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Will he get more goals/assists than Schmeichel clean sheets + Lamela goals/assists? I'm thinking no, but my concern is will Lamela lose his regular place between CL and Sissoko's arrival?

Would you make this trade (draft league)? Me: Firmino Caballero Him: Lamela Schmeichel I picked Hart in the draft and that blew up and then someone topped my claim for Bravo so I currently have Heaton and Caballero.

Yup, i.e. like every other fucking transfer that's paid in installments. There's only two reasons that journo brought it up 1) he misunderstood and is stupid 2) he was trying to make Spurs look better. @afar - I'm fully on board with your point about disclosing transfer and contract data. Ridiculous how secretive it all is, but the sport of football is anti-transparency from top to bottom.

Without going back and looking I feel like Levy's reputation is pretty well earned when it comes to selling players, but he's no different than your average chairman when it comes to buying.

Even this doesn't make sense. Good to know the standard of British sports journalists is still at rock bottom.

This is the stupidest report I've ever seen. I wouldn't be surprised if the club issues a statement to clarify as it makes us look bad.

I'd just rather we kept our best players, tbh. If Mike Ashley pocketing £30m gets you hard, fair play. His overall performance and contribution last season was s****, he vehemently doesn't want to be here, and he's taken a massive strop over not being able to leave which would instantly transfer to the dressing room and onto the pitch. I can't see why anyone would be unhappy about this transfer other than to be pointlessly contrary. As fans we get nothing out of this, man. If he'd stayed we'd be a better side. It's not tough to figure out. I'm not gutted. But there's nothing to celebrate here, at all. Your entire point is predicated on the fact that you expect he'd play the way he did at the end of the season or at the Euros (i.e. motivated). But there's absolutely nothing to suggest from his history that he would do that in the Championship on a weekly basis.

Don't think you get anything the first year do you? We got our PL money. Yep, parachute will be end of this season. Have it in my head that if you go straight back up you don't get anything anyway, might be wrong though. Pretty sure that's not true. Think we get a percentage of the PL rev share (something like 55%) in year one. If we go straight back up we're back on the PL gravy train. If we don't we have up to two more years of decreasing parachute payments. After that it's game over.

What is Chelsea's first choice CB pairing - Luiz/Cahill? Mainly asking for Fantasy PL purposes.

They'd be lucky to earn 1.5% interest. http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/best-regular-savings-accounts#firstdirect 6% for 12 months on a maximum £300 a month deposit. That and it's not a company account.

People are complaining about being paid in installments now? Do we even know the interval of payments? It could be every 3 months, meaning we'd have 80% of it this time next year. Even if it's not, we might get £30M for a moody, inconsistent, want-away player who will never fulfill his true potential.

That's ridiculous. If he's a problem in the dressing room I would just send him home. Tell him he can play FIFA all day and collect his wages.

How does one watch this in America? I signed up for Fubo TV and it's not listed and then logged into Bein Connect with Fubo and it says no game on this channel.

I had a dream we were up 4-1 with 10 minutes to go and then the ESPN app froze. When it started working again it was full time and 8-1.

Spurs 2-2 Liverpool Chelsea 3-0 Burnley Crystal Palace 1-2 Bournemouth Everton 3-1 Stoke Leicester 2-0 Swansea Southampton 4-2 Sunderland Watford 0-1 Arsenal Hull 0-2 Man Utd West Brom 1-1 Middlesbrough Man City 2-1 West Ham Newcastle 1-0 Brighton

I've never seen him play but I'm excited about this and will be upset if it doesn't happen.

It's fucking hilarious how much Arsenal (Wenger?) hates spending money. They act like my mother-in-law trying to save pennies on a 2-for-1 chewing gum special.

I hope we've agreed to sign him in January pending a medical review/his fitness. He seems like the type of player who could give us a second half spark.

I was thinking that but looking at the other teams we still look slightly better than them on paper at least and surely there will be a couple more in by next Wednesday too Main isssue this season is we look to have a lot of average players who aren't much better than the other promotion contenders players, we are just relying on Ritchie, Gayle and maybe Diame whilst hoping Perez and mitrovic will contribute enough. Likes of dummett Clark Hanley Anita colback Shelvey gouffran etc wouldn't get in a few teams in this league For the most part, that's just not true at all. We have a very strong squad for the league and the best manager we could ever hope for.

Anyone we can reasonably beat. Would really like a cup run. We'll probably get Liverpool away.

Not the worst timing in the world.

That's not how I read it. Think it just means players who are defenders will arrive.

Just did some extensive Wise scouting. If he wasn't injured this would be an excellent signing. I'll think of it like we're bringing a January signing forward to ensure we get him. Obviously the risk will be can he return to form after a nasty injury, but seems worth the risk. - Looks like he'll be fighting with Ritchie and Gayle for FKs - Thing I liked the most is he seems to be everywhere, highlights of him on both wings, in the center, bringing the ball out from deep, running off the last man on a break. - Low center of gravity makes him tough to bring down but they also showed him flying into some challenges

I'm totally on board with Yedlin. Love me a blazing fast fullback.