Waterfall

If you were disappointed with Costa's 2 games... Balo's last 2 games were beyond awful. I was surprised he tried so hard to get himself sent off yesterday. Maybe he will never change as most suspect. What a shame because he's got world class talent.

Lukaku is very much a poacher in a prototypical target man's body. Without proper service, he's basically useless because he's technically poor. For the right club, he'll continue to be useful, but he needs to improve a lot if he wants to play consistently for a big club. At the moment I think he'll follow Darren Bent's career path. Good PL striker but not more than that.

http://gianlucadimarzio.com/news/lukaku-latletico-madrid-ha-corsia-preferenziale-per-arrivare-al-giocatore-la-situazione/ Di Marzio says we want 40M euros for him, and we want to sell rather than loan him out again. Makes sense.

Anytime a poster doesn't personally agree with the signing, he just says "Roman signing"

Not only that, Moreno's had a very disappointing season by all accounts.

Yeah I had a couple of my comments deleted by them after I pointed out their spelling mistakes when naming our youth players. I usually don't care but their tone is usually so condescending that I wanted to remind them they aren't perfect either.

Win a few trophies with him and suddenly the slight premium that we are paying for a world class player at his position seems like nothing

Finally a ScoutsNation video! :

Jose said to MARCA that he's confident Costa will join

His positioning is abysmal. Much rather keep Mikel who, while not the greatest, is one of the most reliable at his position.

because Spain lost by 4 goals. Last thing anyone cares about is the one goal Spain scored.

In Spain, release clauses are activated by the players only. Since the players don't have millions of pounds lying around, it's usually the clubs who pay for them by lending them the money. When foreign clubs are involved, the money they lend to the players is taxed because it's from outside the country. I believe the usual practice is that the two clubs just settle (by not activating the clause but still agreeing to a figure close to the clause amount), but Atletico don't seem so keen. They are probably hoping to get a few more millions out of us by agreeing to not use the release clause (thus, saving us the tax money)

Surely Mendes has some money lying around in Spain he can "lend" to Costa?

It's only a circus because you decide not to believe what is perfectly plausible. Why would Arsenal want to decline the option on Day 1 when they could wait till Day 7? Not only does leaving it till Day 7 delay Chelsea's operations, it also gives them 6-7 days to reconsider just in case.

There is absolutely no incentive for Arsenal to decline the option ASAP.

This isn't so hard to understand - Arsenal doesn't want him. Just because the player wants to go there, it doesn't mean he can.

Player has a say, but let's not kid ourselves here. If he could go to Arsenal, he would.

Hope they didn't give Arsenal a month.

If we sell Lukaku and buy Mandzukic, I wouldn't be against making Bamford our 3rd striker.

because even at Arsenal, he was at his best in a more advanced role (with the season before he left being his best to date). And he hasn't played in the deeper role on a regular basis for years now. Just because it looks like he will be playing deeper for us, it doesnt mean we have to re-write history.

His best position is definitely not deeper. He can play there, but he's significantly better in a more advanced role.

He deleted it and said his friend tricked him.

Rafael Hernández‏@RafaelH117 Apologies, it was another penalty miss joke that a friend sent to me via Whatsapp. He's a dick (to say the least). fucker

Rafael Hernández‏@RafaelH117 RAC1 reports Chelsea has retracted the offer for Cesc Fàbregas! I find it insanely unlikely but that's football.

Yeah his wife's love for London is said to have played a role too.