i got where she was coming from. different scenario in the bundesliga and a slight age difference in terms of how quickly ferguson will take that path, but the important thing for bellingham was that he was playing regularly at dortmund, without tonnes of pressure. that enabled him to get to the...
we’re never going to stop being a selling club as there are simply one or two maximum non-selling clubs in the world.
it would however, be nice to get to a point where we can regularly keep hold of our top talents for two or three seasons as opposed to one. i feel like that is achievable
obviously it’s great to have a team as talented as they are but i find it’s really f***ing annoying how we cannot enjoy great performances from player x or y without endless speculation or pontification about how they’ll be imminently sold in the next window or about how necessary it is for them...
looked excellent on the half turn. no doubt he will be a great player for us, can see him getting involved quite a lot, which is a good sign. usually problematic signings would drift through games like today looking totally anonymous (a la jahanbakhsh).
only slight criticism i would have of...
wouldn’t say we do have many alternatives, and agree we’re incredibly lightweight, which is why i think signing just one ‘enforcer’, as you put it, was a mistake.
would maybe move milner into midfield, as he has a bit of ball-winning ability, but the question then is where does groß go, as a...
with the business seemingly done, how do you rate what we’ve done this window?
copied from Chaileyjem’s thread so nobody forgets anyone when voting:
Players bought in Summer 2023: Joao Pedro (£30m/Watford/2028) , Dahoud (Free/Dortmund/2027) , Milner (Free/Liverpool, 2024+1), Verbruggen...
of course i don’t know, but i think it’s very very likely. barca are broke, have been for a while, and do this quite a lot. they recently stopped serving breakfast to their youth team players as a cost-saving measure
nope, according to this article
https://mega.atresmedia.com/programas/el-chiringuito-de-jugones/futbol/liga/barcelona/ansu-fati-acaba-firmar-contrato-cesion-brighton_2023090164f13003714dff0001cbd50f.html
they’ve just reposted it
the reason it has not been announced is due to a last-minute hitch in terms of when we take over his wages.
so nobody gets too stressed, this article states the deal has been signed. barca wanted us to pay his wages backdated to june, which seems ridiculous, and we’ve quite rightly refused