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Kenedy in Chelsea is like Coutinho at Inter - talented, but requires a huge lot of match experience and freedom on pitch to flourish. My Chelsea mate said he is surprised by Kenedy performance here because in Chelsea, in his very limited playing time, he is just a functional player who is not allowed to create or make plays. He would love to join us, he has had the taste already and he can't go back being a functional / rotational player there. As long as we prepare to pay something like 15m.....

Correct, both should not be a penalty

Match day is the only day in a week that people can criticise Rafa.

As a backup keeper he got a pass today.

Must be godly in training.

Joselu injured?

I don't think Mitro is head and shoulders ahead of the other two but after seeing how shit those two are you can't deny Mitro deserves much more chance than he got. And I don't think people are saying he is our new HBA - I just think people who trying hard to defend Rafa are portraiting Mitro as super dog shit which clearly he isn't. The problem is on Rafa. I don't get it. Criticising Rafa doesn't mean want him replaced. Why can't just accept Rafa got some decisions wrong?

We've been through this like, I'm sure you're well wrong on this assumption man. He might well pay himself £100m back off the loans but he then simply won't be able to command the same price for the club. Nobody on earth would be stupid enough to pay it considering they're not paying it now while the cash is in the club. Surely a club with £100nill in the bank and a £100mill debt, is worth the same as a club with neither? Or close enough. In accounting book, yes. But to the fat cunt it's different because in the event of a takeover likely the loan to the fat cunt will also be fully paid. So actually the price offered by Amanda (say 300m) is the price to pay off loan from the fat cunt and the equity injected by the fat cunt.

We've been through this like, I'm sure you're well wrong on this assumption man. He might well pay himself £100m back off the loans but he then simply won't be able to command the same price for the club. Nobody on earth would be stupid enough to pay it considering they're not paying it now while the cash is in the club. No, not really. What if the max cash outlay Amanda or other potential buyers able to pay is around 300m? You are somewhat correct that taking out cash will affect the value of the club (although I reiterate that it is not simple maths). In other words, the fat c*** is decreasing the clubs total asset value and so the price required for takeover has been reduced. The entry barrier has been lowered. Don't you wonder why the fat c*** lowered his asking price from 400m to 300m? The answer to me is simple: he didn't lower it. He just use the clubs money to cover that 100m. Everything is well planned.

Basically he wants to earn around 100m profit to top up his selling price (likely to be 300m) by cutting all kinds of spending. That together would give him 400m which was his original asking price last summer.

Probably, after tax.

I am shocked to know he is earning that much in Brazil.

Souness is basically the one who started our dark age. I would never ever forgive him.

He is good enough to be a backup.

You mean the takeover is the most important thing? Of course that's right. My bad, I mean possibilities.

The chance of a takeover during the summer is larger than Rafa quitting us in my opinion.

If he can score those chances he won't cost only 5m to be honest. A 5m striker shouldn't start for any EPL team anyway.

It would be something if we could get three points. But our rivals are having unexpected wins so we need to deliver this.

I think it's mainly due to bidding wars behind the scene.

We do have a chance to sign him in the summer, just impossible to exclude a buy back clause.

We are fucking fortunate. Kinda unreal considering our past record for deadline day.

Excellent deal, considering how shit we are at the moment.

The fact that we have loaned Slimani, and loaned ou Mitrovic coukd easily be read as a sign that Ashley wants Rafa out. I just think no one is willing to offer a decent amount of money.

It's strange.

How many hours left?