I am yet to see Maresca hold any opinion contrary to the owners. It is dangerous to think there's a plan when Felix was not in our thinking till last night.
Really hope Aston Villa come in strong for Felix
Doesn't make sense for us to get Felix when we have Nkunku and Palmer able to play behind the striker.
Guiu has changed their minds. There's no other explanation for low-balling a contract offer after briefing the media all summer that the club is obsessed with Samu, that his data is the bomb and bidding multiple times for him.
Rest of the top 6 except United have a settled XI going into the season.
We should really finalise the squad and give Maresca the 24-25 players he'll be working with
Doesn't look like teams are lining up to pay 25m for someone we are trying to push out of the club. Genius from the club to try and force him out when there's a long contract, no obvious landing spot for him.
In the last few weeks, West Ham preferred Todibo, Newcastle targeted Guehi, Palace looking to replace him with Lacroix and Villa have a couple of others they're looking at.
There are still about 20 outgoings that need to happen.
Kepa, Petrovic, Chalobah, Lukaku, Broja, D Fofana in sales
Acheampong, Humphreys, Wiley, Casadei, Kellyman, Angelo, few more in loans
and dead woods - Anjorin, Deivid, Moreira, Ugochukwu
You can't implement a possession game with keepers like Petrovic. No denying Sanchez has made mistakes but he's the keeper to keep around between the two if we hope to have a progressive keeper.