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Unless a deal prohibitively expensive, you’d think we would be interested were he available, given he’s a lad we wanted when he was in Brazil and the Diaz situation. Although versatile, which is something Edwards and the recruitment boffins always like, he seems a player whose “true” level has maybe been somewhat masked due to having rarely been given a shot in his favourite spot on the left at Madrid. It’s one of those where you’d be excited if we did go for it, but not crestfallen if we didn’t.

It seems Conte has his heart set on Nunez and he tends to get what he wants. It was touch and go whether he’d even stay at Napoli this summer, so they won’t want him throwing one of his tantrums so soon after agreeing to stay.

If you desperately start taking whatever is offered you end up like Man Utd. Of course, any club looking to maximise its leverage should be doing the same.

Napoli leak that it’s their “goal” to sign a cheaper, available striker “by next week” just as they supposedly put in a new below-valuation bid to LFC for Nunez. Okay.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

You can never have too many CB/FB hybrids and defensive midfielders. Especially if they’re tall and a threat at set pieces.

Did Wenger mention how he tried to sign the Club World Cup before it became a star?

Shouldn’t go there. Should go to a team that wants the ball.

Juve been trying to shift him for years with no takers.

Yeah, really hard to tell if he has stagnated because he was at West Ham or if he’s just going to be one of those moments players.

Maybe they can use it to build a new hotel to sell to themselves down the line.

Think he stays another year. No one wants to spend 90m on a project who has just come off a worse season than his previous one. Šeško seems like Hojlund was: a collection of physical attributes that could add up to a great striker, but could just as easily add up to a tall fast lad who doesn’t score that much.

Osimhen to Gala, Nunez to Napoli, Isak to us, Ekitike to Newcastle. If we can’t get Isak, then Ekitike to us. Looks like Chelsea and Arsenal have done/are doing their business elsewhere, so would assume they’re off the merry-go-round.

Best debut since El Hadji Diouf!

Bayern thinking we’re Bayer Leverkusen. Because that strategy worked out so well for them recently.

I reckon we might end up squeezing them up to a surprising amount.

Romano says we’ve rejected Napoli’s €50m bid for Nunez. They are preparing a new offer.

Operates in the same areas as Wirtz, only not as good. Even if you played him on the left instead of an actual winger, he’d just want to drift inside and end up clogging Wirtz’s zone.

Think this is what happens. Clubs around Europe know Diaz and Nunez are available, so think they can get them cut-price. I know we want to sell to buy, but don’t expect we’ll panic, especially with nearly two months to go. Say what you like about the lads running the club, they’re not like the mob at Old Trafford, who’ve done everything in their power to drive down the prices of the lads they’re looking to sell.

Plus he was supposedly already on some 200k a week at Bilbao, so god knows what he’s on now.

He did, apparently because he didn’t want to spend the season doing the Dani Olmo dance. Coaches too. It’s almost as if they’re not as big a deal outside Germany as they think.

Maybe they’ll be able to if they give him a salary of around, say, 55k a week.

Eze is a good player but I’m not sure he’d work in this Arsenal team. Martinelli isn’t top level but he’s the only one in the forward line who makes runs in behind at pace. If Eze were to play on the left for them he’d be another wanting to play into feet, and it’s not like they have flying full-backs.

Was a bit of a wild, unnecessary lunge IMO. Neuer also criticised him for it.

Just switched on my first 2min of the tournament and saw Donnarumma completely snap Musiala’s ankle. Looks horrible, still being treated on the pitch at HT, Donnarumma crying.