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true.Selling Hojbjerg would be insanely stupid.
Levy as many faults but I’m glad the club has a chairman that wouldn’t ever pay 100k a week to an average ass player like nketiah
Bastoni has to be first pick for Conte you would thinkThe thing is, there are concerns over all the 4 top candidates for the LCB spot.
Do Bastoni and Pau Torres have the toughness for the EPL (I am sure they are tough but in the EPL one needs another kind of toughness than in Seri A and La Liga)??
Then there are questions over Gvardiol's positional sense and, at around £65-70m, is he worth it?
And, Ndicka's rashness and positional sense can be exposed in the EPL .... or he ends up thriving under Conte.
I just hope the scouts are doing their job.
I thought he was back in training?true.
ATM we need another midfielder because we don't know if skipp will be fit to play again next season
we can't face 4 competitions with 3 midfielders (bentancur, PEH, bissouma)
atleast 20-25 mil cheaper than the prices being quoted for Latauro
Would prefer to keep Winks as fifth choice than sign Phillips for anything above 30m. Rice on the other hand, worth 80m+Yep it's Rice or Philips because they also help the homegrown issue and both are every bit as good Rice is significantly better.
Players are on 3 weeks holiday break post the internationals - back first week of July.
Fabio will continue to talk to agents to try to line up deals, but players are required to do the medicals and talk to Conte on their role etc.
I wonder if there will be a temporary slowing down of announcements until players return - although some (possibly Spence ?) will be so far down the line they will be completed despite player hols.
Yeah fair point especially when we’ve recently ‘nicked’ Benta, Kulu, Bissouma and pulled a worldie in RomeroBut there's reason for that isn't there?
I think "cheaper" has been the reason why we have struggled to win fuck all over the last twenty years.
Forget the likes of Jensen, Vinicius and the like (even going back to Soldado), if we want to improve the front line then "cheaper" isn't the answer.
Levy has been down that road more often than a taxi travels around the M25.
That may be because Bastoni is more "gettable" price-wise. Gvardiol would be close to €80-90m.Bastoni has to be first pick for Conte you would think
He's a cunt.
I wish Chelsea had intercepted him and not Willian.
No way we're selling Pierre. lol
No one would bid that either I don’t think. Hoj should at least be a squad player, there’s definitely room for him here. Bissouma should take Winks’ number and let him know his times up like Son took Lennon’s.
If there was ever a time to sell Højbjerg, this is it. His game time will only decrease with Bissouma signed and Skipp back, so now would be the time to get max fee for him. Use the funds to invest in a new, up-and-coming talent, or maybe include Sarr in the MF rotation.
Of course that is assuming that Conte feels we can also replace the intangibles that he offers. Else it's a no-brainer.
As I have said before, we should not be afraid to sell our players, as long as we have good scouting in place to replace them. It's what the top Portuguese teams do very successfully, it's what Dortmund does, it's what Lille and Leipzig do. With a proper scouting team in place, we can do it to, if we ever do choose.
true.
ATM we need another midfielder because we don't know if skipp will be fit to play again next season
we can't face 4 competitions with 3 midfielders (bentancur, PEH, bissouma)