Vesper

10 days left getting close to time

well, there are different reports and yes I see 30m euros (£25m) in some places that is too much for a 33yo (in 24 days) with 5 months left on his contract and a HUGE salary they can go fuck themselves

dont they 'only' want 20m euros (£17m)? that is only a million more quid than what we literally did pay for a 6 month loan with salary for the dreadful Higs, lolol

Chelsea boss Frank Lampard hits out at Roy Keane after Man Utd legend’s brutal assessment Frank Lampard says Roy Keane has got it wrong believing that young English managers are given more leeway. https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1231041/Chelsea-news-Frank-Lampard-Roy-Keane-Man-Utd-Ole-Gunnar-Solskjaer “Frank Lampard has lost eight games, but for some reason, Frank is doing alright, because he is English,” Keane said while deflecting criticism from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. “Frank’s track record, his CV, he went to Derby, he didn’t get promoted. But Frank has got all the answers for Chelsea…” “That’s the moment my ears pricked up,” Lampard revealed. snip

pic of Moses in Milan tonight

sorry, I am calling bollocks on this number one there are almost NO right footed left backs played at high level football and number two if Pepe drives past with ball on his left foot (cutting inside) the battle is already lost as his body is between the ball and the defenders right foot IF the defender is to his (Pepe's) inside (ie goalside), then the defenders stronger foot (the left one) is thus placed to poke away the ball Emerson also needs to play on the left to keep Pepe honest on the other end, hell maybe even Alonso (although his pace is an issue defensively) playing an already offensively turgid (on the right) Azpi out of position on the left is capitulation I cannot believe we have not dealt with LB ages ago, and certainly this window after brawling to get the appeal through it is utter tosh by the goddamn board more than almost any other thing, (other than selling De Bruyne and then not taking £65m for a 30yo Willian who will either walk on a free this summer or rape us for £20m more in salary as a dogshit 32 and 33yo and who then still walks on a free) this position (especially with Marina turning down £45m for Alonso after saying that was his price and then telling RM to cough up an insane £55m) enrages me we have known we have utter shit since the halcyon days of Ashley, yet done fuckall but shit away millions of quid upon millions of quid on pure dregs Telles is sitting there and Porto are even supposedly open to little less than his £32m RC (as they are having revenue issues) yet we do fuckall (and if Telles is not your cuppa, then there is the £51m RC Grimaldo) But no, we will dick around until summer, offer up £80m for Chilwell and probably lose out to Shitty OR we cough it up and he turns out to be as middling as he has looked the past month or 6 weeks and with his salary demands and our rotten luck,, that will be yet another potential £100-110m plus cock up

£68m for Bruno Fernandes is robbery with a side of GBH tossed in. Even Manure cannot be this stupid.

Fuck Option to buy, not obligation More Italian games Grrrrrrrrr

If Kovacic is on the bench, Kante starts instead of him, and Azpi is at LB I am going to go pure mental book it

If we are not up for this after the shambolic shitshow this weekend, we will never be up for another game FUCK Arse

1 2 FT Gosens looked ok but just didnt have that much action until they went to back 4 Zapata was incredibly wasteful the 2nd half really intriguing game far better 2nd half hats off to SPAL for a true smash n grab in a really hostile away game typical Italian game SO tactical opposite of an EPL game or many Bundesliga games

1 2 SPAL build up on the left again, then a cut back pass

De Roon is a really class CMFer but he is shit as a RWB/RB

1 1 all on the left it is crazy would love to see a heat map and yep De Roon got burnt smart game plan by SPAL manager so reminds me of games we lose versus shit teams just switch sides and have the EPL team relentlessly attacking Alonso or Emerson side on the right

SPAL are almost completely attacking on the left, so not much action on Gosens' side De Roon is playing at RWB, which is so not his position, as Castagne is out with a knee knock and Hans Hateboer is on yellow card suspension, thus SPAL are trying to exploit

Sell us Lautaro!!!!!

he just hit the post

its is already 1 nil Atalanta SPAL are a mess not the best game to judge him on

Gosens starts

Atalanta v SPAL Stream https://www.vipleague.cc/atalanta-vs-spal-streaming-link-1

lets get Dembele DONE ffs activate Boga's buyback and sign Telles NOW sell as much dross as we can we do that I am satisfied with January

one reason to like Boubakary Soumaré

Konate now is not back until March 15th at the earliest so the only Bundesliga matches he will be available for are Only Dortmund is a super tough toss-up, they should win the other 7 I think (especially if they are going to win the title) away at Hoffenheim being the 2nd toughest He would so help versus Dortmund and also in the CL (if they beat Spuds) but other than that they may not miss him much even if he cannot go at all the rest of the year (just speaking for these games listed)

Derby were never going to go up, nor should they little cheap shit club live off our loanees to big degree waste of an EPL slot if they had pulled it out they never would have spent the funds to stay up

Potential blow for Frank Lampard as key staff member in talks with Turkish club https://www.caughtoffside.com/2020/01/20/potential-blow-for-frank-lampard-as-key-staff-member-in-talks-with-turkish-club/ It’s so easy to think of the manager as being the main person at every club and presume they are the sole reason for success and failure, but they tend to just be the figurehead for a huge coaching staff. Only Frank Lampard will know how important his assistants are to him, but he’s an inexperienced manager who just made a big step up, so you have to think that he’s heavily relied on some experienced heads around him at times. snip