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And to any Chelsea fans taking solace in the "Mino Raiola is the devil" propaganda that Chelsea Football Club is forcing on you to justify how they fucked up this transfer. here you go. Lmaaooo Go look at how much money we paid Kia Joorbachian, who convinced the Chinese clubs to pay what they did for the Ramires and Oscar deals. What Jorge Mendes was going to get paid if that Costa deal to China went through, something like 15% of the transfer fee. And how much we paid a bunch of other agents last calendar year. Yet I'm supposed to believe £2M extra to Mino Raiola, or however much it was supposed to be, was this great ethical dilema that destroyed the deal? LOL. What a blatant fucking lie. If anything I think CFC were mad they got played by Mino Raiola, but guess what, he works for Lukaku, not CFC. His client has wanted out of Everton for 2 years now, and CFC dragged their heels until Raiola was forced to "make shit happen". This failure falls on nobody else's shoulders other than Marina/Emenalo. And I didn't even want Lukaku at Chelsea, but that doesn't mean the club didn't fail in attaining their 1st option target. It's time for Roman Abramovich to wakeup. He has to get rid of Marina and Emenalo ASAP, for their unprecedented levels on incompetence, and partner Conte with competent directors of football that know how to attain first option targets, and run a football club. Enough is enough man. Edit: found the totals paid to agents/intermediaries last year.

Wow... James Rodriguez or O. Dembele must become number one priorities. Options for RW are closing fast. https://twitter.com/city_watch/status/883681891651649536

I would do that deal with my eyes closed 10/10. But with incompetent mongs like Emenalo and Marina, they'll fuck this up surely.

Couldn't Everton just reject our bid? Or is that not allowed?

We were so close to avoiding him.

It's called leverage. Who needs each other more, Arsenal or Sanchez? It's clearly the former. They need Sanchez to stay and help them make Top 4 again, or risk being left behind by Tottenham and Liverpool in the race for the final UCL spots. Sanchez has all the power here and is squeezing Arsenal for all they have. If Sanchez is to leave, he won't be asking nearly the amount of money he's demanding at Arsenal. (That doesn't mean it's still not high, just not tje sams level.)

This is Bakayoko's latest like on Twitter. I'm such a stalker.

It's sad. Probably my favorite youth player, Barcelona seem to be in for him. Sadting.

Pedro/Willian is NOT strong enough imo. Agree that a backup ST will most likely be bought, but not sure with the Llorente injury who that would be.. Is a RF is not bought, this team will struggle mightily to score goals. A World Class RF has to be a priority imo.

Really worried about the lack of news about Chelsea targeting James Rodriguez or Ousmane Dembele.. My ideal candidates for RF role. Cannot go into next season with Pedro/Willian as the options. Would be content with: Rudiger, Sandro, Christensen back, Bakayoko, J. Rodriguez or O. Dembele, Lukaku. Edit: Forgot to mention Alexis Sanchez. If Arsenal agree to sell him within the EPL, he cannot end up at City.

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That's my biggest concern as well. It's different if it was Van Dijk, or Boateng that was signed and. Christensen then sought another loan deal for guaranteed minutes, but if it's Rudiger that forces Christensen to look elsewhere, then Scenes will be made. At the end of the day, Rudiger is coming off his best ever season at AS Roma, but this mentality of signing player "so Conte can make them better" is NOT what top clubs are supposed to be about. How many players do we need to rely upon Conte making them look good instead of they themselves being genuine Top Quality players? Defense: Sandro/Alonso--Cahill/Christensen--Luiz--Azpi/Rudiger--Moses/Rudiger Is that a defense capable of making it to the Semi's of the UCL or dealing with the likes of Bayern/R. Madrid/Man City/Juventus? I genuinely think they are, but I worry also about the concentration levels of some of those players, not gona lie.

Announce Bakayoko! worst kept secret in Football

Emenalo has this fetish for fottballers with good physical attributes and shaky/limited technical ability. Maddening.

We already have Azpilicueta. This signing makes literally zero sense. Rudiger's not even left footed, and his ball skills are a slight upgrade on Cahill and his defensive abilities are on par with Cahill. That's not high praise. Hope Manolas to Zenit gets completed or Inter Milan come in for him instead.

Hobestly have no problem selling him to United, especially if it's for around £40M. I'd be very happy with his departure because it would signal two positive things: Conte's correctly identifying CFC's weaknesses & probably means another CM will be brought in as well. Win win all around.

Wow, Chelsea are actually going to pull off an ambitous transfer worth more than £32M. I never thought I'd see the day Marina would pull it off. Hazard + Sandro on the left? Tears in my eyes.

If rumours are to be believed.. Barcelona have him on lock-down already, and reportedly agreed to personal terms already. Favorite youth player in world-football. Such a baller.

100%.

Yes! But AOC has to show some backbone here, and drive the move himself. This is the 2nd time his agent has leaked to the press how disrespected AOC feels about Arsenal dragging their heels on his contract renewal. If he stays at Arsenal after all this, then wow, what a letdown. If Arsenal are willing to sell, before he goes for a free, then CFC gotta bring him in, and let Conte mould him into the RWB-role.

Yep yep. It's simply gross incompetance from the Chelsea heirarchy that are involved in the recruitment of players for the 1st team. I swear, Ousmane Dembele or a Kylian Mbappe could make it be known to CFC that they would favor them over any other club, and Marina/Emenalo would bottle that transfer 100% by trying to get cute and penny-pinch, then piss off all parties involved like with the Stones Saga.

Nope. Any club can bid for players, leak it to the press, then play the fiscal responsibility card to justify why the deal didn't go through. And if you read today's reports, Alex Sandro is being offered a new deal. So you can add Sandro to the ever growing list of players the Chelsea Board "Tried" to sign, but failed to do so. That's not good enough. Being economically frugal summer after summer after summer, is not how a "supposedly" big club conducts business, especially not for a club that has sold players for the fees we have the past 2 years. Settling for 4th/5th tier options again and again, then expecting the manager to pull a miracle with sub-par players is not a recipre for sustained success. So yeah, Marina doesn't know how to pull off ambitious transfers. All they do is fuck around with their bids until the selling club gets fed up, and Chelsea are left scrambling for 4th/5th player options. The past two summers show this undisputedly. And if Chelsea fail to sign theclikes Alex Sandro/Sanchez/J. Rodriguez/VVD/Koulibaly/ whomever else, then those players will all be added to the list.

Only Chelsea could have a crisis 1-month after winning the league. Hollywood FC.

Whoops.