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LOL, you will have to talk to my wife about that!! Vesper <<<<<< lesbi

I agree for the most part. Dembele almost made my list, actually probably should have. I threw almost all in, and many, like you said, are really young and unproven as of yet, but sometimes you can get lucky and/plan for the future. Pellegri (I really think he will be a special player, the next great Italian striker) Lincoln (also has HUGE potential) Cunha Kean would be the 4 that fit that category the most, probably. Lautaro Martínez will be interesting to watch. The first game I saw him play he scored an insane goal for Inter. If he comes on like gangbusters it would make it a wee bit easier to prise away Icardi. Immobile is too old to offer a 5 year contract to, he would 34 at the end and he doesn't want to leave Lazio at thsi point. What do you think of Piatek? He has had an incredible start for Genoa. If he does it the full year he maybe hard to overlook if the big 3 (Dybala, Icardi and Martial) are not doable for us. Simeone just below him, and I will place Maxi about there. I also agree on Werner and Belotti being gambles, unless they really step it up. I think Werner will get snapped up by Bayern if he comes good in a huge way though. Dybala and Icardi do scream 'come get me' for my own personal call, I just don't know I we can pull either off, especially Dybala. Real will get one or the other I am 80% sure. Messi is, however, a roadblock, at Barca, as he personally dislikes both Dybala and Icardi. I think he is a fool there. Messi is not a good judge of talent, it's by far his biggest weakness. He had a fit when Barca signed Ousmane Dembele, then wanted him sold, and now look what has happened. Dembele has exploded and I think will soon be a top 5 winger (either side counted) on the planet. He may be there now, if a person rates him over Sane and Bale. only TRUE wingers ahead if him are Mbappe, Neymar, Eden, and Salah IMHO, and Mbappe is a hybrid at times. I don't count Messi and Ronaldo as wingers. They play all over the pitch and CR7 seems to be a striker mostly now. As for Martial, many of us here see him a striker, and I have no clue if the board or Sarri even thinks like this. I so hope they do. Good chat!

Juve and AC Milan played a giant con game, with us as bargaining chip. Juve wanted Bonucci back and Higuain off their books, Milan wanted Caldara badly, plus a striker. Only way all the sides moved was to force through those players, with Morata to AC Milan the victim. Also, Higuain really wanted to stay in Italy, not come to pinball footie EPL where his lack of pace would be exposed. The real fuckup on our board's part was not using the 2 week in July window release clause on Icardi for only £98m. We could have covered half (or more) of that with a Morata sale. Icardi would be an insane beast in Sarriball. No one will convince me otherwise. He is a deadly efficient sniper, pacey, great at linkup play, and works like a dog on trackbacks. He is the complete package. Vastly superior to the soon to be 31yo Higuain. He is also well over 5 years younger.

I did see him play a couple times when I was watching a couple of other Celta players, Hugo Mallo their RB and captain, and Pione Sisto, their LW he didn't score, and TBH, he had off games where would place him on this list of my striker targets? In order: Paulo Dybala Mauro Icardi Anthony Martial (not as a LW) Ciro Immobile (downside, he turns 30 in middle of 2019/20 season) Andrea Belotti Timo Werner Krzysztof Piatek (really interested in him, he has exploded so far this year, H/T to UJ) Lautaro Martínez Pietro Pellegri (17yo wonderkid, now on Monaco) Giovanni Simeone Patrick Cutrone Jean-Kévin Augustin Lincoln - Flamengo (17yo Brasilian who Barca and RM are all over) Matheus Cunha Breel Embolo Lucas Alario Aleksandar Mitrovic Patrik Schick Moise Kean Myziane Maolida Mariano Díaz Davie Selke Santi Mina Paco Alcácer Kasper Dolberg

I wish!!! Let's say it did happen or we just flat out sold Alonso to them. Bad news now. I just was digging around and José Gayà's new release clause was raised to 100m euro when he signed a new 5 year contract. So there is a huge previous option now we have to take off the table for LB's. Also, get ready to pull the other best actually available option. Alex Telles. He is on verge of signing new 5 year deal with a reported 75m euro release clause. Porto turned down 40m euro from Bayern (they already have Alaba at LB FFS!!! Greedy cunts!) at the end of the window 3 weeks ago. Those were by far my 2 best options (along with the probably too expensive Sessegnon), as even IF Juve finally did agree to sell us Alex Sandro in the summer, he is probably too old now. I don't think we should pay £70m or so for a LB that we on get a season and a half out of before he turns 30. Remember there are only TWO superb LB's on planet over 28. Marcelo who turns 31 in May and is slowing down to point RM want Alonso for replacement, and Jordi Alba, who turns 30 in March. With Gaya and (grrrr) Telles off the table, it's down to a pretty small number of acceptable level replacements. Manure is not going to sell Shaw. TBH, I would take a healthy, pre-injury level Emerson over any of these except Sessegnon. But, is THAT Emerson ever going to emerge again? I am really getting worried. Also we need to try out Baba one final time. In order (and none of these are easy pulls, all factors taken in, Firpo is probably best shot, as the first 3 will be so hard): 1. Ryan Sessegnon (IF we would use him as a left back, he is by far the best option, albeit will be crazy expensive) 2. Alejandro Grimaldo - Benfica (so many big clubs want him, our odds are poor) 3. Wendell - Bayer Leverkusen (was a beast last night in the EL) BTW, it fucking sucks that Bayer has SO many players I drool over! Bailey, Havertz, Henrichs (gone now), Wendell, Tah, Retsos, 18yo Paulinho, (a probable superstar LW), Lucas Alario (striker option not discussed a lot), and Brandt. 4. Júnior Firpo - Real Betis (new addition, been watching him for 2 years, he is ready to play EPL ball, Shitty want him badly) 5. Layvin Kurzawa - PSG 6. Raphaël Guerreiro - Borussia Dortmund 7. Dalbert - Inter Milan 8. Theo Hernández - Real Madrid 9. Ferland Mendy - Lyon 10. Kieran Tierney - Celtic 11. Marcelo Saracchi - RB Leipzig 12. Aarón Martín - Mainz 13. Borna Sosa - Stuttgart 14. Hamza Mendyl - Schalke 15. Jorge - Porto 16. Toni Lato - Valencia

Maxi is the right name, lolol. He has real weight issues. Not sure if he could handle the pace of the EPL.

I meant in that role (AMF) and I deffo came across farrrr too harsh in my tone towards Kante. I had one too many martinis! Not joking. I would never trade him straight up for Havertz unless we are talking a 32yo or older Kante for 24yo or so Havertz (provided Havertz has continued to progress 5 plus years from now, of course). I am however, I admit, having trouble seeing Kante being used most effectively atm. He seems betwixt and between. I think he is the best DMF by far on the planet, but doesn't seem to play that role in Sarriball very much. If you could point me to some info on what Sarri actually wants out of him in his system, I would appreciate it. Cheers

Thank you!

I think Hazard/Giroud will run riot. Fuck West Sham. Tally ho!!

Damn, I totally forgot this. Fuck. Good catch. GRRRRR

He would be my 3rd choice, and probably 1st if he had a 2nd half as good as his first. I rate Barkley really high (as I do with most of our players, except for my well-known issues with Luiz, Morata and Willian).

Luiz is obviously a tactical choice, same as RW, but these have long term spillage in terms of losing players. If AC feels as though he plays 2nd fiddle (or 3rd) for rhe next 3 years (we are talking about renewing Luiz for 2 more years after this season) he may want to bolt. CHO is on with Hazard, contract-wise. They both will leave on a free in 2020 if they refuse to renew and we dont sell them in summer 2019 (or worse, panic sell im January 2020). Willian is not our future, and his valuation drops each window. I feel I am fully justified in my medium to long term event horizon concerns. Same with Morata. A 1 nil win over a shit Greek team has done little to alleviate this. It actually exposed the weaknesses more concretely. Time stands still for no one, especially in footie.

Kai Havertz is a BEAST. I would give up Kante (for a massive price) and take him in a flash. Kante is wasted in Sarriball. He is only 19 and a terror at AMF. I invite all to watch Bayer's EL game tonight. Now Bailey comes on. Those 2 are must buys.

Love ya mate!! Time for a blue universe. Most important team in the the most important city on the planet. Fuck the haters. I want the globe under our boot heel.

also wanted to say, before I am tagged as the princess of darkness we fucking WON we finished like shit inna MASSIVELY hostile environment and won onward and upwards

After Hazard renewal, Luiz (out, benched and sold is my prescription) and striker shambolic state, this is my biggest concern. Given our board, I would almost guarantee we fuck it up and serve merely as RM's incubator for Modric replacement.

After my wife,my family (THE reason why I am a Blue girl, thanks daddy!), my my academic career (on hold atm, but don't count me as a superficial ponce when I rant on politricks), my bankster career (temp until I can afford to but a football cub, lol) and my health CHELSEA FOOTBALL is my fucking passion, I am am the perfect confluence of breeding, place of birth, and football intelligence (played as a youth, surround by footballers growing up). I DO bleed the Stamford Bridge Blue. I want us to DOMINATE never ever ever settle I would take one for the team and let Ratcliffe have his way with me if he agreed to buy and spend on my command, LOLOLOLOL. (wife just smacked me for that one, as she is watching me typing)

to put a name to vote, Christensen is my MOTM Jorginho 2nd

Unlike most, I LIKE this, we need a nasty boy (as long as he is smart about it, like tonight)

Ignore me at our peril. I refuse to plot future on 30 plus year old rotters or a mental failure (Morata). Combine those with the upcoming CHO/Hazard contractual nightmares, Marina and the board are steering us into the rocks.

takeaways AC needs to start, Luiz needs to be benched and sold, we are FUCKING INSANE to offer him a new contract, AC was a fucking rock tonight, zero wobblies, Ampadu will, WILL be a top 5 CB in world within a few years Willian is shit and needs to be benched and sold (we are also insane to offer him a new contract and more so to say no to Barca) Morata is shit, needs to be fucking sold (really don't care at this point what the loss is) BUY BAILEY and ICARDI (or Dybala or Griezmann) (dont give a fuck about cost) If this shit doesn't happen, I will eventually turn on Sarri, if he insists on playing these fucking cunts I can see me becoming public enemy number one here over this I don't care, I can see the future, and Luiz, Morata and Willian are RUINATION of our future (not even going to mention Hazard/CHO nightmare on contracts)

How the fuck was that a foul on Morata???????

I see zero basis for that comment, we are producing a SHIT tonne of chances and the footie skill level is top notch in the build up If we had punched in 4 now you never would say this its our final finishing product that is poor atm that is not boring, it's just luck of the draw or mental unbalance (Morata)

BULLSHIT CALL he was onside!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK!!!! lol, my wife is having a meltdown, lolol

Gotta disagree my Blue sensei in a VERY conservative AM schema 112 goals in FOUR years