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wrong Chelsea warned off trying to sign Lyon striker Moussa Dembele in January transfer window https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/01/02/chelsea-warned-trying-sign-lyon-striker-moussa-dembele-january/ Chelsea have been warned off a January bid for Moussa Dembele after Lyon took the unusual step of publicly reaffirming their desire to keep the striker. It is now up to Dembele whether or not he pushes for a possible move to Chelsea this month or accepts his club’s stance. Dembele is one of a number of forwards Chelsea have been considering to bolster head coach Frank Lampard’s attacking options. Chelsea have tracked Dembele’s progress since he was at Celtic and French reports have linked the Blues with a cash-plus-Olivier Giroud bid for the 23 year-old. snip

the only thing I am referring to is the window-specific nature as in no January sale what happens in the summer is far more wide open

Far beyond that fall is at LB. From the world's best in the last 20 years (Ashley Cole) to the collective pile of dung that is Emerson, Alonso, and the woefully inept (as he is out of position) Azpi.

not counting keepers here are most all of the 'quality' players I rate in terms of actually obtaining many are very young, others are veterans some I only add because of links but I do not agree that they are worth the price most are impossible in January and all will be hard pulls even in the summer some are still going to probably be impossible then, or too expensive due to crazy high release clauses,and names missing (like Koulibaly) are now too old to buy for the price demanded bold (2 for each position) are who I personally would most try for CB Milan Skriniar (doubt he would come here), Alessio Romagnoli (Mino as agent fucks us here, grrr or he would be my number 1), Ibrahima Konaté, Raphaël Varane (pipe dream but what a bloody great CB), Marquinhos, José Giménez, Caglar Söyüncü, Gabriel Magalhães, Rúben Dias, then next after those, Ake (I do rate him as a ball playing CB) LB Chilwell, Gaya (100m euros RC, insane), Alex Telles, Alex Grimaldo, David Alaba (Bayern likely will sell, and summer 2021 he is too old for me to recco a buy), Theo Hernandez, Robin Gosens, Alphonso Davies (Bayern will never sell him, TBH if I could snap my fingers, after Chilwell, he is my 2nd choice, he will, perhaps someday VERY soon he will be the best LB in the world, he just converted at 19yo from winger to fullback and has been a revelation), Rayan Aït Nouri RB Achraf Hakimi, Lukas Klostermann, Ricardo Pereira, Nordi Mukiele, Timothy Castagne, Youcef Atal (depending on how he recovers from a horrific knee injury), Valentino Lazaro DMF Thomas Partey, Eduardo Camavinga, Declan Rice, Florentino, Sandro Tonali, Sander Berge, Denis Zakaria, Bruno Guimarães, Aurélien Tchouaméni CMF Saúl Ñíguez, Marco Verratti, Houssem Aouar, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (massive rebound year so far), Corentin Tolisso, Maximilian Eggestein (great young German, sort of Kroos-like, but more athletic and far less polished), Ryan Gravenberch, Jude Bellingham AMF Kai Havertz (might be too expensive), James Maddison (deffo too expensive), Donny van de Beek, Dominik Szoboszlai (left footed, can play RW too I really rate him for the value), Martin Ødegaard, Dani Olmo (we have made an offer), Reinier, Mohamed Ihattaren (super youth talent, turns 18 in a month, I rate him very high, another lefty) , Isco, Jonathan David (can play at CF as well), Jack Grealish (many hate him, I think he is the real deal, he would only leave if Villa were relegated, and maybe not even then) LW Ousmane Dembélé (only for a huge price reduction), Richarlison (too expensive though after 'EPL tax'), Ansu Fati, Milot Rashica (great young winger, Dortmund want him bad to replace Sancho, RB Leipzig as well, to replace Werner, he is tracking to 27 goals, 9 assists in 3600 minutes at Werder Bremen), Donyell Malen (can play CF as well), Krépin Diatta (potential Mane clone) Federico Chiesa, Zaha (IF 40m or less, so there is my stance on him) RW Jadon Sancho, Nicolò Zaniolo (left-footed, plays AMF too), Mikel Oyarzabal, Hakim Ziyech, Samu Chukwueze, Leon Bailey (only for a low price), Calvin Stengs, Ferran Torres CF Mbappe (pipe dream) Timo Werner, Lautaro Martinez, Mauro Icardi (but 99% sure PSG will exercise the option to buy him, as it is only £55m, and he is on full season minutes course to score 50 goals all comps), Paulo Dybala (probably a pipe dream), Victor Osimhen (I would like to see one more year of him, but I think he has huge potential), Luka Jovic (loan plus option to buy only), Myron Boadu (huge huge potential 19yo in 11 days 17 goals, 12 assists in 2200 minutes), Fedor Chalov (we are linked, trying to watch more, Russians worry me in terms of busts), João Pedro (now, as of January 1, 2020, at Watford after they got him from Fluminense for a ridiculously low price of £3.6m), Adam Hlozek (bonus youth, 17yo SS from Sparta Praha that all the giants are looking at, remember his name) Moussa Dembele at the end (I do not think he is worth £60m)

every one of those were summer signings thanks for helping prove my point

fuck Luiz one of my least favourite Chels players ever complete cunt

I do not see Matip getting his spot back, Gomez is fully back on track to WC CB level he has insane pace which Matip doesn't have 8 clean sheets out of last 9 games, all comps (only goal in that span was 1 to Monterrey in the FWCC semi final) tracking to 110 points out of 114 full calendar year now since a league loss

1 defeat in last 59 league games they had around 1000 passes this game, most ever in the EPL era for them

Lyon said he is not for sale in January the club itself released a statement saying no, stay away

lo 1 nil ffs unbeatable

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Werner's release clause is 25m his salary would be far higher than Dembele's but not 25m over 5 years total outlay higher than what a 50m+ Dembele buy plus salary would be (or at worst it would be around the same overall cost) and we are crazy if we put all our marbles into obtaining Sancho and Chilwell both in the summer odds are not in our favour we land both, and I can easily see losing both (especially IF Pep stays at Shitty, as Chilwell himself said he is waiting to see what Pep is doing as he wants to play under him) a big clue will be Ake reports are out that Lamps is balking at triggering Ake's buyback as he thinks AC will come good we are watching (if it all goes truly pear shaped) the foundations of Lampard's downfall being laid out the team, as it is currently configured (and with a huge question mark regarding Kante's future) is simply not good enough to keep moving forward extraordinary amount of question marks and hopeful wishes plus a status quo satisfaction and/or over reliance on a number of problematic players 15 players plus the loanee dregs Willy (39 next season) Zouma, AC, Azpi, Alonso, Emerson, Kante, RLC (massive injury) Barkley, Mount as THE starter at AMF, CHO (looks a shell atm of his pre-injury form), Pedro, Willian (age and contract expired in 6 months), Bats, Giroud plus all the dregs (possibly as many as 16, 14 for sure) out on loan and not yet sold, so still on the books Bakayoko, Moses, Donkeywater, Miazga, Zappacosta, Danilo Pantic , Baba, Kenedy, Lucas Piazón, Mario Pasalic (Atalanta are supposedly exercising his option), Musonda, Lewis Baker, Jamal Blackman, Nathan, Marco van Ginkel (not sure if he is going to be renewed or released) Izyy Brown its is madness to have around 30 problematic (some more than others and for many disparate reasons I do grant) players under contract

BBC: Moussa Dembele: French striker not for sale, say Lyon https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/50977553

agreed, but Lamps loves him so I do not see it happening

thus my sarcasm, lolol (we need a true sarcasm smiley ting )

Lampard will ride these players into the ground, and if they collectively fail, he will be sacked eventually in large part due to them, so lets hope most are soon moved out or replaced with serious upgrades Zouma (simply not good enough in all round game (simply watch our losses where he was a starter), but Lamps loves him to death, so he will be a key anchor around his neck perhaps) AC (IF reports are true and Lamps doesn't want to pull the RC buyback on Ake and instead hope that AC comes good, well, this is crazy talk IMHO) Azpi (spent overall, utter lacking in offensive flow at RB, and seeing him at LB makes me want to look for a knife) It goes without saying 3 of our 4 fullbacks are either shit or spent Kante (dreadful overall lately and simply not used correctly now for 2 years, I say sell him, and am fully prepared to take the heat for saying so, we will never get close to what we can now or in the summer and it simply is gaslighting to say Kante is a 100-120m MF the way we use him, he is nowhere near WC in his current role, it just is not the case, in fact he is a weak point far too often, his passing has been abysmal) Mount (not going to fully and definitively judge him yet, but simply not good enough in key areas atm, not a creative player as of now, and Lamps is obsessed with trotting him out and keeping him on) Willian (no issue with his play, but he is 32 in the summer and he is being worn down by so many minutes atm, he looked utterly gassed versus the turgid Seagulls) CHO (he looks damaged, sorry, tragic but it is likely he is not going to contribute much until next year, if ever) Tammy (too many minutes, we need a goddamn great 2nd (or co-first) striker, as we have SHIT now for options, plus Tammy is fairly one dimensional) we can (and very likely will) do NOTHING in regards to most, if not all of these players so I expect my predictions to be judged and found to be at least partially true (if not fully) if this is indeed the core of the team we roll on with for the next year or two

Manchester United are targeting Sean Longstaff and Emre Can in the January transfer window, reports claim as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer looks to bolster his midfield options after revealing Paul Pogba requires surgery. https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1223238/Man-Utd-transfer-targets-Sean-Longstaff-Emre-Can-Paul-Pogba-injury-surgery-news

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Aston Villa suffer HUGE blow as star striker Wesley is ruled out for the rest of the season with knee ligament injury following tackle from Burnley's Ben Mee https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7845755/Aston-Villa-suffer-fresh-blow-Wesley-rest-season-injuring-ACL.html I am BEGGING for those ultra thug Burnley cunts to be relegated and get them the fuck out of the EPL dirtiest team in the league over the past 5 plus years absolute wankers

Lautaro Martinez who is starting to remind me (maybe you can laugh at me, lolol) a bit of Sergio Agüero (obviously nowhere near that level yet, but they are similar so far)

I assume this is FM? I have never used it, but those stats for 2022/23 are crazy OTT lololol we can but dream I suppose then wake up to the reality that Alonso is under contract with us until 2023

German Barkley, minus the booze issues

if I made a list of all the players we have been 'tracking' just since say 2015 or 2016 it would take me 5 hours or more and would so long it would take up pages, lolol

Draxler is a player Everton or West Ham or Leicester (who need a winger or two to truly put them in top 3 until until they start to lose their core and Vardy is caught by father time) should be looking at, not us

Lampard seems convinced he is a potential new Drogba I think that is being too clever by half and conflating French Africans on a a traditional French power team (Drogba coimng from OM) maybe I am wrong (and quite likely so, I simply do not have a solid grip on the lap as an EPL player) I am not slating Dembele, I just would vastly prefer we go BIG and try and grab Werner or even Lautaro Martinez (especially if we do NOT drop huge money on Sancho, as Martinez will cost a shit tonne, and yes, he has won me over after much doubt earler, so full disclosure), even if that means waiting until summer Club release official statement after claim of Chelsea offer – Unusual step to take http://sportwitness.co.uk/club-release-official-statement-claim-chelsea-offer-unusual-step-take/