1 hour ago, big blue said:

we have loads of young centre backs with high potential.

I’m trying to decide if you’re being sarcastic or not.

50 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

I’ve never seen a club praise a youngster as much as they have with Acheampong whilst at the same time not play him.

They are avoiding accountability because of Acheampong.

Schrodinger's youth prospect

He's good enough for you to pay Pure Profit^TM

He's not good enough for us to play him.

Oh well. Moved on to the next one a 16 year old from Nantes. monsieur Tati.

He’ll probably go on to be a great haha!

But I want to see Sarr and Josh - both have all the attributes and we have the need.

3 hours ago, PhilH930 said:

He’ll probably go on to be a great haha!

But I want to see Sarr and Josh - both have all the attributes and we have the need.

i could see Josh and Sarr fitting in as quality cover for a fit Fofana and recovered Colwill next season but im sure Blue Co will have other plans.

Watch him become the new VVD knowing our luck

7 hours ago, Snedger said:

I’m trying to decide if you’re being sarcastic or not.

Achaempong 19

Sarr 20

Anselmino 20

Not sure £60m on 18 year old Jacquet is needed, although i doubt we were serious anyway.

1 hour ago, OTL said:

i could see Josh and Sarr fitting in as quality cover for a fit Fofana and recovered Colwill next season but im sure Blue Co will have other plans.

Fofana shouldn't be starting for us

BREAKING: Chelsea offered the same deal as Liverpool for Jacquet but the player changed his mind and decided to move to Liverpool after it became apparent Mamadou Sarr was coming back to #CFC and also the fact Acheampong was staying. (@SkySportsNews)

We shouldn’t do anything that pushes Josh out. I think he’s top quality. We do need to sort out back line out as it feels very patchy. I would say the following is good:

RB: Reece and Gusto

CBS: Colwill, Fofana, Trev, Josh

LB: Hato, Cucu

There’s a question about how much can we trust Fofana’s fitness so there might be room for one more CB but it’s a tricky balance. Jacquet didn’t want to come and sit on the bench. They want to play

I know the club will be keen to sell Trev but he’s proven himself to be a good and dependable squad player.

How can you push for a player all month and then with a straight face claim you weren't that keen anyway because you want to keep your current young CB. If you wanted to do that, you wouldn't push for the new one. It's just endless PR briefs from this ownership.

Genuinely happy this has fallen through, have full faith given the same amount of gametime that Josh will end up twice the player.

However this f**king PR bo**ocks needs to stop, don’t leak it in the first place then don’t backtrack like wet wipes, f**king hate the way we operate now. Proper amateur hour.

Turn coat

1 hour ago, Zeta said:

How can you push for a player all month and then with a straight face claim you weren't that keen anyway because you want to keep your current young CB. If you wanted to do that, you wouldn't push for the new one. It's just endless PR briefs from this ownership.

Exactly, im sick to death with all this bull from directors/owners,they just treat us like mugs.

1 hour ago, Zeta said:

How can you push for a player all month and then with a straight face claim you weren't that keen anyway because you want to keep your current young CB. If you wanted to do that, you wouldn't push for the new one. It's just endless PR briefs from this ownership.

Because as normal they messed it up by dilly dallying over the fee while getting Sarr back, so he changed his mind to join Liverpool and probably just sees us as messers.

If we had agreed the fee a few days ago we could have got Sarr now and Jaquet in the summer and he'd just have to battle for his place, but as nornal we did evything in a topsy turvy manner and literally waited for Liverpool to bid, match thier fee and then get rejected.

I don't believe it is a PR stunt - the board ain't smart enough for that!

It's them doing the same tactics as with Kounde, Simmons and now Jacquet and getting the exact same results.

The very definition of insanity.

1 hour ago, JM7 said:

We shouldn’t do anything that pushes Josh out. I think he’s top quality. We do need to sort out back line out as it feels very patchy. I would say the following is good:

RB: Reece and Gusto

CBS: Colwill, Fofana, Trev, Josh

LB: Hato, Cucu

There’s a question about how much can we trust Fofana’s fitness so there might be room for one more CB but it’s a tricky balance. Jacquet didn’t want to come and sit on the bench. They want to play

I know the club will be keen to sell Trev but he’s proven himself to be a good and dependable squad player.

Fofana with his injury history cannot be relied upon, same with Reece. We don't know when and in what shape Levi will come back and how this injury will affect his long term career. Trev is a decent albeit limited backup but he isn't and never will be good enough to be a starter in a top side. Hato looks like someone who needs to spend a couple of years on loan, he's clearly struggling at that level. Josh is an exciting prospect but needs to play regularly to develop. Don't know anything about Sarr but his age and inexperience only add to our long list of problems.

Way too many ifs, buts and maybes.

Fofana can't be relied upon when he's fit either. He's very overrated. Plus, he's a total twat off the pitch.

Josh remains very much an unknown quantity given how little we’ve seen of him. Colwill feels a little bit the same. He’s definitely shown potential (rather than many who we just say have potential), but this injury could quite easily knacker things up for him.

The rest of our CB’s are either just not very good (Badiashille) or at best would make acceptable squad depth (Trev, Fofana).

It seems obvious to me that the defence is our biggest issue and desperately needs addressing - and not with more 19/20 year olds. But never going to happen.

I'm shocked there isn't any noise about us wanting to go for Van hecke.

Consistent PL player, 25 years old, Brighton, coming to the end of his contract and wants to leave.

Must be the SD's wet dream.

One day Chalobah will be rated fairly amongst this fan base

Could this be the end of us trying to buy French centre backs that have just had a growth spurt?

The prevailing opinion in France is that the fee is ridiculous and that anyone that pays that much is a "pigeon" (an idiot from which money is easy to part)...

Oh dear what a shame

On 07/02/2026 at 22:33, Caps_Lock_King said:

Oh dear what a shame

Shame looks like he would fit in perfectly around here.

31 minutes ago, DarkMata said:

Shame looks like he would fit in perfectly around here.

Another Fofana with aerially ability by the sound of it.