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He might go to Real Madrid. Would be interesting

Not saying I disagree but he definitely made a mistake leading to Newcastle's goal in the last game of the season

Slightly controversial opinion: we'd be better off with Asensio in the squad than with Havertz. Or is it even controversial?

Worth a shot I guess. 14 goals is still double what Kai has offered. Maybe he could actually finish some of the chances the likes of Madueke, Nkunku, Sterling and Enzo will create (I left Mudryk off this list on purpose, he's been abysmal so far)

Feel sorry for clubs who decide to negotiate with Levy. Pretty sure he believes in a scenario when he almost sells Kane in the last day of the transfer window for 150m to Bayern, but Kane decides he loves Spurs too much and signs another 5 year contract.

Wish he would step up and play the Silva role. He's the only experienced defender who can play regularly. He was the captain of Napoli so he has that in him. His salary is crazy though.

CHO is earning some crazy money as well, another player disrupting the salary structure. He can't stay here, sit on the bench and earn more than Madueke, Mudryk and Enzo. Time to part ways. If he can't play for Leverkusen he can't play for us.

Todd and Eghbali likes to make high risk decisions in every possible department, it's clear now. It's their MO. Whether it's changing the entire staff of a successful club, playing hardball with it's most loved player (Mount), buying kids with (only) potential from all over the world etc. This is no different. Let's offer this kid who really wants to play for us a really low salary and see what he does. It's like they get off on it. On the other hand if Mudryk is coming for 70M and earning 100k, maybe it makes for Ugarte coming in for 45M and earning something like 70k. If they can fix the mess that is our salary ladder hats off to them.

Replacing Jorginho / Kante / Kovacic with Enzo / Unknown / Unknown (hopefully Caicedo and a classy DM, dont't have a clue about Ugarte) is risky AF but there's no turning back now. We have to do it. Kovacic is injured a lot and his heart isn't in it anyway. The thing is we're going to be playing a bunch of kids...on almost every position there's a 19-25 year old. Which is amazing and all but it's going to take a few years for this club to reach its potential, like with Arsenal. Wonder if we shouldn't be looking occasionally for some experienced, proven players as well, the likes of Milinkovic Savic for example

Seems the man is living his best life away from London...Can't lie, he impressed me more with this than with his goalscoring at Chelsea Wouldn't it be better for the club to take a hit and sell him to Inter even for 20 mil or something? Just to have him off the book and off the supporters thoughts? Just let him live as well, if he doesn't want to be here...

Done

Had to be done I guess

That's what I thought as well: Pochettino might want to see if Mendy still has some of that 20-22 energy in him. Such a strange story Edouard had - at one point he was being considered one of the best in the world, then a couple of mistakes...and now very small portion of the fanbase misses or even acknowledges him. We dream about a new keeper already. Maybe there's some injustice in that? Agreed about Kepa although he's never entirely convincing and I don't think this will ever change. No team would win the PL with him in the starting 11.

I dont believe Napoli would make a swap deal like that...buying him would be amazing but I dont think possible given where we're at. He is one of the hottest on the market atm

Not a bad idea as well. Short term but still, we have Slonina so it might make sense. He is still an amazing goalkeeper, would be reminiscent of Thiago Silva coming in

I would prefer him over Onana or Diogo Costa for couple reasons: Enzo affiliation, experience in PL but mainly fighting spirit and leadership : we're lacking so much in this department I think every possible transfer in the summer (GK, DM, ST) should be looked at from this angle Also love for proper sh*thousery is missing in this squad as well, we need to bring it back. Who's Terry in this squad? Who's Diego Costa? I'm 20% percent joking but I think lack of leaders is an understated element as far as our problems go

We're back

Maybe Lautaro wouldnt be a bad choice... Just import the Inter IP and have him and Big Rom roaming around

Honestly it was such a drop off in the way we played in his first game against Wolves. Went from dominating possesion, good partnership between Kai, Felix and Enzo (no great goalscorers I'll admit). I mean they were creating chances, on occasion actually playing some visually pleasing albeit frustrating football. And against Wolves...nothing. Championship tactics because rn no one from EPL plays that way...

Enzo and Kante are hardly dominating under Lampard though. It really looked better under Potter (why the hello Kante isnt playing DM/box to box now is beyond me)

Pochettino is stepping into third dysfunctional big business/football environment in a row (Spurs, PSG and now us). I kind of feel sorry for him. (Still hoping Clearlake will get their sh*t together though.)

Me too

The boys will give everything, Im sure of it

This is the probably the best line up we can come up with. Maybe Zakaria would be better than Kovacic but I don't know what happened to him lately, was he injured or just overlooked? Would prefer Badiashile over Koulibaly also but clearly thats not possible. Wonder about tactics. I actually think something similar to our play against Dortmund could work in Bernabeu. No Potter though so...hope the defensive line wont be to high up