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They still need to jump in for Elanga and Trafford yet, give them some breathing room.

The only way forward is a United pact between other sides that they won’t take Chelsea’s cast offs. That would quickly stop this fucking nonsense

How long before Chelsea are exploring a deal.

It’ll need at least two current PL sides falling to pieces for this to happen. Which ones do you think will finish below them? Maybe Brentford fall apart without Frank? I’m struggling to name two sides likely to collapse

Nkunku and Felix have flopped somewhat, and Jackson isn't really top tier. It's not that outrageous when you think about it.

Honestly Chelsea sniffing around everyone else's transfers every fucking window is just boring as fuck now.

I don't agree that the players are overpriced. We don't tend to go for bad players, and it's not that easy to get clubs to sell us their best ones.

Looking through his account, I've answered my own question

This is more or less where I am. I can make a case for all 3 of them to stay up but I keep coming back to the team in 17th that they'll need to be better than are going to be either of good quality or very well organised, to stay up all 3 will need both of those characteristics and a bit more

Only just seen Chelsea wants both Gittens AND Pedro?!!! Despite already having Jackson and Delap. With Nkunku and João Felix still on their books. My God man. This is well past ridiculous.

Dead to me.

Yeah, that’s fair enough - we need another CF, no doubt about it. If this is the guy Howe wants, then hopefully it works out. I’m not convinced he’ll come here to sit on our bench for the big games, though.

Most players would jump at the chance to sign for us tbh. Unless one of the cartel clubs come in and offer bigger wages, and in Chelsea's case a London location.

Good first half that in the Club World Cup, I'm a sucker for an entertaining 0-0

Worrying

Given we’ve went for Elanga, I’m not at all convinced Howe is looking to add another dimension. It looks to me like he’s wanting to play the same way, and just add better players to do it - which is fine, Guardiola doesn’t exactly shake his style up. There’s no way he plays four up top (even if Pedro plays as a ‘second striker) - we’d be overrun in midfield every week.

I've said another striker is our most important signing for some time now. We have more than enough games to rotate two strikers even without considering the option of playing both.

Let’s move on.

This geezer reliable? Claims the player has knocked us back.

For what its worth and taking into account the unreliability of much of the reporting into transfer links that we are reading, this seems a very unoriginal predictable group of players we are interested in. They are all overpriced and as soon as there is competition for them we apparently can't afford them. Mbeumo, Delap, Cunha if we were interested, and possibly Pedro if Chelsea really want him. Trafford we will probably get as there is little or no competition though we are going to overpay for him no doubt. Elanga is overpriced at 45m and Forest want much more. It makes you wonder why you would have so many scouts and whatever if this is the best they can come up with. Virtually everyone on this forum could have come up with the names of the players we have been linked with so far. Hopefully as we go into July we will see some new names we are linked with the dont already play in the premier league and cost 60 million quid.

Again, please clarify how he spat his dummy out? I don’t remember anything of the sort? We’ve already established that wanting to leave to play football doesn’t really count.

All clubs have a chance but do you think they have a better chance than Burnley and Leeds? Both sides they finished 24 points behind last season They'll need a lot more signings and for them to hit the ground running Can they stay up? Absolutely but it will take some going

This is what it would be, he’s not being bought as a back up.

We need a RW for sure, but I don't think Elanga adds another dimension to our game. He won't really give us much different when it comes to breaking down the bottom half teams who sit back. I think Pedro would give us more creativity in those games.

Maybe Howe transitioning to the OG Bournemouth tactic with JP as the 10/shadow striker?