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I just can't see Leao working at all. He flits in and out of serie A games, don't think he'd offer much in the premier league at all. Barcola would be the absolute dream, we should move heaven and earth but agree it's not going to happen

Rodrygo on loan feels too good to be true, would be great to do it with a fixed option. Leao I just can't see working for us. Every time I've seen him he looks like he's an 18 year old, but he's somehow 26 already.

Who do you think the options are? Particularpy the gambles

Fair chance that we might have a donkey though...

Haha we've cracked it

At least it's been worth it for all the goals we've scored

Yeah totally agree, but now we do seem to be getting offers for Kiwior so you wonder if we could have been a bit more proactive to facilitate it

I don't think Hato is that pricey? Probably 10m more than Kiwior, for a much younger player that we've seemingly been tracking for years. As you say, depends what the thinking is with Calafiori but have to be planning for him being a crock

Those three and Hato to cover two spots feels about right though? It's the same numbers we have at the moment with Kiwior in there.

Feels like we really missed the boat on Hato this summer. Could probably have come close to covering his fee with a Kiwior sale

Yeah transfer fees have at least redristubuted money throughout the game. Surely you can't have a system with no league control like the US, but where players can freely move?

I reckon we're good on throw ins near the opposition byline, quite often get throws in behind defenders etc. But further back we're just incredibly slow and quite often lose the ball or pick up bookings.

Oh no idea, just feels like he's lost a load of weight but it's just a vibe. I've not even watched any preseason so just going off the end of last year but feels like something has dropped out of his game

I know it's insane, but I can't help feeling that being gaunt and super fit has robbed him of his creativity. Needs to be a bit chubbier

Yeah it feels a bit tinfoil hat to complain about it, it's a totally natural thing to hang the article off

What's wrong with them publishing it now?

Yeah would agree with this. Think his height is a bit of an issue, and his short kicking is really overrated.

Haha fair enough. Do you not think he was good for most of the season?

He definitely got a free pass for a poor couple of months at the end of the season. Seemed to get away with it because of "tiredness", not sure how much I buy that for keepers really

I would be happy using Eze wide, but you'd think he'd be better with someone overlapping and not sure who that's going to be! In some ways, it feels like the squad has been built quite badly despite there being a lot of good players

I don't even dislike him, but it really does make no sense at all in retrospect.

It feels like too many players, to be honest

As in, the end of transfer fees?

Feels like a crazy move to me. Obviously not shady or anything, but no idea what bayern are thinking

If it's unrelated it's very weird, for sure

Can't be. Surely Gyokeres is too far along now. Trying to force a move to.....united?!

This and the Isak thing, such weird timing

He's still a proper teenager isn't he

Don't love that he's so right footed either, it's bad enough having Odegaard!

That still feels like we dropped the ball with him having gone to city. Wonder if it might be linked to interest in Eze, perhaps