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João Pedro is an interesting player and would be an interesting signing. But again I say like I have before, he’d be another underwhelming target compared to some of the others we’ve been linked with. And with Delap and Jackson here I’m not entirely sure what his role is and for £60m that’s insane to say. I’d rather have Kudus as the maverick, versatile attacker if that’s what we’re after.

I’m not really sweating the Andrey Santos stuff. Annoying as hell that he hasn’t been used more during the CWC but I don’t think we’re actually even considering letting him go. I’d only get concerned if he himself comes out and starts agitating for a move away. Or if some club like Bayern start openly tapping him up and turning his head.

Well, that Emi Martinez rumor was born and killed within one morning lol

Think he’ll end up at United if they can find some sucker to take Onana off their hands. But I’d 100% take Emi Martinez. At his age he can be the perfect bridge to Penders eventually taking over as #1.

But surely it’s better to get your key targets in early. As Liverpool and City have decided. The longer you wait the harder the potential selling clubs will dig their heels in knowing it’ll be increasingly difficult to replace their players. Also there may be more competition for said players.

I think the only way we’d sign another striker is if Jackson goes. We were never going to have 3 senior #9’s in the squad.

Another day of fuck all happening. Tomorrow we’ll get our daily “Chelsea and Dortmund had another good meeting on Gittens” and then fuck all will probably happen again. Then once we do finally sign him (for ridiculous money) who knows how long it’s going to take for our next target.

If Newcastle want Elanga and João Pedro that surely means we’d have a free run at Kudus if it was ever true we want him.

All I’ve heard about Ter Stegan is that the injuries have made him washed and finished. There’s a reason Barca now have as many keepers as we do seemingly and he’s not even in the conversation to be their starter anymore.

We’ve heard about “positive talks with Dortmund” and a deal being “close” for weeks now. Just get the deal done and stop wasting time on this, ffs. We’re fighting for Gittens as if he’s Mbappe.

I literally forgot Chilly existed. Did he even play for Palace?

Wonder when we’re going to finally start hearing about us being linked with a new LB as cover for Cucu. Feels like we pretty badly need one. Maresca even mentioned it in remarks yesterday. Playing Gusto there isn’t going to cut it. Or will we just bring Renato Veiga back in the fold? Because as of now Cucu is one of those players in our team where if he gets a long term injury it really fucks us.

Our passing accuracy is so shit here it’s embarrassing.

That looks like a lineup from a manager who is expecting to be up big at half time and is giving these fringe players minutes now so he can sub in Santos, Essugo, etc later so people will stop pestering him about them.

Other than Fofana is there anyone else of interest at Lyon?

Just get it over with and move on to focusing on other targets.

Still find it super unlikely that we sell Jackson. But if he does go to Italy I think he’d do extremely well there.

Funny seeing the vast majority of United fans desperately wanting to avoid Nkunku whilst the vast majority of our fans want to avoid Garnacho.

If that’s what we end up with we better pray Palmer regains his world class form and Delap hits the ground tearing it up. Because otherwise our attack is going to look like a real struggle out of the gate.

I don’t really rate Gittens and don’t want him for the silly fee talked about. But at least with his skill set you can see what the thought process is. He’s a classic super speedy wide player who’s great 1v1 in space. You can watch his YouTube highlights and convince yourself that there’s something there and in the best case scenario he can become really valuable. But what’s this obsession someone at our club has with Garnacho? I watch highlights that are supposed to make anyone look awesome and I see nothing of particular note. Not super fast, not an amazing or tricky dribbler, not some guy who will overpower anyone, his end product is shit. And to top it all off he’s got serious attitude issues and a controversial brother who stirs shit off the pitch.

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if we signed both. 🤦‍♂️

Oh god, Garnacho talk again. Fuck.

Gittens isn’t anywhere close to a £55m player, ffs. The offer we already made of £40m or whatever it was is already too much for him. The money Dortmund are asking for him is the kind of fee you pay for a top talent you are confident will become world class and whose value will shoot up massively. Gittens look like he could be Madueke V2. A decent squad player who has his moments of quality but is bang average 90% of the time.

I think we all know who our next manager will be if Maresca is sacked. It’ll be Cesc assuming he stays at Como another season.

Any time we play an opponent who presses high Sanchez instantly becomes a massive liability. And these days high pressing is becoming super common even for smaller clubs. With us, if you are aggressive with your press and force Sanchez to have to make decisions with his feet you have an excellent chance to get something against Chelsea. He’ll either kick the ball straight out of play trying to hit one of our fullbacks/wide players or he’ll do that same infuriating pass into midfield that the opposition always reads and instantly they’re through on goal. Those are his signature moves with the ball at his feet. Sanchez is adequate when we have 70% of the ball and are playing low block teams. That’s it.