Rodgers Deal....i think this shows Eghbali talking owner to owner and then passing a little credit to the underlings, standard procedure for top brass. One thing is for sure there is clearly a point where juniors like Stewart & Winstanley have to pass things on to higher powers. I mean Villa's top man would have been insulted if Chelsea had sent one or both of those clowns to meet him.

Also If Eghbali has had some success here, he may well like to involve himself on other big deals. A player Agent and indeed owner of a selling club will likely appreciate dealing with the organ grinder even if it is just a quick lunch and handshake.

We cant be sending these two (Stewart & Winstanley) unshaven greasy urchins if we want to be taken seriously.

if this deal falls through Eghbali's relationship with Villas man will be pushed to and maybe beyond the limit. Its no place for juniors.

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Note that our incoming transfer fees only reach £140m if you include the possible add-ons. Bullsh*t as usual.

Barring a miracle, the squad will (again) almost certainly be weaker than the one we had last season. And we will have spent an awful lot of money to accomplish that.

34 minutes ago, PloKoon13 said:

Note that our incoming transfer fees only reach £140m if you include the possible add-ons. Bullsh*t as usual.

Barring a miracle, the squad will (again) almost certainly be weaker than the one we had last season. And we will have spent an awful lot of money to accomplish that.

Four players sold plus the compensation from City and Meresca

Xabi has also changed his set piece coach, hes not been idle.

39 minutes ago, PloKoon13 said:

Barring a miracle, the squad will (again) almost certainly be weaker than the one we had last season. And we will have spent an awful lot of money to accomplish that.

I don’t know about that actually.

Xabi Alonso is in a different stratosphere to Enzo Maresca/Liam Rosenior, so we’ve upgraded our Manager.

Rogers is light years ahead of any of Pedro Neto, Alejandro Garnacho or Jamie Jermaine Bynoe Gittens. So our LW area is hugely upgraded.

Hato was outperforming Cucu anyway toward the end of last season plus I’d imagine Quenda gets a lot of time as a LWB this season. Sideways step at this position at worst.

Then there isn’t a cat in hells chance Palestra could be anymore useless than Gusto so once again an upgrade!

Add into that we could potentially land Lacroix, he’d instantly be our 2nd best CB behind Colwill who himself is like a new signing after missing all last season.

Couple it with no European distraction/squad rotation this season. We should be competitive as a minimum.

I think we’ll raise closer to £400 million tbh and if Enzo goes it could be half a billion

Getting rid of 80% of the following ………..Jackson, Guiu, Delap, Disasi, Bada, Garnacho, Jorgensen, Gusto, maybe Neto, Tosin, a few of the youngsters and some of our perennially loaned players (DDF, Anselmino, Paez etc) could raise £260 million no problem. Probably a lot more.

Most of the above will know what it’s like being in a bomb squad because some of their mates were in ours. Most of them will welcome a move. I expect the club to be a bit more flexible than they were previously as regards to getting deals over the line. The last thing Alonso needs are half a dozen bomb squad in the building.

Clubs will low-ball us because they know we want to sell.

8 minutes ago, 19seventyone said:

I think we’ll raise closer to £400 million tbh and if Enzo goes it could be half a billion

Getting rid of 80% of the following ………..Jackson, Guiu, Delap, Disasi, Bada, Garnacho, Jorgensen, Gusto, maybe Neto, Tosin, a few of the youngsters and some of our perennially loaned players (DDF, Anselmino, Paez etc) could raise £260 million no problem. Probably a lot more.

Most of the above will know what it’s like being in a bomb squad because some of their mates were in ours. Most of them will welcome a move. I expect the club to be a bit more flexible than they were previously as regards to getting deals over the line. The last thing Alonso needs are half a dozen bomb squad in the building.

Here's a whole team plus full bench of players signed by BlueCo that I wouldn't particularly miss if they were sold/released :

Edited 18 hours ago18 hr by Sexyfootball

21 minutes ago, 19seventyone said:

I think we’ll raise closer to £400 million tbh and if Enzo goes it could be half a billion

Getting rid of 80% of the following ………..Jackson, Guiu, Delap, Disasi, Bada, Garnacho, Jorgensen, Gusto, maybe Neto, Tosin, a few of the youngsters and some of our perennially loaned players (DDF, Anselmino, Paez etc) could raise £260 million no problem. Probably a lot more.

Most of the above will know what it’s like being in a bomb squad because some of their mates were in ours. Most of them will welcome a move. I expect the club to be a bit more flexible than they were previously as regards to getting deals over the line. The last thing Alonso needs are half a dozen bomb squad in the building.

This will be excellent, exactly what we need. Just, who are all these clubs that are going to buy these players.

Plus with our annual amortisation costs don't we have to sell this dross in smaller blocks over a number of years?

1 hour ago, Zeta said:

Clubs will low-ball us because they know we want to sell.

If we get actual currency for some of the sh*te we've got to offload it's a miracle.