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Yeah, you can’t replace ASM with £30-35m. I see no reason to create another hole in the squad just because he’s a lazy French cunt according to some.

You can’t just tell a youngish player that we are selling you to Saudi Arabia ffs.

Can’t wait for people to start crying over backheel offsides if this ever becomes a thing. I don’t like the proposal, changes the game too much and there will still be tight decisions.

Please explain what his messages mean if you have encrypted them? And how they relate to this bad attitude?

If he moved to another club to be a backup everyone would be calling him a mercenary. He rejects us and it's very short-sighted.

Hasn't played as a LB for ages though, wingback at Atalanta. He would probably struggle massively in a 4-man line.

Low block, mid block, high press, false number 9 etc. What are the acceptable terms to use when talking about these then?

Wow. I don't understand why he carries the ball with his left but plays a freekick with his right.

How about not selling big players when we would be spending even more on replacements.

I don't see why he would accept lower wages from the 'richest club in the world' if Crystal Palace are offering him £200k. I don't see us offering UCL as any kind of pull either when he's been happy with midtable obscurity with Palace for almost a decade now.

So does many much better players who are not paid like a superstar.

Zaha's non-penalty xG+xA per 90 has been hovering between 0.24 and 0.38 for all but one season (0.53 in 17-18) since 2014. Crystal Palace hasn't obviously been very exciting during that stretch but Zaha has always been the main man. Looking at our numbers from the past season: Wilson 0.95 Gordon 0.58 (just 469 minutes though) Isak 0.53 Saint-Maximin 0.53 Willock 0.50 Murphy 0.47 Almiron 0.41 I really don't see how we should break our wage structure to sign someone like Zaha, he's just simply not worth it. And I don't see him working well with his attitude in an intense system like Howe's.

We don't really have the structure to operate like this. Signing old and experienced free agents means very high wages and we just simply can't do that. Paying £200k a week to Zaha would make absolutely no sense.

Need a cage match between @Milanista and Edwards. I think Inter clearly need the money more but have more ambitious/emotional owners. Milan's moneyball owners thought this was a good deal and greenlighted it to fund the team elsewhere.

Mate did some research and Kante made around 15m a year in Chelsea minus taxes and his net worth is probably somewhere around 30m. He'll make 100m a year in Saudi tax free. The money is just staggering, I would be moving there instantly if I was +30 player with a big name tbh.

He’s still making excuses after all these years, what a fucking cunt.

Yeah, Havertz could potentially be special and Arteta clearly thinks he can get it out of him. For the other point, think Man City are too good for anyone else but everything after them is super interesting. You forgot Chelsea too, so crowded at the top end of the table.

I don't think that's even that much, would be like an average wage at Man United.

It’s certainly close between a new LB and RB. I’m a bit of a Burn fanboy so leaning on RB and Targett is a better back up than anything we have at RB behind the starter. Also with Trippier’s age we can’t just have him play that much next season to keep him fit and fresh. Hope we get both but backup RB definitely hasn’t been talked about enough here as a need.

Krafth did play some CB but it was in a back five iirc.

I disagree on couple of points. We rely on the right side because Trippier is a special talent with the ball. The drop off from Trippier to Ashby/Krafth/Manquillo is a lot bigger than the drop off from Burn to Targett considering how important Trippier is to us. Would still like to sign a LB too but a competent RB cover is IMO more important than a new LB right now.

Not anymore if we took care of them on accounting earlier.

Yeah, makes sense. Would free up Schär to midfield.

Don’t think so.

Krafth improved under Howe just like everyone else but I remember thinking he must be the worst player ever to play in this league back in the day. He just doesn’t have the talent to have a future with us even if he’s a nice guy.