Pizy

Rice will be a Chelsea player this time next season. No point in signing the inferior version of him.

I’m firmly in the “take a punt on Neymar” camp now. Other wide options have evaporated. If we can land our defensive targets I think we’d have a strong and hard working enough team around him to take a chance on him. I think his poorer form of late is more down to lack of motivation than diminishing ability. He’s only 30, not 35. No thanks to CR7 unless Tuchel himself is keen. If it’s entirely Boehly led for commercial reasons then we have problems.

Just can’t imagine Tuchel wanting to go from Havertz up top who runs his socks off and works for the team to CR7 who doesn’t. And as United learned last season, when you have 37 year old CR7 you’re basically forced to start him every single league or CL match no matter how poor his form may be or how bad of a match up it is. Otherwise it’s a massive controversy. Unless we get desperate and miss out on every other attacking target I don’t think the club will invite that kind of drama. All that being said, the thought of James, Chilly, Sterling and whoever else linking up with the greatest ever goal scorer makes me curious. He scored a good amount last season in a horrendous United side, so how would he look with actual ballers around him?

Yep. But things are starting to get real now with players returning to training. I think every club wants to start getting their targets in quickly now. Even the slow and incompetent United are about to announce their first signing tomorrow with that Malacia guy.

Surely, SURELY there will be incoming activity this week. There has to be. I think 2 will come in finally. Sterling & one other.

Think the club have enough sense to not make Aké our first announced signing. Think it’ll be Sterling. Perhaps they’ll announce both at the same time.

Would be the ultimate embarrassment if we hand City money to buy our #1 CB target by taking their 4th choice one.

Imagine believing that. As if an American billionaire who knows jack shit about football would call up an 18 year old footballer and speak with him.

Bet you they won’t even have short term success either. Real Madrid will own LaLiga for the foreseeable future with the side they’ve assembled. Barca won’t touch them next season even with Lewa up top. And their defense and midfield are far too weak to do serious damage in the CL. They’re basically just doing all of this to appease their supporters with shiny toys.

Yep. Like I said yesterday, I bet you anything that within the couple of years they’re going to be in deep shit once again. But next time instead of being forced to let go of Messi they’ll have to sell off they’re prized jewel youngsters. They’re one of, if not the worst transfer market club in the world.

Feels like De Ligt is the one target that we need to be quickest about. As in before we give City a bunch of money or United miss out on that dude from Ajax and turn their attention to De Ligt. He may not be the best player we sign this summer but he is probably the most important if we pull it off. Could anchor our defensive unit for a decade.

Antony will flop in the PL. Mark my words. I actually hope United buy him for some silly fee.

#TeamNeymar

Worse yet, imagine turning down more money and a better team (in Raphinha’s case) or straight up taking a massive pay cut to stay (in Dembele’s case). Just our shit luck that two of our biggest targets are so in love with Barca that they’ll accept worse terms to be there.

If J5 goes to Juve for De Ligt, maybe. Otherwise there’s no room for him.

I don’t think Tuchel would ask for it and I think Boehly being a brand new owner won’t force any signing on him. Neymar I can kind of see. CR7, no. If he was 5 years younger perhaps.

Bayern would suit CR7 perfectly. Bayern will piss the league as usual and he’ll put up monster goal scoring stats (which is what matters to him most) just like Lewa does. They would also have n excellent chance at adding to his CL legacy. He could extend his career by 3 more top years in Germany. Thing is, he’s not a Bayern sort of buy.

Yeah, I see the CR7 rumors are simmering again like 2 weeks ago. Apparently being reported by Duncan Castles as well who is pretty much a direct Jorge Mendes mouthpiece. It’s almost unimaginable for me to think Tuchel himself would want a 38 year old striker who doesn’t work or run for the team. Someone who brings the kind of circus he does. Someone who you’re pretty much forced to play every match despite how poor he is because otherwise he’ll pout and cause friction.

None of these players other than Gnabry would excite me personally. None of the others are near the level of Raphinha or Dembele at this moment. Bowen is very promising but as usual dealing with WH would be impossible. We need attackers that are CLEAR upgrades on what we had last season, not risks or young talents. The likes of Antony, Diaby, Olise etc I can easily see flopping just like Ziyech or Werner.

Raphinha and Dembele likely off the table, the player we were thinking about hijacking at the last minute Richarlison off the table (thank God) no links to Gnabry really, no standout striker targets in place of any of these wide players. Could it be…….Neymar time? 😰😰😰 We’re nearly out of options here, ffs.

Don’t think Broja goes unless we get an offer so stupid we can’t say no to like £40m or more. For a player that is still unproven I don’t think the club would turn that down. My guess is that we keep him and he plays a significant role for us this season. With Lukaku gone there will be plenty of minutes available to rotate with Kai.

Didn’t mention him because he’s obviously starting if fit. Laporte and Stones rotate depending on form. Which is why it makes no sense for de Ligt to want to go there.

You’d hope de Ligt would prefer to walk right into our first XI as a key player than to go to City and rotate with Laporte and Stones. City would be a stupid move for him. United are the ones we have to worry about I think. Luckily, it seems they’re currently after that dwarf from Ajax.

I look forward to Barca having another catastrophic financial situation a couple of years from now after they splurge all of this money. Hope we’re right there ready to pounce on Pedri and Gavi when these cunts are desperate to offload them to offset their debts. 🤣

Pursuing 2 wingers suggest that we’re switching to a back 4 with two wide players, Mount in a midfield 3, and Havertz up top. But then conversely, why the fuck would we be after Aké for something ridiculous like £40m if we’re switching to a back 4? What happens to Silva if we switch formations?