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This. More than anything.

Would someone like Joe Allen be worth a shout? Moved last summer to Stoke for 13.

FM don't really work in real life. Never played. Basing my contract knowledge on American sports.

It's just about crisis mode time. We need to start coming to agreements to terminate contracts. Pay them off portions of their contracts to get them off the wage bill and let them be free agents and start getting new bodies in. Let Rafa build the fucking teams he wants damnit.

http://soccer.nbcsports.com/2017/08/23/report-chelsea-line-up-tuchel-to-replace-conte/

After one game? Just feel we need more pace out wide. Atsu's pace was our biggest threat today, and we lacked it down the right Merino Hayden Murphy Ritchie Atsu Gayle Worth a go? Ritchie likes a shot and can't really be worse than Perez in the No. 10 role. Wouldn't be surprised to see SDJ on the bench though. This would be a great match for him.

I know it's obviously the first match but Lacazette looks great. Really not afraid to get stuck in, looks for the ball, finds the space, has a shot. Love it.

Cech in no man's land there. He's gotta get on that cross.

Just hit it dude

Sorry, I'll remember to qualify absolutely everything I write on here from now on. wasn't directed at you man, just the amount of posts declaring what rafa's gonna do is pretty high on this board Rafa loves 'em.

Put Van Dijk in my fantasy team at just the right time.

I think there was a report of someone being offered to a French club and then when they went to negotiate, they were only on like 20k/week and the French club could only offer under 10k. So it's not like they're on "unshiftable" wages, they're just on wages much higher than they would normally be commanding on the continent.

Incase this isn't irony:

Hell yeah dude.

Hayden, Shelvey, and De Jong I reckon.

What the fuck

I'd imagine it'll be Hayden and Merino holding and "pivoting" with Shelvey being the one pushing between the center circle and the 18 yard box most matches. DeJong rotated in and out due to fitness concerns and "easier" matches in a more traditional No. 10 role.

Totally forgot about that.

always the best signings imo, by a mile Much like Hayden last summer.

Mourinho looking oldddddd there.

The same thing happened with Yedlin. Gotta trust Rafa on this one, he'll know best what we need.

I think 10-13 is realistic. I'm mostly concerned about consolidation this season and being in the Prem again next season to kick on. Like people have mentioned on here before, to a lot of these young exciting players that we're going to want to sign, we're a yo-yo club having spent two of the last eight or so seasons in the Championship. We don't carry the weight we used to, even with Rafa. After a solid campaign in the Prem this season, our sights for the 18/19 season can be set higher and our recruitment can also step it up a notch too.

Exactly where I'm at.