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Juve are in shambles, I think if ever there was a good time to pull Miretti, it is now, IF we actually rate him those 2, plus our Cesare Casadei are all similar Italian CMF's all 3 are close in age too Fabio Miretti Date of birth/Age: Aug 3, 2003 (19) Cesare Casadei Date of birth/Age: Jan 10, 2003 (20) Nicolò Fagioli Date of birth/Age: Feb 12, 2001 (21)

IF (and the only reason I would think would be he just keeps getting injured) we sell Chilwell there are only 3 left backs I am going to accept Alphonso Davies (Bayern may just sell him, he is unhappy, having a bit of a drop in form, and they just bought Cancelo who plays better on the left than the right) Nuno Mendes (but FFS, we just pissed off PSG something terrible) Theo Hernández (I am a bit off the boil due to his poor defence) Borna Sosa will also surely be a target, but I worry about his defence as well

I know why there is the speculation on Kova. Kova turns 30 at the end of next season, and his contract expires right after he turns 30, on Jun 30, 2024 That is about the most unclear case of a player's age and contract expiration as you can get, certianly within a year either way for both age and contract relative to age expiration date. If he was 2 years younger, then sure, renew him for 4 years, as he would be 32yo old at the very end (so the age of him from now until then would be playing at age 26, 27 to just turning at the end 32 (so 31yo in reality for the last year), aka prime AF years. BUT he is not two years younger, so the same situ yields playing time from 28, 29 now to just turning 34yo, in reality 33 for most of the last year, so 2 or even 3 pretty not prime years. Its a real quandary. This summer is the last you can get max or near max money for him, we all know that except for a few CFs, then the top GKers, and of course Messi/CR7 types, the value slams down when you hit 30 years of age or more, especially 31. Some people always fight with me (not just here, lol, every where I talk about footie, real life or internet) about my age theory for football, but look at the record, I am spot on I truly feel. I also am flexible and make more exceptions now, as I now have more years of real time observation myself, and have relaxed a lot on CFs and CBs. Look at my predictions on fullbacks and DMFs and the 30yo age barrier, and how, for instance, I called Kante's downfall (and said sell him for several years) due to predicted injures (from both age and minutes performing his style of atomic pinball of death and destruction play) years in advance.

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Marks and Sparks???? we are way above that somewhat quotidian level we are deffo shopping in Harrods Food Hall or the Harvey Nichols Foodmarket

I am surprised you did not mention Fabio Miretti over Nicolò Fagioli versus

he is just pissed that we have the first yank modern EPL owners who actually splash cash in never before seen ways and do it smartly (other than the summer 2022 madness, as Boehly had no true advice in his ears then, so got roped on some crazy bad deals) FSG at Pool and the Kroenkes at Arse try to do things on the cheap too much and the Manure Glazers spent a shedload, but badly for ages

I am a huge sceptic of so much in football I RIP apart players I do not rate and even then if I see a special player I dig in and go hardcore on my track record on those, going all the way back to 2012 Eden and of course de Bruyne (I will never get over us selling with no buyback or right of first refusal, never), is pretty damn solid and Enzo IS in that 'OMFG I WANT them SOOOOOOOOOOOO BADLY' category here are some of them (and to show I am doing thsi is complete good faith, I cannot claim Salah, nor Ruben Dias, nor Benz, nor VVD, nor Modric, nor Håland at Salzburg, nor Vini Jr, nor even Kante at Leicester (loved the signing, did not see how MONSTER the wee baldy man would go) and I would never count Messi or CR7) so.............. Bellingham Enzo Gvardiol Osimhen Warren Zaïre-Emery (16yo who is, from all I can see, a different planet level good MFer already) Hakimi in early Dortmund days Tchouameni (GRRRRRRRRRRRR, fucking board in 2021, fucking our shit scouts, GRRRRRRRR) Nuno Mendes whilst at Sporting, and now obviously, PSG Ronald Araújo (gutted when we failed to prise him from Barca, I think he may end up better even than Skriniar) Nkunku (starting in 2021 a switch flipped) Camavinga at Rennes Skriniar (for ages) Oblak (for ages) Alphonso Davies (I saw his first games as a LB, as he came as a winger from Vancouver in the MLS, and was like HOLY FUCK) Nicolò Barella (for years) not quite there yet with 2: Rafael Leão and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (but getting closer) now older Mbappe whilst at Monaco, now he is a pipe dream KK ages ago (OH THE IRONY!! as I took him off my lists 2 years back, the proof is on this board, and IMHO he is the worst buy Boehly did) Kimmich (as a RB, ages ago, I will not claim I saw him also going WC at DMF) Alex Sandro (ages ago) Thiago Silva (for ages, but then I gave up, oh foolish me!) Lewa at Dortmund (Bayern days is too easy), ALWAYS thought he was vastly better back back then than peak Auba ever was Eden at Lille (I was the opposite of the Oscar fans, I was SO exited about Hazard, and a bit sceptical on Oscar) Leonardo Bonucci (2009/10 whilst he was at Bari (my brother's BF way back then was a DJ from Bari (omg, he was so fooking hawt, if I wasn't a lesbi and if I was 3 year older or so back then, well, fag hag time!! lolol) who spun in London and Ibiza as well as Rome and he was a football NUTTER, who raved about him every time we talked footie), you could tell the lad was SPECIAL)

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/article/enzo-fernandez-the-biography

yes, the deal is long done and dusted, he comes in early summer

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we should REALLY try and help PSG sort this have Thiago help that is a BAD club to piss off I never had very much ill will at all towards them either they do buy so many of my favourite targets though, lol player they bought or have I wanted badly some these are from years ago (italics) Gianluigi Donnarumma (was my 2nd choice after Oblak for ages) Marquinhos Presnel Kimpembe Nuno Mendes Achraf Hakimi Nordi Mukiele Warren Zaïre-Emery Defensive Midfield Mar 8, 2006 (16) my newest youth obsession, crazy good, sky's the limit Marco Verratti Vitinha Carlos Soler Kylian Mbappé Hugo Ekitiké

we had our shot in 2012 ☹️ Chelsea rejected 13-year-old Mbappe for not being able to defend https://www.marca.com/en/football/international-football/2018/09/14/5b9b7b3f46163fcb198b456e.html

what a bitter bitter rinsed cunt that old cunt is

still gutted Robben did not score on that breakaway the poor Dutchies, what heartbreaks they have had at the WC the footballing powerhouses (and this includes over the entire sweep of the WC) that have not won a WC Netherlands Portugal Croatia (most amazing ultra small footballing nation ever, and just think if they were part of a re-united Yugoslavia team, see below) Sweden (4 top 4 WC finishes, we should have won in 1994, as we had Brasil on the ropes, and we showed our class in the 3rd place game, plus we almost won in 1958, would have if not for a certain 17yo Brasilian who ended up the greatest player ever, lol) now we may well never come close again though, who knows, maybe if there is a crazy global war and we take in 2 million or more refugees, like we did from 1996 to 2016, lol) Hungary (REALLY should have won in 1954) Belgium Czechoslovakia (doesn't exist anymore) that is it in terms of still current or historical powerhouses (the Soviet Union poofed over 30 years ago, so did Yugoslavia (my dog what teams they would have if 100 per cent reunited again, they have had, if you count the counties that made them up and then one they did themselves, FIVE top 4 WC finishes) and then Denmark and Poland had spells of dominance, but nothing like the other teams listed, same for Chile and Colombia, and no African nation qualifies, sorry Africa

10000% that is Joe Shields

10000% that is Joe Shields

yes, why not? am I missing something?

I am looking at Citeh, and they have some issues, the type that will only get worse if not addressed (they still have some insane assets, best on planet assets though) if no Ederson, they are semi fucked at GKer they need a rebound from Dias and Rodri and for Stones to keep playing his best football of his life they are fucked at FB IMHO they have MF issues due to age and the likely leaving of Bernardo and Gundogan at winger, Mahrez is ageing, and Grealish has been a semi bust, but Foden is a monster (well can and should be), they only have those 3 (unless you play the probably leaving Bernardo at RWer) Ederson great GK Stefan Ortega meh backup GK Rúben Dias slumped wee a bit this year, not the clear best CB on the planet like he was Aymeric Laporte he will only go downhill from here, soon 30 and never fully recovered from his bad knee injury John Stones had a great year, can he keep it up? Nathan Aké had a decent year Manuel Akanji had a decent year Sergio Gómez shit Benjamin Mendy rapist shit Kyle Walker turns 34 at the end of next season Rico Lewis not sold 100% on him at all, and he is smallish, in his favour, he is only 18, so mad potential Rodri like Dias, slumped a bit Kalvin Phillips injuries have fucked him so far, can he still be the player he was? Máximo Perrone this lad COULD be a steal, could be the next Enzo, will be key to Citeh storming back in the future, if he is the real deal Ilkay Gündogan probably gone and he turns 33yo in October Kevin De Bruyne turns 33yo right after next season ends, so he will eventually slow down Bernardo Silva likely gone Cole Palmer not sold on him yet Jack Grealish sort of a bust IMHO, especially for a 100 million quid Riyad Mahrez will turn 33yo next winter Erling Haaland Monster, but he cannot one man carry them, look at thsi season, he will score 50 plus goals and they may not win shit Julián Álvarez soon to be WC backup

oh, yes where they listed Enzo at 120m QUID, ffs, on that graphic but the rest was correct, and the Athletic rarely makes errors like that

pay Ligue 1 a cock-up fee , send all of PSG a world class Sunday roast dinner and let the fucking deal go through!!!! ffs, it is not rocket science

if we do not get at least top 4 in the league in 2023/24 something is SERIOUSLY FUCKED my dog, look at the squad we will have!!!!!!!! (and we will add more key players this summer window coming up) clone Pep and de Bruyne put them on both us and Citeh add in our 3 (the 4th is Gvardiol in 2024, when his clause kicks in) main and very achievable non insane goals in summer 2023 (proper Keeper (Oblak here finally would make me (its fake) squirt, lol), a proper DMF to aid Enzo (whether trad smasher like Rice or Lavia (he is a hybrid IMHO), or a pinball of death like Barella or Caicedo or finally a Kone type hybrid) and a decent CF (not crazytown spend like Osimhen or Vlahovic, just a Toney or David or Mitrovic type) and we would SMASH Citeh in a best of 7 or best of 15 we each would have the x factor (KdB, which is why I SO WANT ARSEN STILL, as cloning is fantasy) and the same Manager and other than Foden, (Silva is likely gone) and of course Häland at CF we are streets ahead or pretty even at worst everywhere else our fullbacks OBLITERATE theirs atm (when healthy of course) our CMF/DMFs would blow them away our bench (and when could a team ever say thsi v Citeh, will decimate theirs, unless they GO WILD this summer) even if we did NOT have de Bruyne, and the only thing we shared was Pep (I do that to do a pure squad v squad test) our squad will and would be better and I believe would still smash them

put down the pipe dumping 2/3rds is 26 of the 39 GONE leaving 13, roflmaoooooooooooooooooo

I meant cocked up in any way, us, the other club, the player refusing (like Gallgher to Everton for £45m in total (£40m +5 in addons), and then WE refused to sell him to NUFC for £50m) sorry for not being clearer