Sideshow Luiz

Rudiger. Still, I have no idea why we're after Rugani. Luiz and Christensen are already here. It's not that I don't think he's an upgrade over Cahill, he is for sure. But, it's a lot of money for a rotational player. Which in itself is fine, but we have bigger holes than CB depth. IMO.

Need to get rid of Marina and get in whoever the Technical Director at Monaco is

Good for him. Shame for us. With Barca getting a Willian Alternative, I was hoping that it was because we had worked something out with Utd. Congrats on the baby Martial. You should raise them in South-West London.

He's apparently left training camp early. I didn't read this news anywhere, so no source. Just my Utd buddy.

Yup, and he's from Paris. PSG couldn't ask for anything better. Neymar is going to be second banana soon (from a marketing perspective). Unless Mbappe flops, which looks less likely every time he steps on the pitch.

Neymar. If I were PSG, Mbappe's face would be on everything for the next 10 years.

Kalas couldn't nail down a starting job at Fulham. I don't think he has any future here.

Sorry, lazy post. I should have added the words. Maybe this is taking so long because... .....well, that would be my wish.

I see Martial called a winger when people are trying to fit him in to their possible line-ups. If we got him, I'm positive he would be a CF. If I'm not mistaken, he was a CF before going to Utd. Then was played out on the wing (forget why). And he's kind of stayed there (Anelka'ed). I see him as an Henry (obviously not anywhere near that level) in the sense that you CAN play him out on the wing, but really, he's a CF.

Willian to Utd for Martial. Morata to Milan for Donnarumma.

I thought it was kind of funny that of all the signing from last season (that played) Morata looked the worst. Zappa, Bakayoko, Barkley, Emerson all looked better than Morata. It's just one match, but it wasn't pretty from him.

I don't get how anyone is questioning where Kante fits. Kante fits in every midfield. Saw some (not sure if here) people question how whether Azpi can play RB in this system as well. Kante and Azpi are ballers. They play under every system.

He gets a 10/10 for effort. And he's had the right mentality. We'll see how quickly he picks up the team play. You can see him looking around trying to figure out where to be on offence and when to press on defence.

We're making them look like an A-League side.

C'mon Tammy, show Morata how to do it.

I think he's going to kill it.

Kante will play where Fabs is playing now. right now, we kind of have 2 DLP on the pitch. But at Napoli, Allan played where Fabs is playing now. He's a B2B ball winner. The right side of the formation was more of a workhorse type. Callejon more defensive than Insigne. Allan more defensive than Hamsik. Hysaj more defensive than Ghoulam. Allan is a rich man's Bakayoko. Kante is an Abramovich man's Allan.

It's not a surprise, but Pedro and Fabregas have taken to this like fish to water. CHO looks like he knows what he's supposed to be doing as well.

If you have a VPN - https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/11774531982/live-stream-perth-glory-v-chelsea-kick-off-930pm-aest I didn't try it without, but that was the word.

Kante plays where Fabregas is playing. He will be winning the ball back and pressing all over the pitch. The guy that is going to struggle is Alonso. 1 bad touch and he's well out of the play.

We should definitely go in for him. People are talking about Bakayoko or Morata as KDB 2.0. THIS is KDB 2.0 He owe's us (or we owe him depending on how you look at it), should make it happen.

Yeah, he had a little pissy fit when Roman sold a 33 year old Cech to Arsenal. His head would absolutely explode if a 22 year old Martial came to us and terrorized him for the next 10 years.

I don't disagree with you. If he went to Utd, he'd be on the right, for sure. That's where Jose used him before. He'd do better at Barcelona, and I'd rather see him at Barcelona than Utd, but I think the hold up there is that we've got 2 clubs (with money) interested in him. It's my only guess as to why we haven't taken 60M from Barcelona for him.

Jose. He'd prefer Barcelona, sure. But, that doesn't mean he wouldn't want to go to Utd.

Sure. I was just clearing up the contract situation. He has 1 year + 1 year club option.