Pizy

Weird that injured Badiashile and Levi are in the List A squad but Acheampong isn’t. Even if Badiashile was 100% fit I’d still rather Josh be in there.

Almost certainly won’t need any wide attackers. Likewise fullbacks. If Penders does really well on loan that’s keeper sorted. But I can definitely imagine that if Lavia spends 80% of yet another season injured and Essugo doesn’t cut it we go big on someone like Wharton. If this Buonanotte kid actually plays regularly and does well I suppose we’d keep him for good. Can also see us going for a world class CB.

So what’s the UEFA sanction situation now after that window? Are we still restricted in future windows? Will we be able to go big next summer?

Man, I really fucking hate these international breaks. We have to wait 2 weeks to see your new players and we have 2 weeks being anxious as hell about some of our key guys picking up injuries.

That Bayern kit is horrific looking, goddamn! Of course Jackson and his agent had to get a dig in at Chelsea in their statements. Don’t blame him but it’s still annoying. It’s fine that Nico is upset at how he was treated at the end but he has to remember that it’s 100% down to his own behavior and play that led to this. The red cards, the cynical behavior on the pitch, the constantly fluffing easy chances. He and his agent basically saying “now he’s at a proper club” kind of takes away any sympathy I had for him.

Almost feels like Fulham fucked us over purposely after being so salty about the match. They had deals for like 3 new wide attackers including Tyrique being worked on at the same time and chose the other 2 instead of him.

He has looked awful up top. He has no idea what to do there. He got effortlessly bullied by Andersen against Fulham because he’s not used to playing with his back to goal.

Absolute clown show of an end to the window. Amateur hour all around. From the Jackson circus, to the Guiu debacle, to not being able to shift Sterling or Disasi anywhere, and now poor Tyrique George has to sit around for at least until January. And that’s not even mentioning the Xavi chase for 2 months leading to him signing for fucking Spuds. George was already getting very limited games. wtf is he going to do now that we’ve signed 2 new players for big money in his position?

So it looks like a deal was agreed but still nothing has actually been announced. No word of a deal sheet or anything.

Guehi to Liverpool apparently off now! They could be seriously vulnerable with 1 injury to a CB. They’ve looked super shaky even with VVD and Konate fit. As hard as we will need to pray for João Pedro’s health, Liverpool need to do the same for VVD at age 35 or whatever he is.

Did George’s move fall through? Haven’t seen anything since this morning.

Overall I’d give our window a 6.5 or 7 out of 10. Delap, João Pedro, and Hato are all excellent buys for me. We brought in Estevão who looks great already. Santos and Essugo look like they’ll be very useful. So in terms of beefing up our squad with quality depth we’ve done very well. But the signings of Gittens, Garnacho, and Buononotte are very 50/50 and we won’t know if these are good buys for several months once we’ve seen them play a run of games. No new top keeper, no new top CB. Left ourselves dangerously thin up top after the Delap injury. Most annoyingly, we KNEW that we needed 1 more difference making attacker and identified both Xavi & later Fermin to fill that role. But after getting every fan so excited we were hamstrung by being unable to sell Jackson. So overall we bought decently, sold mostly extremely well, improved the squad but didn’t improve it enough, and still have some unresolved issues. Not amazing, not poor. Just “pretty good” I would say.

Where they’re vulnerable is defensively and in the DM positions with just a couple of injuries. Even when Salah is out of form he can still cause defenders nightmares and you’ve always got to respect him. If they lose VVD they’re in big trouble against the other top teams. Now there’s apparently trouble with the Guehi deal. They really need him since Konate has been shit and also got injured yesterday.

We would’ve heard something hours ago if anything else was a possibility. Our incoming business is over. All about whether we can flog the last of the deadwood. How we’re going to move them when nothing appears close is beyond me.

Sterling? Chilwell? Disasi?

German side saying that Jackson’s obligation only kicks in after a certain number of apparences. So Bayern can absolutely fuck us over and play games here as payback for this whole saga. Leave him 1 appearnece shy of what’s needed for the clause to kick in.

As long as that obligation for Jackson is a classic obligation where they MUST buy him no matter what then it’s a brilliant deal. If it’s the kind of obligation that Knly triggers if Jackson scores a certain amount of goals or makes a certain number of appearances or something like that then it’s a shit deal.

We basically need to say a prayer before every match that João Pedro stays fit. Closing the summer transfer window TWO SEASON’S IN A ROW with 1 senior striker for the foreseeable future is madness.

Fulham is a brilliant move for Tyrique. Gets to stay home in London and develop under a fantastic manager. Probably would’ve been wise to include some sort of buy back clause in case he blows up.

He looks completely useless up there. Like a fish out of water.

Over or under 1 PL start for Buononotte? I’m going to go under. The new Amougu.

We’re now basically gambling our entire season on João Pedro staying fully fit the entire way and for Palmer to return to and stay in his Super Saiyan form the whole time as well. Also, it now looks like Tyrique George’s move has fallen through. Another player whose future we’ve now fucked up right at the end of the window.

Spot on. I like almost all of the buys we’ve made. Gittens and Garnacho I’ll have to wait and see. But we needed 1 or 2 more TOP signings to do serious damage in the league and UCL. Another scrap with Newcastle for 4th is what we’re in for I fear.

We’ll have ended this window with a DEEPER squad but will we have taken enough of a step forward in terms of QUALITY? That’s the big question. Because both Liverpool & Arse have improved the latter considerably. We once again took massive gambles on a bunch of young players whereas as they both bought all sure fire, ready made players. I don’t see how we get near those two which I thought for sure we would a few weeks back.

That’s the thing, Maresca doesn’t even fancy Guiu! He barely used him even when Jackson was stinking up the place or was injured! If something happens to Pedro we’ll probably be seeing different false 9’s.