NikkiCFC

Not sold on Mudryk at all. Pepe, Sancho, Antony performed in much better leagues and all flopped. He reminds me of Grealish from Villa another flop at City.

Just add Gvardiol, Davies (they are huge favourites for both) and Reece or Hakimi and that's full starting lineup of world class young players. And GK.

Newcastle only loss this season has been against Liverpool in late August with 98th minute goal. Before that in early May at Etihad. They are exceptional.

So in last month we strengthen every line in the team. Very exciting signings. Badiashile, Enzo and Nkunku. We know we need backup for Reece and that should be a cheep player anyway. Moukoko is worth gambling for free in the summer but he is also more for the future like many of guys we signed. After all of this, how short are we still for title race? What should be priority in the summer?

I have been crying for dropping 3 atb system but ironically I think this is best bet again for current set of players after latest signings. I am not optimistic about top4 this season but in CL who knows, it is a specific competition, everything is possible. In CL we could go with 352: Fofana Silva Badiashile James Kante Enzo Kovacic Chilwell This team would be very hard to break.

Will Bettinelli give Enzo his number 13? 24 his Argentina number also taken by Reece. Badiashile can take 3 maybe.

When Lamps was here, Ole at United and Arteta in Arsenal I remember saying he is not in category with those two. With him you could see there is something long term. With Ole and Lamps no chance. It was clear waste of time. I will give more time to Potter but he is not far away from being in that category for me. Regarding Pep and Klopp have they been successful really? Klopp is in his 8th season with Liverpool and have one PL (same as Leicester in this period and us and maybe Arsenal soon). One CL also from major silverware. He definitely improved them a lot but one PL and one CL doesn't screem big success to me. Guardiola also... Mancini and Pellegrini both won PL before him with weaker side. He came, spend over a billion and never got CL. They are always number one favourite to win title. So 4 out of 7 (assuming Ars takes it this season) is not so impressive. In CL total failure every time and this is their biggest goal and main reason why he is there. Getting knocked out by teams like Monaco, Lyon. And Liverpool, Spurs, Chelsea who all fought for top4 at the time they eliminated City in CL. And total collapse against Real last season as well. Don't forget Bayern won CL before him and after him. Not with him. If City replaced him 2,3 years ago maybe they would have it by now. This season for example according to bookmakers they are clear favourites. On one euro you get 2.80 for City win. First after them is with 8.00. So him not winning both CL and PL this season is huge failure worth sacking. United didn't really have competition in 90s. One team at best. In major European competition he participated 25 times with United and won it twice. Thanks to Terry slip and 2 late goals against Bayern in 99. So my conclusion is that no manager is perfect or even close to it. They all fail more than succeed. Carlo is also among the best and we wondered why we sacked him after finishing 1st and 2nd in PL but he didn't come close to CL in those 2 seasons. Very soon after that we won it so it was worth it. Nothing suggests long term manager is better choice.

Dudes started reporting about Enzo days before any of these reliable sources.

Alonso come back, everything is forgiven.

KK played Spiderman?

Odds are also against him. I watch football from beginning of this century and I never saw English manager delivering at top club. Him being the first one are close to zero.

Romano was days late after first reports about Enzo. I'm not worried. We want to pay 130m in installments so don't see what is stopping us to just pay release clause in case Benfica is messing around.

Beautiful story. Like with Leicester.

I think we told Benfica something like let's negotiate in our terms, you get more than release clause but in instalments if not we will for sure activate the clause so we have the laverage, we just need to make them happy and historically we have good relationship. Ramires, Matic, Luiz...

Not just us, in general biggest transfers almost never pay off. According to transfermarkt in history there were 12 transfers over 100m euros. 9 were total busts, Mbappe was worth it and we can argue about Neymar in PSG and Bale in Real. I would say Neymar is also bust because they never won CL and for sure they would win their leagues without him. Bale scored many important goals for Real so let's say he was a good buy. Nevertheless horrid record for these expensive players.

Benfica very close to first defeat this season.

Declan Rice relagation watch.

Everyone can write on Wiki no need to hack.

Bakayoko and 10m.

And you want to destroy all of that with Rice 😀

If Kante extends and puts his injuries behind, get back to his top form would be interesting to see him with Enzo.

River Plate will also get 25% of this transfer so 30m. So all together 40m for them. 80m profit for Benfica all together.

Enzo is also magnet for success. First he played on loan from River Plate to Defensa y Justicia. Against all odds they finished 2nd in Argentinian league and won Copa Sudamericana which is like Europe League. And after that they won SuperCup by beating continental champion Palmeiras. Then he returned to River and won the league. Benfica is flying this season and we know what happened with Argentina. All this in just 119 career games and a little bit over 2 years. Things are moving so quickly for him.

Average life expectancy for males in Brazil is 73. Highest life expectancy in the world for males is South Korea. 82.46 years. Pele was 82 and 2 months.