Vesper

ok, let's think here is every right-footed (Sarr is right-footed) and ambipedal (there is only ONE ambipedal, Dean Huijsen) CB on the planet valued over £26m on T-Markt many (not all) of the unavailables we did try to get in order of valuation (in euros) strike-throughs are not available bold are viable options for me William Saliba 90m Pau Cubarsí 80m Dean Huijsen 70m the only ambipedal Dayot Upamecano 70m (update: off ther board, just renewed with Bayern aweek or so ago) Rúben Dias 60m Cristian Romero 60m (overrated, pass) Marc Guéhi 55m (it would have cost us £144.8m to match the Citeh offer (ie fees and salary) for 7.5 years, plus he did not want to come back here from what I have seen) Leny Yoro 55m Ilya Zabarnyi 50m Ibrahima Konaté 50m (overrated and wants huge money, pass) Ousmane Diomande 45m (BUT he just renewed until 2030 and his release clause is still £70m, so IF Sporting will not budge on that, it's a pass ) Luka Vuskovic 40m Jarell Quansah 40m Malick Thiaw 40m Matthijs de Ligt 40m then all the rest are valued at 35m euros: Abdukodir Khusanov Cristhian Mosquera Jan Paul van Hecke Edmond Tapsoba pass Bremer (coming off a horrid injury, and is soon 29yo, pass) Nathan Collins pass Bafodé Diakité pass Yann Bisseck pass Maxence Lacroix pass Ezri Konsa Trevoh Chalobah end so there are only 3 somewhat viable options for me, IMHO, on that list, and none of those 3 are are at all locked down sure things in terms of being potentially better than Mamadou Sarr, and one (Diomande) is crazy money for the transfer fee THIS, in terms of right-footed CBs, is who I would go for (obviously now talking summer 2026) as Jacquet was not doable: Caicedo LOVES him

that might be a pressurising attempt on Rennes, although Tati is a left-footed CB and Jacquet is a righty but I do know who Tati is, and he is deffo in the mould of CB we seem to covet: 20yo and under 1.90 to 1.95m in height here are all CBs (both left and right footed, most are righty on this list, none are ambipedal) on the planet who meet that criteria and are valued at 7m euros and up we have been linked to almost all at one point and made offers for many as well these are the only lefties from the main list above I (I have posted about him many times) REALLY want Karim Coulibaly but I probably rate Tati next the other two in between them are both in the head-chopper league (KSA) IF you extend the age group up to players who will still be under 24yo when this season's contracts end (and keep the height range the same) you only have ONE lefty CB on the planet valued above Coulibaly atm so YES, we deffo see a pattern

great destination for Tyrique decent side who need a LWer (due to the season-ending injury for Grealish), great developmental manager (old head Moyes, who can help maturate the lad), new glistening stadium, rabid fanbase who are pretty tolerant (for scousers, lol) only downside is that it is in Liverpool, roflmaooooooooooooo

We have been linked with SO SO many CMFs and DMFs lately: Adam Wharton Defensive Midfield England Crystal Palace Douglas Luiz Central Midfield Brazil Nottingham Forest Johan Manzambi Central Midfield Switzerland SC Freiburg Felix Nmecha Central Midfield Germany England Borussia Dortmund Alexis Vossah Central Midfield France Togo FC Toulouse Valentín Barco Central Midfield Argentina RC Strasbourg Alsace Sandro Tonali Defensive Midfield Italy Newcastle United Noah Sadiki Central Midfield DR Congo Belgium Sunderland AFC Ayyoub Bouaddi Central Midfield France Morocco LOSC Lille Mamadou Sangaré Central Midfield Mali RC Lens Kobbie Mainoo Central Midfield England Ghana Manchester United Kees Smit Central Midfield Netherlands AZ Alkmaar Christ Inao Oulaï Central Midfield Cote d'Ivoire Trabzonspor Elliot Anderson Central Midfield England Scotland Nottingham Forest Jadiel Pereira da Gama Defensive Midfield Netherlands Angola PEC Zwolle Abduljelil Kamaldeen Central Midfield Nigeria Kwara Football Academy Assan Ouédraogo Central Midfield Germany Burkina Faso RB Leipzig Federico Valverde Central Midfield Uruguay Spain Real Madrid João Neves Central Midfield Portugal Paris Saint-Germain Vitinha Defensive Midfield Portugal Paris Saint-Germain Bruno Guimarães Central Midfield Brazil Spain Newcastle United Aurélien Tchouaméni Defensive Midfield France Cameroon Real Madrid Aleksandar Pavlovic Defensive Midfield Germany Serbia Bayern Munich Carlos Baleba Defensive Midfield Cameroon Brighton & Hove Albion Pablo Barrios Central Midfield Spain Atlético de Madrid Nicolò Barella Nicolò Barella Central Midfield Italy Inter Milan Warren Zaïre-Emery Central Midfield France Martinique Paris Saint-Germain Eduardo Camavinga Central Midfield France Congo Real Madrid Manu Koné Central Midfield France Cote d'Ivoire AS Roma Morten Hjulmand Defensive Midfield Denmark Sporting CP Angelo Stiller Defensive Midfield Germany VfB Stuttgart Frenkie de Jong Central Midfield Netherlands FC Barcelona Senny Mayulu Central Midfield France DR Congo Paris Saint-Germain Tom Bischof Central Midfield Germany Bayern Munich Éderson Central Midfield Brazil Atalanta BC Gavi Central Midfield Spain FC Barcelona Khéphren Thuram Central Midfield France Guadeloupe Juventus FC Curtis Jones Central Midfield England Liverpool FC Boubacar Kamara (injured now, out fts) Defensive Midfield France Senegal Aston Villa Joshua Kimmich Defensive Midfield Germany Bayern Munich Archie Gray Archie Gray Central Midfield England Scotland Tottenham Hotspur Jacob Ramsey (now at NUFC from Villa) Central Midfield England Newcastle United Habib Diarra Central Midfield Senegal. France Sunderland AFC Alan Varela Defensive Midfield Argentina FC Porto Ismael Saibari Central Midfield Morocco Belgium PSV Eindhoven Victor Froholdt Central Midfield Denmark FC Porto' Lamine Camara Central Midfield Senegal AS Monaco Alex Scott Central Midfield England Guernsey AFC Bournemouth Yasin Ayari Central Midfield Sweden Tunisia Brighton & Hove Albion Jobe Bellingham Central Midfield England Ireland Borussia Dortmund Javi Guerra Central Midfield Spain Valencia CF Yegor Yarmolyuk Central Midfield Ukraine Brentford FC Marc Casadó Defensive Midfield Spain FC Barcelona Quinten Timber Central Midfield Netherlands Curacao Olympique Marseille Tyler Adams Defensive Midfield United States AFC Bournemouth Rúben Neves Defensive Midfield Portugal Al-Hilal SFC Matt O'Riley Central Midfield Denmark England Olympique Marseille Sverre Nypan Central Midfield Norway Middlesbrough FC

As a mod, it is not fairplay for me to get involved via voting. I already said my piece and will leave it at that. ⚖️

that is madness getting relegated would destroy the club for a decade or more we would lose most of our key players and the loss of revenue would force us to sell so many of the ones who did not even want to go

GREAT win and fuck off West Ham goons

west sham thugs

HAS to be a red on Traore for starters and Jean-Clair Todibo even more so

almost £100m spent on Garnacho and Gittens at LW for that type of combined cash we could have purchased one of the following, and then lean into Tyrique more as a sub: right-footed LWers Kenan Yıldız Antoine Semenyo Bradley Barcola Rafael Leão Yan Diomande (new addition to my list) and AMFs who also play LW Morgan Rogers Dani Olmo

if we win this will be the first time ever in the EPL we have come back to win from a nil 2 HT deficit at the Bridge

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

17 or so minutes to get that Chels winner

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot

unless we win the CL I can so see Confrence League again in our future that is an insane loss of revenue that will put us under the cosh yet again with PSR/FFP but the Conference League is a brutal meat-grinder that involves crazy travel to horrid pitches wherein we could see key injuries

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

the 2 HUGE issue I see are CB (especially with the leftys, as we only have an injured Colwill and the TURGID Badi there) and then Palmer's falling off a cliff in terms of play also, lesser but still big issues Delap has been shite and then 2 potentially real good DMFs (or CMFs) always being injured (the glassmen Lavia and Essugo) plus Garnacho and Gittens were simply poooooor buys for LW especially as we had MANY other better options to buy

we are in DEEP shite too many changes

told you all

I recall someone saying that other than Bowen, they have no really threat BUT Crysencio Summerville (LW) has 3 goals and 2 assists in the last 4 games he looks to be coming alive as of late

Josh doesnt play nearly as good at the left CB position as he does on the right (CB or RB) he have fuckall at true LCB with Colwill out Hato is far more of a LB than a CB, same for CuCu I cannot believe this has not been adressed Senesi would have been perfect on multiple levels veteran (28yo), lefty, a good leader, Argie bulldog, good with passing and the ball at his feet) Karim Coulibaly would have been the youth play left-footed CB THIS window as Honest Ahanor doesnt turn 18 until next month

Estevao is out due to a family issue but we do have a massive bench Josh Acheampong Marc Cucurella Wesley Fofana Marc Guiu Reece James João Pedro Pedro Neto Andrey Santos

almost always it comes down to SHIT CB play by us