The College Dropout

Nice finish Darwin.

Liverpool are scary.

Sven Botman likely never saw Maldini play. But it looks like a done deal anyway.

I’ve not mentioned Fraser like. I’d happily see Fraser sold next season while I want ASM in the first team. there’s not much to discuss with Fraser. He’s definitively not good enough for us. Back-up next season at best. Sign Raph and Lingard and Fraser can go. ASM has the potential to go to the very top.

You can double up on ASM because he’s not going to pass. He attempts the most take-ons in the league by a distance.

Only 2 of our players are at the standard of where we want to be. 1 of them is 31, the other is unproven in this league. If we find the right calibre of player for the other 9 players and the price is right the mentality is right. We buy them.

Played as if we were playing a back 3. Crazy pressing. He doesn’t have the recovery pace to do that. I think people are realising now that he’s a stop gap to keep us up and if we can get better, we should if we stay up.

The half arsed suicide press?

Why do we keep pressing high like this?

Son is going to score a hat-trick. We need to go to a flat back 5. Proper defeners on. Low block. Stop conceding.

Get Lascelles and a proper fullback on. Even Krafh if he's available.

Dan Burn's pressing is so unneccesarily aggresive. He's following his man into Spurs half damn near

No butr the performance and tactics are baffling. Spurs on to our backline again and again for no reason.

The midfield is unbelievably high. Turn one of them and they are running onto our backline. Joe needs to come off. Dan Burn going way deep into middfield to press ffs. He can barely run.

Same. Had it on Kane last night and changed it this morning out of fear. then I brought in James for Rudiger for a hit because I really wanted him. I only regret the Salah cap

I suspect he’ll want to be involved at least until January to see how things go. injuries/slow start to new players and he could be right back in there.

Don’t want Coutinho.

Marina wouldn't agree to the buy price unless it was an obligation. New owner and management will take awhile to learn about. random - Chelsea drove the hardest deals with loan players under Marina. Especially the young players. They force the young players to sign new contracts when they go and get first-team loans or they'll let them rot in the reserves. So Gallacher's contract runs until 2025 now, so now he's a success if they want to sell him they get a massive transfer fee. If it doesn't work out, they know he's talented, sign for another year and go back on loan. That's why Keneddy is still there, he's been there since 2015 - they keep making him sign new contracts ffs. They'll never get a fee for him. But when it works, it's great for them. Which is why it's great fun that their 2 most valuable CBs will leave for free.

Not a fan. I wouldn't mind a loan for Werner. Pay half the wages, agreedd price for option to buy. Probably £20m all in for the season (loan fee + proportion of wages). If it works, throw in another £30m for a transfer - if not - let him go. Chelsea can't shift him this summer anyway unless Bayern want him. A loan to restore his value is probably the best bet and we should negotiate a buy-price at the start.

Big clubs often don't make so many changes against each other too.

It was first mentioned last year - it's coming in for sure. The 5 sub thing further reduces the element of "luck" in football. Every decision the game makes favours the bigger teams. It's shit for FPL too.

Not declaring a budget is a good thing. Much like January it should be on a deal by deal basis. We were willing to go to £35m for Carlos then spent less than half on Burn. My only hope is that we don't have to go the Burn & Wood route to fill numbers in the squad.

Aye we need genuine pace.

£170m is a lot. and what I think is necessary.

I'm glad Egypt's terror-ball hasn't been rewarded It's a shame Algeria faced Cameroon. In terms of strength and likelihood to succeed at a WC Africa would want: Senegal Cameroon Algeria Morocco Ghana/Nigeria