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YankeeVol said:
With making the CWC Final, Chelsea have made more than enough to cover the fine.
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~£80 million so far. Pull a stunner against Real Madrid or PSG and could be coming home with ~£120 million. Not bad if I do say so myself. Just worried about this tournaments effects on this team who will be exhausted by the holiday break.
 
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MAD said:
A front 3 of Rodrygo, Gyekores and Saka. Looks unstoppable and deadly.
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Rodrygo and Saka would be 🔥

I’m still on the fence about Gyokeres which is dumb of me if you look at his goal tallies the past few seasons. To be fair, I’ve really only watched him a few times in the CL but some of the space he was getting he won’t come close to in the PL. That said, when he was at Coventry in the championship he still put up pretty good numbers. Yall don’t need him to be the 30-40 goal scorer he has been though. Even just 10-15 would be an improvement on Havertz and company at the 9.

TLDR; yeah…I really hope yall don’t get Rodrygo 😂
 
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MAD said:
A front 3 of Rodrygo, Gyekores and Saka. Looks unstoppable and deadly.
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Just don’t sign Eze. I’ve wanted him for 3 windows and counting now.

It looks like Frank wants Kudus on the right up top (which I’m fine with although I don’t think he’s worth what West Ham want). I really hope we have enough left for ready-made midfield reinforcements (instead of 18 year old development projects).
 
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Charlie Kelly said:
Just don’t sign Eze. I’ve wanted him for 3 windows and counting now.

It looks like Frank wants Kudus on the right up top (which I’m fine with although I don’t think he’s worth what West Ham want). I really hope we have enough left for ready-made midfield reinforcements (instead of 18 year old development projects).
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May have had to overpay to sign someone older than 12.
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
May have had to overpay to sign someone older than 12.
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55 isn’t as bad as I thought it would be for Kudus but my mind goes back to his red card in the game against us last season. I think he’s a good talent though. I hope he works out.

Now we just need some midfield help, to replace Richarlison if he leaves (maybe with Wissa) and to try and hang onto Romero (not looking like Atletico have the funds to meet our valuation but they could always do a player plus cash deal). Maybe a LB to help spell Destiny as well (I like Robinson at Fulham if he isn’t too expensive and we have money left).
 
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Charlie Kelly said:
55 isn’t as bad as I thought it would be for Kudus but my mind goes back to his red card in the game against us last season. I think he’s a good talent though. I hope he works out.

Now we just need some midfield help, to replace Richarlison if he leaves (maybe with Wissa) and to try and hang onto Romero (not looking like Atletico have the funds to meet our valuation but they could always do a player plus cash deal). Maybe a LB to help spell Destiny as well (I like Robinson at Fulham if he isn’t too expensive and we have money left).
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Saw on the Athletic today they are looking at the possibility of Gibbs-White. That would be outstanding.
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
Saw on the Athletic today they are looking at the possibility of Gibbs-White. That would be outstanding.
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Apparently we got Gibbs-White according to Romano. Never seen Levy move that quickly between big money transfers (for us). 55 and 60 back to back.
 
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I don’t really understand the full situation that led to this point, but it sucks to see Palace stripped of the Europa League spot they earned on the field and booted down to Conference League over ownership issues.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
I don’t really understand the full situation that led to this point, but it sucks to see Palace stripped of the Europa League spot they earned on the field and booted down to Conference League over ownership issues.
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I feel bad for them if the 40 something percent sale to Woody Johnson goes through.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
I don’t really understand the full situation that led to this point, but it sucks to see Palace stripped of the Europa League spot they earned on the field and booted down to Conference League over ownership issues.
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I don’t claim to know the whole story either but it looks like the stated reason is because one of their owners (Palace) has a stake in Lyon who are also playing in the Europa League next season. Pretty sure City have been in the Champions League the same season that one of the other clubs from their same ownership group was also in.

Rumors circulating that Forest had something to do with talking to UEFA about it since they’ll be the ones to benefit by getting bumped up to the Europa League. Not sure how true that is but they’re currently trying to back out of the Gibbs-White deal with us.
 
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Charlie Kelly said:
Just don’t sign Eze. I’ve wanted him for 3 windows and counting now.

It looks like Frank wants Kudus on the right up top (which I’m fine with although I don’t think he’s worth what West Ham want). I really hope we have enough left for ready-made midfield reinforcements (instead of 18 year old development projects).
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I’m a Kudus fan. Hate he’s now a Spurs player 🫠😬

He’s extremely versatile though. Even if he mainly plays on the right of the attack, I’d expect Frank will move him around. If I remember correctly he played 7 or 8 different positions at one time or another when he was at Ajax. He’s best centrally though, IMO.

The irony here is Kudus would have been DYNAMITE in Big Agnes's system though.
 
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Charlie Kelly said:
I don’t claim to know the whole story either but it looks like the stated reason is because one of their owners (Palace) has a stake in Lyon who are also playing in the Europa League next season. Pretty sure City have been in the Champions League the same season that one of the other clubs from their same ownership group was also in.

Rumors circulating that Forest had something to do with talking to UEFA about it since they’ll be the ones to benefit by getting bumped up to the Europa League. Not sure how true that is but they’re currently trying to back out of the Gibbs-White deal with us.
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This feels like the Michael Olise and Chelsea saga 2 summers ago. We were going to pay his release clause that no one knew the exact details of besides Olise and Palace and Palace accused us of tapping him up because we knew the details. Or something like that.. idk.
 
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Nash_Vol97 said:
I’m a Kudus fan. Hate he’s now a Spurs player 🫠😬

He’s extremely versatile though. Even if he mainly plays on the right of the attack, I’d expect Frank will move him around. If I remember correctly he played 7 or 8 different positions at one time or another when he was at Ajax. He’s best centrally though, IMO.

The irony here is Kudus would have been DYNAMITE in Big Agnes's system though.
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I think Frank wants to play him on the right wing and compete with Brennan Johnson for that spot. I like the signing because he definitely impressed me at West Ham when I watched him I just hope he isn’t streaky or anything.

And yeah, he would’ve been awesome for Ange. Could’ve helped us break down those low blocks that caused us so much trouble with his dribbling.
 
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Nash_Vol97 said:
This feels like the Michael Olise and Chelsea saga 2 summers ago. We were going to pay his release clause that no one knew the exact details of besides Olise and Palace and Palace accused us of tapping him up because we knew the details. Or something like that.. idk.
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I’ve seen comparisons to that but I’m not sure either. All I know is I wouldn’t want to go up against Levy and his lawyers in a courtroom. We’ll see what happens.
 
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