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After Maresca’s comments I think Guehi is nailed on. Low fee, PL ready, Chelsea connection. Can’t imagine we’re going to go and pay £80m or something to go and get one of the usual names our supporters fantasize about like the lad from Inter.

Very good structure and extremely tidy/confident on the ball from back to front. All the debutants looked solid and I afraid. I think Maresca has truly stamped his idea on the squad now after what we’ve seen at the CWC and now. A couple more signings and we’re ready. Xavi would absolutely COOK in the setup we saw today.

Couple other observations. 1) Delap again looks like an absolute menace and a pain in the ass for CB’s and keepers trying to play out. Unlucky not to score at least once that half. 2) I really don’t like the look of Cucu inverted from a defensive POV despite how dangerous he looks going forward. 3) I also don’t like the look of Trev on the left side. I know he likely won’t be there when the real stuff starts but he looks shaky when pressed over there. 4) Acheampong is getting better and better. Will be a serious player for us this season with the Levi injury.

Estevão doesn’t appear like he’ll need ANY settling in period. This kid is at 100% confidence from preseason match 1.

Just noticed Lavia isn’t even in the squad? Don’t tell me….

Nkunku I agree but Jackson plays a premium position that clubs will always need.

Seems Newcastle are interested in 16 different strikers. But none of the ones I’m seeing are as good as Jackson is. Wonder if they scoffed at our asking price.

Usually it’s probably agents who tell their clients to sit out to firstly put pressure on the club to work out a transfer and secondly so that their client doesn’t get Colwill’d or James Maddison’d. This deal could of course still happen but it’s looking more and more likely that it’ll drag on maybe for the rest of the window. We need Nkunku and Jackson sold first clearly.

Yeah, he played like a week and a half ago and then like Sesko asked to be left out presumably because he wanted to push through the move. If he is now rejoining the team it must mean nothing is close.

Think we probably do need him sold. Although now the Xavi deal is seeming less likely. Negotiating with them for 3 weeks, no bid, and now he’s rejoining the team where he could risk injury. Players probably don’t do that if a move is close.

Bad news for us if they go for him. Not sure who else could afford Jackson then. We’d have to dramatically lower our asking price for him.

Yeah, if we pull off the Xavi and Garnacho (🤢) signings I think we’re awesome in attack and with our midfield depth we’re awesome there, too. Cucu and James are elite at fullback. Really the only two parts of our team that you can say are a CLEAR step down from the other 3 title contenders are CB and GK. You can stack the rest of our squad up against anyone in Europe. I think a starting combo of Trev + Tosin will be just fine against most opponents because the team in front of them should be so good. But against the rival Big 6 attacks? Or the elite UCL sides? That’s where I worry.

Oh, come on. We’ve sold how many players this week alone? How is that still not enough?!

Guehi does make a whole lot of sense and fits in with the “market opportunity’ conscious stuff our directors like. Available for a decent price which may be even lower for us due to the sell on clause, good age where he’s still young but highly experienced, he’s PL proven and a full international, and to top it all off he’s a Chelsea boy. It would also be a funny bonus to get him in before match day 1 where we can weaken our first opponent. I was just this morning saying that I didn’t want Guehi back but that was when we assumed everyone was fit. Now with Levi missing the entire season he’s a no brainer.

Thiago Silva down to come back for 1 more season? 😅

If that’s true and no replacement is brought in (which I think is crazy) then I’m assuming it’s Tosin on that left side to start off with next to Trev. Then we maybe try Hato there as he gets up to speed.

Two players who aren’t naturally CB’s replacing our best CB doesn’t sound like a recipe for success.

Much like Newcastle are finding out, when you’re in desperation mode and everyone knows it they’ll jack the price way up on their players. Every club we may go to about their CB will know we’re in a pinch and have us over a barrel.

Unless Jackson is sold for a monster fee along with a couple of others like Nkunku I don’t see how we can comply with those FFP rules and buy Xavi, Garnacho, AND a top class CB. Drop the fucking Garnacho pursuit. Tell him sorry, we’ll come back in for you in January or something. Get Xavi and Guehi and call it a window.

Fucking hell, man. He was finally starting to really come on and become the player we all had hoped. We 100% need a new starting CB now. I figured it was a short to medium term injury when I was posting this morning. If he’s out the whole year we NEED a left sided CB and a good one.

If only it was 3-4 PL clubs battling it out for him instead of these cheap ass Italians and Germans! 🤣 Then we may actually get the £70m+. Milan may offer us a loan with option to buy for €20m or some insulting bullshit knowing them.

Do we even know what’s going on with Veiga right now? Is he training at Cobham?

United demanding £50m for Garnacho and using Madueke as the benchmark. If we actually pay that there’s no chance Xavi is coming too.

Is a bit strange that Bayern were heavily linked with Woltemade and that move never happened. So they definitely are after a striker. Jackson would probably feast in that league like so many decent strikers do. Perfect backup to Kane. Would Bayern actually pay what we’re demanding is the question. My guess is nobody outside of the PL is going to offer us more than £50m or something.

Probably because we’re by far and away the biggest club that are interested in him and he seems like someone who loves being a famous influencer. Staying in the biggest/best league, at a top club, and in London keeps his profile and celebrity high. Also good mates with Enzo Fernandez I think which I’m sure plays it’s part. Tbh, he probably really fancies his chances of beating Gittens for a starting place. Gittens is actually younger than he is and has no PL experience.