Ansu Fati

[Thenewcat]

Or this time last week.

Or the week before that…

 

[QuasiModo80]

I think we probably have to accept the intention was never to sign both Fati and Johnson anyway. Could almost start to think it is all part of a constructed script in order to make it seem that we are trying to be ambitious. To sell Kane and replace by Brennan Johnson. Without any disrespect to Brennan Johnson, that is farcial.

 

[Klinsmannesque]

Looking forward to another mad one tomorrow

 

[Hazelton]

So frees up Mitoma on the market?

Ideally yes but no way Levy deals with £100m+ merchants Brighton.

 

[talkshowhost86]

Don't worry everyone

I'm sure losing Fati to Brighton is a crucial stage in Project Kane

Next step...we sign nobody else instead to lull everyone into a false sense of security

 

[nicdic]

Don't worry guys, remember the media are two weeks behind the ITKS, right?

RIGHT?

 

[spursfan77]

Except we have lost a day so only 2 days left. Been a great 24 hours for the club

Yep. My post wasn’t patting them on the back!

No outs, no ins. Just more lost time. Classic levy.

 

[wadewill]

Happy considering it was a dry loan

No interest in us acting as a get our players fit club

If he has been any good Barca would have taken him back or Chelsea would have just bought him

Could easily have been us pulling out

 

[Jules77]

It doesn’t seem we lost out to Brighton. More that we walked away because Barcelona wouldn’t agree to an obligation/option.

you'll not inject reason where there is an route to spout hate at the club some proport to support....

 

[kieranfitchett]

Barca probably hoping Fati will be the answer to their financial problems - one year at Brighton and Chelsea will pay 10x the going rate for him next summer

 

[cst310]

I just don't understand why something so black and white as whether the loan has an option/obligation or not wasn't decided on early. How can something be 99% done and THAT be the 1%? Shouldn't this be part of the first conversation? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

 

[spursn17]

so 2 days to go, and Levy has sold our best ever striker for 100M and not replaced him....another coach thrown under the bus by him and ENIC..

 

[Bluto Blutarsky]

I leave you guys alone for 1 hour.

Now look what you have done.

 

[lobob8]

Be interesting to see if we end moving for Johan Bakayoko now or just stick with Johnson.

I was just thinking, bet we go for him on deadline day as Johnson will be too expensive.

 

[13VanDerBale13]

Yea but it looks perfect for the usual end of the window ‘we tried’ PR show.

Since we’ve sold Kane our business (or rather lack of it) has been nothing short of a shambles.
Yet some won’t see it like that

 

[philll]

Some horrible takes in here.

You take the gamble on him like the lot up the road did with Odegaard. He's 20 years old, a generational talent, and produced 14 G/A in 20 90s worth of minutes last season.

It actually makes it worse to me that Brighton want him. If we got gazumped on a loan fee by Chelsea or some club with no strategy - that's one thing.

When trying to go for a rebuild, you need to take some risks.

Agreed. I don't give a solitary fuck that it was "just a loan" - the kid is magical and he's going to absolutely fly with Brighton. He might not have been a central, long term part of our rebuild but he would've been a hell of an addition, even for a season, even as "just a loan".

 

[PaulThurston]

I leave you guys alone for 1 hour.

Now look what you have done.

Sorry Bluto

 

[TheWallYid]

He's not better than Son.

Son 2022/23 was rubbish and he doesn’t look any better this season either

 

[Johnny J]

I think Fati may well be a bullet dodged BUT the fact remains that once again we're going to be left short in key areas and will still have a bunch of players to shift in Jan/summer. Pathetic.

 

[Jules77]

For a cut price of £100m

i'd do that deal