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That loan fee was actually a penalty fee if Broja didn't get a certain amount of minutes. Broja was expected to play until Muniz hit some good form. Broja is a striker who suffered a horrific knee injury and has stagnated/regressed ever since. In contrast, we got Jackson for less than what we are demanding for Broja, and with PSR now in full affect clubs are going to be a lot smarter with their spending. Chelsea Told Asking Price For £35m Star Is 'Too Ambitious'

I'll eat my shoe if we get more than 20m for Broja.

Bad. It's just piling on more risk for short term gain. I fear for this football club if we don't finish Top 4 next season.

But what about UEFA

Brighton are in the beach so we should be all over them intensity wise.

Who cares about City? Really?

Didn’t we even agree terms with him? Swear we had a 3/4 here we go from Romano back in August of 2022. Just had to figure out price. Makes it all the worse that money went towards a certain CB earning 200kpw being in a hospital bed.

Past few weeks it’s been sounding like owners have already made their decision and are giving him the cold shoulder.

Tuchel vs Ratcliffe. What could go wrong.

Real are about to spend 40m euros on an young Argentine midfielder.

Who knows what the club intends on doing, especially with Wesley Fofana.

Yeah, for Eze.

I don't expect Napoli/DeLaurentiis to put a fair valuation on Lukaku at all. I can only see this somewhat escalating if Conte is the new manager and puts pressure to bring in Lukaku.

There isn't a plan. They just don't want to miss out on another potential wonderkid like they did with Endrick. If you give in to the hypothetical Hutchinson and Angelo will be sold for profit, it doesn't look too bad on paper. -Palmer, Nkunku, and Paez are players that can play as either inside forwards or at CAM. Their versatility will come in handy. -Madueke and Estevao are strictly RW. Really is all we need in that area.

Eze would make the most sense but we'd need to offload Sterling in the process and that isn't happening.

He genuinely may have ruined his career moving to United. Least he's home.

He would break Dortmund's transfer record if they trigger it. They are going to be asking to pay much less. Hopefully Bayern come knocking to replace Davies with him.

De Zerbi worries me. A lot.

The team has balance because of Cucurella and Caicedo. Gallagher can still hound for the ball without jeopardizing the space he leaves. We saw in preseason Poch loved to have cover in midfield but then he just completely abandoned it and profiled Caicedo as this lone DM. Enzo covers a lot of ground so calling him lazy is wrong. Not to mention he's been playing with a hernia issue since November.

I'm trying to prove that your logic has no middle ground. Caicedo isn't Rodri or Kroos. Doesn't mean he's average technically and can't influence games. Your definition of 'dragging a team when the chips are down' is also incredibly flawed as I've showed you 2 matches alone where Caicedo's balancing influence in midfield had neither West Ham or Spurs at any point control the match. Or do we need our DM to be scoring screamers like Essien to fit your definition? I just showed you nearly 5 clips from 3 matches alone of his passing ability to refute your claim all he does is pass sideways and you have the gull to downplay each and every one just to prove you were right. Much like @robsblubot's absurdity in now downplaying Serie A when proven wrong. (Even though Italy now has a higher coefficient than England) It's pathetic and your agenda shows. I'm also not going to let you rewrite history as Kante was an incredibly frustrating player in the final third and with the final pass. No one can play Caicedo's role without good technical ability given how he's utilised in the build up. Kante may have been a tidy dribbler, but the last time he was playing in Caicedo's role, 80% of this fanbase wanted him sold under Lampard. He couldn't build out of a press without either losing the ball or dribbling and creating gaps in front of the defence. But yeah lets continue with the selective attention of my post about Caicedo dribbling past West Ham's midfield. Reckon I could actually show you and you'd still find a way to down play it.

I literally saw Stanislav Lobotka lifting the Serie A trophy for Napoli with his whopping 1 goal and 1 assist from DM. Or does that not count now? Also, do you mean the same Declan Rice who has been utilized as a box to box now that Jorginho and Partey are the DMs? Arsenal are taking City to the final game with Jorginho and Partey in the team. Jorginho - 0 goals/2 assists Partey - 0 goals/0 assists. If they win the league, does that not count? Bloody hell, fucking Fabinho when Liverpool won the league only had 2 goals and 3 assists.

You were just shown a video demonstrating Caicedo's ability with the ball and you disregarded it saying "NOPE. WON"T CHANGE MY MIND I SEE HIM EVERY WEEK." Why should anyone waste their time convincing you? 😂 For arguments sake, last 3 matches alone where he provided influence in both the attacking and defensive end. VS Villa when we needed to get back into the game. @0:20 splits midfield for Palmer to turn and play Jackson @0:23 Lob to find Jackson who scores but ruled offsides marginally. @0:56 Expected Threat @1:17 Dink to Jackson @1:30 split through ball to Madueke VS Spurs were he was instructed to dominate the midfield. Lost track of how many tackles he won. @1:55 drops the shoulder and sends Bentancur back to Uruguay. VS West Ham Yes we need our DM to be an expansive goal scoring midfielder/assist machine for us to be a title winning side. Someone tell Makalele, Matic, Mikel, and Kante to return their Premier League winners medals because they weren't goal scorers/pass masters. Just wished we only improved on them...

Lmao never change TalkChelsea never change. You’d think Caicedo was fucking Bakayoko with the way some members speak about him. 😂 Christ almighty he’s more than fine on the ball. This game alone I saw Caicedo drop the shoulder and send Paqueta back to Brazil and dribble past the entire west ham midfield. As far as through balls/xT are concerned, either you are pretending to not see them to suit your agenda or you’re blind as a bat.

Looking as good as he ever had with Cucurella inverted next to him.

Stick with Poch then. Motta still too early.