Vesper

just covering every angle

do NOT loan him to an Italian club!!!!!!

CF will very likely come from one of these 10 Victor Osimhen Harry Kane Lautaro Martínez Dusan Vlahovic Randal Kolo Muani Jonathan David Gonçalo Ramos Rasmus Højlund Nicolas Jackson Benjamin Sesko as for Ivan Toney (idiot, have to wait)

Every GK valued at over 5m euros on the planet that are rated as good enough according to some the ones in bold blue are the only ones we have a shot at and are good enough to be our starter IMHO this is in order of TM valuation strike thru means not available italics I do not want Gianluigi Donnarumma Diogo Costa Ederson Mike Maignan Thibaut Courtois Alisson Gregor Kobel André Onana Jan Oblak Marc-André ter Stegen Robert Sánchez Emiliano Martínez Giorgi Mamardashvili David Raya Unai Simón Álex Remiro Illan Meslier Dean Henderson Alban Lafont Anatoliy Trubin Alex Meret Nick Pope Matvey Safonov Guglielmo Vicario Odysseas Vlachodimos Marco Carnesecchi Ugurcan Cakir Bono Dominik Livakovic Bart Verbruggen Lucas Chevalier Predrag Rajkovic Maarten Vandevoordt Vladan Kovacevic Kacper Tobiasz

I made my case already, zero mention of race Samuel Eto'o 2006 with a lot of evidence as to why

great players can come from shit footballing countries look at Håland and Martin Ødegaard from Norway or Alphonso Davies (mini slump aside) or Jonathan David (who we hopefully are doing a deep dive on for CF) from Canada or Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and perhaps Giorgi Mamardashvili from Georgia

he has insane explosive burst

I almost always do in here too much I am sure, lolol

Imagine what a football power the US would be if post WWII they have went full association football culture instead of their best athletes (best on the planet in many cases, and they also have SO many superb athletes in sheer numbers as they simply have a massive population to draw from, 335 million and growing) being pulled into basketball and yank football

I am not a dude, and because it went on for so long with other posters, I, as a mixed race black female, feel I have some agency to voice my opinion as to it all

Your profile says you are from Mexico perhaps you should deal with the racism there against us black folk first rather than trying to dismiss bias out of hand Memín Pinguín for instance: In Mexico, how erasing Black history fuels anti-Black racism https://theconversation.com/in-mexico-how-erasing-black-history-fuels-anti-black-racism-175315 In early 2021, a Ghanaian migrant known as Faruku died in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana, near the Mexico-United States border, of an apparent stroke. This was after being turned away from a hospital and later being asked to pay for an ambulance before it would assist him. A report from Refugees International notes that the circumstances “suggest medical racism” — negligence of care informed by racism. Recent reports by other migrant rights and advocacy groups describe various instances of anti-Black racism as medical negligence in immigration detention centres in Tijuana and also in the southern town of Tapachula. Faruku’s story has drawn attention to the plight of African and Haitian migrants in a state of limbo since 2019, when the U.S. first enforced laws forcing asylum-seekers trying to enter the country from Mexico to first await a Mexican court date. It’s also drawn attention to anti-Black racism in Mexico, which is not only widespread, but a pillar of Mexicanness. Long denial of Black history Anti-Blackness includes the long denial of Black history in Mexico that affects the country’s more than 2.5 million Afro-Mexicans. According to 2015 figures, about two-thirds of the country’s population that self-identifies as Afro-Mexican also self-identifies as Indigenous. Anti-Black racism in Mexico has been historically perpetuated by the legacies of slavery and the existence of a racist colonial-era racial caste system, and a modern nationalist myth that has associated true Mexicanness with being mestizaje. That means “mixed race,” a racial and cultural mix of Indigenous and Spaniard. This ideology has romanticized a state-defined idea of Indigenity as anchoring authentic Mexican identity, even while the state enacted policies to assimilate and marginalize Indigenous Peoples. snip

Kim Min-jae is not the best CB on the planet I would take every one of following over him Rúben Dias Ronald Araújo Josko Gvardiol Marquinhos Milan Skriniar Matthijs de Ligt Alessandro Bastoni Éder Militão (he improved a lot the last 2 years, I no longer consider him a major issue for RM) António Silva (next great Portuguese CB IMHO) William Saliba Sven Botman Jurrien Timber (he grew to 6 feet tall and has speed to burn, today is his birthday, turned 22) If VVD and Alaba were 3 years or so years younger then them as well Giorgio Scalvini, 19yo, 1.94m is perhaps the next great Italian CB

RIP

all but Makélélé and Desailly were born and raised in France and those last two basically are French as well, as they were raised in France, as both moved to France when they were each only 4 years old

thank you I had not yet read this when I said the same about Eto'o in 2005/06 just now

Samuel Eto'o in 2006 (Fabio Cannavaro won) Eto'o won a treble (CL and La Liga included) with Barca (and Pichichi Trophy as La Liga top scorer and was La Liga POTY) 52 total goals produced (40 goals and 12 assists) for club and country (and Cameroon played far fewer games than in other years (such as 2000-2002 when he won back to back African Cup of Nations plus won the Olympic gold medal), and he also played no friendlies) also in that period he won African Player of the Year ESM (European sport writers) Team of the Year FIFA World Player of the Year Bronze Award FIFA FIFPro World XI UEFA Team of the Year CAF Team of the Year UEFA Champions League top assist provider African Cup of Nations top goalscorer UEFA Club Forward of the Year

we desperately need a class DMF

that doesn't increase the width of the actual pitch

all he had to do was to slide the ball to a wide open and onside Mbappe and then no Pessi WC, and Mbappe and France would be on track to win 3 WC's in a row (I see them as the 2026 favourites atm, subject to change, of course) and a shot at 4 (he will only be 31yo in the 2030 WC) Mbappe would have had FOUR goals in the final, by far the greatest ever final performance (even with 3 it still is in the top 2 or 3) that all said, it is harsh to call Kolo a loser

Jackson is a bit of a wild card (not slating him), but Gabri Veiga has most all the top clubs on the planet interested

they are very different types of players

Bono would be good for 2 or so years, maybe even 3

'closest to Kante' types: Nicolò Barella Moisés Caicedo Sandro Tonali Roméo Lavia André (Fluminense)

he was shit far too much so so many howlers

I live in Stockholm now, and my father's fam (Swedish) has always been AIK I was born and raised in London, west London, and grew up Chels AIK is a streets below Chels, basically zero overlap and the seasons are different many on here have local, non English smaller teams they follow it isn't rocket science