Pizy

The best attacker we could turn to if Dembele doesn’t happen is Gnabry if we don’t want to spend £65m on Raphinha but there aren’t any links to him at all. In fact I haven’t really heard anything about him leaving Bayern lately.

This latest Dembele reporting on Twitter I’m seeing makes zero sense. The entire reason there have even been rumors of him wanting out of Barca is because they cannot afford his wages and want him to take a dramatic pay cut which he didn’t want to do. But now all of a sudden he will accept a pay cut? Will be a massive shame if it’s true because signing him on a free would’ve helped us in a major way. The money saved without a gigantic transfer fee could’ve been used elsewhere in the team. Now we’re probably going to do something stupid like paying £60m for Richarlison instead.

Have a bad feeling that after all the talk of us getting him Dembele will end up extending with Barca. So I hope that whoever is handling transfers at our club now has told Raphinha to hold off on his decision until next week when Dembele will have made his choice. Because if we strike out on Dembele and Raphinha has already signed for Arse we’re kinda screwed. Sterling is nice but not enough. We’ll need another attacker.

Jesus, man. So we now have a brand new owner who isn’t well versed in how everything works in European football handling everything? Surely a new sporting director etc will be put in place soon. At what other club anywhere is the billionaire owner himself negotiating transfers? No wonder everything is taking forever.

If we can manage to sign De Ligt (which I’m still very skeptical about) I’m still very curious which other CB we’ll target. The Koundé link feels like it totally disappeared and that he’ll go to Barca. Buying Nathan Aké back, who isn’t good enough to get a game for a rival we’re trying to catch, would be extremely anticlimactic. Embarrassing as well after selling him in the first place.

If they sign Raphinha, yeah, I think they’ll be formidable. Front 3 of Jesus flanked by Saka and Raphinha looks extremely tricky and dangerous.

As much as it annoys the hell out of me to say, Arse are building a side that should be formidable. Still mediocre in central midfield, CB, and fullback but they should make a very strong push for 3rd or 4th next season.

Feels like swap deals almost never happen with players from PL clubs. So whenever I see rumors about us swapping so and so with one of our players I just never believe it.

Definitely would be here in Todd’s home country. Chelsea is already huge here in America and CR7 would take us up another level commercially. I just hope he isn’t the sort of owner who thinks that way. It’s very Glazer like. Buying for names rather than team fit.

Difference is CR7 knows his time at the summit of European football is just about over and he seems desperate to have one last go at the CL. So he won’t be downing tools like Rom and he’s actually a proper footballer. Still, this would be a totally nonsensical signing.

Now that would be a good signing.

He’d probably score a lot of goals but our general play would suffer with his lazy ass up top walking about not pressing. If we had everything else in place except for a killer #9 I’d say he’s worth a punt. But the rest of the team needs too much work. Like last summer when Tuchel and everyone else assumed Lukaku was the last missing piece. If we signed CR7 instead I think we’d have gotten close to City and Liverpool had everyone remained fit.

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Yeah. Arse will probably look really nice during a chunk of the season and people in the media will get carried away but I think the more congested fixture list will do them in. Think it’ll once again turn into a “let’s just for us on the Europa League” kind of season for them as the year winds down.

The only solace in Arse going crazy in the transfer market is that they still have a shit manager and bottling is in their DNA.

We’re just kind of unfortunate that the clubs most interested in taking our unwanted players are Italian ones. They’re all cheap as hell and always want loans.

Btw, from most of the footage I’m watching of De Ligt on YouTube it seems he plays on the right side of the defense. So if we’re genuinely after him I wonder what that means for Koundé who also plays on that side. If De Ligt is indeed Tuchel’s man then I once again bring up Gvardiol who as a left footed player would perfectly slot in as our LCB.

Wonder how Havertz’s morale would be effected if both his German teammates leave in the same summer. He seems particularly close with Timo.

Werner is at least fit most of the time and his movement and runs cause havoc against teams who play high lines. Perhaps with a bunch of new faces he’d rediscover his form? Pulisic is made of glass and is feast or famine when he is fit. Werner will also at the very least run himself into the ground for the team.

Di Marzio apparently saying Werner + cash is the offer. Tbh, I think I’d rather keep Werner and sell Pulisic.

The ultimate irony in Arse suddenly becoming massive spenders as soon as the Roman era ends. Back to back windows where Arse will spend north of £150m if they land all their targets. 😒 All our top 4 rivals will have their squads with new signings available from preseason day 1.

The best and most complete squad in the league will have made 3 signings before we make any. And we’re the ones trying to catch up to them!

I think the only two clubs in the world that could sign Neymar are City and United. And City aren’t foolish enough to it. With their marketing obsession and lust for “social media interactions” I can picture United doing it. They’re probably the only ones who would be willing to pay him mega wages. So unless Neymar were to tell potential suitors that he’ll take a dramatic wage reduction he’s kinda stuck. But what kind of fool would want to leave nearly a million a week and cushy PSG?

Someone have a Telegraph sub so we can read that paywalled article? I’m sure it’s just rehashing the same targets but still…

If all that happens we’d probably panic and sign Neymar 🤣🤣🤣