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At worst they'll probably get the Juventus treatment - wait till they fail to qualify for the Champions League, then ban them from a competition (Europa League) they probably don't want to be in anyway. If Chelsea finish top 4 this season, expect a suspended suspension

Only joint leaders rather than breaking away at the top so far https://www.premierinjuries.com/injury-table.php Didn't realise Lewis Miley was out for so long

Don't quite have the momentum to put six or seven past them. So just the four this time. 4-1.

8 weeks it is then. Can't say it's surprising.

There's absolutely no excuse to allow them to avoid each other, only schedule the calender to avoid clashing with expanded CL. I can only think the cup sponsors want to keep the cartel clubs sweet, and the more of them in the semi finals onwards the better. They'll hardly want a West Ham or even us in the final.

Nope. Champions League money has increased 25% this year as well. Cartel clubs just keep getting cosseted from every direction.

Fuck me that pisses me off.

Gonna be properly deflated to get knocked out of this. One of the few competitions I'm hopeful for.

Get knocked out of this, can look forward to the battle for 9th place. That looks about our level right now.

Fuck me we're bad. Was hoping we'd start showing some momentum tonight as well.

and there we have it.

Lots of sloppiness on display tonight. Spurs will murder us on Sunday if we continue like this.

Retire him.

Like Botman and Lascelles, we need to discount Willock from any squad planning for the season tbh

Yeah, that looks like a damaged hamstring to me. Usually 2 or 3 months to recover?

See you December Willock

wrong thread

Can't say I'm keen on Isak starting. Need to protect him as much as we can.

A PIF owned Saudi club will force us into a bidding war then beat us on deadline day lol

Absolutely. Our best players will not unreasonably assume lower top half is where we're going to be stuck for the foreseeable future. Our top players deserve better than that. A major announcement on stadium or training facilities could offer some re-assurance on progress, but the fruits of those will be several years away or more.

We're also facing half the season without our first choice centre back and his backup. Avoiding another injury crisis and hopefully Tonali will be our only salvation in terms of improvement.

Well, we signed Lewis Hall. Wasn't cheap either.

Can't see us any higher than 7th this season, so we're likely counting on the FA Cup winners having already qualified for Europe. We really need to win the League Cup tbh. Think a trophy will help encourage Isak, Bruno and Gordon to stay. Otherwise 7th and Europa or even 8-9th and nowt and they'll want out.

Gonna need Dan Burn to work hard on his distribution and runs. He's got a long season ahead.