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Well, I would deffo take Kane or Griezmann over Morata too, BUT I did say remotely available, lol. Mbappe isn't a pure 9, so I don't include him (he is the number one footballer in world for my money, atm, but I am sure others will disagree).

Under Granny we are the BrightHouse of footie clubs

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Yet we shell out 75-80 MILLION QUID on Bakayoko and DRINKWATER (SMDH, I still cant wrap my head around WHY we bought that donkey) on straight buys and now are shivved, will have to sell at big loss.

Call me a numpty bint, but I still rate Morata, would love to see him get a full season under Sarri. The only striker I REALLY want out there (who is remotely available) is Icardi. IF Hazard goes (for say £180-190m) then we are crazy to not swoop for Icardi and Leon Bailey with the money, Plus toss in a player (Fabregas or Drinkwater if we sign Golovin OR Bakayoko, as Inter have no real fulltime DMF atm OR even Moses as they have only one RB on the squad, D'Ambrosio, who soon turns 30) to Inter as makeweight. I am not a Higuain fan, I think he is on downward slope of career and we dont offer multi-year contracts to players over 30, and he is 31 in a little over 4 months.

Marco van Ginkel is out for the year, he destroyed his knee

IF this £55m (or even more) offer is true we need to leap on it. It takes him away from Man U and we can surely then buy Leon Bailey (who prefers RW even though he is left-footed). We missed out on Malcom (90% he is off to Roma early next week). Maybe we can strike a deal with Barca for Willian plus cash for Dembele. Also still out there for RW is Federico Chiesa (tough pull), Federico Bernardeschi (Juve has three starting level RW but another tough pull), Suso (but the CAS reversal of Milan's Europe ban makes this harder), Gelson Martins (but Atletico Madrid are on the verge), Christian Pulisic (will be crazy overpriced though), and Wilfried Zaha (Spurs leading pack). Iñaki Williams doesn't want to leave Bilbao, Florian Thauvin was a bust a Newcastle (he has exploded at Marseille though). Rony Lopes from Monaco might be an option (17 goals, 12 assists). Same for Lucas Vazquez. Gareth Bale's wages make that a no go from the start, let alone the fee. David Neres from Ajax has bags of potential but I dont think is nearly ready for full time EPL starting slot.

Kepa wont leave Athletic Bilbao. He signed a 10 year contract after turning down Real Madrid. Thomas Strakosha from Lazio is the last truly class keeper who is anywhere near available and a good age. Lazio are bastards to deal with though. The top 10 Serie A clubs all are. Golovin is going to Monaco (90%) We got out-Russianed, lolol, by their owner. Vrsaljko would be great, but only if we somehow end up selling Azpi to Barca (please no). Also, Inter will probably soon have him (what a team they are putting together if they hold on to my number one want, Icardi. So many great adds, they will be loaded). The ideal target would have been Benjamin Pavard, as he is a combo RB/CB like Azpi, but he has signed a pre-contract agreement with Bayern to move there next summer and will be a CB except when Kimmich needs a rest. I TOTALLY AGREE on Leon Bailey, especially if we are going to lose Eden He is a real real deal buy and can play either wing. He is left footed, put prefers to come in the the right side. Its been dead as hell on any talk or rumours about him from what I see. Once again we are leaving it late. 19 days rill window shuts for inbound. We have so so many holes to fill especially if Eden leaves, Courtois is basically gone and so soon will be Willian. GK, attacking creative midfielder, striker, and probably both starting wingers, plus a backup/rotation LW. Barkley maybe will have to do helping with the AMF and back up winger role, but he is SOO injury-prone. Thats not even counting RB if Azpi leaves and DMF if true nightmare happens and Kante is sold due to insane offer from PSG or Barca.

I bloody detest both the Manc teams (United since I first understood what football and Chelsea were) but, IF the bastards do sell Pogba, you know it is going to come down to an all out blitz to get M-S £107m takes him home Only way we splash that is if we sell Hazard or even worse, Kante Real, Barca, PSG out there lurking too I just dont see us selling off the players atm needed to finance M-S Right now we so need to be getting a GK (Strakosha for me) and a LW, RW

Yes, I see it that way, even if the sale of Pjanic is to Barca and not us ( he makes WAY more sense for Barca than Pogba does) Golovin looks like an almsot done deal for Monaco, so IF Hazard goes to Real, and if Pjanic goes to Barca I deffo see Pogba going to Juve Milinkovic-Savic to Man U I want the 'other 2' players to us to be RW Federico Bernardeschi (they have THREE starting RW'ers, with him, Cuadrado and Costa) as we ARE for sure losing Willian and Pedro is shit, and then (as we will have a SHIT TONNE of cash go all out for DYBALA, Sarri can turn him into a god (lol, having a laff there, but he will make him DEADLY in the EPL) I really want NO part of Higuain I have been on Icardi and Dybala train since Sampdoria (300K euros is all Icardi cost them from Barca!) and Palermo days Icardi I have been pushing, BUT if Juve need the giant cash to make all their moves, then Dybala for the win (I know, its a pipe dream) BUT they could take that cash and raid Icardi (or we could just stop at Berndeschi and go for Icardi ourselves why help Juve to fuck us (as in all these other deals being dependent on them buying Pogba, etc, with that putting M-S at Man U)???? they raped us already on the Rugani price increase (30m euros to 50m in forty days!) they blocked us, STRUNG US ON for two years with Alex Sandro doing same price raise after we met the price bullshit I have given up all hope of ever getting Alex Sandro so why help them rebuild a super team and take downward side of career rapidly ageing Higuain off them????? we need a RW BADDDDDD with Willian probably going to Barca or Man U finally so so so disappointed with zero action on Leon Bailey, if Hazard goes, we are fucked at LW too

I'd be astonished if Juve managed to spend bog6 again. More chance of Pogba going to Barcelona right now tiki-taka + Pogba equals disaster IMHO he loves the long pass

Yes, thank you these 2 do say the lowball deal is not done yet Het Laatste Nieuws (The Latest News) https://www.hln.be/sport/voetbal/buitenlands-voetbal/primera-division/na-njet-van-neymar-real-madrid-blijft-piste-hazard-onderzoeken-ploegmaat-roept-rode-duivel-op-om-bij-chelsea-te-blijven~a9a1f2e5/ Ondertussen lanceren websites, die allen gretig clicks proberen mee te grissen, op weinig gebaseerde geruchten. Zo kondigde Le 10 Sport een akkoord voor 190 miljoen aan tussen Real en Chelsea. Een bericht dat ze later in een ander artikel tegenspraken. In Spanje zelf blijft het betrekkelijk stil rond Hazard. Real heeft zijn bevriende media nog niet het sein gegeven dat een deal in de pijplijn zit. Het Nieuwsblad (The Newspaper) https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20180720_03625206 Eden Hazard naar Real Madrid is nu al dé transfersoap van de zomer. De Rode Duivel wordt al jarenlang gelinkt aan de Koninklijke en sinds hij uitblonk op het WK voetbal wemelt het van de geruchten. Het Franse Le 10 Sport meent al te weten dat de twee clubs een akkoord hebben over een transfersom van 190 miljoen euro, maar dat nieuws lijkt voorbarig.

Drinkwater was/is the 2017 version of Jiri Jarosik. Ridiculous price paid for a marginal player as well. NO clue why we bought him, other than he once played with Kante. Then again so did MF's Julien Féret, Andy King, Laurent Agouazi, Nicolas Seube, Fayçal Fajr, and Jordan Adéoti (over 200 games total between them with Kante) and you could get the lot of 'em for less than 6,7 million quid total spend (the ones who are not out of football)

Monaco Russian owner stepped in and put the hard/soft grandmotherly love (Russian expression) squeeze on.

I do not think PSG will sell Rabiot, Barca got rebuffed multiple times (granted Barca and PSG hate each other after Neymar and the Verratti shite), and he (Rabiot) is immensely popular in Paris. Pjanic sale is to fund Pogba buy from Man U so the Mancs can go after Milinkovic-Savic. Mourinho didnt even mention Pogba in potential captains,and went with Valencia.

Link please. I am at a point where I can actually see us doing this. 19 days till window for inbound slams shut. Donnarumma is probably off the board now as CAS reversed AC Milan Euro ban. That leaves Thomas Strakosha as only truly world class keeper who is remotely available. Of course its another Italian game-playing team (Lazio). Only good news (if true) is Barca came back with 3rd bid for Willian at around £55m. He gave interview today and deffo wants out and I would much rather he go to Barca than Man U and £55m is great price.

IF this http://astamfordbridgetoofar.com/2018/07/21/bad-news-for-chelsea-fans-as-blues-agree-170million-double-deal-to-send-two-stars-to-real-madrid-report/ is true, I am going to lose my fecking mind!! Only £170 for BOTH Hazard AND Courtois! Thats £65m less or so than what we should get at minimum (and £120m less than a Courtois with 2, 3 years left on contract double deal would cost!) If you subtract out Courtois £35m Real is getting Hazard for £135m or basically the same as what Barca paid for semi bust Dembele and £15m less than they paid for Coutinho! Please talk me down from the rope and chair. WTF is going on with our board for last 4 years????????? Arguably best GK, certainly top 3 in world we will sell him soon for a third of his value Have 2nd or 3rd best RB in world may sell him Best DMF in world by far, may lose him Had the current best attacking MF in world on club sold him for shit May lose 1st or second best LW in world soon Had now current 2nd best RW in world, Sold him for shit Had now current top 6 or 7 striker in world, sold him for shit And another top 10 or so striker and our manager fucked him off n' out Grrrrrrrrrrrr

Unless we sell Hazard, I don't see any of the huge moves dropping, as I am NOT seeing us sell all those I listed in that link above. The cash just isnt there right now (in terms of Roman dropping insane quid). Bit of a jumpaway from this linear flow, BUT I would MUCH rather get Lucas Paquetá from Flamengo than Golovin, even if he costs say 15 to £20m more. He is crazy explosive, and will soon be (2 to 3 years max) household name for Brasil AMF's

Juve are shopping Pjanic becuase they are ALL in to buy back Pogba. Mourinho just completely snubbed him for captain. Man U wants Milinkovic-Savic and will sell Pogba to get him https://www.ilbianconero.com/a/mourinho-sgarbo-a-pogba-tra-il-barca-e-le-chat-con-la-juve-il-pu-13423 Jose Mourinho decided to confirm Antonio Valencia as United captain as there is tension between the Portuguese coach and Pogba. This is what Mourinho previously said on the matter: "If Valencia plays then he is the captain. If not, it could be Smalling, Young, Herrera or Mata". He didn't even mention Pogba as the tension grows between the pair. According to Spanish reports, United should watch out for Barcelona as Mundo Deportivo said that the blaugrana want to sign a top midfielder and Pogba is surely on their wish-list. Time will tell as we will have to see if Mourinho's words will influence Pogba's decision.... I see no path to MS unless we sell sell Hazard (I think he is gone soon, sob) or Kante (HELL NO!!!) IF Hazard goes this is the best possible scenario With Strakosha swapped out for the already gone Alisson (Strakosha would be less expensive too, so my numbers REALLY work then)

We only have (top quality) Christensen, Rudiger, and then a 17 year old Ampadu. Azpi is going to be the full time RB I am sure, unless we also splurge and get one of the following RB's (IN NO ORDER): (all this also assumes we are going to also sell Zappacosta back to an Italian club and TBH, every player I list from here on is better than Zappacosta and better than Moses) 1 and 2. Sergi Roberto or Nélson Semedo of Barca (only way one would come (and I prefer Roberto) is if we sold Azpi to Barca and demanded one plus cash (or straight swap). Roberto doesn't like playing fullback (even though he is SUPERB at it, only behind Kimmich IMHO), and he is promised a MF role again, so no way he wants to come here anyway. 3. Elseid Hysaj (no way Napoli lets him go and we have a no-raid agreement with De Laurentiis due to Sarri signing 4. Sime Vrsaljko THIS I could go for, i watched him a lot at Atletico Madrid, and he excelled in the WC too. Bomber on right and great at track-backs as well. 5. Djibril Sidibé formed dipped last year from previous seasons, and he was hurt, so lost his place on French team to Pavard (a natural CB who played great at RB in the WC). Iam jittery about anymore defensive players from Monaco after Bakayoko nightmare. 6 Benjamin Pavard (a clone of Azpi in that he can swing from CB to to RB with ease, plus is 6 years younger than Azpi. would be the best overall signing on my list, all in all (assuming no Roberto, and probably even then, as we need a swing CB/RB FAR more than a MF/RB swing player if we lose Azpi) 7 Benjamin Henrichs (if Azpi stays we should sell Moses (we will never get more for him) and buy this 21 year old. He has tremendous upside, and needs a change of scenery Bayer, his team just dropped a tonne (for them) on new RB too, Mitchell Weiser from Hertha Berlin, so Heinrichs should not be that hard to prise away. Wild card Hugo Mallo of Celta Vigo, GREAT RB, their captain, clutch player, great leader, 27 (just turned), BUT I truly do not think he would leave his almost hometown team (he is Galician, born and raised near Vigo) He is one of those unknown outside of Spain superb players who gets lost in the Big 3 glow. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, all that said YES we need another CB for sure, absolutely, especially if Azpi is sold to Barca (they would deffo prefer him to Semedo, of that I am sure). Cahill and Luiz are shit at this point sell them both ASAP!

Serie A has by far the best players for us of any outside league not saying we can remotely get all these but imagine a Chelsea with these (I am not listing every single position) these are all Serie A players GK Alisson (too late now,grrr) so Strakosha or Donnarumma CB Kalidou Koulibaly (rotate with Christensen and Rudiger) RB Elseid Hysaj (assuming we sold Azpi to Barca, which we should NOT do) (only one outside of Serie A who i would take over him and who WAS available at one time is Sergi Roberto or maybe, maybe 2 others, Sime Vrsaljko or Sidibe, but proably not) LB Alex Sandro (best available LB in world) Deep Holding MF (Jorginho, got him now, SUPERB player and signing) CMF Milinković-Savić (only way we could afford him is if Hazard is sold and also a tonne of deadweight) creative MF Miralem Pjanic (or a non serie A..... Thiago from Bayern) RW Federico Chiesa or Suso (as I think my number one available, Malcom, ends up... LOLOL, in Italy at Inter) finally the big two Icardi (who we are insane not to get) and then Dybala there are just more players in Serie A who are world class and fit our needs than elsewhere It is also the hardest league to deal with, so we end up get shivved

Leon Bailey is my number one winger target for us!! We desperately need him!

100000000000000% agree! Boateng is a shambolic mess at this stage. I fear we are looking at another Alex Sandro Juve nightmare, with them raising the price over and over. At least in Alex Sandro's case you could make argument he was a top 3 or 4 on planet LB after or mixed in with Alaba (clear number one RB and number one FB period) Jordi Alba (30 this coming season though),and Marcelo (already 30). Rugani is not worth 50m euros IMHO, and certainly looks like bad value considering a month or so ago we submitted a bid that equalled Juve's AT THE TIME valuation of 30m euros. 40m euros, yes, not 50. No way has he improved 67% in a month! I would rather we go after one of these Kalidou Koulibaly (3 year pipe dream, Napoli want £80m for him, and he is now 27, not 23, 24, which if he were 4 years younger, £80m MIGHT make sense. Also, he is NOT a 1.95m tall giant (Napoli lied on their website - quelle surprise!) as people keep saying. He is 1.87, all you have to do is look at the photo with Pogba holding his shoulder outside a training room. Pogba towers over him. Transfermarkt finally fixed this btw. that leaves these 10 Matthijs de Ligt Ajax (Juve will probably get him with the goddamn Rugani money!! he is only 18 and already close to world class, we are so stupid to not snatch him up) Benjamin Pavard VfB Stuttgart (WC has blown his value up to crazy levels, so maybe wait on him, but Spurs seem hellbent to get him) Alessio Romagnoli AC Milan (Not sure if he will want to leave AC Milan, but he is better value for the money than Rugani, IMHO) Stefan Savic Atlético Madrid (27 and rock solid, not sure if he is a player for Sarri ball though) Konstantinos Manolas Roma (27 as well, rate him over Savic) Dayot Upamecano RB Leipzig only 19 HUGE upside Rúben Dias SL Benfica 21, realllly good young Portuguese with loads of upside, good size (1.87) and pacy Manuel Akanji Borussia Dortmund just turned 23 today fast, young, looked really good in WC and the Bundesliga games I saw him in Jonathan Tah Bayer Leverkusen 22 HUGE (1.94m legit) and fast for his size, not sure if he is ideal for Sarri ball Panagiotis Retsos Bayer Leverkusen 19 huge upside, in a few years he could be a susperstar, but maybe we need instant help now, still.........

That lineup is a shambolic mess. Cahill???????? Alsonso at left FULLBACK? Kante as a wide MF'er with Jorginho in back of him????? Pedro????????? Higuain I am so not enthused about! ICARDI PLEASE!! IF THAT is what we end up with, expect Sarri to be sacked by Valentines Day IF Real do offer the rumoured £200m for Hazard take it and do the following We can swap with Man U Willian for Martial Buy Leon Bailey for around £60m Scupper Spurs and Fulham for Malcom for £40m or so And have £100m left over Take that £100m, toss in Fabregas and get Milinkovic-Savic. That meets their 120 to 130 million euro (not pounds) valuation Absolutely neutral in new money spent And we would have THREE world class wingers Bailey 20 years old Malcom 21 years old Martial 22 years old AND one of the best young central midfielders in the world Milinković-Savić 23 years old Insanely good business THEN KEEP KANTE!!!! we KEEP Azpilicueta, make NO sense to sell him, he is more than capable of play right fullback in a back 4, and is a great crosser Keep Ross Barkley Keep Bats (MAYBE loan him out) Keep RLC Keep Giroud (its not like we would get a tonne anyway andhe is a GREAT backupor game changers in 60th, 70th minute) Loan out Zouma We then sell Courtois £35m (we may only get that from Real, especial if they just dumped 200m on Hazard) Drinkwater £25m Luiz £20m to PSG or another place Alonso £35m to Barca Morata £55m to Juve Pedro £15m (try for £20m but not holding breath) Victor Moses £25m Cahill £15m Bakayoko £35m back to Monaco Zappacosta £20m (multiple teams in Italy want him) £10m from assorted other minor sales that's £290m to the bank (those sell prices are TOTALLY realistic, even if we take a loss on some versus what we paid, but that the way the biscuit breaks) Roman said a max NET spend of £100m when all is balanced out we spent £50m on Jorginho so that leaves £50m from that pot add that to the £290m generated from sales £340m pot take that and buy Mauro Icardi £125m should get it done Alex Sandro £65m is what Juve demands, pay it (keep Emerson for backup) Rugani £35m Alisson £60m Benjamin Henrichs £25m (RB at Bayer Levekusen, only 21, massive upside) (backup/rotation for Azpi as we sold Zappacosta) Golovin £30m grand total £340m DEAD spot on the £100m net spend This is NOT fantasy-land, it just will be tough as hell to do with the trans window slamming shut in 24 days. yes we lose Hazrd and Courtois, but we clean all deadweight and LOOOOOOOK at that team!!!! So young (but experienced as well) Under my plan, we have brought in Alisson GK (top 5 in world GK, should not be hardly any drop off v Courtois) Rugani CB (great young (23) big (1.90m), fast, ball player Italian classic CB) Loads of upside, and fucking MILES better than Cahill or Luiz are now, Sarri si a HUGE fan Alex Sandro LB (2nd best LB in world, after Alaba, insane upgrade over Alonso, especially for a back 4) Benjamin Henrichs RB (super upside, 21 yo, massively physically gift and can learn from Azpi et all) Jorginho DMF/DHMF combo 2nd best combo playmaking DMF/deep holding MF after Busquets in the world, and is 4 years younger (26 v 30) Milinković-Savić CMF (2nd best 23 and under CMF on the planet after Saul Niguez, and has much higher upside, is just a huge physical specimen, like Pogba with a motor) Golovin AMF (super young explosive ATM and can play wing too, he has all the tools, is the best Russian (I know I know, lolol) player in ages) Bailey RW/LW Maybe the biggest upside out all 11 newbies, I can see him playing a wee bit like Hazard, not as much a dribbler, but has a potentially better outside shot Malcom RW Superb young explosive RW, huge upgrade from Pedro/Willian, at least offensively, he will have to go a bit to be as good defensively as Willan was at times, but he has all the tools Martial LW (still only 22, and will THRIVE under Sarri, explosive upside still, he was used so wrongly at Man U by Mourinho (theres a shock, NOT!!) Mauro Icardi CF Best (or 2nd after Kane) Pure striker in the world ATM for only £100m net spend and also have (Christensen/Rudiger, Azpi, KANTE, RLC, included as starters or rotation in RLC case)