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Never was too impressed with Anjorin, maybe if he really was ready yet he would have made more of an impression in his cameos but Rangnick surely will work wonders with him. I hope we include a buy back clause. Hear rumours of the Kounde deal collapsing but I still think it will go through.

Bruno would stay under 10 goals per season without pens lol

This award has only been in operation for like 8 years but it is still a surprise

Replacing Sterling with Penaldo is a major downgrade. Ronaldo's waning athleticism might still stand out in Serie A which probably was the reason he moved there but in PL I can name dozens of more athletic players. As @MoroccanBlue mentioned. Absolutely hilarious that he only now thinks of a move after Messi moved to a CL candidate. The vanity and hybris

What a crazy window. Good thing we got our most important business done already and not entered the circus of Astro wages

Lol maybe but he was not really rated any higher by KPMG either. A PL-proven international class CB with a loaded trophy cabinet at the best footballing age would fetch at least 40m in a pre-Covid environment. It seems only the aboslute top clubs are not benefitting from corona in the prices they need to pay.

30m for Zouma is less than his T-markt guesstimation, don't really like that, should have milked them for 40 but I guess they knew we were desperate to move him. I think we did ourselves no favours here being so indiscrete with the Kounde pursuit. We have enough CBs even without Zouma, so we could have Chalobah's emergence as smokescreen. I just guess it is more difficult to keep things undercover these days.

Absolutely ridiculous but congrats!

Group C and G are completely pointless.

This guy is one of the most annoying members. Pops up every few weeks to insult others in his elementary school English only to disapper directly after, which is probably why he has not been banned yet.

West Ham will be a force in the air with Zouma added. His aerial ability is maybe the best in the league and an absolute asset. But probably not when he is just riding the bench, so the sale makes sense even if we will miss him as a fun personality in the squad. Let's just hope Kai, Toni and Rom can step up their heading game a bit, we have been rather harmless without Happy from set pieces.

This is OTT. Zouma has been a good servant and always given his all for the club which he has been a part of for 7 years now despite his lack of ability. We should pay him the respect he deserves even if we wish him to leave.

This is even more ridiculous than when Beatrix von Storch Eh I mean Modric received it

She surely is a great business woman but she knows nothing about football. Otherwise she would not have sanctioned those 2017 buys and wages for instance. It’s good she now has Petr around her for counsel .

Sun reported today that we are among the clubs trying to sign Luis Diaz which makes sense if you believe what Sportbild reported yesterday: we might be willing to offer Werner as straight swap for Saul so if you combine. Obviously a load of crap, just posted it for your amusement.

Fergie wants to make sure no one there wins a big title after him so his legacy stands forever lol

I would honestly throw the carabao cup. Liverpool got through with playing a youth team, maybe we will too. A few senior players should stay home and work with a youth team for that carabao cup match.

If we really pull this off, we can fly a few players to Japan already so they can wear off the jetlag before we play at the FWCC lol

Agree, except ManUre have not won a title since 2016/17, the season before Lukaku joined. Neville is usually close enough except for anything ManUre-related and apparently Lukaku still falls under that category for him.

That is exactly what i noticed too. He could have scored 4 if they had spotted his runs better. Also they did not really know when to play into his feet and when to send him into open space. Hopefully this will come. Still, he can improve his play as well. Whenever he did his signature shield, half turn and shot his shots got blocked. But ppl must be blind who say he has not improved during his time in Italy.

Even if we sell Zouma... do we even need Kounde? It only makes sense if TT perceives him as an LCB, which would be odd, cos he usually plays on the right. 5 players for 3 positions is usually adequate...I see we are planning for the future here. Trev is the only CB I would consider young. Still 80m+ € is a huge investment for a position we are set up well in. Absolute luxury signing

3-3 now with levantes goalie having been sent off after they used all their subs. Fun stoppage time

Even better, today felt like we are one of the best sides in the world right now. On par with City, Bayern, possibly PSG (not seen them in full force yet). This group of players we have assembled is loaded with quality and everyone is fighting for each other. The next few weeks will show if this holds true over a longer period but other than 2010 and 2012 where we came off great seasons and title wins but faded due to fatigue, injuries and the usual corruption, this is not built on sand with a small, ageing squad. We have more than 2 full XIs of absolute quality players, except for Papi Thiago everyone is 30 y.o. max,most with their best years ahead of them and probably the best coach in the world at the helm. The board, the squad, the staff all working in harmony. Still, these moments of football bliss are fragile so we should cherish them as much as we can.

was thinking the same. Imagine Ramsdale doing the hattrick and managin to be relegated 3 seasons in a row lol

4th CM is the higher priority for me. We have already started running Jorginho into the ground again.