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Kovacic and higauin should play 90 mins. Probably the level of team most suited for their talents.

A lot of people will be eating their words, hopefully.

I don't know what to make off sarri at the moment We have definitely improved in some aspects, playing out of the back, pressing (in parts), youth integration (CHo, RLC) If you had told me that we finish this season with 72 points, a league cup final and a eyropa league final, I would have said, meh, but sounds good. . Now coming to cons: 1. we started well, and then went backwards. Teams adapted to play against us, and we crumbled. 2. Transfer. Sarri has bought 3 players in so far - each of them was at best average (jorgingo), poor (kovacic) to downright shit (tubby). 3. Stubborn as fuck. It was the fact that Southgate gave CHO his debut, along with media pressure and fan wrath which made sarri bend. If not for it, he would have continued with Pedro/willian. 4. Unable to motivate the players. I would honestly we rather suffer our ban this year, see how sarri does (because he anyways thinks we are ready and just need 1/2 buys), rather than actually buying tubby and kova this summer and getting screwed for the next 2 years.

Great, then we can have another ex player in the league who will score goals against us

Hope: Kepa Azpi rudi Luiz Emerson Kante jorginho RLC Willian giroud hazard Reality: Kepa Azpi Rudi Luiz Alonso Kante jorginho kova Pedro higuain hazard

Giroud probqbly won't play a minute. I can bet that tubby will start this game.

Seriously is useless. Piece of shit

Tubby with another glorious performance...

Coutinho is an upgrade on RLC?

The goal line clearance would not have been needed if he did not do his "I forgot I am a defender" bit, which is far more essential. If you create a monster which kills millions and then you kill it, you don't become a hero. You are still the shit head who created that situation. Same thing applies to Luiz. It simply does not matter what Luiz did after his fuck up. If this was a once or twice a season event, then it's forgivable but it's not. It's happens in double digits easily. He repeatedly creates situations which sets us back in games and piles on the pressure. No matter how many goal line clearances he does after that stupid mistake, it won't matter cause the cast has already been set. The game has already been turneed on its head because of that one howler moment.

And like I said, it did not matter how he lead after that moment. That one moment completely changed the game. We dominated them the whole of 1st half and were looking comfortable. Frankfurt had barely troubled us. The goal changed the whole complexion of the tie/match. It changed the way Frankfurt would have had to approach the game if we were a goal ahead, leaving ample of spaces for Eden to exploit. It changed the morale and the confidence. Goals are the "be all and all" of football games.

The nature of my post was proportional to the level of defending done by Luiz.

I think ampadu already has that spot on a lock down.

After the Luiz extension, I can imagine how this window might go if we overturn our ban: Outs (from the current squad): Hazard, DD, GC, zappacosta Ins (compared to the current squad so not including higuain and kovacic in the list): Pulisic, CM (jorginho back up), Reece James And that's gonna be it. I don't think sarri was kidding or being polite when he said we just need 1/2 signings. He probably meant it. He also meant it that we should buy kova and higuain and the board seem to be hell bent on giving him what he needs. Not Jose, not Conte, but sarri. Fucking hell. If we get the ban overturned, I expect to have a hair pulling window. The board is obviously going to ask sarri for his assessment and prepare for the next 2 years, so I expect to see willian, Pedro, Luiz, higuain, giroud all get a multi year contract and just drag us the fuck down. I just hope CAS tells us to go fuck ourselves, so at least we won't buy tubby and Mr. Useless

So this is what we have come to. Breaking club policies for shit, bang average players and liabilities like Luiz. It's going to be a long long 2 years.

"Grow the fuck up"? Will that help in Luiz suddenly becoming a decent defender? Also let me tell something to the apparent "grown ups" here, we could have lost the opportunity to be in the final because of one man - David Luiz. No amount of winning aerial challenges was going to correct the blunder for his absolute blunder. He is a defender, the breed who can do 99 right things, but WILL and should be judged on the 1 howler because that one howler simply and totally changes the game. Just like it did yesterday and just like it has done multiple times this season and each season where this moron has been a defender. His perceived and apparent MOTM performances must have been in some other virtual reality because th guy just got an extension and reading by the comments on here, I don't think I am the only one pissed with it, or do we all need to do some "growing up"?

To be fair to Luiz, he looked exposed even with a prime silva next to him. He would look exposed with a prime cannavaro/nesta/beckenbaeuer next to him

Reece James is back to Cobham, but is he eligible to play? The last thing we need is another injury, no matter how minor. There is absolutely no update on Andreas too whatsoever. I would play Willy Zappa gc ? Alonso DD kova Barkley Pedro higuain willian

Mate, if willian had that performance, he would be crucified. Hazard was anonymous. Uncharacteristically lost the ball a number of times. Hardly tracked back or closed down. I don't think we should give him accolades for the penalty, it was the bare minimum he could do for us. Let's just hope it was due to the exhaustion of a long long season. And now he has 20.days to fill up on his energy resources.

What's the update on his injury?

But if his preference was a ball playing CB over someone who can actually defend, then surely puyol would have been out. It's not as if pep was shy of making changes. He threw Yaya out of the team for a very very young and unproven busquets. If puyol was not his type of player, then surely he would have gotten the same treatment Regarding city, Laporte is not as good a ball playing defender as stones, but is definitely a better defender than stones. As far as I see it, pep is playing his 2 worst ball playing defenders in kompany and Laporte over stones and otamendi. And that would not happen if he just chose defender on their "ball playing" ability rather than actual defending.

Puyol was a mainstay of the pep pepe Barca. His captain. And I have never heard anyone say that puyol was not good at defending. Even these days he has kompany playing while stones is warming his ass on the bench.

Given how our whole defense used to boot the ball up under Jose and Conte, and how nervous we looked whenever the defense had the ball, I would have said the same about our whole defense. That is what sarri is there to do, teach zouma how to play out the back. Why is tomori not ready? Does he let his man run freely into the box to score? No? Then he is more ready than this piece of shit.

Every time tubby takes the pitch, he gives 10 more reasons why we should not buy him