Non-Chelsea Transfer Pub

[Pizy 18,877]

I really rate Ben White. Sensible, great signing for the annoying bastards.

[Jase 43,479]

Grealish tweeted that on the day of the Manchester derby back in 2012. lol 

[Mário César 1,249]

1 minute ago, Jas said:

Grealish tweeted that on the day of the Manchester derby back in 2012. lol 

Who cares?

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, Mário César said:

Who cares?

NOTHING IS HAPPENING! NEED SOME ENTERTAINMENT!!

[NikkiCFC 8,300]

5 minutes ago, Jas said:

Is he even back for pre-season? If he just came back, then I doubt he will feature this Sunday. 

Ofc not but for Mana games against Arsenal are with significant importance so he cares if White will play 😄

[Vesper 30,119]

2 hours ago, Pizy said:

 

This is even weirder, then. Gündo was arguably their best player last season and they’re spending £100m to buy someone to rotate with him?

Pep is of course smarter than almost anyone out there but this is so puzzling.

before the Euros, word was they wanted to sell Sterling and plug in Grealish there at LW

[Tomo 21,751]

6 hours ago, killer1257 said:

Grealish is basically an Eden Hazard. I wonder why Chelsea fans don't rate Grealish because Eden was insane for us

This is exactly what I mean.

He's a good possibly very good player but jeez.

[Pizy 18,877]

At this rate both North London clubs as well as United and Leicester (all clubs who you’d expect to be in the mix for top 4) will have made 3-4 signings each before we’ve made 1. Not counting the 3rd choice keeper, that is.

😒😒😒

[Tomo 21,751]

1 minute ago, Pizy said:

At this rate both North London clubs as well as United and Leicester (all clubs who you’d expect to be in the mix for top 4) will have made 3-4 signings each before we’ve made 1. Not counting the 3rd choice keeper, that is.

😒😒😒

What about Villa, Everton and Leeds?

If you're counting Arsenal surely they have to be in too 4 consideration too?

[Mário César 1,249]

one more week withou any signings 

ffs

[Pizy 18,877]

25 minutes ago, Tomo said:

What about Villa, Everton and Leeds?

If you're counting Arsenal surely they have to be in too 4 consideration too?

Nah. None of those clubs have the depth or potential over an entire season to properly threaten the big boys. As with a bunch of our key players last season who were subpar, you can imagine Arse being significantly better this coming season if the likes of Auba, Partey etc are back to their usual selves. And Ben White instantly becomes by far their best CB.

I feel that if we make 2-3 key signings the likes of Arse/Spuds/Leicester will be no real threat to us. But if we don’t sign a striker they will be.

[Tomo 21,751]

3 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Nah. None of those clubs have the depth or potential over an entire season to properly threaten the big boys. As with a bunch of our key players last season who were subpar, you can imagine Arse being significantly better this coming season if the likes of Auba, Partey etc are back to their usual selves. And Ben White instantly becomes by far their best CB.

I feel that if we make 2-3 key signings the likes of Arse/Spuds/Leicester will be no real threat to us. But if we don’t sign a striker they will be.

If we make a meal of top four then that would make Tuchel worse than Lampard domestically.

I think you're falling into the trap people did with Liverpool under Dalglish and looking at the name of the club rather than the squad.

[Atomiswave 6,117]

1 hour ago, Jas said:

 

Why pay his family....I dont get all these weird ass bonuses, give me the good old days any day.

[Pizy 18,877]

13 minutes ago, Tomo said:

If we make a meal of top four then that would make Tuchel worse than Lampard domestically.

I think you're falling into the trap people did with Liverpool under Dalglish and looking at the name of the club rather than the squad.

I don’t see it that way at all. It would just mean that others improved while we stood still. 

 

[Tomo 21,751]

5 minutes ago, Pizy said:

I don’t see it that way at all. It would just mean that others improved while we stood still. 

For all his greenness Lampard achieved top four with Kepa, Zouma, Alonso/Emerson, Willian and Tammy/Giroud. Tuchel has clear upgrades on all those players not to mention better versions of Kante and Mount.

It will be an absolute failure on his behalf if we're scrambling for top four again, the only mitigating circumstances would be if we had a major injury crisis or the standard was so high 4th place took a points total in the late 70s.

Ole managed to secure United a comfortable top four finish despite "standing still" in the market, with the quality in our squad that has to be bare minimum for Tuchel.