King Kante

Yeah, my bad, I thought Atom was saying hard pass to Aguero.

If you can't get Håland what is your suggestion?

Not saying it would happen. I am just saying hard ball them. They do not have a striker and are playing a utility player as CF at the moment. Further, they paid £40m+ for Haller and next season they are likely to be playing European football so they need to buy a number of players to bulk out their squad due to the demands. Tammy is going to be wanted for a variety of reasons: good goals to minutes record, age, passport. I would put all of the following teams in the bracket that could want him: WHU, Palace, Brighton, Soton (if Ings goes), Wolves (if Jimenez is a goner), Newcastle (if they stay up.) Essentially play all those teams off of each other if they show interest. For me Tammy is a serviceable CF2 at a club like ours who is HG and cost us only his development fee. If teams want him then we should put demands on them like they do the big clubs when they come calling for one of their better players. So, all in all, I am not saying that the proposed suggestion was a definite transfer that could happen, rather it should be what we tell them if they come calling because, who else are they going to sign at CF outside of him?

For me, Rice at 22 is better off at Wet Spam. In a year or two maybe look to move them as his fee will be lower and he can get better wages. Moving to us as a boyhood fan with his brofriend here is one thing, going to Utd for a mega fee and putting yourself under that pressure (and probably costing you more in the long run) is another

Looks like ol' Drinky has been on the Drink again: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/premier-league/Chelsea-outcast-discusses-unfinished-business-as-he-targets-stamford-bridge-return/ar-BB1frxRV

Mendy Zouma AC Rudi CHO Kova Kante Alonso Mount Puli Giroud

If Rice is part if the package I do not see that being an option. Tbf, we actually really need a CM/DMF with Rice's abilities. Only other options for me are: SMS, Gravenberch and Camavinga. However, all these options have issues: 1) SMS has big questions over his stamina and ability to pick up the pace of the league. However, technically he is a very good footballer for a player of his size with both his feet. Furthermore, we could actually do with a player of his age profile as we don't have enough in the 25-29 category. 2) Camavinga is still super young and only had Ligue 1 experience. We need a player in the middle who is ready to go day one. Obviously has a lot of potential and the natural ability to be the best of the lot but he may need some time and would be super hard to get hold of and expensive. 3) Gravenberch. Similar to Camavinga but probably a little more ready for the PL physically. However, players from the Dutch league always feel like a crap shoot for me.

Tammy and say £10m for Rice then that is ok. If not, they can jog on. I am not the biggest Tammy fan, however I do worry he is one of those CF's that don't look anything that special then gets to 25 and becomes a machine. Both Drogba and Costa were like this.

The score line is essentially 2 v 3.5. It is not absolutely dire for a team like Bayern who can score for fun, especially against a team like PSG who are notoriously flaky in big games.

Amazing the continuing influence Lampard has on the club to ensure his son plays every week.

Don't worry boys and girls, agent Batsh*t just did us a massive favour!

Non-story.

At this moment in time, it is not looking likely unless we pull a 2012 off again.

Don't see Dortmund qualifying for the CL via the league. They're 7 points behind now with a harder run in and only 7 games left.

Horrible performance. Too many players looked like they thought this would be a walk in the park.

Jorgi is having an absolute nightmare.

True! But he was a free agent. A bit different to €60m+ Eto'o in 2009 and €150m for Håland today.

Tbf, Pep doesn't really play with a CF and he inherited Kun. He could be telling the truth on this one. Only time he brought a big CF it was a clusterf*ck (Zlatan.)

Because they were born in the North-East and still have family friends in the area?

Inter's owners are in a bit of trouble I think. They had to fold their Chinese club after winning the league. It could be they need to fire sell and/or sell the club.

I think Billy will have a good chance of starting this one. Kova played 90 mins, Kante has a minor injury. Revised team, after internationals: Mendy Dave Silva Zouma James Jorgi Billy Alonso Puli Ziyech Giroud

Barkley's wage means he will probably enter Drinky/Kepa/Batsh*t territory soon i.e. cannot be sold owing to their wage. Same with RLC.

Think he needs to go to a sports psychiatrist. This is getting slightly ridiculous now.

Why? For me you have two options. One you can go down a route of a cap (which is applicable to every team in Europe) like the NFL where every team has a firm cap of say £200m a year that they cannot go over, or you have a free market where you can do what you want. For me, this issue is about parity. You can either have no rules and allow all teams to have the opportunity to get lucky and get an owner like Roman/Abu Dhabi/Qatar or you have a cap, which limits all teams in exactly the same manner. This whole notion of FFP or teams 'only spending what they earn' sounds to me like a stitch up by the biggest clubs as it allows them to hamper small teams from growing or finding external finances. I agree if the money was true debt (i.e. bank debt) then this is an issue but select teams cannot be going about dictating rules about what 'type' of money can and cannot be used to solidify their position. For instance what is worse? Real Madrid and Barca having nearly £1bn in debt to banks (and insist on rules that prevent other clubs with lower turn over to do the same) or City/Chelsea/PSG who bring personal external finances into the game?

Problem however is that those rules would never have been legally binding in a court of law as they contravened the EU's movement of capital laws. I get that City broke the rules and pretended to go along with them, however the rules would never hold up in court, which is probably the real reason it has been canned.