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Chiesa and Demiral both did their ACL’s there against Roma too.

I think he’s far better than Morata. Adding to the collection of weak minded, inconsistent players would certainly be creating a bigger problem though.

I’d take Werner. He’d constantly give an option in behind, stretch defences and create his own chances. Conversion rate would probably stay low. Would help establish domestic dominance before we can consider real progress in Europe again.

Too many random stories out there at the moment. Media possibly upset because for the first time in a while we may not be a complete open book in our dealings. If we could offload Ramsey for 50% salary, Rabbit for anything upward of 12 mill and Arthur on a loan, that would top anything we bring in.

Who knows what talks have realistically involved. We’re not going to have our squad ready for the start of pre-season so the next best thing to do is to not overpay or panic buy.

A left back is a bigger priority than a RB, but Molina is a better player than Udogie from what I’ve watched, so I’d be very happy if we managed the deal. We could end up being stuck with sloth and Pellegrini for yet another painful year, unless we can switch to a 3 at the back.

I agree with the above around book value. If we sell him for a loss this year it all goes on this year’s books and hampers our ability to do business this summer. We really need a swap deal to fudge the books again or hopefully a paid loan.

I stand corrected if this news is true, which it looks to be. If it’s 30 mill euros in total including the loan, that’s good business. Here’s hoping we use it wisely.

I don’t really see a queue of clubs lining up for him, perhaps you have? Time will tell how this pans out this summer, as I said I sadly believe it will now be another loan or we keep a player we didn’t believe would make the grade with us 12 months ago. I personally don’t recall saying we were...

He was happy to sit in the stands for 6 months+ at PSG watching his contract run down and also refused to be on the back up list for France at the last WC I think it was? That method sadly wouldn’t work on characters like Rabiot and just results in us shooting ourselves in the foot.

What a genius move to loan him out for 2.5 million. One season later. Nobody wants him now and we end up loaning him again in all likelihood.

Just read he only missed one game again this entire season and had the second highest average ground covered per game - 11.6km. Everything our team currently lacks, consistency, stamina and durability.

Clearly better than Ruru. But then who isn’t.

But they were finished psychologically. Having seen themselves come second and then lose their star centre forward, made them accept they would always be a beta club. Higuain fell off a cliff after we brought Ronaldo because he was made to feel like an afterthought in a similar vein to how he...

Let’s face it, he was always going to leave at some point. Why bother continuing to develop him when he is going to be plying his trade during his prime years elsewhere anyway? We’d be lucky to get back our 85 million euros if we can offload now.

The opponent lets you walk the ball out of defence because you show that you can comfortably play the ball out of pressure. Something the players have proven to be utterly incapable of doing this season.

The Higuain signing butchered our nearest competition and kept us comfortably dominant domestically. Ridiculous to think anything otherwise. On that level the signing was a masterstroke. We also needed an out and out goal scorer so you couldn’t say the signing wasn’t filling a void.

Make that a loan with a partly funded salary.

The issue with Berardi is we know where his ceiling is as a player and that ceiling is not going to take us where we would like/expect to be. It’s just a sign of how shit Serie A is that we have to choose from this calibre of player because domestically the wide players are distinctly average...

I do recall Barca being very vocal (understandably) at the time when he was digging his heels in refusing to leave and they mentioned how drastically we were going to be increasing his wages. Both sources you mention are reliable, but it’s still possible.