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they let the cat out of the bag CR7 is coming to our house for a party as our birthday present to my asshole BIL in February

erm, did you see the way we were playing with the same manager and the same players since we won those? we have been crushed with injuries as well let's also drill down this was the CL Final-winning team: in BOLD BLACK are gone from the club (plus CHO, who is on loan) in Bold RED are players injured a tonne since in Bold BLUE are players who should stay (as should Reece and Chilwell) Of these the most contentious on here are only 2, Havertz and Mount, and both have been poor, under multiple managers at times in BOLD GREEN need to GO (Kante, listed in Bold Red already, IF he accepts OUR deal, then fine, he stays, as we will not get shit for him) Kepa perhaps as a backup, but I would rather sell him there is NO legit debate on the greens, they are all done with us as a way forward, poor players now, Jorginho is a fucking mess, the ONLY player on the planet (no bullshit) who made him acceptable was prime Kante and Wee Baldy is well spent as a day-to-day force GK 16 Édouard Mendy CB 28 César Azpilicueta (c) CB 6 Thiago Silva 39' CB 2 Antonio Rüdiger 57' RB 24 Reece James LB 21 Ben Chilwell CM 5 Jorginho CM 7 N'Golo Kanté AM 29 Kai Havertz AM 19 Mason Mount 80' CF 11 Timo Werner 66' Substitutes: GK 1 Kepa Arrizabalaga (back up only) GK 13 Willy Caballero DF 3 Marcos Alonso DF 4 Andreas Christensen 39' DF 15 Kurt Zouma DF 33 Emerson MF 10 Christian Pulisic 66' MF 17 Mateo Kovačić 80' MF 20 Callum Hudson-Odoi (Loan) MF 22 Hakim Ziyech MF 23 Billy Gilmour FW 18 Olivier Giroud who? certainly none of the ones in Green (the gotta goes) plus Kai has struggled under every manager here Mount has struggled now lately under Tuchel and under Potter the others in Blue, ie the stays (Thiago and Kova), plus Reece, Chilwell, and Kante are fine when fully healthy

will he accept being a backup on a team with no CL?

حكيم زيياش Contract expires: Jun 30, 2025

140 goals in less than 2 full season's worth of minutes as a 12yo to 15yo playing against 15yos (a few) and mostly 16, 17yos up to to 23yos this is his first run of games as a TWELVE YEAR OLD, playing against mostly 16, 17yos (a smaller amount of 15yos in the mix too) in 80 minute games (so almost a full games less worth of minutes basically over the ones where he played the full 80): 24 goals, 5 assists in 12 games (939 minutes played), as a 12 year old playing against mostly 4 to 5 year older players he turned 13 on Nov 20, 2017 also he is the youngest goalscorer in Bundesliga history (you can't play in it until you turn 16) he scored 3 goals in 4 and a half games worth of minutes then

I am NOT going to go negative on the Felix deal right out of the blocks let's see what the lad can do I do not get Auba vibes off this move

get this done ASAP!!!!

yep, everyone's a critic yet repeatedly I have asked numerous other posters who they would go for (and not just about Enzo either) in terms of players we are not linked with and/or are blowing off and................

again I never said we should pursue them but what I was saying is that I (at the beginning of the season) for sure would have taken (all things being equal) those players listed over the players I compared them too we had SHIT for CFs Auba?? Come on, Broja? Never have been sold and that was pre injury I already explained KK (and for SURE, due to the cash, Fofana) v Botman Bruno is a no brainer and I long ago fell off the Mendy bandwagon, he was a one season wonder Kepa was a crazy bad mistake, all because Marina stupidly thought that she could twist Cuntois' arm into renewing (this was during 2016/17 season, which should have been his last one with us), so instead of selling him THE YEAR BEFORE we ended up doing so to Real Madrid (they would have paid 80m-90m plus for him in summer 2017) and buying Alisson (that was when he was still only part time with Roma) or Oblak (whose release clause was then €20m less than it is now) in that 2017 summer window.

lol £79m to £88m for Randal Kolo Muani Eintracht is on crack https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2023/01/10/liverpool-transfer-news-kolo-muani-director-88m-january/ Eintracht Frankfurt sporting director Markus Krosche confirmed that the club will not sell Liverpool-linked striker, Randal Kolo Muani, even if a £88 million (€100 million) offer comes through the door in January. In December, TEAMtalk had relayed a story about Jurgen Klopp’s side being ‘seduced’ by the prospect of signing Kolo Muani. However, Sky Germany had only recently reported that the French forward was feeling ‘comfortable’ at Frankfurt. https://www.footballfancast.com/Chelsea-transfer-rumours/Chelsea-transfer-randal-kolo-muani-eintracht-frankfurt-premier-league However, with the Frenchman having signed from Nantes on a free transfer last summer, the report continues to state that his German Bundesliga outfit would not grant a departure for anything less than €90m (£79m). The news came just days before the Blue verbally agreed to sign Joao Felix on loan from Atletico Madrid with the Portuguese potentially able to strike up an exciting partnership should Kolo Muani also walk through the door this month.

I said better than Azpi (at the present time, not prime Azpi), just to be clear. at the start of the season: Pope was a better GKer than Mendy or Kepa, not by miles, but still better IMHO Botman over KK (and I have said this long before KK came here, I took KK off my lists due to age and cost 2 years ago or so and did rep Botman for ages, to a point) Bruno Guimarães is better than any MFer we have at present (Kante is too injured), and as we have now very likely failed on Enzo, he is who I would at least TRY to pull for a Jorginho deep lying DMF (and like Enzo, Bruno can also offer a goal threat) Isak and Wilson are both better than any CF (at present, hopefully down the road DDF blows up) we have on the sr team finally......... that all said, I am NOT advocating to buy any of those, other than Bruno (Pope would make a great backup GKer if we had Oblak or a couple others)

he cannot move until July 1, 2023, as he has already played for 2 clubs (us and for 8 fucking minutes, Barca) this season, so we are stuck with him

Mauricio Pochettino 'would be willing to take the Chelsea job' should under-fire Graham Potter be axed by the Blues, despite the Argentine's links to rivals Tottenham https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11621331/Mauricio-Pochettino-willing-Chelsea-job-fire-Graham-Potter-axed.html

he will someday destroy us in multiple games in the future I fear and we have now burnt the Benfica bridge, plus look dodgy with other clubs all over a disasterclass move by Boehly et al.

we cannot sell or even loan him until 2023/2024 fucking Barca played him 8 minutes in a game

you are being far too harsh on NUFC they are better than us at multiple positions: GK, one of the CB slots (for now, let's see what Badiashile does), RB when we have no Reece (Trippier is a better fullback than Azpi is now), DMF, AMF/RWer (depending on the formastion), and CF (they have two who are better than anything we have atm) (we do blow them away in depth though) their best starting players Nick Pope Sven Botman Dan Burn Matt Targett Kieran Trippier Bruno Guimarães (world class) Joelinton (reborn as a MFer) Miguel Almirón (on fire, tracking to 20 or so league goals) Allan Saint-Maximin Alexander Isak Callum Wilson

absolute, unmitigated bollocks Enzo is a rare transformative type of player who can systematically impact the entire warp and weft of a side he is easily worth £75 to £85m (few but the most dull of knives in the drawer would be up in arms at that price range) so NOW you are going to label the act of dropping £20 to £30m over that range in order to beat other massive clubs to him as insanity? We overspent £30m or so ON JUST CUCURELLA ffs We just shit away £95m on KK (salary + fee) just in transfer fees since 2015, we have shit away around £750m, and that could rise to 1 BILLION QUID if the Boehly buys who still can go either way go into the bin/bust category: yet you are going bonkers over 20 or 30 million pounds extra spend (if it even is, but I am being generous) in regards to Enzo??? (who also would have been paid a wage FAR below what Bellingham or Rice will command, btw) this TC board just kills me sometimes LOLOLOL

Kova did have a buy option (despite what the Sun and Marca falsely claimed a year before we bought him). It is how we were able to perma buy Kova despite the transfer ban. Chelsea have agreed to buy midfielder Mateo Kovacic from Real Madrid for £40.3million. https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/Chelsea-agree-to-buy-mateo-kovacic-for-ps40-3m-from-real-madrid-a4177091.html The Blues are able to make the transfer despite being banned from signing players by Fifa for two windows due to breaching rules over the acquisition of foreign minors. Kovacic spent last season on loan at Stamford Bridge so as long as the switch is finalised by June 30, the Croatia international won’t count as a new player because he is already registered as a member of Chelsea’s squad. As Standard Sport reported last summer when they first acquired the 25-year-old, there was an option in place to negotiate a permanent switch. Chelsea were having second thoughts about doing so with Kovacic struggling to make much of an impression last term, creating just two assists and failing to find the net. How did Chelsea sign Kovacic when they have a transfer ban? https://www.goal.com/en/news/how-did-Chelsea-sign-kovacic-when-they-have-a-transfer-ban/1rg32e770efg31mbkg9yc6aw15 How did Chelsea sign Kovacic? Despite being banned by FIFA from signing players for the next 12 months until the 2020 summer window, Chelsea managed to acquire Kovacic permanently because of a loophole in their transfer suspension. The Croatian joined the club on loan for the duration of last season and the agreement between Chelsea and Real Madrid stipulated the Blues had the option to purchase Kovacic for €45m (£40m/$51m) before June 30, 2019. Because Kovacic's loan deal between the two clubs was signed off on before Chelsea's transfer ban was implemented in February, they can sign the player permanently without flouting the rules. Last season at the club under Sarri, Kovacic made 51 appearances in all competitions as he helped the club to the Europa League title and a Premier League top-four finish. Kovacic was technically purchased by Chelsea while they are without a manager, with club legend Frank Lampard set to be appointed in the role imminently.

Inter Milan President Steven Zhang Wanted To Sign Paulo Dybala But Simone Inzaghi Asked For Romelu Lukaku https://sempreinter.com/2023/01/11/inter-milan-president-steven-zhang-wanted-to-sign-paulo-dybala-but-simone-inzaghi-asked-for-romelu-lukaku-italian-media-claim/ Inter President Steven Zhang had wanted to sign Paulo Dybala on a free transfer this summer, but coach Simone Inzaghi asked the club to sign Romelu Lukaku instead. This according to Italian news outlet Calciomercato.com, who claim that it had been the coach’s insistence that Lukaku’s characteristics were the better fit for the team than Dybala’s which led the Nerazzurri to prioritize bringing the Belgian back on loan from Chelsea. Inter were involved in prominent transfer sagas with both Lukaku and Dybala during the summer, but only the former ended up signing. It had been reported that once Lukaku was signed to reinforce the attack, the Nerazzurri’s interest in signing Dybala cooled significantly, as there were by that point already four senior forwards in the squad. According to Calciomercato, Dybala had been the dream target for Zhang, once the Argentine became available on a free transfer from Serie A rivals Juventus. However, the report claims, Nerazzurri coach Inzaghi felt that as far as the attacking style of play that he wanted to institute in the team, Lukaku would be the better fit. In the end, the coach got what he wanted, as Lukaku made a high-profile return to Inter just one season after making a massive money move to Chelsea. According to Calciomercato, however, the club’s President Zhang had always seen Dybala as the preferable target of the two.

We only have ONE healthy decent (potentially) CF atm DDF (who could be a Jonathan David clone, but 2 inches taller) Auba can go sod off Kai is not a CF, he is an hybrid AMF/winger and a false 9 Nkunku is a straight up SS and also plays AMF Felix is a SS who plays wider at times, or even at No 10 at times Moukoko IS a CF, who also can play on either wing if needed now IF we did buy Thuram, then yes, you have a valid point so let's just grab Moukoko and forget Thuram

Which is why we should be all over Moukoko to move here NOW and not fuck about with Thuram