Diego21

Is Partey i guess. https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1676208393525121026

I agree. In fact, I think pretty much all of us would have accepted that Almiron had been sold last summer for an appropriate amount because the guy hadn't really progressed or exploded in all his years here. But of course, with the level shown this season for several months... My only question is whether Miggy will be able to maintain that level throughout the season. Because that is the level that sets him apart and makes him important in a Champions League team like ours.

If you go for Maddison and Szoboszlai, but Chiesa or Diaby eventually arrive, you're kind of changing the idea you have with those players, because they can play the same position, but their style is radically different. Chiesa I love it. At least the version up to before he was injured. I think he was one of the most differential players in the world playing on the right wing. I do believe that a player with his ambition will be able to recover stability and return to his level. But if the signing is Chiesa, I think Almirón or Murphy would have to leave, because there are 3 players who clearly play in the same position.

I think that Pep has simply not liked him and he has a bit on one side. In addition, his competition has been Rodri (who is a physical marvel and has played everything), Gundogan and the new version of Stones. At the start of the season, Pep said that Phillips had had that serious shoulder injury the previous season and that he needed to get back to his best. In the middle of the season (after the World Cup), Pep said that Phillips had arrived a bit overweight and that this was unacceptable. To justify his absence for the entire season, he said that this year he had decided almost not to rotate his players because other years he had done it and it had gone wrong. It's complicated. He may be some kind of Rodwell, but like you say, the only way to prove it is to sign him. He has already been at a good level for 3-4 years in the Championship and for two years in the Premier with Leeds... But it is true that sometimes there are certain players who only know how to perform in one team and not in the rest.

I don't know if he has a place in the team, now with Tonali... But Phillips is a player that I love and for whom I would have gone on the first day of the market.

Is very beautiful. Probably I buy it.

Not really. Fernando (Ex City) is a very good player, but it's already 35 years... Bono (the goalkeeper) would be a good substitute for Pope, but we already have Dubravka. Acuña (Left Back) I like a lot, but I'm not sure he can adapt to the Premier League. Little more. Gudelj, Ocampos or En Nesiry are good players, but here they would come to play a substitute role and we already have better players in their position, even as substitutes.

He is a pure right winger. Very fast. But it is very irregular. We can say that it is a small version of ASM on the other band. In recent months I have been talking with a person in charge of the Villarreal sports management with whom I have become friends and she has confirmed that for them she is the best pearl of their academy. This year has been his best year. And for example, he himself destroyed Real Madrid. I think he could have a good impact in the Premier.

The club's strategy, for the moment, does not seem to be giving too many clues to the press. The players that we have signed that have been more expensive have hardly been mentioned or it seemed that they were going to another team. Isak and Tonali arrived overnight when there were no rumors for them. Botman (Milan) and Bruno (Arsenal) did make a lot of noise, but because it seemed like there was a war that we had lost. Those who have really sounded the most have been guys like Diego Carlos, Maddison or Paquetá, and they never came. The Trippier, Pope or Burn thing was also sudden and almost without knowing. Gordon never made a sound either and when it seemed like he was going to Chelsea or Tottenham, suddenly we made it official. If Szoboszlai doesn't end up coming, he doesn't worry me, although he seemed like a good player to me. Surely the club has other ideas that have not yet come to the press. And if the level of Almirón or Murphy is the same as last season and Gordon and Saint Maximin can really contribute more than last year (something easy to do), it would not seem like a drama to me not to sign anyone.

I don't like Pau Torres at all. It seems to me a very soft central. He is good with the ball at his feet to make first passes and come out with the ball played, but I think it will be very difficult for him to adapt to the level of the Premier League.

We value Ryan Fraser at 38M then. 12M+ Fraser Seems like a fair deal to me.

If we manage to sign Livramento and Szoboszlai... We would have something like that. It's not a starting XI and substitutes, it's just a way to accommodate 25-26 players on the field. In my opinion, I would sell Lascelles, Manquillo, Hendrick, Fraser, Lewis and Darlow. It seems that Howe has Dummett and Ritchie, even if they are not going to play. He would also sell (or perhaps give away) Krafth. I think it would be great to sign a starting left back (Tierney or something similar) and a center back who can make things difficult for Schar. I have doubts with Hayden. Possibly selling him is the best, but he is a player that I always liked for Stopper work and we don't have anything similar in the squad.

I think after signing Tonali, it makes even more sense to go for Szoboslai than Maddison. There is a more compensated staff. So it's fine by me that Mads is going to Tottenham.

Livramento is fine for me.

A few years ago, I followed Hancko a bit because I had heard so much about him. He signed him to Fiorentina (a team he sympathized with a lot) although he barely played there. Honestly, I really liked it. I almost always saw him play as a left back and never as a center back. He was on loan at Sparta Praha and it was seen that he was too good for that League. I really don't know why he never had the option to prove himself better and stay at Fiorentina. I must admit that I haven't seen him play for a couple of years, but they have told me that he has made a lot of progress and that he almost always plays center back. He would only sign him if he was going to give us a quality leap as a winger, not as a centre-back. PS: Another great quality of his is that his wife is the tennis player Kristina Pliskova.

On Sky Sports Italia they have been saying all day that Tonali did not want to leave Milan and that it was the club that forced him to accept the offer. Not because of anything bad about Newcastle, but because he was already in his dream team. Tonali has been a fan of Milan since he was little. In fact, on his day, he chose Milan over Inter or Juventus, which paid him more. They say in the press there that Milan needs the money and that they have forced him out. Tonali's agent has also said that the money will help Milan and Brescia a lot (Former team that also receives a part).

Welcome to the Dark side of the Force Welcome Kylo Ren.

A few years ago, when Milan had not yet signed him, the entire football world compared him to Pirlo. Even Pirlo himself said that he thought it was a copy of him. But Tonali himself ended up saying that he did not feel identified at all with those comparisons and that he believed that he was more like Gattuso.

A few years ago, Gianluca Di Marzio was the most credible person in the world when it came to commenting on transfers. I'm talking about 2012-14. He was like the Fabrizio Romano we have today. But he had a problem... he went to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, he was seen with soccer players and former soccer players... Possibly he overstepped his duties. I understand that he had direct contacts with almost all the clubs and that's why he had so much information, but something must have happened, he didn't fall for it and the clubs stopped giving him information. He had some very, very bad years because he became almost a tabloid journalist. And he only commented on rumors and not certainties. I usually consider what he says, what he once was, and why he has connections, but honestly not much. (Yesterday he also published that Atleti was going for Theo, which is totally impossible). PS: Chiesa is the best right winger in the world, for me. But after the serious knee injury he had, he still hasn't been able to recover the level he had in 2021. I don't like Theo. He is a very unintelligent player (although with excellent physical and hitting conditions) and he still has a trial pending for some pretty ugly things.

Joselu seems to me a rather mediocre player (the level of his entire career is what we saw here) and he is also a bit unlucky. In the last 3 Spanish teams in which he has been (Deportivo Coruña, Alavés and Espanyol) he has ended up being relegated. It is true that he has been at a more than acceptable level for 2 or 3 years and that this last season he has played very, very well. And that he has been lucky with the Spanish team (he has 3 goals in just 3 games). But he is already 33 years old ... I don't know. I understand that the signing that Real Madrid makes is for him to occupy the role that Mariano has had in recent years. That is to say... Play between 300 and 500 minutes per season. Only go out on the field in the first rounds of the cup, in games already sentenced or in the 80-85th minute of games in which you need to score and go to hang balls in the area. Real Madrid must sign a first name striker. I don't know if it will be Kane, Mbappe, Mané or who. But it can't be Joselu (another option that occurs to me is that Rodrygo ends up being his real center forward).

Andoni Iraola. When Eddie Howe was without team, he spent a couple ot months in Madrid learning with Atletico Simeone and Rayo Andoni Iraola manager.