Let’s hope it’s more successful than the meeting with Endrick.. De Ligt… Kounde etc
Well, we apparently said no to Kounde. Or Tuchel did. And we got Fofana … which I still think wil turn out to better for us, especially as we will be moving away from that hard 3 at the back eventually (when Potter uses it he does so by shifting players around tactically in the flow of the game, not in the same way as Tuchel or Conte, who employ it as dogma)
We had half a meeting with De Ligt and his people told us “not interested”. Tuchel was apparently not high on this idea either, but it had more to do with the brief period Bayern showed possible interest in Werner and we were trying to move him than it did a desperate need for De Ligt specifically.
We did a good job with Endrick. We didn’t win that one, but C’est la vie. A lot of the things we wanted from working that deal we did get.
This will be our … twentieth meeting about Gvardiol? With a group we’ve been working multiple deals at the same time with… while also integrating some of their staff with our front office. Nothing says it can’t get hijacked, but it isn’t exactly at the same stage as the others you mentioned. If it does fall through? Would suck, but we have alternatives scouted, and contacts with them. Chelsea would just switch gears.