Village Idiot

Forum legend alognside Mevlut Erdinc.

Dembelé has stupid amounts of talent and he'll waste it all.

What’s the scoop on young Konrad? Does he have a shot at playing time for the senior team this season? Koeman says he likes him but we're stacked at his position, can't see him getting significant playing time. Hopefully we can find a good loan for him because he's too good for the B-team.

No idea why Barca would loan unless you provide a large loan fee. I suppose we could be desperate enough to get rid of his wages, but we will try to move on many other players before Dembele. That said, this season is probably last chance saloon for him at Barça.

Dest arrived at Barcelona last evening, so I presume his signing will be announced soon. Really looking forward to have him at the club. Always wanted to have a yank (even if he's more of a cuasi-yank) starting for us. There's also a weird rumor about Dembele to ManU for €60m, but our local press (which have a good pulse on the club for this kind of things) has denied it.

Both Mali and Spain have called up Adama Traore for the next batch of international games. We'll see who he chooses. He's been called up by Spain in the past, but he's always pulled out due to injury. We certainly could use somebody with his pace and strength on the wing.

I read a small-ish interview with him in the Peruvian press and he describes himself as a technical player that likes to do through-balls. Dude looks tiny, though!

Would love to see your chart, and I don't mean it ironically.

Incidentally, Koeman coming in as coach still puzzles me. I mean, he's been hired by a board that will only last a few more months, and most of the upcoming candidates to our presidency have been very open about having other people coming in as coach. The only way he'd last more than this season is if he somehow completely revitalized the team, but he has a squad going through a rebuild with a disgruntled Messi. He either has massive confidence in himself, we are paying him through the roof, or really loves the club.

He later said that he wants him to go on loan, not cut him off completely, because he needs to play more football than he'd have if he stayed. But yeah, it looks like he doesn't see much in him.

We want him Jesus fuck We have an obsession with youth prospects that got away, and the local media has completely convinced themselves he would be a new Piqué. That South American youngster you have is so much better Araújo? Yes, he's been quietly impressive. He's still raw though, he's not going to be plug-and-play.

We want him Jesus fuck We have an obsession with youth prospects that got away, and the local media has completely convinced themselves he would be a new Piqué.

We want him

I don't know, league results seemed "normal" when European leagues were resumed behind closed doors. I think the nearly nonexistant preseason has more to do with it.

Amazing stat. I'm still in doubt whether it's great or terrible

Man, Fati is going to be such a star if we don't fuck him up.

We've moved on Vidal, Semedo, Rakitic and Suárez (we're still paying part of his wages this season, but still big savings), while only bringing in Dest. The savings in wages are massive. People are still projecting a €100m hole this season, mind. Having 0 matchday revenue is a huge hit.

Yeah Mendes and the Wolves owner are lining their pockets with Wolves' money, since they get a cut of all these transfers. I presume the fact that the team has performed really well has kept things quiet with Wolves fans, but it's quite scandalous. Of course then the PL goes and bounces back your takeover.

What's Semedo like? Got a Wolves supporting friend who is interested to know. He's been quite inconsistent, tbf, but has had great flashes. Maybe with more stability he could flourish. By all means he's a good player. Attacking-minded, but not as gung-ho as people thought at first, he has decent defensive positioning. Again, he's been very unconsistent but the fact he never nailed down the starting berth hasn't helped.

According to a local news channel (which I quite trust for Barça news), we've reached a deal for Dest (20+5). Semedo will also move to Wolves today for 30+10

The board is trying to get a transfer fee from Atlético. Still think the move will be completed. The exam thing is hilarious, Italian police getting involved, I presume cheating on a citizenship exam is a kinda serious offence

So, was the goals record broken?

I think the issue is that despite passing the exam his Italian passport wouldn't have been ready in time. I do wonder why he never went and got a proper EU passport during all his career in Europe.

Morata is going to Juve to make room for Suárez to move to Atlético. Looking forward to a Costa / Suárez forward line, disgusting in both good and bad ways