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Rodri is the best DMF on the planet does it all

1. Mamar 2. Do the swap with Juve (we cannot afford Osimhen or even Kolo Muani) OR wait for January with Ivan 'Ladbrokes' Toney 3. Lavia I assume is still in play, Gabri Viega is soon off the table (Napoli) and we cannot afford Valverde, if no Lavia, then maybe Manu Koné or Ryan Gravenberch or Maxence Caqueret or Khéphren Thuram or Eljif Elmas or Marcos Llorente or Amadou Onana or or Flirentini or Teun Koopmeiners or Sofyan Amrabat ..............we cannot afford BOTH Cacuedo AND Barella, not a chance, same for Caucedo AND Tchou, João Palhinha is also too expensive..............and finally perhaps we pull a true wild card (Rodrigo de Paul). 4. BUY KUDUS (takes care of AMF/SS and RW)

I think he is being loaned to Strasbourg

Real would NEVER sell Valverde for less that £100m, likely it would take more (getting into Bells level money) For MFers who are 29yo or less (so no KdB, no Modric, no Kroos, no HEALTHY (which is not going to happen again for any extended time) Kante) there are only a limited amount who are truly world class AND/OR would (or have) command £100m or more, especially if they are a longer contract : Valverde is DEFFO one of those, near the top I am including AMFs in a separate listing below CMF/DMFs Jude Bellingham Pedri Federico Valverde Gavi Rodri Eduardo Camavinga Declan Rice Aurélien Tchouaméni Enzo Fernández Moisés Caicedo Nicolò Barella (perhaps) Joshua Kimmich (soon not, due to age, probably already would cost below £100m) Frenkie de Jong (maybe, probably not £100m) AMFs Jamal Musiala Martin Ødegaard Florian Wirtz (ONLY IF 100% fully recovered, with a full healthy. massive performance season to validate that) Bernardo Silva (soon not, due to age, probably already would cost below £100m) Bruno Fernandes (soon not, due to age, but for sure would cost £100m or more now)

lol, this bint makes me spit my wine

Thiago and Reece were the 2 possibilities.

We will not know if we do not try.

I do have to say I did NOT want either Raphinha and Koundé (and based on their play at Barca, I feel vindicated on both) I am pretty sure all here know my rants against them, especially Koundé Raphinha I could have lived with the dwarf, no way Caicedo I DID want (but I also long ago said that it we had doubts about his £100m price, we should absolutely go for Barella or Tchou)

we NEVER should have bid £100m on the last day I would have fully accepted that we simply would not go over 80m or 85m or even 90m quid we now look like country bumpkins, like rubes (as the yanks say)

I agree what pisses me off is that we ended up bidding the price that was the price all along £100m BUT we waited well over a month to do it and thus lost him we look like bitches as we caved in totally and still LOST THE PLAYER we could have had him wrapped up in June 🤬

he is on £207K PW wages are not a barrier

here is what they have to choose from the market is so so small for decent ones who can play NOW bold are the only ones I rate only 4, and one is basically impossible Alessandro Bastoni crazy hard pull Nico Schlotterbeck Piero Hincapié Gonçalo Inácio Max Kilman Presnel Kimpembe (Achilles tendon rupture) Castello Lukeba only 20yo, massive dice roll Strahinja Pavlovic David Hancko Aymeric Laporte Facundo Medina Marcos Senesi Arthur Theate Alessio Romagnoli David Carmo Morato Abdou Diallo

BIG problem João Palhinha inured and Fulham want insane money (£90m!!!) and he only has only one more sub 30yo season after this one

agree

Verratti is not at all that good defensively

and Laurence Stewart those 2 are why Vivell left

Lavia is a buy now or basically forget him, as his Citeh buyback clause kicks in in 2024 also there is a 20% sell on fee (that is NOT triggered by the 2024 buyback) that goes to Citeh (which is why SOTON was demanding £50m, as they would only net £40m and right NOW, Citeh will also formally be given the opportunity to match any offers submitted for Lavia

not a chance that is not their model they buy very low and sell VERY high they have more than a few gems who they will flip for insane money down the road the potentials for large sales: Bart Verbruggen Pervis Estupiñán Tariq Lamptey Billy Gilmour Jakub Moder Yasin Ayari Facundo Buonanotte Kaoru Mitoma Simon Adingra Julio Enciso João Pedro Evan Ferguson Abdallah Sima (on loan)

no £115m is what BELLINGHAM ( a VASTLY better player) cost, lolol

here are the destroyer types still out there (Caicedo, Barella, Kimmich, Guimarães, Martín Zubimendi, Manu Kone, Camavinga, de Jong,are not true destroyer types) Lavia deffo can be Aurélien Tchouaméni João Palhinha Amadou Onana Khéphren Thuram Ismaël Bennacer Stanislav Lobotka Cheick Doucouré Ibrahim Sangaré Roméo Lavia Teun Koopmeiners Sofyan Amrabat Danilo Samuele Ricci Florentino Salis Abdul Samed Nicolò Rovella Arthur Vermeeren André Mats Wieffer Lucas Gourna-Douath Habib Diarra Raphael Onyedika Santiago Hezze Federico Redondo Aníbal Moreno

Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano · 53m Liverpool and Brighton are preparing all documents for Moisés Caicedo deal — agreement reached on £110m record British deal after late night bid

now that Nkunku may be out for the season, this is true