DDA 9,941 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Nervous 😒 Muzchap and Vesper 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post! Jase 43,479 Posted July 25, 2020 Author Popular Post! Share Posted July 25, 2020 Champions League is overrated anyway. Europa League is the place to be. lucio, Puliiszola, Muzchap and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Lamps 11,692 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 13 minutes ago, Jason said: Champions League is overrated anyway. Europa League is the place to be. Whilst I think it is nothing to aim for and below our level as well as financially devastating, a season of EL could benefit us in the long term, blooding in more youngsters and having enough games to keep a bloated squad happy it also renders us a great chance of winning a trophy. lucio, Tomo and Muzchap 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanP2311 65 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Jason said: Champions League is overrated anyway. Europa League is the place to be. LOL. I am putting my emotional eggs in the ManU > Leicester basket. ManU's transfer budget is on hold pending CL qualification. I think they'll be motivated. Nuno frightens me. Somehow I think he has a plan to bottle up Pulisic, and I hope that our brain trust has a plan for that, because Pulisic seems to be creating a large percentage of the chances (and the general offensive menace) since the break. I'd a Mount-Kante-Kova midfield, and a Pulisic-Grioud-CHO attacking corps would make me more optimistic that we will make enough happen offensively to compensate for the inevitable defensive lapses. Vesper 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BXL70 396 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 CL is a at least 30 million as additional cash not taking into account knock-out stages + higher negotiating power for transfers. Qualifying fo the CL or not will drive our transfer market and shape our team. Muzchap and Vesper 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BXL70 396 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 3 hours ago, Jype said: Lack of motivation, really? Kante is a top professional and there's been absolutely nothing solid about him leaving and even if there was he's not the kind of person to let anything affect his performances. He could still end up going if there's a good enough offer from a top club but I can assure you that's not something he thinks about the moment he sets foot onto a football pitch. And it's not like he's been out for ages and lacking match sharpness, his last game was three weeks ago. If he's fit enough to play, he will play. Really? If we buy Kai, and it seems that the deal is all done, we would have to sell Kanté to raise funds, no surprise here.. Of coure, Kanté is lacking match sharpness. Maybe he can play 30 minutes or so. But I would not put him at risk of another injury that would make the deal with Kai collapsing all together. We are talking about Wolves here, not Man City, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munchen/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulisicismydaddy 91 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 13 minutes ago, BXL70 said: Really? If we buy Kai, and it seems that the deal is all done, we would have to sell Kanté to raise funds, no surprise here.. Of coure, Kanté is lacking match sharpness. Maybe he can play 30 minutes or so. But I would not put him at risk of another injury that would make the deal with Kai collapsing all together. We are talking about Wolves here, not Man City, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munchen/ We don't need to sell anyone to get Kei, it's only after that if we want to buy more we will have to offload a few and Jorginho probably one of them. Vesper and Muzchap 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puliiszola 519 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 21 minutes ago, BXL70 said: Really? If we buy Kai, and it seems that the deal is all done, we would have to sell Kanté to raise funds, no surprise here.. Of coure, Kanté is lacking match sharpness. Maybe he can play 30 minutes or so. But I would not put him at risk of another injury that would make the deal with Kai collapsing all together. We are talking about Wolves here, not Man City, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munchen/ Why do we need to sell kante.. We already seem to be selling jorginho as well as barkley. We have bakayoko, Drinkwater to sell too. Just those mid options pay for kai Muzchap 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BXL70 396 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Kanté is our main asset that can be sold at high price. Drinkwater and Bayayoko are loanees, so they bring us revenues. Jorginho and Barkley can be sold, but we won't get 80£ million or anything nearby, be serious, they are very much average players. Muzchap 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Puliiszola 519 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 8 minutes ago, BXL70 said: Kanté is our main asset that can be sold at high price. Drinkwater and Bayayoko are loanees, so they bring us revenues. Jorginho and Barkley can be sold, but we won't get 80£ million or anything nearby, be serious, they are very much average players. Those 3 (jorginho (40m), bakayoko (20m), Barkley (20m)). Can easily fetch 80m €. Infact won't be surprised if they fetch far more Also by your logic, we can't play jorginho , Barkley and now even kante as the former 2 are alreadt linked to moves away and kante "has" to be sold. In that case the only options are kova, rlc and mount. And no willian or pedro too. No kepa, no alonso/enerson. Get the gist? Half our squad is on its way out apparently. Muzchap and Johnnyeye 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BXL70 396 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Again, and I repeat myself, Bakayoko is a loanee, hence he bring us revenues. Not sure if we can get 80£ from selling Barkley and Jorginho. More like 50£ if you ask me given current circumstances. But apparently, you are in the know much more than I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jype 6,398 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 19 minutes ago, BXL70 said: Really? If we buy Kai, and it seems that the deal is all done, we would have to sell Kanté to raise funds, no surprise here.. Of coure, Kanté is lacking match sharpness. Maybe he can play 30 minutes or so. But I would not put him at risk of another injury that would make the deal with Kai collapsing all together. We are talking about Wolves here, not Man City, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munchen/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/07/24/needs-champions-league-football-manchester-united-leicester/ Matt Law talking about the impact of CL qualification: "It would also help Chelsea to reject any interest in players they do not wish to sell, such as N’Golo Kante." The club don't want to sell Kante and with CL qualification probably wouldn't have to either, at least not for financial reasons. Also said Havertz signing isn't dependent on CL qualification so it looks like that's happening regardless. And it doesn't seem like the club are anywhere close to being done in the transfer market after potentially signing Havertz so I doubt Kante's situation affects Havertz in any way. Plenty of other players in the squad who are to be sold before Kante. As for the fitness I don't think being out for a couple of weeks suddenly means a player is not fit to play more than 30 minutes when his usual level is closer to 180 minutes a week. So if Kante is fit he will play. He has been training at full intensity for the last couple days so he should at the very least be close to a full return. Of course I'm not Lamps so I don't know his fitness levels well enough to say whether he can be picked to start or not but we could certainly use Kante doing what he does best in such a big game. And while Wolves are not one of the elite European clubs, they're still one of the better teams in the PL and are only four points behind us in the table so not much difference there. Wolves have been in slightly better form than us since the restart too. Underestimating an opponent can be really dangerous and I sure as hell hope Frank and the team won't be doing that when they know what's at stake. For us it's a huge game, a one-off qualifier to the Champions League at the end of the season. Losing this game could have a big effect on the club's future with the financial hit so Frank must play the absolute best team he has at his disposal. Vesper and Puliiszola 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BXL70 396 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Thanks! Precisely what I said. Let's play him 30 minutes or more, if he is fit. Just a clarification: Kanté will be sold if a good price is proposed. Of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jype 6,398 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 6 minutes ago, BXL70 said: Thanks! Precisely what I said. Not even close. Puliiszola 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puliiszola 519 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 15 minutes ago, BXL70 said: Again, and I repeat myself, Bakayoko is a loanee, hence he bring us revenues. Not sure if we can get 80£ from selling Barkley and Jorginho. More like 50£ if you ask me given current circumstances. But apparently, you are in the know much more than I am. Bakayoko is a Chelsea player and on our books. Whatever we get from his sale will also be included in profits on the company books. Also I quoted 60m € (54m £) for jorginho and Barkley , while you say 50m £. Hardly any difference. In short, literally no reason whatsoever to sell kante. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BXL70 396 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, Puliiszola said: In short, literally no reason whatsoever to sell kante. I hope so, but I think that if the deal with Leverkusen for Kai is going ahead, we will have to sell Kanté. At least to buy new CB/LB/GK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puliiszola 519 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 3 minutes ago, BXL70 said: I hope so, but I think that if the deal with Leverkusen for Kai is going ahead, we will have to sell Kanté. At least to buy new CB/LB/GK. 10 different posters have given you a different articles to several reasons why we will NOT HAVE to sell kante. If you want to be stubborn about it , that's your choice. I am out. Muzchap 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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