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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.}
27 Jun 2022 01:51:57
Ed002, (feel free not to answer) but would Gvardiol still not be for sale? Personally I feel he’d be a good addition being able to play CB and cover LB, perhaps allowing us to not sign a back up LB/ LWB. Many thanks =].
{Ed002's Note - Josko Gvardiol (CB) Opted to join RBL to replace Konate over Leeds last summer. Leeds and Newcastle have asked after him. Will not be for sale and says he wants to stay for now. My understanding is that there has not been an approach from Chelsea but he has been watched by scouts and he is on the lengthy list of CBs the club are considering. Spurs and Marseille have also sent scouts to watch the player and Spurs have asked about availability.}
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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.}
09 May 2024 02:11:08
Submitted too early by accident ?
RW: Olise, M. Edwards
LW: Kvicha, Vinicius Jr, Leao, N. Williams
ST: Osimhen, Gyokeres, Sesko, S. Gimenez, Thalys, V. Roque, Toney, J. David
Think I might have missed some but that seems to be the comprehensive list. Some of them are 1st and 2nd choices like: Diomande 1st and A. Silva 2nd at CB. Balde 1st choice at LB. Think Kvicha or Musiala is 1st choice LW.
09 May 2024 02:01:15
Some players that we’ll potentially be going for this summer:
GK: Bento, Maignan, Mamardishvili, D. Costa
LB: Balde, Locko, Gutierrez, Kerkez, Robinson, Ait-Nouri
CB: Diomande, A. Silva, Scalvini, Venancio, Yoro, Tah, Kounde, Guehi, Todibo, Buongiorno
RB: Frimpong
DM/ CM: Xavi Simons, Tchoumeni, Onana, Y. Fofana, J. Neves, FDJ, Kone
AM: Sudakov, Musiala, Guilherme, Olmo
RW: Estavao Willian, Nusa, Bardghji,
1.) 09 May 2024 07:19:53
We just don't need many players depends on fitness and outgoings obviously, but an experinced centre half and keeper and a classic nos 9 although at the moment scoring goals are not a problem. We certainly don't need any more attack minded midfielders and wingers have too many already.
On a different note good to hear Todd talk seems quite positive in the direction we are going.
2.) 09 May 2024 08:29:18
Seymns, yes it is good to hear TB communicate with the fans.
3.) 09 May 2024 16:02:42
Two GKs I would like us to be looking at are Alban Lafont and Dogan Alemdar.
06 May 2024 20:04:23
I know Dermot Gallagher is just a mouthpiece who flip flops and tries to cover for the mistakes made by VAR and refs but this weeks piece for sky sports is a joke.
DERMOT SAYS: "When you see it in real-time, you think it's a penalty all day long. When you see it slowed down, it's totally different.
"But is this what we want to do, forensically diagnose every decision in slow motion? I'm not sure supporters do. ”
That’s literally what VAR does for every decision isn’t it? Offside calls are judged by the millimetre, red cards are looked at through every angle, penalties etc. They’re all judged by slow motion. These incidents can take up to 5-6mins to review in some cases.
When referees are sent to the monitor to review decisions, the incidents are always played in slo-mo.
They need to own up to their mistakes. They need to completely review the way VAR is handled. It’s a complete failure in its current iteration imo.
1.) 06 May 2024 21:56:59
In my opinion VAR should just be foe offsides and goal one decisions.
Generally it sucks the life out of a game and destroys joy and atmosphere.
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.
02 Jul 2024 22:49:23
Pretty sure release clauses can only be activated by clubs within the same federation though. Or at least that used to be the case no?
30 Jun 2024 00:56:12
Standard, both Guehi and Tomori had already been sold the year before when both Rudiger and Christensen left for free. So not sure what you’re talking about. In 22/ 23 we had T. Silva, Chalobah and Colwill (before his loan to Brighton) . Quite possible Colwill could have stepped up and performed as well for us as he did for Brighton but no guarentee of that happening. Even then we would likely have required at least 1 CB signing as Gilchrist was 18 and still in the u18 team.
CHO had several injuries that derailed his promising career and was sent on loan after Boehly &co took over in 22/ 23 to Bayer Levekusen. Whilst on loan he made a total of 21 appearances averaging 45mins/ game and produced only 1 goal and 1 assist across the whole season. Last summer he had 1 year left on his 100k/ year deal and at that point had shown nothing to indicate he would get anywhere back to the promise he had shown 4 years earlier. The fact that Nottingham Forest were pretty much the only team interested in him and only willing to pay ~£4m just shows how badly his star had fallen.
The level of revisionism is unreal on this board. Yes we’ve sold academy prospects when we shouldn't have (tomori, Guehi, Abraham etc) or even today with Maatsen and possibly Chalobah and Gallagher but there’s literally dozens of things we can bring up without making up random untrue situations.
28 Jun 2024 20:26:22
Don’t really have an opinion on KDH himself but seems like such an unnecessary transfer.
27 Jul 2024 00:55:24
TomB Cucurella did work well when inverting but I’m not sure it suits either James or Gusto (although I think James is capable of it) but it removes their greatest strength which is overlapping and putting crosses in.
22 Jul 2024 21:25:52
Yeah I can imagine Nkunku playing up top sometimes (especially if we don’t sign a ST) . I don’t see us signing a LW though unless Sterling leaves.
22 Jul 2024 21:24:11
Jimbo its not really his fault the fans chose to sing that song. He probably should have kept himself out of the limelight, but it’s a bit harsh to blame him for fans singing the song whilst doing a parade for Copa win.
22 Jul 2024 21:22:04
Not saying I agree with the decision but 2 years is a long time in football. 2 years ago Rashford scored around 30 goals for United in 22/ 23 season and was one of the first names in the England team and this year he was left out of the Euros squad completely and Utd fans wouldn’t mind if he was sold.
Since signing the contract 2 years ago, Chalobah has played less and less under successive managers. Whilst I don’t disagree that Chalobah is better than Disasi, he didn’t actually displace him on his return from injury. Once back from injury, Chalobah started 4 games at RB, 3 at CB (where Disasi was injured and not in the squad) and played once together with Disasi at RB. Pretty sure there was only 1 game in which he started ahead of Disasi after he sat out the previous game injured ( FA game against City) .
Is it being led by the powers that be that simply want to sell him for ‘pure profit’ or is it down to managers not playing him? It’s probably a mixture of both. If it was me I’d keep him over buying Tosin but we don’t know the whole situation. If Maresca wanted Tosin or isn’t likely to play Chalobah then it makes sense to sell him regardless of what us fans think.
22 Jul 2024 17:35:02
Ashley, I imagine Nkunku will likely play LW most of the time imo.