Douglas Luiz - back home on loan

[frank black]

This is an FFP quick fire, gotta get it done asap deal.

Hate these part ex deals, as we rarely come up trumps. I have no positive thoughts about this at all.

Gutted

[Olneythelonely]

I wonder if he was told he was going a few months ago and that's what led to the fall off in play? I'm sure I saw before that Monchi or Emery let's players know if they're surplus to requirements a while before the end of the season so they have time to sort something new out. Maybe that was someone else, but Juve feels like a strange deal to have come out of nowhere.

It coincided with Kamara getting injured.

[Aldridge Villa]

Properly gutted that he’s going. He’s a massive loss.

He's a great player but I'm not sure he will be.

I agree.
While I do like him, I’m not exactly devastated that he’s off.
It’s an oh, well feeling.


Of it were Ollie, SJM or Emi leaving, that’s a different story.

My sentiments too pretty much.

[Goldenballs]

Fucking wank.

[ChicagoLion]

It’s hard to accept that that Luiz SJM Kamara midfield base will not be seen again.
We built a hell of a season on it.

[PeterWithesShin]

We're bringing in 2 players we've been linked with before, and have a player leaving that may really want leave. I'm confident we'd only bring in players Unai wants, he never strikes me as a type to accept a "well he'll do I suppose" player, to the degree he'd rather be a player short than stick a kid on the bench who he was never going to use.

[Dave]

Rest of the lads are going to have to practice their penalties over the summer.

Tielemans I'd assume?

[andyh]

A new midfield of McGinn, McKinnie, Gallagher and Tielemans , with backup from Ramsey and Kamara.

That’s got some energy about it….we will run the legs off every opposition.

[Sexual Ealing]

Rest of the lads are going to have to practice their penalties over the summer.

Tielemans I'd assume?

I think McGinn takes them for Scotland so he might be worth a look.

[The Edge]

This is an FFP quick fire, gotta get it done asap deal.

Hate these part ex deals, as we rarely come up trumps. I have no positive thoughts about this at all.

Gutted

Fair point but when you say we rarely come up trumps you're forgetting who's actually running team affairs now. We're on a level we've never witnessed before. I'm confident we will come up trumps in the long run.

[Drummond]

I think people are falling into the trap of recency bias and him performing a different role in the second half of the season. We don’t have that run in the first half of the season without him, he was exceptional. I hope we have some real quality coming in, because McKennie is massively unconvincing.

McKennie isn't the replacement for Luiz though, more likely Dendoncker. Barkley is coming in.

Plus perhaps Gallagher.

[Toronto Villa]

Rest of the lads are going to have to practice their penalties over the summer.

Tielemans I'd assume?

Hs an 84% penalty scoring record. Most of his misses came very early in his career, almost a decade ago. His most recent miss was for Leicester in the FA Cup last Jan.

[PaulWinch again]

I just don’t see the Gallagher one, I think he’ll stay.

[PeterWithesShin]

Carew for Baros wasn't a disaster. And while Ireland didn't work out there were loads on here that thought we'd had Man City's pants down with that deal at the time.

[Toronto Villa]

I just don’t see the Gallagher one, I think he’ll stay.

might not be his choice. Chelsea need to shift players or they will have a squad of about 50 come August.