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As you would expect, Brighton are probably trying to get the price as close to Rice’s fee as they can. That’s the only thing that could be dragging this out for so long. We need to get it done this coming week. Absolutely HAVE to have our new midfield setup ready for the ENTIRE preseason which starts in just over 2 weeks. Caicedo + another within the next 17 days. Need to build chemistry and understand what Poch wants from them ASAP.

🤢🤢🤢 If Vlahovic is ever on the table we should do what these cheap ass Italians do and get him on loan for the season to see what he’s like. Include an OPTION to buy for the €70m next summer.

I can’t even fucking read Twitter, man. This fucking idiot just killed the website.

Yeah, I really don’t understand the big uproar about Viera getting that job. Before the wheels fell off at Palace he was being lavished with praise for the job he was doing. The players seemed to love him early on as well. Being back in France where he is a massive legend working with lots of French players can only be a good thing.

Wirtz doesn’t look that slow to me. Just kinda average. Cherki on the other hand does looks super slow and kinda chubby as well.

I’m getting “Rate Limit Exceeded” everywhere. Can’t refresh my timeline and can’t click on or search anything. Seems to be a widespread thing. Elon’s Twitter breaking yet again. These amateurs don’t have a clue what they’re doing.

Twitter been fucked for everyone else for the last few hours?

Wirtz does indeed look like a special player from a technical POV. If Poch decided to play with 3 in midfield I’d very happily have him in that advanced midfield role. He looks much better to my eyes than Gabri Veiga.

It almost feels like the new ownership have instructed the football directors and scouts to sign as many youth “stars” as we possibly can so that over the next 5 years they don’t have to spend any money on established senior players. That’s my worry. Initial massive spend in the first 2 seasons and then no spending afterwards but instead use all these youth players.

Good Lord, we’re signing a literal army of youth players. Another q announced this morning, ffs. How about some senior players?

Well, he cannot come back here under any circumstances. He’d get rightly booed by the whole of Stamford Bridge. So if coming back here isn’t an option and Inter decide that they don’t want him anymore he’s going to have to take that Saudi deal.

Hoe\ping first thing Monday morning I wake up to a Ornstein or Fabrizio tweet saying we’ve reached an agreement for Caicedo. No more fucking around now that the vast majority of our deadwood are officially gone. Don’t give time for any our rivals to suddenly decide that they’ll push for him. Get him in and quickly move on to another midfielder.

Lukaku and Ziyech. Two players with rotten attitudes that are now anchors around our necks that we can’t get rid of.

Yep. Or perhaps send him to Brighton who are going to lose both Caicedo and Mac Allister. He likely wouldn’t play every match of course but learning the De Zerbi way for a season could be brilliant.

I distinctly remember when we were in the midst of our mega spending spree these last two windows and every opposition fan was crying about FFP, there were multiple reliable journalists saying that the club weren’t concerned about breaching it at all. So if we weren’t worried about it then I can’t imagine we are now after we stand to recoup nearly £200m in sales.

He (like many English journalists) is a massive Mount fanboy. Notice how not a single one of these journalists or pundits on TV mentioned during the season how dreadful Mount was but now that we’re selling him they’re all acting as though we’re letting prime Iniesta walk to a rival.

They already have Jota, Salah, and Luis Diaz. Plus Darwin who for some reason seems to play better from wide than centrally. Kinda weird that they’re going for more attacking mids. Kinda annoyed that they’re getting Szoboszlai, though. He feels like the usual Klopp attacker who will come in and immediately look awesome like so many usually do.

Honestly, I’m past caring about the goalkeeper position at this point. If we improve the midfield and attack further up the pitch Kepa can be serviceable for another season. If our attackers and midfielders are pressing, controlling the run of play, and scoring goals then Kepa will face fewer threats. He’s got a couple of glaring weaknesses (commanding his area on corners and crosses + letting in long shots due to his short arms) that can be mitigated significantly if we are the ones dominating games and taking those opportunities away from opponents. 100% of the focus needs to be on midfield and attack right now and if some sort of deal for a keeper becomes a possibility later in the window we can move then.

Haha, I just mean stylistically not quality wise. Osimhen is obviously way better than Tammy.

There’s literally no place in the team for Ziyech. So if this Saudi move breaks down just terminate his contract. He can’t come back here.

Looks like a much better footballer than Tammy to my eyes. Ironically, Tammy reminds me of Osimhen actually. Does just about ALL of his damage as a poacher/predator in the 18 yard box and looks really clumsy elsewhere on the pitch. To be clear, I’m not saying we should go out and spend 100m on Kolo Muani. Just that he’s the profile of #9 we should want. Not another classic big #9 who is great at finishing but average at everything else. If that’s what we want we could just bring Lukaku back.

Don’t think we’re after him really. Just a name that we’ve been linked with by Twitter rando’s by the look of it. But he’s got a ton of hype around him after a sensational season. Scored and assisted a ton of goals. While Jackson had a great end to the season Kolo Muani did it over a whole season. He’s a bit older and I would assume more experienced but I haven’t watched him.

If you told me that we were going to go after an “elite striker” in addition to Jackson (which I’m highly skeptical we will do) and the choice was between Kolo Muani or Osimhen I’d take Kolo Muani without hesitation. Much better footballer and someone who can create for others at a high level.

Another midfielder who would be a great Mount/Kova replacement is Kudus. Excellent ball carrier and has that relentless energy that could do extremely well in the PL. If City snatch Veiga before we can he would be my choice since Barella doesn’t seem to be realistic.

Szoboszlai’s reasonable release clause expires tomorrow so it’s unlikely to be him, sadly. He’s be the best Mount replacement we could make.