Magic Lamps 11,692 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 9 minutes ago, Tomo said: On an actual maybe like Maatsen or even Broja i'd agree but Colwill is Reece 2019 levels of next to certainty. I was basing my post on the rumours assumption TT wants to revert to back 4 as @MoroccanBlue touched up on. Apologies should have made that clearer. Wow, that is good to hear and quite a statement to make. I have not seen enought of him to express this level of confidence but if you say so I will take your word for it. 19y.o. RJ was one of the best players ever to play in the championship and I called him becoming world class before he ever kicked a ball for our senior team. I really hope you are right. Tomo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAPHOD2319 4,823 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 It is a fluff piece, but some aspects of him I was not aware of. 3 minute listen. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,272 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 2 minutes ago, Pizy said: as is looking cortina Pizy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mário César 1,326 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 If he want so much to join barça, don't make sense think about him lets forget it but now we have a problem to find a good player to improve our attack Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,272 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Mário César said: If he want so much to join barça, don't make sense think about him lets forget it yes, fuck it the Dembele situ is what kills me especially ON A FREE ffs he would have been a terror setting up Sterling and Kai, etc etc Edited July 10, 2022 by Vesper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mário César 1,326 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Raphinha savors the taste of victory because he knows that he'll be a Barcelona player in a matter of hours. [sport] #fcblive Raphinha is off to Barcelona. [@MikeKeegan_DM] #fcblive Bar?a and Leeds have closed a deal since last week for Raphinha that will be paid in 3 installments for €50M fixed and €10M in bonuses. Bar?a hopes to activate the 2nd lever to make the deal official. Raphinha only wants Bar?a and is waiting. [@gerardromero] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAPHOD2319 4,823 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Barca is trying to put the pressure on with their media BS. I doubt Leeds accept that deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mário César 1,326 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 they will get dembele and raphinha 😕 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAPHOD2319 4,823 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 22 minutes ago, Vesper said: yes, fuck it the Dembele situ is what kills me especially ON A FREE ffs he would have been a terror setting up Sterling and Kai, etc etc If we miss out on both I'd give Callum (3rd highest for open play key passes and big chances created ITL last season) a strong run on that side. I think he would suit a front three involving Kai and Sterling well and him and Reece have unbelievable chemistry. Strike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superblue 6,372 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 1 minute ago, Tomo said: If we miss out on both I'd give Callum (3rd highest for open play key passes and big chances created ITL last season) a strong run on that side. I think he would suit a front three involving Kai and Sterling well and him and Reece have unbelievable chemistry. Maybe its the hope that kills you but I actually have this gut feeling that CHO might make a step up next season. What that step up might be, I'm not yet quite sure but I think if he stays fit I see him becoming more entrusted by Tuchel and jump above Pulisic and Werner in the pecking order. The achilles injury he suffered definitely had a lasting impact on him. His confidence, his explosiveness to take players on. It sounds promising that he's come back to pre season fit and in a shape that it seems he hasn't been before. I think despite the two possibly in competition for some game time I also feel he'll benefit from Sterling coming in. Everything that I've read about Sterling suggests he's a huge influence as an experienced player within the England set up, and I think that should rub well with the young England boys we have in our squad. Tomo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegetable 830 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Dear lord, I guess some people had already forgotten what kind of havoc Willian's and Luiz's way of being caused to this club, while Dembele is twice more intense on this, unless he had somehow gotten himself together last year, which I doubt. Now with Azpi, Alonso and Rudiger leaving the squad is in transition to give leadership to younger players and we lack more experienced leaders, bar maybe Silva (whose rather freshman in Chels, although heart & soul blue), so club should be super careful about what kind of character they employ. And then Lukaku causing another dumpster fire and then Dembele and Neymar rumors, c'mon DDA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 4 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said: Maybe its the hope that kills you but I actually have this gut feeling that CHO might make a step up next season. What that step up might be, I'm not yet quite sure but I think if he stays fit I see him becoming more entrusted by Tuchel and jump above Pulisic and Werner in the pecking order. The achilles injury he suffered definitely had a lasting impact on him. His confidence, his explosiveness to take players on. It sounds promising that he's come back to pre season fit and in a shape that it seems he hasn't been before. I think despite the two possibly in competition for some game time I also feel he'll benefit from Sterling coming in. Everything that I've read about Sterling suggests he's a huge influence as an experienced player within the England set up, and I think that should rub well with the young England boys we have in our squad. For me he's much better than Pulisic in everything but finishing but that one's for another day. I feel he gets an overally harsh press in our fanbase. I got it to a point under Lampard but whenever he's had a solid 5-10 game run of starts under Tuchel he's performed (barring his finishing which will likely never be top notch but hopefully Sterling and Havertz will offset that going forward). Our best form of last season he was starting regularly and was our best in the front three, and then was unfairly sidelined again after one so so game vs United only to then come up with crucial contributions against Villa, Spurs and the CWC final before the injury that took him out for the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stats 7,156 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Thing is, if we miss out on Raphinha and decide not to sell Ziyech because of that and Tuchel is considering playing a 4-2-3-1, I think Ziyech may actually be very useful, especially if he is able to do those split through balls, to the other flank with Sterling it can get a lot of goals. Just a question mark on his ability to press but I have always said Ziyech in a 4-2-3-1 is a lot better and Sterling is one of the best players around with his off the ball movement which I think can work a treat. Last Sicarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,272 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 every possible remotely good winger left, even if we have to wait for next year (Chiesa, if he filly recovers) some are just silly (the first 3), but I am being comprehensive some are super stretches bold, as usual, are who I would really dive into Jadon Sancho Neymar Bukayo Saka Christopher Nkunku (2023. due to release clause) Rafael Leão Federico Chiesa (next summer, due to injury) Serge Gnabry (by far the best option left, IMHO, that is doable NOW) Florian Wirtz (next summer, due to injury) Moussa Diaby Arnaut Danjuma Mikel Oyarzabal Jarrod Bowen Carlos Soler Paulo Dybala Giacomo Raspadori Yéremy Pino Antony Domenico Berardi Nicolò Zaniolo Pedro Neto Allan Saint-Maximin Cody Gakpo Hirving Lozano Dominik Szoboszlai Charles De Ketelaere Ismaïla Sarr Kamaldeen Sulemana (stealth next Mane?) Rayan Cherki Noni Madueke Endrick (summer 2024, when he turns 18, and yes we are now talking about players who were born less than a year before the iPhone was launched on June 29, 2007, lolol) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,272 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 12 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said: Maybe its the hope that kills you it is 🤣 Superblue 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alabama 1,992 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Just now, Tomo said: For me he's much better than Pulisic in everything but finishing but that one's for another day. I feel he gets an overally harsh press in our fanbase. I got it to a point under Lampard but whenever he's had a solid 5-10 game run of starts under Tuchel he's performed (barring his finishing which will likely never be top notch but hopefully Sterling and Havertz will offset that going forward). Our best form of last season he was starting regularly and was our best in the front three, and then was unfairly sidelined again after one so so game vs United only to then come up with crucial contributions against Villa, Spurs and the CWC final before the injury that took him out for the season. Dear Boehly Can you move on and forget about getting Raphinha..... Gnabry even Neymar provided rumours of you wanting a big marquee signing is true are available...move on from this transfer paparazzi...Raphinha is no Haaland or Mbappe nor prime Neymar... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superblue 6,372 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 I posted yesterday my thoughts and reasons why I don't fancy us making a move for Ronaldo or Lewa. I'd take either without blinking over Neymar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,272 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 (edited) The most overpriced XI in football history (we have ties, even if tenuous, to 4 of them now, with the Dembele attempt and the Mbappe blow off as a teen, plus de Bruyne (we didnt pay it, Citeh did, and money damn well spent) plus, of course, KEPA) https://www.givemesport.com/88032292-pogba-neymar-grealish-the-most-overpriced-xi-in-football-history Thanks to the number crunchers over at Transfermarkt, we’ve been able to identify the most ‘overpriced’ players in the game (based on the transfer fee that was paid for them, less their market value at the time). We’ve then sorted them by position to assemble the most overpriced XI in football history. Inclusion is based purely on the data, meaning that performance isn’t taken into account. Edited July 10, 2022 by Vesper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,985 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 The dangerous thing about some of these winger targets like Gnabry and Neymar is that their wages would be astronomical. Even Sterling getting over 300k a week puts us in a tough spot when we sit down for talks with Reece and Mount. If they then see Gnabry or Neymar or CR7 coming in and earning even more than Sterling we’d get into worrying territory. Why wouldn’t they then ask for 300k a week? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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