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Chelsea aren’t finishing top 4 this season, they should definitely finish top 6 with the players they have, especially Mudryk but there’s an outside chance that they don’t get a European spot because their strike force is so poor. What on Earth is going to happen to them and that squad if they don’t get into Europe, they deserve for it all to come crashing down

Carragher clearly pays a ton of attention to football and you get the impression he takes his role very seriously, wanting to make sure he’s not just an ex-player who mouths off without any substance. Sadly, that’s who Neville is now which he really wasn’t in his first few years on the scene. I imagine he’s just paying less attention to football outside of Man U

Vintage Ronaldo post

Fucking hell, a white card? I’m all for making the world a better place, but I’d gag if someone tried to give me a white card for sportsmanship

Name a bigger whopper who played for us and Stephen Ireland doesn’t count because he was here for a handful of games

Unbearable how they keep getting out of jail because of Kane when they’re absolutely shit

It’s actually impressive how shit Conte has got Spurs playing

Lloris was desperate to drop a clanger there

Respect to Willian, when he came back to the league I thought it was as a final pay day where he wouldn’t dig in. He’s always been a great player but I love that he’s still giving it his all now and is quality

High on the specification for a new forward / attacking midfielder has to be: not made of glass

I’d much rather they take their time and get him completely right rather than rushing him even if it means he doesn’t start over the next three-four games. It was a muscle injury right? Which has to be carefully managed, more so than most injuries

Howay Fulham

I don’t mind Neville when he’s talking about politics because at least he consistently hammers the Tories and you don’t get many people in sport who outwardly call them out. But fuck me, he’s got such a big mouth and always delivers anything he says as if it’s a fact instead of holding his hands up and saying “I don’t watch enough of Newcastle to say exactly how they play but this is what I think of them”

He’s got such a chip on his shoulder, will be hilarious seeing people like him grimace and concede that we’re a great team over the next few years. People like Neville have loved to look down on us for years as plucky underdogs that could never consider being one of the big boys, going to have to grit his teeth and accept that things have changed

Going into game after game where you have to win to avoid the drop keeps you connected to the team in a bit of a frenzied way, it’s a mixture of utter shit anxiety and frustration coupled with sweet relief when you scrape a point. Right now, it’s the great mixture of anxiety about whether we get three points each game and the amazing joy of playing well every game. We haven’t controlled games of football like this since Bobby was here

Danny drinkwater was gutted about his time at Chelsea although that might be down to injuries. Pretty sure they’re going to have a ton of extremely unhappy players soon, going to be a loanfest at the end of the window

Dyche would probably still take them down but he’d be as good as they could get right now. I love Bielsa but he wouldn’t stand a chance of keeping them up, they have no goals in the team and it would take too long for them to completely change to his tactics

Maybe Boehly has changed tack and has given up on the ESL and is now all in on the Chelsea league, where they field twenty teams of midfielders, all playing against each other multiple times a day at Stamford bridge. He’s a visionary

Another shot down in their prime, when will it end? First Gerrard, now Lampard, don’t know why I follow football when it hurts this much

Must feel class going to Chelsea and seeing your career shattered due to ten people competing for one position. If you go there and it doesn’t work out you can only look at yourself

Good question, I think based on his performances last season. It takes a lot of mental strength to come into a team that’s failing and be a big part of why they stayed up. Personally think that reflects very well on him but his performances this season and going in for needless tackles suggests he’s trying too hard to make an impact

Fairly sure Gordon has a significantly higher ceiling and a lot of desire to progress. Still don’t like sewer rat though

I don’t watch any other teams regularly so I genuinely don’t know who else is having a great season but Pope has been faultless

The only thing I worry about with Howe is the sheer amount of football he consumes. It’s his best trait but I just desperately hope it doesn’t burn him out. That high performance podcast made me a bit scared that he doesn’t seem to enjoy things at all in the moment but maybe many great coaches are like that because they’re perfectionists and always know there are things that need to improve

Feel like the only mistake he’s made in his time at NUFC was that error playing for England. At club level, he’s been one of the top 3 keepers in the league