DANILA

Lampard isn't ready yet and he will ruin his managerial career by coming here with the current group of players and a transfer ban. I'm afraid the only way we can achieve top 4 next season is with a Mourinho-esque masterclass... In my opinion, I see the two non-suicidal options being: 1. Transfer ban stays -> keep Sarri at all costs OR bring an a highly experienced manager e.g. Allegri 2. Transfer ban delayed -> Lampard can / should be considered.

wooooo hooooo!!!!

Thought RLC played decent in his cameo - Would like to see him begin to start, especially against our upcoming opponents.

Fair point but can't be certain it was tactical

Being 23 y/o myself, I can understand his frustration at being taken off after playing for 120 mins - but still not the right choice. I think he should have walked over to the line and spoke with Sarri to tell him he was feeling fine, and then go from there. Agree that he should admit his mistake.

Azpilicueta has fallen off a cliff - no confidence with the ball at all now

Dreadful

I know this will get a lot of slack, but why does Zidane really need to know English well? Most of our players speak a first language other than English (most speak Spanish, or something similar to it...)

It now makes sense why Azpi was never called up to start for the Spanish National Team - he has no clue with respect to attacking. If we had 2 modern, attacking FBs I think we would comfortably be in the top 4 even with Sarri's shit-ball tactics.

He will be sacked in the next 1-2 weeks for sure, but I don't see the point in waiting - just do it now. The sooner the better so we can start rebuilding and training with new tactics. Malmo is a good starting point as we can beat them with our C team. Trying a 4-2-3-1 against them would be nice...

Does anyone really care about the FA Cup? Top non-British footballers we could try to poach certainly don't. CL football next season or we're fucked.

Nothing to be happy or proud about - it was another dreadful performance. If we played like that against a mid-table premier league team we would have lost 2-0. Playing with confidence? hahahaha. Look, nothing will change this season. Sarri has a vision - fair, but we simply don't have the players for it. At least fucking adapt to what we have to salvage a top 4 finish. There's no March / April transfer window FFS. I would honestly play Zappacosta over Azpi at this moment in time; I've mentioned it a while ago, he has absolutely no idea how to attack. Once you pass him the ball, he either stops it and passes it backwards to trashmen pedro / willian (or Kante who can't attack either), or crosses it to the goalkeeper. Shambles. Overall, a very depressing last 4-5 days.

I see lazazette also got a red at the end... LET'S GO BATE! lol

Doesn't matter - Arsenal will still win at home, probably 3 or 4-0.

Now I don't want to defend Willian as he's had a poor season, but to compare CHO's 2 assists today to Willian's since October is a bit unfair - this is the weakest opposition we've played all season. Had Willian started, there is a chance he would have dominated and made fools of the defenders. Aside from that, we really do need to keep CHO. If we end up keeping him, Bayern's interest was actually good in hindsight as it probably built up his confidence, and more importantly woke up the Board and coaching staff.