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Saw you mention that kid Arda Güler, @Vesper so I just watched a video of him. Good God, he looks insane! 🤣🤣🤣 I’m genuinely shocked that with this massive buying spree of young super talents we haven’t gone in for him.

Just move Mount on ASAP so that Poch can get his squad settled as quickly as he can. £55m is a fantastic deal for someone in his situation.

If we lose out on Caicedo I hope our alternatives are proper ballers in a technical sense. Super technical, tidy footballers with excellent first touch and great in tight areas. I’ll be super annoyed if we go out and get midfielders who are mostly just big, powerful athletes first and foremost and have questionable technical ability. Like if instead of going big and trying to get Barella we instead go for Onana from Everton.

Didn’t Leipzig change their mind because it was too late to replace him? I can’t recall.

City gonna spend 100m on a DM when they’ve already got the best one in the league and then they’re gonna spend another 100m on a CB when they’ve just won the treble with 3 different CB’s having spectacular seasons. Not that we had a prayer of getting close to them this coming season, but it’s difficult to see how anyone does for the foreseeable future when they can do this. If it hasn’t already happened, the PL will soon just be the Bundesliga on steroids. Yes, the overall quality of the league is MUCH higher than in Germany but the champion will be the same every year.

Until we see something from Ornstein or Fabrizio about United & Caicedo then there’s no point in thinking about it. Mount and Caicedo are completely different players so moving on from one and going for the other as an alternative makes no sense. They ain’t giving up on Mount after completely convincing him to come and agreeing everything with him.

Yep, I think we learned our lesson wit Kepa. Diogo Costa looks amazing with the ball like Ederson or Allison but I don’t think we’d ever spend huge money on a keeper again. Not having seen how difficult it is to move one if he doesn’t live up to expectations.

Yeah, he simply isn’t worth that much. If Brighton demand any more than £75m AFTER add-ons then I wouldn’t do a deal. He’s not a world class player yet. I want him here, I’d be happy if we got him, but if Brighton demand mega money then walk away. We could probably easily convince Inter to sell Barella for around that much and he’s better than Caicedo at this moment in time.

I just want a couple of super high quality midfielders, ffs. Whether it’s Caicedo or others I don’t even care at this point. It would be hugely embarrassing if we miss out in BOTH of the new manager’s top midfield choices so early in the window. Especially if it’s self inflicted in this case where we haggle over a few million £.

Meanwhile we signed yet another teenager. Feels like we’re just stockpiling the biggest teenaged talents in hopes that a couple of them hit it big 5 years from now. It’s smart, I guess, but it’s almost getting to the point where it feels like we’re wasting money that could go to helping the first team right now which is more important.

Personal terms “almost agreed” is the key phrase for me. If United decide to walk away from negotiations for Mount and Arse lose the Rice race to City suddenly that’s two clubs that will likely go hard for Caicedo as an alternative.

Ben Jacobs and Fabrizio just keep repeated the same exact thing over and over and have done so for like a month. ‘Chelsea really want Caicedo, Caicedo himself wants Chelsea, but Chelsea haven’t bid yet.” Surely it’ll finally happen this coming week after we receive the Havertz, Kova, and Koulibaly/Ziyech/Mendy money? All of those deals seem to be in the medical & final paperwork phase so should be done this weekend. We wait any longer and other clubs could swoop in and turn his head with monster wages that our new regime is hesitant now to offer.

I’d like to think that if Caicedo is as keen on coming here as reports say and that he has all but agreed personal terms he wouldn’t then agree to go to United if they walk away from Mount. And I’d also like to think that our club negotiators won’t fuck us out of our primary midfield target by overplaying their hand in these negotiations.

RedCafe is in absolute meltdown. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Seriously, though, I wonder what the plan is if they do decide to walk away. If Mount sticks to his guns without wavering and absolutely refuses to sign a new contract in order to walk for free it does fuck us pretty hard. We may want to bleed them for £60m but the £50m they offered this morning is still better than £0 next summer. And that’s £50m of pure profit on the books.

Let’s hope United don’t walk and buy one of our targets with that cash instead 🤣🤣🤣

If Lukaku is so dead set on Inter and only Inter, the dude can go to Saudi for a year and then come back next summer.

Don’t think they were either. I think we would’ve eventually settled on another loan deal when every other option didn’t work out.

Thuram leaning towards Inter now according to Fab. Again, I hope this doesn’t mean no more Lukaku move.

Maybe. But Lukaku is also quite a famous and popular player amongst other footballers. Watching a club treat such a high profile player like an outcast could sour future transfer targets on a move here. He’d be able to play the victim card.

Fabrizio says that Inter have put in a proposal to Marcus Thurman to rival Milan’s proposal. Do we not have to be careful with the Lukaku situation here? If Inter get a new striker in and drop their Lukaku interest there’s not really anywhere else to send his ass. I know Dzeko left so perhaps Thurman would be a replacement for him but it still feels like we have to be delicate in demanding too much for Lukaku.

Think it was @Special Juan who mentioned Wirtz and Szoboslai yesterday as a replacement for Mount. We should absolutely try for one of those. If Poch wants his new version of prime Eriksen then Wirtz is perfect to play that role. If he wants an explosive attacker who can assist and score from midfield then we can reunite Nkunku with his Leipzig mate. I believe both have somewhat reasonable prices on their heads too.

I’ll just wait to see what the overall plan is for attacking signings this window. If he (plus Nkunku finally coming in) are our only 2 attacking signings after we lose Mount, Havertz, Auba, Ziyech, and Pulisic then I’ll be nervous entering the season. You’d have to imagine 1 more is being bought. Whether that’s another forward or an attacking mid that can score goals.

It almost feels like we’re in constant contact and negotiation with Inter for various players but we never really hear about us going hard at their players. If the relationship between the clubs is so good why are we not insisting on them? Lautaro, Onana, Barella. We should at least be hearing reports that we’re pushing for Barella.

At least it’s a small fee and clearly someone picked by the manager. It’s almost kind of comforting that we aren’t going out and spending mega money on Osimhen who isn’t nailed on to be a smash hit. We’ve tried the flashy big name striker thing so many times with horrible results. I’m fine taking a punt on one who will have less expectation.

Nice. Wasn’t too excited about Jackson initially but the more I watch of him on YouTube the more I’m convinced he could be solid. I just wonder if he’s our primary and only striker this summer.