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3-0. Frank for the sack?

2-0. Fuck me, Chelsea are completely shit.

Don’t want to argue here at all, but playing for a team like Arsenal who are in Europe every season and progress every year in domestic cups etc- you’re bound to miss more games when injured in the same time period compared to someone who has been playing for a team like us (no Europe, don’t even want to progress in cups etc) in the last few years, which is why it’s better to look at days missed through injury rather than games, imo. But yeah- we’ve both made our position clear.

Conclusion because that’s what the facts/website says. Games, yes. Which is irrelevant- just that game days coincided with injury. Days missed is a better measure of how often someone is injured and whether they’re a crock. Which is obvious.

According to Transfermarkt.com since/including 18/19 season (so far): Tierney 428 days injured ASM 331 days injured. both crocks.

Over the summer, during friendly matches.

Shit pen. Pickford is such a fucking prick.

Me too. Can’t see Lloris lasting there much longer- bloke is a liability for where they want/perceive themselves to be.

Leicester are playing absolute shit here. Be interesting if they can pick themselves up or completely fold

Don’t know how accurate the figures are, but this says he’d played 964 mins on 27th April. Haven’t checked how many games are left etc, but a load of sites say it’s unlikely he’ll make 1500 mins. “The most important one for Newcastle states that if Guler plays less than 1,500 minutes in a season, his release clause will plummet to just £4.5m. The teenager has clocked 964 minutes so far this campaign and he must play the vast majority of the remaining minutes available to avoid Fenerbahce losing him for a cut-price fee.” https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1763432/newcastle-united-wilfried-gnonto-arda-guler?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

Yeah, think so, but he apparently has to play nearly every single minute for the rest of the season to get past the £4.8m clause, if he can at all.

He has a clause for that precise amount if he doesn’t play a certain amount of minutes this season. Which he’s nowhere near getting.

He’d only be £4.8m, and wouldn’t take up a space due to his age?

Matteus Franca or Andrey Santos? We were scouting a few Brazilians in the last 6 months, including Santos who went to Chelsea for about £18m.

He’s also said he wants to join Barca. Guess it depends if they can sell players, and how we sell our club to him. Hope we can get him though- seems a great talent. “Roque himself has now spoken on the speculation. In an interview with Sport, the 18-year-old admitted his desire to join Barcelona in the summer. “It is a dream (to join Barcelona). Not only of mine, but also of any player who plays. If it materialises that I end up going to Barca, it will be a great joy for my family and for me. Therefore, I have to continue working hard and hope that everything will materialise.”” https://www.football-espana.net/2023/02/28/barcelona-wonderkid-target-confirms-his-desire-to-join-this-summer

Just a joke- I think the likes of Spurs would be in for him, rather than Chelsea. Never say never though… not sure about Chelsea’s FFP limits to be honest. I’m sure though that they’ll still spend this summer, for their new manager.

Chelsea: “hold my beer…”

They’ve also got a 20% sell on clause which they could use to get the price down I guess.

Buyback clause only comes into place next year.

If it’s a broken foot he will be. Hasn’t been officially announced yet though, as far as I know?

Aye, but time wasters, boring, etc etc…

Leeds losing 4-1 to Bournemouth

2-0 now

Depends on the priorities of the player and how influenced he is by his agent etc- if he’s purely after money, then he’ll go to Liverpool over us as they pay more. (Granted, if a player is that way inclined, I’d hazard a guess we wouldn’t be interested in him anyway).

Chelsea have the biggest interest according to rumours, but also that the player wants to go to Barca. Can see there being a bidding war, which we wouldn’t get involved in. He’ll go for a lot more than 25m anyway- has a release clause of 100m I think (not that he’ll go for that much).