KingArthur

Yes, and when/if we match that other team, like Liverpool or ManU also match that and can offer 50k + more wages.

No chance for Bowen. Absolutely no chance we pay West Ham sort of money they ask for. Same goes for Sesko, Olise and Raphinha.

I don't know if it was mentioned already, but Mamardashvili or whatever the spelling apparently said his goodbyes to Valencia fans at the end of last game. So he is leaving most likely.

Our defence is so weak at the moment, and Dubravka added to that... Toney will score a couple. Krafth is weak in the air, but Trippier was choses I guess because Schär was not trusted to last 90 mins. Trippier was horrible, I mean looked like he was drunk. Isak was way too isolated and we (especially Hall) played ball long too quickly. There were huge gaps between ManU defence and top 6 again, but we decided to hoof it long to Gordon and Isak who were 2v4 or 2v3. This is one thing I hope Howe can fix next season. Just play past their press, which we did yesterday by switching to Trippier, and there were oceans of space. Sadly then it was 1v1 Murphy v Dalot. If we only had a decent RW..

3-4 times the same move

ManU are marking Bruno very tightly and letting our centrebacks have the ball. Burn is so useless in possession

If ManU lose to Arsenal, draw this and we will certainly end up above them. Shouldn't be too much to ask looking at their team... We are horrible away tho.

People are really saying Hojlund's goal should have stood? He just jumps to keeper and is nowhere near the ball, tackling him out of of the way Of course that is a foul ffs

Kudus seems like someone Liverpool or ManU could move for. Out of our reach certainly now.

Just fking shoot when you get in the box man.

We really need a player in the mould of Maddison, who can receive the ball between the lines and create with combinations. But we arent going to do that unless we sell Bruno.

Yes, players are partly to blame of course. The point of that holding the ball is of course to lure the opposition to break their formation, but when it's Longstaff or Murphy, it really doesn't work like that. Bruno can do that and Schär perhaps. Or Burn, who can only pass with his left. Krafth especially (lost the ball for the first goal btw) was awful in possession. He really didn't do anything but play it to Murphy, who was facing his own goal and sometimes marked by 2 players. Longstaff should have made a run to right wing in these cases (something he did last year) but was nowhere to be seen. When we got near to opponents box, we were way too sloppy with the final pass. Palace seemed to use Krafth and Schär as pressing triggers, and were happy to let Burn keep the ball (and pass it to whoever was on his left side, cause that is what he does)

I think our starting shape was weird. Guess we tried to match their formations, but we really couldn't get away from their press. Isak was way too isolated and was too far away from Gordon. Barnes was useless in this kind of game. Sadly we have pretty much 0 options in midfield. edit. I don't think Burn was LB. We clearly had 3 CBs, Murphy right WB and Anderson played as a left WB a lot. Is Tino still injured? Surely he would have been a better option than Murphy or Krafth?

I think it is pretty obvious we will not be spending big. We are continously linked with a lot of players, because of our owners and cheap clicks. We are also close to our limit in PSR, and we need to buy players that clearly strenghten the first XI. We will not be spending 50 million for a midfielder. Not when we have players like Krafth, Lascelles, Dubravka, Almiron and Murphy playing big minutes. Nevermind our 2nd choice striker being injury prone and nearing the end of his career. We have 7 players for 3 midfield places that are good enough. Without huge injury crisis that is enough. Of course if Bruno leaves, then we need a big player BUT not a player like Gallagher. He is a good player, but not any better than we have, and not a defensive midfielder. And before someone says neither is Bruno, he is still a good number 6 in Howe's system. RW, ST,CB. Those are priority. (RW depends on Minteh situation also, but I think we are selling Almiron so would buy 1 anyway.)

Our wingers before Gordon were ASM, Almiron, Murphy? Maybe Anderson and Fraser? We really needed a winger anyway. And saying "what about Gordon" is a poor excuse anyway, you cannot spend most of your budget on a midfielder, when we desperately need reinforcements elsewhere. Gallagher doesn't bring anything Joelinton or Tonali already aren't already providing us with. Except I would say he is not as strong in duels as Joelinton. If Joe would have left, I would understand Gallagher as his replacement. We conceded because our midfield was injured or dead tired. And we had 17-year-old playing twice a week with Bruno and Longstaff, because no one else was fit. Who are we going to sell to make room for Gallagher? Anderson? Longstaff? Both are most likely cheap and HG.

Why? He wouldn't be a starting midfielder when everyone is fit. And even if he would, he is not a big improvement. If we are going to spend 50 million, it needs to be a winger or a centreback.

We have absolutely no need for Gallagher. No point spending money for him.

Only sad thing is I have Romero who got -1. Jackson coming from the bench with 12 pts, so looks like 87p. Palmer as a captain seemed to work...

I see that fixture list and see 3 away defeats for Chelsea and home wins against Bournemouth and Everton, maybe against West Ham. 7-10 points is my guess.

To be honest, cannot see Chelsea getting a lot of points from those fixtures. And ManU were horrible again against Bournemouth, they will drop a lot of points still. 6th would be good result from this season.

Certainly we are not buying a left back? We got loads of options there, when we have pretty much zero options for CB and injury prone Wilson to cover for Isak. If Gordon is used at RW occasionally and Minteh seemed good enough, I would buy CB and ST. CB a starter and striker a younger cheaper one. Goalkeeper after that.

I didnt see the whole game, but looked like we were defending 5-4-1 without the ball? Anderson was following Porro all the way. Seemed to work perfectly.

Who on earth watches these shows? Must be boring as hell.

Because that ("fouls" like that) happen all the time. It is an idiotic thing to do, but they don't get any advantage doing that.

They have quality players all over the pitch, we dont.