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It is not negative. I keep reading that he wants to come to Chelsea, but I think a statement like that is more to not offend Man City and Man Utd who have also been linked to him.

Not feeling the vibe.

Barca is the ultimate success where he is from. It may not remain that way, but it is still the most prestigious club for South Americans.

It would leave Dembele on the outside.

Doesn’t sound like Barca sealed the deal.

Stop pissing around and finish the Sterling deal. Go back for Ake, but Man City putting £50m or even if it is €50m, walk away.

It puts €200M in their hands, but they need a lot of it to register players they have already purchased.

I am not buying everything that is being spun. A simple call to check on the status of the deal is reported as trying to hijack. It would need to be an actual offer and I doubt that happened.

I will move it to the loan army thread, but we still own him, sadly.

I had to save this drawing just because it triggered the big baby.

Lazio asks for 70 million and Chelsea offers Loftus-Cheek and Emerson Palmieri to lower the money for Milinkovic-Savic

I debated putting this in the transfer thread or the Boehly thread, but I think it has a lot of bearing on why so many key figures at the Club have left so quickly. Not sure the Marketing team operates in isolation from the rest of the administration. Chelsea’s owners have told us they hired an external review team amid barrage of allegations by current and former staff against head of marketing. Club also contacted family of former Chelsea TV head Richard Bignell who took his own life in January.

I think the biggest problem is Laporte manipulates the crap out of journos associated with Barca. They can be reporting exactly what is being told to them and it was BS from the source.

Sergej Savic and his agent are traveling to London today to meet with Chelsea. This tweet thread has some good information about him.

We better start finding homes for attackers.

Man Utd are poking around now.