Pizy

Not sure I could take another season of seeing Azpi get torched defensively, not be able to recover at all if someone gets by him, play terrible forward passes to nobody, and smack 5 crosses per match into the man defending him. I totally understand Tuchel loving his leadership and spirit but for goodness sake, he has been past it and finished at the elite level for 2 seasons now. Just let him go enjoy his final playing days in his sunny homeland. With as frequently as Reece picks up injuries we could once again be looking at having painfully poor Azpi playing dozens of matches. And that sever,y hampers our cutting edge in attack.

See our name has been linked with Pau Torres again. Personally, he doesn’t impress me at all. He looks like kind of a lanky, awkward CB who is a bit sluggish. He just screams average to me. Doesn’t feel Chelsea quality to my eyes. He looks nowhere close to as impressive as Gvardiol. Let United blow €50-60m on him. Has flop written all over him.

Good point. Still, imagining Lukaku in a highly technical team that try to pass people to death is hilarious.

The least Barca-like player possible. The anti-Barca if you will. There’s more of a chance that I play for Barca than Lukaku, ffs. 😂

Now confirmed, Villa sign Diego Carlos. That surely can’t be goo for our Koundé pursuit. They get that deal done seemingly instantly yet Sevilla act like total cunts when we’ve been working in signing Koundé…

Just saw Romano tweet that things are moving quickly with Villa and Diego Carlos. Are they really going to agree to let both of their best CB’s go at once?

Because he’s on obscene wages. What I’m saying is that if he had reasonable wage demands there would be a queue a mile long for him. He’s not impossible for PSG to get rid of because of his declining ability, it’s because nobody else wants to pay him a million € a month or whatever insane salary he’s earning.

Neymar will always have resale value. He’s one of the 3 most famous footballers on the planet. He could come here and lose a leg and you’d still have clubs lining up to take him off our hands because he’d sell millions of shirts.

There were rumors a couple of years ago that he could go to Real Madrid. I could only see them as a possible destination. The only other clubs that could afford his wages are the Manchester clubs but City have zero need for him since they’re loaded in that area and United have (probably) learned their lesson about going for flashy names rather than players who fit their team.

Neymar strikes me as the kind of dude who is perfectly at peace collecting his mega wages in Paris and not having to exert himself much week in and week out. Doubt he’d want to come to the most challenging league to get kicked to shreds.

I’d be fine with either.

Sell Werner and one of Ziyech or Pulisic, buy Nkunku, and sign Dembele on a free. Much as I’d love to move Lukaku I don’t think there’s a chance of that. So yes, he’ll still be here. Between he, Nkunku, and Havertz that should be plenty of goals.

When our rivals will have Salah, Mané, Diaz, Haaland, Kane, Son etc I just don’t think we can afford having a raw, unproven kid playing a major role and learning on the job. If we already had a reliable 25 goal per season striker in our side and Broja was coming in strictly as a League Cup/FA Cup/squad player then fine. I don’t want us to have multiple unreliable forwards on the books again. We need killers not projects. For me he needs the Connor Gallagher treatment. Go to a smaller PL club and play every match. If he improves dramatically on what he showed at Southampton then he’ll be ready the next season.

Honestly think Broja should go out on another PL loan next season. See if he’s good enough for Chelsea or not. Didn’t show enough this season and we can’t really afford to let him learn on the job here.

Frenkie De Jong seems like a saga that will be CR7 in reverse. Everyone and their mother assumes he’ll joking ten Hag at United but I can see Guardiola really pushing to get him instead. Which will cause RedCafe to crash for a week. 😂

This kid looks awesome, must be said. Another Bayern steal in the transfer market. He looks like he can become a £100m player in a couple of years of development at Bayern.

Don’t think we have to worry about our owner getting involved in transfers anymore. Roman was a genuine transfer muppet like a lot of us supporters are and he was enamored but shiny names. Boehly doesn’t know a thing about footballers so I’m going to assume that all signings going forward are going to be in the recommendation or request of Tuchel.

It’s pretty well known that he has improved massively since then. He was just a teenager when he burst onto the scene so of course he was overhyped. He has turned himself into a great player in France. I’m not saying we should make him our priority but if other options are off the table or we are priced out we could do a lot worse than Sanches.

Love Bellingham but he’s nothing like Rice. He’s a #8 whereas Rice is a #6. With Kova, Gallagher, Kante, and even Mount I think we’re set for the long term in that more advanced, ball carrying midfielder role. We need a DM.

That’s the dream. Add a new wingback and it would be a great window. Wonder if it would be possible to tempt West Ham with cash + a player for Rice. There were reports yesterday that they are interested in Broja. They’ve been interested in RLC in the past. If not I’d absolutely love for us to go for the guy I’ve been wanting for the past couple of windows: Renato Sanches. He looked awesome against us in that CL game.

Go and get Dembele before any of our rivals make their move or PSG jump in him!

I just don’t think height alone makes a huge difference in how teams attack you. Look at Leicester this season who I think conceded by far the most goals from corners and set pieces. Their team has several really tall CB’s and it didn’t matter. It’s more about how you set up and mark opponents.

I just don’t see his height as that big of a deal. If he had that lack of height AND was also very sleight and skinny I’d be cautious. But he’s built like a tank and has a great leap on him. I don’t really ever hear about his height being a weakness when I read about him. Him taking chances on the ball is definitely something that needs to be taken out of his game and cleaned up. But l’d take someone who is slightly risky with the ball than someone who is totally passive and soft like Christensen was in that right CB position. As for the back 4 vs back 3 thing, he is well capable of playing as a RB if necessary. He has done it numerous times. Not worried about that.

Just saw someone point out on Twitter that Koundé is in the La Liga team of the season (for the 2nd straight year) and that Gvardiol is in the Bundesliga team of the season at just 19/20 years old. We’d be setting ourselves up for the very long term if we can get both. They can lock down those left and right CB spots and give us such a different dimension than what we’ve been used to. And if both can get a season under their belts it’ll make getting Silva’s long term replacement in the middle spot easier next summer.

Well at least it’s not Liverpool. I guess now unless we get creative we’ll be sticking with Kante and J5 again next season. Should we try for Bissouma? He’s a beast and maybe the closest thing to Kante out there in terms of playing style. Premier League ready and wouldn’t cost mega money.