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I've been frustrated for two days. At least this is a positive to rub in the face of manutd fans

He has a high similarity to costa, except he's a beast in the air and likes one touch passing.

I won't get annoyed yet, maybe the board has other options that they are following and maybe Conte never really wanted lukaku. But if by the community shield match, nothing is done, it'll be a scandal. We can't just have this stupid barrier of not spending above £35mil. There's no striker who costs below that anymore

He's terrible. He was a defensive liability for Madrid anytime carvajal was injured. But I want us to pretend like we're showing interest and raise the price for Juventus since they're being so stubborn about Sandro. They need to replace Alves so we can threaten to make it an expensive replacement....

It's not yet time to panic, it's still the first week of July. But I'll be furious if we have no major players 2 weeks into pre-season, because we need the new signings from other leagues to be ready with Conte immediately due to hazards injury.

Maybe. But for some reason, any player who costs above 35mil we always find ourselves in this situation. Needing a transfer request. How did Juventus get napoli to sell them Higuain while we struggle with napoli for Koulibaly, how do mancity get stones when we tried by all means, ... I just wonder how other teams do it without needing them to put in a transfer request.

Or we have a shit negotiating team who don't know how to sweet talk high value deals through and make it happen.

If Juventus don't want to let Sandro go, we should try and raise the transfer price for danilo by putting in a cheeky bid. They need to replace Alves so they should play ball or we make it an expensive replacement

I'll actually want Rudiger to play the LCB role which he's very comfortable with and move Cahill to the right. I think a major reason why Cahill looks so uncomfortable with the ball is because he is on the left side and he's very right footed. Him returning to the right side could make Cahill comfortable in bringing the ball out instead of hoofing it back to the opponent because he can't use his weaker foot to pass like Matic. (in fact thinking about it that whole left side MATIC-ALONSO-CAHILL are so one footed, slow and easy to put under pressure because of that limitation ) No wonder Conte wants to improve that side so bad ( Bakayoko-Sandro-Rudiger)

My gut feeling is that Moses is going out of the starting line-up and Azpilicueta is moving to RWB. I'll be surprised if Conte entered the Champions League with an obvious aerial weakness for ronaldo and co to exploit by leaving Azpi in centerback. Rudiger actually is a good Passer for a centerback. Now I've seen him in a full match, only Luiz in our defense is a better passer. He has this Bailly no nonsense defending style and is good at one on one defending. He'll be a starter for sure.

Seconded. He's fast, works hard, energetic, makes runs ALL THE TIME, creates chances for teammates and scores goals. 23 goals in 34 games for Leipzig and top scorer in this tournament too. And he's still young

I'll give it till next week Friday before the complains start coming. Transfer action doesn't happen a lot during weekends. But us agreeing a deal for Rudiger just shows that we still have a phobia in going above £34 million pounds for any player since torres. Last season we went from Koulibaly to Luiz because of Price, this season we've gone from Bonnuci to Van djik to Rudiger. So I'm beginning to think that breaking our transfer record for Sandro isn't happening. We'll find a player under the £34 million pounds mark.

Apparently said he likes to play LCB role.

Liked for noting a positive advantage of Rudiger. I think he's a Conte signing. But it looks like the board can't spend above the £35 million cut off mark for any position that isn't a striker (unless they think they can pull off a striker for that kind of Price) Hopefully it pays off at least to Alonso/Luiz level. It can just be frustrating to go from Bonnuci to Vandjik to Manolas then Rudiger.... But I think Rudiger has some traits of a Conte player. He's powerful, fast, can play in a back 3, back 4 and even right-back and is comfortable on the ball because of his driving runs.

Suddenly we could be looking at having 3 solid dribblers on our left flank (Hazard, Bakayoko and Sandro) That glaring weakness against big teams pressing will be solved when they can just dribble past markers.

At least now we know who has been causing the commotion in Chelsea is the immature costa and not Conte like Henrique and Co want us to believe

I'll be very happy with that. Remember when we were all complaining about the slow trio of MATIC-ALONSO-CAHILL on one side? Seems like Conte noticed it too and is trying to improve all 3 players there. Hazard will have better players on his side after years if we pull all these transfers off.

Exactly. We should be getting physical players who are good on the ball, energetic(stamina), quick and can dribble. It is annoying when we buy players who don't possess these five qualities in the past. I used to wonder what the heck our scouts do all day, are these types of players so rare to get for a team of our level? But it looks like Conte is fixing that now. After all, someone who spotted vidal, Pogba, Bonucci, Cheilini and wanted Sanchez, Morata while in Juventus knows exactly the type of players who elevates a teams quality.

Conte has to change the formation. 3 in the middle against big teams has to be the way to go 3-5-2. But if he wants the kante-Bakayoko midfield, then we have to play 4-4-2 /4-2-4 like Juventus to become deadly on the counter. Conte has to make us ready to play 3 formations if necessary to keep the opponent guessing. Having only 3-4-3 as the only option last season, made other teams start working solutions against us.

Here's me thinking for a moment that a transfer with an Italian club will go quickly. Not!

Whoops! I always thought it was the Italian leftback lol

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What I really like is that we are linked with players who are good 1 on 1 dribblers. So many times against the big teams, only Hazard can make something happen. If we have players like that in many positions on the pitch it is a huge plus. Madrid have marcelo, carvajal, modric, Isco, Bale, Ronaldo and even benzema who are all dribblers in the starting line-up. We have hazard, Moses (I'm pushing it here) and Willian when he comes from the bench. We need more of these types of players who make things happen on their own in tough matches were we have been marked out of creating chances.