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Looks like it hinges on Sarabia coming into Atleti first.

Well I can’t foresee our board sanctioning a buy obligation so it may come down to us increasing the loan fee or something. It’s just not smart business to commit to an obligation before seeing what you’ve got.

I don’t really understand Atleti’s position on Saul. Isn’t the entire reason he wants out and why they want him out due to the fact that he has fallen out of favor in midfield? Why do they need to replace someone who doesn’t even play in their midfield? I thought I read they have shifted him to win back or something.

But the manager who delivered us the CL trophy has said himself that we need a couple more signings. Multiple times he has said so in interviews. I won’t slam the club until the window closes tonight but they will 100% have let him down if we sign nobody else.

We’ve sold off basically all of our best youngsters over the last few windows and also multiple first teamers who could’ve contributed all based on the idea that we’d reinvest in upgrades to help us challenge for everything immediately. As awesome as our club have been in recent years for the most part this is one of the strangest summers ever. Trying to make up a massive points gap on City with only 1 signing. That’s…bold.

So Sevilla gave us both a deadline and a price and we’ve bid after said deadline and tried to lowball them on the price. LMAO 😂 Zouma’s week + transfer bullshit may have cost Tuchel his top defensive target.

RLC made zero impact at Palace and zero impact at Fulham. But apparently he’s good enough for us? Chance after chance he’s had to show he’s Chelsea quality, here and elsewhere, and he has failed to show he is. Should've just kept Billy or even Gallagher around.

The only reason I would say it’s not a disaster is because only United dramatically improved around us. It looks as though City and Liverpool may also only sign 1 player each just like us. If everyone else went crazy whilst we signed only Lukaku I’d be worried. It’s still very, very strange how a club like us that’s been so smart operating in the transfer market have been left scrambling for deals in the final hours when we’ve known for months what the manager’s ideas are.

I’d make a friendly bet with anyone that Camavinga will be Ødegaard mk2. I think this move comes wayyy too soon for him and he’ll be out on loan to some mediocre PL side within 2 years. I don’t think he’s anywhere near Real Madrid quality yet.

Saul in and Koundé slipped in at the stroke of midnight tomorrow would be nice.

That’s straight up robbery. Dan James, a nothing footballer, goes for £30m. Literally his only “skill” is hitting the ball past someone and trying to beat them for pace. If I had seen a tweet on deadline day saying some Championship team bought Dan James for like £8m I would say “yeah, that’s about what he’s worth.”

He’s never going to complain when we’re in such a good moment. He’ll say he’s more than happy with what he’s got now. But it’s obvious from his comments for weeks now that 1 signing only wasn’t his idea.

Total outgoings from Chelsea this summer: 233 Total incoming from Chelsea this summer: 1 The club is basically printing money through sales and yet we’re super reluctant to spend on players the manager asks for.

I can’t imagine a top class sportsman like Saul would be thinking to himself “nah, I’ll never play there.” I mean, that’s what reports say but I find it hard to believe. Someone like him should be thinking he’s better than Kova (rightly or wrongly) and that he’ll fight his way into the XI. And tbf, if he did regain his best form he’d easily displace one of our midfielders.

Just thinking, what happens if the highly unfortunate happens and 2 of our midfielders are injured at the same time? The thought of having to play one of our CB’s there or moving Mount further back is annoying when we could go out and get someone now. Saul, Tchouameni, Camavinga. Someone. Saul on loan with no obligation was the biggest no brainer. I just don’t get why the trigger wasn’t pulled in that one. It’s an absolute no-lose situation for the club. Now we may see him or Camavinga go to to a rival before midnight tomorrow.

You really love making fun of his height, huh? 😒 Hasn't held him back from becoming one of the most highly rated young CB’s in Europe.

He may be a luxury this season, but Silva will be gone and Azpi has already slowed down these past couple of seasons. Koundé is a player for the next 10 years.

How is this stuff left until the very last minute? We’ve known for ages since we let Billy go out on loan that we need another body in midfield. Literally months. The moment Kante was injured and missed the Palace game opening weekend things should’ve been sent into overdrive trying to line up a midfielder. He’s going to continue to pick up niggling injuries. And it has been reported for weeks that Zouma was off. Why would we okay that sale without having it in writing that Sevilla were okay with the fee? This is what makes me feel like there’s one last push for Koundé. Otherwise our negotiators will look extremely stupid.

I know it probably sounds spoiled, entitled, and negative but United finishes ahead of us last season comfortably and have added 3 world class players that go straight into their first XI. And they might not be done yet as they could still sign a midfielder which is the last piece of their puzzle. How can we possibly only sign 1 player? Especially when Tuchel himself has confirmed multiple times in press conferences that there are a couple of areas he wanted to strengthen.

And yet Sevilla raising the price by £12m is a deal breaker? Makes no sense. While missing out on Koundé this summer isn’t devastating, the problem now will be that if he has another great season in Spain many other top clubs will be back in for him this time next year. We had a free run at him this summer and he was apparently extremely keen on coming here. We’ll probably be targeting Rice who will cost £100m so we won’t have money to spend on him next summer. This is why getting him in early right now made sense.

Why on earth would we sell Zouma before any Koundé deal was also sealed and signed simultaneously? 😑😑😑 If you’d have told us at the start of the window that we’d only make 1 signing I don’t think anyone would’ve believed it.

If Koundé wasn’t already agreed why on earth would we sell an extremely useful asset in Zouma? It has to be happening, right?

Can’t imagine we’ll go the whole window selling off like 15 players and only signing 1. We can challenge for the title with what we have now. But if we’re serious about winning it then we need just 1 or 2 more quality players.

Wolves can’t score to save their lives. This was always going to be a smash and grab from United.

United will 100% panic buy some sort of midfielder before the deadline. Hope we can pinch Saul before they do.