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?? gusto will play as a right back

BREAKING: Estevao has had to travel back to Brazil due to personal reasons. (@kierangill_DM)

And Gusto will play as a number 10 or winger again.🤢 I just hate it!

Going to this game..better be a win!!!

Unbelievable why Liam Badiashit is rated so highly!

where?

premier league is far more important than mickey cup

Reading anselmino may go back to Dortmund.... Hahahahahahahaha

Josh seems frozen out with this manager too. Feel like he’s performed well when given the chance

It seems like he is trying to get his strongest against Arsenal in the semifinal rested.

This was before the lineup came out. After starting two games in a row, Estevao Willian could be handed a rest against the Hammers, despite being a clear Rosenior favourite. Palmer’s return pushes Enzo Fernandez back into his natural central midfield role alongside Moises Caicedo. Yet even here, there is room for management. One of Fernandez, Caicedo or captain Reece James may be rested following long shifts against Napoli and with Arsenal to come in the second leg of the Carabao Cup semi finals on Tuesday.

Another knock for Estevão? Not even in the squad. He'd have been ideal against the inevitable low block here rather than Garnacho.

No Estevao, but too many changes for me, but what do I know

No Estevao in squad??? Why does he keep playing then suddenly disappear from squad?? So frustrating. Think this will be quite a difficult game.

he rotates too much

Chelsea 11 Sanchez Gusto Trev Badshit Hato Caicedo Enzo Gittens Palmer Garnacho Delap I'm not quite sure what that's about

In August yes, I agree but in January, they should have done business before City went in. VVD will be 35 come end of season. Konate still not signed contract. I If they can give big salaries for ageing players, they should have paid Guehi his demands, considering he is the future and present and is arguably best CB in league.

They laid their cards on the table but Place fucked them off, more than we did

With Guehi they did tbh.

His longer-range passing looked great at AFCON and from some of the Strasbourg games I watched. I was pleasantly surprised how easily he slotted into the Senegalese starting line-up and thrived under massive pressure. IF we do get Jacquet as well (summer time probably) and IF Sarr and Jacquet both take to the EPL, then given both their massive potential talents, their size (1.90m for Jacquet, 1.94m for Sarr), and their pace, we just might have two great younf CBs on our hands, plus we also have Josh. If we can just get an actual quality lefty CB to replace Badi (IF we are doing the youth thing, then I would go for Honest Ahanor or Karim Coulibaly), and if (I so so hope so) Colwill fully recovers, we could have 5 superb, big, fast CBs in a year or two from now. These are the top valued left-footed CBs on the planet atm who have not yet turned 23yo: These are the top valued right-footed (obviously the number of great right-footers is much higher than great left-footers) CBs on the planet who are 20yo right now (not 19yo or under and not 21yo and older, these are all 20yo now): And finally, speaking of rare, this is the ONLY ambipedal (and even a more valuable trait for us, he also prefers to play at LCB) CB on the planet of any age who is valued at £20m or more (it was such a double gut-punch when we lost him to Real Madrid (one of only 2 teams we simply cannot out-pull in almsot every case when they demand a player, Barca being the other of course, but they are fucked financially still) AND then Colwill destroyed his knee. I went BONKERS when both happened as I knew it meant big CB troubles ahead this season): Of those 12 CBs listed in the 3 snapshots above, we either currently own, did own at one time, are heavily linked, or were heavily linked to almost all of them.

So is Sarr a ball playing CB who can pass comfortably between the lines or is he more of a no-nonsense, “classic” CB? I haven’t watched enough of him to know.

Not Badi. Badi is our only healthy left footed true CB. Anselmino is a right-footer. Anselmino does not want to go to Strasbourg. IF we do not buy Jacquet now, and IF we do recall Mamadou Sarr (a righty) from Strasbourg, then I would support a 6 month loan for Josh (another righty) to Strabourg. He is real quality (like Sarr) and will get a tonne if minutes there, likely as a starting CB.

Liverpool are always in the market and don't fuck about unlike us.

Would be pretty funny if after all the “he ONLY wants Chelsea” or “Rennes close the door completely in January” stuff he ends up at Liverpool this weekend. Would explain why we’re trying to recall Sarr.