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FUCKKKKKKKKKK but I have known (and said so) for ages it was happening

Drogbaesque what a goal

their 3rd kit is pretty good

Kim Min-jae: Bayern sign South Korean defender from Napoli https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/66234321

https://thedailybriefing.io/i/135265253/rb-leipzig Xavi Simons to RB Leipzig, here we go! An agreement has been completed for the Dutch midfielder to join on loan from PSG until June 2024. His medical will be within next 24 hours then it’ll be time to sign the contract. NO buy option clause, as previously reported, he’ll go back to PSG next summer. Xavi and his agent are already in Leipzig.

if he was 5 years younger and around £40m (Fulham only paid £17m for him so that would be an almost 250 per cent profit in one year!) then hell yes, count me in, as he would be a sort of a poundland Ugarte style crusher, way bigger but a bit less skilful but 90m quid for a 28yo DMF?!? hell no (with a few exceptions, we all know what happens to destroyer type DMFs once they hit the wrong side of 30) these are the top 25 (valuation-wise) DMFs over 30 they crater only FOUR on the planet are valued over £10m, and only ONE on the list would make our club (Casemiro) and some of these are not even destroyer types (Jorginho for one, Busquets for another, etc)

come on now that is borderline sophistry he almost never played RCB the last 2 years, never with us, and a game and a half with Monaco a game and half in 2 years is hardly showing he is a viable RCB

Manchester United 'agree personal terms' with Atalanta striker Rasmus Hojlund - but Red Devils are 'not close' to meeting Italian side's £86m valuation https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12311493/Manchester-United-agree-personal-terms-Atalanta-striker-Rasmus-Hojlund-not-close-meeting-Italian-sides-86m-valuation.html

lol, Fulham are demanding €105m (£90m) for a 28yo DMF, João Palhinha bonkers

Kimmich will never come here not unless we are talking years from now, when he is rinsed he is one of the top footballers on the planet, a serial winner and Bayern just hired the genius Christoph Freund as sporting director, who will turbo-charge them again

right footed CBs 30yo and over

youth league football doesn't carry that much weight with me some, but it is nothing like topflight, let alone the monster EPL in the first half of last season, he played (league game starts) for Monaco at RCB twice in the league, both times in a back 5 (and in one of those he switched to LCB later on in the game), all his other starts were at LCB (usually in back 4), except for 1 at middle CB in his 5 Europa league games he was LCB twice and middle CB 3 times, never at RCB in his 10 starts for us he never played on the right, was mostly (8 times) at LCB, and then twice in the middle CB slot, in the 11th game, he was late sub at LCB the season before 6 Europa League games ( 5 starts and then a half game as a sub at LCB), 4 at LCB, 2 in the middle 4 CL games, 4 starts (including one where he played the full 120 minutes), all at LCB and in 24 league games all were at LCB except for 2, where he played in the middle CB in back 5 bottom line: he is NOT a viable RCB, especially for the EPL level of play

I love Linzer Augen 💙💙💙💙

ah, you are a Salzburger?

post of the day, roflmaooooooooooooooooooooooo I am sure there are some plonkers on twitter who are saying this! 🤡

there is financial investment smart and then there is footballing smart sometimes the two do not overlap, especially for a yank with no footballing culture in his blood

do you even do the slightest amount of research before posting? Panzo only played THREE topflight games ever for Monaco Two Ligue 1 games in 2019/20, one as starter where Badi never came in, and then a 16 minute late defensive LMF/LW sub (for Henry Onyekuru), and a game where Badi (as an 18 yo) was the starting LEFT CB and one Coupe de la Ligue game in 2018/2019, where Badi (17 years old then) was the LEFT CB and Panzo was the LB

many CBs are very used to playing on a side dictated by their footedness, and if you go look at performance charts, many often suffer when they are played on the other side not every player is a Maldini or a Terry when it comes to flexibility and talent to perform at extraordinary levels no matter where you place them Badi, for instance, is far better on the left an on the right if footedness meant nothing, then why is there an extraordinary premium on classy left-footed CBs? there just are not that many lefties out there the bottom CB on the first page (so top 25 on planet in terms of valuation) for left-footed CBs on T-Markt is only valued at £18.9m the bottom of the second page is only £8.6m massive drop offs for right footed CBs, the bottom of page one is £30.1m, and page 2, the bottom (£17.3m) is almost the same as the bottom of page one for lefties footedness is magnified when you play a back 4 as well, versus a back 5, as there is no middle CB to cover if a wrong-footed player who is playing in an area they are not comfortable with gets burnt

you are the only other poster who has ever mentioned Nicolò Casale as a right-footed CB option welcome to the club

summer 2022 buy (speaking NON YOUTH) window may well go down as one of the worst ever for an EPL club, it really looks like may be the case hopefully Enzo and Muddy and Noni and Badi can save it from that if Rom had also been bought in 2022 instead of 2021, it would likely have been the worst window in football history

I am super stressing now 😟 not gonna lie I am terrified of our injury record it's a fucking curse Badi is injured too (nothing like Fofana, but still, hamstrings can turn into recurrent problems) Reece has had a bad run with injuries (hamstrings as well) and now the pressure on a soon-to-be 39yo Thiago and a player we were (are?) willing/want to so sell (Trevoh, who has been spotty AF at times the past 2 seasons) is immense also pressure on Malo Gusto as well, if Reece injury record haunts him/us again this year plus, so far, T-rex-armed Kepa looks to still be our number 1 GK and Chilly has had injures galore and CuCu was shite on defence far too often our defence has semi-collapse potential atm