Vesper

Pool may sneak into the CL (and Citeh lose the treble) IF Citeh are retroactively docked points Citeh would be the 5th EPL team in the CL due to their winning it Spuds would get Conference League and Villa would slide up to the Europa League a fucking disaster if that happens soon (as Pool will then have CL to offer, plus a massive amount of new revenue) plus Spuds will get millions more to play with

£70m would be good business, given the options out there

I do not think he is worth £110m or so (which sounds like the total with add-ons counted) that said, he DEFFO strengthens Arse and at the end of the day that extra £30m or so (I would pay £80m max) is a drop in the bucket (extra 4.3 to 6 million quid per year when you amortise it out over 5 to 7 years) Manure has Casemiro (I think he still has 2 or maybe even 3 world class seasons in him) so they were not too hell bent for leather

he is an very highly rated you prospect (obviously, Barca has pulled him) we are likely losing, by kick-off 2024 (maybe 2025 if Thiago plays until 40) Thiago KK (hopefully) Trevoh that leaves Colwill Wesley Fofana Benoît Badiashile Faye is a potential beast, is low cost, and would probably be ready in 2 years (when he is 21yo), would have been a great gamble

imagine see a starting line-up again with these plonkers: Kepa or Mendy Kalidou Koulibaly Trevoh Chalobah Marc Cucurella César Azpilicueta Conor Gallagher Ruben Loftus-Cheek Christian Pulisic and/or Hakim Ziyech Lukaku

well, fuck Barcelona https://caughtoffside.substack.com/i/127688072/barcelona Barcelona are set to sign top talented centre back Mikayil Faye from NK Kustosija - it’s a done deal. Chelsea and Borussia Dortmund were also interested in Faye, but he’s now set for Barca, with a €5m-plus-add-ons deal agreed, to be finalised soon.

This makes me a bit wet 🙂

I've said the two I rate for ages: Oblak and Giorgi Mamardashvili #25 Giorgi Mamardashvili ValenciaLaLiga Date of birth/Age: Sep 29, 2000 (22) Citizenship: Georgia Height: 1,97 m Position: Goalkeeper Current international: Georgia

Lol, Slabhead fucking Manure yet again and refusing to leave. If that berk Fraudgate sticks ol' Slabby on another England squad I am going to lose it.

Bad buy. Ffs, we could have had him for free if they rate him so highly I do not Stupid move Fuck off if we do this

Agree. It is ridiculous to say Citeh had an easy path.

thy are super rare in terms of truly WC only 2 are under 30yo and absolutely WC IMHO atm Gvardiol and Bastoni then Alaba at 30yo (31 in 2 weeks) and that's it IMHO for truly WC Badi is already the 9th highest valued left footed CB on the planet, lolol Gabriel of Arse, ffs, is tied for 3rd highest valued on planet, come on! None of us would pay £50m for him (at least I hope the fuck not)

and its WAY worse for SS's over 30 here is every one of them on the planet valued at 1 million euros or more only 2 valued over 3 million euros

many wingers do not peak in their late 20s, not many at least, most are early to mid late 20s 22/23 to 27/28 or so Salah will never have another year like he did at 25 years old he has been great the last 3 season after 2 slightly less years in between, but I wager thus last season (or the coming up one) if he says at Pool, will be his last 30 goal year whilst playing in the EPL (he could go to a lesser league and score 30 all comps even at 32 yo (2024/25 season) though Mbappe is not normal though, so who knows, but I wager a 29, 30 year old Mbappe will likely not have the otherworldly explosive pace all game long like he does now certainly he will not by 31, 32 but he is good enough to adapt his game and again Salah and Mbappe are two of the best wingers in the last 20 years of football, Mbappe is likely an all-time top 10 player if he stays healthy here are the top 20 valued wingers on the planet over 30yo its brutal in terms of fall-off Neymar Sadio Mané Lionel Messi (36yo in 2 weeks) Riyad Mahrez Pablo Sarabia Lorenzo Insigne Eden Hazard Quincy Promes Dudu Erik Lamela Ángel Di María (36yo in February) Viktor Claesson Dusan Tadic (35yo in November) Junior Messias Moussa Marega Aleksandar Katai Rachid Ghezzal Antonio Puertas Portu Davidson

I am not sold as of yet on Castello Lukeba and we do not need another left footed CB IMHO we have 2 already in Badi and Colwill plus I still hold out the faintest of hopes for Gvardiol next year IF he isn't sold this summer lefty CBs I rate (no Kimpembe as he has a ruptured achilles and after this summer he only has one sub 30yo season left, Lucas Hernández, and no Lucas Hernández he is only 6 moth's younger, and is likely (ironically) going to PSG this summer) Josko Gvardiol Alessandro Bastoni (not leaving Inter) Sven Botman Evan Ndicka (he is leaving on a free) Piero Hincapié Gonçalo Inácio' Micky van de Ven

send him to Villa and he gets FAR less time on the pitch plus us loaning Casadei to them aids in pulling Caicedo, they have European footie, so lots of minutes and a less congested MF roster I can't be arsed over our stupid mistake of hiring the poundland wizard from them, that was on us, not Brighton same for CuCu, WE were the fools there

£70m and buh bye

Bad decision to let him go and sacrifice his playing time for the likes of Lukaku. fixed

only thing I am really irate about is that fuckeroo donkeykaku missing that header and this blowing out all chances of Inter buying him (more than likely) fat fucking shitgibbon

Pep is the first 2 time Euro Treble winning manager ever

Brighton needs MFers far more than Villa

many errant passes, plus he almost cost a goal with that overhit pass he looked nervous with the ball at his feet a lot

he was poor with his distribution and looked awkward on the ball

CMFs / DMFs still available (some barely) I am not listing Federico Valverde (pipe dream and not really remotely available) Declan Rice (so expensive, and we have no CL to offer) Nicolò Barella (probably a pipe dream) Frenkie de Jong (probably a pipe dream) Moisés Caicedo Martín Zubimendi Khéphren Thuram Gabri Veiga Manu Koné Carlos Soler Roméo Lavia Maxence Caqueret Sofyan Amrabat

681 combined top flight goals for club and country 209 combined topflight assists 890 total topflight goals produced madness that they are now (Auba) or most of the time (Rom) so utterly shit