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Stays, if he’s stayed this long, he’ll stay until the end of his contract I think. Fuck knows what he’ll do after that

Off the top of my head, wasn’t it €6m each or something? Someone will do a search but I have a vague recollection of something like that

Who the fuck is auditing Chelsea and their books? Irregular payments over basically a decade? Allowed to just wipe a billion off in debt? Honestly man, what the fuck is the point of football if the biggest clubs not only have the money to spend but the money to hide their spending as well so they do it in a corrupt fashion

I’m sure this will improve soon but the fact it’s been this shambolic is quite something

Agreed, I think he is an incredibly skilful footballer but there’s a lot of unnecessary stuff to his game. Messi is just ultimate efficiency married with skill. Messi almost never did skill for the sake of skill. Neymar did skill for the sake of skill a lot because he didn’t have the same level of ability as Messi. He’s still one of the best footballers of his generation but I don’t think he’d ever have been Messi level, and probably couldn’t have gotten close to Ronaldo either. Whatever you say about CRonaldo, his mentality is the best going and no one’s going to match it

Most exciting signing since Isak

Fairly sure he’s complimenting Eddie and our approach there

Deserves more than a like

He’s the perfect example of someone who stopped being open to new ideas at an early age, I imagine you couldn’t hope to change his opinion on things

Paqueta will be drafting his transfer request as we speak

I don’t think Maguire is shit but his confidence is shot, he’s 30 years old and he’s a limited player. Anyone paying £30m to take him as well as offering big wages is a complete fool

Hope Howe’s been smiling at him a lot and getting lots of smiles in return

I reckon he’ll have a mercenary career for sure

Didn’t he submit a transfer request last season as he wanted to go to Arsenal? Or am I getting mixed up? I thought he had serious interest from both Arsenal and Chelsea

That’s been almost nailed on since he made those comments earlier in the window about the situation being not what he signed up for

Yeah, Anderson and Milner is a good comparison. I think Anderson is a much more natural goal scorer than Milner though and we’ll see that over his career if he can break through at PL level

I don’t really see the James Milner comparisons, I definitely see the Bellamy comparisons. Gordon will be able to play multiple positions like Milner did but the way he’ll play will be dramatically different I think. Milner was a workhorse who never stopped running and did a huge amount of defensive work whilst also crossing in a lot of balls and striking from medium distance. I think Gordon will beat his man for pace far more than Milner did and I don’t think he’ll dilly dally or slam a cross in, I think he’ll cut in and play more along the ground. I think he’ll be a much more creative outlet than Milner has been for most of his career

Boehly, you know what you need to do, fire up the incinerator and pour in a cool £80m for someone who is a terrible fit for your club

Wasn’t there an injury update to say that he was expected to miss the first game or something, but that he should be back after that? Or has there been another update?

Can’t think of a club that’s been promoted in recent years, sold their best two players and had such an appalling squad. Amazed if they don’t get whipped and are confirmed for relegation by March 2024

Baffling lack of control from James

Wow, some of our pens were as good as it gets

Wew, what a pen from Daly

Oh dear, not a great start to pens