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Time for Fede to follow in his dad’s footsteps and go to Parma.

Seems Inter’s struggles to get Lookman over the line have presented us with an opportunity. Think the Darwin fee was suspiciously low for a Saudi PIF club. Makes me wonder if it somehow ends up being connected to the Isak deal.

Have never seen Romano on video before, didn’t think his stupid little catchphrase could irritate me any more. What little I knew.

Quite a strong verb choice.

Wondered if he was the one they'd be after after reports Jackson was on the list but not the main target. Chelsea tried to get him when he was still at Atleti after his loan season at Alaves, even though he hadn't scored that many. Seemed like standard CFC buy a random kid nonsense, but has scored a lot since he moved to Porto.

But he "gets a lot of shots". f***ing hell.

That’s exactly it, though. The unquantifiables of a player won’t come out on Statsbomb etc. If a player’s head drops because he missed a couple, if he tends to lose his head when the game gets heated, if he reacts badly to being goaded by an opposition player. If luck had been different, Nunez could have had a season with us like he did at Benfica, but it wouldn’t have altered the fact that he’s a bird brain who literally once burst into tears when Marcelo Bielsa told him off. No stats for that.

Haha and if he wasn’t the crossbar got in the way. Been interesting this summer listening to that podcast The Transfer Flow, which is all the opinions of stats nerds, and how they still rave about Nunez and Jackson at Chelsea based purely on stats output (“he gets a lot of shots”). You then compare that with the opinions of Liverpool and Chelsea fans and it’s night and day, with the fans having spent years watching the players be offside half the time and missing sitters the other half.

Baleba would be mad to go to Man Utd. That place has become a career graveyard.

Writes for l'Equipe

Newcastle have become a cautionary tale about attacking the market on the back foot.

The bid is irrelevant if the player prefers to go elsewhere. It seems they offered Leipzig more than Man Utd did.

Penny for Sesko's thoughts. Went into the summer thinking he'd be going to Arsenal. Has ended up a part of the Man Utd s***show because that looked more appealing than the NUFC one.

Presume the plan is to play Sesko as a No9 with Cunha and Mbeumo left and right as those half space No10s and keep Fernandes deeper. No idea what that means for Diallo, who was their best player last season – maybe back to wing-back. And they still don't have a CM who can both run and pass the ball. Edit: I should really keep reading further posts before I reply. Sorry, Sammy.

According to BBC gossip, The Athletic is reporting both Newcastle and Man Utd will go for Jackson at Chelsea should they fail to land Šeško.

Nah, Bayern Space

He said a bunch of plausible-sounding stuff that as luck had it turned out to be close to the truth. If you look at some of the other stuff he’s posted, he seems to be an attention-seeking weirdo.

Ah yes, the Bavarian ITK who has all this inside knowledge and then shares it in English.

It has seemed like he hasn't been fully fit for 12-18 months. Every time he goes away with Argentina you read about he has to play through some kind of injury. If he is really coming back fit this season, that's great news.

I won't believe it until Rio Ferdinand brays it into a microphone.

Maybe Wright met Arteta and changed his mind. Edit: everyone else made similar jokes, oops.

Even funnier is that Kelly is at Juve now, where he replaced Huijsen, whom Juve flogged on the cheap to Bournemouth. The Juve fans are apparently not well pleased with how their club is run.

100%. He’s a walking cringe generator. And to make it worse for Arsenal, he’s infected with Moyes.

My own journalism career ended with an online job in Berlin copy editing a sub-Nathan Barley hypebeast-y fashion website written mostly by untrained 20-somethings. It was an absolute f***ing nightmare of every other thing being "iconic" and various shoes "releasing" and "dropping". One nitwit opened a video report from Paris Fashion Week with the sentence, "I'm standing outside the infamous Louvre." Was the Louvre where they guillotined all those lads or something?

Yeah, wasn't all that into it either.