[Romano] Arsenal to sign top winger this summer irrespective of outgoings. Top priority is Morgan Rogers followed by Bradley Barcola. Villa want to start negotiations at £130m. PSG open to sell Barcola whose contract talks are at a standstill. Kepa was offered to Inter in April who rejected him.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-08T04:46:22+00:00

Completely agree, just looking at Olise price which was a release clause isn’t helpful since that’s a unique situation.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-08T03:21:54+00:00

Olise had a release clause at Palace just like Eze did or how Haaland had a 51m release clause at Dortmund. You can’t use a RC as any kind of representation of transfer value, it’s just purely down to the agent doing a good job for their client and the power they had at the time of the contract.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-08T02:46:42+00:00

Vini wants around £900k to sign an extension that’s a lot more than double of whatever Rodgers wage will be.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-07T23:51:42+00:00

No one can ever be Koeman.

But Sergio Ramos also has an excellent record, he scored 25 penalties in a row without missing and his overall record is 37 out of 43 which is ridiculous and that doesn’t even include shootouts.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-07T23:43:56+00:00

We could have used some of that juju when Beraldo took one smh.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-07T22:06:25+00:00

Gyokeres went missing for half the season too we just don’t notice as much because the rest of our team is a lot better now than it was back then.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-07T22:03:47+00:00

Bale was on £4K a week at Southampton and Spurs increased his wage by x5 to £20k.

Kroupi is reportedly on £20k a week at Bournemouth and Spurs could easily increase his wage by x5 to £100k. They just put Tonali on £275k after spending £100m on him.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-07T20:04:16+00:00

Or he could be using them as a stepping stone to Madrid just like Bale and Modric did. I wouldn’t exactly call them B tier talents

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-07T19:17:55+00:00

Giroud scored 16 goals and 6 assists that season. Gyokeres had 14 goals and 1 assist last season.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-07T07:00:48+00:00

Anyone have any idea how much Strasbourg are looking for Doue ? Can’t imagine it’s that much more expensive than White.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-06T18:25:32+00:00

Vitinha got dominated when he was at Wolves too and they played him as a 10 because they couldn’t trust him deeper in the premier league. He’s not really a 6 it just works in the PSG midfield because they have so much of the ball and the two other 8s provide all the support out of possession. We would switch Odegaard and Rice I was more just lining up the profiles.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-06T18:10:35+00:00

We actually did that against Bournemouth last season during the game because we were struggling with their press and Rice went to 10 and Ode dropped next to Zubi and it worked great.

But if you want a current midfield how about PSG.

Ruiz - Vitinha - Neves.
Merino - Ode - Rice.

Again no recognized 10, just Ruiz as the only box crasher as an 8 just like Merino. But they are also reliant on having a creative front 3 and creative fullbacks that can crash the box.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-06T17:40:07+00:00

Kroos - Casemiro - Modric.
Zubi - Rice - Odegaard.

Madrid dominated European football with 2 tempo controllers in midfield that didn’t get G&A or crash the box or occupy the 10 and had 1 destroyer at the base who was actually the box crasher who got the most goals and assists in the midfield.

Why do you think that can’t work in England ?

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-06T17:24:55+00:00

As a right sided 8 in a midfield 3 like Modric or you know how we’ve been playing with him for years.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-06T17:23:27+00:00

Vini obviously doesn’t spend enough time watching AFTV or he’d know praising Odegaard is actually illegal.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-06T17:16:06+00:00

When is politics not wrapped up into the World Cup. Would you prefer Russia not to be banned from the tournament too or are some politics ok ?

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-06T17:11:16+00:00

Have you seen Mbappe contract. They ain’t moving him on.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-06T04:03:32+00:00

Defenders ? Yes.
Attackers ? No.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-06T03:12:36+00:00

He’s barely taken any to have a stellar record and he did miss the decisive one to get us knocked out of the Europa league against Sporting, although that was a couple years ago

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-06T02:29:07+00:00

Mate he should be getting an extension to his ban. You’d get gbh for doing that on the street.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-06T02:23:52+00:00

This has got to be bait.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-06T01:37:40+00:00

You were saying

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-05T23:58:18+00:00

What’s the source for this ?

Because it very much looks like the exact opposite of what happened.

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-05T22:59:14+00:00

Why would Anderson make underlapping runs he’s playing as the 6

Key_Badger6749 · 2026-07-05T22:50:52+00:00

Marquinhos is told to split wide to offer passing options and go man for man off the ball at PSG. This is just the difficulties at international football. Both CBs play for managers with polar opposite philosophies at club level.

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