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no idea very shitty reaction not at all happy with that

bitter way to end the game I destest Havertz (other than the CL winner, which I will admit was huge)

yes, you could clearly see it, very rare hesitancy from us

I never want to see Delap as a winger again deffo not up to it

damn

6 added minutes

damn another moonshot

Trevoh CLEARLY got the ball first

pretty close that was a real chance

no way was that a foul!! the ref has went to shit and is killing us

Garnacho coming on

another bullshit yellow (on Estevao)

good shift by Hato he looked solid

and Josh now on for Gusto maybe (injury)

Estevao and Palmer on

bullshit yellow Delap barely touched him

No, you are off by a year. That (Chels trying to buy him) was in summer 2018. In summer 2017 Alisson was coming off a year of being the Roma backup keeper, but I so wanted him then as my Brasilian/Swedish friend in Porto Allegre (she is a huge Gremio fangirl) tipped me off about him from his Internacional (Gremio's hated Porto Allegre derby rival) days. I knew then, in 2017, that there was no chance Cuntois would renew, as we stupidly loaned him for three straight years to Aletico Madrid, and he put down roots with the city. Marina was in utter denial of this, insisting he would renew. She turned down insane money from Real that summer of 2017. Then, in summer 2018, when Marina finally realised Cuntois was not going to renew she cocked it all up. Tried to buy Allison but he said no, I want to be a scouser. Then she met Atletico's €100m release clause for Oblak but he told us to piss off. So we panic bought shit Kepa for £72m (inflation-adjusted to around £97m in February 2026 pound sterling) and panic sold Cuntois to Real for likely 2 and a half or so times LESS cash than we could have had the year before.

Good post. I agree that you are inhabiting a sound logic area of thought.

I thik the only ones on that list we would MAYBE make a move for would be Sandro Tonali (I think he would cost £60 to 70m) Adam Wharton Elliot Anderson Felix Nmecha (maybe) after that, going down in age I see us sniffing around (remember these are all CMFs or DMFs) Valentín Barco (already a BlueCo player) plus Ayyoub Bouaddi Senny Mayulu (TOUGH PULL, as it is PSG) Johan Manzambi Victor Froholdt Jobe Bellingham Noah Sadiki Marc Casadó (Barca DMF) Kees Smit Nathan De Cat plus Kennet Eichhorn (summer 2027, as he is too young to move until then) Bayern want him SO badly, so probably not going to happen

Tonali is close to, if not now world class for me. A great MFer and is only 25yo, a close to perfect age for me (in terms of being a very experienced vet but not closing in on 30yo) but NOT BlueCo! Ffs, VITINHA is older than Tonali, would we say, OMG, he is too old!!! Here are the top DMFs and CMFs in the world, just to show where he fits in (he can play either one to a uper high level) The ones older than Tonali are in italics. Many of the ones younger than him are only 1 or so years younger than him as well. In order of valuation (I personally would take Caicedo over any of them, even Pedri) and also, every single CMF or DMF valued over €40m is listed here: Pedri Federico Valverde Declan Rice Moisés Caicedo João Neves Vitinha Ryan Gravenberch Enzo Fernández Alexis Mac Allister Bruno Guimarães Sandro Tonali Martín Zubimendi Rodri Aurélien Tchouaméni Aleksandar Pavlovic Tijjani Reijnders Adam Wharton Elliot Anderson Nicolò Barella Carlos Baleba Pablo Barrios Warren Zaïre-Emery Eduardo Camavinga Manu Koné Morten Hjulmand Felix Nmecha Scott McTominay Frenkie de Jong Nico González Angelo Stiller Amadou Onana

why??? he needs actual sr minutes

I would say IF and when Lavia is fit (which is perhaps not going to happen again for a significant stretch of time barring some semi-miracle) and has played he has quite often looked superb. The last time Fofana looked superb was before his leg break at Leicester, never ever with us. Even if Fofana never misses a game again due to injury he is NEVER going to be good enough anymore. He has lost a lot of pace and explosive movement and that has fucked up his overall game.