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Wonder if we showed that photo to PSG during negotiations to help bring the price down.

In fairness, every team other than Spain and now Barcelona lacks a Rodri type.

If Wirtz and Isak click and Barcola hits the ground running, we could be in for a very fun season. I don’t think the squad is strong enough to compete for the big pots but after last season it’ll be a relief just to enjoy and look forward to the games again.

I mean, Monaco and Camara kind of have to wait until 2027 now.

https://x.com/AnfieldEdition/status/2094913943441469615 https://x.com/AnfieldEdition/status/2094914589297140209 "Could" doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Still, funny. Chelsea's midfield options until January are: Caicedo (injured) Lavia (usually injured) James (often injured) Henderson (older than the sun) Gusto (a right-back) Barco (a Strasbourg diddle) Turns out even clubs that sign dozens of players every year aren't much better than us at squad planning.

No, Genk, not Brugge.

"HOOF!"

I don’t think CFC would have signed Henderson or Welbeck had Alonso not wrested the title of manager out of them. Or gone for Xhaka.

We should definitely let Fofana go to Palace for 30m so he can prove himself in the PL and set us up to miss out on him due to cost on deadline day 2028. “No value in the market” etc.

I also have no idea if Ben Jacobs is reliable or not. I guess if we sold Mamardashvili it would free up a slot, even if the Belgian lad came in early. You’d also have to assume some Serie A club takes Chiesa on loan today. Similar could happen with Endo.

Ben Jacobs reckons Minteh’s reps are still trying to make a deal for him happen.

Assume that's because De Zerbi had him at Shakhtar.

Or when we realised Palace and Brighton weren't going to budge on their valuations for Sarr and Minteh. Ah yes, the multiplying effect of putting two things together. Was hoping to see Abel Xavier's face upon clicking this link.

Spent most of his career on the left, as I recall. At Palace he became a right-sided inside forward behind Mateta in Glasner's 3-4-2-1 and didn't ever really seem to attack from out wide. But maybe that's what Iraola wanted, given he often fielded one "narrower" winger with Semenyo wider on the other side. My theory is they wanted both Minteh and Sarr – the former as the right winger, and Sarr as a multi-functional forward who could also rotate in for Isak and Wirtz.

We should field all four of our left wingers on the left at the same time for a laugh. Give Frimpong space to do his thing on the other side.

This Daily Mail journo reckons we're holding parallel negotiations for Sarr and Minteh: https://x.com/LFCTransferRoom/status/2094449821213982882 Latest Sarr bid rebuffed by Palace. Others saying the Gakpo-City deal could collapse.

He is, but we don't have much to go on with this kid other than youth football.

Hopefully he doesn't end up hobbling around Budapest in a few years like poor Naby.

Defo agree with this broadly, but if money is too tight to address midfield and the full-back positions, it seems a bit mad to spend this kind of money now. Hopefully the kid is the new Courtois (perhaps without the personality) and we'll all be laughing in a couple of years. EXCLUSIVE

And like me as a student, getting distracted by the vending machines in the library rather than doing any of the relevant work, despite the upcoming deadline.

Lammens was 23 and had paid a decent amount of first team football though.

The Belgian kid is gonna cost €35m? I’d assume he’s some kind of prodigy then. Either that, or we truly have lost our minds, given the gaps all over the squad and the fact we’ll be doing well to get that for Mamardashvili.

Ryan Christie was also never a deeper midfielder prior to Iraola IIRC.

I’d say Tyler Adams is a 6.

Yeah, why wouldn't they squeeze us for every last penny when every f***er out there knows we're desperate? This window been the equal of any of the s***e Spurs or Man Utd fans have witnessed in the last decade. Galatasaray: https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/2091154278173851920