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Liverpool end Khephren Thuram pursuit to focus on Romeo Lavia https://caughtoffside.substack.com/i/133003718/liverpool-end-khephren-thuram-pursuit-to-focus-on-romeo-lavia Liverpool are no longer actively pursuing Nice’s Khephren Thuram despite reports of scheduled talks with Nice this week. There’s no doubt Liverpool explored the deal, but the arrival of Dominik Szoboszlai means other targets are being looked at instead now. Liverpool were certainly not put off by the price. Thuram is available for far less than the €60m that is sometimes reported. Thuram is quite prepared to leave Nice for the right suitor. But he will want regular game time with a view to making France’s 2024 Euros squad having been capped for the first time this year. Liverpool are very much in the race for Romeo Lavia, though. Arsenal and Chelsea are considering the Southampton midfielder as well, but neither club are quite as active yet. Of course that can change. Chelsea are focused on Brighton’s Moises Caicedo (and I am told to expect a hectic week on that front) and Arsenal, after completing the Declan Rice deal, will wait and see if Thomas Partey and Granit Xhaka leave. Neither club can be discounted for Lavia just yet. Southampton want £50m for Lavia, although a deal for a lower fee may be possible, especially with Southampton relegated last season. Although Manchester City’s £40m buy-back clause doesn’t kick in until 2024, suitors are very much using it as a valuation yardstick.

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so Saka 2.0 (who was a terror at LWB/LB at times), more or less Bayern could then say, in theory, 'we have best RB (Kimmich) and best LB (Davies) on the planet, and neither play at fullback' lolol of you remove Davies as a fullback then it really is down to Nuno Mendes as the only sub 30 (or nearly sub 30yo, as Robertson turns 30 this winter) WC LB out there although Theo Hernández is sorta there, it is just that he is so shit defensively, he has really regressed Alejandro Balde may make a big move and become WC as well, but he is not there yet, at that level right below them are Chilly (when healthy he is near WC at times, but is so injury-plagued) and José Gayà (who turns 29yo at the end of thsi coming season, so will not longer be a top option), and maybe, maybe Federico Dimarco of Inter then a crazy drop

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the truly sad thing is that you take the £63m we shit way on CuCu and add in the £20-25m or so we could get for Maatsen and there is all of (that is around €100m) the cash it would take to buy Nuno Mendes or Alphonso Davies from PSG and Bayern, the two best LBs on the planet (Robertson is soon 30yo, so not an option)

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we are the new Real Madrid for Brasilian youth, LOLOLOL

that ridiculous £105m for Rice by Arse is doing us hard, as well

surely there is an EPL team that will dump £15m to £20m on CHO he is only 22yo and a multi-capped England Sr national team player it isn't like he is utter dogshit look at some of the buys the other EPL teams have done in that price range, just pure crap CHO just needs the right manager and team and can do a reset

now that we know he can make £300K PW in salary with add-ons, AND the fact many many on the TC board wanted to sell him anyway, can we really call him a snake? I for one am not looking back shit happens in love, war, and football we made £60m pure profit for a player who has been in an 18 month slump and who only had one year left on his contract, plus avoided a massive salary (he would not take less than £250K PW, so that is £78m over 6 years) on the books I say that is damn good business Manure are on the hook with him for what will likely be £150 to £155m or so total outlay over the next 6 years

chalk and cheese, as I have been trying to explain

that is an option risky, but a option what a tosser he was for gambling on footie, arfffffffffffff

Gabri Veiga was perfect and affordable with a release clause of only £34m it is madness we have not already snapped him up, and will now probably lose him to PSG, just like we lost Ugarte

they are two different types of players Veiga is big (15cm taller that Le Fee) 1.85cm physical CMF who can drift forward and score from a more advanced role, plus drop back into a pivot Le Fee is a very small, (1.70m) very technical pure AMF/No 10 type Veiga reminds me of a potential (in some ways, but is not there at the WC level yet) Federico Valverde (an absolutely monster player), Veiga is a little taller than Valverde but not quite the same explosive pace, although Veiga is far from slow at all, it's just that Valverde is a machine that can run nonstop for 90+ minutes, he has incredible stamina

Bayerns wins CLs and plays in a decent league though Paris the city is a huge draw for PSG, just like London is for us, Arse, Spuds, etc Munich is a decent place to live, but deffo not glam glam

board was split 60 per cent stay, 40 per cent sell, maybe 70/30 at most once it hit £40m it was 50/50 I would say

the entire Lyon squad valuation is £199.5m less than a third of what we spent just in transfers fees last season lol only players the y have who I remotely rate are Castello Lukeba Centre-Back Dec 17, 2002 (20) France Angola €25.00m Saël Kumbedi Right-Back Mar 26, 2005 (18) France DR Congo €12.00m Maxence Caqueret Central Midfield Feb 15, 2000 (23) France €25.00m Romain Faivre Right Midfield Jul 14, 1998 (24) France Algeria €10.00m Rayan Cherki Attacking Midfield Aug 17, 2003 (19) France Algeria €30.00m - Bradley Barcola Right Winger Sep 2, 2002 (20) France Togo €18.00m 7 goals, 10 assists in only 1800 topflight minutes

£40m was their final offer and Marina said nope 🤬

The top one. Majority black is always a good choice.

Shocking. Bassey was shite every time I watched him. If it was us trying to buy him I would be in full meltdown.

Madness. And also another player unproven after a huge injury. The bloke was out 13 months ffs.

Gibberish from a source I do not trust.

We are fools to buy him atm after his massive injury has so negatively impacted his play. He needs to show a full rebound season before we do.

It’s now over for Abdul Rahman Baba at Chelsea. Contract set to be terminated on mutual agreement and he’s joining Greek side PAOK. ...... Romano