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it’s fine. Just don’t say “Howe is excellent at coaching and developing youngsters”. Last season we argued this for Burn vs Hall and I don’t want to see this shit again.

Howe is a “win now” type of coach. Unless Hall can develop to be good enough for starting eleven, Howe wont start him.

the true question is what will happen when Botman and Schar is back. Burn and Kelly fighting for LB? Hall on bench till?

Kelly is Howe’s first choice. Simply as that.

Howe is the type of coach that won’t sacrifice short term success for long term benefits. Not surprising.

Last week he got beaten one on one

No they will say they need him to avoid relegation so add another 20m

No, they are much more trustworthy than you anyway.

Interesting. My Man Utd mate is saying Dalot got terrorised the whole game and ask me why letting such a prospect gone. This is just his 2nd EPL game. 20 years old. If you can’t see how talented he is, you got a problem.

There is no excuse not to make any signings when we have 50-60m funds available. Even if we cannot get Guehi, our scouting work and Mitchell’s own network should come up some back up plans around Europe to fill the CB role. The scouts aren’t paid for nth.

So one more match banned due to unsuccessful appeal?

then we should go for other target instead. I could see CP refuse to sell us if they cannot get the replacement in, and other targets being unavailable at the end of the window which also due to unable to find replacement on time.

If we have to sell Gordon for 80m, I would go for Wirtz

I think Tapsoba is the better player but Guehi does have extra value for his potential captain role Anyway we should have a price quotation from Leverkusen, hence we told CP our Guehi offer would be the final one and that’s why things got closer and closer.

I hope he does what he wants, and if he stays, just retire at end of this contract. He shouldn’t be forced out, and seems it’s not the case too

Guehi is replacing Schar. It would be Guehi + Botman / BDB and Schar on bench. Surprised that now the deal is 60m worth. If that’s the real price that it’s fine to me

Surely a big miss, especially our RW is now either Almiron or Murphy who aren’t good enough that said, I really not sure Trippier would be able to improve it now. Since his marriage problem broke out his form is outrageously bad.

It does have a feeling that it’s from Palace side again, to try to drag us further instead of going for other targets

That means we never offered to pay anything more than 60m upfront, and it has been for three weeks already re the 5m difference

I wonder what price would Chelsea quote for those 20-22 players not wanted

exactly my thinking. Now we really could have around 2-30m for another RW

the problem will only get worse and worse when the players use value > market value, and that you would struggle to find buyers offering a fee that could make it worth to sell and then you will have no means to record a PSR profit / capacity that allows you to purchase new players replacing the old ones, the amortization loss keep on rolling. Old players keep on deteriorating but you can do nothing. Your hands are tied. It’s wrong to think we have gone through the toughest part of PSR (last Jun). In fact it will hit us the hardest this season and the next. I wonder who else can we sell at Jun 26 when our revenue is not high enough to meet PSR requirement. Anyway, no one wants to think that far. Just keep all the best players, buy a marque CB, finish Top 4 and get ECL revenue next season. Problem solved isn’t it?

Kyogo is not a winger and he is 29….

which means his market value has already dropped below his clause price, and likely will keep on dropping

Yea it’s fucking bollocks if PSR doesn’t exist. I really agree with that.