Jase

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Havertz's English is pretty good...

This will be interesting...

Leverkusen should be lowering the fee because of this...

2 CBs vs 2 CBs. Chilwell/Kante on Fabinho. Other aspects like leap, timing, physicality have been mentioned when it comes to aerial challenges and yet you kept on mentioning about height, about players not being shorter than the opposition...

Werner on expectations after joining us and adapting to the Premier League... https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/01/timo-werner-issues-promise-to-frank-lampard-chelsea-goal-target-13206985/?ito=newsnow-feed

To those saying Roma will go for Jorginho after selling Schick...

But Abraham wasn't at the front post. He was guarding the post, on the goal-line, you know where full backs or shorter players tend to be at!? "Height is not everything" and yet, you still went on about height. Are you taking the piss? Where the F did I say man marking is stupid!? Seriously fellas, we should just start buying giants so communicate can stop ranting about height being the main issue here...

Premier League and EFL seasons will begin before clubs vote on how to decide an incomplete campaign https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/09/01/premier-league-efl-seasons-will-begin-clubs-vote-decide-incomplete/

Funnily enough, Leverkusen may not even get the entire 100 million since 20 million are add-ons and it will depend on things like winning the Champions League within the next 5 years.

TBF, most of these players just came back from their holiday. The government can't be blamed for taking no chances. Otherwise if they have been in the team bubble and tested negative, then yeah, they should be exempted from quarantine even if they visit a country in the non-exempted list.

Looks like that thing was BS.

It was always impossible for Liverpool to maintain their winning form from earlier last season. A drop off was to be expected but to expect them to suffer a Mourinho Season is very, very unlikely. They might not win the title but they will still be up there.

I don't think Upamecano will leave Leipzig this summer. There may be some sort of gentlemen agreement that he will be let go next summer as long as someone pay the release clause, after signing that new contract.

You're being very optimistic there...

Think they all got back and finished quarantine in time to join with the national team.

EH? So the thing about Silva arriving last Friday and needing to be quarantined was all BS then? Italy of course is currently on UK's exemption list.

Addition to what you said.

Less than 50 million pounds for Kante? What a load of BS!

Yes, the Nations League was created to replace the friendlies but has anything really changed? Even though it's competitive matches now, most fans - and likely club managers - are still showing the same disdain and exasperation towards these games. It would still be understandable if it's the European Championship or World Cup qualifiers but what value has the Nations League really added? I know it offers nations another route of sorts to qualify for the European Championship and World Cup but they could have easily tinkered with the qualification format of those two instead of creating a convoluted tournament that no one cares.

It's ironic you quoted that when, as pointed out by Nikki, Lampard proceeded to sign a few not-quite-tall players. Did I say height is not important at all? It is important and it is important to have some tall players in the squad but it is not the be-all and end-all. A player can be tall but if he's shit physically, then there is no point. Equally, a player can be short (and I don't mean super short) but if he has great leap and/or is strong physically, then he can be useful. Moreover and again, am not saying height is not important, but I feel like the height factor mentioned by Lampard was just an excuse used by him to cover up for his poor set piece defending organization. Remember Azpi marking Soucek (IIRC) while Abraham was guarding the post for the first goal in the loss to West Ham? This was already an issue with Lampard at Derby and it suggests the main problem here is not the height...