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He plays very similarly to Xavi Simons to my eye. Likes to be heavily in the mix in that #10 area. Excellent technically and great in tight areas as you’d expect with a Barca product. If we weren’t after Simons you can absolutely see why we’d be interested in Fermin. He perfectly fits the profile. But for me Xavi is slightly better and I think suits moving to the PL easier.

You think United would agree to get scammed like that again? 🤣 They’re run by idiots but surely they aren’t that stupid!

Thing about Fermin is that he’d likely be in the same sort of situation here as he is at Barca. Someone who gets decent minutes but isn’t a starter. So in that case why leave your boyhood dream club? This is why I’m thinking the link is a pressure tactic to get Leipzig to soften their demands. Perhaps we also need Xavi to push more forcefully as well.

Fermin Lopez is a classy player for sure but what is going on? Trying to pressure Leipzig to lower their asking price for Xavi? They won’t get more than what we’re offering if they force him to stay. His contract is running down.

Since it’s Bayern that probably means loan, right? 😑

He absolutely is a project player in my eyes. In terms of ability, that is. You can just watch him so far in a Chelsea shirt and see he’s still raw and nowhere near the finished article. The silly price we paid for him doesn’t change that.

It would’ve been annoying yet at least tolerable if young Rio had decided to leave Chelsea and killed it in Italy or Germany or something. In that scenario we probably could’ve potentially bought him back in a few years. But to see him at a direct rival where he could blossom into a superstar for 15 years is gutting. Things are kind of breaking just right for him too since as @MoroccanBlue says, they have only Gakpo on the left and haven’t been able to sign the new LW that they had wanted. Had they done so he may have never gotten these opportunities and been sent on loan. Stuff like this is always going to happen though sadly. When you have such a crazy good academy there will always be future stars who get away. For every Reece James, Colwill, or Chalobah there’s a Musiala, Olise, or Rio who gets away. Its kinda fucking annoying that we have produced some great defensive players that have made it as first team regulars but haven’t had a single attacking prospect become a superstar.

He’s more talented than both that’s for sure.

Jammy, lucky motherfuckers

You’ve been bang on about Konate for ages, @Vesper He's Disasi like in terms of composure and concentration.

That seriously fucks Newcastle even more, wow. He is their best non Isak attacker probably and now misses the next 3, yes? They'll be even more desperate in the market this week now. Offer them Jackson for £70m!

Newcastle need Nico Jackson ASAP!

Newcastle completely dominating Liverpool first 30 minutes but can’t finish to save their lives without a striker. If Isak was playing they could’ve scored 3 at this point.

I think we all were saying before we bought him that we massively overpaid for Gittens. Still such a strange deal for that much money. I guess this is where the Garnacho deal actually could work out despite me not rating him either. Could take some pressure off Gittens until he settles in since he’s PL experienced.

Wonder if it’s possible to negotiate/convince UEFA that a good faith effort was put forth with these players and that loan deals will suffice when trying to comply with this punishment. Because that seems to be the only thing we are receiving from every single club interested in our players. Loan offer after loan offer. As long as their are buy obligations I wonder if UEFA would go for it.

Been saying for a bit now that I can see Jackson staying. We may price him out of a move. Nkunku will go, Jackson stays. Which probably means Garnacho will come in to replace Nkunku and the Xavi deal gets put on ice until January. This scenario would piss me the fuck off.

Any loan without an obligation to buy is useless for us. And if what everyone says about the UEFA rules is true, a loan does nothing for us THIS window which is when we need to sell to buy players. I literally see no benefit to the football club in loaning Jackson.

They’re striking out on every striker target they go after. At some point they surely have to come to us.

I think Hincapie is perfectly suited to the PL even if he isn’t quite the world class CB some are hyping him up to be. But like others have said, Arse have Gabriel as their starting LCB, Calafiori who plays LCB/LB, and Timber who can play there as well. On the right they’ve got Saliba and that new kid they bought from Spain. From Hincapie’s POV it seems like a silly move. Why leave a club you’ve been at for so long to go somewhere you don’t go straight into the team? It’s not a Hato situation where he’s only a teenager still. He’s 23 and used to starting every match as a big player. Now he’s going to be a cup player.

We’re able to sell some absolute dross but the 2 players we desperately need out look like they may well drag all the way to the end of the window despite them actually being good players. We’re seriously on the verge of bringing in £300m+ in sales so far and can’t sign anyone currently. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

He doesn’t start for either North London club. I don’t get it.

Weird. Van De Ven plays as their LCB and he’s probably their best defender. Why would he go there?

Cheeky bastards 🤣

That’s a good player comparison. They’re very similar.

Hincapie would indeed be a weird signing for Arse. They’re already well stocked at left sided defenders. And for us, he’s not that commanding central CB, is he? He’s a CB who plays that super athletic, super aggressive style on the left side. I wouldn’t say no if we were to go for him but he really isn’t the profile that Maresca has said he needs to replace Levi.