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Chelsea are close to confirming Hakim Ziyech for the summer. £40m

They'll be top two by the end of the month.

As they should be. Embarrassing that it's took them 2 years to get out of that division.

Did Merino have a release clause here? If not, it'll never make sense to me why we let our best midfielder go for so little.

Ashley will always push it too far. If the Saudis meet his asking price, he'll think he undervalued the club and will therefore move the goalposts. Eventually they'll walk away and he'll make some public interview saying they wasted his time.

The leak pissed off both sides, so they've gone out of their way to keep the rest watertight. Journalists are getting desperate during the silence, though.

Yep, sold Lundstram for Egan who at least got an assist today. But still..... annoying.

Was nervous about being Aguero-less but there's still a chance it gets played within the Gameweek.

I think I'll look back on today as the day where I stopped believing. The day things got ridiculous.

Still time to get Vince McMahon involved

Exactly, no way can Ashley's cronies manipulate Wall Street Journal, Financial Times etc. That's the unique hope for this time round, until Ashley pulls the plug again.

Such a shame but inevitable once the others didn't join in. Just love how the UK has, in this case, chose to conform with the rest of Europe :lol:

Anyone grab a screenshot of it? For some reason, Chopra seems to talk sense and didn't he hint at these talks months ago? Not that it's difficult to make up, mind.....

It can be spun as a positive or a negative, so probably best to ignore it completely.

He's all we've got

This is class :lol:

Perhaps it was still a punt to say his company helicopter made the peculiar France trip but, if the same one really has landed in Oxford, Ashley really did go there?!?! :celb1:

Cans. Limbs.

He's the absolute pits of journalism. Hate him so much.

We know there's a highly-interested party. Caulkin says the 250k has already been paid. Can we just let them get on with it?

We've got loads of good centre backs but I'd like Almiron as #10. Tough to say.

Yep, thought Lundstram was for the season but I think his time is up All of a sudden, I've got quite a few fires to put out (Maupay, Lundstram, Kelly, Ryan, Grealish, Soyuncu) so the temptation to wildcard early is strong. Must. Resist.

Maupay, Lundstram and Kelly all benched :lol:

Was all set to be safe this week, hold onto Mane and bring in Lascelles for Soyuncu. Then decided to be more aggressive and use one FT on Martial for Mane, with concerns that Klopp is in no rush to bring him back in. Salah ©

Solskjaer will know they're going places when he sees the respect Ighalo gives.