Barrettinator

Ahhhh I completely forgot about that! Brilliant!

Is it true he's been given number 25? I hope not. Looks like a lovely lad but I don't find that funny.

Plus a year from now, we'll be competing in the CL. If by some stroke of luck we win, we'll have to add CWC to that as well.

I think Boehly and John Henry are rumored to have some billionaire beef as well. Not sure how true that is but it's funny. Especially because they both own two top baseball teams as well.

In a 4-3-3, Lavia-Caicedo-Enzo is an absolutely mental, well balanced midfield who can resist almost any kind of pressure. Once upon a time, we had Lampard, Ballack, Essien, Makelele, Diarra, Geremi, etc all in the same team and we were a scary team to play. Man City basically have two quality players for every single position bar GK and they've been just fine bar Cancelo falling out with pep after about 3 or 4 years. It was only a few years ago they had Aguero, Dzeko, Balotelli and (I forget the name of the other '-ovic' name sounding bloke). Seems it's all been working out for them. Even now, Madrid have Kroos, Modric, Tchouameni, Kamavinga and Valverde all in the same midfield. We either want to challenge at the absolute top or we don't. I have no problem at all with this signing, now that I've put that into perspective personally.

A Man City youth product. Hopefully this is our 'revenge' for KDB.

I saw 10% somewhere. Can't be more than 20%.

Obligatory bitter Brighton fan, despite making a killing from the transfer.

It's like people have been asleep the entire 20 years really. The punishment is not forthcoming. All that's happened is that one year ban ... where they signed a 60 million pound player practically the same day it was handed to them.

I think we should try to get Kasper Schmeichel. 36 years old. Won't moan as a backup and would actually be decent. There's no world class forward available to get. Just really good players with high potential. And we've all but wrapped up a deal for Lavia too so I think the plan is in line with what you've said.

Not the best but definitely up there. Madrid and City are still ahead imo. But that would depend on how well these lads continue to improve.

Red tears taste like honey

Big fan of your profile picture mate 😂😂🤣

I genuinely forgot we still had Sarr on the books. A genuinely pointless signing tbh. But we should be able to 70m from those 4 players. I actually hope we keep Gallagher. Consider how deep City's defense and midfield is. There's no reason we can't have similar depth. Enzo, Caicedo, Lavia, Gallagher, Chukwuemeka is a genuinely potent midfield. Great to have for next season when we'll be in Europe too and the season after that when we'll be playing in the CWC (I'm allowed to dream).

Yep. We've needed a complete squad rebuild for a while now. We're back to that 2005-2010 period where we just made one or two signings here and there to complement the squad. Midfield rebuilt, attack rebuilt, defence rebuilt as well.

Essentially another loophole we seem to have exploited. So essentially, for UEFA, the armotisation starts next season, since we aren't in Europe this year. Which just gives us one extra year (23/24) to spread that payment without falling foul of UEFA's new rule. I have no idea if this played into their thought process but it gives us even more wriggle room payment wise. Brilliant.

Gallagher's performance today has me wondering if we actually need this lad.

I don't forsee any more HUGE transfer windows for us in the near future. Looks like we're mostly set, bar a few tweaks.

BREAKING: LIVERPOOL END UP AS FIRST CLUB TO WIN A TROPHY WORSE THAN THE COMMUNITY SHIELD. 'WE MADE THEM PAY MORE' CHAMPIONS 2023

As far as the structure of the deal itself, we got absolutely RINSED by Brighton and we have Liverpool to thank for that. But in the end, it won't matter if he reaches his potential.

I think I read somewhere the wages are performance related so it looks like they have every base covered. We've had flops before so not too worried.

Quite nice of Boehly and co to wait till after the game to leak this out. Can't say I'd have been that gracious myself. I'd have leaked it 15 mins to kickoff.