Pizy

Oblak and now Giminez. These are of course names you love seeing the club looking at but both are basically impossible.

Reads to me like the club are waiting to see whether or not we qualify for the CL to determine how we'll structure the payments to Bayer. If we qualify, probably more money up front. If we don't, installments spread out over multiple windows. The consensus amongst pretty reliable sources seems to be that everything is agreed and sorted regarding personal terms with Havertz himself. All a matter of finding an agreement between clubs now as we've know for a couple of days.

Looking at Twitter, seems he was more saying "they've done well to sign Werner and are after Havertz," rather than confirming we already have done.

Rice is probably going to cost someone Harry Maguire money. Like £80-85m due to the length he has on his contract and his importance to WH. Theres no chance we (or anyone else) plays that. Only him putting in a transfer request and refusing to train until he gets a move would get WH to negotiate, I think. And he doesn't seem the type to do that.

I'm oddly confident that we'll take a point knowing that Pulisic will surely start and the boys will want a response after yet another shocking display. I really, REALLY hope Kante can get fit for this one. A Kante monsterclass in one final massive game to send us into the CL. We desperately need his bite and big match experience. This is the biggest match of a lot of our players' careers. They better not fucking bottle it. Wolves will be on top of their game to spoil the party.

Story of our season. Which I say for different reasons seemingly every week. Put in a brilliant performance one match, then collapse and shit the bed the next.

Wolves it is, then. Fucking bottlers.

Liverpool are just kind of casually walking through our defense whenever they like.

We haven't played badly but also don't even look like threatening them. Giroud's lack of pace here may have been the wrong choice.

Out of fucking nothing. You can't gift a team of their quality easy ass sights at goal.

Like I said this morning, NO CHANCE can we depend on that United side to win against Leicester playing the way they have now for about 4 matches. They look totally exhausted. That match has boring draw written all over it. We MUST do it ourselves.

If we lose tonight and United win, I don't trust them AT ALL to beat Leicester. When teams really press United and get at them (like ourselves and Southampton have done recently) they look poor. And that's the exact thing Leicester will do to them with the extra incentive of CL at play. We HAVE to win one of these 2 games, imo. Can't count on United to bail us out.

If we secure Havertz I honestly won't even care what other clubs do in the window. Including Sancho going to United. I think we would have such an insane array of attacking talent that there would be none of the usual jealousy of seeing a rival sign a top player.

Jason, shhhh. We won't allow that to happen. ☺️

Actually, most Arse fans are probably glad they lost that. They can now focus 100% on the PL without going to the middle of nowhere on Thursday nights all season long. This is good for Arteta as well. He can try to pull a Conte when we were out of Europe.

Our team really can't park the bus against a side like Liverpool. You do that and you just invite their two fullbacks to smack in fantastic crosses over and over again. And with our dreadful defending from crosses.....yikes. We've had success playing against them this season by aggressively going at them. You have to nullify their fullbacks as well as possible by pressing them and forcing them to defend. That'll likely lead to counter attacking scenarios where we are also weak. Basically, we need to play out of our skin again and hope Liverpool have another off day. But I get the feeling that they'll be well up for this. The chance to contribute to our missing out on top 4 is enough motivation. I know if I was a Liverpool fan I'd love to make us super nervous heading into Wolves.

I actually do think Batshuayi would do quite well at WH. Barkley, too, since he'd be playing much more consistently. But yeah, WH have this delusion that they're above signings like these two. Even though nearly every big money signing they've made recently has been a massive bust. As for Skriniar, have a look at his YouTube compilations. I just watched and was smiling/laughing for much of it. He's like a wild, out of control animal. Runs around all over the pitch and bulldozes everyone. He's so damn aggressive. I'm really not sure he's the CB we need at all. We need a calm, steady, disciplined CB.

Yep. Was just coming here to say this. It'll take him really pushing for the move + a mega transfer fee (because he's English and their best player) for us to secure this one. And I'm not sure the club will sanction mega money on Rice if we do so on Havertz.

Weird how silent Honigstein has been today. Couple of days ago he tweeted that Havertz wasn't even close to any move, that nothing was decided, and that nothing would be decided any time soon. Now we see a bunch of reputable sources today saying he has made his mind up to come here, agreed personal terms, and even spoken to Frank. Wonder which is true...

Damn, I remember Stones being the hottest property out there a couple years ago with us right on the verge of getting him. He was pretty damned good initially for City as well and I was pretty jealous of them. Now because of injuries and form I haven't even seen him in what feels like an eternity. Wonder if he can find his way back to Everton.

Now we wait to see how easy or otherwise Bayer are to deal with. Are they classy like Leipzig and Ajax were, or are they like Napoli and that cunt ADL who is impossible to negotiate with?

This is one of those rare transfer links where the jealousy is nearly unanimous amongst opposition fans. Reading around all the other clubs' forums and they all hate that we may get Havertz. 😆 Even with Werner who is one of the most lethal and top class strikers in Europe there were some who don't rate him and think he'll be "the new Morata." But this one? Nah. City forum in particular are gutted they aren't after him.

Personal terms were never going to be an issue. That's the easy part. Agreeing a fee with Bayer was always going to be the tricky bit. You have to assume they're going to play hardball and stick to their demands. He is their best player after all. I think this will happen after the PL season ends and we can start moving players on.

Amazing fee to pay for Ake and a great move for him. Definitely a Pep CB as well. Both Ake and Laporte play as left sided CB's so I wonder which of them will shift to the other side.

Not gonna blow my load til something is announced. Best transfer window we've ever had if we complete this one. And not even near finished, either.... 😳