Duppy Conqueror

I'd be fine with us keeping Noni for another year but also i only ever considered him a short term 2-3 year signing so for a decent profit i'd be ok with that too..we would still have Neto,Gittens,George,Estevao with Quenda coming next year and other players in our current squad that can do a good shift out wide if required. Likes of Jackson,Noni and a few others are more experienced than some we have brought in but do they really use that experience?

He'd be my favourite signing of the summer. He seems to be the only one we've been linked too for that role.hopefully he wouldnt be put off having to compete with Cucu tho and see that he can play plenty of games as cover for 2 positions to begin with.plus when you sign longterm for Chelsea you are likely to have many different head coaches so your situation can change if you arent at first a starter.

Palmer,Estevao,Gittens,Neto,George,plus others that can play in those positions if needed with Quenda coming next year is ample and thats presuming Noni will be sold soon. Two defenders and a new keeper should be absolute limit.

Hope we done now with buying AM/W's. But it's like hoping Augustus Gloop could leave the sweets alone.

Pedro should mean the end of the Jackson project. I'd say it's 50/50 if Guiu will depart on loan or stay tho.if Pedro was an out and out CF then he would be loaned out. Having 3 confident infront of goal options is nice tho.been a while.

Acheampong is one of our most composed players already,players develop at different speeds but he's been ready for an extended role for a while.for me the biggest decisìon Marseca has is where should he be a primary starter. But i'd certainly put him in our "untouchable" group of players.

His mum tidied his room and got rid of his balloon collection,now he don't know who he is..

Looks like Yul Brynner picked the starting lineup after frying his egg head in the heatwave. Half the team is or should be up for sale..tf?

Maignan is by far the best option if club truly believe Penders is the longterm solution.will give him a couple of years to grow into it.. If not then could look at younger keepers.

Without the 3rd grade european mickey mouse cup i'm not so sure Maresca is going to blood our huge potential youngsters enough. Persisting with Gusto over Acheampong,Nkunku over George,Reece out of position over Santos or Essugo.Sanchez over Penders,Jackson over Guiu etc.. Some youngsters arent ready for extended roles but when one has a great game then is left out for a relative veteran who keeps on failing which of them should truly be classed as not ready..thats deciding based on numbers on a birth certificate rather than merit.

That is the issue..Gittens actually would be a great option at LW in a 4-3-3 fast transition set up. But in a 4-2-3-1/3-3-3-1 it's not LW or LF types but LM we need. There is some players in our squad that can work well in multiple formations,roles etc..but vast majority the former is where they excel and same goes for players we are linked with. Although we have need in other positions the one thats causing me most anxiety (relatively because i don't really do anxiety) is not having a viable back up to Cucurella. The guy is a work horse but we are currently fooked if he gets injured or suspended.where as every other position has other options we can work with. Looks like Hato is slipping away..

We would have been whoring it on a yankee merchandise summer tour anyway.

I think Hato be targetted next week.Maignan again sometime later once they are reminded of what they currently got in the keeper ranks during the CWC group stages. The LM/LW/LF addition i think will be the last one to be completed and i suspect will involve a player + cash. With Quenda on the horizon i don't believe they want to spend too much cash on someone to the point that the incoming player would expect to start ahead of Quenda without having to fight for it.

Whilst it's very possible he isn't ready for PL and CL.would gain more from taking him than Nkunku when he mentally left the club about 9 months ago.

Worth remembering the deadline tonight is basically just for group stage of CWC.we can easily win our group with no more additions even though it's always better to get targets in a.s.a.p.

Maybe meet Dortmund half way and get him for 48m (seen they want 55m for him)

Whilst i don't see Noni (or Neto) as longterm solutions,we should keep for atleast another season. Youth we have coming through expected to surpass him but not having to too soon will help them and it's not going to hurt Noni's future transfer value.

Be interested to see what sort of line ups we put out,some players we risk burning out if they don't get a rest soon.with not much rest post tournament to start of season.level of group opponents should help..

If we played 4-3-3 as our base formation with fast transition Gittens would be ideal.he's fast,good dribbler,decent with either foot even tho right is his best. Feel like we signing another Usain Bolt to compete in the 50km walk.

Salary on signing is the biggest factor.added to what we have coming through. Big salaries bind clubs more than transfer fees.

The middle ground between Roman and Clearlake is where we need to be. Both were/are too extreme opposites. Lets see what the rest of the summer window/s bring up.

Think we could get Rogers for money that it would take to get Kudus.maybe we would have to pay more hard cash for Rogers but both deals look like would be a player + cash deal. I'd be much happier with Rogers. We have a need in our attack but we do have to consider whats coming through before biting on big money deals. Noni nor Neto may be the longterm answers but for atleast another year till George and Willian can grow into starting roles isnt a bad idea imo either.

There's always good options in the keeper market early in the summer window but don't see the Maignan one closed yet.

Starting to think when we booked Delap for his medical he went onto the NHS waiting list...

Unless we do another we buy one of yours and you buy one of ours deal.with them,not sure we'd pull it off...they do seem to like alot of our players we looking to get rid of tho..Jackson,Disasi,Felix for Rogers and give them back Kellyman as the free bag of prawn crackers.