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Often wondered does a footballer playing for the Netherlands get a Dutch cap ?

Wasn’t his “ dream to live in Madrid “ ? Pretty sure he didn’t say Real as his preferred destination. When it comes to what they would pay they paid vast money for Felix and that was what 7 years ago so add that to the fact that slowly they are slipping down the league and getting less points than I think they probably will need to be making some sort of statement. I certainly dodnt dismiss the possibility of him going to Atletico for +£100m

Not sure I agree re Anselmino . From what is being rumoured, yes I know, Badiashille is very likely to go and a deal has been agreed with Disasi to go to WHU but at this time his agents are trying to get him a deal with a PL club. Tosin I agree is 50% . Add to the mix Sarr who did ok when he played & of course Fofana who I personally would be happy to see gone. Let’s assume that we do go with 3CB we have I guess on Colwill, Josh, Hato & maybe Reece but I think we need two a Edit. Forgot Challobah who I think is almost certainly off

Under RA we had Chelsea TV and was certainly something that you had to pay for. I have subscribed to get this additional content and to be honest when I will as part of the package get access to all 5 PSF sorry I don’t see the £14.99 Pa cost that too expensive.

Yes he was at pst. A couple who weren’t there that was of interest Garnacho and Guiu . There are a couple of others not there I have just notified Dissasi and Hato and Badishelle ( spelling) Every Chelsea player pictured at day one of pre-season trainingWesley Fofana Geovany Quenda Levi Colwill Emanuel Emegha Liam Delap Ryan Kavuma-McQueen Cole Palmer Reggie Walsh Landon Emenalo Josh Acheampong Estevao Joao Pedro Romeo Lavia Jamie Gittens Tosin Adarabioyo Robert Sanchez Filip Jorgensen Dario Essugo

We will never get to see details on a player by player basis but a chunk of our 24/25 loss was down to player impairment and my guess is that in 25/26 we will see another chunk impaired. My point is that in the case of Lavia it’s quite likely that we have already accounted for loss

Fingers crossed

Being reported that he is the subject of a £25m offer from WHU. He is said to be on £80k a week or £4m Pa Current book value , well there are two. UEFA restricted the period of amortisation before he signed and PL after. Cost €45m or £38.36m UEFA value £15.4m . The PL value £19.34m which is also the value in the accounts. If we get £25m add to that the €8 m (£6.8m) we are said to have pocket for his two loans. Purely in terms of his fee loss circa £6.5 m His SCR cost , again there are two UEFA £ £11.65m and PL £10.39m. Thats circa 2% of our total squad cost spend . We are looking to cut around 10%

Palace , because of their participation in the EL, can not exceed 70% of income in squad costs. Their wage bill in 2024/25 was &145 m and amortisation £53 m . There total income was £195 m. Ok things have changed since 30/6/25 for instance the allowable sum is down 10%, they sold a couple of high value players but they also signed some high value ones as well I very much doubt that they can realistically increase their squad costs by much if at all and If I had to guess it would be that they are going to have to sell one maybe even two players Re Wharton he still has three years left on a deal with reported wages of £35k a week.

Santos only ever completed 3 full PL games playing 1200 minutes in the PL in total. He for me is likely to be a squad player he simply isn’t a starter. Given time he may well develop into a top talent but there again he might not. Only time will tell. When Salah left us I can’t remember anyone saying it was a mistake . Likewise when Mason left us most were moaning about the transfer being a mistake. If you are looking at this point in time then you are right it’s exactly the sort of transfer that justifies the model. .

Just to fan the flames here is one journalists rating re last nights game https://www.livescore.com/en/news/football/world-cup/argentina-vs-egypt-player-ratings-and-match-stats-lionel-messi-8-3-10-mohamed-salah-6-6-10/

That just goes to prove my point. You clearly don’t rate them and that’s fair enough but in say the case of Gusto he is said to have suitors both in England and although I haven’t picket up which club it’s said there are others outside of England that are monitoring his position.

And Gusto could start for France.

First off you didn’t ask me to name his best performances that was celery king you asked. If you read my previous posts I talked about consistency (7or8 out of 10) by virtue of that I wouldn’t class him as the type of player whose performances vary too much from game to game so picking out his best 10 games I would cstruggle to do. You rate Anderson as they say football is all about opinions . Of course Tonali and Anderson would get into our squad not sure anyone has said otherwise. Tonali I personally don’t rate that highly . As for Palmer matching goals well in the PL you are right 10 each Palmer 5 penalties Fernandez 2. In all game Fernandez 15 of which 5 were penalties Palmer 11 of which 5 were penalties. When it came to assists Fernandez 7 Palmer 3. Now of course to gain context you need to look at games played etc but them is the numbers.

I think you are looking at this the wrong way. Rarely do I see him as a 9or10 out of 10 type player but I see a player that is a consistent say7 or 8 out of 10. I think Joao Pedro was our player of the season and he did indeed have a good to very good first season but I would have to see in many games he simply wasn’t close to an 8 out of 10 . For instance Newcastle away he was poor for most of the game save one moment of class and that immediately shaped his marking for the game. You do know that there are at least 21 other players on the pitch who can be voted for as player of the match don’t you ? For the majority of games If I had name a player I would put him as a candidate in say the top 3or4 but like many my decision would be based on a moment of brilliance or maybe from a player who scores multiple goals in a game. His , Enzo, game isn’t just about goals scored although season on season his numbers have been improving in that area. You talk about players being brilliant. So a question to you. Is Palmer consistently brilliant ? Is Elliott Anderson even close to being brilliant or what about Tonali ? Decent players yes and now both with a£100 m price tag but look at the stats neither gets close to the goal involvements from midfield that Enzo does . See here’s the thing Enzo disappoints me I think he is a far better player , potentially, than we have witnessed. Would I say he is potentially worth £100+ million ? In today’s market yes. Would I want us to pay that sum for a player of similar age and abilities? No but alas that is today’s market