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That's the thing. He doesn't improve us right away, he won't start over Murphy, and for around 40 to 50 million, that's a bad deal. Mbeumo starts over Murphy, making us better next season. Dibling's a prospect. For 50 million, I expect someone who makes us better immediately.

Dibling isn't starting for us immediately; he needs more time. Eddie's gonna try the Hall/Gordon thing – bench him more. So Murphy's starting, which could be a total mess since he might tank like Almiron last season. Dibling has potential, but we need a better RW, someone who'll actually keep Murphy on the bench. Mbeumo's our man or someone of that ilk.

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Until a 200k a week contract is thrown at him.

He is on 150k a week atm. He will be one of our top earners.

Got it? Mbuemo and Guehi for 110 million, then keep Targett, Lascelles, Willock, and the rest. No total rebuild. Sell Longstaff, get a replacement. Grab DCL for free, Wilson on a pay-as-you-play, and a keeper for 30 million. That's the squad sorted. That's 140-150 million spent, only losing Longstaff really. Wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't happen this summer now Paul's gone.

That's the thing, though, right? This new transfer strategy might flop. It's still a gamble paying 30/40 million for Akliouche or Ben Seghir instead of 60 for Mbuemo. Getting Bruno and Botman for 30-40 million worked, but back then we weren't fighting for top 4. Now we are, so we need more seasoned players. Isak sees Mbuemo and Guehi arriving, sees we're improving and serious. It boosts the whole club. With them, we're confident about Champions League next season. We need Premier League experience now, since we're basically two signings away from a solid starting XI. Mbuemo on the right wing and Guehi at right center-back. Making it to the round of 16 or quarterfinals, and then finishing in the top 5 again? That should be good enough for PSR.

Yeah, I noticed most of Southgate's Euro team kinda flopped this season, didn't they? Saka wasn't great at the end, and Palmer, Foden and the rest – they didn't finish strong either. Think the guys need a break.

If that's his reasoning, he'll have terrible advisors. I doubt Delap would be their star striker summer signing, especially with the Champions League this season. He'd be a backup there too. But London life, a young team, playing for Chelsea, and a good contract... I bet he'd pick them over us. Honestly, most of us would in that situation.

And he gets that at Chelsea?

37 games in total. 22 in the premier league

Kelly and Krafth were on the bench against Southampton, and subbed in later.

Yeah, no way we could've kept going down that path.

I thought Kelly was a center back and was fit. Let's not make stuff up, mate. Surely you know if we bought Guehi, we'd need a big sale, right? That was also everyone's opinion here.

Yeah, it all worked out, and I'm happy, but he was right. It wasn't gonna last, just look at Villa. Last summer was a nightmare, scrambling to fill that PSR gap. We shouldn't have to do that every summer, right? Villa was scrambling too, and they'll probably be scrambling again. It's just not sustainable.

Fair enough. But we offloaded two promising youngsters and couldn't spend for three transfer windows, yet the gamble worked out. Still, he wasn't wrong.

Was he wrong though?

Especially by those who are adamant that selling Minteh and Anderson was a huge mistake, and that Amanda and co overspent and put us in this mess.

Love it mate.

Yeah, he kinda has to say that to get credit, especially after all the crap he's been through, like Ange. It's basically bragging. The other managers didn't get you the Champions League, but I did, and I'm just a Championship manager!

Especially when just being at Chelsea alone can get you an England call up.

Being Chelsea, they will get him 1st then get gyokeres or someone like that.

Isak has been dire the last 10 or so games too.

This. The whole league wanted to stop us and have us relegated. We were bottom with zero wins at the time. They screwed us big time. Amanda Staveley warned them, and they didn't listen. So yes. Fuck them.

Hey, I think we're rewriting history here, like I said before when the takeover happened. Seventeen Premier League clubs voted for these rules—Villa included—just to stop NUFC. Leeds, Villa, and Brighton even joined the cartel to block us and protect themselves. They were shortsighted; Amanda warned them, but they still voted for it. Those cartel clubs can't run the league without other teams; they need at least 14 votes to get anything passed. That's 5 cartel clubs (Man City usually sits out or votes no) and 9 others. See, it was clubs like Villa that shielded the cartel in 2021. Obviously since then they have been voting against them, but at the point of the take over they wanted to screw us over and have us relegated.