2 minutes ago, Blueboys said:

A player that can’t get a game a Juve. Just what we need 

Well some fans are saying after the midweek shambles anyone will do. Can’t we just bid £50m for McTominay?

Oh FFS

5 minutes ago, Sheva said:

Denis Zakaria now.

Do you think Tuchel has Football Manager open with the CDM filter.

What's the CDM filter?

3 minutes ago, ducavis said:

Well some fans are saying after the midweek shambles anyone will do. Can’t we just bid £50m for McTominay?

Double it and we could get Fred too!

8 minutes ago, sonic90 said:

We're moving like amateurs in the market without Marina, we seem to be struggling to get deals over the line or they are dragging out too long.

Just heard on Sky that Marina wanted to buy Anthony two years ago at £15m after being offered him by Ajax. The higher ups at Chelsea turned her down. Man Utd just paid £85m for him two years later.

Kinda sad  lot of people gave Marina sh*t while she was here. One summer without her and it clearly shows how important she was for transfer negotiations.

4 minutes ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

Kinda sad  lot of people gave Marina sh*t while she was here. One summer without her and it clearly shows how important she was for transfer negotiations.

We've really missed her shrewdness this summer.

Last seasons window of Lukaku for £100m and Saul was the stuff of legends.

Edited September 1, 20223 yr by HazardousChoice

1 minute ago, HazardousChoice said:

We've really missed her shrewdness this summer.

Last seasons window of Lukaku for £100m and Saul was the stuff of legends.

Conveniently ignoring the fact that we got rejected by Haaland, and instead of working with & developing Tammy the manager told her to sign Lukaku. He is repeating the same mistakes this summer again.

15 minutes ago, hawkster said:

Oh FFS

Meh I am gonna try and not get upset or angry about this for a while. I feel it is very unlikely we make top 4 and accept this is a season  of huge transition we came in to without a much needed director of football. Todd and Co will have a steep learning curve but at least they are showing genuine interest and putting their money where their mouths are.

15 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Just heard on Sky that Marina wanted to buy Anthony two years ago at £15m after being offered him by Ajax. The higher ups at Chelsea turned her down. Man Utd just paid £85m for him two years later.

How true could that be though? 2 years ago he only joined Ajax

7 minutes ago, sonic90 said:

How true could that be though? 2 years ago he only joined Ajax

Maybe he went to Ajax after we didn't move on him, i don't know. I just assumed he was offered by Ajax. Don't knwo where he was before that tbh

He best get back to training. Deal is off.

47 minutes ago, sonic90 said:

We're moving like amateurs in the market without Marina, we seem to be struggling to get deals over the line or they are dragging out too long.

Because we have been notoriously amazing and fast before this season...?

39 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Just heard on Sky that Marina wanted to buy Anthony two years ago at £15m after being offered him by Ajax. The higher ups at Chelsea turned her down. Man Utd just paid £85m for him two years later.

Yeah Antony is probably only worth £22 million.  Utd been fleeced as usual.

The last good window we had was 2014, 8 years ago. Let's not pretend that things have been bad this year because we no longer have Marina.

2020 was probably the closest we have been to having a good transfer window in years, and even then we signed 3 players for big money that never actually fit how we wanted to play.

4 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

The last good window we had was 2014, 8 years ago. Let's not pretend that things have been bad this year because we no longer have Marina.

2020 was probably the closest we have been to having a good transfer window in years, and even then we signed 3 players for big money that never actually fit how we wanted to play.

We def haven't had good transfer windows since the Costa and Fabregas window but at least there haven't been issues with negotiations. With Marina you usually knew if we were getting the player or not after 1 or two meetings this summer it has taken us four or more meetings with representatives before getting a player or learning that we won't get them.

Shame this one looks dead in the water, looks like a profile we could do with. 

2 hours ago, Zeta said:

Because we have been notoriously amazing and fast before this season...?

There was more of a limited budget before boehly you fool

6 minutes ago, sonic90 said:

There was more of a limited budget before boehly you fool

That the same budget that saw us spunk 100m on Lukaku? 70m on Kepa? 70m on Havertz? etc...? It's no different really. And there's no need to get all defensive and start name-calling like a child.

1 hour ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

We def haven't had good transfer windows since the Costa and Fabregas window but at least there haven't been issues with negotiations. With Marina you usually knew if we were getting the player or not after 1 or two meetings this summer it has taken us four or more meetings with representatives before getting a player or learning that we won't get them.

Marina did her job perfectly. Not her fault that the players she was negotiating for were sometimes bad, the deals were not and definitely not her fault that the managers had no clue what to do with many players and who to give time and patience for, we were the team that could have had in the same lineup De Bruyne in the middle, Hazard on the left and Salah on the right, we blew it. 

51 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

Marina did her job perfectly. Not her fault that the players she was negotiating for were sometimes bad, the deals were not and definitely not her fault that the managers had no clue what to do with many players and who to give time and patience for, we were the team that could have had in the same lineup De Bruyne in the middle, Hazard on the left and Salah on the right, we blew it. 

The De Bruyne, Hazard and Salah signings were nothing to do with Marina - as well you know Gol15 🙂 

She was however in charge for the 12 players signed since 2016 who have subsequently been sold for a £217 million loss on what was paid for them, and that figure will only get worse when Bakayoko, Kepa, Lukaku, Ziyech, Pulisic etc etc leave the club.

1 hour ago, Zeta said:

That the same budget that saw us spunk 100m on Lukaku? 70m on Kepa? 70m on Havertz? etc...? It's no different really. And there's no need to get all defensive and start name-calling like a child.

I only said that cause you never engage, I don't think you ever replied to me whenever I discussed things before. I've encountered this behaviour before in other forums and they always reply when it's a clapback. No hard feelings just wanted to satisfy my psychological curiosity.

I have more to say on Marina and previous transfers but I know you are not interested in a debate.

19 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

The De Bruyne, Hazard and Salah signings were nothing to do with Marina - as well you know Gol15 🙂 

She was however in charge for the 12 players signed since 2016 who have subsequently been sold for a £217 million loss on what was paid for them, and that figure will only get worse when Bakayoko, Kepa, Lukaku, Ziyech, Pulisic etc etc leave the club.

My point is that the managers in charge were far more damaging than she was, in no way did she ever make any decision that hurt the club. Big clubs don't really get to have a net win usually, we only had one at some point due to the transfer ban after which we sold Hazard for 100m+. Again, she makes the deals, she doesn't scout the players so when Conte was super confident that Bakayoko and Morata will be new key players she made the deals, same when the club identified that somehow Kepa is the future and such a talented keeper and all she had to do was to hurry up cause we had no keeper and it was no different when Tuchel wanted Lukaku after Haaland wasn't going to sign.

After Napoli and Pool punt Cleaning Solution out of the CL I wonder if we will try and line him up for early January, or maybe Sangare.

23 hours ago, Gol15 said:

... different when Tuchel wanted Lukaku after Haaland wasn't going to sign....

Just curious: are there any infos out there that Tuchel actually wanted Lukaku? For such an expensive player he was dropped almost asap and not a lot of adjustments were tried to make him work - that would be quite some stance from a coach that's been at the club for six months only (CL win, top4 finsish plus cup final..but still). I read, but that's only hearsay, that Marina and Chech were leaving much earlier than anticipated and that it's been mostly about their stance re getting Lukaku and Wernder out asap which they were very much opposed to. Todd sided with TT (probably since at leat Marina wasn't going to stay longterm anyway) and Lukaku was almost given away for free at the very first moment. Also quite some hardball Tuchel would be playing here if he really wanted Romelu in the first place.