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Isn't it the mental aspects for the player though? Like their knee may be all good as per the physio, but playing against Spurs away will require him to push himself way harder than a u23 game etc

Where are all the ITK's at? Can't see anything from Casey, Burnsie, Pizza Rob, Will etc whereas it's normally flooded with names by now Have they no idea who to guess as we don't know our strategy now under Mitchell?

Forgot he existed until someone mentioned his name as Schar missed the tottenham game

Seeing lots of reports and highlights on that Khusanov, looks a right talent

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Sad reality for me, waiting for the game he let's in 2/3 that a decent keeper would save

Looking forward to this game. They have a lot of threat through the middle of the pitch, whereas we tend to attack down the flanks, should be a good one

Didn't they have an 8 or so game streak where they didn't win and lost the majority? But yeah, they're a very good team and were very good in their last game

Didn't Brighton sign 3 fairly priced, young RW's with upside in the Summer? Maybe they can donate one to us

Just seen Man City are apparently interested in Ederson from Atlanta Maybe we should have done our best to get him last January 😂

I hope we get someone in the exact mould of Olise I'd also like a CM who either is good at playing between the lines as an attacking mid, or a more defensive midfielder, giving us more balance and options Though I feel we are stacked at midfield and can't see us adding their for a while, unless we sell someone or even 2 since we have - Bruno, Tonali, Joelinton, Willock, Longstaff and Miley

This talk of playing vs a high line and low block, just shows the insane advantage Chelsea have as a result of the bent FFP They have players suited for any system, Mudryk and Neto against a high line, Sancho, Madueke, Fernandez, Felix etc if they think they will dominate the ball Really hope the next 1/2 singing we make in midfield / attack give us another dimension we lack

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No better example than this. Those 3 are greats in their position imo

Gonna be a our player of the season at this rate

Didn't Scalvini do his ACL?

I think 5 years is the max for FFP, unless we signed him before Chelsea wound up getting the loophole closed, I can't remember

How much roughly will be left on his contract at the end of this season? Is it just 63m - ((63m / 5)*3)? Which would be £25.2m remaining, so this is where we'd be considering profit above

Konate is an absolute beast at defending on the transition. Rapid and massive And he covers for TAA too. Great player, especially paired with Van Disney

Would rather Villa got a red 😂

So I guess it must be a confidence / mental / rustiness issue when it takes them another 6/12 months to get back to their previous form? I don't imagine he'll be back to his best too soon after he's back

Was thinking when would City/Pep have last lost 3 in a row Crazy

If were Arsenal or City I'd be all over Bruno, he'd be amazing paired with a Rodri or Rice But yeah, we're going to sell at a price that suits us

Hope Havertz gets absolutely smashed, or a red card Both would do nicely

On the topic of players suited to the counter / transition vs possession, I think it's important to have a mix of players, or players who can do both. City have Haaland and Doku who aren't exactly great in possession, Nunes that midfielder who doesn't get a game for them is more of a box to box etc. Chelses have Neto and Mudryk, who are rapid compared to Sancho and Madueke etc Having said that, we clearly don't have many/enough players suited to retaining the ball, partly due to players who are still here before the takeover I agree with TCD on Barnes and Tonali, both good players and we are yet to know how good they will be for us, and I'm hoping they do well. But they only reinforce our existing style of play