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Would rather the Chavs remained striker-less, but LOL at the goons..... Pay this bloke off and ship him out for free..... 6 months later; sold back to a rival for 30mil.
Shambles.
chelsea getting robbed, 34 yrs old 30 mill christ
He was an amazing player but his whole game is based off crazy speed which he no longer has.
Barca has spent the summer signing free transfers from the chavs and stealing their top transfer targets.
Barca are in a deep financial hole and mortgaging their future so they can register players.
The chavs are now going to bail them out, by paying 30 million for an ageing Aubamayeng and potentially more than twice that for de Jong. Plus insane salaries.
This is loco crazy all around.
Barca are in a deep financial hole and mortgaging their future so they can register players.
The chavs are now going to bail them out, by paying 30 million for an ageing Aubamayeng and potentially more than twice that for de Jong. Plus insane salaries.
This is loco crazy all around.
Great signing for them. They've been in dire need of a CDM, and somehow, someway, they're getting one of the best CDMs in the World.
I’ll be surprised if he looks as lively in the PL as he did amongst La Liga’s geriatrics.
To be fair, I don't watch La Liga that much (only the big games) so I only go based on his UCL Performances. He didn't look out of place at all in RM campaign last year, contrary to Kroos who I thought was done at the high level based on those performances.
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I assume Ancelotti, who knows a thing or two about midfield players, has decided Camavinga can step into Casemiro's role, and Tchouaméni can get playing time learning from Modric, Kroos and Valverde.
Which of those players were just bought for 60m+ and 4-5 year contract at 350K+/week.
He will earn his paycheck for a year or two. Then they won’t be able to get rid of him.
It’s not a bad signing because no one want to join them at the moment, but it is a very short term signing and they definitely aren’t set up to compete this season and possibly next. After that, they’ll be paying a lot of wages for a player that might not be helping them.
He’s a good player. I suspect Madrid couldn’t turn down that kind of offer for him though. They are rebuilding a stadium after all.
I agree.
Also, Casemiro will presumably play as the DM in a midfield 3, potentially with two of Bruno F, Eriksen & van de Beek.
If ETH remains committed to an Ajax system, it's hard to see him picking the likes of Fred or McTominay ahead of a more creative & technically gifted player for those remaining spots. So now, they'll presumably need to offload one or both of McFred, and will encounter the "big salary, ordinary player" problem.
One last thought. Given most of the PL will be targeting undersized CB Lisandro Martinez, some were suggesting he might be moved to DM. Casemiro's signing would likely end that possibility. So it's LB or bust for Lisandro, and the problem at LB is that he's slow.
As Rio Ferdinand notoriously opined, when bigging up the signing of Lisandro:
"If you're going to ask is there any question marks about him, I think it would be his height and his pace would be the only two,' Ferdinand added.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...es-excitement-incoming-Lisandro-Martinez.html
What a prick he is.
EDIT: The kid signed an extension through 2027 just 5 months ago and now is demanding to leave
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Perfect fit then.
I don’t understand why chelsea would do this. He was an absolute failure by the end of his Woolwich career.