Why else would the chairman of his current club say such… wait a cotton picking minute.I would argue the opposite. Lille’s Director of their youth academy Jean-Michel Vandamme has explained on the club’s official site that he believes the club has found the new Eden Hazard and his name is Rony Lopes, Manchester City’s young attacking midfielder who is currently on loan with Les Dogues. Its like those cold calling number generators. Let’s give the boy time to settle and prove his worth before counting him as #1 on the team sheet. What’s the thinking with Mavro?We could be doing a Chelsea on it, and sell him for a decent fee after a few seasons on loan if he performs well.Do we really need him at this point? According to a report in French publication France Bleu, Arsenal are showing interest in Lille’s Brazilian defender Gabriel Magalhães. Lille’s youth academy chief hails Rony Lopes as better than Eden Hazard.

He has a good long range pass on him too and could eventually replace Luiz once his contract expires. I like Holding and Chambers, Mari may be good, Mustafi has redeemed himself, but I don’t see how you can argue that we have one CB on our books who has played for us that we can trust and need. I wonder if Mustafi would work as a DM?Ceballos did a massive job in the middle in the Santi role.
Likes it when Arsenal are good.Gunners linked with Lille defender Gabriel Magalhães “among the top five dominant central defenders in Europe right now”.

What an exciting project our defence could become next year. He’s done a great job of turning it around in big games, but it’s clear against mid-to-lower table teams this formation lacks creativity and an ability to control the middle of the pitch.Yes- Arteta is doing a great job with a very limited squad. But Willian and Coutino should be nowhere near the club. Saliba will get a lot of playing time. I think we would be netter getting a DM who can drop down to CB instead of a CB trying to push up to DM which we are also not doing. We do need someone who can run and do one-twos.

Emi Martinez is home grown (he arrived at 17 years old and the rule is 3 years before your 21st birthday or somethign like that). At this stage we have 17 non home grown players on our books (which is the maximum that can be registered) but that includes Elneny & Mkhi who are pretty much guaranteed to leave, as well as Ozil, Papa, Mustafi, Kolasinac, Cellabos & Lacazette, who I doubt will all be included in the squad for next year.According to football manager he becomes homegrown just after the season starts in 2019…FM…the most reliable football related source since football beganSo on other news, I am being told 6 big teams in England and spu*ds are playing in Europe next season. We aren’t really set up squad wise to be the bigger team who has to attack as a back 4 highlights how weak our central defenders are. We’re actually OK on that count anyway though. If it’s the latter, we could end up with a silly number of centre-backs, but, y’know, if this Gabriel is super talented, let’s bloody scoop him up if we can…How many times have we missed out on a future star due to logistical inhibitions on our part? We’ve got so many on the books at the moment that we’d definitely have to get rid of at least two to make room for Gabriel and that would suggest the futures of Rob Holding, Calum Chambers, Sokratis and Mustafi are potentially in doubt.It’s all very well being linked to all these players, surely we need to move players on first? And you think Willian will be happy sitting on the bench if Chelsea paid him what he wants?Willian hasn’t won as much as Ozil who has won everything. And Willian too maybe. And Mourinho always wanted to be bigger than anybody ever since he was boy…unfortunately for everyone else, his obession with being bigger only led to him beingIt doesn’t matter which happens first. Mourinho insisted on it. Lille Olympique Sporting Club (French pronunciation: [lil ɔlɛ̃pik spɔːʳtɪŋ klœb]), commonly called LOSC, also referred to as LOSC Lille, Lille OSC or simply Lille, is a French professional association football club based in Lille in Hauts-de-France.The club was founded in 1944 as a result of a merger and plays in Ligue 1, the first division of French football. BTW, rumours speak of Kante being on the market…This looks like an interesting signing. In the On 23 December 2017, Bielsa was terminated by Lille and replaced with former 1980–2000: Laying the foundations for future success1980–2000: Laying the foundations for future success I’d much rather we take the gamble.We have too many central backs in number but outside Saliba & Mari who have barely played, none of them seem capable of playing in a back 4. Please add the … More young, talented players please!Brazillian CB named Gabriel. The 22-year-old centre-back has been on Napoli’s radar for quite some time and Manchester United and Everton have also been linked.It’s since been suggested that Napoli, who’ve just bought Victor Osimhen from Lille, are getting cold feet while United have opted to recall Chris Smalling from his loan at AS Roma; the suggestion being that they may focus their funds on recruiting Jadon Sancho from Borussia Dortmund.A Brazil under-20 international, Gabriel moved to Lille from homeland side Avai for €3 million in 2017 and has since spent time out on loan with Ligue 2 side Troyes and Croatian outfit Dinamo Zagreb.He has been a regular in the Lille first team since the midway point of the 2018/19 season when he and Pepe helped the club to a second-place finish behind PSG.This term, he featured 24 times in Ligue 1 before its suspension and also featured in all six of the club’s Champions League group stage matches.Lille’s president, Gerard Lopez, believes the player is destined for the top.“I feel he is among the top five dominant central defenders in Europe right now,” he “His statistics, which aren’t well covered outside of France, shows that his percentage for winning duels is pretty unheard of in a league that’s extremely physical.“He’s an absolute machine, so to me, he’s well on his way – if not this year – to potentially a really big club. Saliba hasn’t played for us yet.
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