Caicedo one is a weird one. I have no doubt he will be one of the best DMs in football. If he isn’t already. But what they’d paid for Enzo, and the fact Rice was up for grabs massively inflated the UK DM market. For him to have gone for more than Grealish, Kane,
Bellingham, Rice etc is crazy...
Confirms what the Guardian reported last night- that we’d failed in bids for he and a Porto LB. Seems pretty clear we are trying to tie a LWB done before the Chelsea deals are completed.
I’ve a feeling a lot of this isn’t so much about the Colwill deal (which seems fairly done) but more about us getting in a LWB as well. Wouldn’t be surprised if a total curveball appears today.
I think he’ll go on to be the best left sided defensive player in the World very soon and both Pep and Tuchel know this. Clearly a massive upgrade on both Chilwell and Alonso and a steal in the long run.
Colwill would either be a loan as part of the Cucu deal or an entirely separate transfer all together (my guess) surely? 50 plus Colwill on a perm would be nutto.
Problem with Udogie is that Verona or Udinese or whoever actually owns him will quite rightly want £50 million from a side just about to sell their LWB for that price (and given they’re turned down some big offers already this summer).
Point 3 lost all relevance the moment they started signing squad players for £50 million+ years ago.
It’s really made you realise how blinkered and batshit a huge amount of football supporters are, all this.
Except it was that very evening that Cucu was bundled in to the boot of a car and driven repeatedly, at speed, around a roundabout, with Pep in the passenger seat screaming ‘join the club, JOIN THE CLUB!’ at him.
I love this idea of transfer negotiations that seems to have been fuelled by Twitter.
Dozens of representatives from both clubs sat in a dark room, opposite each other. Some looking petrified, some like they’re about to kill somebody. The general sense that at any moment some one could stick a...
Lols. People like Sinclair are utter tools aren’t they? It’s assumed people who’ve had a career in the game know about football by default. That is totally disproved by the pundits at places like TS.