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Reece James was withdrawn because he was tired, not through injury. [via @SJohnsonSport]

Good game, we could have won it. Sterling is sh*t. Hope Reece is fine. Ben, Enzo, Jackson were excellent.

Only me or we have no stiker on the bench? we must add 1...

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Liverpool are expected to MATCH Chelsea's £55m bid to sign Romeo Lavia from Southampton. (Source: @Alex_Crook)

No signings today 😒

Where?

Just no sense.

Once Kepa deal will be signed, Chelsea will be ready to explore the market for new goalkeeper. 🔵🧤 #CFC — Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) Aug 12, 2023

Southampton manager Russell Martin on Lavia: “Roméo Lavia, not playing as he’s not in the right frame of mind to play”. ✨🇧🇪 “I also believe it’s edging closer to a conclusion…”, he added.

F*uck this loan deal.

That's make sense.

If it's just a loan, we are f*cked... 1. Will he play tomorrow? his head is already in Madrid. 2. He will return in the end of the season and then we will have 3 GK's (in case we are going to buy a replacement), what we will do?

Real Madrid have now contacted Kepa’s camp — discussions are ongoing with player keen on the move, Kepa open to joining Real even on loan. 🚨⚪️ Bayern, informed — as @Plettigoal reported. Real are working to understand the final formula of the deal wanted by Chelsea. https://t.co/7loYZ9nyi9 — Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano)

❗️Excl. News #Kepa: He is close to reject FC Bayern as there was the feeling for the club that he wanted to join them. But there were no agreements as reported. ➡️ Kepa, NOW on verge to join @realmadrid to replace Courtois. Bayern informed. @SkySportDE 🇪🇸

You can ask him 😁

Haha... Maybe Bohely & Co doing all those deals because they sure Chelsea will get only fines and not punishments like transfer bans or bans from europe...

A relatively simple explanation because many have asked: Chelsea need something like £450m profit (could even be more) from 22/23 and 23/24 player trading to balance the allowable trading loss over the last 3 years (conservatively). I reckon they did around £100m player trading profit in 22/23 with around another £75m so far from Mount, Pulisic, PEA, Livermento sell on profit and Ampadu. Amortisation rises when you buy and does not fall if you sell a youth player for a pure profit. So Caciedo, Lavia and Olise will add not only, say, £35m of amortisation in 23/24 but also, say, £25m of wages. That’s more than the likely trading profit of selling Gallagher and Hudson Odoi although assume maybe £12.5m wage saving. But they needed that for the existing deficit before Caciedo etc. This leaves Chalabah and Broja as profit opportunities. Most of the rest are at best neutral in terms of profits - Ziyech could lose quite a lot, Kepa neutral, Cucurella has a book value so high he can’t be sold for profit, Sterling the same. So they are many £10s of millions short of break even under PL P&S in 23/24 even if they managed to just about comply in 22/23 (which I’m skeptical about too).

Close the Caicedo saga and move on to Lavia & Olise.

Chelsea have gone to £55m for Southampton midfielder Romeo Lavia and are closing in on a deal. Lavia a target for Liverpool… a sense that Chelsea are trying to sign him and Caicedo after pulling out of Tyler Adams deal #cfc

🇧🇪 🔵 Been told #ChelseaFC got an agreement on 50M£ with #SouthamptonFC on Romeo Lavia. The Blues finally reached the values of the #SaintsFC & wants to bypass #LiverpoolFC on their priority target as they did on Caicedo. The Belgian midfielder has already told some of his teammates his goodbyes. ✍🏼 Five years + one year option contract ready. 🔴 A last minute bid of #LiverpoolFC for Lavia (who said since yesterday night to one of his partner that he wants to be in Liverpool) wouldn’t be a non-sense though. ⏳🔜 More news to follow. #mercato #CFC