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Yeah, you may have seen I used the past tense

What’s hilarious about that quote is Maresca is coming out saying “there’s no shambles here, I’m working with a normal squad” which absolutely takes the piss out of his owner and club. He’s basically telling every other club that half their squad can be lowballed. They’re a fucking clown club from top to bottom

I agree that if we don’t get a RW I can’t see top four. Just think we’ll be too one-dimensional even if Gordon tears it up on the left. The right side is an absolute mystery in all honesty. We’re spoilt on the left. Shame that Elliot Anderson wasn’t right-sided

How reliable is your source?

Wow, what club spirit. Everyone must fucking hate each other. It’s like a cutthroat london-based recruitment agency

Bought myself a smoking jacket to cope with all this smoke

Which clubs have had a concrete interest in Madueke in this window? And what’s the general feeling among the Chelsea fans at the prospect of him leaving?

He’s clearly the biggest loser in the league from an owner perspective. Fucking wide boy Alan Sugar cosplayer. It’s all about him

Is he that bad? I definitely saw him have some good games last year

Desperate to fuck Palace into the long grass and never ever deal with them again other than getting six points a season from them until they’re banished back to the lower leagues

Keeping Gordon, Isak and Bruno (+having Jow, Tino, Pope) in the squad is a long way away from holding onto an Ayoze, a Sissoko etc from yesteryear. I agree that if we were not to bring in both a RW and a RCB I’d be really disappointed

Fulham’s window is odd, where is their money coming from?

I’d go for the loan and then sign someone else next summer, e.g. Guehi when we get champions league football and Palace get relegated

Going to keep my head buried in the sand thanks and wait for Mitchell and the ownership structure to have been in place for longer than two months cheers

I do like serious questions. One thing I can’t handle is casual or half-hearted questions. Serious or nothing for me. Love to read a good post about power lines and dynamics when there’s no evidence to really back it up as well

If they’ve paid a significant loan fee, are fully covering his wages and have that clause they are complete and utter mugs

I really want to see this lad come back strong this season. He adds something completely different for us in transition. The problem I think for Howe is that he’s going to struggle to get him starting games routinely, going wide right would be amazing if he’s got experience there but Howe’s never even tried it once with him has he?

That’s what someone was posting the other day. They got shat on forcefully

Good thing they’ll get relegated at least

I agree with your post @ponsaelius. I remember we all expected the deal to be done at the start of the window and it dragged on for a bit while we were linked with that Brazilian LB who went to Forest? It felt to me like Howe didn’t want to go for Targett but like has been said, it was an easy transfer to do and it did improve us at the time. In terms of value, he was never going to increase but he could have held his value. It’s possible we could still make our money back on him if he goes on loan this season and performs well. It’s hardly a disastrous signing but has hampered us

can’t even sell the lad. Hope Ipswich haven’t forked out a lot on the loan

Indeed, but when it all goes to shit they can only look at themselves

If he does go on to have a completely anonymous bench-bound career at Chelsea he has absolutely no one to blame but himself. Just like every other person that’s gone to Chelsea in the last three-four windows. You want to go to Mercenary FC? Enjoy being treated worse than dogshit

Enzo Fernandez giving everyone Chinese burns, Ben Chilwell trying to calm everyone down a bit while Caicedo keeps saying “what’s that on the floor, chilly? You dropped your gay card?”