Pizy

Threw up in my mouth a bit reading Matt Law’s latest tweet. I won’t even post it because it’s cursed. 🤢🤢🤢 I’d rather ride the season out with our current lot than sign the two he mentions.

It’ll be Caicedo for silly money just before the deadline is my guess. Then we try our chances in the summer for Enzo when Benfica will be more amenable. Trouble is several other massive clubs will be chasing him then and will have CL football to offer. If City goes in for him for example I don’t think we have a prayer. He would perfectly replace Gündogan who is rumored to be leaving. Even United may be able to gazump us if they want him by offering CL football and likely much higher wages than we’d propose. He and Casemiro would be arguably the best midfield pairing in the world. If we’re serious about Enzo it’s likely now or never.

As I said the other day, keep Havertz for at least another season. Let’s see how he looks in a completely new attack and (hopefully) new midfield. Having a couple of super aggressive, super direct wingers on either side of him and perhaps a CM who can actually pick out a pass could unlock the best in him.

Unless I see a picture of Enzo holding up a Chelsea shirt I can’t even muster any excitement about us potentially going in for him again. Even the very reliable and supposedly trustworthy Portuguese reporters and outlets made it sound like a 100% done deal last time. So why would we believe any of them now?

Unless we kiss Benfica’s ass and beg for forgiveness, why would they even come to the table again? If, and that’s a big IF they agree to come to the table I wonder if they’d work with us on the price a bit. Maybe offer €90m as an initial payment with add ons eventually reaching the full €100m+ That’s still an incredible deal for someone they just recently bought for peanuts.

Gusto would be a fantastic signing. Get him and we have both fullback spots set for years and years. We’d be able to rotate those positions and survive injuries with very little, if any drop off. Getting him in in January would also be hugely beneficial to us. As with the rest of the Jan signings he’ll get half a season to get settled with no real pressure on him due to the position we’re in. And most importantly he would ensure that we don’t have to rush Reece back in. Really hope it gets done. Much smarter than paying huge money for Dumfries.

Enzo has now fully resettled back into Benfica after having his head turned and has been putting in top performances. Us going back in and pissing Benfica off even more sounds highly, highly unlikely this window. Even convincing Enzo himself may not be possible now after we essentially pulled the rug out from under him last time and made him look like an asshole. He himself may be just as angry with us as his club are.

Tbf, even huge swathes of their own supporters thought he was in over his head and he did indeed look clueless early on. Nobody, even the most hardcore Gooner’s, could’ve foreseen them taking a leap from bang average to title favorites within the span of a few months.

Yeah, still may not be a walk in the park for them. Lots of teams (including us I hope) will want to play spoiler in their title run. Maybe they’ll also join us and Liverpool in having a couple of key injuries.

United really don’t look all that impressive. They’re pretty decent all over the pitch but just have Rashford in red hot form. They aren’t a great watch.

He may score the odd banger from outside the box but other than that Antony has been a bust so far. Even United fans have been complaining a lot about him. So that’s both of their hugely expensive and hyped wingers that have been big disappointments with Sancho also nowhere to be seen.

Nketiah another one. In fact, both of these sides have a bunch of players who were getting clowned on just a few months ago for being bang average. Shows how quickly things can turn around for us next season.

It’s actually insane how Rashford has gone from despised by United fans, them wanting him gone even if they had to give him away, all of them calling him Trashford and now he’s almost unplayable and scoring like a world class player.

Of the midfielders we’ve been linked with this window, the one that looks most similar to Enzo if we can’t get him is that French kid Kone from Gladbach. Great mix of steel and technical quality. Don’t know how much he’d cost, though.

I could’ve sworn that in years past the PL just continued for clubs not in the FA Cup and those that were just had their PL matches rescheduled. But anyways, this little break should definitely be beneficial for us. Build up fitness for Reece, Chilly, Zakaria and Fofana and get time in the training pitch for Felix, Mudryk, and Noni.

But why is there a 2 week break is what I’m asking?

Why is there such a long break until the next match?

So our incoming business is most likely done unless we have a couple of hefty sales this coming week. With James being back I bet the club are going to gamble for the remainder of the season and not bring anyone new in at RB. Midfield is where it could get interesting. I can see us improving our offer for Caicedo but not all the way up to £75m which would be madness.

He has surprised me. Knew he had the physical tools to handle the switch to this league but was very unsure about how he’d adjust to the pace of the PL game. But he has looked very calm, cool, and composed in his first 2 matches. Couple of rushed or sloppy passes and a couple of times where he has misjudged his positioning but that should be ironed out in time.

Now that we’re more used to playing a back 4 again I think we should try Mudryk left, Kai up top, Madueke right and Félix in the hole just behind Kai. But to do that we need to buy Caicedo so we have a solid midfield 2 behind those 4.

Much of Gallagher’s appeal is that he’s supposed to not only be aggressive and mobile in midfield but also pop up and score plenty of goals. But every single time he gets in great positions to score or have a shot he panics and shits himself. Whilst I’m not pushing hard for us to sell him, if some other club like Palace offer us a sizable fee I’d move him.

Bit of composure and sharpness and we win that with relative comfort. Silva and Badiashile devoured almost everything. None of their attackers did much of anything.

And the injury list grows.

Another Mount horror show.

WAKE THE FUCK UP