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Amoto94:
Werner, Harvertz, Broja and Sterling (if he signs) are enough in attack, we should sell/loan Ziyech/Odoi, Barkley, Alonso, Jorginho, integrate Ampadu, Gallagher and Colwill, Emerson should cover for Chillwell then we are good to compete.

You intend to go into four competitions all season with Werner, Harvertz, Broja and Sterling?

You don’t mean well for this club.

Next Season.

Stallionhorse:
600k?? Oga no dey lie.. Nigerians always think mentioning huge amount of money there spend makes them look rich. Person go buy shoe 3500 him go say nah 12k must we inflate prices of things to look rich?? Oga I wish your wife full recovery but that 600k part nah lie..

Shut the phuck up.

The woman obviously lost some teeth and would need some replacements.

You think a dental implant na one naira? In some places, each dental implant costs about N300k per tooth. This cost includes the implant, abutment, and the crown.

Why is De Ligt pushing for the Chelsea move so badly? Is he a Chelsea fan?

I heard he has refused to sign a new contract and is doing everything possible to force a move.

Mr Donstan, sometime in May, you asked me this:

donstan18:
I understand your point, but please help me tell our pattern of football?

What’s Tuchel-ball? I believe I’ll understand you better if you answer.

And I gave you this:

Griffon:
You watch Chelsea’s games just like I do. You should have noticed a change in our style of play from what it used to be when Frankie was in charge.

Tuchel places a lot of emphasis on verticality in possession and circuit based methodology.

Instead of overlooking ambiguities, you resorted to making fun of it. Letting the lessons fly past you.

donstan18:
Tuchel’s pattern of play is vertical possession and circuit based methodology?

Bros wetin be this nh? Even if you combine Ferguson, Pep, Mou and Klopp’s playing ideas together, e no go produce this pattern wey you talk say Tuchel dey play.

I’ll encourage you to follow this Football analyst on Twitter @ryangunness. He has a thread he created just few weeks ago that explains my stance on Tuchel’s style of play.

This time, make no fun of the lessons. Let them sink in cos he took his time to break the whole idea down.

raumdeuter:
Cos according to you and many, He is one of the great world class players that was winning for Pep with little coaching input so much that anyone even you can win the league

Now Sterling is with Tuchel. Winning the league should be a piece of cake. Shebi Chelsea have supporting cast too for this great Sterling coming in

And who said we have the supporting cast that can win the league?

How can you try to compare City and Chelsea squads?

raumdeuter:
Its until you take Peps entire first XI before you can challenge him for the league?

Here’s your postulation:

raumdeuter:
I will wait for who will tell me why Sterling should not be a league winner with Chelsea next season like he has been for 4 of the past 5 yrs

And I ask, why should Sterling automatically be a league winner at Chelsea?

Was he the supporting cast that collectively won it all at City?

raumdeuter:
When they are playing with Pep you would be hearing how Sterling Ake Jesus Stones etc are all world class and its a disaster not to win the league

I will wait for who will tell me why Sterling should not be a league winner with Chelsea next season like he has been for 4 of the past 5 yrs

And that’s because Sterling is Citehs entire First XI?

Android17:
Pure fiction.

Na just small search for Google but lack of data no go gree you do am.

BlueAngel444:
what of foden and Grealish?

You’re asking as if the name ‘’Pep Guardiola’’ is new to you

andrewbaba44:
Rafael leao over sterling

You no Dey dissapoint with your takes at all

Nothing is wrong with that. As a matter of fact, Pep is looking at replacing Sterling with Rafael Leao.

The only issue I have with that boy is the market value.

airmark:
I am not sure Rafael Leao will cost more than 55m and if he costs more, it is better to go for him than wasting 55m on a player that nearly gave Fraudiola heart attack on the field with his misses.

I kinda share your sentiment. Leao is hungrier, younger and at 23 is already a hit in Italy. Your recommendation ticked one box, he isn’t profligate. Last season he only missed 4 big chances in the Serie A that is in stark contrast to Sterling’s 13.

But then again, can he go for £55m?

Here are the words of Milan’s Technical director, Maldini:

”We consider Rafael Leao as a key and untouchable player,”. “He is not up for sale. He is still a diamond in the rough that has undergone significant improvements year upon year.

“We bought him from Lille by paying €24m and we immediately put a €150m release clause on him because Boban Massara and I believed in him."

£55m for a proven 27-year-old EPL star or €150m for a young, exciting prospect?

donstan18:


Ole spent more than Pep in EPL

The name alone gives away his ineptitude. If only the manyoo board had a Yoruba translator up North, dem no for give that man that job

airmark:
If we can't find a better upgrade we shouldn't pay 55m for a wasteful Sterling. I don't even support the deal at all.

Who in your best judgement is a better upgrade to what we have and to Sterling, that isn’t wasteful and wouldn’t cost more than £55m?

I’m asking on behalf of Todd Boehly.

donstan18:
So you’re saying you sabi coaching work pass Pep?

I sabi buy the market pass am with an open cheque.

Shey no be to deliver you want?

donstan18:
Na mumu go doubt you.

Open Cheque.

donstan18:
Hate go so much blind you eh.

Same Pep we all agreed was signing quality players to dominate EPL, as e wan sell them, them no be quality again.

If he decides to sell Gundogan today now, una go still talk say no be quality again.

Troll with the truth and fact, else you’ll be contradicting yourself and looking very confused with opinions.

Don’t mind them.

Most of Citehs fringe players can comfortably walk into our first XI without issues. These lot don’t know how mediocre our team looks on a good day.

Tuchel only came around and made everyone look gold. On a normal day, Sterling suppose line up with people like Werner, Loftus Cheek and Sarr?

donstan18:
Guy rest abeg.

He’s shiiting on EPL

The guy dey even lose match sef for EPL. See the kind record I dey set for my own fantasy island.

I can do better than Pep with an open Cheque.

airmark:
I hope you consider that he played for a City team that created numerous chances for their attackers. Sterling is known to be wasteful in front of goals and now playing for Chelsea that don't create chances like City, it's a stupid gamble paying 55m for such attacker.

I don’t understand your point.

Are you saying we should have paid lower for Sterling because he is wasteful or that we shouldn’t buy Sterling because he is wasteful?

donstan18:
He deserves whatever hype he’s getting.

He has comfortably turned EPL to farmers league, winning 4 in 5 years.

Give him his credit.

I’ll do better, I’ll win 5 in 5 years.

Pep is playing fantasy football with that City side.

BlueAngel444:
No doubt is clear but still understand those Chelsea fans point of view. Sterling is a top winger, one of the best but, BUT, in a team where chances don't come so often, where players like Werner, Ziyech failed to replicate those numbers. Forgive them for not being too optimistic about the sterling signing

In this case, who do you guys suggest we sign instead?

I mean who’s that guy that doesn’t really count on big chances created to rack up his figures?

donstan18:
Only Pep has the qualities it takes to have that control over a team because he delivers.

Others shouldn’t....

When you take the market home, you must deliver. If I decide to move into management today and I’m fortunate to be handed an open Cheque to build my squad, nigga with the little knowledge I have about footie, I go deliver.

Make una no dey hype what pep does. Many aren’t fortunate to be up there chatting with Sheikh Mansour.

BlueAngel444:
mehn fvck resale value, it's the club's money... What I care about is if he will be the best left winger in EPL and help us win trophies with loads of goals

All this one na yarns till he gives us 90 minutes 30 games 90, double digits goals and assists

You Chelsea fans are insatiable.

It’s no longer about an upgrade on what we have but to become the best left winger in EPL?

I’m not concerned about his resale value either, what I need now is a team that can break City’s dominance and try to make it three UCL glories.

Sterling’s numbers speak volume. Here you have a man who’s been doing double figures in the last four seasons in the PL despite not being a regular at some point.

donstan18:
It’s risky to give a manager full control of a team.

Very risky...

What happens to those players when he leaves?

The next man should find a way out. Either to jettison those who don’t fit into his own ideals or work with what he has.

I think the only manager in modern football who tend to work with the pack at his disposal without bothering the board so much is Carlo Ancelloti. Apart from him, every other top manager have a demand to make, except for Pep, who always want to take the entire market home.

donstan18:
That rubbish dey hardly work for Chelsea.

Do we have the players to perfectly execute TT’s idea? NO!

It’s the sole reason I told you to relax and allow TT to build his team. You don’t expect me to fix a leaking roof with a pen, I need the right tools.

This transfer window is all he has to make a statement.

OJURONGBE1:
Sadio Mane, a far better player joined Bayern for £48m. What are you on?
My own is do not sign players that are not of true value.
There are players whose hype & media shenanigans precede their usefulness. Look at werner, Ziyansh, Pulishit, Kepa & Lukaku.

What true value are you talking about?

If we’re looking at this from an economic standpoint, then it’s a loss we must stomach because at 27, Sterling offers little resale value. I said this earlier, it should be your only concern.

If we’re looking at experience, Sterling shits on all we have. 320 apps, 109 goals, 56 assists and 4 PL titles under his belt.

If we’re looking at injury record, he’s always fit.

If we’re looking at Potentials and level of ability, then we have in our hands a player who has been ripping things apart in arguably the toughest league in the world for the past six seasons. He scored 13 goals last season despite being relegated to a bit part player (our top scorer only managed to edge him with 2 goals) shouldn’t it be a fair bet to say that he should cost a pretty penny?

These are the metrics that determines a player value in today’s market.

If I were to draft in contract length into this, then you’ll realize that with one year left, City are actually letting this ninja go for cheap. If Sterling still had like 3 years left on his contract, guy na that £70m City paid for him years back we go still pay them today. Things are hard since Buhari took over.

So what other value are you talking about?

donstan18:
Tuchel seems not to like aggressive players.

His attention is actually on ball playing, being aggressive is just an added advantage.

You must have lost count of how many times Rudiger would surge forward towards the halfway line with the ball, it’s an approach to shut down the amount of time the opposition has to play, which essentially promotes TT’s idea of counter-pressing.

OJURONGBE1:
Sterling for £55m?
Someone who has lost his first team shirt at Man city? Someone who would blow 5chances before he scores one?
This is just too insulting!

Oga Kilode?

How many players out there in today’s market are moving cheap? Gone are the days when players will move for as low as £30m, and that was like the crazy bid then. Presently, the minimum amount you can lodge in for a player na £40m. If you decide to go lower than that, no one is going to take you serious.

Sterling at £55 isn’t a bad deal. Your only concern should be centered on his resale value, that’s all we have to deal with, bar that, that ninja is miles ahead of those guys we’re parading as forwards.

You speak of losing his first team shirt at City, bar James, Kante and Thiago Silva, how many of our boys can cut it at Pep’s expensively assembled Citeh?

Elder0001:
@Mukina2 why is it okay for music stuffs to be discussed here meanwhile politics can't be discussed?
If you want to tell me politics isn't related to Chelsea affairs, how is music Discussions related to Chelsea? Abi Chelsea don turn record label?

Where you dey when men dey release top jams like “Blue Is The Color”?

BlueAngel444:
The Catalans had allegedly bid €40m + €5m in easily achievable add-ons, but Bayern are holding out for at least €50m guaranteed (if not more). It remains to be seen if Barca will raise their bid a fourth time, and meet the Bavarians’ demands.

If additional funds do come in for them, Bayern may up their demand to €60m and start the process all over again

Lmao is this not wickedness

I’ve always admired Bayern’s way of doing business.

No fuss, no hassles. Just get it done.

God of transfers talk say na Ake and De Ligt be TT’s preferred options for defense.

Your thoughts fam.

Ibime:
This American Sabi swap deals sha. Na NBA and NFL format be that

Reminds me so much of Fantasy Manager.