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26 Aug 2024 14:56:57
Ed002, rumours are Al-Ahli agreed a fee for Osimhen for €70m but he doesn’t want to go, just wondered if that fee is accurate as it seems rather low for Napoli to accept?
{Ed002's Note - The fee is unimportant.}
09 Jul 2024 22:09:14
Evening ed002, are we still interested in Victor Roque? Know he hasn’t played much at Barcelona but we tried hard last summer and think he/ his agent are angling for a move away? Many thanks =].
{Ed002's Note - Vitor Roque (S) PSG, Chelsea and Barcelona fought over him last summer with Barcelona winning out. Now his time at Barcelona is over with his agent telling Deco the player wants to stay but others are wanting him gone - and he will depart in the summer; something his agent now accepts. His agent does not want the player to go on loan. Will be offered in exchange for a Chelsea player, but that will be rejected. Fiorentina may offer an option. Spurs might well be approached but the player will resist. Prior interest of Milan and Arsenal has moved on whilst Manchester United will not want to pay the €45M Barcelona are looking to recover. Napoli might provide an interesting solution. His options may be down to joining Inter Milan, who will likely want a loan to buy deal of some sort, Napoli, Juventus as a Moise Keane replacement or Porto. Porto offer an interesting option of an exchange for Pepe who Barcelona see as a good replacement for departing Joao Felix. If the difference in valuation can be reconciled, then a move to Porto may suit everyone. A loan to Inter if Barcelona cannot recover the money or get a suitable player in part exchange would otherwise become viable.}
1.) 10 Jul 2024 07:40:02
So Roque, after being scouted, and targeted by Chelsea and PSG and Barcalona, is now a target of Porto or Napoli, great work from your agent, hero to xero, best you have a conversation with your manager!
So many potential superstars end up nothings because of their agents!
14 Oct 2023 23:50:30
Any update on contracts for Maatsen or Gallagher Ed002? :)
{Ed002's Note - I really don't know.}
01 Feb 2023 23:15:07
Ed002/ ed001, any chance of the Ziyech deal going through or will PSG’s appeal fail? Many thanks :)
{Ed002's Note - I would expect that efforts will continue for him to leave but it won't be tp PSG now.}
1.) 02 Feb 2023 19:08:42
Where could he go for four months? Outside of Europe?
{Ed002's Note - Anywhere the transfer window is still open. Austria, Turkey ....}
2.) 03 Feb 2023 02:36:18
Did we really bugger it up by not sending signed documents. goodness me.
06 Nov 2022 02:10:30
Is it true chelsea are interested in trossard ed002? :)
{Ed002's Note - Leandro Trossard (LW/AM) Interest of Manchester United went with the arroval of ten Hag and they have no shortage of players in a similar position. Newcastle are keen to take the player but would need to sell their project to him. Trossard could see Allan Saint-Maximin as a block to first team football. Arsenal are looking to add a player and Trossard is on their list. Whilst the Chelsea coach would like to take Trossard the club have preferred options in mind, although signing them will prove difficlt, so they cannot be discounted.}
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07 Sep 2024 23:36:15
Looks like Palmer isn’t included in the Europa Conference league for the group stage. Kinda understand it as Hazard never played in Europa til the knockout stages so it makes sense to allow Palmer to skip it.
1.) 08 Sep 2024 06:59:49
fuser, I think there are two other players as well who ar e being game managed. I assume other players will miss some domestic cup games.
This is just me but I can see a cap being applied on how many games a player can play in a season. Also a minimum break.
2.) 08 Sep 2024 07:59:21
It's easy to cut xiwn game time Tom, stop playing stupid internationals
Wexarr 3 games into the premiership and players will be on international duty for 2, where dies that make sense?
3.) 08 Sep 2024 08:23:00
Bill, I’m not sure that will ever happen but if I am correct (doubtful) then internationals would form part
of the game cap.
4.) 08 Sep 2024 11:08:09
I just don't see why we have a world cup, euros and a nations league. It's way over the top. Well actually I do, it's money grabbing.
24 Aug 2024 12:53:19
fuser has written an article entitled, Chelsea v Servette Review
1.) 24 Aug 2024 13:24:33
Very well constructed and balanced post fuser. Enjoyed the read and find myself agreeing for the most part. Thank you for sharing!
2.) 24 Aug 2024 14:45:44
Thanks fuser, a very accurate summary and appreciated as always.
3.) 24 Aug 2024 16:03:12
Good article fuser thanks for it.
4.) 24 Aug 2024 17:37:31
Fuser, I tried to erase the game from my but you brought it back. lol. Good accurate post.
5.) 24 Aug 2024 18:48:56
“butt? ” Would explain everything! haha.
6.) 24 Aug 2024 21:55:42
Tom, ha ha not the first time I’ve been accused of talking out of my ****.
7.) 24 Aug 2024 22:11:12
Made me laugh Jimbo.
22 Aug 2024 19:06:03
I wonder if any of the Ed’s know, would players like Gusto and Carney could be included on the B list for Europe but seen that they’re on the A list for tonight’s game. Is it just for this game or would they need to be included on the A list for the whole season?
09 Jun 2024 14:08:15
Ed002, do you know if the investment in sporting has gone ahead? Been quiet for a bit now.
{Ed002's Note - No it hasn't.}
1.) 09 Jun 2024 17:36:14
Ed
Are we still in discussions or is the deal off? .
{Ed002's Note - It doesn't work like that.}
12 May 2024 14:21:09
A question for the Ed’s if they know. With the revamped CL and Europe league, are the clubs that don’t progress to the final 16 introduced into the European competition below like before or are they simply just eliminated? Ie, the teams that finished 3rd in their group in the old format would drop into the Europa League etc. Many thanks :)
{Ed002's Note - As far as I know it remains the same.}
28 Aug 2024 02:01:51
Not sure Toneys wage demands are any less than Osimhens.
22 Aug 2024 18:56:16
RBD, not sure they’ll pay Sterling £300k to sit on the bench most of the time. Pretty sure it would make him their highest or at least one of the highest paid players at Arsenal.
{Ed014's Note - Jesus, wtf would we want Sterling, that would be a huge backward step!
31 Jul 2024 13:44:57
Also look how hard it’s been to get rid of Lukaku too. He’s played well on several loans but no clubs been able to afford his transfer fee and wages, in fact he had to sign a lower wage contract to go out on loan last season.
I’m not against signing Osimhen but we should definitely be wary of paying £100m+ and £350-400k/ week wages to a player on the back of a poor season.
27 Jul 2024 00:49:52
Would hope he’s bought buy Strasbourg so as the not use one of our limited foreign loan slots.
06 Jul 2024 21:58:39
TomB, it would be a tough choice between Chilly and Cucu imo. Cucu improved towards the end of last season making the inverted FB role his own and was pretty good at RB mid season too tbf. But he was super poor his first season and who knows if he fits with Maresca’s plan as it’s usually the RB that inverts (although I don’t imagine switching to LB inverting would change much) Then we have chilly who’s on 100k~ish more than Cucu and he’s been injured a lot over the last few years. Don’t think he’s able to do the inverted role imo but may not be required to (although James is at his best imo in the attacking 3rd so my preference would be a LB inverting, also don’t think Gusto would be good at inverting either) . However, we seem to be selling off quite a lot of our academy talent and potentially will see both Gallagher and Chalobah leave this window which would leave us very short of HG players, which would only be exacerbated by Chilly leaving.
Think overall my preference would be selling Chilly and keeping either Chalobah or Gallagher or even both.
07 Oct 2024 00:34:52
Tom, I only got to see parts of the game due to a dodgy stream but we looked well off the pace first half, unable to fashion many chances and the few we did; players were far too selfish taking 1% shots rather than trying to assist imo.
Second half I felt Maresca was too slow to make changes with the first sub only in the 80th? Minute or so. Felt Sancho, Jackson and Enzo should have been subbed far earlier and was very disappointing we didn’t capitalise on them going down to 10 men.
Feel that at home when opposition are more likely to play a low block we need to start Nkunku instead of a Jackson as it doesn’t play to his strengths although both Nkunku and Felix missed great headers.
Think Sanchez made 2 crucial saves in extra time to save us a point which is great after his nightmare last week but defensively we looked so poor after Forest went down to 10 men.
Finally I’ll just say that set piece wise we are so incredibly poor today. I know we’re not the biggest side so we perhaps need to be more creative offensively but the constant short corners were awful and defensively for their goal and even some of their corners we constantly had our WB’s marking their tallest players which was wild.
22 Sep 2024 01:41:33
Hopefully the Fofana knee injury isn’t too bad, he hasn’t been great at CB or RB so far this season but a bad injury isn’t far from what he needs after so long out.
Agree that Jackson took both goals well and Caicedo was probably MoM for me too. Colwill is looking our best CB by far and Tosin had a fairly solid game alongside him and looks perhaps to be his best partner so far. Thought Sancho and Noni were mostly anonymous, subs were okay. Think we’ll start seeing more consistency as the season goes on and hopefully once we have a proper RB in the team again.
Could potentially end the weekend in 4th which is promising although only 5 games in.
01 Sep 2024 04:34:18
I’ve not seen anything that’s said we’re paying half of Sterlings wages?
01 Sep 2024 04:30:21
Honestly the top level strikers are few and far between. Haaland, L. Martinez, Lewandowski (perhaps over the hill) are out of reach. Then you have Osimhen, who we chased fairly hard, it was initially claimed that it would take €120m to buy with massive wages, and yet come the end of the transfer window Napoli seems to have accepted €70-80m from SA. The new ownerships desire to reduce wages is commendable, they have no desire to get stuck with another Lukaku or Sterling. Given his recent injury and below par performances the reluctance to meet his high wage demands is understandable despite fans desires for a top no9.
As for a plan B, we initially wanted Sesko but he signed a new contract and the rest that’s out there are mostly youngsters with little experience but potential such as Duran, Omorodion, Zirkzee or an older head such as Toney (potentially problematic) etc. Sticking with Jackson and Guiu (who I both think have good potential) actually seems like a wise decision imo.
01 Sep 2024 04:19:55
For me I thought KDH entirely unnecessary but all coaches like a player who’s played with them before (Sarri and Jorginho comes to mind but plenty others too) who knows their tactics as it gives them a foundation to build off of in a sense. They can become a sort of coach both on and off the pitch as they’ve been through it all before in on the player side of things and obviously have faith in the manager.
Having said all that there have been some decent moments from him. Some good positions taken up and some nice passes played so far. Seen some hesitancy that I highlighted in the first Servette game (in playing first time balls) but hopefully those things will improve with time.
Honestly though I don’t see him being anything more than a squad/ rotation player given the players we currently have. I don’t see him starting in a midfield 3 out of Lavia, Caicedo, Enzo with others such as Palmer and Nkunku also being played as advanced 8’s or no10’s. Even Felix or even Sancho could potentially play as a 10 or advanced 8 depending on opposition.
If I was the manager I’d have preferred CC over him as he has had his bright sparks in between injuries and he does seem to have high potential. One to watch as the season plays out though as I don’t imagine CC will see much game time unfortunately.