Pizy 18,904 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 Looks like PSG are deadly serious about selling Mbappe this summer rather than losing him for free next. Left out of their preseason tour. Since it doesn’t appear that Real Madrid have the £150m+ it would take this summer and we’re clearly planning to take him for free next summer I wonder what happens. Would Mbappe be willing to come to a PL club? Or would PSG be willing to accept installment payments from Real Madrid? In theory, only City and ourselves can realistically afford him, right? But City have Grealish in his position and we’ve just bought Mudryk who we still have high hopes for. United ordinarily could absolutely afford him but have the ownership stuff happening. If the Qatari’s can quickly get brought in then I think they 100% get Mbappe as their new crown jewel/statement of intent. But then again, they have their golden boy Rashford on the left whose contract they just extended. Arse have just spent £200m and are also set in attack. Liverpool are set in attack and would never spend £150m on a single player. Newcastle are apparently still heavily under FFP scrutiny and are on a strict budget according to Eddie Howe himself 2 days ago. So if not Madrid, what possible options are there for him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHulk 2,444 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 Just now, Mhsc said: Gardening leave = fired. Maybe he disagreed with the others too much. I wonder if he was the one signing all the Brazilian kids? More like the other 2 are the ones signing all these Brazilians, he wanted Kone, Felix, Nagelsmann. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,172 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 2 minutes ago, Gundalf said: Can anyone tell me what his role this days was? Havent heard of him for months tbh. He was in our top management position (as we have no Sporting Director, who is typically top of the heap, only under the owner and/or the board) Vivell was the Technical Director, responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of the non-commercial, non physical plant footballing aspects of the club. He oversaw the club’s operations including player recruitment, coach development, performance analysis, sport science and strategic planning. He was responsible for developing and implementing our long-term plans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhsc 1,097 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 Will be curious what leaks later about it. Clearlake have been brutal so far at clearing out problem people and keeping a lid on what happened - we still don’t know what happened with Tuchel aside from rumours about him being a womanising coke head. I’ll back the clubs decision until some reputable leaks come out that suggest it was not his fault tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegetable 830 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 (edited) So, the club conducted "long, insightful, careful, data-driven blahblahblah" process to recruit second choice director in the end, only to later recruit people overlapping his job, ending up with what we all see - another mess and trying to pull three different strategies of operation at once, a particular thing that he was hired to avoid? At least with Roman we knew who was in charge - it was either him or Marina. Now it seems like we have "board of directors", board of owners and who knows who else, everyone pulling in his own direction and putting people supposed to mitigate it in position doesn't seem to mitigate it much after all. Edited July 21, 2023 by Vegetable Blue Armour 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhsc 1,097 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 Also, more importantly, WTF is it with Brighton and Liverpool publicly tapping up Colwill? Absolute scum clubs. That is already enough grounds to walk away from Caicedo deal and report them. Let them deal with Caicedo walking out. Norfolkblue1961 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,172 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Pizy said: So if not Madrid, what possible options are there for him? the ones in the sand and oil who can get a future king to dance with the sword 4 year contract for £2 billion Edited July 21, 2023 by Vesper Pizy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegetable 830 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 1 minute ago, Mhsc said: Also, more importantly, WTF is it with Brighton and Liverpool publicly tapping up Colwill? Absolute scum clubs. That is already enough grounds to walk away from Caicedo deal and report them. Let them deal with Caicedo walking out. It's beyond me why won't we pull out of dealing with Brighton for sole sake of negotations/publicity stunt, just like Inter did with Lukaku the first time. The window isn't closing tomorrow. Utterly soft people in those terms seem to lead the club's business. Norfolkblue1961 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhsc 1,097 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 (edited) He will probably cave and sign for PSG on a deal with a buy out clause and go to Real in a year. Clever handling of the situation by PSG tbh they can’t lose now, dropping him from the preseason tour and acting like they’ll happily not play him again totally forces his hand. Edited July 21, 2023 by Mhsc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,172 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 6 minutes ago, Mhsc said: we still don’t know what happened with Tuchel aside from rumours about him being a womanising coke head. did not hear that one, yikes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,172 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 (edited) fuck Caicedo and Brighton's game playing arses we should go HARD for Tchou!!!! Real can use the dosh to help buy Mbappe this summer sell Gallagher and also buy Valverde from them and that covers all their cost with room to spare we have more players we can sell too, the Saudis will go hard for some of them Edited July 21, 2023 by Vesper Vegetable, xPetrCechx, Blue Armour and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhsc 1,097 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 Just now, Vesper said: fuck Caucedo and Brighton's game playing arses we should go HARD for Tchou!!!! Real can use the dosh to help buy Mbappe this summer sell Gallagher and also buy Valverde from them and that covers all their cost with room to spare we have more players we can sell too, the Saudis will go hard for some of them Yes I agree, 75m on Monday for Tchou and Caicedo immediately walks out of training and makes a public statement lmao. Would love to see it. Either way we win imo. I think Real would really think about it if someone else comes forward looking like a genuine buyer for Mbappe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,172 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 do not forget that Valverde can also play RWer Tchou totally would free up Enzo to do his wizardry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundalf 805 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 11 minutes ago, Vegetable said: At least with Roman we knew who was in charge - it was either him or Marina. Now it seems like we have "board of directors", board of owners and who knows who else, everyone pulling in his own direction and putting people supposed to mitigate it in position doesn't seem to mitigate it much after all. That is a bit unfair. Marina ended up in her position 11 years after Roman bought the club - being in different positions before that for almost 4 years. Things take time to settle. Vegetable 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesman2610 1,417 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 22 minutes ago, TheHulk said: More like the other 2 are the ones signing all these Brazilians, he wanted Kone, Felix, Nagelsmann. Ya I heard it was that he was pushing to sign Felix and was upset when the club didn’t go with Nagelsmann. Meh I feel like this isn’t really if any consequence because we have Wistanley and Stewart NikkiCFC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundalf 805 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 Just different views on things? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundalf 805 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 Lets do it 🤣 Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Vesper 30,172 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 18 minutes ago, Vesper said: fuck Caicedo and Brighton's game playing arses we should go HARD for Tchou!!!! Real can use the dosh to help buy Mbappe this summer sell Gallagher and also buy Valverde from them and that covers all their cost with room to spare we have more players we can sell too, the Saudis will go hard for some of them Blue Armour 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,172 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 15 minutes ago, Gundalf said: Just different views on things? but Nagelsmann said no thanks, so hardly Vivell's fault I am more than happy with Poch, btw Norfolkblue1961, Blue Armour, Fernando and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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