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Apparantly he is turning down 180k p/w? there is no way we would pay that, so if he does make the move to us or liverpool then he is taking a pay cut!

so Martinez said this an hour before Conte's press conference: "We have a good and open relationship with Chelsea. I don't force any players. We need Eden as a player and a human." Then Conte comes out with: "I knew the news just 20 mins ago, I am a bit surprised about this decision." Some relationship when you let the club know 20 minutes and clearly don't engage with them!

Madrid played this last year but it failed, it requires a huge amount of tactical understanding from the players. it is how Madrid fell into the 4-1-2-1-2 diamond. Madrid played it with: Navas; Varane, Casemiro, Ramos; Isco, Kroos, Modric ; Ronaldo; Marcelo, Benzema, Bale it is worth taking into account this formation is ONLY for attacking phases. The defensive set up is a 4-4-2: Navas; Marcelo, Varane, casemiro, Ramos; Isco, Kroos, Modric , Bale Ronaldo, Benzema It required too much running for the wide players, so Zidane decided on a diamon midfield during attack and flat 4-4-2 in defense, which they still play and dominate games with (E.g Barca recently)

I really think that we dont need to sell Michy in order to get Belotti? you cannot get through a season playing 2 strikers in a starting XI when you only have 2 strikers in the squad. need a min of 3!