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let's look at this bold are ones he would most likely start at it is hard to say on many becuase we do not know transfers in, so this is based off last year bold red are the only ones he CLEARLY would not be the starter at regardless of formation Arsenal if Tierney was played as a LCB, Alonso would start as the LWB Aston Villa Brighton & Hove Albion Burnley Chelsea Crystal Palace Everton Fulham Leeds United Leicester City Liverpool Manchester City Pep hates his left backs, so much so that Cancelo was played out of position, but not sure if he could deal with Alonso's lack of pace Manchester United hard to say, as Luke Shaw is shit, and Williams is playing of position (he is right footed) Newcastle United Sheffield United Southampton Tottenham Hotspur 50/50, as Ben Davies is pretty shit, hard to say what Mou would think of Alonso West Bromwich Albion West Ham United Wolverhampton Wanderers they only play a 3 4 3 or 3 5 2 so he would deffo be in the mix as a LWB 12 teams (including us) for sure, as it stands, he would be the starter plus 5 can be listed as who knows (I listed the reasons) plus he would have been the starter on Watford Bournemouth Norwich City so only 3 for sure (out of 23 total) where he almost never would be the starter, barring injury, 4 if Arsenal gets a left CB to replace Tierney, there, or if they play a back 4, as Tierney is a better LB than Alonso, Shitty is arguably the 5th, but Pep is too unpredictable and too unhappy with his current LB's to say 100%, the other 3 (Wolves, Spuds and Manure) are also too iffy to say 100% 15 out of 23 for sure we would and have, or will be be (if he was there) the starter, and it is somewhat possible that number is 18 or 19 or so consider your point refuted

if we toss out a shedload on Chilwell, then that perhaps would take some of the pressure off Havertz, provided Chilwell doesn't have an explosive start and Havertz a slow one

Fulham sign Antonee Robinson, left-back nicknamed ‘Jedi’ who nearly joined Milan https://theathletic.co.uk/1991795/2020/08/20/fulham-sign-antonee-robinson-left-back-nicknamed-jedi-who-nearly-joined-milan/ AC Milan, the San Siro and Paolo Maldini. As Antonee Robinson prepared to fly to Italy on transfer deadline day in January, there was much to be excited about. Wigan Athletic had accepted an initial £6 million bid for the United States international that could rise by a further £4 million, meaning there were just the formalities of his dream move to complete. Or so it seemed. An irregular heartbeat detected during the medical immediately put the switch to Italy on hold. Further tests were requested but the looming 7pm cut-off point for all Serie A deals to be finalised meant there just wasn’t time. A deal that would have seen Robinson swap a Championship relegation scrap for one of the most glamorous names in European football was off. More worryingly for the former Everton academy graduate and his tight-knit family, the extent of those heart problems was a huge unknown. Once back in England and with his Wigan career placed on ice, Robinson underwent tests at the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital. March was pencilled in for a possible operation only for the irregularity to have happily corrected itself before that date. An all-clear to resume playing followed and the left-back was able to return to action with Wigan in a season extended by the pandemic. He started the final nine games as Paul Cook’s side battled to overcome a 12-point deduction imposed for going into administration. “How Antonee dealt with everything thrown at him earlier this year said a lot about him as a character,” says Chris Brass, Wigan’s head of recruitment until being made redundant last month. “Nothing fazed him at all. “Often, you don’t see the full character of a man until he suffers disappointment. How Antonee dealt with what happened with Milan was a testament to his strength of character. He’s always been a mature lad but probably even more so now after what happened. “AC Milan and (the club’s technical director) Maldini, the greatest left-back of certainly my era, wanted to sign him. That is such a big thing, so to have it snatched away must have been so tough to take. “But, no sooner had it happened, he was back at the club and supporting the boys. Not feeling sorry for himself or anything like that. That is when I knew this kid was someone who deserved to go to the top.” Following his switch to Fulham, Robinson has now arrived at that elite level at the age of 23. Sheffield United and Fulham both triggered a £1.9 million relegation release clause in his contract late last week, but the 23-year-old opted for the newly-promoted London club. There was also interest from Newcastle United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Werder Bremen and former club Everton. Brass adds: “The AC Milan thing may have taken some people by surprise but, when you stop and think about where Antonee can reach, it did make sense. Had he signed for them, Antonee would have been a force in Italy. He could have helped Milan back up to where they belong in the Champions League. “It would have been up to him, of course. But he’s a grounded lad and I’d have expected him to do exactly what he had once done at Wigan — worked hard to make a first-team place his own. “Just look at what happened at Wigan last month. After all that had gone on and the time out he’d had to take, Antonee still came back for the final few weeks and finished the season very, very strongly. Again, that said a lot about him.” Bramall Lane, Sheffield. The final Saturday of 2017. Chris Wilder’s promotion-chasing United are hosting a Bolton Wanderers side who sit second bottom of the Championship. The home team are strongly fancied to win but Bolton start strongly. As the game approaches the midway point of the first half, Antonee Robinson is causing plenty of problems down the left flank. So, when the ball reaches the loanee from Everton 10 or so yards inside the United half, there is a tangible sense of excitement among the travelling Bolton fans. Billy Sharp and Chris Basham move to close down the left-back, who darts forward for a couple of seconds before quickly slipping a pass inside to team-mate Adam Le Fondre. Robinson keeps going, meaning when the return pass comes, he is yards clear of the United defence. A perfectly-weighted cross follows to allow Gary Madine to tap in what proves to be the only goal of the game. “Antonee came to us as quite a raw player,” recalls Phil Parkinson, Bolton manager at the time but now in charge of Sunderland. “But there was this incredible athletic ability there along with a very strong mentality. That stood out straight away. “Learning your trade in the Championship — which is one of the toughest leagues in European football — is not easy. It is a big ask, and especially for someone like Antonee. who’d had a couple of injuries the previous year. But he took it in his stride and learned from any mistakes. “He is everything you expect in a modern-day full-back. Powerful, so quick, with great hunger and desire to be a player.” Robinson opting to move to Craven Cottage came as a disappointment to Wilder. The United manager is understood to have been informed of the US international’s decision by the player himself on Wednesday morning. Enda Stevens starting every game for United last season is believed to have been a factor in Robinson choosing Fulham. However, the transfer will still thrust Robinson into a straight scrap for a starting place with Fulham’s Wembley hero Joe Bryan. Wolves also made a late play for Robinson but his mind was made up. Parker will work with a very different Robinson to the one who first arrived at Bolton as a teenager a little over three years ago. His only previous senior experience had come via three appearances for Everton under-23s in the EFL Trophy. He went on to play 30 times as Parkinson’s side won their fight with relegation. “I was looking for a full-back during the summer after we won promotion and couldn’t find one,” says Parkinson. “We looked everywhere, had a couple in on trial. But nothing seemed right. “It was our under-23s scout, Chris Johnson, who came up with the suggestion. He rang me up and said, ‘You need to look at Antonee Robinson — he’s been out injured a while but could be just what you’re after’. “After 10 minutes watching him on video, I knew Chris was right. We had to get him. I knew he’d be perfectly suited to us and bring the balance that we wanted. “We already had Andy Taylor, which in many ways was the perfect balance with Antonee. Andy had the experience. He was probably coming to the end of his career but we said to Andy, ‘Can you help Antonee?’ He did that really well.” Asked if there is any particular game that stands out from that one season together, Parkinson replies: “Funnily enough, considering their attempts to sign him, Sheffield United was probably one of those games when he played especially well. “Chris Wilder had a few injuries that day so he played Chris Basham at wing-back. He (Robinson) burst straight past him and put this great cross in for Madine to finish in the middle. A lovely bit of football. I am sure Chris remembered Antonee’s pace and power from that day.” Before moving on loan to Bolton, Robinson had signed a new two-year contract at Everton. He had joined the Merseyside club’s youth set-up at the age of 11 and later became an integral part of the under-23s side that won the Premier League 2 title under David Unsworth in 2016-17. Nicknamed “Jedi” at Goodison Park due to his love of the Star Wars films, Robinson’s return after a maiden season in the Championship meant a chance to take stock, an opportunity to see just how far he had come since those days far, far away when first on trial. Martin Waldron, Everton’s former head of academy recruitment, tells The Athletic: “The great thing with Antonee is he has got better every year. He matured later, getting better the longer he was with us. “It often happens with lads born later in the school year. From memory, Antonee was born in early August (the 8th). Not all coaches make allowances but I always did. In fact, we played a game at Everton that I asked all the scouts to play. “When watching a player, I got them to try and guess his date of birth. I could always spot a lad with a late birthday. I felt it was important you considered that because being the young boy in a group does make a difference. “Everyone now seems to expect the player to be ready straight away at 17. But it doesn’t happen like that. The average age to make your Premier League debut is around 22 to 23. Give them that bit of time and they will get there. Antonee’s move from Wigan shows that. “One of my scouts phoned me one day and said, ‘I’ve got one’. When someone you respect says that, then you get excited. We brought Antonee in and had a quick look at him in the development centre. “Then, we put him into the group. Obviously, he wasn’t up to pace at first. It is so hard at that level. But there was something there. Antonee got better over his trial period and then we signed him. He played left midfield at first. “Antonee had ability, the big thing we needed to do was harness it. In time, he got better and better. We moved him deeper to left-back over time. We thought the role would suit him better. “He was in a decent group with Joe Williams, Harry Charsley, Ryan Ledson. With Antonee, that’s not a bad midfield, eh? Jonjoe Kenny was another in that group. “I am pleased for him. A lovely kid and a lovely family, and his dad is sound. Can’t speak highly enough of his family. Antonee was a good honest kid who worked hard and took everything on board.” London, November 2018. Robinson ambles through reception at the United States’ national team hotel on crutches, an ankle injury meaning he won’t face England in the upcoming friendly at Wembley. It is the latest setback in what has been an inauspicious start to his international career. Robinson had made his debut for the US six months earlier in a 3-0 win over Bolivia, registering an assist, but then struggled in starts against Brazil and Colombia. Neither, admittedly, was an easy assignment, with Robinson up against Atletico Madrid’s Santiago Arias and star playmaker James Rodriguez in the 4-2 defeat to Colombia. Against Brazil, it was Douglas Costa. “When you struggle like that, you want to turn it around and take what you’ve learned to the next game,” Robinson told reporters after the 2-0 loss to Brazil. “It is all about growing each time. “Costa is a Champions League-quality player. I’m not playing against people like him every week. But that’s a level that I want to get to.” The injury before the England friendly denied Robinson the opportunity to impress in front of friends and family. Another difficult outing the following summer against Jamaica in Washington didn’t further his case to play under new coach Gregg Berhalter in the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Daniel Lovitz, then at Montreal Impact, and new Fulham team-mate Tim Ream were selected ahead of Robinson, who was born in Milton Keynes but qualifies for the US through his father. Nevertheless, left-back remains a weak spot for the USMNT and Robinson fits the bill in terms of Berhalter’s preferred attributes. “If Christian Pulisic comes inside and is an aggressive attacker,” Berhalter says, “we want a left-footed player to get around him. Who is that person? “If it’s (Ajax’s) Sergino Dest, he’s right-footed. I’ve been telling Sergino to work on his left-footed crossing. There are options. You can set it up in a way that could work. But all those issues would be solved if you had an attacking left-footed left-back, and, unfortunately, we don’t have that right now.” Berhalter has been monitoring Fulham’s new signing. “He has been doing a great job,” adds the national team coach. “He’s playing every week, he’s got a great physical profile and he fits the profile of a guy who can overlap if you’re tucking your winger in. “There are a lot of good things to his game and he is going to continue to develop. We are watching him closely and are in contact.” As for the move to Craven Cottage, he adds: “For the national team, it is great news. When you think about that left-back spot being open and contested, it is a good opportunity for Antonee playing at a high level to prove that he wants to be and is capable of being the left-back for the national team.” Fellow international — and new club-mate — Tim Ream also believes the transfer can only be good news for the US side. “He is a flying full-back,” said the 32-year-old via a US Soccer conference call as the final touches were being put to the deal. “He is technical, but he’s got pace to burn, energy to burn and he gets up and down. “Both times we played him (with Wigan) this year, our guys have come off the field saying, ‘What a player.’ As long as he continues to develop in that same vein, it can only mean big things for him. “Obviously, a move to Milan falling through would have been huge but things happen. Another American at the club, and someone who can attack out of that left full-back role. And that can only translate into his role with the national team and being that attacking left full-back for the US.” “The modern-day full-back is almost like a winger and Antonee ticks every box,” says Brass, who played such a pivotal role in bringing Robinson to the DW Stadium in 2018. “He is an elite athlete, I thought I’d been fit as a player until I saw Antonee. “We had him on loan first and then paid what was quite a substantial fee for a youngster. And certainly for ourselves. But we felt there was more growth in him. I still believe that. Antonee can run the length of the field early on, but the big thing is he can continue doing that throughout the game. He was still doing those same runs in the 95th minute. “That underlined what a phenomenal athlete he is. Antonee is now at the top level and his new club can now take on that mantle of challenging him, ensuring that full potential is reached. “He can still get better and better to become a key player in the elite leagues for many years to come.”

great reply

I think Alonso is fine as a backup and 'change of pace' LB (now speaking solely of LB, not LWB) Are there others who would be better? Yes, but we are probably not going to buy two LB's in the same window, especially as we will get shit money for either Emerson or Alonso due to the COVID-19 influenced market, and the fact we have other holes to fill in first Maybe we do surprise and do buy 2, but I cannot hang my hat nor my hopes on that, and between the two (Emerson and Alonso) Alonso is clearly the better player, despite his limitations. Emerson, other than a few, far too often widely-distanced games, has been a flop overall, same as most of the LB's we have purchased since Ash left

you are fine, you were just the latest one they were attacking and ridiculing cheers

nice try I listed LWB your arguments are simply wrong and invalid you do not know football very well, and you are extremely opinionated and combative with other posters bad combo

Welcome to the second era of the superclub: Clever ones vs lazy ones https://theathletic.co.uk/1996535/2020/08/20/champions-league-psg-bayern-barcelona/ La Liga has provided 30 of the 84 Champions League semi-finalists this century and the Premier League 22, but English and Spanish teams are nowhere to be seen in Lisbon this week, all packed off home before the final four of this year’s competition. In times like these, hand-wringing obituaries are never too far away. Everyone knows how easy and fun it is to get wrapped up in arguments about the definitive strength of one league over another off the back of a few tight results. What makes the Champions League so exciting — and even more so with this season’s one-legged ties rather than the traditional two — is not its inevitability but its messy contingency. There have been plenty of games in the last few weeks that have been decided by moments that could have gone either way. Liverpool battered Atletico Madrid in their last-16 second leg at Anfield only for goalkeeper Adrian to gift them a crucial away goal his defending champions could not recover from. Atalanta were 1-0 up against Paris Saint-Germain in the 89th minute of their quarter-final before their resistance was finally broken. If Tyler Adams’ shot had not deflected off Stefan Savic’s foot, RB Leipzig might not have beaten Atletico in theirs. And if Raheem Sterling had scored that close-range open goal against Lyon on Saturday at the same stage, who knows what would have happened in extra-time. Only marginally different circumstances, then, could have thrown up a different set of semi-finalists. Just like Tottenham’s famous run to the final last year relied on a lot of spirit but plenty of contingent details — against Manchester City: Sergio Aguero’s first-leg penalty miss, Fernando Llorente’s second-leg goal being given while Raheem Sterling’s was not. Against Ajax, Hakim Ziyech’s shot hitting the post at 2-2 and Lisandro Magallan slipping to let Dele Alli win Llorente’s knockdown. Spurs were one of the luckier finalists of recent years. Nobody was arguing last May that this combination of events made them one of the best two teams in Europe. So now is not the right time to proclaim the strange death of the Premier League, or the new power of Ligue 1, or the dominance of the Franco-German axis over the competition for the next decade. All football journalism relies, to some extent, on reverse-engineering great trends and patterns — the rise of this, the decline of that — out of random bounces of the ball. But we should at least be open-eyed about what we are doing. Watching the Champions League in the last few weeks, however, has felt as if we are entering into a new stage of the competition’s modern history. You can call it the second phase of the superclub era, when the leading pack has started to separate between the sides who have grown lazy with success and the ones still pushing to improve. Ever since the middle of the last decade, the number one story in the European game has been a small number of clubs — you know the names by now — assuming a hegemonic position in their domestic leagues. They have accumulated all of the money, the power, the best players, the best managers, the public attention and also the trophies themselves. The Champions League is intrinsic to this, both as a symptom of their dominance and a cause of its continuation. That, in a very abbreviated form, is what has happened to European football in the last 15 years. It is why the final rounds of the Champions League have been so predictable for so long. (Yes, the games themselves are often entertaining, but only as entertaining as the hundredth iteration of one particular fixture can ever be). And it explains why the knockout stage in the last few years has often felt like you were watching the same horses go round on the carousel over and over again. Bayern Munich, who eased past Lyon last night, have got to the semi-finals in seven of the last nine years. Real Madrid, absent the last two years, made eight consecutive semi-finals from 2011 to 2018, winning it four times, three of those on the spin, something nobody had done since the mid-1970s. Barcelona made six straight semis from 2008 to 2013, Manchester United four out of five (2007-11), Chelsea five out of six (2004-09). No wonder a competition that used to be all about exoticism and adventure has started to resemble a long-running soap opera with a core cast of characters. So, what’s changed this year? Clearly, we are still in the era of the superclub. Yes, Lyon and RB Leipzig did very well to get to the semi-finals, making the most of their opportunities, but like any team who makes it through enough knockout rounds, they had luck on their side too. And with Lyon finishing seventh in France, 28 points behind PSG, and Leipzig third in Germany, 16 points behind Bayern, it would be a surprise if those two are back in the final four next year. This is still an elitist competition, there is no other way to read the final pairing, even though Bayern are regulars in the fixture — this is their sixth final since 1998-99 — and it is PSG’s debut. Of course, their models are not quite the same. Bayern are the ultimate ‘traditional’ superclub, with the weight of history behind them, a magnet for local sponsorship and investment, a team who can happily be both an example of the German model while also playing a different game to everyone else in the Bundesliga. The source of PSG’s wealth is obviously different. They were formed by 1970, and bought by Qatar in 2011, who in the last nine years have spent even more aggressively in the transfer market than Abu Dhabi have at Manchester City. Three years ago, they signed Neymar for £198 million and Kylian Mbappe in a £165 million deal, investments that only this week have delivered a meaningful return. What links them is the unhealthy dominance each club enjoys over its domestic competition. PSG have won seven French league titles in the last eight years, and Bayern eight out of eight in Germany. Whatever conclusions you might draw about the strength of these leagues in delivering these finalists, strength is not the same thing as health. But watching the Champions League over the last few years, it has felt as if some of the old superclub certainties have started to fragment as if membership of that group alone — which has been sufficient to buy Real Madrid and Barcelona passage to the semi-finals in the last few years — is no longer enough. Increasingly, it feels as if the superclubs themselves are divided between the smart ones and the lazy ones; the clubs who are still trying to challenge themselves to be the best team they can be, with a genuine playing identity, and the ones who have given up. How else can you explain the dramatic collapse of some of Europe’s biggest clubs in the last few years? There has been no bigger story this month than Barcelona and their 8-2 defeat by Bayern in their quarter-final last Friday. When Philippe Coutinho, a player Barcelona paid Liverpool £142 million for less than two years ago, scored loan club Bayern’s last two goals the whole thing felt difficult to watch, as if you were intruding on another family’s private tragedy. But as The Athletic’s Dermot Corrigan has explained here, Barcelona’s humiliation was the product of years of mismanagement. Since the summer of 2014, their last successful transfer window, they have spent €800 million on more than 30 new players, while the first team has got worse and worse. They have moved between managers and directors almost every year, but never with a plan. The playing identity has eroded season after season, washed away by the comings and goings, and, worst of all, they have wasted the prime years of the greatest player of all time. In short, Barcelona have forgotten what it means to be a team. And their response to this, when the whole club is crying out for a full reset, is to appoint yet another glamorous deckchair-rearranger in Ronald Koeman. It is the lazy thinking of a club who have grown so big and popular they have forgotten how to compete. Real Madrid are in a better state than Barcelona, but not by much. Lifted by the return of Zinedine Zidane as coach last year, they won La Liga this past season. But, like Barcelona, they have grown too reliant on a group of players who are past their peak. Their big-name signings, such as Luka Jovic and Eden Hazard, have not worked out yet. And they look increasingly unbalanced and fragile, nothing like the winning machine from the middle of the 2010s. When Manchester City blew on them in their last-16 second leg two weeks ago, their house of cards collapsed. Take the two together and this was the first Champions League season with neither Real Madrid nor Barcelona in the semi-finals since 2006-07. For one more example, look to Juventus. They lost the Champions League final in 2015 and 2017, and back then were a perfectly balanced team, disciplined and hard-working but with plenty of star quality. Over the years since, though, they have slid down the same slope as Real Madrid and Barcelona, piling on more individual quality, sacrificing their ethos, making themselves worse. Since they bought a 33-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo for €100 million two years ago they have gone out to Ajax in the quarter-finals and now Lyon a round earlier. Like Barcelona, they needed a club-wide reset this summer but have gone for making a popular ex-player, and total managerial novice, their coach instead. That is one path superclubs can go down and it is surprising more have not followed. But it means that the clubs who still run themselves properly have a chance to break away from the pack. Just look at Bayern, who have played this summer like Europe’s only big club who know how to manage their squad. While Barcelona and Real Madrid are far too dependent on their veterans, Bayern have supplemented their old core with a new generation of younger players. Josh Kimmich, Leon Goretzka and Serge Gnabry are all 25. Alphonso Davies is still just 19. The fact that Thiago Alcantara might go this summer shows Bayern are not totally beholden to their experienced players. Even though Liverpool had a disappointing European season, knocked out by Atletico months ago, they are still the reigning champions until Sunday night and they lost in the final the year before that. And if their success tells us anything, it is the value of putting the team over the individuals, backing your manager and recruiting only when you need to — lessons that Europe’s richest clubs seem to have ignored. Manchester City are still finding increasingly unlikely ways to get knocked out of the Champions League before it gets to the serious end, and have not reached its semi-finals in four years under Pep Guardiola. But the way they recruit to their manager’s philosophy, rather than just going for names, puts them closer to the Liverpool way of doing things, as their recent domestic record suggests. Money and intelligence are not mutually exclusive. The curious case here are PSG. Nine days ago, you might have argued they are more like Barcelona and Real Madrid than anyone else. Star quality before team ethos, an unbalanced squad, routine revamps from different managers. And yet they will be there in Lisbon on Sunday with a chance to win the tournament for the first time. Does that make them one of the smart ones, with a dynamic young manager finally imposing a tactical structure on his famous players? Or are they just another dumb club playing the game on easy mode? Their run to the final was not exactly difficult, although they did well to beat Borussia Dortmund over two legs, and they were minutes away from losing to Atalanta in the last eight. Sunday will tell us more, whether PSG are in fact closer to Bayern and Liverpool, or to Barcelona and Real Madrid. Ultimately, having the best players can still get you very far. But in this new superclub era, where some teams have kept improving and others have let it all go to their heads, nobody knows yet quite where PSG should sit.

he is easy to hate, lol his diving and theatrics, his Barca days, the flaunting of immense wealth to an insane degree that shows an utter lack of class, and then being the hope and dreams for most of Brasil (whose national team is the one I detest the most on the planet)

Alonso has been, for all his limitations, a VASTLY better LB/LWB then a Milner ever was in his stint(s) there if you disagree with that, I will make a definitive statement: you do not know football for shit, literally Alonso was all EPL first team under Conte Milner as a LB was one of the worst in the league, he is right-footed and it is not his normal position

as long as Bayern doesn't tap up our players, I do not truly hate either team Real Madrid, Barca, Juve (because of the Agnelli scum), and then a shedload of EPL teams, yes, hate and locally here in Stockholm, Hammarby (I am surrounded by their old school fan base here in Södermalm) and Djurgårdens (their fans are far less obnoxious than the Hammarby scum, who are called Bajens)

I do not understand why people compare Aouar and Havertz as like for like the main player (s) Aouar would put at risk for time are Kovacic, Barkley, Gilmour, Kante, and Shitwater (who is not in the mix anyway), and I guess, on a stretch, RLC

Ashley Cole says Luiz Felipe Scolari produced 'best football' at Chelsea "He came and brought this new lease of life" https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/11628292/ashley-cole-says-luiz-felipe-scolari-produced-best-football-at-chelsea Cole snubs Mourinho and picks flop Scolari as best boss he played under at Chelsea https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/8354827/cole-mourinho-scolari-best-chelsea-boss-ancelotti/ and from Mar 1, 2009 , 11 and a half years ago Ashley Cole Misses Luiz Felipe Scolari At Chelsea https://www.goal.com/en/news/9/english-football/2009/03/01/1132806/ashley-cole-misses-luiz-felipe-scolari-at-chelsea

Paredes was superb, so I would deffo bench Herrera Verratti is more useful as the box to box, not the main DMF he is truly world class, crazy to leave him out, if Tuchel does indeed do so

Daily Hail, so take it for what it's worth...... Houssem Aouar wanted by Arsenal with Premier League side already 'offering cash-plus Matteo Guendouzi deal' to Lyon for Champions League star... but Champions League semi-finalists are holding out for offer of £54m https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8648073/Houssem-Aouar-wanted-Arsenal-Premier-League-offering-cash-plus-Matteo-Guendouzi-deal.html

yes!! so thrilled we got him!

sounds like a German crap sitcom lololol

lolol

this is madness do you even realise that Milner is right footed, nearing 35, and was shit as a LB, was only forced to lay there as they literally had no other options smdh and you have the jacobs to ridicule and mock @King Kante?? lol

Ribery is involved Fiorentina shot, Thiago Silva said yes! Four million a year of engagement plus bonuses for the defender. Ribery's presence in the squad plays a very important role https://www.corrieredellosport.it/news/calcio/calcio-mercato/2020/08/20-72963593/colpo_fiorentina_thiago_silva_ha_detto_s_/

I hope PSG win, but I am not deviating from my start of knock out stage predictions in either cup Bayern beats PSG Inter beats Sevilla

lol, he was involved in the buildup of every goal smdh

Izzy Brown completes Owls loan move https://www.swfc.co.uk/news/2020/august/izzy-brown-joins-owls-on-loan/

people like to worry me, I would rather rage it is healthy to go of the inner hate lolol