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Jules Koundé

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Jan 27, 2011
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Fair cop, Chelsea are definitely a more attractive prospect than us at the moment. Good job we have a DOF who has more than one iron in the fire.
 

Pekoni

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Closest I've got to a silver lining is that, compared to past transfer windows, this doesn't feel like we messed up.
We did everything we could. Sadly Chelsea are in the CL and we aren't. That sounds like it was the difference.
It was more like a show of ambition and intention. It would have been an amazing coup. Wouldn’t see anything like this under Levy’s negotiations.
 

worcestersauce

"I'm no optimist I'm just a prisoner of hope
Jan 23, 2006
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I think it's obviously really important that we get rid of Sanchez, as far as we are concerned along with Dier he is a duff CB, Sanchez is the only one getting interest, if we still manage to sell him that's fine but Sevilla apparently really wanted Sanchez and they are an attractive destination for the player to go to.

Fingers crossed it all works out, but let's not pretend this Kounde zouma swap deal to chelsea isn't really bad news for us in more ways than one.

Also means Chelsea aren't blowing as much cash as we thought they would. It's a dream deal really.
I disagree, it's bad news if we wanted Kounde but the Sanchez angle is bad news for Sevilla, if they take Zouma it will be because they know they have lost Sanchez not in preference to him
 

Mphw

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"But Fabrizio hasn't said it so it's not true". Is basically what some of our fans are thinking.
Exactly, people believe what their agenda fits to most of the time. Romano is a journalist, he earns his money from clicks on his streams, podcast, and articles. He obviously gets some info which is fair enough but people take his word and his only... people really need to take everything with a pinch of salt...
 

the yid

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Though we were interested, I honestly don’t see the fuss over this. He is well short for a CB! And I stated this ages ago. I personally have never been in favour.

Japhet is 6ft tall, and Josè went on record saying he was too small. There is as good, if not better out there. And I am sure this didn’t catch Paratici by surprise. Furthermore, we signed there crown jewel.
Good to know just hope we can get Romero over the line
 

Aphex

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Jan 30, 2021
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I disagree, it's bad news if we wanted Kounde but the Sanchez angle is bad news for Sevilla, if they take Zouma it will be because they know they have lost Sanchez not in preference to him


Perhaps. I don't care about Kounde now, he's Chelsea. I just hope we still manage to get rid of Sanchez. We need two CBS in and I don't want to see us having to partner Romero (if we sign him) with Sanchez or Dier next season.
 

Guntz

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Aug 15, 2011
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Fair cop, Chelsea are definitely a more attractive prospect than us at the moment. Good job we have a DOF who has more than one iron in the fire.

*The irons in the fire*

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worcestersauce

"I'm no optimist I'm just a prisoner of hope
Jan 23, 2006
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Perhaps. I don't care about Kounde now, he's Chelsea. I just hope we still manage to get rid of Sanchez. We need two CBS in and I don't want to see us having to partner Romero (if we sign him) with Sanchez or Dier next season.
I genuinely have no doubt that we will be saying goodbye to Davinson. Don't know about Dier though.
I agree with you about Kounde too, he wasn't coming to us and got nicked by Chelsea he just wanted what they can offer right now so that's that.
 

newbie

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Jul 16, 2004
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I genuinely have no doubt that we will be saying goodbye to Davinson. Don't know about Dier though.
I agree with you about Kounde too, he wasn't coming to us and got nicked by Chelsea he just wanted what they can offer right now so that's that.

I think we new this I’m hoping it was a bit of a smoke screen
 

JR1994

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Jan 11, 2018
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Yet not another single team has been named.

Seen how quickly it moves. Chelsea not even on the scene for Kounde in the media till this afternoon.. nobody saw Gill coming to us! ITK has said there’s plenty suitors for Sanchez! We’ll be fine people just need to chill out a bit and have some patience
 

JR1994

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Jan 11, 2018
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People have started to lose faith over the optimistic signing of a player who has been pretty clear he wants CL. Fabrizio and other news outlets stating about 5 different valuations on the Romero price when ITK has said it’s very close. Been linked with Zouma as plan B.. Clearly bullshit! 1 ‘bad day’ and meltdown. Romero in by end of the week and we’re all good again aren’t we ffs ??‍♂️
 

srups34

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Jun 11, 2008
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From start to finish of this thread, I never felt confident we would sign this player. Don't think its that big a deal him signing for Chelsea.
 

wrd

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Shame about Kounde but it's the reality of what we get for dropping the ball and falling down the ladder. Don't really understand how people can question the players character for being ambitious.

However not the fault of the new people in charge of this sort of thing I.E Paratici.

What I will say is, not getting myself too excited from the noises we were hearing has meant that equally im not too downbeat about this news. I'd have loved Kounde to join us but now we get to see how paratici adapts. I suggest those who are feeling shit because of todays events try and limit their emotions when it's both good and bad news and that way it won't be so shit when it's negative news.
 

spursfan77

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Aug 13, 2005
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Though we were interested, I honestly don’t see the fuss over this. He is well short for a CB! And I stated this ages ago. I personally have never been in favour.

Japhet is 6ft tall, and Josè went on record saying he was too small. There is as good, if not better out there. And I am sure this didn’t catch Paratici by surprise. Furthermore, we signed there crown jewel.

I wonder how many people will also now agree he’s too short now we aren’t buying him ???
 
May 17, 2018
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I thought Sanchez had several clubs wanting his service so if Sevilla ain’t in the running surely we just sell him to the others.

I personally like the idea that Seville said "We'll sell you Gil if we can have Lamela. We also want Davinson Sanchez. We won't be able to afford him unless you can bait Chelsea into paying £70m for Kounde, though."
 

daveduvet

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Oct 6, 2008
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I've already had it confirmed to me by someone who has a mandate to sell Kounde in England that there is "absolutely no chance" of us signing him. Would love to be proved wrong.
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Had this post in my mind the whole time we were linked, so didn’t get too excited …
 

YB123

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Aug 27, 2006
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Chelski signing Kounde and Sevilla getting Zouma meaning we cant get rid of Sanchez to raise funds for Romero?
 
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