Barrettinator

I still insist I'm not sure of his ability to play a Right Forward role seeing as he's a number 10. If we get him and he proves me wrong then fair play to him.

Apart from the CL but, perhaps he sees a guaranteed starting spot slotting in as a direct replacement for Xabi Alonso. If we'd signed him, we'd have likely signed Bakayoko as well. He'd be on the bench a fair bit and have 35-40 total appearances all season with maybe 20% of them being sub appearances. I can see the reasoning behind his decision. Bayern might want to offload Renato Sanches now though, whom I wouldn't mind us going after.

Bayern were his preferred choice.

Fair enough, apologies for that. It should be clear I was talking about his footballing career/talents alone. RIP to him.

Well he's off to Bayern. Gutted. Maybe Baker can play a similar role for us?

Tell that to the folks saying Naby Keita's YouTube videos do him no justice. Fella looks like another Chiek Tiote.

The rumours are rubbish. He's not going to City.

Conte please seal this. Can't let him go to Bayern.

There's no need to sign an old CB. If I had to get one Juve player, I'd get Sandro.

You have to realize a lot of the foreign fans online that spout nonsense are actually 17 year old kids. More to do with their youth than anything.

Not sure why anybody seriously thinks Arsenal can get this kid. They deliberately bid below Madrid's bid for a reason. It's all for show to get their fans to buy season tickets. By next week there'll be an "Arsenal end interest in Mbappe" story which coincides with their season tickets being sold out.

Kante's was a release clause Leicester had placed on him after signing him for £5m the year before. If they had known he'd end of being a monster of a player on this league, I'm sure they'd have made it a £50m release clause.

Love foreign fans. It shows the club is growing. Real, Barca and United probably have the most foreign fans. It's no surprise they're also the 3 biggest clubs in football. The more foreign fans the better.

Palmeri is one of the worst journos on twitter when it comes to transfers. I don't think he has gotten even 20% of his "rumours" right. And I've known him for about 5 years. "BOOM: Cavani to Chelsea done deal CONFIRMED!!!"

Got to say I truly respect you for coming around to this opinion especially as you've fervently defended him even recently. Many football fans don't like to admit it when they're wrong. Cheers.

Problem with Mourinho. Problem with Conte. Maybe you're the problem?

Honestly don't see what's wrong with sending that via text.

"I don't know why"?????? He selfishly tried to leave us last summer after coming in overweight for 15/16, downing tools, throwing bibs at the manager, etc. Tried to leave us again and disrupted team harmony IN JANUARY. Sure you don't know why Diego? We're sick of your childishness, that's why. You can leave now. Thanks for the goals when you did score but goodbye and good riddance.

Reckon Costa said this publicly on purpose to drive down our asking price and f**k us over one last time. Top lad.

What reason would Costa have to come out and lie against his manager especially when he knows it's currently impossible for him to go to the only other club he'd have loved to go to?

Dumped via text. I love Conte.

Back in 2004, Hazard would have cost 12m at that stage of his career. The market inflates as the years roll by although the inflation over the last 3 years has been insane.

Link? I think 50m is good money to spend on a player of his quality btw.

Why do we need an attacking midfielder? We don't play with one. Unless you mean a Right Forward.

Arsenal dangling cash in front of Monaco when they know they can never actually get Mbappe. Just a ploy to make their fans think they're serious about signing the best of the best. Classic case of "at least we tried". Pathetic.