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Doesn't matter, it will be remembered as hijacking. And it was, he was probably going to sign for us until Pool came calling, whatever technical details changed his mind doesn't matter.

Liverpool hijacked us, un-fucking-believable. Gotta set things straight on the pitch when we meet, the only place where it matters. They will always be our bitches.

Or because we couldn't offer consistent game time. From the player's and his owner club's perspective there is absolutely no point in trading one bench to another.

For a second I thought I was in the Drinkwater thread.

Panic season officially open.

The loan army training camp.

I think he's just a dumb jock who knows mediocrity is his ceiling.

Premium Sport being the only source... not worthy of any reaction.

Can he even play WB? Isn't he a traditional full-back?

That is one of our problems, we don't know when to give up. Stones, Koulibaly, Sandro... all consumed basically whole summers with no progress on other fronts, then panicked on deadline days.

The only LWB/LB we were linked to was Sandro, all the others have been right-sided players and I'm struggling to figure out why when we have numbers on the right. We need to accept now that we won't be signing any wing-backs with Ox dead in the water and it's too late to target anybody else. Too. Fucking. Late. The writing was on the wall since June, but the board was on a month-long vacation, everybody could see this coming except for them. Maybe the plan is to mould Barkley into a wing-back lol, fuck knows what this club is planning anymore. We'll be lucky to get Drinkwater and Llorente in the remaining day, guess Conte will just have to make do.

Llorente will improve our squad, Drinkwater too.

Or his English mates from Pool convinced him during this international break and got assurances that they would bid for him. We have no agents in the England squad unfortunately to counter that influencing.

I agree. Earlier I posted about it being very unlikely that we'd be in such advanced negotiation stages if Ox's role in the team hadn't been discussed and agreed upon prior. In the light of recent events now, I don't get it... How is it possible that it comes out only now?? Either our board must be very bad at their jobs or Ox has some shit advisors who turned his head in the last day. Either way this is shambles.

What a cock, Chelsea fan my ass.

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220k hahaha, no way in hell do I believe this.

He's 22 and goes into development squad

Double D

Has this been proven beyond those solitary tweets? Or has it always been common knowledge?

If we get him, can we agree not to call him DD? There is only one DD, and it's not Danny Drinkwater.

Are we sure he wasn't just cheering for the English in an England vs. Germany CL final? Does he have any other history with Chelsea other than those tweets?

I don't believe that rumour for a minute. If you asked him, I believe he would say he would play anywhere he can be of use to the team. Also, if he excels there, why would he be opposed to leveraging his career to a new level? If we have agreed a fee and the player is undergoing a medical, then for sure there have been conversations about his role in the team already, negotiations wouldn't be this far if there weren't. And looking at our team, then it is a natural conclusion that he would play wing-back a lot. Ox presumably knows this, but still (hopefully) signs for us - that tells me all I need to know, those rumours are just made up bullshit.

We could have said the same thing about Fabregas tbh. Without having seen him play in a midfield 2 or in the front three, we wouldn't believe he could be of any use. If we did get him, I think he would play in a number of positions - CAM in 3-5-2, CM or RAM in 3-4-3. But I agree, he wouldn't be tailor-made for any position in our system, he would need to be moulded and eased in slowly. Would be easier to fit him in if our system had a dedicated nr.10, but it doesn't. I don't think we need him, we will (hopefully) have Ox covering a number of positions and Drinkwater as a natural tried and tested in a midfield 2. Wish we were linked to a LWB instead, but there is nothing.

Well it seems all you have to do, to be super talented at football, is be named Dembele