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The Goalkeepers' Union

Chapter 19: The Transfer Window

Summary:

Everybody wants to hear the Barca Gossip™, plus new dynamics in the union.

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Deano🦅: 🎶I’M FEELIN’ (clap clap) GLAD ALL OVER 🎶

SweeperKeeper: Did you forget your caps lock or what 😒

Yassine: ignore him

Yassine: he’s mad that Marc-Andre’s still captain of Barcelona

Deano🦅: Wow, that is petty

Yassine: PRECISELY

Edi: btw, Yassine, Ali told me to tell you to take care of Darwin or else

Yassine: Don’t worry, he’s only gone and moved in with me 🙄

Yassine: he’s a sweetheart, but he’s already knocked over 2 of my vases

Keylor: oof

Marc-AndreDaGoat: 🤣🤣

SweeperKeeper: You are so pathetically petty and stubborn that I can’t believe it, even from you

SweeperKeeper: That is why I will be coming out of retirement for the next World Cup

SweeperKeeper: Germany needs a good goalie

Bernd: Eh, eh, eh, what about MEEEE?!

SweeperKeeper: sorry, I can’t respect a guy who’s playing at Fulham

Ali: Be glad Harvey’s not a goalkeeper, or he’d be at your location right now

Edi: ALI!!!

Keylor: We missed you 😁 How are you doing?

Ali:

Ali: I’m working on it

Edouard: We’re happy to see you again, Ali, but please know that nobody’s pressuring you to rejoin 🙏 Feel free to take all the time you need

Matt: Yeah, bro ☹️ I can’t imagine going through what you and your teammates are dealing with right now

Ali: Thank you both, but I think I’m ready to try to join again

Deano🦅: If it makes you feel any better, Ali, I live not too far from where Kweev is now, and I’ve been visiting him every now and then

Ali: You don’t know how much that means to me, Dean 🙂 thank you for doing that

Deano🦅: Of course 👍 the goalkeepers’ union looks out for each other!

Yassine: I second that 🫡 (btw the emoji was Darwin’s idea)

Edi: indeed!!!

Keylor: Of course we do!

SweeperKeeper: same, even if it’s Marc-Andre (but only in serious cases)

Yassine: on the SUBJECT of which, spill the Barca tea!

SweeperKeeper: You weren’t even in the last session, how do you know there’s Barcelona tea?!

Robert’sDude: because it’s ALWAYS us 😑

Marc-AndreDaGoat: WELL, it was a valiant and desperate struggle, but I, Marc-Andre, have gotten his rights and his armband back!

Edi: IDIOT, do I have to spell it out to you??? THEY. DON’T. WANT YOU ANYMORE!!!

Marc-AndreDaGoat: says the guy who’s still hanging around Man. City like an old sock

Edi: EXCUSE YOU, I am much hotter than an old sock

Bart: You should move somewhere where you’re wanted, like Brighton 😉

Deano🦅: or Bournemouth, they’re selling so many players they barely have a team anymore 😂

 

(MIKE, BENTO, ANDRE, AARON, and GOALKEPA have joined the chat.)

 

GoalKepa: BARCA GOSSIP!!! SIGN ME UPPP!!!!!

Aaron: FREEEEEEEEDOM IS MIIIIIIIINE, YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL

Mike: We’re doomed

SweeperKeeper: 👆three kinds of people, everyone

Mike: We got humbled by Chelsea, we drew versus a newly promoted team, and our breakfast bar is out of bagels 😱😱😱😱😱

Marc-AndreDaGoat: sucks to be you 😏😏😏

Mike: shut up and be humble, bench dweller

Marc-AndreDaGoat: wait until one of our keepers gets injured and they HAVE to play me

Robert’sDude: I’m right here, you know 😒

Andre: If it makes you feel better, Mike, we’re even more doomed

Mike: why?

Andre: We’re Manchester United

Andre: That inevitably dooms us

Edi: Thank you for your honesty 😌

Edouard: That is why I didn’t go

Mike: No way, Andre, we’re more doomed than you

Mike: We’re about to sign Rasmus from your team on loan 😫

Andre: 🥳🤩🥳🤩🥳🤩🥳🤩🥳🤩🥳🤩🥳🤩 WAHOOOOOOOOOOO

Andre: You can have him FOREVER.. I will NOT miss him

Bernd: 😆😆😆😆😆

Yassine: Well, I’m doomed. I just hurt my finger

Bernd: Oh no 😥 what happened?

Yassine: Let’s just say I was helping Darwin cook (read: ensuring he didn’t burn anything) and I rammed my hand into a hot pan

Edouard: Oof, that must hurt

Yassine: Darwin’s bringing ice packs, so I’ll be okay 🫰

Ali: That’s our Darwin ☺️ so sweet and kind to others

Yassine: never mind, he just tripped over an icepack and fell into a pile of laundry 😬 he’s okay though

Ali: and that’s our Darwin, too 🙄 I miss him 🥺

Aaron: nobody’s interested in hearing my gossip 🙎so rudeeeee

Keylor: Nobody’s interested in hearing ex-Arsenal players

Edi: ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! SPILLLL

Aaron: So I went to Newcastle on loan

Marc-AndreDaGoat: Ah yes, Newcastle 😂😂 the one team that’s messier than Barcelona

SweeperKeeper: so glad it isn’t us 😎

SweeperKeeper: btw, Lucho says hi

Ali: Tell him I say hi back, and I miss him

Bento: whyyyyyy does everybody ignore my bento gossip

Bernd: Because the only reason you’re in this chat is that you’re Brazilian and a goalkeeper

Bento: I could say the same about you 😜

Bernd: EXCUSE YOU. I play for a very relevant team

Edouard: don’t go making me laugh 😆 win a Champion’s League first!

Bento: at least I’m not in Saudi Arabia

Edouard: YES YOU ARE

Bento: Oh, right, I am 😑

Yassine: holaaaaaaaa!!!!! 😃😃😃😃😃

Ali: I didn’t know you were learning Spanish, Yassine

Edi: HE PLAYED IN SPAIN, IDIOTA!!!! OF COURSE HE KNOWS SPANISH!

Andre: Actually, I think that’s Darwin

Ali: Hi Darwin!!!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 I miss you so much

Ali: Wait a minute...why are you answering from Yassine’s phone?!

Yassine: Because you already banned me from the GKU 😎, consider this espionage.

Ali: Fede did too good a job teaching you English

Marc-AndreDaGoat: I never thought he’d learn tbh

Yassine: STAY HUMBLE WIG BEARER 😡

Edi: OWWWWWWWWWWW

Armin: LIFE LIHBATEEE AND DA PURSOOT OF APPLINESS

Mama: ignore him

SweeperKeeper: What is this bohemian crap?!

Armin: THAT’S HAMILTON STONE SKIER!!!!!

Marc-AndreDaGoat: look! Another loyal devotee to my cause of despising you, Manu!!!

Mama: look, I'm Giorgi Marmadashvili, and I just came for some socialising with other goalkeepers

Bart: You’re in the right place, then  😄 btw, I love your beard

Mama: Thank you

Bento: OMIGAWWWWWWWD

Mike: 🏳️‍🌈 gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay

Bart: hey, let's not jump to conclusions now

Mike: okay then

Mike: BI BI BI BI BI BI

Mike: PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN

Mike: STRAIGHT STRAIGHT STRAIGHT (if you're a trans woman)

Mama: WHAT

Bento: XDXDXD I LOVE THIS CHATTTTTT

Mama: I feel like something is happening that I don’t understand

Deano🦅: CLEARLYYYYYY

Bart: I didn’t mean that, I was just saying you have a nice beard

Mike: and I was being open-minded and accepting as possible!

Mama: and I appreciate both things, really :) i'm just saying i wanted a peaceful connection with other keepers

Keylor: Let’s switch the topic

Keylor: So the other day, I hosted Taco Thursday with Eugénie and James

Bernd: Wait, Eugénie le Sommer? As in the ex-Lyon striker?

Keylor: yep! She’s in Mexico now! so is James Rodriguez, btw

Marc-AndreDaGoat: I knew that 😏

SweeperKeeper: No, you didn’t

Bento: Taco Thursday 😋 so jealousssss

Mike: This is exactly what I need to combat the fact that we’re about to buy one of the worst strikers in Europe

Mike: Rasmus makes Darwin look like R9

Yassine: I’m still here, you know 😾

Edi: Where’d Yassine go anyway?

Yassine: I’m in the basement 😏 he’ll NEVER FIND ME

Keylor: ANYWAYS, I’ve got the ground beef in the pan and the avocados chopped for guacamole, and then SERGIO FRICKING RAMOS shows up on my doorstep 🙄

SweeperKeeper: I thought you two used to play together and liked each other???

Keylor: We’ve had our differences over the years 😒

Keylor: Anyway, he said he was just there for the tacos and had driven quite a distance to see me, and then my dumb empathy took over, and I let him come in for tacos

Edouard: I don’t think that’s dumb, just nice

Ali: Yeah, even if I don’t like Sergio because he hurt Mo 😠

Keylor: It’s Sergio Ramos 🙄

Keylor: This guy is on every wanted list on the red side of Madrid

Keylor: things WOULD’VE gone well if Eugénie and Sergio hadn’t kept fighting

Keylor: At one point, they squared up for a fight, and James was just watching and eating tacos like a little imp

Keylor: They WEAPONISED MY GARDEN GNOMES, and Sergio took off his shirt, and eventually Eugénie flipped him off and drove away in her Jeep

Keylor: and then SERGIO

Yassine: NOOOOOOOO

Yassine: I HAVE BEEN LOCATED

Yassine: tIL WE MEET AGA

Mike: 🤦 “he’ll NEVER FIND ME”

Marc-AndreDaGoat: serves him right for hijacking our sacred space

DavidR: The things that go on in here are anything but sacred

Yassine: Finally, I’m back, guys 🙄 I went to put some laundry in the wash, and next thing you know, my phone’s missing and so is Darwin

Ali: That’s our chaos king 😂

Ali: Take care of him, please

Yassine: I will, promise 🤝