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Like Keegan selling Cole because he had a plan, if Cole scored 5 goals per season rather than 40.

All these other ‘mercurial’ talents that people go on about us having in recent years, Robert, Ben Arfa, Ginola, Asprilla all had 1 thing that ASM doesn’t and that’s actual output.

Aye lets have a maverick with a poor injury record, relatively little G/A output than someone with proven Premier League production but doesn't have a nice step over.

Mind blown

Firmly believe we're not selling him for straight swap with Barnes, if we get around £40m for him that frees up another 2 or 3 decent to big money signings.

A pretty strong Spurs team including Maddison & Kane are currently 2-0 down to West Ham.

If we’re not in for Diaby it’s because we don’t want him, just need to trust the recruitment staff in whatever process they’re going through.

Has Szoboszlai got Asthma yet?

How are RAWK dealing with it looking like their captain is off to join Gerrard in chasing the blood money? A mental gymnastics-off between Sunderland & Liverpool fans would be better viewing than most Olympic games.

Aye they've forgotten about us and our 2nd highest transfer fee ever spent we're about to announce.

The players seemed to like him, certainly Barton has spoken very well about him in interviews since retiring.

A big wage increase and Premier League exposure?

Honestly not sure where some people are getting the view that Maddison isn't a good player from, I know folk are entitled to their own opinion but he's clearly an upgrade in output to about 80% of our attacking players.

Shortstaff?

He wasn't that arsed about the integrity of the National League when they started plowing money into Salford, paying ridiculous fees and wages for the level & having League 1/Scottish Premiership players playing at a much lower standard. He couldn't even do that very well either it took them a couple of seasons and a few managers.

In completely unrelated news that plane that we're sending to Cluj for Tonali's medical is then flying onto Roskilde in Denmark which is a 20 minute drive from Joachim Anderson's hometown of Solrod Strand.

All seems incredibly coincidental.

Apart from the London 'pull' there's really absolutely no reason to pick Arsenal over Man City if it's a straight choice between the two.

Tonali likely to be going up against Kone & Thuram tonight so interesting to see how he gets on.

Where do you see Smith-Rowe going? Haven't they denied it repeatedly? I don't see them selling to any of the top 7/8.

There's shady deals whenever big money individuals are involved, look even at teams like Wigan, Charlton & clubs who have gone bust like Bury because of not one but several incredibly dodgy ownerships.

I tried to work it out the other day while I was washing the dishes & I'm sure it works out to about a 0.25% investment interest that PIF would have in Chelsea given their overall investment in Clearlake's portfolio & then Clearlakes ownership % in Chelsea. PIF aren't suddenly stepping in to save Chelsea they're trying to build their own league. Didn't a couple of Spurs players end up going to China when that was originally kicking off with the big money? I can definitely remember Paulinho going & Oscar went from Chelsea at arguably the height of his Career for nearly £50m and a reported £400k per week, Ramires as well went from Chelsea for a daft amount too.

Tonali & Frattesi share the same agent, Frattesi has been linked heavily with Inter. Perhaps the agent is negotiating Frattesi as a Tonali replacement and they can use the funds towards him & get one over Inter at the same time.

https://www.milanworld.net/threads/tonali-si-milan-a-70-mln-ora-decide-lui.128981/

It's not really. Saudi are trying to give their league more legitimacy & Chelsea have a lot of 'known' footballers they need to get rid of, they're not paying Chelsea extortionate transfer fees they're just offering the players mental wages as it's the only way they'll join. They paid £45m or so for Neves and they're paying Chelsea less than that for Ziyech, Mendy, Coulibaly & Kante is on a free.