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a great backup option would be Sven Ulreich, he is only 31, fairly tall, is a backup now, and is deffo out as Bayern are bringing in Alexander Nübel I think he is class

he is a fool to not mix in Adrián (keeps him sharp) Joel Matip (needs game time after coming back from injury) Dejan Lovren Naby Keïta Adam Lallana Takumi Minamino Xherdan Shaqiri all those need game time. some REALLY so and playing them would so improve their chances of winning the FA Cup (which regardless of what Klopp thinks, is a BFD and really cocks up the all-time greatest ranking IF they do not win the trad Treble) none of those listed need time off to the level that simply playing in that game takes away

so true!!!!!!

I understand that reasoning about winger but that assumes 2 things 1 we are going cave in and renew Willian on 200K PW for so or either 2 or 3 years (shoot me now) 2 We couldn't have resold Boga (IF we had too) for a MASSIVE profit (we so could have) The LB part I am unmoved by, and I have laid all all possible quality options who are remotely available (unless you want to toss an super over-priced Digne in there) and NOTHING stopped us from selling one of our dregs and bringing in a superb Telles (to name but one) at basically even cost, and who helps us at multiple levels Alonso's value is plummeting (he is 30yo in December), and Marina upping the price on Inter to an insane 45m euros after quoting them 35m initially (which could have been hammered out to near that) was a huge bitch move that will cost us millions at the end of the day If we hold onto him over the summer, the most we will get is probably well under £20m, say around £15m or so in 2021, which would represent a £30m loss from what RM offered (£45m) in 2018, and to which Marina did the SAME thing (raised it to £55m!) the losses on refused and mistimed sales are KILLING us, its hundreds of million of pounds less cash towards the bottom line and many of the players we hold onto HURT the team!!!!! the only one who truly helped after we refused to sell in a timely fashion was Hazard (and we will take a £90-100m or so loss versus what we could have gotten the year before, although I will admit he got us into the CL and won the EL, so some of that was paid back) Courtois not being sold in 2017 cost us MASSIVELY, as we lost around £40m outright in a lesser t-fee, gained us no CL, no title (did win the FA cup but that was NOT singularly due to Cuntois at all) and it also fucked us the next year, as we could have so so found a far cheaper and better replacement in 2017 than the nightmare £143m forced Kepa cock-up (and so far it DOES look a nightmare atm, which hopefully changes) in 2018

The Bundesliga blows all other big 5 leagues away insane punters at most games Dortmund was probably the most crazed (but still safe) crowd I have seen live unsafe was Roma v Lazio derby (like a giant gang fight with fire, chains, and assorted projectiles, eeeek), The Old Firm at Ibrox (outside mostly was the real cray cray), and the worst..... El Superclasico.....River Plate v Boca, 9 years ago when we were in the Boca away section (only tickets we could get) at Estadio Monumental with our Buenos Aires mates who were Plate fanatics and left all their RP clobber in the cars so they could get in past the coppers (terrifying from beginning to end, inside and outside)

Conte: "At Chelsea, I won the Premier League in the first year and the FA Cup in the second year," he said. "Klopp hasn't won anything yet in England after four years and Guardiola didn't win anything in his first year." https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/news/chelsea-fans-love-antonio-contes-17683739

let us all hope these reports (and I am seeing it all over) about Lampard demanding Kepa actually be sold (not kept as even backup) are all bullshit as this is NOT the hill to die on Is there anything stable atm????? Right-back and CMF (unless you toss in the Kante uber-dilemma in there) I guess I DREAD this summer, especially if we cock-up top 4

hey Lampard! why don't you sack that dodgy Henrique Hilário FIRST and try and work out Kepa's current issues before demanding we take a monstrous £120m or MORE (cost of Kepa liquidation plus the new keeper's salary plus t-fee) hit on the balance sheet!!!! we are delving into madness

Pope would be a good backup option hellz to muthaphukin NO to Guaita my dog, we are reduced to chasing Roy Hodgson scraps now?????????

why would we open up the Pandora's box of wage structure by renewing him at insane wages until he is 34 (turns 35 right after the 3 years end) it will fuck us hard with the younger players like Tammy and you KNOW he will bitch about lack of playing time if he is 'Pedro'd' full poison mode so depressing to think that it may not be until the start of the 2023-24 season that we are Willian-free it's a nightmare

rope and a chair time

Lampard Ready To Axe Defensive Star For Rest Of The Season: Should Chelsea Replace The Spaniard? https://the4thofficial.net/2020/02/lampard-ready-to-axe-defensive-star-for-rest-of-the-season-should-chelsea-replace-the-spaniard/ According to a recent report by Spanish news outlet Cope, Premier League high-flyers Chelsea are said to be considering cashing in on their Spanish shot-stopper Kepa Arizzabalaga after he was dropped from the first-team in favour of Willy Caballero just a few days ago. The Pensioners’ most recent fixture against Leicester City saw Lampard opting to play the Argentine veteran from the start for the first time in the league this season, possibly triggering a bad moment in Kepa’s Chelsea career. It has been claimed that Lampard is keen on a new goalkeeping signing in the summer, owing largely to their current Spaniard’s inefficiency and mistake-prone nature. The report suggests that the Chelsea gaffer may not start Kepa for the remainder of the season and that it’s something he’s been scheming up for quite a while now. It has been reported that the inexplicable £71m price-tag is the only thing that has sustained Kepa’s place in this Chelsea team so far this season and that Lampard has already asked the board to start looking for replacements that they can bring in during the summer. Where Has It All Gone Wrong For Kepa Arizzabalaga This Season? The young Spanish shot-stopper arrived from Athletic Bilbao for a whopping transfer fee, effectively building up such lofty expectations on his shoulders even before he had arrived in London. The price-tag was obviously viewed as extravagant, while his performances during the first few weeks in England wouldn’t have filled the fans with too much confidence either. Despite this, the youngster was given the starting role in Maurizio Sarri’s Chelsea team and continued into the current season as the first-choice as well. There’s no denying that the Spanish custodian has played in some vital fixtures for the Blues, including the Europa League semifinal against Eintracht Frankfurt last season, where he made a couple of vital penalty saves in the shootout. Despite this, things have taken a turn for the worse since the start of the current campaign. He’s looked extremely shabby with the ball at his feet, while the Spaniard doesn’t seem to make saves that should be routine for someone of his high standards. The leggy shot-stopper has struggled to make any memorable saves this season, and continues to boast among the worst numbers of all the keepers in the league. snip

back in the day it was often a madhouse 1984, after we beat Leeds to go back up

the Beasant gene pool must have a large shallow end in terms of GK potential

so you think we would roll with only 3 wingers? or that if we do have 4, that the fourth would be a 32-34yo Willian on a £30m for 3 years contract instead of Boga? and £5m or so that we just flushed down the shitter with letting the turgid Pedro walk on a free just adds to already monstrous losses we have already had and will have the amounts are already jaw dropping (over 300m and counting) and quite likely can go well over £400m if we cock up with the remaining older players On top of that, most all of our older loan army out now is going to end in masssssive fails when the final coin is counted The board is criminally poor, and the blame ultimately is Roman's to bear I hate seeing our once magnificent team being slowly rendered null and void as a future-forward force by a pack of mendacious and inept rotters

lol assclown

I accept that a valid for CF Cavani's Atleti desires bollocksed us in the end, as did Lyon's refusals to sell Dembele Not much we could do about either I still think Mertens rumour was sham, as he is injured and LOVES Naples. No way was he leaving, and I fully expect him to renew soon or by summer.

Also, explain the non-sale of the now-horrid Pedro and then not using the buyback on Boga, which would have net cost only 7-8m total that and LB are inexcusable fuck-ups

do explain LB we had hard offers (Marina bollocksing about with Alonso's price with Inter was FUCKED) for both of ours and clear deals (Telles via RC for one) that could have been done CF I will give you (although I personally would have been all over RM about a loan for Jovic, even with no option at all)

oh, neither do I at all I think £80m for him is madness I was only saying that IF (as the board and Lamps seem to be Chilwell or bust) we fail and then do NOTHING at LB that is a huge fail key I would so so much rather sell or swap the 2 dregs we have now and buy (no order and the Bayern two are pipes dreams) 2 of the following Theo Hernandez Robin Gosens Alex Telles (last summer to buy before he is too old, utter madness we did not sell Alonso and buy him, which was a zero (or near) net cost deal) David Alaba (last summer to buy before he is too old) Alphonso Davies Luca Pellegrini Alejandro Grimaldo (I think he is too pricey (60m euros) for what we would get) Jose Gaya (not even an option as 100m euros is insane) Sergio Reguilón (RM will not sell him unless we dangle Kante, which I would bite their hands off for a Kante for Varane + Reguilón swap) Rayan Aït Nouri 18yo, 2nd best U20 LB on the planet (Davies is top)

I would rather drink antifreeze until my tummy burst

the 3 keys to judge summer 2020 by 1 a fail on Sancho (fail here and it is all downhill form there) 2 a fail on Dembele or (my own injection of an option) Calvert-Lewin, as I (as all know by now) do not think Werner ends up here. If we fail on those 3, then the options really dry up FAST (Lautaro is pipe dream, Shitty will not sell us Jesus, and Raúl Jiménez, who turns 30 next season, is too old for the cash demanded) 3 a fail on Chilwell and if we fail, we then do nothing at all at LB if those 3 things happen we are FUCKED if those all fail and we still, even then (given all that money for the above is not spent there) fail to land Ziyech (or similar) and Grealish (or Maddison), plus Palace will not budge at all on the £80m demand for Zaha (thus meaning ZERO chance we move on him), and also we still make (at that point) no moves at CB and DMF, AND as a cherry on the cake, renew the cuntish Willian on a 2 or even 3 year, £10m per year contract (thus blowing out the dressing room atmosphere wage structure demands) THEN the the fucked part will come viciously hard and come so soon it will make heads spin and minds reel

completely agree