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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

100m euros is £86.6m £90m is €104m

Lavia would be a great grab

is that a for sure thing? I saw him playing ar RB mostly

insane potential could end up a far better player than Caicedo

potential monsters most of them are Real does the same thing Barca too I have zero issues with any of the buys other than Tyler Adams especially of we swap out Kepa for Mamar and roll with Mamar and Sanchez as the 2 GKers Slonina is nowhere near ready IMHO

we sure as fuck better damn well close out Kudus tomorrow (or tonight)

I for one have never once said Muddy is a bust at all I have real hope and this is far from the first time I have said this

It's £110m with add-ons from what I can see

bit hyperbolic especially as he went for an insane £110m and I will give you one that was far worse Lukaku and another the biggest de Bruyne sold with no buyback

we SO need to go HARD for both Tchou and Barella and see which one (if either does) can be grabbed

deffo a candidate for worst comment of the past 3 or for weeks what silliness smdh