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What's with his goal celebration? It's a pretty annoying one. No doubt him winning another world cup would make him looking down on Chelsea but the positive is he's going to garner solid interest. I forgot whether he already had a contract improvement ala palmer/jackson/caicedo, if not then it's going to boost his exit. The board totally overpaid for him so to cancel such transfer is the appropriate thing to do. His replacement shouldn't be too hard to find.

Just when I thought england might do it under the best manager they have in decades, it's still the same old story. First half seemed evenly contested, after the goal, england just park the bus. Another example why I said best defence is not by relinquishing possession inviting all sorts of pressure especially when the stake is at high, it's double the pressure. Did tuchel worry about the solorth-haland gap scenario? I suppose it's better to concede playing that way rather than what has unfolded. Btw, england's cross were dogsh*t compared to argentina's, not taking trent seems like a mistake now.

The bizarre thing is why sold him in such a hasty manner? I reckon Chelsea could have an additional 7-10 millions after word cup.. It's not like there were lack of suitors, he's already a euro winner.

It's been discussed before, tuchel messed him up.. rodri played in 3 games prior to that final and all 3 ended up in a defeat.

Battle of Wits? This example is too good to ignore. The so called pundits trying to sugarcoat it as if the stick rather than carrot that worked for bellingham. I suppose tuchel's big name reputation plays to his advantage but it can not be healthy when a manager and star player having a beef with each other. Gotta feel it for bellingham, if he plays poor, people will say that tuchel is vindicated but if he plays greatly, well it's because like what the above article is suggesting. Have to admit bellingham surprised me, I thought he's just another overhyped english player but now he seems on course to greatness since gerrard/lampard. This year will be england best chance to finally win the world cup in modern era.

Would you? Even if they do, we can't say for sure it's a bad business considering those players have drawback.

Based on his time here, he's decent, not great not poor overall, can't really say it's outright a bad business because 50mils is also decent for just decent player.

If the board was not serious in this transfer then they didn't do a good job in their pretending play. It's easy to see sunderland won't even entertain anything less than 15 mils so 12 mils bid is a safebet.

Limited talent and looks like in a permanent puberty state.. bound to fail

So that's you ideal way? took you long enough. Leave it to the board while they had no intention of letting him go. In that scenario of yours, maresca would have stayed. You're banking as if the board wanted to negotiate in the first place. Okay, just ask you a point blank question, no need to drag this further: Do you prefer him 'behaved' but ended up staying or did what he did that saw him gone with Chelsea getting compensation in return?

Your sequential timeline is a bit vague. According to you, the initial meeting was nothing concrete because city still had pep in mind but then when did the meeting get serious that prompted maresca to resign? It's naive to think maresca resigned on his own without the backing from city.

So you think he should not meet city at all and keep leading Chelsea on a winless run? because had he stayed, results unlikely to get much better. Or you think he should meet city in secret? How should the whole situation unfold ideally in your mind? Remember that you want him gone and not paying a dime. For that to happen, there is a need for a taker and the meeting needed to take place somehow somewhere. On Mutu case, wait until you found out his petulant entitled response to the fine he got saying the punishment should be just him doing a public service work in, of all places, his own country. Very convenient for him, what a genuine prick. Btw, what does mutu case have anything to do with this?

Okay, you acknowledge that tapping up is a common practice so should be no argument there, right? However, in maresca case, you deduce it's not a simple tapping up but something like just an informal way of sounding him out without any concrete promise to hire him? just very casual chit chat? It was then maresca who forced city hand by resigning so that city got scared and acted out? How maresca even dare to resign (forfeiting the money in his remaining contract and possibly penalty fine) if city never giving him assurance in the first place? It's a big amount of money involved there, I don't think he would be that bold to make such gamble. City could just back away since it's not much of a tapping up case if it's just a casual talk.

But he did get hired and results were not that good, a more competent manager would have got more out of the team so we wanted him gone but we don't want to pay.. I see city approach as the solution there but perhaps you have a better more ideal solution? Btw, what are these insults and disrespects of the club that you mentioned? was it about his 'worst 48 hours' presscon? or was it about he entertain city approach while still under contract? or something else? Do tell cause I might have missed them.

it seems like you still have feeling for her despite her shortcoming because if not then what stopping you from breaking up with her long before she cheat? A better analogy would be a husband who has been bitching his wife all the time but can't afford the divorce but when the wife found a way to grant his wish, the husband still bitching about it. Depending on where individual stand on this, your analogy is maybe true in your case and my analogy is not necessarily directed at you.