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Hahaha word for word what I came to post

So much for the 8s rule on GKs

Gusto must be brain dead man

2nd place behind Enzo

Tbf this very cautious approach is how we turned it around at the end of last season. Tightened up at the back and became boring to watch. It was tedious but got us there...

It basically is preseason for us Don't look ready at all, everyone is still on holiday

Enzo having perhaps the worst half of his career to date Can't do anything at all Basic passes, carries, first touches, nothing.

It will be worth signing Garnacho just to stop hearing about how we're going to sign Garnacho

I just love that we actually have two PL quality strikers in the squad Can't even remember the last time...

Eh, not impressed by Gittens. No wonder we're desperately looking at Xavi Simons plus Garnacho. It wont take much with this fanbase for things to get toxic if the beginning of the season goes badly after not sorting out CB+GK.

Not looking ready for the beginning of the season at all but no real surprise given the preseason we've had...

Estevao in previous game impressed me a lot more than Gittens in this game so far. Where's the end product? Looks like a nervous kid getting a chance to play with the grownups at the mo.

Just go and get Murillo for CB. Give them Renato or whoever they want in the other direction. Even before Colwill got injured I wanted it. Now it is a no brainer to go and get someone elite and spend whatever it is gonna cost.

Not as easy as that, he wont let his wages go without us paying in full, he made that clear last year. Loaning him with a fee and part coverage of his wages is the best case scenario unless Saudi want him.

I keep telling myself this can only be happening as part of some kind of swap deal that's mutually favourable Maybe they take Nkunku or pay top dolla for NJ idk but surely we're not just buying him with straight up cash like plebs

Pretty explicit that he's on his way. Honesty I'm a cynical fucker about players coming from Bundesliga so I'll just sit tight and watch how Gittens and Simons do in PL, hoping for the best but intuitively I would expect they'll prove to be helpful squad players but nothing more. Edit: snap, The Hulk posted the same quote at the same time :)

Price definitely being kept secret for a reason... There's no way we got these £20m/£25m fees that are circulating Best case £10m-15m base, maybe it goes up to £20m+ if he wins 8 back to back Ballon d'Ors.

Everyone always says we're fools for negotiating and having a stance on how much we'll pay Everyone always says we're fools for not negotiating and getting pushed around on price Club can't win

After all of this still no CB and no GK Going to be another season of us being almost good if we don't get it sorted

He will just go on loan until his contract is over with us paying most of his wages. No reason for him to give it up and we have no leverage other than our own financial suicide to end his career (paying him to train in a bomb squad out of pettiness). It is what it is. Club has learnt from the fiasco and wont repeat the same mistake.

I think it is beneath a PL or CL win in terms of difficulty for sure, and it doesn't have the history to really mean the same thing to anybody as a PL or CL win - no one grew up (yet) dreaming of winning this thing. In time that may change although I think they should tweak the format. Maybe every 4 years we should have no UCL but have a world wide tournament instead with a huge prize pool that is like the combined CL + CWC prize pool, and play it during the normal season in place of CL. That would be a huge deal that everyone would take seriously. That said it is much more than some preseason tournament or some national cup like the FA Cup. It is far above a Europa League win. But beneath winning a PL or a CL for me.

Um, he demanded to be a guaranteed starter and Maresca told him the same as he tells everyone: there are no guaranteed starters, you fight and win the spot if you're the best. He failed to do that in his time here (he wanted Colwill's spot), gave up and moved on. At the time I can see why he was frustrated as Colwill has been a huge liability for about 90% of his career with us but he might finally be starting to shape up now so it would be a big decision to push him out just to give Veiga a spot, well rated as he is... Colwill is also super highly rated and loads of clubs would be in for him if we had him available in the market.

Yeah, I think they'll ask for a decent price for NJ and be prepared to hold onto him if he doesn't go for it (he's on low-ish wages after all). Wouldn't surprise me if they end up loaning him to a very attacking team in an easier league that will let him rack up the goals and inflate his price a bit. But when I say he's out, I just mean I don't think he's really part of the clubs plans anymore and the direction of travel is exit. Nkunku I imagine they'll be in more of a hurry on simply because of his wages.

NJ an unused sub in the final says it all for me. He's got to be out, manager simply doesn't trust or rate him anymore. Nkunku seems to have been redeemed in Maresca's eyes but I imagine the club will want to get his wages gone, even if his form has improved a bit he's no where near being an important player for us who should be on big money.

FIFA is above all aren't they, would have thought they certainly can punish him? Unless I'm incredibly confused? For biting Chiellini in the world cup in 2014, Suarez was banned from all football activities including training by FIFA for four months. I think Enrique should be expecting a punishment like that with a shorter length.