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    Chelsea’s transfer strategy, Manchester United’s goalkeeper plan | Sensible Transfers



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    Jon Mackenzie, JJ Bull and Reuben Pinder are here to talk to sensible transfers.

    Newcastle’ strengthens for a Champions League campaign.

    Spurs moving from a back three, to a back four.

    What does Mauricio Pochettino need to succeed at Chelsea?

    Manchester United’s biggest need: goalkeeper or striker?

    This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.

    Time stamps:

    0:00 Intro
    00:01:00 The process of making a Sensible Transfer video
    00:04:01 Newcastle Sensible Transfers
    00:06:36 International teams transfers?
    00:07:25 Newcastle Sensible Transfers cont.
    00:16:38 Tottenham Sensible Transfers
    00:29:34 Chelsea Sensible Transfers
    00:38:26 Manchester United Sensible Transfers
    00:43:43 Band / Drummer chat
    00:45:27 Manchester United Sensible Transfers cont.
    00:48:32 Is Mason Mount a good fit at Manchester United?
    00:51:20 Anything to add?

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    2. Colm O'Sullivan on

      Sensible transfers for non Prem clubs?

      Inter are champions league finalists with a decimated squad

      Milan are rich but seem to be mopping up whatever says no to Saudi's

      Barce are skint but need massive areas plugged

      Madrid have literally no strikers

    3. Tamiya on

      Hello everyone, love the podcast! If you do more Sensible Transfers vids for teams outside of the Prem. I'd very much enjoy a video on Napoli. With several players leaving along with a new coach and sporting director being introduced. A vid on how they defend their title would be interesting.

    7. dave crook on

      Zaha would be perfect for Dortmund – Yes, his wages would need to be at least £200k a week, but sign him for 3 years and it would cost them around a third of the bellingham money and he would get similar numbers to Sancho i think, but more importantly he's the sort of talent that can beat Bayern by himself if the rest od the team can keep a clean sheet.

    8. dave crook on

      looking at how they are selling it seems to me that Chelsea are pretty much sticking with the plan – get a new, young squad who are all signed on long contracts and give that squad to a mananger/coach who loves moulding a young group where there is always the money to sign what they need and always the option to sell a player you don't want.

    9. dave crook on

      As A Man Utd fan, i'm happy to see Mount – he's a good proven performer and ETH obviously sees him as a crucial upgrade and given he's presumably mainly replacing Eriksen i can see how we''ll be harder to beat with Mount alongside Cas & Bruno. But for me, our number 1 priority is Onana in goal – he knows ETh and he knows Martinez and that gives ETH a combo that he knows will deliver his plans. Pay Inter £50-£60m and they'll sell. We should be going for Caiceido oe Alvarez (Ajax again) and then i'd be happy to see us a striker who for whatever reason, is happy to be on the bench when Martial is fit… Hojland or Danny Welbeck or similar ilk. We'll get f-all for Martial given his fitness record so i think it suits both sides for us to give it another year with a back-up who is PL standard and with Rashford a more than capable option since we have Garnacho and Sancho, and now Mount who are all effective off the left. I'd take £50m for Sancho if it was from an overseas club, but i still think there's a player there – but maybe an 8/10 or a false 9 if he can sort his wok-rate and defensive nous & intent.

    15. D1 on

      What was the value of this podcast? It's just the same content from the sensible transfer videos. Am I missing something?

    17. Nicolas Castelli on

      Ah this is the guy that thought Enzo is a dm. And this is the youtube channel that pretends to be serious despite employing missinformed "journalists".

    18. Jack Ryan on

      Can we do this for some of the smaller teams as well? I'm a Wolves fan, and I'd love to hear where you think they can improve under Lopetegui's first full pre-season. Not to mention the mass exodus going on, and who could come in to fill the holes.

    23. Crevulus on

      Matt Tong of Bloc Party is one of the most underrated rock drummers ever.

      Okay that's obviously an exaggeration but he's very good and deserves more credit for making them into the definitive indie band that they became. And he crafted the overall sound of their third album which was also fantastic.

    27. RussianWeeb on

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    29. H Naku on

      33:20 It's not necessary to have 8 homegrown players. 17 in the max number of foreign players allowed, and after that if a team wants to expand it's an option to fill remaining squad with homegrown players. 25 is the squad limit size for above age 21 so any range between 0-8 is the actual number of homegrown players required. Teams could start with just 17 and cover rest with U21s. This is for Premier League, Europe has slightly different rules but Chelsea aren't in it this season.

    34. Morlath on

      "United make all these floor raising transfers" – That's not the problem with United. The problem with United is that their ceiling raising purchases haven't worked! Di Maria, the two (then) youngsters Martial and Depay, Mkhitaryan, Pogba, Lukaku, Fernandes, Sancho, and Anthony, were all attempts to not just raise the general level of the squad but to add something new/special/extra. And the only one who has succeeded at this is Fernandes.

      Whether it's a miscommunication between the manager and whichever moron is attempting to buy the players, the "big" players are either being bought for systems the managers don't want to play or aren't being given the type of players around them to work. And that's without them just failing to work. It seems like almost every time United has tried to bring in someone to spark the midfield or attack into a new direction/dimension, something goes horribly wrong.

    36. Lamont Granquist on

      FWIW I think the biggest issue with the new sensible transfers format is that they're pretty long and a lot of the build up is a rehash of the tactical setup of the teams that most TifoIRL viewers are going to be somewhat familiar with. It probably does make the videos a bit better to consume by people who have never seen the channel before, but for silly season transfer talk you're probably getting the more at least moderately informed to die-hard viewers. I don't know if that's the creative tension behind producing the videos, but I think they'd play better if they were cut down a bit and had more shout-outs to other videos for more detailed information. The transfer talk videos are also inherently volatile information and I think they feed your regular viewers. You should do more interviews like the Crouch one or the Johnathan Wilson one to have more reach. But sensible transfers and those interviews are wildly different and hit different audiences.

    37. Joshua Maunder on

      To defeat this Drummer argument, this doesn't explain why Blink 182 are such a terrible band because Travis Barker is literally one of the best drummers ever

    38. E.K. NYR on

      If I hear the phrase “player profile” again I’m actually gonna lose my mind lol.

      Just making up new terms to sound enlightened.

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