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So many parallels with last season still!

Raheem starting to find form finally. Poch vindicated by sticking by him.

Terrible penalty. Honestly why is NJ not taking it? Guarantee he buries it 95/100+

Huh thought NJ would take pen to get him started

Feel like Carney just being put in for height. Just got no threat about him. Mudryk has to be better than this.

If that is offside then the rules need to be relaxed, call me mad but this anal millimetre focus on offside or not is terrible and I’ve always hated it. Needs to be offside at a glance when you see the still picture. If you need to ask a computer the game is fucking stupid ffs.

Gallagher terrible

Me too. But if no manager will play him it’s a Salah situation all over again. Under Klopp he’d already be banging.

If Mudryk is a bust then our whole forward line needs a re look. We can’t enter the season seriously planning to use Carney and Sterling as anything close to first choice.

LOL did not see that coming. Suspect 4 ATB with Colwill LB and Chilly as a winger

They barely have space for Dembele. But it is PSG, they are always going to have a stacked squad with elite forwards, they've made it part of their identity as part of the Qatari football-washing project.

Not paying his wages but it means he might be back if he flops hard or has injury problems. They’re loaning him and can take him permanently for free next year if they want. It may be us asking for it so we don’t materialise any loss for him on the books this year or them because they want to see that his knee is actually fine.

I'm tellin ya, back to our feeder club for Mitoma

25m, similar fee. Players that aren’t even guaranteed to get onto the bench have an inherently capped fee. If Hall had gone on a loan and done amazing, could have been a different story. Or maybe he flops and in a year we are wondering what to do with him with no suitors.

We haven’t been approaching people for their fourth choice left back though. Reckon we would manage a deal!

I don’t understand this narrative. If he had actually broken into the team then sure, but this guy is 4th choice left back… no club is selling their 4th choice fullback for 70m just because their fans like him! He’s done absolutely nothing to earn a big money move yet. If he had done the loan and succeeded big time he MIGHT have been 70m at the absolute top of his value range.

His stats are pretty impressive, higher npxG + xAG than any Chelsea player but I can't say I know much about the lad.

As I posted earlier today, what the club say and what the club do do not have to match, in fact, probably they shouldn't match. Why should we make ourselves look desperate? Why should we not raise Broja's confidence & value by backing him so publicly? It is the same shit we did with Kepa. Doesn't mean we wont see that Broja has been loaned with obligation to buy for £15m randomly before the window closes and some random senior player bought in.

All this talk about not wanting to interfere with Broja and we think he is an important player, sounds just teh same as Kepa is our no.1 and we have total faith in him - just the right thing to say, but it doesn't mean anyone really thinks it or that they are in the plans.

Is there a surgery that can fix both hamstrings and joints?

I would say there is a decent chance Hall makes it as a premier league player, a low/medium chance that he makes it as a player for a top 10 side and an extremely small chance he makes it as a player at the level of the Chelsea that we want to be: title contenders/winners every year. And, the lad wanted to go. Anyone saying the club has done wrong here... I just can't agree. The ONLY argument might be that we should have given him a PL loan without an obligation and sell him next year or the year after, which the club was obviously considering. But the lad wanted to go, and now we have absolutely no risk and guaranteed cash on the table with a sell on clause.

Jeremy Doku is an interesting option, he did have a massive/random selection of injury problems ala Reece James though

Might be wanting to hold these for next year, either loans with obligation or either showcase them at Chelsea or loan them with view to sell next season. As I said before, I think we will need to make an absolute fuck load of very profitable sales every year from now on to stay in good shape with FFP, similar to what we've done this year. Gallagher for £50m+ would help us out an absolute tonne on next years books.

Interesting thread. Can't say I know much about the man, his stats are so dog shit on fbref, I would never have even noticed him - we'd be betting a lot on the eye test that he has the skill to step up in a proper team. Barcola looks the most interesting option to an extremely amateur scout like me, he out performs his xG which suggests to me in a good team/system he could score a decent number of goals, his assist stats are great, his defensive output is incredible and his videos look great. Interesting they are both right footers.

Some people just have to be negative about the club's decisions and want us to magically have our cake and eat it too, how TF we going to spend £1bn and not make sales we would ideally rather not? Even if FFP didn't exist, a club is a business and you need income to run a business. £28m+£7m in add ons apparently, loan with obligation to buy in order to count this in next year's sales. We will need another £100m of pure profit on top of that in player sales next year as well I think, at minimum.