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It is but think about it This way. We don't need to worry about dm for 10 years. Real did the same with tchou. He is the right target.

Ffs we are not making top 4 this year. Our direct rival has strengthened a position we desperately needed. Liverpool may even challenge for the title now....

Just Caicedo and Kudus to get over the line.... Top 4 is not coming easy this year

And the circus continues.... when does eghbali fly to Brighton and say no.

If we miss out on caicedo we can kiss top 4 goodbye. We will be fighting for 6th with Brighton and Spuds.

Please no. He would be injured every other week, kick up a fuss and contribute less than he provides. Easy pass. The new team is based around noone being the star but rather it is a team effort. If you think back to a decade ago, that's exactly how it was. They were all stars rather than 1 or two running the show.

Even him running from amf to Rw would let sterling get in his favoured position of goalhanging

I was just about to make a depth team based on these signings GK - Sanchez, Marmashdaville and bettinelli RB - James and Gusto RCB- Thiago and Disasi LCB- Colwill and Badman (major battle for who gets top spot this season as I just took out colwill off my fantasy team because he now has serious competition in badiashile) P.S LCB is very dependent on who Thiago can get the most out of. At times last year Benoit played like a badman but looked lost when Thiago was out injured. I hope colwill has more confidence and could be future captain 26. LB- Chilwell CuCu and Maatsen (Hall loaned to Palace and straight into my fantasy team, Cucu probably demoted to cup games and cameos. Maatsen could do with a prem loan but we cant risk playing cucu for 6 months Pivot -Enzo, Caicedo with lavia (better prospect than adams) and Santos as depth AMF- MF Kudus pleaaaaase. We are screaming for a lampard type player for 10 years who can chip in with 10-15 goals a year. Chukwuemeka as backup. RW- Sterling and Noni (not my favoured side of attack). Kudus could do a job here until Nkunku is back LW- Mudryk and Sterling as a back up but I'd prefer to attack the side that doesn't have Sterling lol. ST- Jackson, Vlahovic, Broja So our 25 man squad would be as follows Sanchez Mamardashvili Bettinelli James Gusto Chilwell Maatsen Cucu Colwill Badiashile Thiago Disasi Enzo Caicedo Lavia/Gallagher (I think we know who is superior and it would be net zero - 10m loss for this to go through) Santos Kudus please ffs Sterling Madueke Mudryk Jackson Vlahovic Broja This is a realistic 23 man squad we should have been aiming for since the end of the season. Team still needs a season to gel but i think we can get top 4 or 6 and challenge for a cup. Maybe go for the league the year after like arsenal did. This is all dependent on if we can get caicedo and kudus over the line.

Sorry maybe I wasn't clear. I meant the signings from previous windows that have already had a chance to prove themselves like Cucu and Sterling. We all already know this though, My point was Midfield was where we were light for a few seasons now and it hasn't been addressed. Previous ownership is also to blame for letting it get to the point where we had to play Jorgi and Kova in a pivot when kante was perpetually injured. The midfield signing is going to be very important in my opinion and we can't afford a bust in that position this season because we need top 4. This is my point. The midfield signing should've been prioritised as we have 1 friendly left and little to no chance of the signing to get to play with Enzo before the season starts.

I hate to be the pessimist again but doesn't anyone feel like the circus is continuing? All of our signings have been busts apart from Enzo who we overpaid for after he had a WC under his belt. I had hope for fofana but alas :(. I have hope for the Brazilian lad that just got his visa though. The truth is I would be more comfortable sealing caicedo no matter what and have chalobah/humphreys and colwill/badman with Silva alternating, rather than buy yet another mediocre player. Idk much about disasi but he definitely isn't gvardiol level. I can only imagine it's because poch doesn't rate one of chalobah or humphreys (who I know is a bit young but now his route to the team is blocked). Arse, Manure and pool (our competitors for top 4) have all spent their 100-200m and are integrating their players in friendlies. We would be lucky to just sign a DM before the season starts. Hope if we've moved on from caicedo things will move quicker, but it's a big step down to lavia or kone.

Mbappe will not go to a club that is not in CL. There is no point talking about feasibility. Vivell leaving is really weird. Even more so than the tuchel sacking. I saw on reddit someone saying that his role overlapped with Winstanley and Stewart, and another saying he was upset about having to answer to Stewart whereas in RB he only answered to the board. In any case, it makes us look like a circus when people come and go like a revolving door.

Sorry my request for FPL sub is my last deviation from transfers. Although tbf, there isn't much going on except Caicedo is close for about 2 months now...

Can we have a unrelated sub to talk about fantasy Premier league? This would let us talk about on form players to pick (including from other teams), maybe set up a league to compete with each other. This year is looking good after the first friendly, I didn't pick a single Chelsea player after James got injured in GW2 last season.

I understand that during your time, but personally if that was a few years ago when I was growing up, I would be following you like a doggy trying to learn from your moves. Mixed race people are now considered to be the most beautiful people, even more so than white people (who I think the media have put out of proportion, to the point where people start bleaching their skin etc). Lesbians on the other hand are some of the coolest people I've met. I don't know what it is, but it's like they don't care about the shit that straight girls think about (gossip, Bieber and the kardashians) which makes them more relatable to guys. My message to you is, you went through that but just know its not perfect now but slowly getting better for the next generations ❤️

Everyone is moaning about caicedo not being wrapped up but keep in mind, he may have doubts about moving to us anyway. We don't have CL and we don't have a proven development plan yet. I saw rumours that personal terms had been agreed but I'm always sceptical about these things. In my opinion, most of these highly rated signings should've been wrapped up 2 years ago after we won CL. Instead we got lukaku and loaned Saul. In comparison, first time we won CL we signing Hazard that summer....

I would give him to Inter holding a pack of Rich Tea

I agree, this is why it would be the perfect season to make the transition. And then maybe sign a DMF or RB depending on how it goes.

I think he's a AMF. Basically the Mount replacement, although imo he looks like the Ziyech 2.0 Source?

# Player Age Nat. Club Market value 1 Declan Rice Defensive Midfield 24 €90.00m 2 Rodri Defensive Midfield 27 €90.00m 3 Aurélien Tchouaméni Defensive Midfield 23 €85.00m 4 Enzo Fernández Defensive Midfield 22 €80.00m 5 Moisés Caicedo Defensive Midfield 21 €75.00m 6 Joshua Kimmich Defensive Midfield 28 €75.00m 7 Bruno Guimarães Defensive Midfield 25 €70.00m 8 Manuel Ugarte Defensive Midfield 22 €50.00m 9 Sandro Tonali Defensive Midfield 23 €50.00m 10 Amadou Onana Defensive Midfield 21 €45.00m 11 Fabinho Defensive Midfield 29 €42.00m 12 Martín Zubimendi Defensive Midfield 24 €40.00m 13 Ismaël Bennacer Defensive Midfield 25 €40.00m 14 João Palhinha Defensive Midfield 28 €40.00m 15 Rúben Neves Defensive Midfield 26 €40.00m 16 Stanislav Lobotka Defensive Midfield 28 €40.00m 17 Casemiro Defensive Midfield 31 €40.00m 18 Cheick Doucouré Defensive Midfield 23 €35.00m 19 Edson Álvarez Defensive Midfield 25 €35.00m 20 Ibrahim Sangaré Defensive Midfield 25 €35.00m In comparison, not only would another DMF be more expensive, most re not remotely availible. Rice, ugarte, Neves and Tonali have all moved on this summer. Zubimendi is waiting for barca. Unless Tchou magically becomes availible this summer, and I don't even think he would move to us with no CL. The only ones I like the look of are Onana and Palhinha. However, both play for relegation level teams and might struggle to make the step up. Lavia is a bit further down. I think someone like Lavia or Onana is best because our MF is short AF and all it would take is long balls into the DM area and then a long shot past kepa to beat us....

# Player Age Nat. Club Market value 1 Reece James Right-Back 23 €65.00m 2 Achraf Hakimi Right-Back 24 €65.00m 3 Trent Alexander-Arnold Right-Back 24 €65.00m 4 Ben White Right-Back 25 €55.00m 5 João Cancelo Right-Back 29 €50.00m 6 Pedro Porro Right-Back 23 €40.00m 7 Jeremie Frimpong Right-Back 22 €40.00m 8 Diogo Dalot Right-Back 24 €40.00m 9 Benjamin Pavard Right-Back 27 €40.00m 10 Nahuel Molina Right-Back 25 €35.00m 11 Noussair Mazraoui Right-Back 25 €28.00m 12 Malo Gusto Right-Back 20 €25.00m 13 Aaron Hickey Right-Back 21 €25.00m 14 Tino Livramento Right-Back 20 €25.00m 15 Juan Foyth Right-Back 25 €25.00m 16 Aaron Wan-Bissaka Right-Back 25 €25.00m 17 Matty Cash Right-Back 25 €25.00m 18 Lutsharel Geertruida Right-Back 22 €25.00m 19 Kyle Walker-Peters Right-Back 26 €25.00m 20 Takehiro Tomiyasu Right-Back 24 €25.00m 21st most valuable is castagne who must be leaving Leicester at some point this summer and at 27 he has a few years left in him before his legs go. If maddison went for 50m, surely 25m would be enough to turn their heads. Other options could be: Molina as we were linked to him in January Pavard as he is linked with a move every window Tino if we still have a buyback Geertruida who I've heard good things about but not sure how the step up would suit him. I'm also wary of signing someone young to compete with Malo Gusto as it could make him feel like his path is blocked like colwill probably feels now with Badman being a starter for most of the last year.

What do you guys think about moving James to DMF? I think he has the tools for it and because of his body, he is always going to be susceptible to injury running up and down the flank. He played there a bit while at Wigan. It would mean we only need to sign Caicedo and another starting RB.

OK I will collectively address this. I am sorry if my posts have offended anyone. I do not mean to offend or wind anyone up, I just generally depressed and vent. I realise this board isn't really the place to vent but rather to voice opinions. Going forward, I will take your advice into consideration. Thank you!

Trubin is decent I've heard. His distribution in u21 has been good. Would've been good to get mudryk a friend. Still if we get valencias keeper then all is forgiven....

I agree the teams in ligue 1 are stronger. Montpellier win doesn't really count for me because psg hadn't had enough time to even buy a first team. As you can see from the graphic, psg dominates French league a lot more than ajax does the Dutch league. I would even go as far as to say psv have been dominating more in recent years.

Any self respecting fan who keeps up with the news knows this. The sad fact is, it doesn't undo all the crap he's been doing for the past year. It's like Elon musk appointing a new director for twitter. He already effed it beyond repair....