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Conor Gallagher

luRRka

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This is a report from The Sun, right?

Not entirely sure this should be accepted as fact just yet.
Tom barclay is very good though. Goes on a lot of the tours and is spoken of highly by alasdair gold. He's not a no name work experience journalist like most of their writers
 

Now it's Spursonal

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Difference here is Gallagher is a quality player proven in this league across multiple seasons with 2 clubs. So even if he's an Ange pick he's also a good choice for the club going forward if we change manager.
Three clubs even, he was very impressive at West Brom for a season as well
 

Duskwen

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Tom barclay is very good though. Goes on a lot of the tours and is spoken of highly by alasdair gold. He's not a no name work experience journalist like most of their writers
And talksport and Daily Mail with Crook and Simon Jones. Clearly a brief from rightfuly an unhappy Gallagher camp
 

rossdapep

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From a football and human aspect, this is actually really disheartening. Yes footballers get a lot of money, BUT they are essentially being treated like pawns with no respect for their desires and loyalties.

Gallagher has given nothing but 100% for them and probably would stay for life if he could.

Yet some wankers come in and decide that players are only there for trading and to raise profit.

A football club still has a duty to it's community and academy.

Chesea's owners are seemingly discarding that and treating it as an inconvenience.

If this was happening to Spurs I would be incredibly sad.

Having said that. Chelsea are a scummy club so perhaps it's all over due.

Still, I have spare a thought for those who have worked in the academy for years.
 

JeremyPaxton

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This looks to be a bit like a mini version of what happened with Mbappe last summer: player wants to run their contract down to get a huge signing-on bonus on a free transfer, and the club is desperate to cash in on them (FFP, PSR, etc).

Ultimately: the paperwork is on the players' side, so the club has to threaten all kinds of stuff, eg "Accept the transfer or else train with the U16s".

I just think clubs can't have it both ways: ie demanding loyalty when it suits, but treating players as a £ and pence asset, to be done with what the club wants, when it wants.
 

tommyt

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Circling Still haven’t scratched though.

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robotsonic

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Still remain unsure on this move as a concept less around whether he is a good enough player or a good fit, but more because Ange has talked passionately about only wanting to sign players that want to play for this club. And this is a player who...very obviously wants to play for Chelsea...not this club. So I'm not sure at the end of the day why Ange is even interested!
 

tommyt

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Still remain unsure on this move as a concept less around whether he is a good enough player or a good fit, but more because Ange has talked passionately about only wanting to sign players that want to play for this club. And this is a player who...very obviously wants to play for Chelsea...not this club. So I'm not sure at the end of the day why Ange is even interested!

Maybe needing convinced isn't necessarily a bad thing in itself, if once convinced, the player is fully committed??
 

goughie1966

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If he really wants to stick it to Chelsea he could see out his contract and rub it in by joining us on a free
 

y1dk1d

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Not by the manager he hasn't, no manager is going to do that to a player of Gallagher's quality especially before he's properly back from the euros so he hasn't seen anything of him in preseason, that just ain't going to happen. If he's been told it then it's by someone else for the board. Doesn't say much for the coach if he just accepts that.
True.

Well I remember when Chelsea were looking at Maresca, paraphrasing sky they basically said Chelsea like him because he doesn’t kick up a fuss, does as he’s told and will work with what he’s given. Seems to checkout based on this
 

y1dk1d

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I seen on Sky earlier as well (so probs BS) that Atletico want a decision from Gallagher by the end of the weekend.

So if that is true then we might have some sort of indication on how likely he is to come to us early next week
 

DiVaio

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Not by the manager he hasn't, no manager is going to do that to a player of Gallagher's quality especially before he's properly back from the euros so he hasn't seen anything of him in preseason, that just ain't going to happen. If he's been told it then it's by someone else for the board. Doesn't say much for the coach if he just accepts that.
Those briefings are so funny. Ndidi played an important role under Maresca, zero reasons Gallagher can't
 

vegassd

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Still remain unsure on this move as a concept less around whether he is a good enough player or a good fit, but more because Ange has talked passionately about only wanting to sign players that want to play for this club. And this is a player who...very obviously wants to play for Chelsea...not this club. So I'm not sure at the end of the day why Ange is even interested!
I think Ange has also targeted Gallagher specifically from day one on the job. It's a double-edged sword I suppose.

The saving grace in all of it is that if (big if) Chelsea actually are sacking him off, Gallagher might quickly change his mind about who he wants to play for. The idea of playing for a manager who has been after you from day one might be enough of a positive to sway any anti-Spurs feelings he might have.

In reality, it's probably all a load of bollocks anyway!
 

purplemonkey

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The ideal scenario is that he walks away for free at the end of the season leaving Chelsea with nothing.

Oh, and just in case the football gods are listening… he signs a bumper deal at Atletico, quickly gets homesick, issues a grovelling apology to Ange, we engineer a loan move with a half-priced buy option and heavily subsidised wages that Atletico are forced to accept just to get him off the books, he and his family get cockerel tattoos thereby formally declaring their allegiance to Spurs, and Jason Cundy is baited into a very public meltdown which brings about an end to his pitiful media career. Is it really too much to ask??
 

rambu

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Side note, Chelsea still has tons of HG players (or will be HG) on loan yeah?
 

Misfit

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The ideal scenario is that he walks away for free at the end of the season leaving Chelsea with nothing.

Oh, and just in case the football gods are listening… he signs a bumper deal at Atletico, quickly gets homesick, issues a grovelling apology to Ange, we engineer a loan move with a half-priced buy option and heavily subsidised wages that Atletico are forced to accept just to get him off the books, he and his family get cockerel tattoos thereby formally declaring their allegiance to Spurs, and Jason Cundy is baited into a very public meltdown which brings about an end to his pitiful media career. Is it really too much to ask??
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