best part about it is that at chelsea they prolly dont even care if they get samu, mr he hey sports or some academy kid that mendes forces onto them, they’d be good with anyone as a samu replacement just for the sake of adding another player to the collection

gotta catch em all

Agents like Mendes run s*** nowadays

Give them Sancho in a swap deal and run

Samu will be worth even more next summer. Even if he’s not the next best athletico striker, another season of scoring 15+ goals in la liga and clubs will come calling again.

yep, good for his own sake as i said he dodged a bullet

wonder how atletico gonna handle that situation right now tho with sorloth+alvarez up top and a few more guys like grizou and correa operating in different positions in attack still in the squad (unless grizou leaves to LAFC as rumored)

i wonder if they’ll be good financially after offloading just Felix or if they will still need to get rid of someone else given their spendings this summer and therefore try to sell samu…. ideal scenario would be a loan for him somewhere in laliga imo, sevilla could use a striker after en-nesyri left to fener

If there is one position almost every club in the world needs, it’s striker. Won’t be an issue for them to loan Samu to a mid table PL side or La Liga.

Felix to Chelsea imo actually makes sense too. Sterling/Mudryk are not good enough, and Neto + Nkunku are the two most injury prone forwards in the world arguably so felix would get lots of minutes. + he’s able to play both AM and LW.

They’re saying that Chelsea are eying a move for Osimhen.

Caicedo-Enzo/Lavia
Palmer-Nkunku-Neto
Osimhen

Could be pretty good. Felix as a super sub too.

him and kia stink so much. raiola another horrid guy sabotaged pogba so much

that was my first thought as to why they would pull out of that Samu deal so last minute, felt like the only reasonable explanation at first before Felix talks appeared

however i doubt how they would pull that off financially, they’ve already spent so much on all these random players they bought and didn’t sell too much so another 100-120m (i assume) for osimhen would be hard to believe to me with ffp restrictions

nothing will surprise me with Boehly though, he can always find a ridiculous way I’m afraid

I think they can take Felix on loan for like a 20M fee or something.

then sell madueke or a gk to raise some funds and maybe thats enough to go after Osimhen.

all the accounting is shady on this, im sure in 5 years they'll be in a FFP 500+ FA charges court battle like city are right now.

Branthwaite rumours again lol

glad to see de ligt and Maz completing their medicals looks like they'll be in training for tmrw.

for friday id go:
onana
dalot-de ligt-licha-shaw/maz
casemiro-mainoo
amad-bruno-rashford
mount

yes rashford stunk on Saturday....but id give him the first shot at the job before moving to garnacho. and then mount has to play that false 9 role like Saturday, clearly zirkzee isn't ready. and no questions about it, de ligt goes straight in. if shaw has a tummy ache so does maz.

3-2 win.

yeah if we are throwing de ligt and maz straight in Zirzkee needs to start. we need a striker in the box especially against a team that will sit back

I dont disagree that we need someone with more box awareness than mount, but I doubt ETH will play zirk from the start.

also surprised nobody is going for chiesa. havent seen him play in awhile, but when he was fit dude was a monster.

lmao., f*** I think nobody will sign him we will be stuck holding the bag on this for years.

I think you’re correct — Mendes gives and Mendes takes.

Look at PSG — they signed some absolute stinkers from him in the last few years - e.g. that Gonçalo Ramos recently. In exchange he gave them Joao Neves for only 60m this summer. He also helped them f*** Sanches off for a season on loan the other way.

You scratch his back he scratches yours. We have a semi-decent relationship with him which is why he’s pushing Ugarte so hard. Probably might end up happening because of him in the end, too.

Idk if this act is joking or not, but what happen to the days where conceding over 30 was atrocious. In 2000s that was always the norm.

40+ goals would’ve been unthinkable under vidic rio evra vds. They’d all be sold in the summer if that happened 😂

The first thing Ratcliffe said was that they are going to focus on working with agents. That this is how you win in the market.

So yeah agreed I think we will figure it out eventually once our s***ty contracts are fixed.

JUST GIMME DA LIGHT

The way we played Saturday + de ligt is giving me a bit more hope for Friday

Wonder if we’ll get anyone else in this week