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It's also been a topic of conversation for about 15 years on here.

Anderson will never be Maddison's quality, as much as we're all desperate for him to succeed. I do realise that it's probably too soon to make that judgement, but just a gut feeling.

If we went in with a £60m bid, wouldn’t they just ask for £70m?

Why are there so many arguments on here?

I wouldn’t. I’d rather sign top class players are allow the likes of Anderson to develop at their own pace. There’s no way Anderson is ready to make an impact on this league yet; Maddison would transform us. I very much doubt we’d be his best option even if we bid £60m for him though.

Supply and demand I guess. The majority of big clubs in Europe rate him highly enough. None of these players are "worth" what they're going for these days anyway.

9 years ago.

You mean "we" as the club or "we" are the fans? I doubt the club are changing their transfer strategy based on his performances, no.

If he was foreign, playing abroad, maybe. English premier league player with 2 years left on his contract? Doubt it.

Season before, he had a knee injury. My Leicester supporting mate claims Barnes wasn't injured at all last season (he only missed 5 games across all competitions)

I'd love for him to be replaced on the pitch, but I certainly wouldn't advocate selling him. We need a squad.

At my lad’s club (at under 7 level) not a single one of the girls ever want to go in goal, whereas all of the boys do. Think there’s a lot of sense in your post).

Wood

I’m certain a proper setup will prevent these deals in the future. Hope so anyway

He really was this shit for Burnley last season too btw. I know nobody wants to acknowledge that because he KEPT US UP ON HIS OWN INIT but I will never believe we couldn’t have signed someone better for half as much

All? Hmm.

You keep repeating this, but have you got any examples? I'm assuming there are loads on youtube if you want to link them?

He's not at all. He's a striker who drifts out wide to get more of the ball. Just because Chelsea played him wide doesn't mean he's not a striker.

Not one for relying on youtube highlights, but people claiming he can't kick a ball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy1swho3K9U

I mean this is just nonsense.

Broja.

Krafth showed towards the end of the season that he's much better than Manquillo to be fair.

I massively rate Werner from his time at Leipzig, and personally I don't think he's been as bad at Chelsea as people make out, so I'm all for a cheeky little loan deal for him as long as Chelsea pay 75% of his wages