Vesper

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that final was one of the worst losses for me to take ever FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK we have been so utterly shit in domestic cup finals for ages, after being a true force for years FA Cup from 1996/1997 (fucking Arsenal, grrrr, if we had handled them we would have been 10 wins, no losses from 1996/1997 to 2019/2020) EFL Cup since 1996/197 Wins Losses FA Community Shield (since 1996/1997) Wins Losses

say goodbye to this soon, fuck 😓

besides Guehi (the 20% sell on fee makes him affordable) right footed CBs that are also truly in the mix for me Ronald Araújo (hard as hell pull) taking him off as he will either be Barca's new captain or vice captain (if Sergi Roberto gets captain), he is so not leaving, arfffff António Silva Giorgio Scalvini Bremer Robin Le Normand José María Giménez (last summer on any of my lists as he turns 30 in 18 months, plus he has a poor injury history) Jean-Clair Todibo Mohamed Simakan Taylor Harwood-Bellis (IF Citeh sells him) Perr Schuurs Nicolò Casale (sleeper) Malick Thiaw Anel Ahmedhodzic Merih Demiral Josip Sutalo Danilho Doekhi (sleeper) youth Zeno Debast Ousmane Diomande (Sporting want insane money now, £69m, his full release clause) Leny Yoro (17 yo) Luka Vuskovic (16 yo) likely the next monster Croatian CB Atalanta Desperate to Offload Inter-Linked Defender (Demiral) not saying he is my first choice at all, but he may well only cost around £10-12m https://cultofcalcio.com/atalanta-desperate-to-offload-inter-linked-defender/

I think he learned a lot on that whilst at the nightmare that is the PSG ego/player power machine PSG, over the last 10 years or so had/have some of the most massive egos on world football (Thiago Silva, Thiago Motta, and Blaise Matuidi being the huge exceptions, they were the adults in the room) Zlatan Icardi Pessi Mbappe Neymar Marquinhos Sergio Ramos Donnarumma Verratti Javier Pastore Ezequiel Lavezzi Dani Alves Adrien Rabiot David Luiz Edinson Cavani Ángel Di María Georginio Wijnaldum Serge Aurier Hatem Ben Arfa

Nice intro video I wish him well zero hard feelings he was a fucking force at Dortmund, a joy to watch shame they never could beat the Bavarian scum for the Meisterschaft

I missed that one, lol

lol, it is like he is Diego Moreira's personal coach in the first half or so of the video

TBF he looked great at Barca after he joined them in February 2022 11 league goals in only 1092 minutes (which also shows how shit La Liga is, lol) he never was the same after that brutal robbery ay his home in August 2022 where he had his jaw crushed with a steel pipe and his family terrorised On 14 May 2023, Barcelona beat Espanyol in a 4–2 win to secure the 2022–23 La Liga title, meaning Aubameyang claimed the first league title in his career, despite playing just nine minutes for Barca before joining Chelsea in the summer of 2022.

I will update this as needed as the days roll by https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2023/jun/01/mens-transfer-window-summer-2023-premier-league-italy-spain-germany-france

that is just a rehash of months-old news and it is not Chelsea-specific

I am just gobsmacked we have not snatched up Mamardashvili for his £21.5m release clause

you are confusing/conflating poor ex post facto life choices (ie going back to him after the abuse) with legal/moral clearance of horrific actions

my West Brom Baggie-loving m8 is just utterly despondent, lolol

her stupidly going back to him has nothing to do with lessening the brutish, criminal, violent beatings/treatment he inflicted and certainly does not erase or even marginally ameliorate Greenwood's horrid moral character as a human being

turns out it was a steal for Palace, lol

a shame? yes, but NOT the way you mean

we are so lucky to be in the EPL we are the ONLY league that can truly compete against the Saudi billions simply due to players wanting to play against the best players sure, Barca, Real, and Bayern can do so individually on reputation and results alone but even AC Milan, Juve, Inter, Atletico Madrid, Napoli, Dortmund, and yes PSG, (to lesser extent as they can also pay huge wages, even if not Saudi level) PLUS all the rest of the smaller teams in La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, and the Bundesliga are FUCKED and will only become more so as all those leagues become more and more drained by the Saudis and their filthy lucre

great signing by Villa NEVER would have guessed over the past 3 years or so he would end up there

THAT would be a win win for everyone (IMHO)

ahh, I totally misread that, so sorry

I apologise if I have contributed to that but I will not abide open misogyny I personally have a thick skin (try growing up a mixed race black lesbian, lol) but some of the things said here are archetypical toxic lad culture adjacent

he was never that great, as look at Citeh constantly trying for other LBs long before his legal woes

deep misogyny here from some of these posts I do NOT want to hijack this thread with a long dissertation on this but ffs it disturbs me to no end to see violence against women attempted to be gaslit away and claimed it never happened (as if, for example, Greenwood's partner beat the shit out of herself) OR simply being found not guilty in a court of law means the crime did not happen and was not committed by the accused (see OJ, see a thousand mob cases, etc, or, back in yank Jim Crow days (and sometimes even now), white juries finding clear murderers, etc of us black folk by white folk to be 'not guilty') technicalities leading to a not guilty decision and/or jury nullifications (or outright jury fraud via tampering, etc) happen every day woman recant things against their partners all the time for a myriad number of illegitimate reasons, including battered wife syndrome I have had multiple straight female friends of mine (and even 2 lesbian friends in regards to their violent female partners) stick with a violent male partner and have too often heard the excuses of 'oh, he did not really mean it' or ' he will change' or 'well he is under a lot of stress financially/socially/family-wise' etc

cannot recco this enough!!!! thank you