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£40m for him must be a joke, it must. More than that, he is not Chelsea quality and shouldn't even be on any shortlist. Pathetic if we sign him for that money, would be absolutely p-a-t-h-e-t-i-c.

Not what I was getting at. If we hijack or even try to do it to one of their targets, then they might simply refuse to do any business with us now and in the future.

That could put us in a bad spot regarding Candreva.

Think that one of them is Candreva, Conte wants him and not expensive so a fairly straightforward deal for the club. Have no idea who the other one or two might be, no strong links to anyone tbh. Hope to fuck it's Sandro, or any LWB.

Hopefully the sell of Matic gives the necessary financial boost for the board to start jumping over their own shadows and work some miracles in the market, pronto.

Agreed. This squad in its current shape will struggle to finish in top 4 and do anything meaningful in CL. I am also worried about the negative vibes coming out from our camp, according to reports Conte is getting increasingly frustrated and that is evident from his out-of-character outbursts, he isn't acting like the man from last season.

Hahaha dude look at his page first and then come posting this if you still find it worthy.

Any hints on how to find that video? What was the interview related to?

Love the effort.

Yes, that's true.

I heard him say it on The Sczezny Show. It was this May. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

Why do you think that? He played on the left and he has said he prefers being left of the 3. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

I think it has everything to do with two things. First being the baggage that comes with him, second being that he explicitly has stated several times that Atletico is the only team where he wants to play.

Of course we are not. Whoever claims to believe otherwise is just purposefully being negative in an attempt to cleverly criticize the board. I am willing to bet with anybody who thinks we won't be making any more signings, just need to find an online betting platform and agree the price. @communicate what do you think, if I find a place where we can conveniently bet, would you be willing to throw in a symbolic amount like 10€ or so?

What makes you think that? No, it won't.

LWB is priority because we have 2 players who can play RWB (Azpi, Moses). We have no left-footed players who can play LWB other than Alonso, and don't tell me Kenedy. RWB is not that pressing because we can rotate there, even Rüdiger can possibly slot in if needed. Ideally we upgrade both, but the left side seriously needs numbers first.

This bit of news refers to The Times, which is great, but the referenced article is about Ross Barkley. Can anybody see somehow the whole article, if there is somewhere mention about this?

Haha yes, how could I forget We haven't had much luck with loans have we?

Have we loaned anybody since Maniche?

No he wasn't. He had some outstanding games in the beginning, but Kante was much more consistent throughout the season putting in high quality performances.

Why did Conte make those comments about Kane though? What was he asked?

There was one guy who said "played like torres" and then there was one guy who found similarities in their postures and running, that's it. Was that enough to start this commotion?

Who said, can you link?

I think the gross overreactions here have been from the people who think that comparisons to Torres is criticism. I'm pretty sure they are comparing the similarities between their demeanor, running, dribbling style and whatnot.. not that he is going to miss sitters day and night based on a 30 min cameo, that's just stupid. And people also seem to forget that Torres used to be a cracking player, being compared to prime or pre-prime Torres is not bad at all.

How do you know we'll have only 2 CM spots for the entire season? Are you sure that Conte will want to play with 2 midfielders all the time? Well, he might not have a choice if one of them is not available to play, but that's where the 5th CM would step in. If we're gonna insist on having 4, then the 4th one needs to be of adequate quality.