Vesper

yes and it is too large

my right-footed wants at CB are mostly, of not all, that (we do not need a lefty CB atm, but IF we did, there are only 2 I want, Bastoni or Murillo) Dean Huijsen (ambipedal and it fucking killed me when we got Real'ed) Bremer (IF fully recovered) Ousmane Diomande Ilya Zabarnyi (IF PSG do not get him) Giorgio Scalvini (IF fully recovered) Ronald Araujo Marquinhos (crazy hard pull) Tomás Araújo Antonio Silva Mario Gila Joel Ordóñez Mohamed Simakan

quid works as I was talking about an English club splashing the cash Barca are fucked financially, Bayern have Kane, Real apperently are all good with Mbappe as a CF PSG maybe would look at him, but doubt they do it now

fuck that twat and fuck the board for buying him and paying him INSANE wages grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I had an absolute fit when we bought him and paid him that much in salary just settle and sell the bastard he is fucking both poison and rinsed that's a horror combo

sell Disasi, Fofana, and one of Badi/Veiga keep Trevoh and Tosin

it isnt Garnacho Rogers would replace in terms of recruitment it is Simons (right footed AMF who can also play LW)

disagree all of these would be (or will be) bang-on weapons in the EPL: Julian Alvarez (AM would have sold him IF a club dumped enough quid and he already was EPL proven) Lautaro Martinez (see Julian, minus the EPL previoud experience) Viktor Gyökeres Victor Osimhen Omar Marmoush (already has showed his quality, I listed him as he was on the market earlier this year) Jonathan David (the most underrated top 20 CF IMHO)

yes, we perhaps lost a monster player when Pool poached him away from us I was raging for weeks

those 2 are going to be the hardest to sell I fear and they are on INSANE salaries £550K to £575K PW combined

sounds like Trump's cognitive test (which he claimed he got the greatest score ever seen by his doctors🤪) LOLOLOL

the only ones I can think of are Maatsen van Ginkel (horrid luck with injuries) Aké van Aanholt The Cannibal aka Boulahrouz Winston Bogarde and then the Big Three Robben Hasselbaink (after Drogba he is my 2nd fav Chels CF) Ruuuuuud Gullit the legend and finally the super obscure (for a very recent player, but one who I had huge hopes for (when he came from Barca) until he destroyed his knee) Xavier Mbuyamba aka The X Man

Tommy Robinson arrested over alleged assault at London station Video posted online showed the far-right activist near a man lying on the ground at St Pancras station https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/04/tommy-robinson-arrested-alleged-assault-london-station The far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson has been arrested by British police on suspicion of grievous bodily harm after a man was allegedly assaulted at a London railway station. Robinson was arrested on Monday evening at Luton airport as he stepped off a flight from Faro, Portugal. British Transport Police said in a statement: “Officers from BTP have tonight (4 August) arrested a 42-year-old man from Bedfordshire in connection to an assault at St Pancras station on 28 July. “The arrest took place at Luton airport shortly after 6.30pm, following a notification that the man had boarded an incoming flight from Faro. “The man had been wanted for questioning after leaving the country to Tenerife in the early hours of 29 July following the incident at St Pancras. “He was arrested on suspicion of GBH (grievous bodily harm) and will now be taken to custody for questioning.” Hours after the incident at St Pancras, Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, took a flight out of Britain, landing first in Tenerife, Spain. Once abroad, Robinson went from Tenerife to Faro in Portugal, flying back to the UK on Monday where police were waiting for him. He is now in custody, with detectives due to question him. Video from the scene of the alleged assault, which showed a 64-year-old man on the ground, also recorded Robinson appearing to claim he had acted in self-defence. The injured man was released from hospital on Thursday. Police are understood to be treating him as a victim, not a suspect, at this stage. Police have said he was admitted to hospital “with serious injuries which are not thought to be life-threatening”. CCTV from the busy central London station has been recovered and studied by detectives. Robinson had been leafleting at the station earlier, and on the video can be heard saying “he come at me”. Robinson is a former leader of the extreme-right English Defence League. The far-right monitoring group Hope Not Hate describes him as the “best-known far-right extremist in Britain”. Police believe he left Britain shortly after a video was put online showing him near the injured man. The video does not show how the injured man came to be lying motionless on the floor.

Nominative determinism in football Arsenal Wenger, James Trafford and the players and managers destined for clubs… because of their names https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6524643/2025/08/04/football-names-clubs-managers-arsenal-wenger/ Nominative determinism, i.e. the theory that people gravitate towards jobs or activities that reflect their name, is a thing. Researchers once found that people called Dennis or Denise were more likely to gravitate towards dentistry (this is genuine). It’s not a universal truth. Someone called Louise Baker isn’t necessarily destined to wear chef whites for a living. Likewise, Tony Dull doesn’t have to become an accountant. But when Wolves signed David Moller Wolfe last week and James Trafford decided to join Manchester City, they became the latest quirks in football’s history of throwing up ironically placed players. Trafford will not only return to the city that houses the shopping mall the Trafford Centre or the Trafford Park area, but also, of course, Old Trafford, i.e. the home of City’s greatest rivals. It’s a bit like someone called James Park being in goal for Sunderland. He becomes the second goalkeeper in Manchester whose surname shares the name with a park in the city. Heaton Park, which recently hosted about 300,000 people across five glorious Oasis homecoming gigs, was named after Manchester United goalkeeper Tom Heaton in honour of his contribution to the club since he signed in 2021 (three appearances and counting). This is not true; the Heaton Hall estate dates back centuries, but hopefully you believed that for a second. Tom Heaton, not the inspiration for Heaton Park (Octavio Passos/Getty Images) Of course, Manchester United do have a young player named after them — Kobbie Mainoo. Or at least, to those fans who use Man U as a pejorative when referring to the club. The most shocking example of a rival’s home in a player’s surname, though, has to be the man we know as Barcelona legend Gerard Pique, or to give him his full name, Gerard Pique Bernabeu. The Bernabeu, of course, is the name of rivals Real Madrid’s home ground. However, the Bernabeu name is certainly no source of shame for Pique; his grandfather Amador Bernabeu was formerly a vice-president at Barcelona. Still, it’s pretty ironic that one of Real Madrid’s ultimate hate figures shares a name with the club’s home. Sometimes you see the name of a club and think it must be fate. That was certainly Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein’s take when, in 1989, he met some chap called Arsene Wenger for the first time. Wenger, then Monaco manager, attended an Arsenal match at their old Highbury ground, and Dein took him to a friend’s house for dinner. “I thought, ‘This guy’s something special, he’s a bit different’,” Dein later recalled to the BBC. “Just then it was like a flash of lightning, I sort of saw in the sky: ‘Arsene for Arsenal: it’s destiny; one day he will be our manager’.” Three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups later, Dein’s destiny worked out alright. Good job that he wasn’t called Dave Wenger. Perhaps the most blatant case of managerial nominative determinism is Wolfgang Wolf managing Wolfsburg. It was only his second career job (after Stuttgarter Kickers), and he lifted Wolfsburg to what was then the club’s highest-ever finish of sixth in 1999, lasting five years before he was kicked out of the pack. You might think Molineux was the next logical destination for Wolf, which sadly never happened. Wolves had already signed a namesake in 1994, though, in the form of Dutch defender John de Wolf. This wasn’t due to a flash of lightning that then Wolves manager Graham Taylor saw in the sky; Taylor had been impressed by De Wolf when seeing him play for the Netherlands against England. “I wrote a book in 1994 and said hopefully one day I’d play in England… the book came out in December and that was the month I joined Wolves,” De Wolf later told The Athletic. “Also, the name of the club — my name! It just fitted.” De Wolf was an instant cult hero. “De Wolf man” was a regular chant at Molineux when the burly defender with a lengthy golden mane would saunter up the field to take long throws. He’s now been followed up by Wolves signing AZ Alkmaar’s Norwegian left-back David Moller Wolfe for €11.5m (£10m). Wolfe told Wolves.co.uk: “Personally, I think it’s pretty cool to have that surname and then to play for Wolverhampton. “Me and my brothers have actually joked a little bit about it a couple of years ago, and now it is turning into a reality. I think it was meant to be.” There was only one club that recently retired midfield Salva Sevilla was supposed to play for, but sadly he only ever made the B team for the Spanish club. Surprisingly, he would go on to make his name at Sevilla’s big rivals Real Betis. Ditto former Tottenham Hotspur defender Mike England, who managed Wales for eight years in the 1980s. Mat Sadler, though, did get it right when he played for Walsall, i.e. the Saddlers, not once but twice during his playing days, and is now the club’s manager. Mat Sadler, the manager of the Saddlers (Morgan Harlow/Getty Images) Graham Potter served ‘the Potters’ with distinction during his playing days when he featured for Stoke City for three years. Christian Fuchs joined the right English club when he moved to Leicester City in 2015; Fuchs in German means fox. It’s not just club names that elicit destiny for players; positions do too. What other position on the field would former Belgian player Mark De Man play other than defence? It just had to be true. In fact, De Man played all across the back line, as a full-back or a centre-back and was even known to pop into defensive midfield, playing for Anderlecht in Belgium and with Roda JC in the Dutch Eredivisie, all the while shadowing his opponents extremely closely. Opposition players knew exactly who was arriving when their team-mates shouted; “De Man on!” In a less obvious but still fitting outcome, one-time Premier League player John Utaka simply had to play as an attacker, which he did pretty successfully for Portsmouth in the late 2000s, providing the cross that led to Portsmouth’s winning goal in the 2008 FA Cup final. Some names are curious given their styles of play, like beanpole 6ft 7in striker Peter Crouch, or legendary Italian defender Claudio Gentile, a player famed for being an aggressive nutcase rather than a serene ball-player. Names don’t always forge a path of fate in football; Gareth Barry never played for Barry Town, while Isaac Success only played for Watford in England. But when it happens, it’s pretty satisfying.

sounds like a stalker

just do NOT take any meds or supplements from him!! lol

it is not that late they have 4 weeks to sort it toss Jackson in as a large part of the price

If RB Limpdick keeps fucking about with Simons we should just splash out the extra £14m to 19m and buy Rogers from Villa Rogers is a new prototype for the late 2020s and beyond EPL player I still think Simons is a massive dice roll, at least compared to Rogers

agree 60m euros baseline fee + 2 or 3 or so million euros in add-ons or they can go fuck right off Bundesliga players are entirely overvalued compared to their EPL performances (when they come here) overall it is a fun league to watch but it is shit compared to the EPL

The third Prospect Sheet compiled by the CIES Football Observatory in collaboration with Impect highlights a young centre back with a great future: Luka Vušković. Aged just 18.4, the Croatian has already played two full seasons as a professional between his training club Hajduk Split, Polish side Radomiak Radom and Belgian side Westerlo. His last season in Belgium was particularly successful, with 36 Pro League games and no fewer than 7 goals. His performances earned him a move to his parent club Tottenham Hotspur. Already estimated at €40 million by the CIES Football Observatory’s statistical model, his transfer value is destined to rise with every game played in the Premier League. From a technical point of view, Luka Vušković has the profile of an aerial center back with attacking ability, his power being combined with outstanding technical quality. Players with similar characteristics quoted in the report include Germany’s Yann Aurel Bisseck, Ecuador’s Piero Hincapié and England’s Trevoh Chalobah. >>> Full report

I have zero personally against KDH great bloke and never whinged but he cost us points and he simply never will be up to a Chels standard bizarro buy and at least we broke even or so

absofuckinglutely

like Gusto he upped his game the last 10 games or so but he was dire for ages