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Big Nose visual maths for how many goals he let in last game

Dele Alli signs new Tottenham contract: Spurs star pens fresh six-year deal https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/dele-alli-signs-new-tottenham-contract-spurs-star-pens-fresh-sixyear-deal-a3860356.html lololol He will still now be making £30,000 PW LESS than DRINKWATER.

“I like it a lot here” – Mateo Kovacic has nice things to say about Chelsea when asked if he will stay beyond loan deal https://www.chelsea-news.co/2018/10/like-lot-mateo-kovacic-nice-things-say-chelsea-asked-will-stay-beyond-loan-deal/ Chelsea midfielder Mateo Kovacic has lifted the lid on his stay in London so far insisting he will like to exhaust all the months in the loan deal before firming up whether he leaves or stays next summer. The Croatia international has become an important player in Maurizio Sarri’s squad this season after he was used as a bargaining chip by Real Madrid in their pursuit of Thibaut Courtois last summer. The central midfielder arrived at Chelsea in the dying hours of the transfer window but has quickly acclimatized to life in West London. Despite having more playing time that he was used to in Madrid over the three years he spent there, Kovacic is still leaving his options open. Snip

Manchester United target Jadon Sancho in £100m January spree http://www.espn.com/soccer/blog/transfer-talk/79/post/3683755/transfer-talk-manchester-united-target-jadon-sancho-in-100m-january-spreeP Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho will be backed to strengthen his squad in the winter if the right deals can be struck, with "more than £100 million potentially available" to him, according to The Guardian. Mourinho, frustrated in his summer search for another centre-half, wants a defender and a forward. Although he had been interested in Leicester City's Harry Maguire and Bayern Munich's Jerome Boateng, moves did not materialise "because the board did not believe that either was an upgrade" on the defenders already at Old Trafford. Meanwhile, the Mirror reported reported United are the favourites to sign Borussia Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho, the former Manchester City player who has attracted interest from around Europe after producing a succession of outstanding performances and earning a call-up to the England squad. City have a buy-back clause in the deal that sent Sancho to Dortmund but United are the likeliest leaders in any race for the 18-year-old, the Mirror reported. Snip

Real Madrid news: Chelsea star Eden Hazard delivers Antonio Conte ultimatum to Los Blancos REAL MADRID’s decision not to appoint Antonio Conte is down to Eden Hazard’s request for the club not to put the Italian in charge. https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1038196/Real-Madrid-news-Chelsea-Eden-Hazard-Antonio-Conte That’s according to respected Spanish journalist Eduardo Inda. Real Madrid announced the departure of Julen Lopetegui on Monday evening after just four and a half months in charge. Los Blancos have confirmed the Spaniard will be “provisionally replaced” by ex-player Santiago Solari and coach of B team Castilla. Many had expected former Chelsea boss Conte to take charge after the 49-year-old held talks with club president Florentino Perez. But a proposed deal seems to have stalled and Inda claims Hazard was behind it. The Belgian has long been linked with a switch to the Bernabeu but Chelsea opted not to cash in on him last summer. Hazard has made no secret of his desire to secure a ‘dream’ move to the Spanish capital but it appears he isn’t keen on a reunion with Conte. Inda claims the winger has indirectly communicated with Madrid that he ‘would never sign’ for the club if Conte was appointed. Snip Real, sign CONTE NOW!!!!!!

Carlo Ancelotti explains how loss of Jorginho to Chelsea has affected Napoli after Roma draw https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/chelsea-news-jorginho-sarri-napoli-15343212 The signing of Jorginho was one of the key moments of the summer transfer window for Chelsea. The Brazil-born Italian midfielder has slotted into Maurizio Sarri's new Chelsea system with ease, having been a key part of it during their time together at Napoli. For much of the window Jorginho had been rumoured to be making a move to Manchester City but joined Chelsea for a reported £50million on the same day as Sarri. Manchester City were reportedly 'furious' with Napoli about the way their proposed deal with Napoli fell apart, according to the Manchester Evening news, but less than a week later Pep Guardiola told reporters he was "not disappointed" by the move. That viewpoint is apparently one held by Napoli's head coach Carlo Ancelotti as well, who discussed the loss of Jorginho in his interview with Sky Sport in Italy (via calciomercato.com ) after his side drew 1-1 with Roma on Sunday. SNIP e navigatio

Chelsea must handle their CHO-sen one with care https://www.footballwhispers.com/blog/chelsea-must-handle-their-cho-sen-one-with-care So let’s get the staple sentences that are in almost every article about a Chelsea youth player out the way. No, the Blues haven’t had an English player come through their Academy and break into the first-team since John Terry. Yes, there have been a number of false dawns; Josh McEachran, Nathaniel Chalobah and probably Ruben Loftus-Cheek. And yes, the club do have a surprisingly large number of players out on loan. Right. That’s done. Nice to have ticked them off early, right? What is clear from the above is that it can be very easy to bash Chelsea for how they handle young players. The Blues haven’t had – and still don’t – clear pathways in place to the first-team. Of that there can be no debate. But the club deserve to be lauded for the quality footballers they are producing on a yearly basis. Chelsea haven’t won the past five FA Youth Cups, the last of which was by a 7-1 aggregate score against Arsenal, by accident. They’ve done so because of excellent coaching at various youth levels. The CHO-sen one The best example of this is Callum Hudson-Odoi, the talented winger who has been with the Blues since he was just seven years old. Clearly he had potential as a young boy yet it needed developing. And that is what Chelsea have done over the last decade. Snip

He had a great start too, but Messi hates him, and at Barca it's Argie Rules. Wonder what his price will be. He has just bags of talent, needs to chill on his non-footballing extracurricular life. I think he would be a monster under Sarri.

deffo not a tireless channel runner

His mid 1990's Ajax teams were crazy good 1994-95 especially

Courtois Sergio Ramos Marcelo Daniel Carvajal Marco Asensio Gareth Bale Karim Benzema and probably Neymar Raheem Sterling and maybe Pogba maybe Harry Kane or Icardi (who, tbh, is much less of a prick these days) that's some crazy high ego and prick quotients there

Sorry about the mix up with RB/LB, had the wrong Reece James, LOLOLOL Damn web put our 1999 born Reece pic in the 1993 born Sunderland Reece and my dyslexia took over (not joking, I have it to a fairly severe degree, my form is called agnosic dyslexia, ie. dyslexia without any accompanying agraphia, which made reading for and then writing my PhD dissertation and then my Docent-mandated thesis and academic articles and all other academic work and reading writing in general before that OH SO FUN!) I am just not the Azpi/Alonso fullback in Sarriball bandwagon, I think with Sarri's tutelage, a combo of LB Junior Firpo RB Valentino Lozano would be far better than what we have now within a year or two max and not buy them now, buy them in summer so both have multiple years of full time top 4 league experience (including Europe) Azpi is just lost in the offensive aspects of Sarriball overall, and Alonso is a turtle who will get burnt over and over versus class teams I would keep Azpi and use him as a CB and backup RB, so we only need to one CB if/when AC leaves I love Pavard, who would truly make Azpi expendable if we bought him as a CB, as (like you said) he is also a top class RB this is my dream list of our 5 CB's CB De Ligt CB Rudiger CB Benjamin Pavard (RB as well) CB Alessio Romagnoli (LB as well) CB Ethan Ampadu (MF as well) Also, we would only need Firpo and Lozano as the only pure fullbacks as within the five CB's are their backups/rotation, so all are happy campers in terms of playing time (more or less, and injuries will happen as well, unfortunately) Obviously Pellegri might get loaned out for a year or too, but I really think he is the next Italian superstar striker. I REALLY rate him and Luka Jovic as the next great young strikers atm Matheus Cunha is up there after those first two. Look at Pellegri this is when he was 16 around 6 months back already built nearly like a full grown man https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/football/football-meet-the-italian-mbappe-genoas-16-year-old-wunderkind-pietro-pellegri MILAN (REUTERS) - Genoa have had little to celebrate in the last few months, but 16-year-old striker Pietro Pellegri has given Italy's oldest club at least one reason to be cheerful. He became the youngest player to score twice in a Serie A match when he was on target in the 3-2 home defeat by Lazio on Sunday, bringing tears to the eyes of his father Marco who is Genoa's assistant coach. Pellegri had already become the joint-youngest player to play in Serie A when he made his debut in December at the age of 15 years and 280 days, and in May, became the first player born in 2001 to score when he was on target against AS Roma. snip

Burnley vs Chelsea – Highlights & Full Match https://www.fullmatchesandshows.com/2018/10/28/burnley-vs-chelsea-highlights-full-match-video/

Premier League big boys are class apart - Dyche https://www.bbc.com/sport/av/football/46011920 Sean Dyche says it is hard to compete against the Premier League's "big boys" after Burnley suffered a 4-0 defeat by Chelsea at Turf Moor. It was not a penalty, Martial dived - Silva https://www.bbc.com/sport/av/football/46011923 Marco Silva believes striker Anthony Martial dived for the penalty which gave Manchester United their first goal in a 2-1 win against Everton.

We had the perfect chance to try Barkley out at RW today, but Sarri put RLC there instead, which I am still scratching my head over. It worked out well in terms of goals, but we still know nothing other than RLC is not a winger, lolol (his goal had zero to do with wing play). The really interesting experiment would have been to play RLC at striker and Barkley at RW after Pedro was injured and Morata was pulled. The 2nd half, all that said, was sublime. Kante FINALLY started playing direct offensive-thrusting footie (to massive positive effect!) and Willian (in his true LW spot, was superb (yes, I said superb!, lolol) I wish to FUCK Eden was ambipedal and could play RW as well as he plays LW, as Willian at LW actually does (at times, and certainly the 2nd half today) look like an actual £65m-worth winger. He was magnificent there, after fucking about the first half over on the right a lot. Cannot figure him out for shit.

If Sancho tracks out the whole year as he has started, he will have 20 goals and 32 assists. Those are better numbers than Ousmane Dembele had by far, and Barca dropped a potential 145m euros (£130m or so) on Dembele. Zero chance (if he comes close to those numbers) Dortmund would sell him for less than £110 to £125m including add-ons. His contract has NO release clause BTW, as those are illegal in Germany. Shitty so so so fucked up , especially as they are not exactly happy with Sane atm, and also want to shop Sterling. Like I always say, I think they make a move for Mbappe eventually. If they do make a move for Mbappe, I would be more than happy to take Bernardo Silva off their hands (bye bye RW issues, woot woot, he would be a fucking MONSTER in Sarriball), and (if Eden leaves) Sane as well, lololol

This is exactly where I am at too. Sarri has had truly a positive effect on both.

Swap Giroud for Morata, Eden doesnt trust Alvaro for shit. Giroud would probably set him up much better.

What a tragedy

A number of points Heinrichs is only 21 and an upgrade on Zappacosta and Pietro Pellegri will more than likely be a special player someday. If we want to have superstars without dropping 100 million quid, we have to roll little dice every now and then. Reece James is a LB, not a RB I hope to hell he can come though and BENCH Alonso soon. Sarri is cray cray when saying Alonso is close to best LB on planet, that is madness. Ola Aina is not a Chelsea level player Christensen wants out, Monaco wants him, I think my 2 for one plus cash is good business long term. Slap a buy back clause in there. I want de Ligt. BAD He will end up being one of the top 3 CB's in the world, and he is super young AND experienced. But, we will not drop the cash as EVERY top 10 club in world is chasing him HARD. I watch our board with CB's. Mourinho wanted Raphaël Varane for years, FAIL Sarri wanted Rugani FAIL Mo and Conte wanted Leonardo Bonucci for years FAIL Conte and Sarri tried for years to get Koulibalay FAIL We went after Stones multiple windows and failed (GOOD, he is mediocre IMHO, I do not rate him) Sarri and Conte AND Mourinho all wanted/wanted Romagnoli for years... FAIL Sarri wanted Caldara FAIL If AC leaves we surely need a CB in to replace him, and Åke is a guaranteed buy with the BB clause, sooooooo thats why I suggested it would be good business probably I DO have others I prefer: Matthijs de Ligt Marquinhos José Giménez Dayot Upamecano Niklas Süle Benjamin Pavard (best value as he can also play RB) Alessio Romagnoli (Sarri's favourite) Kalidou Koulibaly (this will be last summer I recco him, as he will be 28, and we would get only 2 under-30 full years out of him, Poison Dwarf will no doubt want too much (£80-100m) for a player his age. Milan Skriniar Rúben Dias (21yo, so impressed with him every game I have seen him play) Thilo Kehrer (board fucked that up and PSG stole him for only £33m and , like Pavard, he can play RB as well (he has started for Germany there ) and maybe Jonathan Tah (he so intrigues me, he and Rüdiger would be a terrifying duo) Or Nikola Milenkovic (same height as Tah, 1.95m, another huge but pacey beast) BUT none of those are sure things in terms of us winning the buying race and certainly almost all will be more expensive now than Åke would be. Åke is, as stated, a rock solid proven EPL CB, I have seen him play many times, and I would not spit the dummy IF he replaced AC and the AC deal brought us both Heinrichs and Pietro Pellegri. I prefer RB Valentino Lazaro of Hertha over Heinrichs, but if the Heinrichs/Pellegri deal presented itself, well, I wont lose sleep, and we could actually buy both VL and BH, IF/When Azpi leaves (which may be soon or may be a LONG time from now, so who knows), as they are both far younger than him. RB Achraf Hakimi is already a beast at 19yo (on loan at Dortmund) but Real Madrid will never sell him now Look at my favourite player on my site profile. I love AC, but he isn't being played and if he wants to leave, we cant stop him without turning it into nightmare.

Well, I am in good company with Pep and Cruyff! LOLOL

Problem with Dortmund is that they have ome of the hottest players on the planet at LW already in Jadon Sancho and another great young LW in Jacob Bruun Larsen. They also use their LB Raphaël Guerreiro there at LW. CHO would be buried. Look at Willian. He is right footed and is far better at LW than RW. And Eden will obviously be our starting LW whenever he is healthy.

Arrrrf, he is on fire

here comes Conte, lolol