Kid Icarus

Still not over how that first tweet about the Isak deal was that we'd agreed a fee and had basically signed him.

Nah, you're talking absolute shite. Dendonker can't be any good because Everton are after him. You: don't be so ridiculous Also you: if Zaha is so good why is he only at Crystal Palace? Absolutely clutching at straws with daft irrelevant arguments when his goals and assists tell you all you need to know about how good he is.

About as daft a metric to judge a player on as the 'if Everton are after him he can't be any good' point that you rightly derided earlier today.

I know he has a fan club on here, but he's genuinely been a total waste of time every time I've seen him play for Chelsea. Always getting tackled, outmuscled, and missing sitters. If I knew nothing about his time at Dortmund I'd be pretty confident in saying he's shit.

Hahaha unlucky Chelsea. Looks like the famous Tuchel honeymoon period could be over

Southampton's pitch looks like it hasn't been changed from last season, it's a proper state.

Zaha's class, get it up ye

I have Rodrygo and Dunk. I'm having a great time

Fifa has done him dirty this year. 75 rated, absolute joke

Everton's goal coming from the most basic passing move imaginable, with a couple of lucky breaks along the way. Everton look a harder nut to crack, but they're still awful to watch.

hahaha maybe it's for our best player hahaha

I feel like it's happened maybe 5 or 6 times now that the model to emulate™️ club that everyone lauds suddenly finds itself unstuck and in crisis either on the field or off it. My money would be on Brighton next, just purely going on that pattern.

Being linked with Rosens feels like a year ago now

Willock just seems like that sort of quiet personality and it massively endears me to him tbh, he seems like such a nice kid. Would love for him to get a flag to give him a bit of a boost like ASM did last season.

What we watching then? I feel like Leeds Everton has the most potential to be a barnstormer.

Apologies for this not embedding with it being the mobile link, but I thought this was a really interesting watch. The Liverpool fan makes a lot of excellent points about us and the parallels with how Liverpool grew with Klopp. His argument that our metric as fans should be about points not end position is spot on imo. https://youtu.be/fdT6Jw7AwF4

Fulham 1 - 1 Brighton Palace 2 - 1 Brentford Southampton 1 - 2 Chelsea Leeds 3 - 1 Everton Bournemouth 2 - 0 Wolves Arsenal 4 - 0 Villa Man City 6 - 0 Forest (double) West Ham 1 - 2 Spurs Liverpool 2 - 1 Newcastle Leicester 1 - 2 Man United

I love it when we get to this stage and everyone sounds like my Nana talking about her neighbours

I agree that the devil is the details and context is everything, I'm just not sure the context is anywhere near different enough for Rafa to have been justified and Parker not.

Is it really all that different to what Rafa used to say and that we as a fan base overwhelmingly backed him to the hilt on?

Were they really though? I think I've just read them all and they seemed fine. Sacked after predictably losing to Liverpool, Man City and Arsenal, but beating Villa. Ridiculously harsh.

Paqueta looks like the most obviously good player who ticks so many boxes and is at a very high level. Just like with Bruno, it's puzzling that no one pulled the trigger on him.

Wish Adidas would bring back the shell. That aside their kits are class at the moment

I'm just pleased that it's almost over tbh. My work is going to improve immeasurably from next week

We need two. One to undo the Paqueta to West Ham thing and another just to have a positive.