Vesper

thsi is quite likely our CL on the line

PEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 come on!!!!!

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HOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW DID Wood miss that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 OMG, that would have eliminated Wolves from any chance of overtaking us

this is good, we need them in form to beat Leicester

this is super bad even if we draw against the dippers, as long as Wolves win by 2 against Palace (or score another now) then a one goal win by them over us crashes us out of CL and a two goal in by them against us crashes us out even if they beat Palace by only 1 goal (and remember that is IF we draw v the dippers) if we lose against the dippers and against Wolves, then we are more than likely out as long as they beat Palace by anything we so fucked up last night only winning by one goal versus a horrid team

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Agree and so many in the game chat were trashing him, extremely unfairly IMHO (and we all know I am a huge basher if a player is having a shitter)

He is a great shot stopper, but not so much with the ball and distribution. That said, he does engender far more confidence atm than Kepa.

maybe, maybe not they are all close in cost

probably (pure guess) £20 to £30m due to English tax and Burnley totally safe (so in the EPL next year) he likely is England's number 1 soon at the rate he is going

nil nil HT Burnley almost scored if not for a Coady last ditch challenge

I know he is far from my first choice, BUT I would 100000% love to have him in net atm over Kepa

superbly again

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr having to play with fire here with SU we really need them to win v Leicester (and then Leicester to lose to Spuds as well) as that eliminates Leicester BUT if we get no more points and SU also beats Everton and SOTON, they could, in theory, knock us out of CL on GD, especially if we get smashed in both the Liverpool and the Wolves games

damn, Burnley lost Charlie Taylor, their LB, so an out of position player now on Traore Burnley down to only 2 bench players with any real EPL experience

Wolves are all over them

meaningless game for us,Spuds and Arse are already eliminated from finishing above us Wolves atm are a huge threat to dump us out if they win tonight a draw or a loss and they cannot

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That is just the BBC repeating AS (Spain) rumours: Chelsea are willing to offer 100m euros (£90.7m) for Atletico Madrid's Slovenian goalkeeper Jan Oblak, 27. (AS - in Spanish)

Oblak is on £363K PW salary. ZERO chance we drop that amount of coin I would think

If Real sells us Varane they would have plenty of money for Alaba!

Brilliant tunnel-cam shot reveals Giroud and Pulisic planning their goal https://www.chelsea-news.co/2020/07/video-brilliant-tunnel-cam-shot-reveals-giroud-pulisic-planning-goal/ Chelsea weren’t great against Norwich, in fact they weren’t even very good, but they did manage to get a goal with one moment of brilliance. Christian Pulisic, one of their best players on the night, showed quick feet to lose Todd Cantwell on the left, and delivered a ball across the 6 yard box which Olivier Giroud nodded home. Chelsea TV had footage from the tunnel which showed the two players speaking before the game, making gestures that indicated they were planning something very similar from the start. The tunnel cams are a new addition to the league, and if they’re bringing stuff like this to us, we can imagine them sticking around.

Exclusive: IFAB to extend five substitutes rule to cover all of 2020-21 season https://theathletic.co.uk/1915053/2020/07/08/five-substitutions-rule-2020-21-season-ifab/ World football’s law-makers are set to extend the temporary rule allowing teams to make five substitutes in a game, rather than three, for all of next season. The International Football Association Board (IFAB) introduced the change in May as a short-term measure to protect players in leagues that would be trying to finish the 2019-20 season after the COVID-related lockdown — the rationale being that players would be playing a congested schedule after a long lay-off, with only a limited “pre-season” period to return to fitness. The Athletic understands that IFAB’s board of directors is expected to announce the extension in the coming days. Each league was allowed to decide if it wanted to implement the initial change and the Premier League voted to do so in early June, although it was not unanimous, with Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Sheffield United and West Ham United voting against the proposal. And now the debate about whether the extra substitutes favour teams with deeper squads or not is set to return, as IFAB believes the late start to next season will lead to the same player-welfare concerns existing throughout the 2020-21 campaign, too. Those who believe the change benefits richer teams, a concern raised by Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson yesterday, will be worried that what was meant to be a one-off solution to an unprecedented event will become permanent by next summer, when everyone will have got used to 20-strong match-day squads and five options off the bench. Going into this week’s round of games, only Brighton, Liverpool and Manchester United have taken advantage of the option to use five substitutes in all their games since the restart, while Burnley have only made six changes in four games. As well as debating whether the extra substitutes become permanent or not, IFAB’s technical committees are expected to continue their work on the offside law over the coming months. The Athletic understands there is now a wide acceptance that the introduction of VAR and Hawk-Eye technology has reversed the trend of relaxing the offside law in favour of attackers, by depriving them of the benefit of the doubt. Whereas assistant referees were once encouraged to keep their flags down if they were not sure whether a player was onside or not, the technology used by video referees enables them to spot a toe, knee or nose in an offside position. FIFA’s technical director Arsene Wenger, the former Arsenal manager, has suggested changing the law so that a player would be onside if any part of their body that they could score with was behind or level with the penultimate defender. This, however, is unlikely to become law as IFAB’s technical experts believe this would tilt the balance too much in the attackers’ direction, as a player could theoretically score with a diving header if just his toes were level with the penultimate defender. What is more likely will be a move to judging offsides on either the players’ shoulders, shirt or torso, as that would reduce the ultra-marginal offsides judged on toes and heels that infuriate most fans. It would also be a policy that could be easily applied at all levels of the game, whether cameras are present or not. On the subject of VAR, there is one change that has been suggested by fans, managers and pundits that is not on IFAB’s radar at all: time limits for VAR decisions. It is understood the game’s law-makers believe accuracy is more important than speed and fans will tolerate mistakes made by officials in the heat of the moment but not if they are made after looking at replays. They also think any time limit would be an arbitrary decision and some decisions, such as penalties after a passage of play that might include a potential offside, foul or handball before the penalty incident, require time to check.

Exclusive: Maitland-Niles feels he has to leave Arsenal for first-team football https://theathletic.co.uk/1928376/2020/07/14/exclusive-ainsley-maitland-niles-leave-arsenal-mikel-arteta-arsenal-transfer/ Ainsley Maitland-Niles has come to the conclusion that the writing is on the wall for his career at Arsenal and in order to achieve regular first-team game time, he must leave the Emirates Stadium. The 22-year-old England youth international came through the club’s Hale End academy to make his debut in 2014 and has accumulated 96 appearances under four different managers. He played a full part in each of Arsenal’s six Premier League games after Mikel Arteta was appointed as head coach on December 20 but has featured in only four of the subsequent 12 top-flight fixtures, all from the substitutes’ bench and has spent about 70 minutes on the pitch in total. Since the home draw against Sheffield United on January 18, Maitland-Niles has completed a whole match just once — in an FA Cup quarter-final win away to the same opposition on June 28. The shortage of game time has led Maitland-Niles to seek pastures new and although he is under contract until 2023, he is thought to believe now is the right time to continue his career elsewhere. Talks between Arsenal and his representatives were geared towards the matter coming to a head once the campaign is over, enabling Arteta’s men to focus on a push for European qualification. However, Arsenal saw their slim hopes of reaching next season’s Champions League ended with Sunday’s defeat away to Tottenham — a game for which Maitland-Niles was an unused substitute — and he is understood to think it would be best for both parties if a resolution was found sooner. Maitland-Niles senses a lack of trust in him from Arteta and he would welcome the chance to explore a fresh opportunity away from his boyhood club, with interest coming from England and Germany. He has mainly been utilised by Arsene Wenger, Unai Emery, Freddie Ljungberg and Arteta as a makeshift right-back and watched other academy graduates leapfrog him. Central midfield is the player’s favoured position and where he feels best-suited to improve the side if given a chance. There have been issues around time-keeping; Maitland-Niles admitted in recent interviews that he held discussions with Arteta and “took the consequences” after arriving late for training once. The website Transfermarkt values him at around £13 million and a potential sale could bring in some much-needed finances as Arsenal look to strengthen their squad ahead of the 2020-21 season.