OneMoSalah

They want £95-100m or a deal including Colwill. That price or this is non negotiable clearly. Have to admire their stance, they’ve already sold plenty since last summer so I doubt their in any rush to bend to our will and accept a cut price deal in their eyes considering the fees Rice and Bellingham have gone for. Plus Caicedo just renewed in January so as previously said, they hold the cards at the moment. They know we are desperate for a midfielder and they know they’ve got 4 or 5 years on his deal still to go. Wait and see though we will bid £85m in a week or two, then £90m a few weeks later before eventually offering the £95-100m right at the death when pre seasons more or less finished. Get it done or go for plan B. Simple as that. I am beginning to think its Caicedo or nobody for midfield which on it’s own, considering the amount of “top level” footballing people in this incredible footballing infrastructure Boehly and co have apparently put in place, is absolutely shocking. Lavia links died down pretty quickly but again our name is thrown in tentatively. Would think if we were that interested we would of coughed up the £45-50m they want for him so will go with the impression he was more under consideration if Poch wasn’t keen on Santos/we couldn’t get a work permit for him again. I know people were skeptical of how we done things before but under Roman if we wanted Caicedo, it would of been done in the first week of the window. Simple as that.

Kudus doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence. Not going to improve what we have or any better than some of the players we've sold. But lets see - reckon him and Caicedo deals will drag out if we are serious for him. Caicedo or bust approach is going to be a disaster. Surely got to be a alternative on our list, media keep reporting we will move on to other targets but lack of names except for Lavia (who most reckon is Liverpool bound) or bids for other players seems to indicate otherwise. This new footballing network/scouting system not covering itself in glory, is it? Not that they did entirely in January either but surely something in particular for MF players, has got to happen sooner rather than later.

Pretty sure Atalantas original price was £80-85m for both United and Paris but United have been negotiating it down whilst the player has no interest in going to PSG and wants Utd move. Think PSG were willing to pay more to get it done but he’s not wanting the move there. Looks like he could be good player but still a huge risk at that price if I’m honest. He got 10 goals in a full season at Atalanta, a team who have always been notoriously high scorers under Gaspereni, but thats the only season he’s placed at a relatively competitive level. I get he has got 6 in 6 for Denmark but again, he’s still a huge risk for £60 odd million. If he had scored another 15-20 goals across his club career, you could see why the fee was being insisted on. But he’s only got 27 in 87 games. Not sure on goals to minute ratio though so maybe bit unfair on his stats. I doubt we were ever/will be in the market for him anyway after signing Jackson or going after another more established CF until we resolve the Lukaku issue. Yes the player is limited, yes we could get X amount of money for him but we most definitely need to add one or two in MF first before we consider selling him. That is for sure. Would be incredibly incredibly stupid to do otherwise and by all accounts, it appears Poch has said he see’s Gallagher in his plans so 90% chance he be staying regardless. I mean why would the club defy the manager and sell him after he very publicly said he sees him in his plans anyway? We don’t need to sell many players now, considering the departures we’ve had - barring Ziyech, CHO and Lukaku really. Then find a few loans for some of the young lads. Our other MF options barring Enzo, Santos and Casadei are young and haven’t played any league football at a relatively competitive level. Most would imagine Casadei will be loaned and Santos I would think, stays, given the club’s insistence on trying to get him a work permit in January and managing to get him a work permit this summer.

Thiago Silva will be new club captain I would think its safe to say. Considering he’s already wore the armband countless times here and for other clubs and country. Bit surprised to see Enzo’s name and the captaincy repeatedly mentioned, he’s been here for 6 months. I can see one of the likes of Reece, Ben, Kepa or Raheem maybe making up vice captain and another one being a “3rd captain” as such.

All well and good saying that but after last season, he needs to start fast. If we get through this season and he hasn’t achieved anything or shown any huge improvements - then people will rightfully ask the question is he 1) good enough and 2) ever going to be worth the money? Him more so than the others due to his price tag.

Can’t see it. He shit the bed and renewed there after what a few days after asking to leave the club in January? They won’t budge this time around either unless it suits them. The lad signing a new deal with no insistence on a release clause either when he had hoped to move on months later is also moronic on him and his agents behalf. He’s not got any other realistic options either by looks of it - so either we play ball and pay close to the £100m/give them cash & Levi. Or we go and look elsewhere/wait to next year. Brighton hold all the cards.

The fact no PL club - particularly United, Spurs and us - who needed new number 1s pursued him says enough for me. He got dislodged by Jason Steele for whatever reason, be it kicking, shot stopping or whatever so we should be very wary. Who the hell in Spain is he going to end up at? Wont be Barca, Real or Atletico. Valencia maybe if they sell their GK?

Maybe. Will just have to see how pre-season goes. I was dubious about his passing range based off of the u20 stuff I seen but he looked a lot more positive last night/this morning with less time on the ball than he did for the Brazil u20s, with a lot more time. Whether or not he can hack it against Higher quality opposition is another thing.

I’m sorry but that is a major injury to Enzo or Caicedo (if we get him) from being an absolute disaster. Cannot expect Santos and Casadei to be fully depended on, particularly when they will have ups and downs as all young players do. Anyone who is seriously basing their capabilities of playing competitively in the PL off of a friendly against Wrexham needs their head checked. But this happens every time we have a pre-season. 100% need somebody else in there with a bit more seniority as well as Enzo and Caicedo if he comes for depth/options. Be daft to go in to the season so lightweight in MF. But this is the situation.

Strasbourg will have some team by end of this window by the looks of it. Clear the clubs visions and priorities aren’t where they should be which should be strengthening the first team. Not focusing more on getting players for this multi club model idea.

I know its only one goal but it looks like the sort of goal Costa would bang in. Not too dissimilar to his one v Arsenal under Jose or City under Conte when Cesc assisted him, very similar sort of run, different finishes but still. But yeah the lack of opportunities given to this guy last season was embarrassing considering the lack of goals over the season. Couldn’t of done any worse surely

Same as what we seen a lot of at Spurs.

Looks like they’ve taken inspiration from a set of curtains from the 1980s.

I mean people are laughing at that video of Havertz almost as if they did not watch him here for the best part of 2 and a bit season or he was much better than that. Is anybody surprised? The attempts at the targets, the control etc etc… There is this weird thing on here for jumping on videos of ex players at other clubs doing things that they did here for yonks. Its really strange 🤣

If theres any chance Kimmich is available, go for it. Would say yes he is still someone who has weaknesses particularly phyiscally as he isn’t the quickest per say but his quality, wealth of experience and competitiveness as a player is hard to find. Barella would be next choice but to utilise him effectively we would have to play 433 and that means Enzo as a pivot which is no good either.

If he doesn’t want to be here now when he is one of the only fit 3 CB options we have then it says a lot.

Doubt we would sign another left footed CB unless Colwill is sold tbf. And if we did, would imagine would be more likely to go for Gvardiol although Laporte is a top player. Maguire links be more heavy now but as I said days ago, would be a ridiculously stupid move. Would be the perfect way to show that this new department of football boffins Todd & co have assembled are fucking clueless.

I think if he got the playing time Kai got he would of scored more goals. 100%.

Certainly doesn’t look like we are signing anybody in MF anytime soon, Lamps will be getting his boots out the cupboard at this rate and signing a 1 year deal.

Yet people hammered Tuchel and said he was responsible for the “worst ever pre-season” as the “players” put it to Graham Potter and his staff. Cunts were skiving gym work in pre-season, no wonder we never ever got going at all they were never fit enough.

Still be laughing at us. Just like they'd of been laughing at United buying Maguire for £80m also and us buying Drinkwater for £35m. £75m for somebody who played 37 PL games for Leicester and who has had 3 major injuries in 3 years (1 at Leicester and now 2 here). Wont be fit until next year. 2 seasons basically wasted now as he struggled with fitness last season also.

Leicester must be pissing themselves laughing at us. They ripped us off for Fofana at the time and thats now two huge injuries in 3 or 4 seasons, at his age, not good at all.

Yeah we are going to get ripped off. Move on. Think of all the u18 wonder kids we could sign for 2030 for £80-100m……

Yes, a wing back is basically an attacking full back who starts 20 or 25 yards higher up the pitch than they would normally do…. A box to box midfielder is a box to box midfielder. I’ll go out on a limb and say it, 99% chance that the only way we will see Reece playing in CM is if we play inverted full backs under Poch. And we won’t if his Paris, Spurs and Southampton teams are to go off of. More chances of seeing him as a RCB in a back 3 as we did before with Tuche v Leicester in particular IIRC.

And well if he’s one of the best wingbacks in the game whys play him as a central midfielder? Does that not totally contradict how good he is as a fullback/wingback? I mean its 90% likely we go to play with a back 4 under Poch. Look at the likes of Walker and Trippiers development under Poch. If Reece can cut out the slackness in his game at times as well as the injuries, he has the potential to be the best right back in world football for years. Putting him at CM would be a waste.