10 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Not sure FIFA would be OK with a transfer fee that involves funding a military defensive.

Again once it's in their bank account, how they spend it is up to them. It obviously won't say 'transfer money going to soldiers' in their accounts. I  would suspect they are already distributing money to the effort.

Nice to see them giving some of that money to a good cause. 

Interesting video. The conclusion I got from this video is that Mudryk's price tag is almost certainly due to his apps in the CL, otherwise he'd be worth half the price. The Ukrainian league is lower level (obviously) than the PL and other top leagues in Europe, along with Shakhtar being one of the top two clubs in the Ukrainian league. A lot is basically what's been said a lot, such as he's raw, got bags of talent, but an unknown entity outside of a handful of CL appearances against teams who gave up space to Shakhtar. 

 

In regard to not smiling, if I was playing football when my schoolmates were off getting shelled I doubt if I’d be smiling that much. 
great to see the money being donated. That is somehow appropriate I think. 

8 hours ago, charierre said:

 

And that be why they wanted so much for him, and why he was happy to agree to Shaktars wishes.

Pretty sure all Ukraine players are more countries needs first, football desires second at the mo.

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18 hours ago, enigma said:

Interesting video. The conclusion I got from this video is that Mudryk's price tag is almost certainly due to his apps in the CL, otherwise he'd be worth half the price. The Ukrainian league is lower level (obviously) than the PL and other top leagues in Europe, along with Shakhtar being one of the top two clubs in the Ukrainian league. A lot is basically what's been said a lot, such as he's raw, got bags of talent, but an unknown entity outside of a handful of CL appearances against teams who gave up space to Shakhtar. 

 

It is interesting. Ta. 

 

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EXCLUSIVE with Shakhtar CEO Sergei Palkin, who reveals how Chelsea beat Arsenal to Mudryk. Total bid “exactly” same but speed of payments faster + add-ons more achievable

Shakhtar rebuked Arsenal for contacting Mudryk in October without permission

 

So all this bollock from Arsenal about them being unhappy with the way we signed him ad it turns out weve not gone in and threw money at them, its the same value as Arsenal and they were the ones who ballsed it by upsetting Shakhtar with an illegal approach of the player. 

Would be rather funny if he turns out to be an instant hit and Arsenal fans get agitated by the fact they could of landed him if they didn't piss off Shaktar. 

1 hour ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Would be rather funny if he turns out to be an instant hit and Arsenal fans get agitated by the fact they could of landed him if they didn't piss off Shaktar. 

It'd be same old same old. They did this with Zlatan, Messi, CR, Kante etc etc

He's going to have an absolute field day against Trent 1v1 with his pace.

2 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

He's going to have an absolute field day against Trent 1v1 with his pace.

Yep - he is going to rip TAA a new one....

....For the first 3 mins until he does his acl and gets taken off for the rest of the season. Only to lose all pace on his return, get dropped and then do a bogarde for the remaining 8 years of his contract.

But wow....what a first 3 mins!

7 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

Yep - he is going to rip TAA a new one....

....For the first 3 mins until he does his acl and gets taken off for the rest of the season. Only to lose all pace on his return, get dropped and then do a bogarde for the remaining 8 years of his contract.

But wow....what a first 3 mins!

🤫 not normally superstitious but...

 

I never fancied leao for Chelsea and the sterling comparison is stupid. At this stage of sterlings career. A  better comparator is sako. 

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Reports that the contract he's on is £97,000 p/w. Great bit of business if true. 

7 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Reports that the contract he's on is £97,000 p/w. Great bit of business if true. 

So £62m and less than £100k a week, thats pretty good going for an owner who knows nothing about football...

Looking forward to seeing Micky Mud play.

3 minutes ago, dkw said:

So £62m and less than £100k a week, thats pretty good going for an owner who knows nothing about football...

Looking forward to seeing Micky Mud play.

Ask any rival fan and they'll tell you it's £105m and £220k p/w. 

Boehly and co have actually done a fantastic job so far in building a team for the future. I imagine come 2024/25 season we're gonna have one hell of a squad with Casadei/Santos/Chukwuemeka/Hutchinson(?), Hall all playing larger roles. 

Am i wrong in saying behind City we might have the best owners in football?

Just now, RIP Mourinho said:

Ask any rival fan and they'll tell you it's £105m and £220k p/w. 

Boehly and co have actually done a fantastic job so far in building a team for the future. I imagine come 2024/25 season we're gonna have one hell of a squad with Casadei/Santos/Chukwuemeka/Hutchinson(?), Hall all playing larger roles. 

Am i wrong in saying behind City we might have the best owners in football?

There may be a lot of bonuses in that contract. Not that I have a major issue with that but what i've heard is that the owners are going for a lower base salary with significant bonuses for games/goals and so on.

 

5 minutes ago, OriginalS said:

There may be a lot of bonuses in that contract. Not that I have a major issue with that but what i've heard is that the owners are going for a lower base salary with significant bonuses for games/goals and so on.

 

All helps for FFP so that's fine with me. If they deliver they can happily have more money each week.

15 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

Yep - he is going to rip TAA a new one....

....For the first 3 mins until he does his acl and gets taken off for the rest of the season. Only to lose all pace on his return, get dropped and then do a bogarde for the remaining 8 years of his contract.

But wow....what a first 3 mins!

First post I've seen with a full house of emoticons LOL. "Bingo" !

Heard one interesting debates that Mudryk is used to deep defending and counter attacking. His strength is his speed so there might be concerns whether he’ll be suited to a slow possession based team?

 

Weve done it before with Werner and Lukaku. All speed merchants. 

Potter's team is and style is not possession based so we can expect Mudryk to have plenty of space to run into. Again I don't think that is our main problem. We have plenty of pace in Pulisic and Havertz..we lack the 'Cesc' who can play them in.

1 minute ago, evissy said:

Potter's team is and style is not possession based so we can expect Mudryk to have plenty of space to run into. Again I don't think that is our main problem. We have plenty of pace in Pulisic and Havertz..we lack the 'Cesc' who can play them in.

Potter is full on possession-football mate.

There is no discernible style right now. 

don't kid yourselves lads,  there is no style right now