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Understandable he wants higher wages given he's currently one of the lowest earners, I believe? Not sure if Marina would agree to that 200k but if not, surely an agreement something a bit lower can be agreed upon.

What clubs would you suggest? The tricky thing with loaning young players out is that if we go for the bigger clubs or clubs higher than Norwich for example, they might end up not using our player at all because they already have their established players there. Our player will then become just a backup for that club. I can't recall the names but there have been plenty of examples over the years.

That certainly removes a potential replacement option for Dortmund this summer...

So what if he started only 10-11 games the whole season? The point is he had a dodgy physical condition that needs to be managed carefully and he played a decent amount of minutes towards the end of the season. That friendly was played just 3 days after the final league game of the season. Not sure how much of a difference playing the players in that game made a difference considering it was still almost 2 weeks without a game going into the Europa League final.

Guessing Gilmour has been loaned to Norwich because of the Farke-Tuchel connection since they worked together at Dortmund. Saw arguments saying that Gilmour should have been kept and go down the Foden route instead - e.g. train with better players daily and eventually work his way into the XI.

Just bad luck? It was entirely preventable because (a) it was only a friendly game and (b) in RLC's case, he should not have played at all given his fitness and back issues. He wasn't exactly a 100% healthy, fully fit player etc like the others. Even though it was for a good cause, the club got criticized because they arranged a friendly ahead of a cup final. They risked players getting injured and unfortunately, one happened. Are you seriously comparing the two situations? USA or not, going to watch an NBA game without having to exert oneself physically (e.g. playing the game) is completely different to actually playing a game!

The point isn't so much about not playing RLC on artificial pitches but more so about managing his game time, given his dodgy fitness and back condition back then. He had played lots of minutes leading up to that friendly. So god knows why Sarri felt the need to play him then when he could have given just the time to some other players instead.

Plans may have to change if we can't sell him and/or can't buy a suitable player.

Wouldn't rule out one of them staying if we can't get anyone suitable at all.

That rumor was started by Daily Mirror...

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You don't think we'll go for another striker if we don't sign Haaland?

But how will you react if we don't sign Haaland (which has a possibility of it not happening at all)? 👀

Unless someone has a bloody proof that is the case, I really can't fathom why people are choosing to stick with a conspiracy theory. Is it because Ziyech is an easy target due to his situation at the club? Just because we just won the Champions League, it doesn't give us a god's given right to expect players should be choosing us over other clubs, regardless of whether it's PSG or not. If the reports are true - in that the club only tried to offer cash + player and didn't push hard for the deal compared to PSG - then is it any wonder why Hakimi chose them over us? Only one club have made him feel wanted and that club ain't us. It never looked like we got into an advanced negotiation stage with Inter because of our offer. It didn't seem like we were willing to pay up straight cash but wanted to low ball by paying smaller amount of money and offering a deadwood to them. Also, Hakimi's decision could be linked to his wife, who apparently is an actress and often goes to Paris and stays there for an extended period of time. Joining PSG would allow them to be together more often etc.

Yes but RLC was known to have a dodgy back and fitness back then. So one would think Sarri would have not played him, especially given the pitch was an artificial pitch IIRC.

The club organizing the friendly was one thing but no one asked Sarri to play RLC in that game.

Couple of possibilities here: 1. We were interested but not too interested till the point we are desperate to throw close to £70 million for Hakimi. This is the same club that didn't want to pay over £70 million for Van Dijk few years ago and were reluctant to pay £50 million for Chilwell last summer. So maybe the club have a limit on how much they are willing to pay for a defender. 2. The club underestimated Inter's desperation for money? They wanted straight up cash while we tried to offer cash + player but that went out of the window as soon as PSG were willing to just offer cash straight up for Hakimi. It's a bit like last year where no one could really afford anything and we just came in and bought players we had the money. Different case now with some clubs able to spend again.