ulsterchelsea

I actually said to a fella just today how very arsenal like we are becoming...

No I 100% agree with you. The whole 30 margin I find a bit unusual but it seems to be a thing. As you say i think big Ollie has been a success and would certainly warrant longer and others could play on much longer still. Just reckon they'll still try and stay with younger,more sellable transfer options so that if they don't pay off you can still cash in e.g. drinkwater,Barkley et al

It's the way the club has been recently. Plus sarri himself is quoted as saying that he doesn't need transfers. That he can coach whoever. I mean I'm paraphrasing but that was the extent of it

Oh aye they'll be the sort of players he will be after. Just mean for instance if like the media tried to say, if he wanted higuain, there's no way the club are going to spend stupid money on a 30 something player who's never played in the league before. They'll pick similar style player/position for better money/age etc

Don't think any of this is effecting our plans tbh. Reckon sarri will have little say in who is brought in and do reckon we are working away lining up our targets to be confirmed once sarri arrives and world cup ends. As far as the manager not being in place for the loanies returning, who really cares? The club sure don't. And we won't see almost any of them again let alone this season.

As long as all is in place for pre season im really not that concerned. But seems for all the "new breaking news" that we are no closer to binning antonio and hiring sarri. Still all guess work from the gutter press

Thing is we signed big Ollie G and that was considered strange for his age. We ain't signing a player a year or so older for 30 odd million. Not happening

Said David luiz wasn't returning....minutes before he did

Suppose if it was to happen the sale of big nose would be offset against him. If we get 50 odd mill for courtois and Allison is 70 odd 20 mill isn't bad

LOL Roman: get me Alisson to the bridge sharpish Faceless cfc goon: no problem boss, he's worth 70 million euros Roman: no problem, make it happen Faceless cfc goon: will do and the new manager situation? Roman: its complicated, they want 8 million euros but we're not made of money

Tell you what, I've no idea how these things actually work but it is becoming pretty clear that marina, whilst attempting to use her business tactics/drive a hard bargain/penny pinch is just routinely pissing club's off and accomplishing nothing except dragging transfer dealings on for a prolonged period of time. Need an actual football person in and have her back dealing with Romans oil

I reckon something will happen later today but if not certainly this week.

Simon Johnson is usually spot on. He at least has access to players and conducts interviews.

Can someone tell me in what world Simon Johnson is reliable? He asks journos in the know questions about their sources,quotes other papers and until recently had a picture of himself sitting at a laptop in a kitchen as his Twitter pic. He's a randomer Edit: lol sorry,was thinking of Simon Phillips. Simon Johnson is actually the only pap I pay attention to

Already posted

All that matters is that the fella is quoting the English media as the source of sarri being released

https://www.ilmattino.it/AMP/sarri_chelsea_napoli_indennizzo_5_milioni-3818132.html?__twitter_impression=true The link for yourselves

Not to dampen the spirits ( although you should all know better by now) this is the actual article from whoever this guy is. I've translated the first segment and only a few lines in it's blown all credibility. To save you time reading this I've highlighted it for you

Such a heap of shit. Complete no story of an article

But but but the express said Roman is only allowing us to spend 60 mill this year. Unless they are talking shite. But what's the chances of that really ...

I haven't read the article, just like any time the express,sun,mirror,mail Etc put articles up.. because they know fuck all. Roman hasnt spoken to anyone tho who has told the media because he never gets his shit leaked. He's surrounded by trusted people who don't speak out hence why our deals and moves generally don't get released,from our side anyway, until very late on. It's like all the "sarri will be appointed Monday","sarri deal done " et al! It's not because firstly we need to sack conte and unlike napoli we won't hire anyone until he's away. So people can ignore the guessing games of the paps and wait for antonio to get the boot. Once that happens we'll have sarri a day or so later and then the transfers will come. Simple

Complete pish! The express! another fine example of write whatever you want without any facts.

McGarry is a non starter. Complete muppet. Genuinely surprised he's still actually in the job. He's the worst of the worst in English media

Don't forget how people won't believe X until Nigeria news reports it. That ones a side splitter