DANILA

I think we should play a 100% youth side against UTD - who cares? Top 4 infinitely more important. Can't risk injuries or energy

Dreadful - our favoured attack is: 1. pass to someone in the 18 yard box, then one touch it backwards 2. Pass to Azpi on the right, immediate cross to nowhere 95% of the time. Extremely slow all around the attack; barkley was actually pretty good when he came on, at least did things that weren't expected. Pray that Palace take points off UTD or else this could be a shitshow ending...

If united win europa league and they finish top 4, does 5th place get in to CL?

Where are you seeing 70 pounds? It is $128 USD which is a ridiculous conversion? I live in canada and that converts to $175 CAD - keep in mind we make less money than in the US even without the conversion!

If we're going to spend that kind of money, I'd rather it go on a real natural CB than a DM/CB conversion experiment...

Nike probably spends my weekly dinner budget on design development for kits

can't wait for this nightmare deal with Nike to be over

With every game being a must-win, I don't think there's any chance gilmour starts tomorrow; put my money on Jorginho.

We were lucky to win 3 out of 4 - we were terrible against AV and LEI and got some luck against city.

Absolute disgrace. Adidas made 100x nicer kits for us, seems Nike doesn't give a shit as people will still buy them. Every single concept I've seen from fans is much better than what Nike is producing for us...

To be honest very worried with this lineup and expecting a horror show from the team. No Kovacic + Giroud blows my mind.

Guys, it's AV... Lampard will probably use 3 subs at half time.

Don't think it is that strange but would have liked pulisic over mount and james over azpi. I like that RLC is in.

If we sign Havertz, the line up would be as follows IMO: Werner Pulisic Havertz Ziyech Kova Kante (if he stays)/Gilmour Mount is extremely raw and to be honest don't think he's CFC quality right now - think he'd be suitable for a loan. Havertz and RLC are very similar players and will interchange. CHO will sub for Pulisic or Ziyech until he gets back to top form, which could unfortunately be never if he is a classic English partier.

It baffles me why Mount played instead of Pulisic and even more baffling how a majority here claim Pulisic is just as inexperienced - is the Championship better than Bundesliga? Pulisic has plenty of minutes in a top 4 league where he dominated at points. Besides Kante he is probably our best player.

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...