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My word. Hard to know where to start with this post.

Agreed Spiller, just can't see Napoli selling 2 big names within a few weeks, whatever the money. The fans will go insane.

Anyone know where Costa was ? Just read through the thread, some of the comments are outrageous, not least for a pre season friendly.

But they don't half look comfy

from what i From the pics i am seeing looks like they are staying at The Beverly Hills Hotel. Niiiiiiice.

What, when we tried to sign one of their players using a flawed bidding strategy and went public about the whole thing throughout ?'

They've already been shipped off to Vitesse

Now that Higuain to Juve is all but confirmed this could well affect this possible deal? Pretty sure Napoil are not going to want to lose two important players in the space of a few weeks. I do hope we have alternatives.

They are welcome to him - he's no better than Mikel

You've got to pity anyone who buys into this...a 'stormy 2 hours summit' ffs

Yeah, this'll last.

He's absolutely no better (or quicker!) than Mikel, but surely that's a bollocks story?

You've got to applaud the club for this one. It's a staggering signing, I'd never have given us a chance in hell of getting him bearing in mind the nonsense we went through last season and that we are not in Europe. I'm amazed he has chosen us - no way we would've been the only club in for him. Clearly we still have some sort of pull (£ and London!) and I'm pretty sure the presence of Conte was a massive factor too. I think Conte is a massive coup for us I really do. If the lad is half as good as he was last season, for £30m we are laughing. It'll be like having Maka back again. Just what we needed. Thumbs up from me

He's going to City. I'd love to have had him (even for the astronomical price), but our time was last year and we've missed the boat now. It really was a shambolic pursuit.

Id argue knock out stage Champions League level is unquestionably a higher level than international football.

Ballack has certainly never been replaced

I just can't believe this. He played twice as well as any CFC left back last season. If ever a loanee deserved his chance it was Ake. What sort of message does this send out. He can't have done any more. I hope he puts in a transfer request next year, no one could blame him. So frustrating. I despair.

I'm smelling a Kalou here

Not convinced about Witsel either and he'd prob cost even more!

Totally agree. We need some midfield power no doubt but we could get a similar player that offers the same for less than half the price elsewhere i'm sure.

He definitely is better than Baba. Hope he is back with us next year and is our first choice left back. He deserves it.

Come on. We get this complaint every year. Only a handful of transfers have been completed so far. The window doesn't even officially open until 1st July anyway. Not to mention the two major football tournaments happening across different sides of the world. It was always going to be a slow start, things will start to happen early to mid July I'm sure.

Cant judge the guy on one game but i do hope we dont break the bank for him. Hes meant to have a fantastic engine and i didnt see much evidence of that last night, which is he very least id expect from an 'all action midfielder' even if your team are being outplayed and out thought. Still lets give him the benefit of the doubt. But i do have my doubts if this is a £40m player, or even close to that. We might as well go for Joe Ledley. He offers the same.

We are going to raise our bids by £1m per fortnight untill the end of August when Man Utd will make one bid and sign him for £45 million and we then will sign Tiago on a 1 year loan deal.

Be staggered if there is anything to these stories. I figured the last manager Matic would want to play for is Jose - Matic was broken almost beyond repair last season and Jose hardly did his best to help him and in fact I thought he may have added to his issues.