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Internal solutions round 2.

Just because James can play there, doesn’t mean he should play there. Awful seeing the dippers so giddy this fell through. We are losing every, single, midfield battle this season.

That's literally what I said. When I say done over by City I mean this transfer has been on the cards for months and they chose the very last day of the transfer window to make an offer. That stopped us really going after Scott, Wharton or any other replacement. They even paid £5m more than they needed to just to screw us rather than wrap this up 2 weeks ago. It was by design to screw us up and leave us with as little time as possible to get in a replacement.

Any club that has played 2 right backs in midfield so far this season didn’t have a 9/10 window.

The incompetents of these Blue Co goons is on a level that's really hard to fathom

I wouldn't call a British record transfer getting done over. It's our own fault for leaving it so bloody late, something could always go wrong

Bothers me when people class James as a midfield option, even though the club treats him as such, because if he was purely a midfielder he'd be playing at a bottom half of the prem team. There is now a lot of pressure on Caicedo to stay fit, if he does then I think we are ok to make it through to the January transfer window, but if he's injured we are well and truly screwed.

If there's a paper trail I'd sue them just for being such massive twats.

We can only hope the board learn the lesson to never leave it until the last day ever again. Because in this sorry saga we ended up being done over by City and Monaco.

I see Gusto in midfield I’m going to the gym.

Sky reporting they had agreed verbally and via email. Surely they said the agreement was subject to final contract etc. if they didn’t, I would of thought that is grounds to sue.

Finally getting their revenge for Caicedo and Lavia. Thing is why would it even need to be more money, if we’re not going to deal with Monaco again. Just paying more for the sake of it with no competition. Strange one.

That qualification there says a lot doesn't it? I think the disagreement here is regarding having James, and especially Lavia, in the “healthy” category—they are anything but. Lavia has hardly played in three years.

I still give this summer a 9/10. Got rid of a lot of dross and squad not bloated anymore. Alonso made it possible by somehow convincing the owners that their w**k Sporting Directors signed tons of dog turd players that needed moved ASAP and it all happened in such a short time. As for Monaco, they are bastards. But it is what it is. We move on. If fit, James and Lavia are top players and perfect next to Caicedo. Remains to be seen if they can stay fit for more than two minutes. Big risk, high reward. I feel that with both of them is more mental than anything else. If they somehow stay healthy for more than 3 months in a row, I believe they can finish the season unharmed.

We don’t know how long Caicedo is out for. Don’t kid yourself about Lavia. His 3 month injury is coming soon. That leaves us Barco, a 36 year old Henderson, and 2 right backs for midfield. Another top 4 slump is genuinely a possibility AGAIN

Win goes to city. No replacement for Enzo after their late move for him. They got their payback after we made them bend the knee over Maresca.

Personally, I think that’s just dipper delusion.

Wouldn't put it past them. People are underestimating how big a cock up this is. This midfield is not good enough to compete and that was a genuine possibility this season. We've shot ourselves in the foot, simple as that.

Just bloody WIN. Up the Chels!

I like your optimism, I really do, but leaking goals as we have done of late, and having Gusto in midfield, you’ll forgive my personal opinion that we needed this midfielder in.

We don't even know the extent of Caicedo's injury situation yet either.

That midget Barco was awful in his cameo against Brighton, Essugo is awful full-stop, we’ve absolutely f**ked it until January. Despite it being our fault for leaving it so late, if there’s signatures involved, who knows maybe it can go to CAS…

Sure Monaco wouldn't have done it if they weren't sure they'd be ok legally. Word now is that Liverpool told Monaco to pull out and they'd pay more next summer. If Caicedo and Lavia don't stay fit our season could be in real jeopardy.

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