BlueLyon

50m in the bank from Matic, lets buy Vidal then...Sanches is another talent with who needs alot of patience, trust and playtime. Wont get that at Chelsea.

50m is great and all, but unless we actualy buy another high quality midfielder, whats the point? We will strenghten United and at same time lose valuable player. 50m in the bank means shit if we dont improve our team.

Take Costa's mentality aside, he was one of worlds best players before january and even after january he helped with some crucial moments (but indeed was poor overall). We had two world class attackers in Eden and Costa. With Morata (and Bats) we improved character of our strikers, but not quality. Some of you need to realise Costa was believe it or not world class striker overall last season and even tho I like Morata alot, we are weaker team ATM. I do believe Michy and Morata will come good, but I doubt they will have same killer impact as Costa did (or Didi)

In dabbing, thats for sure

We should either play different formations, players etc...or work hard with first 11 to improve our main 11. Seems we arent doing either. Or at least we could try to gel in our new signings, but shame Rudiger and Baka are injured...

U neee luck obviously but we were realy competitive and in top4 2007-2010. Thats why we were very high in pl and cl those years. Consistency. After that we might win CL in 2012 but that was big one off because we finished 6th in league that year and our Cl record since is not realy impressive anymore like it was pre 2010.

Kind of stupid from him to talk about Kane so highly after signing Morata week earlier.

I guess Bats realy impressed Conte this pre season and that is a great thing. We will see both Bats and Morata feature quite heavily but Im sure sooner or later Morata will be the main man once he settles in.

No. Real lost to city 4:1... These preseason friendlies mean zero. Even more so when we dont have our best player on pitch and Baka still out

Then we are idiots..buying someone who prefers money instead of developing weekly... Unless we move to 3 man midfield, I dont see how would Sanches get proper spot and playtime here anyway.

Not that i want spuds getting new players but wtf are they doing this window lol? Sold Walker and didnt improve their team one bit...

Why not just give Baker that role? Barkley was average past year and if Baker cant properly fill that role as backup AM, then we might as well sell him. Baker had good season albeit in holland, but still he deserves a chance.

Been saying this for ages to me Sandro looks like done deal for at least one month

I think we need to give the players time to get back in form, wait for return of Hazard, Bakayoko and others. The game shown us perfectly why we need to get one or two more players. I rather lose every preseason game and get proper reinforcements than win every game when opposition is still on holidays, then start the season with same team only to face opponents that wont just let us win. The overreaction on this forum...IMO result was perfect because two conclusions; we need to work harder and we need more players. On side note, Tolisso; brilliant performance he is going to kill it for Bayern. Hopefuly Baka performs as he did for Monaco and we are set aswell.

Azpi wasnt one of unknown players tho...He wasnt as hyped, but still very good already back in Marseille. And in today market, I guess the odds of getting someone like Azpi for 7m is becoming less and less possible. And even then, dont forget Azpi only got real chance when Ashley got injured. The market completely lost it when clubs are willing to pay 50, 60 m for fullbacks, 40m for 16 year olds and 80m for non staters. That said, I would love to get another Azpi for low price. However his profile of FB is that he is quality defender and average going forward, meaning he will get far less attention than a FB thats realy good going forward. And right now we need attacking fullbacks/wingbacks.

Im still positive Sandro will be Chelsea player by the end of window, so Im not too fussed about Mendy. If we were dying for LB, we would definately bid for Mendy, my guess is that we already have secured someone else for LB, most probably Sandro.

Do you believe then that Morata was too expensive for United, then suddenly they pay 75m plus bonuses and Rooney and we finalize Morata for 80m? I think it makes more sense we bid for Lukaku in desire to drop Morata's price. Lukaku was nailed to join Utd for months. I dont think united beaten us last second because we hesitated. If we ended up with some average dude I would have doubts, but we got Morata realy quickly. Yes I do think Morata was Contes choice, he was his choice back in juve and Morata said he wants to train with Conte one day, implying they have good relationship despite never actualy working together.

So where are now those people saying I was pulling it out of my ass that Conte preffers Morata and Lukaku wasnt nearly as close to cfc as media threw out?

Someone reliable said United was in for Lukaku for quite a while, the transfer wasnt done overnight as BBC reported. It kind of makes sense. Lukaku said a while ago he knows where he is moving, he then went to usa training with Pogba, and in meantime called Chelsea rumours BS. Unfortunely it all looked like he was practicaly ours, but if you think again, it was all assumptions only. All those "he is chelsea fan and would lovev to move here" quotes were bs too, mostly what fans threw out to make transfer reasonable, but Lukaku himself didnt say that in quite a long time. On paper it looked like he is Chelsea bound, but neither him, chelsea, everton said anything about fees or personal agreements. Maybe he was on Chelsea shortlist and Utd beaten us to it, but he definately wasnt out and out first choice, at least not anymore because for all we know, Lukaku might decide to go to United two months ago when he said he knows where he is going. Bottom line, as long we get proper striker, I couldnt care less. Lukaku is far from ideal striker for me anyway. And if our late bid of 75m pounds is true, that means we are not that short from Morata or Belotti.

He is Conte fan and on top of that he can give us different opinion since he is juve fan and knows more about that particular club than we do.

I never said that. Only Rudiger, Bakayoko and Sandro.

Stop with the pessimism, he will be Chelsea player soon.

Yes because we were discussing older articles mate. Fake? We will see about that

@BluesMadLad https://mobile.twitter.com/brfootball/status/877819773437919232?lang=en Also; Larepublica was the one who broke the story in first place.

Then they dont know much either... La republica was the one that broke the story and soon Marotta confirmed it. I have no idea about how reliable larepublica is, but they got that spot on. Mind you they also said bid of 60m pounds was accepted by Juve few days/weeks later. Just because Sandro isnt already chelsea player, doesnt mean there are problems. Sandro could still be on vacation or juve wants replacement first.