Exactly. You might love being at your boyhood team, but when the club no longer values you and the manager just sees you as a squad player, then it really is time to cut the apron strings. Go and play CL football under one of the world's elite coaches and shove it in Chelsea's face.
Newcastle and Crystal Palace in direct talks over potential move for Marc Guehi. Paul Mitchell handling negotiations for Newcastle. Palace, earlier this summer, valued Guehi at min £65m. After Euro 2024 performances could be more now. https://t.co/n3fhRIua98— Sami Mokbel (@SamiMokbel81_DM) August 2, 2024 Guehi impressed for England at this summer’s European Championship but there are fears of the move being hijacked✍️ @LukeEdwardsTele#TelegraphFootball | #NUFC | #CPFC— Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) August 2, 2024 🚨 Erik ten Hag on Jadon Sancho: “We left everything behind us and we said everything about this”.“We know from each other what the standards are and how we want to work”.“Did he apologize? I think our statement says everything and it was clear and obvious”. pic.twitter.com/h0UzSxeBic— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 2, 2024 🚨🔴 Ten Hag on Rashford: “His injury is not too bad”.“We will give him all support and then… he is very capable of scoring many goals”. “The season before he scored 30 goals, so when he is in the right vibe, then he has such a high potential”, told @guardian_sport. pic.twitter.com/JjQowr4ZSk— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 2, 2024 Newcastle are planning to open talks over a new contract with England winger Anthony Gordon, 23, when he returns from a break following Euro 2024. (Athletic - subscription required), external Bournemouth are considering Aston Villa's English forward Cameron Archer, 22, as a potential replacement if his compatriot Dominic Solanke, 26, is sold to Tottenham. (Football.London), external Anthony Gordon will be offered talks over a new contract by Newcastle to ward off interest from Liverpool. (Daily Mirror) Manchester City midfielder Kalvin Phillips is a target for Turkey's Galatasaray. (The Sun) Ange Postecoglou has confirmed Tottenham are focusing on signing a centre-forward amid links with Bournemouth's Dominic Solanke. (Daily Express) Roma want £21m for Tammy Abraham after receiving interest from AC Milan. (The Times)
🚨🔵 New round of talks today between Chelsea, Conor Gallagher and his agents.Chelsea don’t want another Rüdiger case with important player leaving as free agent.Atlético Madrid insist on player’s decision by end of the weekend. pic.twitter.com/sCQlITuawL— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 3, 2024
🚨🔴⚪️ Understand Atlético Madrid held positive talks with Conor Gallagher today!Chelsea and Atlético are working to get his green light, all parties confident but there are still some details to clarify.Chelsea would get €40m fee and they hope to get it done soon. ⏳🏴 pic.twitter.com/aAdE2LmGw4— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 3, 2024
#MUFC #FPL Ten Hag confirmed pre-match that Harry Maguire would not be included in the squad. ‘Pre-season is always tough. But, yeah, Harry, as a precaution, we leave him out.’https://t.co/cckOHhGs0b https://t.co/R3N6WA5NNn— Ben Dinnery (@BenDinnery) August 4, 2024 Newcastle are hoping to make a transfer breakthrough with a deal for England and Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi, 24. (Mail), external Palace have told Newcastle that they want at least £50m up front as well as add-ons to sell Guehi. (Football Insider), external Bournemouth are insistent that Tottenham will have to meet their £65m release clause if they are to sign England forward Dominic Solanke, 26, this summer. (Mirror), external The Cherries have targeted Aston Villa and England Under-21 forward Cameron Archer, 22, as a potential replacement for Solanke. (Teamtalk), external Arsenal want £30m plus a sell-on clause included in any deal to sell England international Eddie Nketiah, 25, with Marseille chasing the forward. (Fabrizio Romano), external Southampton are hopeful they will be able to keep defender Kyle Walker-Peters, 27, at the club this summer after West Ham pulled out of talks to sign him. (Football Insider) Liverpool are ready to join the bidding battle for England star Marc Guehi. (The Sun) Jude Bellingham waved at fans as he rocked up at Bradford's Valley Parade to watch his little brother Jobe in action. (The Sun)
Looking around the majority of people will be disappointed if Kane starts the match against Ireland. Majority want him to retire or be dropped and Watkins/Toney/Palmer/Gordon to play the striker roles.
Most people who don’t want him retire or be dropped very likely wouldn’t have thought to vocalise this opinion on social media. I imagine most on this forum hold the opinion, but didn’t think it was worth bringing up!
I do think with Kane is that what's obvious is that the next manager needs to play to his strengths, I don't doubt he was injured during that Euros but I think a lot of his Champions League performances also showed he's physically declining. We can't be running Kane/Saka/Foden or Kane/Saka/Grealish front 3s. There has to be a serious running threat in that frontline. Rashford, Gordon or even Sterling are currently the only contenders. I don't want Kane omitted from the squad but I definitely don't think that's true either.
🚨 TOTAL AGREEMENT between Atlético and Chelsea for the transfer of Conor Gallagher! 🤝(Source: @MatteMoretto) pic.twitter.com/QJQomGKs6D— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) August 4, 2024 🚨 Erik ten Hag is considering using Jadon Sancho and Bruno Fernandes as strikers to help solve Manchester United’s attacking issues. (Source: @TheAthleticFC) pic.twitter.com/AgraUlJQ9U— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) August 4, 2024
Kane is still good but had a shit euros I think cole palmer is the answer as a false 9 style forward but more direct than Kane
It's a bit extreme, but I do think we need to wait for someone to actually make a good case for playing ahead of him, which only Watkins has come close to doing recently. No harm in starting to cast our net though, given that Kane's 31 and we don't know how long we have until he goes into permanent decline. We've all said it, but Solanke is the obvious player who hasn't been looked at yet, and there are less obvious options like Palmer who might plausibly thrive in that position.
Personally I don't think it needs to be a 30-goal-a-season striker, it doesn't even need to be someone "better" than him, it's who fits best with the rest of the team. The past decade of international football shows you don't need a Kane standard number 9 to win an international tournament, you just need someone who can perform a role, chip in with a few goals and most importantly bring the best out of the other world-class players - providing you have them, which fortunately we do at the moment. I think at this stage of his career you almost need to wire the whole attack around Kane if you want to get the best out of him which essentially means the team will largely go as far as he takes it. It will work in certain games which is why I still want him around, but he also just isn't suited to every game state now. We need to be giving consistent minutes to other strikers to see how they mesh with the rest of the team because alternatives just haven't been tried often enough. Solanke is the one who I'd like to see most.
🚨🆕 #EFC 🏴Everton are closing in on a loan move for Manchester City midfielder Kalvin Phillips. pic.twitter.com/azGJrQl2uK— Ekrem KONUR (@Ekremkonur) August 4, 2024
🚨 The Conor Gallagher deal to Atletico Madrid is looking very unlikely. Atletico are unhappy at how it has all unfolded. There is now a 99% chance that Javi Guerra will be the one coming to Atleti.(Source: @MatteMoretto) pic.twitter.com/IyWvcDqIsT— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) August 4, 2024
Chelsea have told Conor Gallagher they are selling him and if he wants to stay then sign a new deal that they are offering (on their terms basically). If he doesn’t then he’s pretty much in the PL2. Shocking really.— Simon Phillips (@siphillipssport) August 4, 2024
I suspect he will sign a new contract at Chelsea and used this whole Athletico saga to get a new improved deal.