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because he isn't good enough, we were insane to not take Barca's £65m for him and at least bought Malcom (they only paid £37m for him) or better yet, Bailey (do not care if he would have cost £70m to ram it through, that's only £5m more net spend, and I think £65m would have done the deal)

I agree, BUT here is the huge problem Sarriball doesn't use a DMF destroyer role at all, the other 2 MF'ers (Jorginho si the DMF deep holding player, think Busquets style at Barca) BOTH need to play advanced roles Kante is a victim of the system I got SMASHED for saying this before, but he just seems a fish outta water in his new role, for the most part We have committed to the new system 1000000000000% I do not know where that leaves Kante He may become £125m luxury player who is force-fitted into a role that doesn't suit him at all Like I said 100 times before, we have a CRAZILY complicated team situ from every angle (ownership/political nightmares, stadium crashout meaning huge revenue drop future-forward, upcoming FIFA loan changes, Brexit rule rewrite on foreign players, deadwood, poor starters at key positions, critical positions, etc)

I would have MUCH preferred a complete swap out team draw/loss v PAOK (it was AWAY as well) and this game a pikey face-smash blowout. We could have easily overcome a PAOK draw or loss away and moved on in the EL. 2 points in EPL are PRECIOUS given the state of our competitors.

Full stop disagree mate, he was horrid today, sorry, and I am one of his biggest FANS, in fact, I almost changed out favourite player from AC to Jorgi, as AC is getting the Luiz/Conte treatment (almost)

I picked Kepa as MOTM, as at least we kept a clean sheet and he had a decent game, a few crucial saves. Barkley 2nd (would have easily been MOTM IF his shot had gone in) Someone picked JORGINHO NO CLUE what game they just watched!! LOL Easily his worst showing since joining.

Extraordinarily poor player/bench/sub management by Sarri, and it has set us up for big trouble dead ahead. had nothing to do with Luiz even, lolol. Our MF is burnt out already, Alonso looked gassed. NO CLUE why Cesc wasn't used, same for Barkley (should have started) Hell, I would have not minded giving Moses a go at RW (as Pedro was out) Moses ALWAYS brings energy at least, Willian was shit, is shit, will be shit Jorginho should have been rested, and put Kante back at his normal (old) DMF destroyer role Play wide ball, feeding Giroud with 20 crosses This game is the PERFECT example of all my rantings about transfers, sales, and bench decisions (add in starting issues too, today) I do NOT type for my health, I have clear foresight on this shit

Lipstick on a pig, at least we didn't lose (we should have, Yarmolenko so fucked up a sitter)

Rudiger, until injured, Kepa, and then Barkley cameo were only remotely oki performances, all the rest (Cahill I will admit made no mistakes) were VERY POOR.

blääääääääääääääääääääääää if we play like this versus LPool, we are soo soo soo fucked

Not the point. Options should have been there. I see no point to Cahill even being on the bench, as, like you said, he is gone soon. A minor quibble hopefully though compared to rest.

I gotta say, this has been (all round) Sarri's first poor game so far, he got bench, starters, tactics all wrong, sorry, I call it like I see it

we are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo lucky with that miss

Why the fuck was AC not on the bench? OR Amps. FFS!!

Dog help us, Cahill and Luiz as our CB's, SMDH

SHIT, Rudi hurt!!!

No service for shit to Giroud, need wide crosses

Rudiger is a beast, but a bad play by Luiz yet again forced that. So tired of saying this.

Willian's passing has been atrocious all game. TBH, whole team has been way off. i HATE sloppy passing along CB's ball watching/bad positioning the most.

This game SO shows why we need to BUY BAILEY in January, sod the cost at this point, we can fund thru sales!!! I would bring Pedro and Barkley in at HT. Also, if we had him, CHO for Eden at 60, 65 minutes (we need a fresh Eden for the scousers), BUT CHO, again, is not even on the bloody bench, grrrr

Wilian, Alonso, and Hazard are slowing play down way too much in final third. So is Kova and Kante.

One of the first times in ages I can say he looks tired.

Great summary. Fully agree. Lack of rotation appears to be catching up fatigue wise. Scouser cunts dead ahead on shit rest. Eeeeeek!

Drinkwater is perfect Noble upgrade for the pikey twats.

Whole squad looks tired. We dodged a bullet with no Arnautovic.