Tiresias

We're under pressure right now need

I call it the colback manouver

Bruno way off with his passing there

Rather embarrassing to be strung along so long. Just look elsewhere already.

I don't get this, only with hindsight is it an error, with our squad dropping like flies struggling for form it's unreasonable not to sanction one of our biggest players on pitch and in dressing room? There are things to dig the club out for making mistakes with and I'm not saying wasn't a case to sell him then but its just unfortunate but not a mistake when the reasoning was sound.

Been listening to me if so, really think we are short an out and out defensive midfielder, we are in such trouble if Joelinton is injured and he isn't a pure defensive option. Someone to help in games where there is containment, to sub on to protect a lead etc a hole in the squad right now. Still feel lower priority than rcb and rw tho

Absolutely huge signing. He said in an interview he wanted to keep playing and was happy to drop down the leagues if need be if his body wasn't up to highest level so not surprised he would rather move on than stay on a bench. Sad there's a bit of a cloud but he has been a huge servant to the club, lifted the club and set a high standard. If he does go we absolutely need a new right winger otherwise i fear our right side will be incredibly blunt

My only wonder if I'd they wanted to see if they could get guehi for around £50m when it's clear we can't and have to spend more we've thought well if we have to spend premium we may as well buy premium which seems odd logic if we were looking for a right winger too but maybe that's pipe dream unfortunately

I'm not sure it has occured to chelsea that if they sign a player and think of it as an investment, that they actually have to play to accrue value, and preferably look good when they play. Having a lot of players who are rarely going to play, how are they going to sell them? They'll find some stupid loophole I'm sure, hell most may get sold decent money to saudi arabia but still.

Concussion sub

Is the narrative sterling is a greedy cunt now? Not his fault they offered silly wages. He wasn't going to get any more central to Pep's city, got a huge offer on wages to be central to a rebuild of chelsea, found out its a basketcase and when clubs are in a state you tend to see players form plummet. He's a really good player, he's not even particularly old yet. Chelsea's model seems to be built on that they will buy all these players as assets and sell them all on but how are they going to sell them on for any value when most of them aren't going to get any game time? And those that do they are going to look like idiots playing in a bad team. What they've mostly done is sign a bunch of players and incentivise them to sit out their contracts making money, hard to show a club loyalty that is run so badly.

fair enough

Eeh tbh i do understand it, you can play a lot for a team and that doesnt mean no loyalty or love of it but that's still different than team you support as a kid. If that's true of course...

Cos Trent can do a job in midfield apparently which went very well...

I know, terrible end product he's like a winger man u would buy sometimes

hate that chelsea kit

Doku is a ridiculous player sometimes looks unplayable sometimes absolutely useless

Sort of true but I sense Brentford are in a bit of a decline. Had them going down this season, could well be way way wrong with that but people forget how rubbish they were for large parts of last season. They lose Toney and their replacement out for most the year can see them doing a Leicester and go down with a squad that looks way too good to.

I suspect there are a lot of addons and delayed payments because we probably dont want to spend more than a certain amount this window. This may be the sticking point considering there was noise we had reached the amount in total they had initially wanted.

I dont imagine the club are bothered, it's more the fans,

I dont blame palace for trying to milk as much as possible but i do wonder why this is all taking so long. Make a serious bid on another centre back, even if it's just so palace seriously think they may not get their money. If they dont want to sell at all maybe it's never going to be value.

I can see this, what really annoyed me over him was him openly talking about wanting to move on to other clubs while still playing for brentford last season, especially after they stood with him over the betting thing. Now I get everyone knows the deal, brentford are a club that want to make profit but still felt insulting to his current club

Also noone wants to get into a bidding war for someone who will be free nexr summer. Wouldn't be shocked if bunch try in january for really cheap

Fixed it showing his match was somehow even more impressive

So Toney not playing for Brentford due to transfer stuff, that better be because he is actually off somewhere imminent or yet again he's proving why there's a lot less interest than I think Brentford or Toney expected, he is a bit of a tosser (and apparently asking for huge wages). He'll end up at Chelsea as will 100 other player, albeit i am fairly sure Chelsea's wages are generally lower cos they're spread over so long a contract...