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Doubt Hall is a serious player tbh, wishful thinking that he might be imo but let’s see, personally I’m expecting this season he will show enough to get a transfer and then we will cash in for 10m or whatever and put in the usual clauses about buy backs and sell on %s. Would ideally like us just to find a way out of the Cucu situation and have Ian fight Chilly for the spot. But I’ve no idea wtf route there is to deal with Cucu. Shameful signing.

I am super not into Lautaro. Would rather wait for Toney in Jan honestly.

Interesting that Fabrizio isn’t denying it though, he must simply not know. I doubt many people do if they’re talking f2f and it’s not emails going back and forth.

That guy is a known fake ITK guy

They should be. Wouldn't let em near the squad.

Wtf we can’t even sell this guy? How much did we refuse from Bayern?

Controversial opinion: Wirtz is just a smaller Kai Havertz

Same. No brainer at that point. At 40 I probably would as well tbh.

What’s the limits on loaning players out? I’d expect all these kids to be signing for sister clubs TBH.

Me too, if the price + salary is right, would add an experienced (& tall!) player. Don't think he would struggle w/ PL or Pochball.

I do not think he is shit and never have. He is like Salah or KDB when we had them: terrifyingly promising, but not the finished article yet.

I don’t know for sure, man has excellent finishing technique and potential, and his bad year came playing for Juve in Allegri’s football that Juve fans describe as jihadi-ball. Honestly think he could become a top player in a proper attacking system with good coaching.

Tbh ideal with Vlahovic would be a loan with a reasonably punchy option to buy after 1 year (like 75m). Then if we end up spending a bunch of money on him it will be because we are sure he has worked out in PL. Hard to convince Juve on that tho unless we are sending them Lukaku, as they would need money to replace him I guess.

Surely we are not bidding 60m for Vlahovic after the season he’s just had, and their fans can’t wait to get rid of him… never heard of that source so I’ll believe it when someone serious says it.

Reece has potential to be there for sure, but he’s got to prove he’s intelligent enough to play there. I think it would be an interesting possibility with our new RB coming in. Although I love Reece have to remember his injury problems have been pretty relentless so sadly we shouldn’t expect him to be key to our plans until we see he has got past it tho.

Kinda disappointed we’ve not got a CM in yet. Really want all key signings to get a proper preseason this time.

In CM is not that much an exaggeration. Our whole project is over if Enzo gets injured atm.

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Reading Inter’s forum is hilarious, they don’t want Lukaku back and are so happy that they robbed us blind selling him to us, don’t want a penny to flow back for him

I want him in (or another top CM) for the preseason bootcamp. Team bonding and building experience as much as anything.

For some reason there is something really likeable about Poch and the promise of a side that works extremely hard. At this point all I want is a team that play intensely and passionately for the badge and leave everything out there. If we can get top 4, it will be a bonus. Don’t even care in the slightest he used to be at Spurs, just as doesn’t bother me Mou and Conte went to Spurs after us.

Let them cook. Doing a good job so far.

Anyone got a good understanding of how we stand in terms of FFP after all these sales?

This whole thread is worth a read before judging the Mason Mount situation, explains how he has paid for PR to try to control the narrative and his link to Matt Law who is on the pay roll to write good press for him

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/06/30/Chelsea-transfer-analysis-mason-mount-manchester-united/ No way Matt Law has any relationship with the club anymore: absolutely slamming them on Twitter and in press. Can't trust that he knows a thing about what is going on since the takeover and there is no way the people at the club are feeding him info when he's writing shit like this about them.