Nine

Ive been saying top 10 would keep me happy and show progress, I cant keep saying it. Its all about how we resume momentum after the WC and keeping the key players fit but top 6 should be the target now.

MASSIVE

Everyone saying fuck off should be banned if they havnt scored

How can it be 7 mins

Underrated king

Yesssssss

Wood defo makes it more difficult for us going forward, the wingers just wont get the space they would with Wilson there. No reason we cant win this though.

100% true, but I feel if he was really rated by the team he would have been here in the summer. Instead we went for Maddison.

Were you not on here during the summer? We should have signed him at all costs

Pickfords mentality is so weak, its never his fault when he makes mistakes he just has emotional outbursts at his defenders

Winning this would be beautiful, not only because it’s Chelsea but we really need to end this half of the season with as much momentum as possible to carry us through the break. For the first time in a long time it’s Chelsea who should be worried, this side fears no one at the moment.

Hair to similar to Grealish, avoid

April 2006 under Roeder? Shola was even scoring regularly around that time iirc

So happy for him

And then we also lack CM options from the bench, silly to go moving players out of position for the sake of not accommodating our only fully fit striker that has just scored. Wood will start if Wilson isn’t.

Great draw for us, dare I say with City vs Liverpool now we could be in for a good run in this competition. The extra fixtures would impact our PL form though, there’s only so far you can stretch this current squad across the extra games and retain quality throughout.

I wonder where the link is here, going for the manager of Luton just doesn’t seem to match with Southamptons ownership.

At 29 and having never played in the PL before I’d say it’s unlikely. For that age bracket we seem to go for PL proven players, if we go abroad the trend so far seems to be for younger prospects.

Ah the classic vicious cycle of football, do well and achieve and then it’s always expected of you to maintain or better your previous. If you don’t you quickly become judged as shit and/or over rated. It’s never going to change. The question on if he’s a Howe type of winger is one for another day, I feel it will be answered in the coming summer.

I had no strong opinion either way of him really and I wanted Emery. Understood how well he had done with Bournemouth and the style of play he put out but didn’t know enough to say he was a better choice over the pedigree of Emery. For how good he has been there will be challenges to overcome down the road, we are all eternally grateful for the work he has done at such a key time for our club but things will change when we are in Europe and while the gratitude will still be there it will be overtaken by more expectation/pressure from the fan base. He will know that and seems well equipped for the challenge from what we have seen so far but time will tell, him getting burnt out is a concern but with continued success that shouldn’t happen.

Recency bias rules most emotional football fans

He’s been a massive upgrade all round so far, more so when you consider the amount paid for him

Just don’t get injured

It was a joke of a pen because he missed it, despite the ridiculous run up for all we know he scores those most of the time in training. Wouldn’t mind never seeing a stutter run up again though.

Not long ago people were calling for him to start in the PL A cup start was likely for him but he needs more time, looked good in moments in the 70+ min sub chances hes had but nothing to suggest hes PL ready yet.