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Added a poll too...

So after winning the Champions League last season, what are we all expecting this time around? Premier League champions? Champions League winners? FA Cup winners? Carabao Cup winners? UEFA Super Cup winners? Club World Cup champions?

Nobody is stopping you from creating one.

Where's the sense in wanting to sell 2 strikers and buying only 1? There's probably an alternate timeline for that scenario...

https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/026b-12c54d8f10cb-315086fbb6f8-1000--istanbul-to-host-2023-final/ UEFA have rescheduled/announced the UCL final venues for the next 4 years. 2022 - St Petersburg 2023 - Istanbul 2024 - London 2025 - Munich

Think it might be an understatement to say that every time (or at least in recent years) Arsenal have bought a player from us, it has not gone very well.

How did you deduce Real Madrid will go for him from that? 🤣

Matt Law said Arsenal are interested in Abraham but no such mention of that here...

Not sure how accurate this is because The Athletic just counted the three-week break period that is given to players after the Euros but here are the supposed returning dates of the players: Ampadu - July 17 Kovacic, Kante - July 19 Werner, Havertz, Rudiger - July 20 Batshuayi - July 23 Christensen - July 24 Azpi - July 27 Silva - July 31 Chilwell, Mount, James, Jorginho, Emerson - August 1 The Athletic also mentioned that the club are likely to make tailored arrangements with certain players, notably Chilwell and James who spent most of the Euros on the bench. Players can also return to Cobham early if they want to.

Greed? Dortmund haven't come out and explicitly said the amount that it would take for them to sell Haaland this summer, have they? The €175 million/£150 million price that has been thrown around has been mentioned only by the media and for all we know, it could be BS and the asking price could be higher. And as I was saying to King Kante, I was speaking hypothetically. What if Dortmund really stick with their stance but just want to see how far we're willing to go for Haaland? Because at the end of the day, they're still the seller and if they aren't desperate to sell Haaland as we are desperate to buy him, then they can just milk us for good. Dortmund aren't just blindly a selling club because they also want to be competitive and with a new, bright young coach at the helm, they would want to try and achieve something big.

LOL

But this is Dortmund, who have a history of selling players for lesser money by holding onto them for another year and yes, I'm aware the difference in money is larger in this case but still. I just want to see the outrage and chaos!

But what if they really stick with their stance but try to see how far we're willing to go with the offer? Also while Haaland doesn't seem opposed to the idea of joining us, from his camp and Raiola's perspective, them leaving next year would be better from a financial POV. That 100 million or whatever the difference is in the transfer fee, they can get clubs to use that and pay them more in wages, agent fees etc. It's somewhat telling that they don't seem to be pushing for a move or making any sort of noise. Hope we get him now!

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jul/15/crystal-palace-agree-fee-defender-marc-guehi-with-Chelsea Seems like the club's initial plan was to loan Guehi out again but he wants to play week in week out and hence, the move to Palace.

What's the difference between that and Dortmund's stance on Haaland? lol

If we are really desperate to sign Haaland, what's stopping Dortmund - regardless if they budge or not - from really milking that desperation to get more money out of us like say 200 million instead of 150 million? Also, if we really need to raise cash by selling players to buy Haaland or whoever, what's stopping potential buyers of those players from just backing out, not paying what the club want until they lower the price etc?

It'll be interesting to see what Tuchel does with Abraham in the pre-season games.

Wouldn't rule out Abraham staying due to the circumstances.

There's no need to. lol

You're late.