Pizy

Seeing talk of a 3 year deal for Auba. Seriously? That’s silly imo.

No point watching the last match of the day. Jesus will probably score a hat trick against this terrible Bournemouth defense. Then the Arse wankfest continues for another week. They could hardly hand pick an easier start to their season.

Looking very good so far, too. Very direct and always showing for the ball.

Yet to be impressed with Spuds. Think they’re still weak in midfield quality wise unless or until Bissouma settles. They’re still weak at both fullback positions, though Perisic is nice in attack. I can see them being like Arse sides of recent years where they do well against inferior sides they’re meant to beat but will get bossed by the other top teams like we did last weekend who have much more quality in the key areas I mentioned. Think Conte needs one more transfer window before they’re ready to truly take that next step. Hojbjerg and Bentancur are bang average. Dier is bang average. Davies who seems to play all the time is below average. If their front 3 isn’t razor sharp they look very ordinary as a team.

Hopefully that’s wrapped up first thing next week.

Wolves have a very nice team it must be said. Very well balanced. If they can get Jimenez up and running and in form I could see them challenging for top 6.

Maguire moves like a gigantic cruise ship on the pitch. Looks like he’s running in a swimming pool with cement boots on. He’s also incredibly panicky on the ball whenever opposition players press him and he’s got to make a quick decision. He’s really a CB that’s not suited for the modern way of progressive football. The only thing I can think of that he’s genuinely good at is clearing away crosses with his massive head.

If a journalist is going to make up a rumor out of thin air at least make it somewhat plausible or believable. Harry fucking Maguire. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I fucking wouldn’t!

Can we use the delete club option if we go anywhere near Harry Maguire, please?

That’s what happens when you’re in desperation mode and offer so much money that neither the selling club or the player can say no. They could end up paying a total of £70m for a 30 year old DM and £375k per week in wages.

Any other Spanish side need a LB in case Barca screw us over?

Uhhhhh, wtf happens if Barca don’t take Alonso? He can’t stay here now that Cucu has signed.

Yeah, much like Thiago Silva & Koulibaly you don’t bring in a 33 year old on huge wages and convince him to leave a club like Barca to warm the bench. Hopefully he pushes Kai to up his level consistently.

There’s an extreme lack of traditional world class strikers in Europe right now. Even if we had another £100m to spend on one like we did with Lukaku we wouldn’t be getting a sure fire, risk free player. Osimhen is really the only name I can think of that people are hyping up as the next highly sought after #9 that the big clubs will be after.

At £15m it’s probably decent value. Hard to be that upset if that’s all we end up paying. Then we just have to hope the contract length isn’t too long so we can easily move him on if it doesn’t work out.

I’m not even bothered about United’s business or worried at all. At least not yet. Lisandro Martinez - tiny CB who has already looked like he’s going to be repeatedly targeted and hasn’t even played a serious team yet Malacia - a kid so who knows what he is Eriksen - good player but not spectacular Casemiro - great for Madrid when surrounded by world class players all over the pitch. Don’t think he’ll look nearly as good in a shambolic United side. Antony - if they spend £80m or more on him I’ll laugh. He has gigantic flop written all over him. Telling that no other big club except United is after him. If we did the exact business that they’re doing I’d be depressed. I wouldn’t have a single one of those players here. Now, if they go out and somehow get De Jong and a class striker in addition to all of that then they’ll have done well. But up until now their window looks poor.

Kova still out, Kante out long term, now Broja out so there’s no recognized striker in the entire squad.

Bamford has apparently ruled himself out for this with another injury. Raphinha gone. That’s their two best attacking players from recent seasons not playing. We should be really asserting ourselves like we did against Spuds and winning this comfortably.

Wonder what happens with Kai if we sign Auba. And likewise Broja’s desire to stay. At 33, Auba will surely only move here if he’s promised a starting role and to be the main man. Otherwise, why leave Barca? If he’s going to be rotated all the time and be a squad player he may as well do that in sunny Barcelona. Of course when you’re at a huge club you expect competition for your place, but Kai was probably thinking to himself “finally, I have the chance to be the main man up front with Lukaku gone,” and now he’ll be riding the bench more often than not?

If De Jong was moving I think it would’ve happened long ago. Think it’s pretty crystal clear that he’s staying. They’ll send us Auba, Memphis will go, and that’ll then allow them to sign Alonso and register Koundé. FdJ will stay put.

What they need most is a highly technical, calm, classy midfielder who pulls the strings and runs the game which is what FDJ is. Like Jorgi does for us. Casemiro is a destroyer. If they get Casemiro + another midfielder then they’ll have done extremely well. If he’s their only midfield signing I think they’ll still be in trouble there.

Casemiro is so massively overrated. His reputation is hugely inflated due to the club he plays for. Benefited greatly from having some of the greatest players of this generation around him. He’s mediocre technically and he’s a walking foul machine. Exactly like last summer when United fans were over the moon about Varane thinking they’ve signed the best CB in Europe, it’ll be the same here. They’re all dreaming themselves about Casemiro thinking they’re getting the best DM in the world. Like most of their recent signings I think he’ll be average. I’d be much more annoyed/worried if they got De Jong.

From the club’s POV I don’t think it makes sense to let Trev go on loan even if we do sign Fofana. We’ll need all the depth we can get at the back with this strange season we’re going to have. But from Trev’s POV I can absolutely see why he should go. Tuchel prefers 33 year old Azpi and now even Reece at RCB over him I think.

Seems like negotiations for all of the remaining players we’re linked with have ground to a complete standstill. Gordon, Fofana, Auba, and De Jong. Same with the outgoings. No update on Alonso, Ziyech, Barkley, Billy, Ampadu etc. Thought for sure we’d want to push at least 1 new signing through this week before the Leeds game so they could feature. Definitely thought Fofana would be a Chelsea player by now after Rodgers himself confirmed we’ve bid twice. Once that cat was out of the bag I figured we would’ve got it done ASAP.