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Welcome back Axel Disasi!

Wonder what Alonsos facial expression will be when our marvelous directors tell him he has to make do with Neto as his left wing back, and Badishille and Disasi as his "new" center back signings?

You are forgetting whatever has been spent to bring in Quenda, Emegha and Barco. Now with Uefas FFP system switching to this squad cost ratio, along with the PL PSR system I wonder have the sales of Santos, Cucurella and George, along with Trev's sale coming up, been enough to satisfy these both? Do we need more sales just to meet them? Or more sales to make money available for a few more 18-21 year olds? I have no idea how Uefas squad cost ratio system works, anyone care to fill those of us who have no clue in?

Wasn't his release clause reported to Be around 23mill euros? Now it is 50mill euros? One of those that increases based on the date? If it has been 50mill all along I agree find someone else Xabi but if it was around 23mill before then I blame them for not getting it done before this happened.

Ahha it all makes sense now. I was so confused earlier. I read our own @GarnachoCheese saying he wanted us to be rid of all Argentines from our squad, but that just did not make sense given that would include his namesake. But now you have cleared that fog of confusion for me Sconnie. Thank you!

Some rumours about he, or rather his people, are in discussions with Atletico. I don't see how that happens. His "dream" is to play for Real and I don't expect Atletico would offer even 80mill never mind close to 120mill.

American owners happy their prized asset value went up. Where have they ever shown any care for our history, our roots, our clubs being English? They'd move us to the states in a heart beat if it made them Money. But hey they still Have plenty of people everywhere who defender everything they do. Even on here.

Big if here but.... IF Enzo can play a big part in Messi lifting back to back world cups surely that has to mean he gets his move this summer maybe even Real Have to change their minds.

Whether you rate them or not England have multiple out ball options to send on. Instead the knackered Kane, Bellingham and Rogers were left on to toil. Poor show by TT.

Agreed Val. My point was more that England switched to 6 defenders plus Anderson to see out against a very good technical team, not a lump it side like Mexico. Was too many defenders for me, not enough out ball options or leaders in the middle of midfield.

Will always have respect for TT and what he helped us to achieve. Today though he messed up big with those subs. To end up having Spence, Guehi, Stone's, Burn, Konsa and O'Rielly at the same time? Did he think we were facing stoke.

Not a surprise he did that. Now will someone make a offer for him? Still could be a back to back world champion ya know Real

Is our mo. Over value our own players, Gusto 75mill, Garnacho 45mill, Enzo 120mill while under valuing players we try to sign. I mean I get trying to get the best deal you can, but keep it within range of reality.

Agreed. Far as what Finklestien said how about we stop dropping millions each year on no front of shirt sponsor for the club to make money on eh?

If he is going on loan then it HAS to be with a buy obligation, and not one of those buy obligations you can get out of ala Bayern and Jackson or us with Sancho. His book value next summer would be 24mill, get Roma, or whoever, to pay a 10mill loan fee and the obligation to be 30mill. Put this mess behind us and deal with the multiple other messes BlueCo still have to deal with.

I've seen the fee reported to be around 33.5mill. Will need a fair few more sales as what we have done already may have been used up on Palestra, Emegha, Quenda and Barco.

I've seen the fee reported to be around 33.5mill. Will need a fair few more sales as what we have done already may have been used up on Palestra, Emegha, Quenda and Barco.

Hmm for the highlighted there is also the possibility of: "The club felt the returning Axel Disasi to be like a new signings and after his excellent spell at West ham now view him as ideal for Alonsos back 3" Or: "Both Benoit Badishille and Wesley Fofana have impressed Xabi Alonso with their all around, mature play in training and the club no longer felt the need to to add further reinforcements in this position" Or perhaps even: "Xabi Alonso has been left awestruck by the commanding displays of Tosin, with the new manager now believed to view him as an unsaleable asset and key figure to his backline"

Not been a lot of news on this since Inter Milan registered their interest. Como are said to have moved on to former Spud Davidson Sanchez, inter have stalled on making an offer.

Orlando Gill linked with going to United. Looked good at the world cup, is he worth a look? Also Brazilian reports say we don't want a squad without a Santos so want to replace Andrey with Danilo from Botafogo.

Seems unlikely though. I mean the carrot has been out about us giving Alonso everything he wants and adding expierence but, so far, that 25 and under policy remains in place. Xhaka move failed. That Rayo left back move looks off as we won't pay the release cause and they are not shifting from it. Lacroix deal has gone silent. No issue adding the young right back from Atlanta though. One player under 25 done quick sharp.

We don't do release clauses though. They require the full amount up front in one payment. Seems like every summer we are linked with this keeper. Another for the Hulk and Vhalovic files.

Rest in peace Uncle Ken. Saved the club, built a wonderful team to watch and made sure we went to an owner who loved us and gave us our golden era. Thank you Mr. Bates.

Could be that too aye.

Saving Barco to announce when we sell someone else, ala Quenda with the Santos sale perhaps. Lavia cannot help our midfield issues, he cannot even complete 90 minutes.