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Same with me in regards to Asensio. Shown flashes of brilliance but would be a massive gamble. Isco would definitely ease the pain for most of our fans because he's super skillful and flashy. But again, he seems like an impossible target.

You just know Real Madrid will probably try to come in with a lowball first offer of like £80m or something as if we're mugs. Pay what PSG did for Neymar or I'd tell them to fuck off. They just received 100m for CR7 and are one of the richest sports clubs in the world. They can afford it.

Isco is the player I'd want off them in exchange but I highly doubt he would consider us. Super popular Spanish player who is at the biggest club in Spain. Why leave that for us who are outside of the CL? Asensio is seen as their future superstar and Bale is very injury prone.

Only thing that could soften the blow is if we could somehow get one of Isco, Bale, or Asensio plus a bunch of money. Otherwise, who is out there that's anywhere near Hazard's level we could sign that would come to us without CL football? I can't think of one. One huge step forward this morning, two huge steps backward now. Fuck.

And there it finally is. If Real Madrid come in with the right fee he's off. How on Earth will we replace him!? We better demand a world record for him at least.

Just thinking about how Sarriball, having Jorginho as the metronome in our midfield, and playing with 3 in midfield means that we should never ever be surrendering the lions share of possession to small teams or letting the likes of fucking Watford, Burnley, Bournemouth etc pen us in our own half like they did last season. We should now have the tactics and the personnel to dominate the ball against anyone other than maybe City in the league.

Speaking of which, I wonder if he converses in Portuguese or Italian.

Thing is, I don't consider him inferior. He has kept Ederson out of the Brazil team and we saw last season what a weapon Ederson was for City. Alisson provides that same threat and Tibo doesn't. Would be nice to have our keeper position settled for years with a ball playing goalie.

Yes, 60m or more is indeed madness if it were on its own. But it's not bad at all if we get a large sum by selling Courtois. Plus, it's worth it alone to move for Alisson so we won't have to hear Tibo's whiny mouth every other week about wanting to return to Spain.

Yep, definitely looks like Napoli held him at gunpoint and forced him to Chelsea. 🙄

With Sarri & his midfield maestro Jorginho, this is well and truly the start of a new era at Chelsea. This is the sort of midfield signing we've been beggin for for years. Delighted! If we can snag Golovin to complete our midfield...geez, what a side we'll have! Assuming we keep Hazard, of course.

"...his coaching methods significantly improved the players at his disposal." Clearly a not so subtle dig at Conte, but this better not be the boards excuse for not dipping into the market. They can't do to Sarri what they did to Mourinho after he won the league by thinking the squad was good enough.

I could take or leave Rugani and Higuain. Alisson, though...

Could a human survive smoking that many heaters in a day? 😂

Personally, I'd be even more excited about Golovin than I would be Jorginho. Really hope we still get him. English press made it sound as though he was a certainty.

Clearly not happening today, guys. You can go to bed over there in EU/UK.

We've got our grainy Sarri pic. Now we need a grainy Jorginho pic, please.

Shocked there haven't been any grainy mobile phone pics from across the car park of Sarri yet.

I remember really wanting Gomes before he moved to Barca. Hell, many huge clubs were after him. Then everyone realized that he was massively overrated and has been utter dog shit since he left for Barca. As I said yesterday, the club better not even entertain the thought of selling Kante.

Have we ever done that before? I can't even remember. Even with multiple players?

Yeah, where are the pics? Me being the skeptic I am, I won't believe it until I see it.

Monday hot days then, huh? 🙄

Sounds like this could get even uglier in a legal sense.

Jesus Christ, that statement. Only a few sentences. The relationship must have been even more toxic than reported. Wow.

Already know that I'm going to wake up tomorrow and see "by Monday Conte will be sacked and Sarri appointed by the end of next week." 😂😂