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There's absolutely an argument to be made that Peps way of playing is on the way out. So if Howe is looking to double down on the transitional style of play then obviously Elanga is perfect for that, as is Trafford and Guehi. Doesn't help us with the problem we've had so much this season though, breaking down teams who sit back in a low block.

All i want to know is this a guy that can break down a low block?

If "Possession is for fannies" isn't a t-shirt it should be

I mean yeah but it's for fannies.

Hope he signs for them then Raul Asensio gets off* and he fucking rots watching him and Huijsen win the lot *Not sympathising with nonces

Being good in possession and ball retention and controlling games better doesn’t mean that your team is playing possession just for the sake of it like Man City do.

Joao Pedro, Elanga, Guehi and Trafford is an incredibly expensive quartet of players. That's £180M roughly spent right there. Absolutely no way on earth we are doing that in one window. I could see two of those coming in absolutely but not all four. Even selling Willock, Longstaff and Pope (£40M at best between those three) wouldn't cover it, because then we'd need to sign another two CMs anyway.

Cant say that like its a certainty..

“It’s fucking 14 in Brazil, man”

Basically given him completely free choice of where to go as well

We need around 4 first team ready players just to stand still. If we are selling a purple id want those 4 (or similar) plus another 2 high ceiling first team ready players.

Pedro and Elanga is very solid Howe like business, I personally wouldn’t have a problem with a ~£120m fee outlay between the two. Man our attack looks more fluid with Pedro involved, it gives us much more option to switch it up depending on opposition. 4-2-3-1 with Pedro behind Isak is disgusting. Also hopefully Howe could have better control of this nutter

More I think about the more I want it. Possession is and always will be for fannies. He perfectly fits the "progress vertically quickly" mantra we have, we don't play for possession's sake, we seek to hurt immediately and his speed will only help that. Tonali and Bruno will be loving his runs...and the kicker, if Eddie wants him, I now want him

He played 4-2-3-1 all the time at Bournmouth with Wilson and King up front

Pedro and Elanga. Two players we end up overpaying and with PSR problems in a year or 2.

Yeah, sounds like guehi is after a huge pay day if he's running down his contract.

Wonder if it was made clear to us Cunha was never coming, or if we had interest. The difference between Cunha at 60 and Pedro at 50ish is huge. Obviously Cunha has the possibilty of making 350k eventually at Manure I spose. To consistently compete at the top end we're going to have to have the best scouting and be able to bring in the Pedros, Caceidos Elanga's before they cost 50-70 mil. 60-70 at this stage has to make the team immediately much, much stronger. Think it was a massive failure last summer to focus on Guehi when everyone knew about Milenkovic, he was about as risk free as you could get, and a tough lad, seems great for a dressing room. I'd be interested to see how many CB's nearly, as good or better than Guehi were available/transferred (other than to ESL/PRS problem free clubs for much less last summer.

Do you think we'd have to bring another left winger in if we sold Gordon? Or just rely on Barnes with Pedro, Joelinton being able to play there? Not sure I'd be keen on that

Already losing faith in tuchel if he's still picking Henderson mind. Even Southgate fobbed him off eventually.

Fucking hell, already seen a mackem shirt in my hotel heading to the game, might just stay here on the drink

One thing that is massive if we sign him is having someone centrally in the last third that is a massive threat, and not alone, playing with Isak further ahead. With JP getting the ball high up the pitch it will force the opposition defence to be dragged out of shape which itself will give Isak much more space in the more central areas. JP often takes a man out with a first touch and turn which will give us and Isak so much more space and also not being forced to come too deep. We all know how good Bruno’s and Tonali’s quick and progressive passes can be, and having Pedro there much closer to them will make it much easier for them to do this more often. As it is now when we only have Isak centrally he either can get very isolated or has to come quite deep for the build up. This often results in that he can’t really be a a threat centrally as often as we’d like. With Isak coming deep it also indirectly makes us become more predictable as that results in us having to go wide most of the time because we don’t have a player up there when Isak comes deep. Quite often the space between our CM and Isak is a bit too vast. Unless he comes deep as mentioned. Also having two players in central areas further upp could also force the opponent defence to compress which at times will give our wide players more space. Makes it more difficult for the opposition either way.

Henderson starting ffs I know it's only Andorra so the game itself doesn't matter and whoever he picks we'll win, but these are the games to try new things and new blood, or go with the side you want to move forward with ao they get used to their roles. Henderson playing says he figures into Tuchels first team plans, it's unbelievable

Linked with Napoli this morning.

What’s Tomori up to these days?