Worst haircut since Ethan Ampadu

I like him and think he’d be a good signing, my main worry is that we’ll pull out over the price and go for Garnacho instead.

12 minutes ago, 2211 said:

I like him and think he’d be a good signing, my main worry is that we’ll pull out over the price and go for Garnacho instead.

Same. Doubt the club will want to pay that much given he has 2 years remaining, and Leipzig will certainly want to make a profit at least.

I reckon Leipzig are hoping the Diaz deal falls through and Bayern come in for Simons.

Garnacho/Jackson swap looming in the horizon

2 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Same. Doubt the club will want to pay that much given he has 2 years remaining, and Leipzig will certainly want to make a profit at least.

I reckon Leipzig are hoping the Diaz deal falls through and Bayern come in for Simons.

Garnacho/Jackson swap looming in the horizon

Yep, I think they paid £60m including bonuses earlier this year so I'd be surprised if they let him go for much less than the reported £60m asking price.

I think I'd rather keep Jackson than swap for Ganarcho lol.

While Garnarcho on his day is a good player, I think his attitude and social media posts around the time of the Europa Cup final set off some serious alarm bells about him.

Sounds like it’s getting there.

“Understand Chelsea and RB Leipzig are now in advanced talks for Xavi Simons.

Negotiations club to club progressing well, still work to do but heading positive direction.

Xavi, keen on Chelsea project with personal terms talks also advanced.”

28 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Sounds like it’s getting there.

“Understand Chelsea and RB Leipzig are now in advanced talks for Xavi Simons.

Negotiations club to club progressing well, still work to do but heading positive direction.

Xavi, keen on Chelsea project with personal terms talks also advanced.”

Worries me that Ornstein has not mentioned anything about Xavi or Hato. Unless I have missed it, I’d love if someone has seen anything on the Athletic’s end.

Must be some way to go in negotiations because he’s playing today for RB Leipzig.

50 minutes ago, 2211 said:

Must be some way to go in negotiations because he’s playing today for RB Leipzig.

Gives me hope that Gittens also played for Dortmund before his move, however I am slightly more worried.

13 minutes ago, Clown Lake said:

Gives me hope that Gittens also played for Dortmund before his move, however I am slightly more worried.

Yeah, you just don't know, sometimes they play them to hurry you up in the negotiations and sometimes they feel it's not that close to a transfer so they probably think why not play him while he's still our player as it stands.

My main concern really is pulling out of this deal and going for Garnacho instead because it saves money.

3 minutes ago, 2211 said:

Yeah, you just don't know, sometimes they play them to hurry you up in the negotiations and sometimes they feel it's not that close to a transfer so they probably think why not play him while he's still our player as it stands.

My main concern really is pulling out of this deal and going for Garnacho instead because it saves money.

My hope with us not going for Garnacho is that personalities seem to be a factor when we choose to buy players. I might be forgetting someone but we dont appear to have any troublemakers in the squad. Joao Pedro has a bit of history, however those tensions did arise due to him checking out completely and pushing for a move (correct me if I am wrong if we have any Brighton fans on here).

Edited July 26, 2025Jul 26 by Clown Lake

30 minutes ago, 2211 said:

Yeah, you just don't know, sometimes they play them to hurry you up in the negotiations and sometimes they feel it's not that close to a transfer so they probably think why not play him while he's still our player as it stands.

My main concern really is pulling out of this deal and going for Garnacho instead because it saves money.

I have this exact same strange feeling. For some reason, I believe Garnacho is incredibly highly rated by the sporting directors and they will want to wait until later in the window to get a discounted price.

Garnacho seems to have no offers so far and training with their bomb squad, I feel that the more this drags on, the more he becomes frustrated and also the club get a bit desperate because they need the money. Also it would be stupid for him to go back to work for Amorim after all that has happened. Amorim basically humiliated him in every possible way.

7 minutes ago, petre ispirescu said:

I have this exact same strange feeling. For some reason, I believe Garnacho is incredibly highly rated by the sporting directors and they will want to wait until later in the window to get a discounted price.

Garnacho seems to have no offers so far and training with their bomb squad, I feel that the more this drags on, the more he becomes frustrated and also the club get a bit desperate because they need the money. Also it would be stupid for him to go back to work for Amorim after all that has happened. Amorim basically humiliated him in every possible way.

Apparently Paul Winstanley is the big fan of Garnacho, so that's him favoring Garnacho and the other board members will have to convince him Simons is a better talent than Garnacho.

If the Simons deal isn't wrapped up in the next week I feel we'll pull out, there's already stories of Bayern and Arsenal waiting in the wings for the slightest encouragement to go in for him.

We need to get a move on IMO.

1 hour ago, Clown Lake said:

My hope with us not going for Garnacho is that personalities seem to be a factor when we choose to buy players. I might be forgetting someone but we dont appear to have any troublemakers in the squad. Joao Pedro has a bit of history, however those tensions did arise due to him checking out completely and pushing for a move (correct me if I am wrong if we have any Brighton fans on here).

We still have this guy

Shades of Conte with Costa the way Amorim is dealing with certain players.

Surely he is devaluing them when he leaves them no way back.

The board must be pissed. Typical Utd will let this man build his team for his formation/tactics and then sack him.

Call me old fashioned but as our board thought of asking Enzo who he prefers rather than Winstanly?

Pointless buying another player he has no intention of picking.

4 hours ago, 2211 said:

Apparently Paul Winstanley is the big fan of Garnacho, so that's him favoring Garnacho and the other board members will have to convince him Simons is a better talent than Garnacho.

If the Simons deal isn't wrapped up in the next week I feel we'll pull out, there's already stories of Bayern and Arsenal waiting in the wings for the slightest encouragement to go in for him.

We need to get a move on IMO.

If he needs to be convinced that Simons is better than Garnacho it's no wonder we've signed some of the toss we have.

2 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Looks dreadful.. We don't want to pass to the opposition 80% of the time

5 hours ago, guddy69 said:

Looks dreadful.. We don't want to pass to the opposition 80% of the time

That Ndiaye at Everton looks better

Is that supposed to be a highlights video or one to convince us not to sign him?

22 hours ago, Clown Lake said:

Worries me that Ornstein has not mentioned anything about Xavi or Hato. Unless I have missed it, I’d love if someone has seen anything on the Athletic’s end.

Hato deal was mentioned as getting close. Simons- no from what I recall , Im on the app regularly

Edited July 27, 2025Jul 27 by NestorGarde

11 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Think I’d started to get swayed by his YouTube highlights but this video brought me right back to my original opinion of nothing special.

Still 2 assists in an average performance is a bonus.

3 hours ago, dkw said:

Is that supposed to be a highlights video or one to convince us not to sign him?

Just the friendly the other day

3 hours ago, dkw said:

Is that supposed to be a highlights video or one to convince us not to sign him?

The game he played the other day.

Yes 2 assists are nice, but we can’t take anything seriously from friendlies, especially very early ones. The players are building up fitness at this point.