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Except Felix would cost double the transfer fee and he's not worth 80 million.

I don't think the math works out. Atletico were originally looking for close to 80 million for a Felix deal....and no club out there is going to value Cucurella at more than 30-35 million. I'd be surprised if Felix isn't a Manchester United player (on loan) by deadline day. They've always held an interest and he'd be perfect depth for their attack alongside Rashford, Bruno and co.

As usual....the market has gone a bit quiet so the twitter journos need to get their clicks.

The only reason why I see Cherki doing well enough in the PL is because he's got dribbling ability and plenty of time to develop. Veiga would look bang average for most teams other than City/Liverpool (because they already have star players).

David is an interesting option but I don't think he's a huge upgrade on young Jackson who we've signed from La Liga. If we're looking for a short term option, I wouldn't mind getting Ben Yedder from Monaco, still a very good finisher in front of goal.

And to think every club just let City walk into the transfer market and pick up not one but two top class finishers on the cheap!

If the club is stupid enough to let Colwill go to Liverpool and give them a VVD replacement...there is nothing left to say. 🤬

The kid has a contract at Chelsea till 2025, let him show up for pre-season and talk to Poch before we start coming to conclusions about him being toxic.

Yea, I remember that. Mourinho coming out and basically saying that KdB didn't really adapt to his training methods and then proceeding to strongly back Oscar over him (because Oscar did the dirty work/tracked back). It really is a shame that we sold KdB for peanuts to the Bundesliga without even giving him a chance to play in his natural position!

You can take Collins off the list, just recently moved to Brentford for 23 million.

Aubameyang, Firmino, Sane have all had success in the Premier League The ones that tend to struggle are the attacking midfielders who don't really have a clear position in the premier league (e.g. Pulisic, Sancho, Havertz, Kagawa etc)

We're possibly talking about the best academy player we've had since Reece/Mason made the breakthrough to first team football If we can't give Colwill meaningful minutes this season then is there a point in having an academy?

I actually agree with this, he did play way too much but maybe thats because most of the team looked like they didn't care and at least with gallagher he ran around the pitch and tried to put the effort in. @OneMoSalah At no point did I compare the two players quality wise. Mount is a far better player and there is no doubt about that. I was simply saying that Mount ran off to United at the first opportunity he had. All this talk of pulled contract offers and things going on behind the scenes but at the end of the day, he was an academy player and he could have signed a 12 month deal with the club with a release clause in place. At least that way we could have planned for his departure rather than frantically trying to sign 2-3 midfielders. Compare that to Gallagher who kept on saying that he wanted a chance at Chelsea (whilst he was on loan at both West Brom & Crystal Palace). I get that his first season at Chelsea wasn't the best but what did people expect from him? Maybe with a coach that has done well with youngsters he'll be able to grow his game and be a possible goalscorer for us off the bench.

Cucurella hate is based on the transfer fee paid for an average player. If we had signed Cucurella for 25-30 million (like what City originally proposed), I wouldn't have cared that much. Not sure why Gallagher gets so much hate. He's literally what you want for a HG squad player who is actually keen on playing for the club. Unlike his buddy Mount who couldn't wait to join Manchester United for an extra 50k a week.

Isn't the Valencia keeper being linked to Bayern? We can't compete with them We'll probably end up with Raya on deadline day for 25 million or something along those lines

So far there hasn't really been any jacking up of transfer fees between PL clubs. Even Spurs got their attacking mid from Leicester for a reasonable fee. Looks like we might be the ones suffering for not putting in a Caicedo bid earlier. Brighton know full well that we are desperate and they're going to ask for 90+ million for Caicedo. If we are serious about this transfer window, we should just put in a final bid for Caicedo in the 80 million range and if Brighton reject it, we move on.

I don't get why we haven't put in a bid for Lavia yet. What is there to lose from putting in a 40+ million bid for Lavia? Seems like we're putting all our eggs in one basket for Caicedo and Brighton will just milk us for an extra 20 million.

Is there a player that Barcelona don't want? Maybe they shouldn't have spent that excess amount of money on Raphinha & Ferran Torres and they could have afforded to buy the likes of Zubimendi for their midfield. They want Bernardo Silva as well but they can't afford to pay City a transfer fee...just hoping that Pep gives another gift to his former club...

People getting worried about 'empty stats'. With Mount as the "1st" player, we were barely scraping our way to the top 4 and we were miles away from being able to tie the shoelaces of Pep & Klopp's teams. 😁

If he's that good, he should be at one of the top clubs by now. Why is it that Arsenal were offered Zubimendi and they declined and preferred Rice at 100+5 million.

Bernardo has mentioned that he'd be open to move to Benfica/Barcelona, think he was offered a good deal to go to Saudi League as well...

We have a midfield, with like 10 games of experience between them 😅 As it stands: Enzo - Santos - Casadei ...........talk about playing the yoooouth

Because they made a banner for him. Not like every single Chelsea player gets a banner at the Bridge... The fact that he ran away at the first opportunity should show every fan just how much he actually 'cared' for the club. I hope he has a poor season at United, just to see how their fans react 😆

Yeah, let's sell a midfielder who has proven that he can play at a PL level and replace him with a kid who hasn't played in Europe yet. Santos will probably get backup minutes automatically as we have ZERO depth in midfield.

I just don't see Gallagher leaving, feel like he would suit Pochettino's pressing tactics and we could use the depth heading into new season.