Kanj

Why the fuck do chelsea need Cole Palmer

Ya, I don't think we make much off the Castore sales, otherwise the club are just torpedoing the entire deal here with this adidas stuff

Strawberry part of the announcement?

amen bro

Happily stand up and say anyone questioning Howe can get in the fucking sea. Lost a game to Liverpool after a freak bounce off our top CB and an error by his best midfielder off two class strikes from a 70m striker. He’s probably put in 15+ hour work days since then identifying the issues, reading through old notes, creating action plans to fix those, and preparing for Brighton…sure beats dusting yourself off eh? We all know we have 2 domestic cups, Champions league and 35 more PL games to play. So much football to enjoy this season. Seriously just take a step back people. The debating over elite or not elite seems entirely pointless. The debate over his big game management seems entirely pointless. He is in his second full season of managing a club who’s ambition is to compete with the top end of domestic and European competition and he’s still rebuilding the squad. Fuck sake. If you spent any time looking at the careers of other big managers you’d see everyone suffers gut wrenching defeats.

28 appearances in 2 years, he's 28. Surely he can be helpful to a Champo club

^ what I’m saying. Often he’s showing for the ball near the box and he’s not getting it. Need to feed Isak. He can create his own shot.

Our attackers also need to get him the ball more often than not, too often seeing guys with lesser ability taking wild shots when they should be finding the striker too.

@Minhosa series of class posts mate.

The defeatist mentality on here. What in the living fuck man.

Part of me wishes we'd sign an older head, experienced DM or younger one who's developing but knows their role would be mostly bench, rotation, etc situationally.

@Kid Icarus that first one is awesome.

Ahh ok, they made some rules to battle this, didn't know exactly.

Tonali is trying to play quickly though its often 1 touch stuff.

Would like to see Hall and Murphy

wish our next game was some fucking tragically shite club at home.

I kind of always assumed Gordon would be the Almiron competition tbh.

Suddenly people think we'll lose and stand no chance. Wonderful.

Feel like last season we’d be laying down, Howe would talk to our players. We’d settle down and get a grip again.

I would like to see the gamesmanship return mind you. The random “injury” in the first or second half to give Howe 2 mins to speak to his players. The shithousing to slow the opposition down, etc. it seems like we’ve been playing to be liked the last 3 matches versus the mantra of last season — “we are not here to be liked; we are here to compete”

This is the sort of stuff that top managers learn from - Pep, Klopp, and name the rest of the greats have ALL had days like yesterday. It’s what happens after this that defines them, based on Howe’s season and half with us I back him to learn heavily from the last 2 matches and while it may not click initially, the solutions will be found, the work will be done at the training ground and in game management will be retooled.

Salah’s pass split both Burn and Targett, like. It was actually a perfect ball.

Having watched that pass back…fuck man. It was so unnecessary.

I’m smitten over him.

We gotta leave Sandro on the pitch man, 90 minutes.