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My joke about Leao was completely OT and had nothing to do with Gordon or Semenyo, sorry. What I definitely don't understand is why a player most of you have criticized all season suddenly becomes a 70/80m gem.

Liverpool, following this philosophy, spends 500m in a year and becomes the joke of the PL.

I don't know guys. You yourselves have criticized him a lot this season but also in previous years when the whole team played well. Now suddenly it seems like Gordon has become Kvaratskhelia...we're talking about a player who's been inconsistent in seven of his ten games, decent in two, and maybe the best player on the pitch in one. If I have to spend 70, I'd spend it on Hall who plays poorly in one but is excellent in the other nine.

So you wouldn't make a trade (without cash) Gordon - Semenyo ?

I'll make you laugh, Leao has a €175m release clause...this summer, God willing, we'll get rid of him with the first idiot who offers us €60m.

City signed Semenyo for a similar fee to what you think is fair for Gordon... I don't think I'll offend anyone if I say that this two players are not technically and physically comparable.

I assure you that Tiago for 15m is a utopia (in January Brentford offered 20 and they refused), 30 is more realistic and in any case even at 30 it's a bargain.

I'm pretty sure if Gordon played for Aston Villa or Man Utd none of you would want to buy him for 80.

In PL you could sell him for that price, there is zero chance that Bayern or anyone else in Europe would pay 70/80 for Gordon.

You have to consider that the player market in the UK is doped on player price tags... in a world where Elanga is paid 55 then Gordon is definitely worth 80, in the rest of Europe Elanga wouldn't be signed by anyone even for 25 and Gordon could be valued at 50 (maybe). We're not talking about someone like Bruno G. or a potential phenomenon like Hall who deserve high valuations... we're talking about a left winger who has problems with ball control and who technically is light years away from someone like Luis Diaz, aka the one he should be competing with for the spot !!

However, there is no news here in Italy that he wants to leave... the newspapers say that you want/have to sell him.

It's probably as you say, but the money you all think you're getting from Gordon is unrealistic.

This is a more serious source than yesterday's...Corriere is not a sports newspaper but it doesn't report news based solely on rumors. https://www.corriere.it/native/26_maggio_16/sport-u35201436227727tc.shtml https://www.corriere.it/sport/calciomercato/26_maggio_15/tonali-futuro-ultime-news-manchester-united-newcastle-bad27b1a-6e57-4ced-b0a9-3bd98f0c1xlk.shtml It basically says that NUFC has to sell him and that he definitely won't be returning to Italy.

Yes, it seems strange to me because generally those "press releases" are made independently of the player's will...that's why I was asking if anything had come out in the English press.

15 Mag 2026 - 10:47 https://www.sportmediaset.mediaset.it/mercato/il-newcastle-mette-in-vendita-tonali-il-prezzo-e-shock_112111324-202602k.shtml "Newcastle have officially put Sandro Tonali on the market to comply with the Premier League's strict Financial Fair Play regulations, with Manchester United poised to make a sky-high offer to bring him to Old Trafford. After massive investments in the summer of 2025 and the club's failure to qualify for the Champions League, the PIF-owned club requires a significant sacrifice and has valued the former AC Milan player at no less than €100 million, nearly double the €58.9 million he paid in 2024. Tuttomercatoweb reports." Do you think that "have officially" is true? Tuttomercatoweb isn't the most reliable Italian site but it's often been spot on in the past.

But it's normal, everyone has their own way of supporting a team and that's right... in our country it's a cultural phenomenon that developed in a violent political context, that of the 70s, which, apart from the Ulster Troubles, no one in Europe has had (I was a child in the 70s and NEVER went out on Saturday afternoons and neither did my peers). That's why the Ultras were born in Italy and not elsewhere.

To give you an idea of how long the Curva is... the one framed at minute 14.03 is half its length, so you can understand why something amplified is needed.

From minute 9.08 of this video you can see how it works.

Maybe I explained myself poorly. There are 9,000 ultras in the second tier of San Siro and the person who has to get these 9,000 to sing can't be heard by everyone without an amplified microphone...but it's only his voice that's amplified not the chants (besides not being technically possible, it would be ridiculous to amplify the chants).

Come and check it out if you want.

No, the megaphone is only amplified to allow one person to communicate with the entire curva... many years ago, without an amplifier, there were six people with six megaphones along the entire length of the stand, now one is enough. The amplifier isn't the stadium's, it's ours, and once they let us carry all the equipment to a warehouse inside San Siro. Now we have to carry it all from our headquarters to stadium in 3/4 vans.

Champions League semi-final vs. Inter...final minutes, we're losing 2-0 and we're almost out but we don't care and we sing louder than them. Always crushed them on the terraces.

Another excellent CB, I prefer Solet but Tiago is younger and could be more interesting... if you choose one or the other you can't go wrong.

This guy is better than Thiaw.

It's a bit off topic, but an interesting article has been published analyzing some data on the five most important leagues over the last five years. Two data points struck me: the average age of players and national players in their respective leagues. The youngest league (based on minutes played) is the French one, the oldest is the Spanish one... Bundesliga, Serie A and PL are in the middle and have very similar statistics. The second data point is more surprising: La Liga has a 57% use of Spanish players (almost double that of all other leagues), followed by the Bundesliga (38.7%), Ligue 1 (34.2%), Serie A (30.5%), and PL (24.6%).