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OMG!! OMG!! He has finally turned a corner.

Will be 29 year old by the time the next season starts. Really not the guy that we should be investing in.

What would be your ideal transfer window (in case the ban is frozen). Mine would be one where we mainly sell the dead wood (be it the first teamers or the loanees) and finally get a few young players in. I mean why the hell do we Eduardo on loan? Seriously need to reducing the sheer columes on our books. Outs- Loanees GKs Eduardo - Free Defenders Zouma - 40mil Baba Rahman - 10mil Kalas - 5mil Hector - 2mil Kane - 2mil Miazga - 2mil Omerou - 5mil Aina - 7mil Midfielders Baker - 5mil Angban - 1mil Kennedy - 10mil Nathan, quintero, pantic - 5mil Pasalic - 10mil Bakayoko - 30mil Forwards Morata - 50mil Piazon - 5mil Musonda - 5mil First team players Willian - 30mil Pedro - 10mil Drinkwater - 20mil Alonso - 30mil Zappacosta - 10mil Hazard - 100mil Kovacic - end of loan Giroud - free Luiz - free That's a total of 394mil £ worth of exits. Most of them are not good enough to play (loanees), others don't fit the system (zouma, complete exception. I would love him back but not a fit for our current manager), some want to taste new things (hazard), others are deadwood (DD, Pedro, Alonso etc). Ins Striker - Werner? Jovic? Does not matter the money, we should try and get a good young striker out there. Not a hilarious over the hill higuain and neither someone who has never led a team like morata. Both of jovic and werner look really great prospects and should be good buys. Wingers - we already bought pulisic. But will need 2 more wingers. I am really tied of watching Pedro and willian do what they do. Pedro is just bang average while willian has some serious short comings. Both are 30 ish and not really going to improve or give us anything that we don't already know. I know, losing 3 out of the current 4 wingers would be a massive thing, but the club needs a Revamp. The core has grown soft, and needs to be changed. - 100mil. One of them can be thorgan hazard. He has really grown. Midfielders - none Defenders - Reece James - replace Zappa with James. No need for wan bisaaka as good as he is. It's the perfect time to get the young guy in. Tomori - to fill in the 4th cb spot. Da silva - I really like this guy and feel he is underrated. Height is an issue but the guy is a good footballer. Ake - 40mil. I think he is class. Should be bought back. Total ins- 240mil Squad Gks - kepa, Caballero, bulka (hg) Rbs - azpi, Reece (hg) CBS - ake (hg), Rudi, Andreas(hg), tomorrow(hg) Lbs - Emerson, Jay (hg) Regista - jorginhi, ampadu (hg) Rcm - Kante, mount (hg) Lcm - RLC (hg), Barkley(hg) Wingers - CHo (hg), pulisic, thorgan, x Strikers - jovic/Werner, batshuayi, Tammy (hg) A young squad, yes. But we need a serious change in the way we do things.

No. But playing Emerson 2 games in 3 days would be suicidal. Specially when we have an option of playing him today, and then give him a rest for a week. I thought the post explained that.

I think we will win this one. Just keep Alonso out of the team, and we will win it. Also, I do think Emerson will start as not even sarri would be stupid enough to start Alonso against salah. So it has to be Emerson (whu), Alonso (prague), Emerson (pool)

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I won't start Luiz specially if Hernandez plays. That guy just seems to get the worst out of Luiz for some reason

Not just that. They have some very tricky fixtures up ahead. Trip to everton, then Napoli at home, trip to Watford, then trip to Napoli. Atsenal's last 7 games have 5 away games, that too against the likes of everton, Watford, wolves, Leicester. These are some really tough games and the fact that they have won just 2 away games out of their last 12 (Blackpool and Huddersfield) is telling that they are going to drop more than a few. So if we can somehow avoid defeats at anfield and OT (specifically OT), we might have a decent chance of a top 4.

Good game, perfect line up. It's not really that difficult, if you have your best players playing on the pitch, you will end up performing (not saying winning) well more often than not. 5 players, 24 or under. 3 academy graduates. Let's hope this was not just a one off to appease the fans, but actually a moment of relevation to sarri. Players like Willian, Pedro, Alonso, Barkley should not be starters for us. Maybe in the Europa league or for rotation, but no where near the regular starting 11. We have 4 days of gap between this match and the next, let's hope the same team starts. There is no reason, that it should not.

Well, he is as good for PL as Moses is. And that's what the right tactics and formations do. It gets the best out of bang average players, be it Alonso or Moses or John o Shea or Wes brown.

While playing the whole season as lwb

Lingard lukaku dalot Pogba mctominay Fred Shaw lindelof Smalling young How is this line up better than the players we have at our disposal.

Did not Monaco win the league once? I guess they are the best team ever with the best manager ever? A manager who has never won and never will win anything is now regarded as a world class or a top tier manager. How far the mighty have fallen. We all know that the fight was for top 4, and looking we are losing. Badly. Does arsenal have a better squad than us? Hell no, they are comfortable in 3rd. With the easiest run in. We might be just 2 points off top4, but have to play away to pool, ubited and Leicester. We are not getting a single point out of these, and our goal difference is going to take an even further beating. Also, stop repeating the "we are 2 points off", at one point we were 6 points ahead of arsenal who are now 2 points ahead of us. That's an 8 point shift. Understand that? While they are going in the right direction, we are falling in the wrong one, and that is the contention here. What are the positives from this season? Did any of our youngsters have a break through season? Are we improving? Are we playing good football? Are we selevting players based on merit? Answer to all of these questions is a sound and resounding NO. Sarri is clearly out of his depth. He is made for those mickey mouse league and clubs where mediocrity in results is accepted. Nit here. At least not yet.

Italian league. The same league where Alonso and Zappa were considered good players? The same league where higuain had 23 goals last season? If you have not checked this is not exactly serie a where you have the title decided before the season begins and the lower clubs are hardly championship level. Sarri's system has been shown to be mega flawed by the likes of wolves and totally ripped apart by others. 1st before that too. 2 league titles in the last 4 seasons. Hmmm. Not bad for a "mid table" club that sarri inherited.

Not being in Europe helped. But let's be realistic. If Eden, Kante, luiz, Rudi, azpi, kepa, jorginho did not play a single minute of Europa so far, would not we be in the same exact position we are in Europa? With all due respect to the teams we have faced so far, our squad players and even the fringe youngsters like ampadu should have been more than good enough till this point. Fair point about pool and city, but don't think they will be setting up any points tally records this season

If I could, I will place a 10 on Alonso starting with CHo rotting on the bench. More bs from the cunt. Nothing else.

Identity? Hahaha Well organized ? Hahahahahahahahah Very offensive? Do you mean boring, pedantic football with no output? We were 1st before that. Don't you dare forget that too. That's the difference that an actual world class manager can make. Not make a good team look like a mid table club

1st? 1st sight of difficulty? We are 6th. We were a comfortable 3rd/4th at a moment in time. It's been 3-4 months of "difficulty", not the 1st sight. It's also called adaptability. Remember Antonio conte? So he is not good at communication,he is not good at man-managemen, he us not good at adapting. What is he good at then? Also let's not play, "the board knew what they were getting" card. The board is clueless. This is the same board that sold Costa and matic and bougth morata and drinkwater. Same board which bought the likes of papy, Alonso, baba etc etc. The number of transfer screw ups from this boarf is legendary and it's a miracle that they are still in the job. Sarri is another of their screw ups. And it's open for all to see.

So let me get this straight. We have a manager who has a "philosophy". But the players at his disposal are not worthy of the "philosophy" and the style and the shit. So what does a "manager" do? Continue going down the same road blaming the players' mentality? Or change the ways just for a bit until he gets his own players in(given his track record with jorginho and higuain, I would not trust him with a single penny). A manager is so much more than just a phikosopjy and a style of play. Even if we give sarri a pass on our mostly abject style of play, there are basic issues of team selections, man management, youth integration and most importantly meritocracy. Emerson can perform well, and then be left to rot on the bench just because Alonso had a good game against a pub level side in Europa. Meanwhile CHO and giroud's good performances in the same competition are totally ignored. Hencr why he is nothing but a fraud. He has done nothing to be entrusted one of the biggest transitional phases of this club.

Higuain was his choice, so he can't be cribbing about the strikers. Jorginho was his choice so he can't be cribbing about matic/cesc. He had cesc and the guy left because he hardly was not getting any play time. And of course there is no match between sarri and Conte. One is a world class coach and another is a fraud. I don't know what style and module have to do here. You said can these plyaers win the PL. I have given you facts that these plyaers "have" won the PL under a great manager which sarri clearly is not. "Would have", "could have" but still he continoues to play the same drivel, continues to play alonso despite everyone and their dog clearly seeing that he is shit. Masochist or not, he clearly is one thing, and that is a fraud.

The protests should be loud and clear regardless of his team selection, performance and result. He has shown to be unable to adapt, unable to change his team/formation/tactics and one game should hardly make it any different. I seriously hope the fans make it clear that we have reached the point of no-return with this guy and hopefully he gets the message and fucks off himself.

Not these players? really? Luiz, Rudi, Azpi, Alonso, Kante, Hazard, Pedro/Willian. 7 off the starting 11 are the exact same. So yes, "these players". If sarri plays the team that you have jotted down, most of the fans on here will willingly sing his praises inspite of whatever results come. People have been clamoring for emerson, Christensen, RLC and CHO to be started, yet the guy has done nothing to amend the shortcomings. He continues to select the same drivel and play the same way. Hence why people are so frustrated with him and his antiques.

This here is the problem. The Fan's expectation of the starting 11 is so far away from the manager's reality. I would personally start the same team but I also know that the manager won't start 5 of the above players (Andreas, Emerson, RLC, CHo and giroud).

Did not these players with another coach win a premier league 2 years ago? Also it's not about winning the premier league, it's about getting the best out of the players as well as playing the best players available in their best positions. None of which is happening right now

Lol. Europa league. What teams have we played? Sorry ball nit working = 6-0 away to city, 4-0 to Bournemouth, pathetic away form 16 points in the last 10 games with trips to anfield and OT left. Understand? Or let me continue. Abject performances, same mistakes, no youth integration to the point that our own player has got an international start before a league start. The fans have totally turned on him, which can you remember when it has happened in the last 30 Years? Clear now?