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Might be alone but I am kind of happy how the club ran the Maignan and Gitten deals. Their clubs wanted to rip us off badly, think we did the right thing pulling off. They are good players but none of them are must haves, at least not before middle of June. They are both reported to be disappointed and requested to leave, our negotiation position might be better in a few weeks.

Wunderbar! Let's see if we can offload them. I feel only Saudis can permanently save us from Felix and Sterling. Disasi I think should be no issue to sell.

Just sell him and Badiashile please, and leave Chalobah alone..

Portugal-Spain quite good game so far. CR facing Yamal. Crazy to think, Ronaldo already had one Ballon D'or and completed one EC and WC when Lamine was born.

Today England beat Andorra in a very difficult game, Noni was praised by Sky: "Noni Madueke's performance one of few highlights from victory" "England lacked energy and invention, and but for the brilliant Madueke, it might have been much worse. It was he who pestered and probed, until his perfect cross found Kane sliding in at the back post for England's only goal." I didn't watch the game, but the second paragraph is so much him.. Enervated team, but he keeps on trying.

Long time haven't bumped in your posts, nice to see you back!

Well done, congrats! Time for you guys to return to EC/WC.

@Vesper Are you following Hungary-Sweden?

What a player Cherki is.. City got too much running fools with no end product last season(Doku, Grealish, Savinho), this guy will definetly bring them something they had missed since Mahrez. Lots of great talent to see this match. And even Gusto showed he doesn't completely forget to play football.

Think it was a no brainer. He was just signed by a top4 team and expected to lead the line, nothing to prove at U21 level.

The act is understandable, no10 should be worn. I diskile the communication strategy regarding Mudryk though. Not even a "most recently worn by Muddy", just pretend he never existed, same since October.

Selling Huijsen and buying Lloyd Kelly for a higher price was an absolute masterpiece of business.

That is feasible, but needs caring and good loans. Icing/axing players will just damage their market value. Ironically, one the best performing "hoarded" young player of Boehly-era last season was Diego Moreira, who we managed to ship off. Carney, Ugo, Washington etc didn't really step forward.

Geez, what are we doing with some of these young guys.. What was the plan with Amougou? He could have just stayed at St Etienne. Why we bother took him here? Same with Anselmino. He was scheduled to join this summer but we took him earlier.. for what? What will we do with Ugochukwu, Essugo? We just seem to lose money on these guys.

Drogba counts? 🙂 I am not saying we should go for him, just surprised about news being quiet on him. Press indicated all top teams are all over him.

Didn't he just sit on the bench one time? I recall he never played in the PL. He has 60M release cause though, we seem to go for 80-100M Ekitike, wages should cover the difference. Arsenal going for Sesko, Liverpool for Wirtz, United got Cunha, bit weird to me. I expected many club would match 60M and he'd quickly find a new team.

Does anyone start to feel like there is something going on with Gyökeres? Like a red flag which top club scouts noticed. It doesn't feel like top PL-clubs are very much after him, everyone chasing other targets. Or other European clubs. Isn't he a wanted man?

Neither was anybody willing to buy Joao Felix and Pedro Neto, we still milked out 100M for them.

It's after Potter. We'd got Pochettino by that time. Wonder how things would be now if he sticked around. Finished last season in pretty good form, sneaked up till 6th.

Guys, next year we will compete in the CL.. Scary to think to face this PSG.

Joao Mendes has their best players there, while we buy Neto and Felix from his clients.

Wonder what Mbappe is thinking.. No CL-title and no Ballon D'or until the age of 28(earliest) for the "next CR". While Doue, Dembele, Barcola flourish for PSG.

Yes. We opted Joao Felix and Neto though 😄 Gotta say I was always against Enrique. Expect his Barcelona (which had insane amount of talented players in their primes) I was not impressed by his teams. But what he did with this PSG is very impressive.

Doue goal and assist in the CL-final at 19.. What a player.

True. This was the only pleasant surprise about him though.