Pizy

I’ve said this before but I just don’t for the life of me get the meltdowns from our fans on Twitter about us selling Trev. Exactly the same as Gallagher. Two players who are academy products, yes so I get the sentimentality, but are merely decent but not great players. They’re solid squad players for a top team. Yet Chelsea fans are losing their heads as if we’re selling Salah or KDB again. Neither Chalobah or Gallagher get anywhere near our best XI this season if everyone is fit. So if we can get tens of millions in pure profit for players who weren’t even going to be starters it’s a no brainer.

So much for getting a few million in pure profit for Malang Sarr. The club just said fuck it and let him walk for free. Guess we didn’t want to risk Lens having a change of heart if we demanded a fee and then we’d be stuck with him for another year.

Idk, there seems to be quite a bit of interest for several of them. The issue is that we’re asking for relatively sky high fees that the interested clubs are hesitant to pay.

I think our incoming business is done until we start moving a few players on. That would explain the total absence of credible links to anyone currently. I bet after this week’s 2 preseason matches we’ll start seeing some movement out and some links to incoming targets again. At least I hope so.

Neves is the one player United had been linked with that I was actually annoyed/bothered about them potentially signing. He looks like a proper future star. So I’d be delighted if PSG end up with him and United get the guy PSG want to replace with Neves. If Neves can actually be had for “only” €75m as some are saying now rather than the €120m release clause Benfica were initially insisting on however I wouldn’t be surprised at all if United try to jump in and steal a march like they did with Yoro. He looked like good mates with Bruno Fernandes while with Portugal a few weeks ago so it’ll probably be easy to convince him with a silly wage offer.

Maybe after we have Sarr, Lukaku, Kepa, and whoever else off our books PLUS the transfer fees we can go all out on a proper world class keeper.

Is he even a ball playing keeper? From the highlights I’ve seen of him he just looks like your classic giant keeper.

Bringing in any keeper that’s not the immediate #1 is so dumb. Either go big for one of the world class ones like Mamar or Diogo Costa now or stick with what we have, see how they do until January, and if they aren’t up to it go big then. Bringing in someone now who may not even be better than the average keepers who are already here would be stupid. We’ve already made a mess for ourselves by stockpiling so many mediocre keepers on ridiculously long contracts. Costa would be transformational for this team but Porto would ask as much for him as superstar attacking players go for, sadly.

Rumors surrounding him have died so I don’t think you have to worry

Even with Andrey & Ugo going out on loan I feel like 1 more midfielder has to go. And unless Gallagher signs a new contract it has to be him. It would be ridiculous for us to keep him, not play him much, and then see him walk for free in a year.

Ideally I would definitely keep him here but it’s probably much more beneficial for him to be playing week in and week out rather than riding our bench. Perhaps it signals that Gallagher is going to stay after all.

It genuinely is pretty shocking that he’s been without a club for so long. He wasn’t awful in his final season at United. In fact he was actually pretty solid. Just that the few howlers he did have were so bad that they got so much attention. Still a really good shot stopper probably but was poor with the ball at his feet.

Seems like we want to once again go the cheap route with any keeper we target. Just like we’ve done with the Calafiori/Veiga stuff and just like we look to be doing with the striker search. It’s a risky strategy that will either make the club scouts look like fools or geniuses. We basically have to pray that we uncover more Palmer’s & Malo Gusto’s who develop fantastically once they come here for relatively low prices and little fanfare. I’m not going to be one of those Chelsea fans that I see a lot of on Twitter and YT comments (and even on this forum) who are depressed that Arse and United are going for “big names” whilst we go for cheaper, “unknown” players. Mostly because I think 4 of our returning injured players who missed most of last season in Reece, Colwill, Lavia, and Nkunku can develop into superstars for us. Well, Reece already is. I also expect Nico Jackson and Caicedo will take big strides, too. So would I like just 1 big, splashy name to come in this window? Yes. But I will be fine if we don’t.

The reports have been that he’s actively pushing to leave for Saudi. So why not push for him ourselves and see if he’d be interested in staying in the best league? He can always go to Saudi when he’s 35+.

Man, Ederson is RIGHT THERE if we want to try for a truly world class keeper. He may turn us down but why not even try? He knows Maresca from his time there and he is THE keeper in all of world football that plays exactly the way our manager wants. Yes, he’d be super pricey, but then we don’t have to think about the position again for at least 5 years. He’s only 30 which is nothing for a keeper. He wants out, City will sell for the right price, and they’ve already got his replacement ready to go. If we signed him we’d be ready to immediately compete with anyone. It’s like the most obvious transfer ever and we ain’t even considering it.

Kinda concerning that the club have now posted 2 nearly 10 minute training videos these past 2 weeks and KDH hasn’t been spotted in either of them. Haven’t seen any training pics with him either other than one where he was on a Peloton. Ffs, don’t tell me the Chelsea curse has struck again and he’s fucking injured already. But what else could it be? The club would normally want to show off the new players a bunch.

The stats are the stats, but from a pure eye test POV he just seemed like a decent, average keeper. Someone I didn’t close my eyes and cringe every time a ball went into our box like with Kepa or panic every time the ball was passed back to him like with Mendy. He was just kind quietly average to my eyes.

Yeah, I’m not talking about the Lunin stuff, I’m talking about Matt Law’s latest report that we’re looking for someone not to replace Sanchez right away but to back him up and perhaps eventually displace him.

The latest reports on the keeper situation are so fucking stupid. Now we’re going to buy a BACKUP to Sanchez when he himself isn’t even good enough? Rather than just going big on a world class keeper and making Sanches the backup? And I guess Petrovic is just discarded like trash after a decent showing last season. A year after buying him. If the keeper position is viewed as super important to the new manager we should go all out for one that will be between the sticks unquestionably for the foreseeable future. Not this stupid experiment where Sanchez gets to audition for a while and then some new backup we buy replaces him if he sucks. But what happens if this new backup sucks too? Just buy someone we know we won’t ever have to worry about like the dude from Valencia, ffs.

Man, I couldn’t bear seeing my beloved Kante playing in another PL shirt. 😔😔😔 Bring him back to be our Modric/Kroos who plays on rolling contracts until he’s 35/36? 🤔🤔🤔

lol these outlets literally just making shit up out of thin air. He’s not even as good as Gallagher or Carney.

Matt Law says the club still want another striker & RW. Personally, I think both would be overkill unless we sell at least a couple of the current bunch.

Feels weird that all transfer links with us and any senior players have gone totally silent. Is our business done until Maresca takes a look at a few preseason matches, I wonder?

Yeah, as rob says below I’d be all for Alvarez because he’s more than just a finisher/poacher. And as much as people often roll their eyes and downplay the importance, him being PL proven would be a big plus. Even if we were really intent on getting Alvarez behind the scenes, Enzo probably killed any chance of that happening. Imagine the optics and the message it would send to our black players if we signed a dude who may have been on that very bus signing along with Enzo…

In this specific case I’m glad we didn’t do it, though. I think a monster fee + huge wages for Osimhen would be a mistake for us. For me, we need a more complete striker and not a more classic #9. With the financial outlay recently I think another mega-money flop would be hugely damaging and Osimhen definitely had bust potential written all over him. If a prime, world class striker who was also a top all around footballer was available I’d want us to pay whatever it took. A Luis Suarez sort of style for example. Club really do appear to be all in on Nico Jackson being the star man and becoming truly elite whilst developing Guiu at the same time as his backup.