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IF (a big if, granted) Duran and Shamu keep on playing (and even get better) at the level that they are, I can easily see them becoming the 2nd and 3rd best CFs on the planet in a couple years (behind Håland). Kane will age out (in less than 2 years he will be 33yo) Mbappe is NOT a CF Lautaro is off to a meh start and is not really a 'lead the line' type anyway I see nothing atm in Osimhen that would place him that high Duran's and Shamu's main competion for 2nd and 3rd best CF will be (IMHO): Isak (IF, a HUGE IF) he stays consistently healthy Endrick (again, not at all a 'lead the line' type of CF atm) Gyökeres Dušan Vlahović (have some real doubts he gets to that level) maybe, maybe Sesko maybe, maybe Loïs Openda wild card: Nico

10 big questions I want answered (about BlueCo) 1. Why was Tuchel REALLY sacked? 2. Why on earth did we buy Badi AND Disasi and pass on so many far better CBs? 3. Why did we drop 75m quid for an already damaged Wes Fofana? 4. What is the REAL story behind the Shamu 'failed medical' (especially if it is debunked like you said) 5. Why the fuck did we drop £88m on meh keepers (unless Penders turns into a monster) and not one of them was named Mamardashvili? 6. Once Shamu fell through, why the fuck did we not just pay the £40m for Duran (and we could have done that before Shamu as well, plus that would have also meant no need to drop almost 20m quid on the pure dice roll teen Omari Kellyman) and instead went all fuckabout with fucking Osimhen? 7. Why the fuck did we buy a 'clearly in decline' Sterling and then double down on the mistake and give him that insane £85m contract? 8. Why the fuck did we drop a potential £89m (if all add-ons are paid out) on Mudryk? 9. What the fuck is going on with the new stadium? 10. Why have we STILL not locked down a main shirt sponsor? I will be super generous and NOT bring up the insane overpays for Enzo and Caicedo, nor the KDH buy (although, even if he comes semi-good, there were 10+ better CMF options out there). I also understand (not agree with in most cases, though) some of the other dodgy buys that we dice-rolled on early on in the Boehly as Sporting Director times. Also we did try with Sesko (as did almost every big club) and he told everyone to piss off, so no anger there from me at all.

Shamu off so no hat trick

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de Ligt is SHIT so so so glad we never went for him

he looks a different player than the games I watch last season CFs often take time to develop and yes, he deffo looks a real mix of threat same for Duran Sesko is more a straight up giant CF type

Chelsea have enough keepers… don’t need Hermansen https://thedailybriefing.io/i/149698844/Chelsea-have-enough-keepers-dont-need-hermansen Chelsea will not sign goalkeepers in January according to their current plan, so the information concerning Enzo Maresca moving for his Leicester keeper, Mads Hermansen, is false. They already have many in that position with Jorgensen, Sanchez, and also Penders for the future. So, it's already set for the goalkeepers future at Chelsea and I'm not aware of negotiations with any other GK in the market so far. snip Maresca: “The club signed Misha Mudryk as a big player and at the moment, he is not playing in the Premier League. But things change quickly in football, I hope he can do great tomorrow. He did very well against Barrow.” Enzo Maresca has apparently been courting one of his former Leicester players. Fabrizio Romano has the truth on a potential pursuit. Cesare Casadei: “I’m not thinking about leaving Chelsea in January, not now. It was my decision to stay and not go out on loan, after speaking to Maresca. I never had plans to leave permanently. I always wanted to play for Chelsea, one of the biggest teams in the world.” Si Phillips takes a look at what Chelsea should expect in their Conference League tie vs Gent.

https://thedailybriefing.io/i/149653761/murillo-would-be-very-expensive-for-Chelsea So guys, I’ve seen the rumours about Murillo and Chelsea, and what I can say is that Chelsea are following several players in the centre-back position but no talks taking place yet. There are so many links but there’s nothing concrete or really advanced now. Also, Murillo would be very expensive for any club as when Juventus thought about him last summer, Nottingham Forest didn't want to open the doors for him to leave. Chelsea will look for Chukwuemeka solution in the new year Sticking with Chelsea, Carney Chukwuemeka is still not playing. Why? Enzo Maresca has always been very honest and clear with his players, and has never hidden things, even when he speaks to the press in public. Maresca clarified that the plan this summer for Chelsea was for Carney to leave, but only to a club that would give him a good opportunity. A club where he could play 38 games, not moving to a club where he was not going to be a regular starter. This was why Chelsea rejected many approaches from Milan and others during the summer transfer window. Carney ended up staying of course but he's not playing, so the club will look for a solution in January. The player wants to play and Chelsea don't want him to stay out of the squad for too long, so work is in progress already.

https://football-observatory.com/WeeklyPost474 The 474th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the top 50 creators of chances in today world football, both in the Europe's big-5 and in 60 other leagues around the globe, according to an exclusively developed index (see below). The top Portuguese talent João Neves (Paris St-Germain) outranks the iconic Lionel Messi (Inter Miami). For the five major European leagues, João Neves is ahead of Cole Palmer (Chelsea), Romano Schmid (Werder Bremen) and Lamine Yamal (Barcelona). At the level of the other 60 leagues included in the analysis, two Spaniards rank after Lionel Messi: Iñigo Vicente (Racing de Santander) and Riqui Puig (Los Angeles Galaxy). The youngest players in the top 50s are Lamine Yamal and Kenan Yildiz for the big-5, as well as Kendry Páez (Independiente del Valle, on loan from Chelsea) for the other leagues. The chance creation index is calculated on a scale of 100 by adding the frequency of passes leading to a goal or a clear chance, passes made to the assistman (second assist), as well as passes breaking the opposition's defensive line received by a teammate (Wyscout). More explanations in this Monthly Report. The data refer to the current season's domestic league matches. Only footballers who played at least 360' have been included in the rankings. Chance creation index ranking Domestic league matches, current season until 30/09/2024.

the absolute shit buys since Roman's last year (the Lukaku nightmare buy) I am not even counting the massive overpays for Caicedo and Enzo the first 3 (italics) are looking dodgy so far, especially KDH Omari Kellyman Aston Villa £19.10m (unless he blows up this may well be a bold rotter bust buy, especially as it helped to cost us DURAN, as shown above) Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall Leicester City Leicester £30.00m Filip Jørgensen Villarreal CF Villarreal £20..50m Axel Disasi AS Monaco Monaco £38.50m Robert Sánchez Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton £25.00m Deivid Washington Santos FC Santos £13..50m Wesley Fofana Leicester City Leicester £75.00m including add-ons (massive overpay due to his being damaged goods BEFORE we bought him) Mykhaylo Mudryk Shakhtar Donetsk Shakhtar D. £60.00m + add-ons that take it to £89.00m Raheem Sterling Manchester City Man City £47.50m (plus an insane £325K PW 5 year contract) Kalidou Koulibaly SSC Napoli SSC Napoli £35.00m Benoît Badiashile AS Monaco Monaco £34.00m Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang FC Barcelona Barcelona £10.50m David Datro Fofana Molde FK Molde FK $10.50m Romelu Lukaku Inter Milan Inter £97.50m with add-ons and subtracting loyalty payment from Inter to us (£118.10m now in September 2024 when adjusted for pound sterling inflation!) £566.20m in toto (gross transfer fees + some add-ons) when Lukaku is adjusted for inflation and the Mudryk add-ons are included £448.10m (gross fees + some add-ons) of that is on Bo-Clownlake for the Americans here, that £566.20m is over 3/4ers of a BILLION US dollars gross spend ($750.52 million at current FOREX rates) Other than Wes Fofana (IF he stays healthy, but we still paid double what he was worth IMHO even then, as he was damaged goods) every player listed is either SHIT or (the first 3) potential (if not likely) shit.

no we could have bought him and sold Conor still (and still bought Felix to grease that) to Atleti we not only fucked about with Shamu and Osimhen................... BUT we also dropped (and this was with Villa) €22.5m on Omari Kellyman (ANOTHER left-footed AMF/winger type, one of like 11 or 12 we now have, we could have just dropped the extra £21m and bought DURAN, and NOT bought some below, especially KDH OR sold some of the ones listed below that and not fucked about with Shamu and Osimhen) plus we also dropped (in terms of players who I either do NOT rate or are, like Kellyman, pure prosepects) Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall €35.40m Filip Jørgensen €24.50m Mike Penders €20.00m Caleb Wiley €10.10m 112.5m euros there (94m quid) in toto Villa only wanted £40m for Duran Kellyman and KDH cost almost £50m Jørgensen and KDH cost £50m we already had Petro for GKer (who is playing great at Strasbourg btw) so zero need to dump out the cash for Jørgensen, OR if we wnated him no matter what, we could have sold Sanchez (I would have preffered that, I still am ragaing over why we ever bought him) plus we were so busying fucking about with crazy complicated buys (multiple ones which blew up in our face) that we did not concentrate HARD on perma sales for suplus goods we should have ALWAYS been trying to PERMA dump (from the moment the season ended, but no, we fucked about until it was too late) Badi Disasi Chilwell Broja (no buy obligation, no loan fee and only we also will pay his entire salary until Broja is ready to play) Trevoh Chalobah (no buy obligation) Kepa Arrizabalaga (no buy obligation) David Datro Fofana (no buy obligation) Alfie Gilchrist (no buy obligation)

I agree he is not a 'lead the line for a title winning EPL team' type of CF he is only 1.70m, slight of frame, and not a true threat in the air either 1.70m is the shortest CF in the top 50 highest valued the next 3 closest are Endrick at 1.73m (also not a classic lead the line type), Lautaro at 1.74m (who can lead the line but is often used with a SS/co CF) and way down, Vitor Roque (another short Brasilian type of striker who has been a semi bust at Barca so far) also at 1.74m here are the heights for the top 15 (and this includes Mbappe as a CF, at number 2, and 1.78m, plus Nkunku, who is not a CF IMFO as well, at 1.77m if you pull out Mbappe and Nkunku (again, who are not at all classic CFs), then other than Lautaro, Alvarez is 10 cms shorter than the next shortest (Watkins at 1.80m) and much shorter (16 cms or MORE) than all the rest (the next shortest after Watkins is OSIMHEN, an aerial monster, at 1.86m)

In terms of an LCB, assuming we do not even remotely think about dumping 75 to 80m quid on Jarrad Branthwaite (I simply to do see us doing that, he likely goes to either Manure or Pool).... then, from all that I am seeing atm, we likely move for for one of the 4 following (David Hancko turns 28yo next season, so outside our age perimeter) Gonçalo Inácio or Murillo or Piero Hincapié or Castello Lukeba (he also can play LB) Any of them are massive upgrades over Badi

Here are the giant global teams who need CFs fearsome competition for us 1 Real Madrid Spain LaLiga €1.34bn 3 Arsenal FC England Premier League €1.16bn 6 Liverpool FC England Premier League €923.00m 7 FC Barcelona Spain LaLiga €881.40m 8 Paris Saint-Germain France Ligue 1 €873.50m 9 Manchester United England Premier League €854.15m (I can see them dumping all but one of the CFs they have now) 11 Inter Milan Italy Serie A €672.30m (perhaps, IF they sell Lautaro) 15 AC Milan Italy Serie A €601.01m (long shot) 16 Juventus FC Italy Serie A €575.15m (IF they sell Vlahovic) (long shot) (you can also add Citeh, and then take off either Real or Barca IF Håland leaves for one of those 2 sides (surely thsoe are the only 2 sides in the running for him, I do NOT see Håland going to PSG or another EPL team) next summer or in summer 2026) Barca can sell one of their 70m plus valued players (sub zero chance they sell Yamal) to afford Duran, or 2 of them (and maybe some lesser valued) to afford Håland : Gavi Pedri Frenkie de Jong Ronald Araujo players below those 4 (in valuation) who Barca could/would sell: Raphinha Jules Koundé Andreas Christensen Alejandro Balde Ferran Torres Fermín López (tough as hell pull) Pau Cubarsí (tough as hell pull) Ansu Fati

huge blunder and I am not sold on Shamu atm (open to changing my mind) as almost all his goals are against shit Portugese non Big 3 sides, and the other one was against a Norwegian side (who did beat his Porto side) here are his 5 goals

atm Jhon Duran is looking like a young Drogba the way he sees the game the runs he makes, the way he uses CBs the superb shot accuracy (which is Nico's huge weakness)

Lucas Chevalier absolute monster game versus Real Madrid clean sheeted them with at least 6 or 7 crazy saves and great distrubution under huge pressure streets beyond any of our huge group of keepers Thierry Henry wanted him as the Franch starting GKer in the Olympics but Lille refused

Thierry Henry called that 1 nil Villa win the only one on multiple networks I saw

every one of my main CF targets over the past 2 or so years who were playing tonight scored Duran Vlahovic (brace) Sesko (brace) J David

down go Real 1 nil

Gallgher had nothing to do with Duran Villa said pay us 40m and you have him we said nope, we want Shamu and then switched to Osimhen fucking morons