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We are going to look very foolish because of this transfer.

Well down Gary you planner

Here we go again

didnt UEFA say FFP rules were being relaxed?

Thats a depressing read! Our trophy haul hasnt been bad though. I think its key to not get too attached to any manager now :(

I agree, I cant stand us selling to rivals especially, we shouldn't be doing that!

I think its worth bearing in mind that the club (i.e. Roman) are planning to shell out many hundreds of millions building a new stadium. Even oligarch's can make use of a magic money tree.... if one was available! We cant have everything all the time, and its probably unreasonable to expect mass fortunes to be spent every season, especially when the building work is hopefully starting in the very near future. We have landed Morata, which is a huge coup, we just need a few reasonable squad players as cover in case we get some injuries. There is time yet, lets not panic.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth.

Thats a good point

We only really have Gary Cahill now as the last English man in our team, who will actually get a game!

From Conte himself “I think now is not the right moment for Chelsea to spend so much money on one player because we need many players. It’s important to divide this amount of money to buy many players. “I think only one player is not enough to improve our team, we need more players, not of top level like Neymar, but more players to improve our squad, our quality, and our numerical aspect, now we are a few players [short].”

Could be right. Although I would like to think he has protection in place for this.

Hope the big man is doing ok.

What about Danny Eatburger?

Does seem like we have left it much too late, but you never know if we will get some 11th hour deals. We have a good first 11, past that we are wafer thin. It is a worry. However, had we won yesterday easily, we may not see any reinvestment, maybe the bad results will spur on more business. Its all awfully quiet !

Remember David Moyes won the charity shield... today means f**k all. Relax and worry after we are 10 games in.

Time to move this thread to the general football thread, with a re title I think.

Thats if Neymar wants to buy out himself yes, but in this instance its PSG fronting the cash, which is appearing to make it a different case.

La Liga are saying the release clause only guarantees transfers for teams in Spain.

Neymar deal blocked by UEFAlona & La Liga

Theres always a new kid on the block!

With well over £300M to spend on fresh blood, I dont think Barca will struggle for long...

Once the toothpaste is out it cant be put back in again, same as being abusive and not being culpable for it.

I like it, looks clean.... reealll clean!

Anyone else think Jose will be in the title hunt this year? His second season is usually his best..