Trueblue76

No owner is going to sack a manager and pay up 60m quid to terminate his 5 year contract after 2 months, not even Roman.... never mind the fact that the 60m can be used to buy players to support GP...which is what all us fans should be doing...Tuchel is in the past...it's about time he is consigned to the memory banks! Or go off and create a Tuchel appreciate thread so fans that support the club and not the manager don't have to read the constant drivel that is being spouted on a daily basis!

Koulibaly scored vs Spurs.....

St Etienne would be a good one from France

I'm of the opinion now it doesn't matter who we sign until there is a change of system...

He's 23 and is improving year on year....what more do you want?

And if 15 against bottom and he's in top 3 then that makes him better than approx 400 other prem players....grass isn't always greener

What about Tabsopa at Leverkusen...looks to have good stats?

I don't, think it is outrageous and I completely disagree with this comment, fact of the matter is we have a squad made up of several managers choices that are an ill fit for the way Tuchel wants to play.. Certain players can only play in one way and one system, no amount of coaching is going to change that. For example, Werner will not improve his strike rate with coaching in this league, he’s in a rut and frankly although I rate him for workrate alone, he is not suited to the premier league and will never get enough space to score, for a player that needs several chances and space to run into, you cannot coach him to become a completely different player and even if you could, we have a squad full of players that do not suit the system. Ziyech is not all of a sudden going to become a beast and fight for every ball, he’s too lightweight for the prem. We get fans on here calling for a back four to suit the attackers, all well and good but look what happened when Lampard played a back four we were shipping goals left right and centre and the opposition was shutting up shop. The team and squad is so unbalanced I can see why Tuchel is making these comments, at the very least you would expect a player when pulling on the blue shirt to give 110% in every match and if they don’t then damn right they should get called out on it… they earn enough money to at least play for the fans! The squad needs to be balanced out with smart signings, but we can't do that at the moment as we don't have enough centreback cover, we have too much deadwood and we are behind due to sanctions etc.. This mess will take at least 2 seasons and 4 transfer windows to sort out.

Don't forget Baba Rahman

It depends on what his demands are...if he is willing to drastically reduce his wages then he will accept the offer on the table from Barca, I think this deal has a direct impact on whether they can then try and sign other players...Alonso, Azpi etc.... I still think Dembele is the No 1 target for Tuchel and if we do get him, Ziyech will be going.... If we get Sterling as well then I can see one of Werner/Pulisic going as well....

As far as I am aware transfer fees are split over the term of players contracts so for Lukaku that would be approx 20m per season negative towards FFP plus wages....so a good deal of reported rumours are 8m + 4m add ons and his wages off the books....frees up a bit of loose change towards transfers... Whereas player sales/loans count in full for that season....

It frees up 325k wages per week....with FFP it's vital to get that off the books

Bakayoko

Probably hard to negotiate with the current international fixtures going on as well