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True. But in this case it's a player who probably dreams of playing here and one who Frank knows extremely well. Who knows, maybe Lamps still views Rice as a CB and we can get Partey this year and Rice next. 🤔

Partey would be one hell of a consolation if Rice is impossible but I think Frank will just want to wait. We waited for Chilly when he was by far Frank's first choice target, I'm sure we'll wait here as well.

Yep. I mean, with the pace he'll have around him with Rashford and others he should be effective but Man United, the "biggest club in the world," having to panic buy a 34 year old striker who everyone else in Europe declined is pathetic. United fans expected them to have a very similar transfer window to us. Instead it appears they'll sign a backup midfielder and a backup striker. Still time to panic and throw the full 120m at Sancho I guess.

Two straight matches where City are unbelievable initially and then their quality falls off a cliff. Wtf is going on with them? Liverpool will once again waltz to the title if this keeps up.

Cavani would be a decent signing for them had they done a bunch of other brilliant business throughout the summer. Panic buying him after failing everywhere else at the last minute is terrible business. Most of their fans seem livid.

Yeah, appears our board aren't suckers who would agree to a buy option rather than an obligation luckily. I just said an hour ago that I'd keep him but if we can't get them to pay a guarneteed £70m I'd let him go and sign either a DM or maybe Benrahma to directly replace him.

Wow, that's a lot of money. I figured they would try to cheap out and offer half that just to turn his head.

City look just as good as they did early on against Leicester here. They are scary good when they're in this form going forward. And this is with no striker. When they eventually sign Agüero's long term replacement (I don't rate Jesus at all) what a disgusting team they'll have.

The Leeds keeper has the face of a 10 year old.

Yeah, he's very similar to Willian in that regard. He almost always gets the ball when he's standing still and tries to beat his marker from that position which is much harder. It's pretty frustrating. I don't want to keep so much for what he is currently, I just want to avoid another Salah or KDB where we let go of a super talent too soon. If he goes to Germany and develops into a monster we will look like total idiots again.

Weird. So it sounds like if it's completely up to Frank he'll stay. But it seems Callum's had his head turned again. For me it's way too risky both in the short and long term. He has to stay.

It would be very easy for Frank to say when he's repeatedly asked about CHO that he's 100% staying and its case closed. But he hasn't which is very strange.

Best defensive performance in as long as I can remember and best Jorginho performance in as long as I can remember. He totally bossed it today. Chilly was amazing. His touch and ball carrying is totally next level to Alonso. Partnership of Silva & Zouma is easily the best we have. Perfect compliments to each other. Palace looked good in both their previous PL matches and we literally didn't give them a sniff. Zaha and Eze were invisible.

Zouma with a RIDICULOUS leap! Again!

Don't know what game people are watching to say Havertz was poor. Set up several of our best moments. Tammy is having one of those matches where he looks like a donkey. Nothing going right.

Comfortable, solid half from us. We just moved it around too slowly overall. We saw numerous flashes of quality when we popped it around quickly and got Havertz on the ball. Need more Kai and CHO on the ball and less Kante & Azpi.

Kante has given the ball away about 5 times so far...

Palace's only strategy so far is trying to fall down with any little contact and trying to win free kicks.

Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. If Rüdiger could find his form again I still think he'd be our best CB. I'd rather see him in the XI a million times before AC.

I like this team other than possibly the midfield pairing. You know Palace are super dangerous on the counter and any time Jorginho plays against that sort of team it's a danger.

Would be so fucking dumb if we allow him to go to Spuds. People here can hate him all they want but he improves Mourinho's side. And they already look to be stronger than last season and should challenge us for a top 4 spot. So why help them? And why are we the only big team in England who allow their players to go to rivals on a regular basis? If we went in for Dele Ali for instance (one of their out of favor players like Rüdiger) do you think Levy would even answer the phone? No chance.

If he goes and we're forced to watch long periods of Mount or RLC playing out wide when CP & Ziyech are injured I'm gonna freak out. My body can't take it.

I think these rumors are total bs. Selling a player that will likely be hugely important this season makes zero sense. Especially because we're seeing right now how much we need depth at that position. It would be pure negligence to sell/loan CHO unless Benrahma is inbound.

Think it's a pretty safe bet that our incoming business is done. Last few days will be all about outgoing loans and trimming the squad down. Just have to pray that Frank can settle on a CB and midfield partnership ASAP. Because we're playing out this season with what we've got now. No new DM is incoming, sadly.

Nah, were clearing space for the miraculous return of Drinkwater. This is the chance he's been waiting for. 💪🏼