell one, and if we hold onto Alonso, we are basically giving up ever getting fuckall for him, as he is soon 30 (December this year) and will rapidly devalue even more than he already has. Even if we only get £50m for both Emerson and Alonso, that would make, say Telles and Theo Hernandez cost only £20-30m net for both, versus say a net cost of £55m for buying only Chilwell and selling only Alonso or only Emerson. Buying Telles and Gosens would be close to par or only £10-15m net max depending on what we paid for Gosens and what we got via the 2 sales. It is not that I think Chilwell is a bad player at all. I just think £80m (or even more) for him is crazy, and the I also fear we end up selling only Emerson, and simply long term kiss away selling Alonso for anything other than peanuts. Plus, when Chilwell cannot play, we are still fucked at LB in that scenario. Alonso is only god for a back 3 wingback role, and we so rarely play this.

smashed it into the ground but it made it impossible to deal with