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Oki ( and because one of my best footie mates is a West Brom punter, we go over PL lesser talents ALL the time, especially last year, summer of 2017, when he was going insane over their fucked up owner's lack of spending) Nick Pope Ben Mee James Tarkowski Jack Cork Jeff Hendrick Robbie Brady Georges-Kevin N'Koudou (on loan from Spuds) Chris Wood

Number one, this was done in February, when Conte still looked to probably be the manager and I was positing players for that 3 4 3 system. Of course there we some tweeks done as the actual window progressed, and players shit out (Musonda for one) BUT the only really over-the-top (Over-the-top in terms of zero chance we even make a bid and less than that that they would be sold: we DID make a bid on SMS (remember I said either or between him and Saul) things on there were Saúl Ñíguez (who I rate 2nd best pure CMF in world, behind Kroos) and Alaba (best fullback, period, regardless of LB or RB) I also said Alex Sandro was an option, and to sell Alonso (and Real Madrid really want him) so those were not out of the realm of possibility. Alex Sandro will not be put up by me anymore, as If we did buy him next summer, we only get a year and a half out of him until he hits 30, and fullbacks poof hard after they hit 30.The ONLY 2 LB's over 28 on planet atm who are still remotely world class are Marcelo and Jordi Alba. GK I was proven to be correct (other than a swap) as Courtois did leave and we DID try to buy Oblak, then went and got Kepa, who at the time, I thought had a 150m euro buyout clause (the spanish media misreported this and later in spring corrected it). Icardi we could have had for £98m from July 1 to July 15, 2018, as he had a 2 weeks window with that release clause. He or Martial remain my two top striker picks. CB, we ended up going for Rugani instead of Romagnoli, but they are close, either works for me. In terms of tweeks now, post window, I would go for Pavard as by far best realistic one left (although Rudiger neck ripper may have fucked us on him, grrrr), with Romagnoli 2nd. Koulibaly Is always going to be included (or WAS) in my list of CB's. Next summer's last time (and maybe not even then as Napoli will never sell him to us and he is getting too old to warrant 80m, 90m) that I will put him up. I probably will not, as if we did buy him,we only get 2 years out of him before he hits 30. RB I was spot on with Djibril Sidibé or Elseid Hysaj (would prefer Álvaro Odriozola, but Real Madrid is going to grab him) real DID grab Odriozola, and Hysaj DOES want to come here, if that cunt De Laurentiis doesn't block it. João Cancelo would have been perfect RB for Sarriball, but Juve grabbed him, and we long ago fucked up the truly best option (and 2nd best RB in world, after Kimmich) in Sergi Roberto. I stick with the same 3 for next summer targets in Sidibe and Hysaj amd a stab at Cancelo (pipe dream now). LB, IF we sell Alonso, I see only 4 adequate and realistic ones out there, (in order) Ryan Sessegnon, Alex Telles, José Gayà, and Alejandro Grimaldo. Manu Trigueros to replace Fabregas was hardly a pipe dream, we could have done that. Very similar players, and he is 4 and half years younger than Cesc. RW I stand by Chiesa 100%, but also move Baily up to first option there, as Chiesa actually is a right footer who now prefers LW,and Bailey is a left footer who prefers RW. Berardi has not progressed as much, but would be a bargain at this point, but I will not put him up anymore. I stand by, also, ever sale demand, except for Barkley (due to Sarri now manager) and also perhaps, Alonso (I still would sell him if he get HUGE offer from RM and buy Telles). I would of course now add Morata, unless he comes good. Updated Blue Dream Buy CB Pavard or Romagnoli (forget Koulibaly) CB IF we do not move Azpi to CB, then for the 2nd CB buy its down to the two giants, Jonathan Tah (22) and Nikola Milenkovic (20), both 1.95m or Rúben Dias, 21yo from Benfica Malang Sarr, 19yo from Nice Panagiotis Retsos 20yo from Bayer Leverkusen for me atm maybe toss in Manuel Akanji from Dortmund as another option, or Felix Uduokhai, 21yo from Wolfsburg or Emanuel Mammana of Zenit, 22yo Argentinian/Italian, or Duje Caleta-Car Olympique Marseille, a 21yo Croatian RB Elseid Hysaj or make a real stab at João Cancelo (super hard pull as Juve just signed him) Sidibe is a step down, but last really good option LB Alex Telles or Ryan Sessegnon (forget Alex Sandro) this is IF we sell Alonso to RM CMF buy Kovacic on perm basis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CMF Amadou Haidara (my first choice) or Nicolò Barella or Roberto Gagliardini or Manu Trigueros AMF (IF we do sell Barkley or RLC) Talisca or Kai Havertz RW Leon Bailey or Federico Bernardeschi, step down, Suso LW Chiesa (if Hazard goes) or Asensio (forced into Hazard deal perhaps) or even better from RM, (I am in minority on this one) Vinícius Júnior CF Icardi or Martial or even BATS!! (why we loaned him out is fucking driving me crazy crazy!) with only other realistic options (each is speculative) Ciro Immobile, who turns 30 in February 2020 (so long term contract issue), and if Lazio loses SMS next summer, zero chance they also let Ciro go in same window and even less than zero in january window Timo Werner (still not sure if he is the real deal, massively expensive gamble and if Werner shows huge this year, Bayern will grab him) Andrea Belotti (see Werner, and he had a shit year last year) Lautaro Martínez (Inter, and they JUST signed him, even less of chance than Immobile or Icardi IMHO) Patrick Cutrone (again, so not proven, massive gamble and will Milan even remotely want to sell?, no) and the newest addition Krzysztof Piatek, but again, not proven, regardless of massive start and Barca REALLY want him, I think we would have to guarantee him a starting position That's it. All others will not be sold to us unless we bid INSANE money (and probably not even then, especially if we again have no CL) or are 30yo or older (Lewa, Higs, Cavani, Suarez, etc). Sell Cahill Luiz Zouma Marcos Alonso (if right price and if we can get Alex Telles or Ryan Sessegnon in) Cesc Fàbregas Danny Drinkwater Victor Moses Davide Zappacosta Tiémoué Bakayoko Willian Álvaro Morata (unless he comes good) Tammy Abraham (if right price) Marco van Ginkel Lucas Piazon Baba Rahman (I would LOVE to give him a shot at LB in Sarriball though) I stand by all of this cheers

Here is an interesting look at depth. I will put together the best teams with NO regular starters (so far) Chelsea GK Caballero CB AC CB Ampadu RB Zappacosta LB Emerson DMF Drinkwater CMF RLC CMF Fabregas (Barkley has started or I would put him in instead of Drinkwater and shift RLC to DMF) LW CHO RW Pedro (as Sarri seems to prefer Willian) CF Giroud Man City GK Claudio Bravo CB Nicolás Otamendi CB Eliaquim Mangala RB Danilo LB Oleksandr Zinchenko DMF NONE, they have no true back-up here, Fabian Delph would have to fill in CMF Phil Foden AMF Ilkay Gündogan (although he does start too, at times, so a true pick here would be Brahim Díaz) LW no true backup at LW, they seem to use Sterling there when Sane doesn't play,but in no way is Sterling a back up RW Bernardo Silva CF They have only 2 on the squad, but both are WC, and Pep will play them both at same time on occasion, I will put Aguero down as back-up to Jesus, but it could switch either way Liverpool GK Simon Mignolet CB Joel Matip CB Dejan Lovren RB Nathaniel Clyne LB Alberto Moreno DMF Fabinho CMF Jordan Henderson AMF Adam Lallana RW Xherdan Shaqiri LW none, RW massive bust Lazar Markovic was dumped a few days ago from 25 man squad, so they have no true backup here at all CF Daniel Sturridge Spurs GK Michel Vorm CB Juan Foyth CB Toby Alderweireld (they play a back 3 at times, and Alderweireld also starts at times in a 2 CB setup, but I place him here as a back-up) RB Serge Aurier LB Danny Rose DMF Victor Wanyama CMF Harry Winks AMF Moussa Sissoko RW Érik Lamela (or Lucas Moura, as they alternate starting) LW Georges-Kevin N'Koudou CF Fernando Llorente Man U GK Sergio Romero CB Phil Jones CB Marcos Rojo RB Diogo Dalot (I picked him over Darmian, as he is a better player, with huge upside, one of the few really young great players they have) LB Ashley Young DMF Marouane Fellaini CMF Scott McTominay AMF Andreas Pereira RW they have no true RWer on the entire roster, I will put Jesse Lingard here LW Anthony Martial CF Marcus Rashford really tough to call this one Liverpool is fucked in a tonne of positions (CB, LB, AMF, and LW) if starters go down Spuds are weak in many back-up positions too, other than CB (unless they are playing a back 3 and need to replace, and tbh, 3 good CBs is NOT enough for a 25 man roster), RB, LB, DMF and RW, They are FUCKED if Kane or Alli or Eriksen goes down City have by far the best pure talent amongst overall non starters, but they have some large holes holes, and are fucked if Fernandinho goes down .......they can still win, but will have to change style a bit I am sure, as they really have no DMF, unless Delph truly is the miracle sub (like how he played LB last year) and can fill in at DMF Manure have a tonne of bodies to cover and have true firepower in Martial, Lingard, and Rashford, their problem is that some of the starters are bläääää We have no superstars as backups (other than potentially AC and CHO, but thats future forward looking and not in the scope of this) BUT also have every position filled with a good player (in reality if we lost Kante or Jorginho either one would start at DMF ahead of Drinkwater)

REVEALED Premier League 2018/19: Bookmakers predict end of season table after four matches https://talksport.com/football/420407/premier-league-table-201819-odds/ 10. Wolves are 750/1 to win the Premier League 9. Leicester are 500/1 to win the Premier League 8. Everton are 250/1 to win the Premier League 7. Watford are 200/1 to win the Premier League 6. Arsenal are 50/1 to win the Premier League 5. Manchester United are 40/1 to win the Premier League 4. Tottenham are 16/1 to win the Premier League 3. Chelsea are 10/1 to win the Premier League 2. Liverpool are 2/1 to win the Premier League 1. Manchester City are 4/6 to win the Premier League

I have to totally agree with the final part of the article

No, Burnley has at least 7 or 8 players I would take over anyone on Cardiff. Cardiff is the worst team talent-wise I have seen in the EPL in years. Arsenal is/was playing extremely poorly and still beat them. We should thrash them every time. They are the only EPL team I would say this about.

Switzerland 6 Iceland 0 What a pounding!!! Iceland looks to be done with the 2 year fairytale run. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/45461587 https://www.fullmatchesandshows.com/2018/09/08/switzerland-vs-iceland-highlights-full-match/#1

Chelsea remain Leon Bailey's dream destination, despite interest from Paris Saint-Germain, it has been claimed. http://www.insidefutbol.com/2018/09/08/leon-bailey-continues-chelsea-preference-despite-psg-joining-race/389253/ Winger Bailey has excelled in the Bundesliga at Bayer Leverkusen and the BayArena outfit recently locked him down to a new contract after seeing off interest in him over the summer transfer window. Clubs are still eyeing Bailey, with PSG the latest side to be credited with holding an interest in signing the wide-man. But, according to German outlet Fussball Transfers, Bailey's dream move remains to Stamford Bridge to join Chelsea. Snip

Btw, you have a soul mate in my father on Süle! OMG He is mad about him for years. I showed him your posts, said 'Buy that bloke FIVE pints!' Lololol

You and damn near all of West London, mate.

Is there anyway to recall him from the loan? He is deadly, I am ALL IN on just letting him start 10 straight games and see what happens. He scores everywhere he goes, including here. Everyone talking about buying a striker in January, well who? Posted my list so many times, NONE are going to be either easy or remotely cheap. There are so few options left for us other than Bats Icardi, but we blew it by not hitting his £98m 2 weeks in July 2018 release clause (it goes up each year, and zero chance Inter sell him in january, probably not in summer 2019 either, plus RM and Barca, etc are sniffing around) Martial, another cockup with the failed Willian plus cash swap, might, MIGHT have a shot if Mo is still manager, but we all are projecting him as a striker (I think rightly so) but zero signs our board or Sarri see him as a 9 Ciro Immobile, who turns 30 in February 2020 (so long term contract issue), and if Lazio loses SMS next summer, zero chance they also let Ciro go in same window and even less than zero in january window Then 5 speculative ones Timo Werner (still not sure if he is the real deal, massively expensive gamble and if Werner shows huge this year, Bayern will grab him) Andrea Belotti (se Werner, and he had a shit year last year) Lautaro Martínez (Inter, and they JUST signed him, even less of chance than Immobile or Icardi IMHO) Patrick Cutrone (again, so not proven, massive gamble and will Milan even remotely want to sell?, no) and the newest addition Krzysztof Piatek, but again, not proven, regardless of massive start and Barca REALLY want him, I think we would have to guarantee him a starting position That's it. All others will not be sold to us unless we bid INSANE money (and probably not even then, especially if we again have no CL) or are 30yo or older (Lewa, Higs, Cavani, Suarez, etc). I think a really possible answer was STUPIDLY loaned out by us (BATS)

And waiting in the wings are the 3 Stooges: Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage to really throw a spanner in the works. Fucking Tory/UKIP clown car

Totally agree. This could really turn into a nightmare for us. Imagine if they do try and seize the club, Roman says fuck it, I will sell to Ratcliffe, but THEN the government freezes the £2 to £2.5 billion payment and we end up in litigation for years, with no finacial backing to conduct normal business, let alone transfers and sales etc. I SO hope that scenario never sees the light if day.

A perfect example of US hypocrisy. 1996 Time cover (where they openly brag about rigging Russian election for Boris Yeltsin) vs 2017 cover with Putin as Emmanuel Goldstein figure I wont even get into the Skripal tosh.

I been warning of since the Yank cunts started all the RUSSSSSSSSSIA! shite and as usual the UK falls in line.

Glad to see him still playing, as he obviously still has the passion. The Russian league big teams have crazy fanbases, so he will deffo have an interesting time.

Because the board are fucking numpty cunts.

I so hope Sarri and CFC look at Martial and see a striker for us, a Sarriball weapon, and not just a LW that we do not need as long as we have Eden and CHO.

Rudiger should be banned 5 games for violent conduct. Now you KNOW I am a fair bint, lolol. He crossed the line badly. I am embarrassed he represents us atm. It was a thuggish move. I would be going bonkers if that twat Rio had done that to Ashley Cole back in the day.

You cannot spell cunt without CoUrTois.

Its a mystery to me, and the bloke has not rewarded us for our huge faith in him for shit so far. He has Brasilian over complication and too much flash, not even driving direct football disease he needs to go watch some old film of

We could easily get Telles, but Marina and twats don't rate him, nor did they rate the perfect Sarriball RB, João Cancelo

Well, we can play the 'what if game' Lets say we HAD sold him for £200m Bailey £65m Chiesa £65m Martial £70m net cost zero if we can sold Willian to Barca for £65m we could remove Martial from that list, upgrade him to Icardi (£98m) AND have had £37m left over, WHICH IS EXACTLY what PSG paid for Thilo Kehrer all that would be the same price we DID pay in reality I would take a team with Icardi, Chiesa, Bailey and Kehrer and NO Hazard NO Willian over the opposite, its flat out a better team, and a FAR younger team as well. We only have, after this season, 18 more months of an under 30yo Hazard. Rooney was 31 last fall (and already shit). He is now out of European football and shilling in the shit MLS across the pond. CR7 looks to have finally hit the wall, and just a little over half a year ago, he was 32. The game isn't like it was 20, 30 or more years ago. Serie A is about the only great league where players have sometimes had or maybe will have monster season at over 32-33yo, and those are rare. Ligue 1, meh, I can't take it serious other than a hell of a place to plunder for players. The teams are overall shit. Eden is great, but he isn't Messi or CR7 level in their prime, not even close (sorry if this enrages people, but its the truth) and Willian is simply NOT good enough now (probably never was) for Sarriball Both he and Eden slow the game down too much with over-dribbling, especially Willian (hopefully Sarri can fix this) Also Sell Morata (as now you have Icardi) and you have another £55m or so to play with in January (or put towards but Kovacic, which will take at least £65m or so I fear to prise him away from RM, especially if he has a great year here, which he will, because he is the real deal, a great player stifled by RM)

Zero tweeking (other than the player himself) to toss Barkley into the RW role. I think he would be a beast, he is insanely fast, and pretty technical, and I really think he would score more, as he would have more open shots. I am a big fan, was so happy when we got him, I really think he needs to play upfront more. As you have probably noticed, I don't rate a lot of English players, but he is one I do. I rate (like, to be more accurate) Kane (wish to fuck he wasn't on the team I hate more than any other on the planet) Kyle Walker Ryan Sessegnon Ross Barkley Trent Alexander-Arnold Joe Gomez CHO RLC (I just wish he would play up to his insane athletic skills and body he has! so so so frustrating, same level frustrating as Morata) Luke Shaw (to a point, as IF Alonso leaves and we cannot get Alex Telles or José Gayà or Alejandro Grimaldo or Wendell (maybe), then I will absolutely take him (Shaw) as a LB. Alex Sandro is now, in reality, too old for me to advise to buy. If we got him next summer, we only get 17 months out of him before he hits 30, and as I have shown, there is fuckall for LB's. who are remotely WC who are over 28. As in TWO. Marcelo (who is shit for defence, do NOT want him) and Jordi Alba (again, I do NOT want him) Angus Gunn (we need him as our b/u keeper, if the new rules from Brexit fucking clamp down on foreign players, and yes, I know he is part Scottish, so not pure English) Mason Mount James Maddison Lewis Cook Dujon Sterling Fikayo Tomori Kasey Palmer