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Thiago Silva isn’t tall either and he’s had a stellar career. You don’t have to be a 6’5” monster to be a great CB.

We’re going to pull an Arsenal this summer. Returning loanees and players who couldn’t get a look in last season will “be like new signings.” 🙃🙃🙃

Imagine believing we are deluded enough to bid for Chiesa, an Italian player playing for the top Italian side, after he was the standout player for the Euro winners. The fact that no other outlets or credible sources are reporting it says it all. Sky are clearly bored since no big moves are happening so they’re spewing bs for clicks.

Jesus. Arsenal’s transfer targets look like something out of the West Ham/Everton/Newcastle book. They’re going to be a million miles away from the top again.

Agreed. In fact I think it’s more likely than not that he does stay because odds aren’t great with Haaland.

With Giroud officially gone and reliable sources reporting that we’re actively shopping Tammy around, something has to be happening in the striker department. The fees we receive for Guehi, Emerson, Tammy, and Tomori would make a massive Haaland bid seem much more realistic. Finding buyers willing to pay decent change for Tammy and Emerson is proving difficult it seems, though. Every day that passes makes it harder to see Dortmund willing to budge since they won’t be able to replace him. Feels like it needs to happen with at least a couple of weeks before the deadline.

Levy would probably rather hang himself than face the Spuds fans if he sold us Kane.

Yeah, I suppose. But it would be kind of risky having only a single specialist #9 in our squad.

He’d be a good fit at Arse. But yuck at seeing him in that shirt. 🤢 But with Oli finally getting his move to Milan, why sell Tammy as well? Even if we snag a new striker we’d have no backup.

Enough with your sense and realism. Bomb it all on Haaland. 👍🏼

Honeslty don’t know what we’re waiting for. The season starts in almost exactly 1 month, right? It’s pretty much common knowledge now that they’ll sell for the right money. We know how beneficial it would be to have him in for a whole preseason. So what’s the hold up? Like @Jas has been saying, perhaps we have to sell a bunch of players to fund the move. But how could that be when we’ve just received mega payouts for winning the CL and finishing top 4? Surely we’re more flush with cash than ever before? Regardless, the longer this goes on the higher the likelihood some other big club wakes up and makes an offer. City, Real Madrid, someone… Feels like we have to move soon or miss out…

Sky Germany are notoriously unreliable, aren’t they?

He and Livramento were the two I see the most about, anyways. I haven’t watched any of them.

Won’t believe we’ve made an offer at all until someone reliable reports it. Ornstein or Law.

Wow. Maybe our most highly rated youngster, wasn’t he?

Think about what PSG’s wage bill must look like.

That’s not my point. What I mean is that they constantly buy the current flashy player for mega money, give them a mega contract, it doesn’t work, and they have to send them away or let them rot. Coutinho, Dembele, Griezmann etc. Or they bring in players that simply don’t fit their team at all like Pjanic, Vidal, Arda Turan etc. There’s a reason they’re in dire financial straits.

Barca is one of, if not the worst operators in the market in all of Europe.

I admire your confidence and agree with most of what you said. But Ole may not even need to “outsmart” these elite coaches. He’ll have such a quality side at his disposal that United are a lock for top 4. Leicester last season fell agonizingly short last season because they simply couldn’t deal with their lack of quality depth. They look to have solved that already with a few great signings. So yes, having TT in for a whole preseason and at the start of the PL season will be a huge boost, but we still don’t have a reliable, guaranteed goal scorer if we give it a go with the same team. And as we saw last season even with TT we struggled to score many goals even against shit teams.

Last summer was just a stream of good Chelsea news. Linked with loads of top players and eventually signed a bunch of them. It was transfer muppet paradise. This summer it’s the opposite. Nobody can afford our deadwood that we need to get rid of, our youngsters are stalling on new contracts, we are showing zero urgency to make needed signings, and worst of all we’re seeing our two closest rivals last season United and Leicester move quite aggressively to dramatically improve their sides. Can we get some positive Chelsea transfer news? 😂😂😂 I’d be livid if we hadn’t just won the CL. That basically soothes any anger for this summer.

Yep. Weird how the AC and Rüdi situations aren’t officially sorted yet. I’m sure both will get done (and could very well be already) but it’s strange how we let their contracts run down when we’re usually good at avoiding these situations.

We certainly don’t need a CB now, that’s true. But we keep hearing about Zouma going and both Silva and Azpi are old. We’ll probably need to replace both next summer anyways and we’ll be fully past COVID and clubs’ finances being in the gutter then. May as well get a young, long term CB this summer if an opportunity presents itself and prices are still relatively reasonable. Someone like Varane for the rumored 45-50m is a great deal. He’d cost nearly twice that in a normal summer and if he had a couple more years on his contract. I really rate Süle as well.

See all this talk about us wanting a CB, why aren’t we throwing our name in for Varane and letting United a free run at him?

First thing I noticed when watching his highlights from this past season. He looks kind of slow.

Gallagher is indeed very talented and tidy on the ball. But then so is Billy. Should definitely be given a chance in preseason to see if TT can make use of him.