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Jype

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  1. Last season we had Kante, Kovacic, Jorghinho, RLC and Saul for two places and no way it was too many. If RLC is moved on, Gallagher will just take his (and Saul's) place and it will be okay. If RLC stays, he can be the next backup.
  2. Mount has played like two games in the midfield two of Tuchel's 3-4-3. What makes you think he'll start playing there more?
  3. Not exactly the same though. I'm pretty sure a move to Chelsea was Koundé's first priority since last summer and if the club acted fast he'd have already joined. Now since it became clear Koundé was more of a Marina target and Tuchel/Boehly had other priorities (MdL, Koulibaly, even Aké) I think Koundé got tired of waiting and started talking to Barca instead.
  4. I'm pretty sure some of the wages listed on there are somewhat underestimated. Best starting point would be to look at the 20/21 season which is the season covered by the club's latest confirmed financial statement. Capology lists that season's total player wages, also including some of the loan army, at £148M for the year while the club's official financial statement says wages were an expense of £332M for the 20/21 financial year. Sure the latter figure also includes all non-playing staff as well as academy players but surely the first team squad's wage bill is more than 44% of overall wage expenses? But yeah, no matter how accurate they are it's still obvious Mount, James and even Mendy seriously stand out because of how low their salaries are. It's not exactly right that three of the first names on the team sheet are earning the least wages in all of the first team squad.
  5. Silva, Koulibaly, Chalobah and Colwill is way too light on depth to continue with the back-3. Sure James can cover RCB if absolutely needed but any minutes he plays away from RWB immediately leaves a massive problem on another position. I haven't paid enough attention to Kounde or Kimpembe to say which would be better but surely one of them will come. Koulibaly-Silva-Kounde with Trev and Colwill in rotation would be good. Or alternatively Kimpembe-Silva-Koulibaly with the same backups.
  6. Agreed. When the rumors first started, I thought he'd go for £30-35M considering City themselves had paid £40M for him and it's not like he's shown anything in the last two seasons to make his value go up from that. For a cut-price deal I think he'd have been a good rotational option with plenty of PL experience but no way is he worth +50M. Happy the club have decided to walk away when City's demands turned out too high.
  7. If Tuchel rated Dujon Sterling, he'd have been taken along on the pre-season tour. The fact he's not there even when there's a big lack of depth at RWB speaks volumes.
  8. Yep, that's what I would go with. Kimpembe-Silva-Koulibaly as the primary starters in a back three with Trev and Colwill as the rotation options would be fine IMO. That set of CBs would also be suited to a regular back 4 if needed. At this point I'd be a lot more worried about the lack of depth in wing-back / full-back positions than spending a lot of money on yet another CB. Really don't care whether the next CB signing is Aké or Kimpembe but ffs the club shouldn't be signing both of them.
  9. Yep, pressure is very much on Tuchel if he makes the decision to sell Colwill in order to buy both Ake and Kimpembe. If the manager is hell bent on selling the future of the club, he has to make sure he's ready to at least realistically challenge for the main trophies immediately with the players he's buying instead. As for the people blaming Colwill for 'not wanting to fight for his place' I don't think that's the case here. I'm 100% sure he'd be happy going the 'Chalobah route' and start out as a backup to one of Ake/Kimpembe at LCB but if Tuchel insists on buying two senior players for his position he won't even be a backup but rather the last straw. With Silva, Koulibaly, Chalobah, Ake and Kimpembe all ahead of him, there'd be very little chance of getting any meaningful amount of minutes for Colwill so why should he stick around to play 300-400 minutes of League Cup and FA Cup games when he can go somewhere else and easily play 1500-2000 minutes of PL? Really liked the signings of Sterling and Koulibaly but this one will leave a sour taste in my mouth if it happens. The only way Tuchel can redeem himself is by finishing with 90+ points in the league this coming season.
  10. I'm 100% sure in that context a better contract means more money, not the contract length. He'll easily get 50% more wages at Chelsea than he would at Napoli so basically he'd earn the same in 3 years as he would in 5 years at Napoli, and anything after that (whether at Chelsea or another club) would only be a bonus for him.
  11. Do you really think he'd be given a five year contract at 31? A 3 year deal with the option for a fourth would be my guess. At the very most it would be a straight 4 year contract but somehow I doubt it. As far as current ability level goes, Koulibaly is the best we can realistically get in this window. Better than MDL and Kounde for sure, although those two of course have age on their side. Still, Koulibaly for a few years would be a great signing.
  12. Isn't that very clearly a photoshopped half City and half Chelsea shirt? 😁
  13. Yep. If anything, a top player with true ambition will probably view it as a positive that mediocrity is not that easily accepted at the club. And let's not pretend the same doesn't happen at pretty much every other top club as well. For example at Real Madrid in roughly the same time frame they've bought Sahin, Illarramendi, Kovacic, Danilo, Ödegaard, Theo Hernandez, Odiriozola, Mariano Diaz, Brahim Diaz, Jovic and very quickly discarded them all for not being good enough for them. And that's not even mentioning Hazard who is still there but is obviously a forgotten man. Could probably name a similar list from almost every top10 club in Europe from the last ten years if one bothered to look. Football transfer are always a mystery beforehand and not every transfer always works out.
  14. Why the hell would a German guy who spent a few years at Arsenal, playing less than 20 games overall for them, refuse a move to any club because of that? No way can that be true, he owes Arsenal less than nothing. Even Fabregas joined Chelsea and at least he played more than 300 games for them and was even club captain for the last few years.
  15. Yep. Since when is a player who's yet to even turn 27 considered too old? Fucking hell. At that age a player is literally just about to hit his peak years and barring injury will continue to play at their best level for the entire 5 year contract. Our squad already has Mount, Pulisic, Havertz and CHO as U23 attacking players so getting some more experienced legs in there can only be a good thing. Not every player has to be 22 or under when signed, never quite understood the obsession with that. Of course I fully get the idea that younger players usually have more re-sale value and room for improvement in their game, but at the same time because the young guns are still improving they're more often than not wildly inconsistent with their performances. Would love to sign Gnabry if a deal can be made.
  16. To be fair he did set a very high bar for himself in 2017-2020. He has still put up very respectable numbers in the two seasons since, even if he hasn't quite reached the same heights (+40 G/A) again.
  17. Watched the full video linked by @Vesper. Of the 100 goals shown on the video I'd classify 35-40 as tap-ins, almost all of the others were actually quite well taken goals. And the thing with tap-ins is that more often than not the goal is just as much a result of an intelligent and well-timed run being made by the forward as it is about the quality of the final pass. Can't even begin to count the number of times I've been frustrated over the last few seasons when for example James has played a really high quality horizontal pass to the five yard line but there's not a blue shirted player in sight who could put it in because the likes of Pulisic, Werner, Mount etc. are still just making their way inside the box. While our chance creation may not be as high as City's it's by no means bad. Sterling should get plenty of chances and he will score plenty more than the likes of Pulisic and Ziyech at the very fucking least.
  18. Not sure how he fits tactically for Tuchel's system but surely Gallagher is in with a shout? Tuchel seems to really like him.
  19. No way Koundé will join City just to play 800-1000 league minutes a season like Aké did.
  20. Yea I'm not saying he's a bad player, far from it actually and I rate him highly as well. Just the comparison seems weird when one is being portrayed as some world beater and the other as some bum who might as well be playing in Turkey so the Polish dude has such an obvious agenda against Raphinha.
  21. Well first of all, Raphinha's been at Leeds since their promotion to the PL so two seasons. Been playing at a similarly high level both years. Second of all, is Federico Chiesa really the best alternative you could think of? The man's best career season is 10 league goals in the Serie A for fucking Fiorentina who are basically the Leeds of Italy, nothing more than a mid-table side in a league that's much worse than the EPL. For Juve he's not exactly been anything special either, 10G + 10A in one and a half league seasons before his ACL injury.
  22. Did Raphinha shag your missus or what? 😂 17G + 12A in 60 league starts for a relatively low-scoring side like Leeds is not a bad feat by any means. Raphinha is far from mediocre and I'd take him any day ahead of players like Pulisic, Ziyech and Hudson-Odoi. Nothing wrong with him taking a week to see out his options before making the final decision on his next club.
  23. Yeah nah. Dybala hasn't been all that great since about 2019. Despite his age he's been on a steady decline for a few years now, just like Saul Niguez.
  24. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jul/01/frenkie-de-jong-Chelsea-monitor-manchester-united-move Jacob Steinberg of the Guardian made the link a week ago but I don't think there's serious interest nor that there's been any movement regarding the deal. If there were, it would've been reported by the likes of Law, Jacobs, Romano etc. already.
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