If you’d field players Arsenal have ’tried’ to sign against players linked to United since Ferguson, I think that would make about 98% of all professional football players as eligible. It would obviously just be the current teams against each other as neither would still be able to bring in anyone they’re linked with.
I was thinking of a post-Fergie United rejects XI the other day. 4-2-4. Valdes, Darmian, Jonny Evans, Blackett (Academy lad, but I'm struggling. Buttner?), Varela, Schweinsteiger, Schneiderlin, Mkhi, Di Maria, Memphis, Lukaku.
Semedo from Barcelona to Wolves for £29m. Interesting one. Traore further forward again then.
Oh, he's Portuguese as well. Fuck sake.
Didn’t realise Doherty was a Mendes client as well
Samedo was absolute dross for Barcelona but might be alright for Wolves as long as they don't expect him to do any actual defending, I suppose being a wingback will suit him.
He's not big but he's very quick and reasonably black so he should be a fantastic success. That Wolves right wing up there with Bayern's left as one of the fastest ever assembled.
Fucking reasonably black
BBC have it as £27m rising to £37m.Originally Posted by Reg
He won 3 Ballon Dors for me the last time I played FM properly so I will predict him to be a roaring success.
Oh yeah. The Athletic say "an initial £27.5 million, rising to £29 million, and have the option to extend the contract by a further two years. There could also be future add-ons worth up to a total of £37 million depending on Wolves achieving European success or finishing in the top four."
Barca are getting rid of everyone. Vidal's gone to Inter for £900k.
Suarez to 'Atleti' for €4m as well.
So only negative a lot when you consider they probably had to pay him off for the last year of his contract.
They're quite lucky Real are relatively rubbish as well at the moment.
Mario Gotze is a free agent and seemingly no one is getting involved. What a fall from grace.
Hasn't he got some sort of degenerative muscle wasting disorder or something?
The media reports all just say "myopathy", which is a descriptive term rather than a proper diagnosis.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...otze-club.html
I'm guessing they want him to be their new mascot.
He looks muscular enough in photos. Problem for someone like him is once you've scored the winning goal in a World Cup final, where (other than fulfilling your contract to earn the money) is the motivation? It's not like he's Gerd Müller and has goal records or whatever to motivate him.
Samedo is a pretty solid full back (well was at Benfica) so should be fine in the Premier League. They need to resolve the lack of Portuguese players in their reserve team rapid though. I think there are a few english players still knocking about.
Lampard getting rid of Rudiger after using him to sign Werner/Havertz is ice cold.
And probably foolhardy, he's putting a lot of beans on Christensen/Tomori there.
Rudiger is absolutely dreadful. Zouma has actually looked quite competent and you’d assume Silva starts the majority of league games alongside him. Both Zouma and Tomori are rapid so make up for Silva’s pace.
Hudson Odoi potentially leaving seems a bit stupid.
I'd say flip every opinion in that post 180 and I'd agree.
Rudiger is one of many players who folk seem to think is a good but hasn’t been for years. Definitely can’t play in a two at the back which is probably what made him look even more exposed last year.
Medium post on Sancho and why it's a shit show:
https://medium.com/football-bureau-o...y-2904b788999e
I always thought Rudiger was their defensive talisman, or did he just get that status while being out injured for ages under Sarri?
All of the others, Silva included, are fucking hopeless.
He was before his injury. He was error-prone last year when he came back but I personally put that down to rustiness. He's the closest thing we have to an on-pitch vocal leader which is sorely needed in our sort of setup. Think letting him go is a big mistake, though it sounds like he has had some classic German/Dutch 'differences of opinion' with Frank Lampard OBE which sounds the death knell for anyone.
Not that it’s a barometer for anything, but if you type Rudiger into Twitter you won’t see a single person not happy Rudiger is getting punted. He’s as error prone as ‘Kepa’.
Chelsea twitter is a load of utter berks though (as every club's twitter no doubt is). Two bad games and they want you dead. Two games out of the side and they want you in the side. They want signings and lots of them, not to improve the team, but just for the sake of making signings. They're like children looking at shiny objects.
If Caballero and Mendy chuck a couple in each they'll be calling for Kepa's return.
Supposedly Ryan Reynolds wants to buy Wrexham
Hatred of Chelsea Twitter seems to be the only thing that unites all of the other fanbases, possibly because nobody is having any fun on Chelsea Twitter. All they have is seventeen year old gimps thinking it all helps.
From what I’ve seen, Chelsea and Man Utd run football twitter. Arsenal and Liverpool just get ‘ratio’d’ every other viral tweet.
A fascinating world
Apparently the Telles deal is held up because we're trying to include a player swap
"Don't suppose we can interest you in five shit centre-halves?"
And, with Rojo included in the deal you actually owe us . . .
*dial tone*
Hello?
I thought Rojo had gone back to the Argentine, but it appears this was just a trick of the light.
Lindelof, Bailly, Jones, Maguire, Smalling, Rojo.
We really have cornered the market.
Not sure in what.
Got to be Dalot.Apparently the Telles deal is held up because we're trying to include a player swap
We've got our keeper. Any sentence that starts with 'The 28-year-old Senegal international' has my backing.
As soon as I saw the signing I thought you'd be happy.
I thought he was young. What’s a keeper doing only making 140 odd appearances at that age at a lower level. Suppose Allison was 2nd choice and only had one good season before moving.
Keepers peak at like 33 so shouldn't be a problem. Drogba had a similar start to his career also.
Frank is spending himself out of a job.
Declan Rice next for £70m.
Jinxed it. It’s done. He’s Arsenals. #ITK
I'm a twit
Is it his spending? Kai Havertz doesn't seem like his choice.
With Havertz I think it was a case where he wanted out of Leverkusen, Bayern weren't stumping up and we were there with the cash - an opportunistic raid, if you like. Early signs suggest he is, or will be, quite some way better than anyone else we have. You have to grab a player like that while you can.
If we pick up a midfielder who can defend it'll be promising stuff and then it's up to Frank to mould it into a side, something he did very well last year from the other direction (players coming in from below).
He replaces Frank's favourite Mason Mount for all intensive purposes doesn't he?
The bigger threat to Frank is surely that his tactical system massively exposes his goalkeepers and short of bringing in Zoff's clone I don't think changing up will alleviate that issue in a major way.
He does but Mount is never going to be the main spearhead of a top 3 side, he can be pretty versatile I think as he gets older and learns more stuff.
The biggest problem we have is that everyone walks over our midfield when we don't have the ball which as you say exposes the soft underbelly behind (which is why even now I think Kepa's critiics have been extremely harsh pinning it all on him). Kovacic is a nice player but not good off the ball, Jorginho might as well just lie down and curl up in a ball, and Kanté is the only one who can defend and we're asking far too much of him, especially as he hasn't been properly fit for 18 months.
I kind of don't mind the ostensibly mad rumours about Guendouzi, for that reason, even though he's a total shithead.
What I'd give for peak Essien in this system, or Makelele and Essien, or even Mikel and Essien.
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Dennis Wise, obviously.
Just a heads up mate.
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