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It got cancelled apparently.

For argument's sake, can someone please explain why would Bayern even accept £50 million?

The Telegraph said we're also looking at Sergio Romero for the 3rd choice keeper role. Marcus Bettinelli is the other mentioned target.

Err, Simon Johnson has also said it? Nizaar Kinsella for Goal? Jacob Steinberg for Guardian? That ExWhuEmployee fella?

It's only getting legs if someone is gonna actually make a move. Right now, we're in an "interesting" scenario with Abraham. 1. If Arsenal want him, they will have to sell players first - e.g. Lacazette - or otherwise, they won't be able to afford him. It's said that they want Abraham on loan but the club want to sell for £40 million. 2. Instead of selling to a direct rival, the club may use Abraham in a cash + player swap deal instead for Rice. 3. Matt Law said that the club don't want to sell Abraham without knowing that we will be able to sign a striker first and they also don't want to commit to a big deal for a striker without someone will take Abraham of us. It feels like something needs to happen for the domino pieces to fall...

And ESPN went and talked about it like it's some sort of true story... Werner literally spoke at length in May on why we doesn't want to leave, despite his struggles last season. If anything is gonna change, it'll be from the club side but nothing has come from the club side, nothing has been said by Matt Law, Simon Johnson etc. It also doesn't make sense wanting to sell him when the club and Tuchel are actively trying to get rid of Abraham.

I was talking from the club's perspective.

Isn't that kinda worse, in that the club want him now on the back of a good season as opposed to basing on proper scouting, regardless of personal/team success?

Eh? Jorginho did not start in only 7 games under Tuchel last season - he was suspended for 1 of them; another 2 of those games were in the FA Cup while the remaining 4 were likely due to rotation/resting him. Kante and Kovacic had their injury issues but Tuchel rotated more between those two and some times between the three of them a bit when all 3 were available.

Which "people" is Simon Johnson referring to? Wasn't the club not keen on Rice last year because they weren't convinced by him? Or was that due to the high fee wanted by West Ham? Everything was pinned on Lampard for wanting Rice last summer but now the club have seemingly jumped onto the bandwagon, on top of Tuchel also reportedly liking Rice.

Rotation. Rotation. Rotation.

There were others - West Ham, Liverpool, Brighton - that also wanted Bate but he chose Leeds.

He had only a year left on his contract and he's a youth player. What do you expect?

About 1.5 million.

Do people really expect Bayern will just sell Lewandowski this summer and leave themselves short on options? Am sure they are also smart enough like everyone else to know that there is not many top quality strikers available at this time.

Yeah, that Florida Cup has sure gone well... Arsenal have pulled out due to a small outbreak of COVID-19 in their team while Inter have done the same after citing the risks involved in international travel during this pandemic.

The point isn't about struggling but needing time to adapt to the league etc (Havertz anyone?). Werner's issue was not really the adaptation but the conversion rate, which can happen in any league. And would you have said that about Werner this time last year anyway? Everyone is always confident in life when things are going well until they don't. Can't see the move for Lukaku happening, mainly due to the finances involved and for someone that will have no resale value whatsoever.

You mentioned those players and yet earlier you said it’s almost impossible to sign Haaland without being the Champions of Europe. Being league champions or European Champions is great and all but things could go either way when it comes to attracting players. Jorginho, for example, rejected City for us (largely due to Sarri) even though they were the English champions back then. Easy to say that about Haaland when he’s still in the Bundesliga and not in the Premier League. I mean, his goalscoring record is great and all but it’s easy to forget that he’s still only 21 years old and he still is not the finished article. He still also hasn’t challenged for the league title or led a team to the league title in a major league. Not advocating for Lukaku here but compared to Haaland, he has all the experience and has actually led a side to the title in a major league (whether people think Serie A is crap or not is another debate altogether).

I feel like people are overplaying this ‘European Champions’ attraction card too much. Yes, we may be the Champions of Europe right now but players aren’t just gonna join blindly because of that. Am sure people are not blind to the fact that we have won only 2 league titles in the last decade and we were irrelevant in Europe for so many years before last season. That’s like only 3 major titles in the last decade. We might have also won the FA Cup and Europa League but am sure the really big players don’t care too much about that.

Funny you mentioned that because Matt Law said something along those lines regarding Haaland, in that he’s not convinced he would immediately hit the ground running and score many goals because of the whole Bundesliga tax thing if he were to come here and may need some time to adjust, which represents a gamble for the money involved (transfer fee + wages + agent fees). Regarding Lukaku, I’d find it hard that the club would be willing to pay somewhere around 100 million to sign him when he’s already 28 years old and would have next to no resale value for the future.