Madmax

Mourinho said "Just kill me fam"

Glad Mourinho's taken his embarrassingly shit football elsewhere. What a player we had in our hands with KdB. Another 0-5 incoming vs Pep?

Have a hard time believing this. Seems like a play to show Roma that we have other targets and that they should consider the next Naingolan offer, which I have no doubt will be coming soon. There's simply no way that we'd bid 32 for Gomes and not pay the exact same amount that Roma supposedly want for Conte's "primary target".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j8v11UfRHI Enjoy.

Are we sure there is this 20m clause to begin with? If so, why isn't just about everyone after him?

Also, look who his agent is.

Except Juve.

Sadly it's not going to be a surprise if we do this. It just feels like something we would do right now.

Good, I hope he stays there. What happened to the thing about posting links from tribalfootball, goal.com etc? ITKs like the guy above should also be banned.

So another 32 year old that keeps Azpi at LB.

"getfootballnewsfrance"

Now Zizou can put on his CV that he's Real's Robbie Di Matteo

You cannot beat both Bayern and Barca and then lose in the final to an offside goal while missing a penalty. Come on Leti!

It's always the Spanish goalie.

For me it is absurd to talk of us as contenders or dark horses or whatever. Without significant improvements to the glaring holes that this team has, I doubt we're getting top 4. As good a manager as Conte is, this is his first outing outside Italy as player or manager and there will be adaptability issues in play. The guy doesn't have a magic wand. And to be honest, the names we seem closer to right now (Lukaku, Rudiger, Cuadrado etc) are not giving me confidence.

So how much £ did we make out of that naming rights stuff?

What a shit window this is going to be.

I miss Ashley Cole.

Did he actually name drop Chelsea? Surely it's happening then. Sigh.

^ Of course there's no guaranteed success. What is? The Lukaku story makes no sense on a sporting level, which is why the fee being spoken about just stands out so much more. Unless Costa is definitely, 100% off (for which there's little credible reporting that I've read), why should we settle for a similar but inferior player? And that too at a record price? In terms of names, we should be all over Lacazette. They turned down 31m for him from West Ham. Up that to 40, hell 45 if that's what it takes, and bring him here. Because in this case the skillset justifies the money.

I really, really, really find it absurd to believe that there is somebody on that Chelsea board right now nodding his/her head thinking '65 million quid for Lukaku? Mhm, let's do this.' Seriously hope this is BS.

It's more than his opinions sparking debates. IMO it's nice to have an old timer around, especially one who has a somewhat unique flavour. A character, I guess. Lends some variety to the place and keeps it from being an echo chamber of cookie cutter posts. I say that as someone who had a lot of run-ins with him in my earlier days. Anyway, I'm sure the mods did what they felt was best for the forum. Just my 0.02$.

Can't be arsed. He's toxic as fuck and football has passed him by. More comedy times at Old Trafford.

No great technique, no great precision. We already have Costa for that. Save that 65m (!!) and go for someone like Lacazette. Why the fuck are clubs like West Ham after him and not us?