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[milka 3,390]

People took what they needed like City, United, Liverpool while we deal with Brighton all summer for Caicedo  and we may not even get it

And we still need a goalkeeper, midfielders, right winger and striker.

[Mhsc 1,094]

3 minutes ago, milka said:

People took what they needed like City, United, Liverpool while we deal with Brighton all summer for Caicedo  and we may not even get it

And we still need a goalkeeper, midfielders, right winger and striker.

None of these clubs are even vaguely sorted and they've all had much worse preseasons than us

[Mhsc 1,094]

Another option for CDM I guess, can't say I know much about the man but Liverpool have been strongly linked with him.

[MoroccanBlue 5,378]

He's a shitehouse. There is this video going around of him just laughing at the ref. Had me in stitches. 

[milka 3,390]

19 minutes ago, Mhsc said:

None of these clubs are even vaguely sorted and they've all had much worse preseasons than us

United took a goalkeeper,  central striker,  and Mount  three positions that upgrade from the previous season

Liverpool have replaced their entire midfield

While City takes whoever it wants.

If the season starts tomorrow, I don't know if we or they will be better prepared.

Edited August 2, 2023 by milka

[Special Juan 28,133]

Andy Naylor from the Athletic the Brighton correspondent is saying an unnamed team has bid for Caicedo and it is above what we have offered.

Probably a smoke screen as expected 

[Mhsc 1,094]

7 minutes ago, milka said:

United took a goalkeeper,  central striker,  and Mount  three positions that upgrade from the previous season

Liverpool have replaced their entire midfield

While City takes whoever it wants.

United took Mount, who has been shit for the last year, a very good goalkeeper and a young striker that was outscored by a DM last year in the same league.

Liverpool have not replaced their entire midfield and are still actively working on it

City so far have only signed Kovacic, Gvardiol probably imminent.

You're living fantasies and are clearly here to whine and put the club down, when the club has done an absolute tonne of good business, we've simply had way more to do than other clubs, a lot of historical mistakes to fix, and we are trying to not get fleeced for individual players and be calm in the market, which is an approach we've wanted and whined about for years and now it is here and here you are whining the opposite way. Impossible to please everybody. Stay unhappy.

Edited August 2, 2023 by Mhsc

[Thor 2,692]

12 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Andy Naylor from the Athletic the Brighton correspondent is saying an unnamed team has bid for Caicedo and it is above what we have offered.

Probably a smoke screen as expected 

Yeah I bet there are 4 or 5 clubs with 100 mil offers in. We should jump quickly…

[MoroccanBlue 5,378]

Such an obvious smokescreen. Naylor has never been shy naming clubs coming in for Brighton players. 

[milka 3,390]

21 minutes ago, Mhsc said:

United took Mount, who has been shit for the last year, a very good goalkeeper and a young striker that was outscored by a DM last year in the same league.

Liverpool have not replaced their entire midfield and are still actively working on it

City so far have only signed Kovacic, Gvardiol probably imminent.

You're living fantasies and are clearly here to whine and put the club down, when the club has done an absolute tonne of good business, we've simply had way more to do than other clubs, a lot of historical mistakes to fix, and we are trying to not get fleeced for individual players and be calm in the market, which is an approach we've wanted and whined about for years and now it is here and here you are whining the opposite way. Impossible to please everybody. Stay unhappy.

Rather, you live in some illusory world, in which the club works at the top level by taking only young players around the world  with potential and it is almost expected from Pochettino to rank them in the top 4 with zero experience in the team , but in fact the level is much lower than what it was with Abramovich.

The very fact that Brighton has been playing with  us all summer clearly shows how well the club is doing. Cheers . 

Edited August 2, 2023 by milka

[Pizy 18,877]

My guess is one of the Manchester clubs. Both could really use him.

It would be completely unforgivable if we lose out on someone we’ve chased ALL summer to a direct rival.

[Gundalf 805]

Oh wow, a journo with BHAFC in his name dropping that some "secret" club bid more than us lolololol

Make it a bit less obvious u Brighton fuckers

There is no bid. 

[Mhsc 1,094]

29 minutes ago, milka said:

Rather, you live in some illusory world, in which the club works at the top level by taking only young players around the world  with potential and it is almost expected from Pochettino to rank them in the top 4 with zero experience in the team , but in fact the level is much lower than what it was with Abramovich.

The very fact that Brighton has been playing with  us all summer clearly shows how well the club is doing. Cheers . 

So the club's work bringing in Enzo, Mudryk, Nicolas Jackson, Nkunku, Malo Gusto, and way more all this year is not enough and we should also already have signed 3-4 more? That is living fantasies. This is the largest squad rebuild in the shortest period of time I have ever seen, and absolutely stunning so far, albeit not complete yet - sorry the club let you down so much there. If you think this squad is way worse than anything we had under Abramovich, I don't know what to say man, we used to have Danny Drinkwater and Bakayako in CM... It is one of the most promising squads we've ever assembled IMO and not even finished yet. 

It is true it is not at the level of the insane team we built with Terry/Lampard/Drogba, but that was a different era in football where we were THE club with money, now we have a lot of competition and it is going to be a slower journey. Personally I'm super optimistic about how we have been run since January when Todd stepped away. No it isn't finished yet, but it will be, the club have earnt my trust back this year.

[Vesper 30,119]

9 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

Yes exactly 2nd Striker=SS thought that was clear from context. I don’t like the abbreviation for obvious reason that is why I spelled it out. 
The point was the position does not really exist in Poch‘s spurs era 4231 which is why he has to tweak it here. Would be criminal not to play Nkunku there. I hope the talk about him replicating that system here and is thus being in for a classic no10 are pure BS speculation

you said the 2nd best 

who is a better second striker?

we had Felix, and not a chance he is better

also, no way, at this point that 

Paulo Dybala (he was oa  free and we did not even bother, which I was not happy about as he can play RWer too)
Antoine Griezmann  (in decline, WC aside, and there he was not a SS)
Thomas Müller  (34yo in 6 weeks)

are better

[Mário César 1,249]

we need a goalkeeper, a midfielder and at least a attacking player like kudos 

i don't mind to have vlahovic but he is not a priority but if we can swap him for lukaku and loan broja it is not a bad idea