6 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Milik is a much better finisher and better at linking play. More proven? Don't know how you've come to that conclusion, he's had one good season.

And Milik has had 0, hence the more proven. 

Better finisher? Nope

Link up play? Not sure but he has less assists in an easier league

2 hours ago, ENygma said:

And Milik has had 0, hence the more proven. 

Better finisher? Nope

Link up play? Not sure but he has less assists in an easier league

Milik had two fantastic season at Ajax, started well at Napoli before his injury and has come back and had another great season? 

The Serie A is a much more difficult league for an attacker than Bundesliga.

Ability wise, there is a solid argument that Jovic is better right now.  Throw in the fact that he's 5 years younger, would be similar cost-wise, and we wouldn't have to deal with ADL, I think it's a no brainer that you take Jovic over Milik.

44 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Milik had two fantastic season at Ajax, started well at Napoli before his injury and has come back and had another great season? 

The Serie A is a much more difficult league for an attacker than Bundesliga.

Not to knock on Serie A but the strikers we've bought from/played predominantly in Serie A have been underwhelming to say the least.

 

37 minutes ago, Deino said:

Not to knock on Serie A but the strikers we've bought from/played predominantly in Serie A have been underwhelming to say the least.

 

Salah has done better over here than Serie A, Ronaldo scoring much less over there. There's arguments both ways.

7 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Salah has done better over here than Serie A, Ronaldo scoring much less over there. There's arguments both ways.

Whilst true, it's also because other factors are at play as well eg. Salah has teammates now who is as dangerous as he is in the final third and Ronaldo basically had to carry the squad because the tactics at Juve were basically give Ronaldo the ball and hope for magic.

So agree to disagree?

6 hours ago, Deino said:

Whilst true, it's also because other factors are at play as well eg. Salah has teammates now who is as dangerous as he is in the final third and Ronaldo basically had to carry the squad because the tactics at Juve were basically give Ronaldo the ball and hope for magic.

So agree to disagree?

Sure this was Madrid's tactic for the last 10 years too hahaha

37 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Sure this was Madrid's tactic for the last 10 years too hahaha

Hahaha yeah except Madrid had Ronaldo at his peak years. Ronaldo is on the decline, granted it's a slow decline but a decline nonetheless.

1 minute ago, Deino said:

Hahaha yeah except Madrid had Ronaldo at his peak years. Ronaldo is on the decline, granted it's a slow decline but a decline nonetheless.

This is one of the reasons i think Sarri won't go to Juventus. Imagine trying to coach Ronaldo into a complete new brand of football, that doesn't fit his play style, whilst entering his decline. His ego and price tag would make him undroppable too. 

13 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

This is one of the reasons i think Sarri won't go to Juventus. Imagine trying to coach Ronaldo into a complete new brand of football, that doesn't fit his play style, whilst entering his decline. His ego and price tag would make him undroppable too. 

Can't say for sure. Despite his persona, I never heard of Ronaldo undermining any of his managers and normally just follow the instructions given. This one is a coin toss. Could go either way

6 hours ago, Deino said:

Can't say for sure. Despite his persona, I never heard of Ronaldo undermining any of his managers and normally just follow the instructions given. This one is a coin toss. Could go either way

I think Jose would disagree

We can still take players on loan apparently so what we should be looking at is who is out there that is top class but out of favour, bale comes to mind.

If we can take a couple of players off the big clubs who are so stacked that even top players lose their place we would do fine. 

On 30/05/2019 at 13:19, RIP Mourinho said:

Salah has done better over here than Serie A, Ronaldo scoring much less over there. There's arguments both ways.

While I agree I don’t think Salah would be anything special in any team bar Liverpool system was made for him  

6 hours ago, WalterWhiteCFC said:

We can still take players on loan apparently so what we should be looking at is who is out there that is top class but out of favour, bale comes to mind.

If we can take a couple of players off the big clubs who are so stacked that even top players lose their place we would do fine. 

I dont think that is true. We have a ban on registering players, if we loan a player they would have to be registered with us to play. 

Players like kovacic and higuian could stay because they are already registered, loan players could come back because we already own them. 

But other than that, we have what we have. 

We cant even sign players and send them out on loan, because they would have to be registered with us first. 

 

7 hours ago, big blue said:

I dont think that is true. We have a ban on registering players, if we loan a player they would have to be registered with us to play. 

Players like kovacic and higuian could stay because they are already registered, loan players could come back because we already own them. 

But other than that, we have what we have. 

We cant even sign players and send them out on loan, because they would have to be registered with us first. 

 

Not sure if this should be read “Chelsea can still sign NEW players on loan” or “Chelsea can sign EXISTING players that are on loan” but if you read on in that article it says we can extend Higuains loan but not sign him so the language indicates we can sign players on loan we just can’t buy players.  

Edited June 1, 20197 yr by WalterWhiteCFC

4 minutes ago, WalterWhiteCFC said:

Not sure if this should be read “Chelsea can still sign NEW players on loan” or “Chelsea can sign EXISTING players that are on loan” but if you read on in that article it says we can extend Higuains loan but not sign him so the language indicates we can sign players on loan we just can’t buy players.  

I’m reading that as we can only extend the loans for Higuain and Kovacic but cannot sign them permanently or sign anyone else on loan

3 minutes ago, mwblue10 said:

I’m reading that as we can only extend the loans for Higuain and Kovacic but cannot sign them permanently or sign anyone else on loan

Could be the case BBC day we can extend Higuain but not sign permanently Telepgraph said we can sign Higuain because of a clause but not Kovacic.

It would make things far easier if we can but like  @big blue said the issue isn’t with registering players.

We aren’t actually banned from buying players at all, we can buy who we like, we just can’t register them.

I’m not sure how registration works with loan players and if there is a loophole but it seems logical we would have to register them. 

21 minutes ago, WalterWhiteCFC said:

Could be the case BBC day we can extend Higuain but not sign permanently Telepgraph said we can sign Higuain because of a clause but not Kovacic.

It would make things far easier if we can but like  @big blue said the issue isn’t with registering players.

We aren’t actually banned from buying players at all, we can buy who we like, we just can’t register them.

I’m not sure how registration works with loan players and if there is a loophole but it seems logical we would have to register them. 

We cant loan players mate. It would make a transfer ban completely redundant since we could just a loan a player for 12 months and agree a price at the end of the loan. 

There hasnt been much clarity on kovacic or higuian, out of the two, higuian seems the most likely one we could keep, since tbere was already a clause in his contract thst allowed us to extend it. Whether we would is another story. 

Kovacic is slightly different, because it is unclear what the details of his initial loan were, and ive read conflicting reports about whether or not we could sign him. 

It is 100% though that we cant loan a new player though.

32 minutes ago, big blue said:

We cant loan players mate. It would make a transfer ban completely redundant since we could just a loan a player for 12 months and agree a price at the end of the loan. 

There hasnt been much clarity on kovacic or higuian, out of the two, higuian seems the most likely one we could keep, since tbere was already a clause in his contract thst allowed us to extend it. Whether we would is another story. 

Kovacic is slightly different, because it is unclear what the details of his initial loan were, and ive read conflicting reports about whether or not we could sign him. 

It is 100% though that we cant loan a new player though.

Shame.. like you said would have been an easy out, I suppose the fact we have an army of players in loan will come to our rescue hopefully 

It's gonna be quiet in this place for a while. ?

On 04/07/2019 at 07:28, Old Shaggy said:

It's gonna be quiet in this place for a while. ?

Thank f**k

1 hour ago, mad_mac said:

Thank f**k

I don't know, I kind of miss all of the truthful rumors that typically float about this time of year ?

1 hour ago, mwblue10 said:

I don't know, I kind of miss all of the truthful rumors that typically float about this time of year ?

If it wasn't for the transfer ban, then I am sure this would have been the season that we signed Hulk 

1 hour ago, Scott Harris said:

If it wasn't for the transfer ban, then I am sure this would have been the season that we signed Hulk 

I seen pics of him on his private jet heading for London.

Heard the same thing about Akinfenwa