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Plus the £63 million sale fee. For just one player who is surplus to requirements. That's not sustainable. Get Astrid on the board, quick.

Another issue might be that we don't consider Cucu is good enough for us now. Would we take Maupay back? No. It's not that Maupay has become a worse player. It's just that the club has moved on.

Reports from our board are saying we've got a buy-back clause on him, at 20% of original sale price.

Agreed. I would wager his performances would improve as well. Wouldn't that be a hoot?

As good as done. Only the contracts to be given the once over by the lawyers, personal terms to be exchanged, club doctor to sign off the medical, player to be photoshopped in Chelsea strip, and job's a good'un. So.....that's a no then.

I would absolutely love you to be right and Cucurella stays with us for the rest of his career. Wouldn't that be awesome? We could sing 'You should have bought Cucurella', every time we play City or Chelsea !

Agreed. Hindsight is a great skill, but it would have been better, at least from a PR perspective, for him/his agent to maintain their dignity and not slap in a transfer request. That way, you don't burn your bridges. As soon as they did that, they set the hare running, and lost any control they...

I would hate to be in a negotiation with Tony Bloom. He'd take me to the cleaners. To save time, I think I'd just hand him the cash and drink the Bolly.

I never realised my innocent comment 'I'm not sure we really missed Bissouma', would cause such a stir. Thanks to schmunk for providing those excellent stats which show I was right, even if it was a fluke.

Without checking the results and performances, I am not sure we ever really missed Bissouma. Not because he wasn't good, but because other players, probably mainly Caicedo, seemed to fill the gap. Towards the end of the season, I thought we improved without him, so I think your predicted...

Something else may be going on. We seem to have pulled out of the Grillitsch deal, and now perhaps the Colwill deal, (or at least we seem to want it in a separately negotiated deal). Reminder: Tony Bloom is a professional poker player.

I wonder if Marc Cucurella is embarrassed and bewildered by the horsetrading going on at the moment. See post # (insert your best attempt at being ITK).

'Chelsea face £50m Marc Cucurella transfer headache as Brighton refuse to do swap deal' https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1649057/Chelsea-transfer-news-Marc-Cucurella-50m-Brighton-Levi-Colwill-swap-deal-rejected

I also read that as a swipe at Swanny. It's interesting how an innocent comment can be misinterpreted.