Sideshow Luiz

This is so crazy that we were able to get ourselves in this predicament. Whoever we get is going to be overpriced, everyone knows we need a keeper. So, just overpay for the one you actually want. What the hell happened to our scouting department?

I take it with the rest of my news, with a grain of salt, and between the lines. I rarely agree with his play evaluations. He thinks Moses is a top RB in the Premier League. However, I often listen to or read things I don't agree with.

10 minute vlogs are awesome for me. I spend enough time thinking about this club and the players it won't get. Condensed info that I don't have to search out works for me. I do find the idea of charging people to ask questions is kind of fucked. I just pass it off as a low rent Patreon type of thing. I also think it's weird that people pay money to Twitch streamers to watch them play FIFA. I figured it was an age thing. I'm old. Paying people to watch them play video games and give their opinions about football is weird to me.

When I go on youtube, Phoenix academy videos don't magically appear without searching for them. I had never heard of them before (which makes searching for them very difficult), and I had no idea they were linked with Bailey. I surely can't be the only one that hasn't heard of them. I'm sorry that's the video I linked. Maybe I should have searched them out more before hand and posted something else (or you could have to, I suppose). Look, all I was trying to do was give some more information to people who might be interested in the Leon Bailey thread.

I don't remember him flopping back and forth. He was pretty steady on the Sarri is coming train, when it got to the lowest point, I remember him saying that it wasn't going to happen. He conveniently doesn't mention that often. But, I wouldn't go so far as to say flip flopping back and forth for months. I thought Higuain said that it was only Sarri that wanted him, but all of AC Milan did. No? If that's true, then it would suggest that the club weren't really that interested. Could be wrong. Phoenix Academy may be well reported where you're from, but I haven't seen any mention of it in any Bailey story. I didn't know anything about the Phoenix Academy, and I kind of figured that a lot of other people wouldn't know about it either. That's why I posted it here in the Bailey thread. I'm not suggesting that everyone should believe in everything Nii Nii says (though I think he's better than the other Chelsea youtube channels). I just wanted to present some more info in the Bailey thread that maybe people didn't know or just hadn't considered.

I don't disagree. I think they should cut their losses on Bakayoko (I admit that I was excited for him) and Drinkwater (most definitely was not), a pint and a packet of crisps would be fine. Who's going to stump up with the crisps though? Especially when they have to pay his wages. He's overpaid too, it's not just the transfer fee. I think that's the stumbling block.

No takers, would be my guess. Especially as we always want top dollar. Marina is pretty good at extracting that, to be fair to her. But, getting top dollar for some of this dross will be difficult. Especially with a shorter window. I'm not expecting anymore deals. IMO, nothing is going to happen until we make some sales. And, I haven't seen/heard shit about any of our players on their way out. The other way of looking at it, is that Sarri hasn''t seen a lot of his key players yet. It's possible that keeping some of them, is actually backing the manager (thinking specifically Willian). As for Drinkwater and Bakayoko? He's not dumb, he knows they aren't needed. But, who's buying?

Haha. I don't talk to anyone on their twitter page. This forum is about as far as I'll venture in to speaking to people online.

Well, he was right about Sarri. He was right that in order for us to get Sarri, it would have to involve us buying a player and overpaying for him to end the stupid game of chicken we were playing with ADL. He was right that we were never interested in Higuain. He was wrong in thinking that shirt sales make back some of the high transfer fees (a common myth). I definitely don't agree with a lot of his opinions. He's like everyone else, sometimes right, sometimes wrong. He does seem to know more about what's going on at the club than a lot of people. It's like any news/editorial, you take what you want. In this case, I have no reason to not believe some of the stuff about Phoenix Academy and payments that need to be made to it and his brother that aren't part of the transfer fee. Whether that's what is in fact, putting us off from making a deal? Don't know.

I remember a bunch of people shitting on that when you brought it up (60M limit). Anyone come out and say "you know what, that may well be true"? On one hand, it's definitely true to date. And it looks like no one in unless we sell. Seems like no one wants any of our last summer's mistakes. On the other, what the hell happened to the Alisson/Courtois net (30ish?) and the Rugani monies?

Kante and Hazard aren't back yet. Bats returned early, to London, but I don't think any of those 3 actually join up with the squad until Saturday. Same goes for T-Bo, and the chances of getting a new keeper by Sunday is slim.

So, Real don't think he's worth 200M, but Modric is worth 670M https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/luka-modric-price-tag-set-13023432 We gave them a chance, they don't love you as much as you love them, Eden. Might as well just re-sign with us.

Yeah, if you want to be a net spend = 0 club, you can't afford to whiff on transfers. Last summer, we whiffed on all of them except for Rudiger. Nii Nii of Blue Lions TV put together a video on Bailey a few months back: I don't know how much is true.

I think we're okay for numbers. But, it's good to have a HG player that actually contributes. Cahill was a starter, but he's not going to be around much longer, and only from the bench anyway.

He is home grown. This is why I'm kind of on his train instead of Bailey.

Christ, I hate that club. A common phrase is that no player is bigger than the club. LFC think that they're bigger than everything.

Or a Bakayoko either. When you've already got a Chalobah.

I wish, but I highly doubt it. Morata out, Zaha in Willian out, Martial in. Haven't even seen Martial at CF, just know that he played there originally (and his skill set isn't really suited to the wing, from what I've seen). But, he can't be worse. The worst part of Morata's performance yesterday was when he fluffed that header. If that's not working for him....

I like Ballack too and would love to see him at the club again. But, with the way we do business. I think Campos would be a really good fit. In fact, I think there is room for both.

This is Granny's first real window, and she's failing miserably. She's (usually) very good at extracting fees for players, but that's it. Anything that is time sensitive is a mess. People complained about Emenalo and the last 2 summers. It seems that he wasn't the weak link. I'd really love it if we got Campos in as DoF.

I changed my stream!

That was coming.

Here we go. Bakayoko and Drinkwater on at the same time. Let's see it.

You can take Wegner out of Arsenal, but....

Fabs our for Kante. Nothing against Fabs, but Kante will bring a whole new element to our pressing game. Hazard for CHO, as well as CHO is playing. Though, with the way this team looks right now. Hazard up front instead of Morata may be an option.