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Chelsea record biggest net-profit from last two transfer windows

HOW DARE YOU SPEAK ABOUT MY BOY LIKE THAT?!

Likewise, Bayern can also kill teams on the counter. They repeatedly tore through Leipzig's right side in the first half through Alphonso Davies, only to be let down by their final ball.

A word of caution on Sancho is that he might not score or provide an assist as regularly as now because the defending in the Premier League won't be as generous as it is in the Bundesliga.

Only ONE freaking point separating Inter, Juve and Lazio at the top of the table! And it's Lazio v Inter next weekend!

FORZA CONTE!!!

Inter have Lazio and Juventus in their next 3 league games. Ranieri's Sampdoria being the other one, which won't be easy either.

What did Conte say at HT? FORZA INTER!

But they basically just quoted the French source... If the rumor has any truth to it, we would be seeing the likes of Matt Law reporting it.

Padelli was rubbish for those 2 goals.

The minutes do look a lot but I'm talking about the stop-start nature, the players would want to play week in week out. I mentioned this earlier, why would Boga, for instance, want to come back here and not start consistently when he is the first choice at Sassuolo? Oh, they won't spend as recklessly as those 3 sometimes can but that doesn't mean they won't spend if they have to.

Conte's Inter are proper bottle jobs right now!

Well, I can't argue with that. Sabitzer also had a bad miss before that.

The sitter he missed was something else Both sides were awful when they got into the final third.

All 4 had similar start and sub appearances? MAHREZ 2,551 minutes 44 appearances 28 starts SILVA 4,025 minutes 51 appearances 43 starts SANE 2,694 minutes 47 appearances 30 starts STERLING 4,097 minutes 51 appearances 45 starts Mahrez had the least minutes, appearances and starts of the four players, with Sterling and Silva way ahead. Obviously Silva played in the middle too but only Sane's stats are comparable with Mahrez's. That's kinda my point. I don't disagree with having depth at all but you gotta make sure the depth doesn't give you problems in terms of having to juggle game times, especially when all 4 are of similar age. Also, we have Mount who can play out wide if needed. But what if this doesn't out to be a long term issue? What if Lampard, the physios can work out a training regime for him to make sure this doesn't turn into a problem in the long run? The Coutinho sale covered only 1/3, which meant they splashed out more than £200 million on their own. How is that not being able to compete financially in modern football? Sure, they might not drop £100 million+ on a single player but that doesn't mean they won't spend £60-70 million on someone if they want to. They also get their share of big Premier League TV money, money from their Champions League runs and their owner is hardly poor either. If they continue to be successful in the next few years, they might even get new sponsors, new kit deals etc and get even more money!

Strengthening depth is one thing but again, how are you gonna manage the game time if you have Pulisic, Sancho, Boga and CHO? You mentioned City earlier but one is content to be on the bench while another can play centrally. Pulisic can play centrally but he hasn't done that here but we have a lot of midfielders as things stand. Alisson, Van Dijk and Fabinho cost a lot more combined than what they got for Coutinho. And having looked at their transfer ins and outs, saying Barcelona funded their buys is a bit of a stretch. In the 2017/18 season, they spent approximately £150 million on new players (e.g. Salah, Oxlade-Chamberlain in the summer and Van Dijk in January), with approximately £105 million covered by the Coutinho sale. But in 2018/19, they spent about £160 million on Alisson, Keita, Fabinho and Shaqiri and got only about £34 million from sales. So they basically spent like £310 million on new players with the Coutinho sale only covering 1/3 of that. Leicester are only 2 points behind City and sit comfortably in the Top 4 as well but they don't exactly have greatest strength in quality, do they? They may have made a cup final but look who they beat to get there - Preston North End, Southampton (when they were really bad), Oxford and Man United. Only United were the tough one, on paper at least, but we all know they are just bad.

If bringing Liverpool up shouldn't be the basis of the reasoning, then neither is bringing Man City up because not everyone can fill up their squad like City do. And it's easier to keep everyone happy if you can win like every week. You're not wrong but they do also have decent backups to step in. They might not be at Salah's or Mane's level but still decent backup nonetheless, certainly better than us having Willian or Pedro for example. This truly is a one and done for Liverpool? Over these last 1.5 seasons, they have been super consistent in the league (only 1 loss in 63 games) and have reached a European final every season under Klopp (except 2016/17 when they weren't in Europe). They might not keep up this consistency next season but they're unlikely to just fall off a cliff when their squad are still at a good age. I know Tomo mentioned before that Liverpool were able to spend big because they sold someone for big money but I'm sure they're more than capable of spending big once or twice on their own. You don't have a brand like Liverpool, be as successful as they have been in recent years without having spending power of their own without relying on player sales. Yes, their depth has helped them this season, aye? I know Pulisic's injury record at Dortmund is not ideal reading (none of them were long term by the way) but players at Dortmund always get injured anyway and Pulisic wasn't the first to suffer a muscle injury in training this season under Lampard. Unless the same thing happens down the line, I'd not be concerned at all.

I don't think anything is done or even decided yet. The media are just dramatizing everything because Lampard dropped Kepa and it's only one game so far.

Well, there was this...

Mahrez is content to sit on the bench. He's only playing a lot this season because of Sane's injury. Silva can also play centrally. If we have Pulisic (21), Sancho (19), CHO (19) and Boga (23), how do you expect them to improve, build consistency/form, develop chemistry with the others if we are constantly having to rotate them? All of them are at the age where they need to play consistently to improve. If we sign Sancho, especially when it's gonna be over 100 million, we are likely to make him first choice. Boga is starting week in week out at Sassuolo, why would he come back if he's going to be switched in and out for the team? We may have better chances of winning things than Sassuolo but for players, playing time can be more important simply winning stuff. And I'm sure Pulisic and CHO would want to play every week as well. On paper, it sounds great to have all 4 of them but in reality, there's only gonna be so many times you can rotate them before somebody becomes unhappy and wants to leave. Liverpool are a good example of how a consistent team selection can breed consistency in playing well and winning games.

Sheffield United only TWO points behind us. TWO. POINTS. BEHIND.

If we sign Sancho in the summer, I highly doubt we'll sign Boga. It's one or the other, not both, IMO.