Matt1892

There are options for wiggle room regarding transfers, even if it means selling someone either in January or before July 1st in the summer.

I think it’s more the idea that the fee they paid for ASM is in any way representative of where they see us in terms of priority, as they have that much money that they are above having a priority on where to put it. The likely scenario is that a conversation has taken place on how much do they think they can get away with paying as a transfer fee without alarm bells going off within football, they looked at a value range for him and went with the lower end of that to be on the safe side. They will bankroll this club up to the maximum they can in terms of FFP, using every advantage they can whilst looking to be above board.

I thought Bruno’s was worse than Havertz, he reminded me of when Lex Luger was in the WWF.

I would play a midfield trio of Longstaff and Willock with Miley sat in behind, Then Joelinton and Almiron out wide and Gordon up top, presuming Wilson isn’t 100% fit.

I would like to see us loan a different midfielder from abroad and then that club loan Neves as a replacement, just for the tears.

I like how rattled the other clubs are, it is almost like they are trying to delay the inevitable of us smashing the sky six for good.

Maatsen at left back, he was at Burnley last season and he turned down a £32 million move there in the summer.

I think the logic was there in what he wanted to do; the plan was to keep it as tight as possible and let the home fans get vocally frustrated which was likely after the weekend. Then as the game went on and became more end to end, we bring on our direct attackers.

More that I remember Bobby Robson telling Lee Bowyer that it doesn’t matter how well you play that Dyer will be back in the team in front of you when he’s fit. Such poor man management.

Bournemouth are not in good form and I can see this game finishing the manager off.

Livramento should be starting the next game over Trippier as he is the player in form, if Trippier wants the spot back then he needs to raise his game when he has the opportunity. That isn’t needing your head checked, it is called good management by showing nobody is guaranteed their place in the side and that anybody who raises their game will be rewarded.

Put it behind us and concentrate on Bournemouth.

Trippiers free kick was terrible.

Pope with the fake injury so we can talk tactics.

Jesus.

Something of nothing that foul for the yellow card.

Jackson!?

How are Chelsea making this so difficult for themselves?!?

Here is the video.

If we are talking short term loan deals then it would be Mahrez, Kante and Firmino.

It’s been a good weekend for us.

We have dropped 7 points from winning positions this season so far. We only dropped 11 points from winning positions in all of last season. Seeing games out was one of our strong points.

Danny Murphy’s analysis on match of the day was really good, it is at the 2:30 mark on the YouTube video below. He talks about how we stopped Arsenal by doubling up on their wide players, with the second man dropping off in to the space so they can’t knock it beyond the first player and run in to that space. He says this is something that would have been worked on in training and meant Martinelli and Saka had no option but to pass it to someone who is less than a threat. Putting out the blueprint on how to shut Arsenal down.

This makes a really good point, that Arteta’s reaction is to cause a distraction and to put the pressure on the officials and to take it off their back line for what was awful defending for the goal. It will also galvanise the club and supporters to think they have been robbed rather than losing a close game where they failed to create any real goal scoring opportunities.