Vesper

Plus they already have a really good young RB in Dalot

almost £70m bbe counting salary

Juve strung Marina Puppetova along like a trout on an 6 pound test line for two years with Alex Sandro Alex Telles was there for the taking the whole time and said he would love to come to West London, smdh obviously at the time I would have loved Sandro, but Telles would have been a vast upgrade and is basically a full 2 years younger as well

great news, he is a baller hopefully is our LB of the future Lampard has zero qualms about playing young fullbacks

could have had João Cancelo and Alex Telles

Cebolinha FTW all day over Neres Grêmio produces players who often play well in Europe also another great young winger who is under the radar is Donyell Malen from PSV, a 20yo who scored 10 goals and had 5 assists in only 962 minutes in the top flight Eredivisie, plus scored in only 14 minutes in his first CL game Arsenal stupidly sold him 2 years ago

welcome!

If things break the right way, we do not have too much of a shit year, and the youngsters get a lot of playing time and multiple ones come good, these bans might just end up being even better than just swings and roundabouts

shit grrrr he is a load to handle deffo not a Bakayoko

cheeky swap Alonso, Bakayoko, Drinkwater, Zappacosta, Bats plus £125m for Mbappe (and Mbappe can go back on loan until the bans end) clears a shedload of salary and deadweight, Bats would possibly thrive in Ligue 1, PSG needs fullbacks,, they need MFers, and they get Mbappe for one last try at the CL, hell I might even toss in Luiz (PSG wanted him back badly last year but we said no, so they bought Kehrer, who would have been perfect in Sarriball, and can play RB as well) with a little less cash and roll with our CB's being Rudiger (hopefully recovers quickly) AC Happy Ampadu Tomori or Jake Clarke-Salter Azpi can play CB as well if we wanted to loan out either Clarke-Salter or Tomori or Ampadu (if we had no bans I think all 3 would have been loaned out)

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea/chelsea-will-keep-best-academy-stars-at-stamford-bridge-with-frank-lampard-at-helm-a4176201.html snip Another sign of the impact Lampard and Morris’s has made emerged today with the news that highly-rated academy left back Juan Castillo is set to do a U-turn and announce he is staying at Chelsea. Castillo, who played under Morris when he was in charge of the youth teams, revealed last month that he was leaving this summer when his contract expired, but the Dutchman is now ready to agree fresh terms. Negotiations between Chelsea and Lampard shouldn’t take long after the Blues made a formal approach to Derby on Tuesday and confirmed they are prepared to pay the £4m clause in his contract. snip yes!

I deleted it, didnt know people died in it I just googled stadium on fire

Frank Lampard 'agrees' £16.5m deal to leave Derby County for Chelsea https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/frank-lampard-agrees-165m-deal-3019833

they want £45m, I say, like you, closer to £35m, but we are in a ban jam, so split the difference and give them £40m that is 45m euros, which I cannot see either Milan club dropping we also, IF we but Kovacic, need to sell Bakayoko makes no sense to carry them both Baka doesnt fit well in Lamps style either I could see Bakayoko being a good, if not great player in the Bundesliga Hoffenheim surely can afford him (billionaire owner, just like Leipzig) and they just lost their best CMF, Kerem Demirbay, (great player) to Leverkusen (not that Baka is that similar to him) Bakayoko, Florian Grillitsch, and Nadiem Amiri would be a really solid MF for them If Borussia Mönchengladbach loses Denis Zakaria (22yo beast), Baka could slot in there too

Pepe is a fool if he goes to the dippers he isnt going to bench Salah and they both are pure RW, neither is nearly as effective on the left i truly hate to say it, but there is one team who is exactly what he (and they) need Bayern perfect fit if Pulisic can flourish on the LW, then we are another perfect fit I really need to see more of Puli on the left, he seems (despite the fact he is right footed) more comfortable on the right (exactly the same as Sancho, which is why they fought over the RW, and didn't just have one switch over to LW)

Liverpool supporters aren't being fooled by Nicolas Pepe transfer hoax https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-supporters-arent-being-fooled-16483470

Decision made: £45m star informs club he wants Chelsea transfer https://www.caughtoffside.com/2019/06/25/kovacic-wants-chelsea-transfer-from-real-madrid/ Mateo Kovacic has reportedly informed parent club Real Madrid that he wants to complete a permanent transfer to loan club Chelsea despite the departure of Maurizio Sarri. The Croatia international was brought to Chelsea by Sarri in a loan move last summer, but the Italian tactician has since left the Blues to take over at Juventus. snip

welcome!

Ola Aina’s ridiculous assist will have Chelsea fans wishing he’d stuck around https://www.planetfootball.com/trending/ola-ainas-ridiculous-assist-will-have-chelsea-fans-wishing-hed-stuck-around/

He is coming home

Barcelona ‘close’ to re-signing Neymar in deal worth £89m plus Umtiti, Dembele and Rakitic https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/9324552/barcelona-neymar-89m-umtiti-dembele-rakitic/ I think they are mad if they sell Dembele. Neymar only has 2 full seasons left until he hits 30yo I do not see his body holding up long term, he has a big injury history already.

Oh, for sure, but Havertz is going to cost at least £80 to £100m. I was pushing for Havertz for ages, but I do not see us dropping that type of cash anymore.

fair points,just glad we do not have level (for what ever reasons) of changes

FIFA needs to pull the plug on Qatar 2022 ASAP the fact it is in the winter is a nightmare and the entire thing is corrupt as fuck (same could be said for FIFA)

Sarri just said he might play a 4 3 1 2 with Dybala as a SS