Matt1892

The other clubs you are referring to do everything, they have a history of winning trophies and regular qualification for the Champions League. West Ham is another good example, what do you think winning the Europa Conference did for their global brand?

A one off carabao cup win isn’t going to make much difference to a global brand, see the likes of Swansea and Birmingham for that. Champions League qualification brings in big money, allowing the club to spend more on transfer and attracting better players. It is still on the club to build on that but it is the springboard to better things and popularity globally. Spurs are a great example of that.

Agree with this, we are not going to close the financial gap and attract the best players by winning the Carabao cup. Not that it should be one or the other. However, you seen with Ten Hag’s Man Utd last season that winning a cup can be a good distraction from failing in the league, but once the celebrations are over it ultimately catches up with you.

No reason why we shouldn’t go on a run of 5 league wins in a row, all against bottom half teams and the away games are West Ham and Leicester. We need the points on the board with some difficult away days at the end the of the season.

It was surprising at how little energy West Ham have in midfield, not only are they easy to dominate but they can’t get up to support Bowen or Kudus.

Difficult to pick a stand out player with that performance. Probably Bruno as the goalscorer.

The points that matter at this stage.

Slapstick defending.

Oliver Scarles looks quality for someone just breaking in to the first team.

Nice finish.

That was a quality save.

We need to make our possession count before West Ham get a grip on the midfield.

Harder to miss than score.

Probably a C, his potential was undeniable and he didn’t look out of place in Chelsea’s back line, although he was suspect at times defensively due to age and being new to the position, he would still have started on a regular basis for a fair few Premier League clubs. The whole Hall was left out so that is the way to do it argument is nonsense, do people genuinely think Hall wouldn’t have made it if he was playing on a regular basis, either here or somewhere else? Osula doesn’t have the pedigree of Hall and while he does have some raw physical attributes, I’m not sure he has the footballing IQ to go with it.

Osula is an E.