Vesper

Real wanted him over De Gea and Courtois,that should tell you something. Early on when we bought him, people were saying he was short, ffs. He is 189.25cm (laser-measured during physical) tall, ie. 6 feet, 2 and half inches. So no weakness there (other than he is not a 2 metre tall giant, BUT if you look at almost all really tall keepers, they are sometimes slow, sometimes awkward,and leave bigger holes between legs (hello Courtois). He is same height as Oblak, basically the same as De Gea (quarter of an inch shorter), almost 2 inches taller than Jasper Cillessen, half an inch shorter than Alisson, taller than Ederson by a cm, an inch and a half shorter than Strakosha, an inch taller than ter Stegen,a quarter of an inch shorter than Meret he is only an inch and half shorter than Manuel Neuer, lol,who everyone thinks is a BIG keeper People freak out because he isn't as tall as Petr Čech (1.96m) or Courtois is, or Donnarumma (196cm), but Čech is horrid with feet, Donnarumma is only average (maybe sub average),and Courtois is oki, but not great The only other 1.95m to 1.99m big keepers atm who are even in top 25 are Alphonse Areola (1.95m) and Wojciech Szczesny (1.96m and please! zero chance I take him over Kepa) Jack Butland is 196cm, I would be losing my shit if we had bought him. Fraser Forster is 2.01m (same as my father) I do not want EITHER near our goal! LOLOL Kepa is a great athlete, he can dunk a basketball with ease, so obviously has great vertical leap,which many tall keepers do not have For comparison, 9 of the all time greatest GK's in history Iker Casillas 1.85m Oliver Kahn 1.88m Gianluigi Buffon 1.91m Lev Yashin 1.89m Gordon Banks 1.85m Neville Southall 1.85m Dino Zoff 1.82m Peter Shilton 1.83m Sepp Maier 1.85m

There is one sure way to vastly boost our odds of keeping him. Ratcliffe buys the team, and goes on a spree, also commits to an expedited new stadium, plus offers Hazard wages equal to Sanchez.

Yes. He is my 2nd choice for AMF after the much harder to pull Kai Havertz. Zero chance Bayer sells us both Baikey AND Havertz in same window though. It woukd take £120m to £130m to pull that off. We could do that if we did finally start seriously selling deadweight. I am not holding my breath. I have almost no trust in the current board. I am terrified they are going to fuck up the Hazard, CHO, and Kovacic situs as well. Plus STUPIDLY give fucking Luiz and Willian extensions. If they do all of those five the wrong way (especially Hazard and CHO), it's a nightmare we will take years to recover from. Also, they may soon be forced by FIFA to sell THIRTY TWO loanees (due to this insane new 8 man on loan max rule), including forced sales on potentially large sale players. The market will collapse for very young and also middling to oki-but-not-great players, as we will not be the only club dumping dozens into the market. There will be HUNDREDS of forced sales going on. Complete chaos.

Cancelo was the one I had a fit we didn't even try for. He would be a monster in Sarriball. Benjamin Henrichs was my next choice, and was so affordable. Our board is so fucked up atm. Emenalo of all people even saw Henrichs was one worth buying, lolol. Shame he didn't do that whilst he was here. Azpi could be starting at CB now over Luiz, seeing as Sarri doesn't seem to want to give Amps or AC much playing time, especially Ampadu (AC is rusty now, that was evident last night.)

I absolutely would take Kepa and Strakosha over Donnarumma, Alex Meret probably soon too. Donnarumma is not very good with his feet and every single time I watch AC Milan, he looks shaky as shit oftimes. I always pushed for Strakosha as our best target, (as I was going off incorrect idea that Kepa had a 150m euro release clause due to shit Spanish misreporting, plus the fact he told Real to piss off, but that was more a Basque political/cultural thing) but was thrilled when we signed Kepa. Only 2 GK's I would take over him are Oblak and Ederson atm. Maybe, really rate Kepa, over the moon we got him. I hate De Gea, I think he is a twat, plus he is in a slump for months, I think ter Stegen is overrated due to being a Barca bish, and Courtois can GO FUCK HIMSELF, LOL Alisson is great too, but I think Kepa has massive upside to go, he can be like Ederson in terms of distribution IMHO. In real world, I want Angus Gunn for backup keeper (he is homegrown, a Scot, and I am afraid post Brexit the government will fuck the FA and not allow EU players to be counted like now (meaning only truly major stars can come in, just like it is with Africans, SoAms's etc.), thus mandating higher percentage (because of that) of homegrowns than now.

I agree!, and there is zero chance we get Roberto, wefucked that up 2 years ago, now he is worth double. Poison dwarf will never sell us Hysaj, and we DO need another CB, so, like you said, two birds one stone. Of course, this makes too much sense , so will never happen! Wish we had given Ola Aina a real tryout before we loaned him out. he is starting at Torino,so that's a really good bit of news. Dujon Sterling is apparently regressing at Coventry, grrr. I had big hopes for him

Roman

Yes, he is shaping up to be another Monaco die roll that came up craps. BTW, speaking of Monaco, my wife is on this Jonathan Panzo tangent. She thinks we sold a potential really class young CB to them and didn't put in a buyback clause (actually couldn't, as they are illegal in France, grrr)

Sometimes you get bear, sometimes bear gets you. We got bear.

Maybe we get lucky and Fabinho starts again! 😂

This was the subject of a post I did yesterday. Azpi is the best (or 2nd best, if you rate Kimmich above) DEFENSIVE RB in the world, but is very limited it seems in Sarriball on the offensive end. His one main outstanding contribution over the past 2 years has been hs crosses to Morata, but just like Morata's entire game, these have dried up as well. He quite possibly could start to fuck up the entire system, as the weak right side (especially when it is Willian or Moses) allows team to fuck up our strong left with hedge marking favouring an overload defensively on the left Options at RB are really thin. Zappacosta is not anywhere near shit, but also not the final solution (he would have to be German to be that, lolol). He also is not happy and wants to go back to Italy, AND there are like 5 teams who really want him there. Lazio (2nd best fit for him) Fiorentina (they REALLY need him, best fit for him), Inter Milan, Torino (who we bought him from,and who now have Ola Aina from us on loan at RB), and Atalanta We could try Ampadu there, I REALLY am intrigued by that, and it gets the lad some playing time that all said........... Here are the best (in order) buy options,some of them VERY hard, if not impossible pulls,the market availability overall for RB is SHIT now 1. Sergi Roberto - Barca, 2nd best RB in the world, IMHO, after Kimmich, with Carvajal 3rd. We fucked this up in multiple windows, especially 2 years ago. By far the best option, but would cost crazy money, probably £70m to £80m, maybe more, to get Barca to give him up 2. Elseid Hysaj - Napoli Poison dwarf will do all he can to block this, Sarri wants him badly, and he has yet to renew 3. Wild card - Benjamin Pavard - Stuttgart He is always on my CB want lists, near top, BUT he (like Azpi) is a great RB too (see France WC) and he is also more offensive than Azpi 4. Djibril Sidibé - Monaco I am shocked he is still there, but I also must say I am not sure if he is a Sarriball RB, very solid player, although the entire team is slumping badly this season 5. Nélson Semedo - Barca Has not been the superstar Barca thought, but does have offensive skills, worth looking into,and deffo an upgrade on Zappa at least 6. Valentino Lazaro - Hertha Berlin 22yo fast, great passer in short lik-up game, has exploded since he was switched to RB from AMF/RW 7. Achraf Hakimi - Borussia Dortmund (on loan from Real Madrid) 19yo potential star, Real will probably not EVEN remotely sell him,but who knows 8. Kevin Mbabu Young Boys another wild card, he is the best athlete by far on this list, insanely fast, he looked a world beater v Manure in the CL, but he did not do well at Newcastle, Rangers, etc. he is still only 23, not a good passer, so Sarri may go nutter over that 9. Almamy Touré - Monaco (was an academy player they have raised up) 10. Davide Calabria AC Milan (only 21) 11. Mattia De Sciglio Juventus 25yo, 26 in October 12. Andrea Conti AC Milan, 24yo Thomas Meunier PSG, not really an upgrade at all We (our shit board) fucked on 1. João Cancelo - Juventus now (perfect Sarriball RB, insane we didn't make a move this summer and let Juve had a free go at him, madness) <<<<<<<<< other than Sergi Roberto , I would take him over all the rest I have typed in thsi entire reply, except maybe Pavard (and that would more for his CB play than as a RB) 2. Benjamin Henrichs - Monaco Emenalo stole him from Bayer Leverkusen on 3rd to last day of window for only £18m, he is only 21 and a multiyear starter 3. Álvaro Odriozola - Real Madrid Another great young (22) RB, we never even enquired, and Real took him for only £27m 4. Sime Vrsaljko A bomber down the sides (see Croatia WC), Inter got him on loan from Atletico Madrid with option to buy for only £21m 5. Nordi Mukiele - RB Leipzig We never even made an offer on this great young (20yo, 21 in November) player, RB stole him for only £14m from Montpellier, really pissed we did even TRY

Yep!! Like I said, Monaco players lately arefucking crapshoot from hell!! LOL heads, Mbappe, Bernardo Silva or Benjamin Mendy, tails Baka, Fabinho or Manure/Chelsea level Falcao

Sevilla 3 Real nil FT Sevilla now is 4th, only 3 points off the top. Andre Silva is now La Liga top scorer (what a turnaround from his utter bust at AC Milan.)

Bats finally scored a league goal, but Valencia gave up a late goal to only pull a draw.

Courtois has looked so shakey. RM has overall played like shit. They are down to 10 men, as Marcelo went off injured. Banega has been unreal at DH MF.

He sure is shaping up as a boss, a goal machine

Easiest MOTM so far, lolol

RLC is injured.

he is as useful as tits on a bull

LOLOL, Klopp just RIPPED Xherdan Shaqiri a new arsehole right in the middle of the pitch, WOW

the cunt was ALWAYS a wanker, I fucking hate him

where was THIS Hazard v the pikey scum??? He was the FIYA in deh belly!

FUCK that goon Henderson, one of my least favourite England players, a true cunt

that was so fucking special, only a handful of players on planet can do that