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I have no doubt Shitty goes through, I just want them to have to sweat it out, and a loss is loss in the players' heads. Anything to rattle their air of invincibility they rolled into this season with. I also really like Lyon, they have a great young team, would love to grab someone out of this lot: AMF Nabil Fekir (IF his knee issue that caused the scouser scum to bail outlast minute is truly fixed) RW Maxwel Cornet (was a beast tonight) CMF Tanguy Ndombélé (Spuds had a 50m euro bid turned down) CMF Houssem Aouar DMF Lucas Tousart LB Ferland Mendy

The stuff a girl's dreams are made of. NOT Wish to fuck CHO starts.

Down goes Shitty, woot

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I just had a vision of you sinking a bovver boot into a clayhead at Stoke away, lolol.

I live in Sweden now, I am half Swedish, but was born and grew up in West London (South Kensington mostly) for the most part. I did spend a few years as a toddler and early schooler in Hong Kong, and read for my MBA in New York as well. As for foreigners having a superb command of English from a both a syntaxical as well as an idiomatic perspective, I know hundreds, especially in academia. It's the global language of business and what passes for a global culture (much to the dismay of the French, lol). Using Sweden as a pedagogical example, English is mandated by law to be taught alongside Swedish, as well as a 3rd, actual 'foreign' language.

Good chance to see some great young Ajax players RW David Neres is playing CMF Frenkie de Jong is playings as a CB (super talent too) AMF Hakim Ziyech is playing CB Matthijs de Ligt is carrying a slight knock so is in the stands CF Kasper Dolberg is on the bench https://www.vipleague.bz/ajax-vs-aek-athens-fc-streaming-link-1

I have no idea. He just makes me nervous the whole match. He is the Sword of Damocles of CB's.

Not sure if it was directed at Luiz, but I have seen Azpi PISSED off and correctly barking at players plenty of times.

Leon Bailey FTW. Left footed RW yardie version of Robben. Deadly shot as well as pace. Federico Bernardeschi and David Neres of Ajax are also left footers who prefer RW. My dream set of wingers would be Bailey and Neres on RW, replacing Willian and Pedro, and Chiesa or Asensio plus CHO on LW (if Hazard leaves in January or next summer). Ousmane Dembele is surely off the table now as he has exploded for Barca (as predicted). Mbappe is a pipe dream unless your name is Shitty, Real, or Barca. Malcom would have been great at RW (swap him for Neres above), but we all know the cockup with Willian and the £65m offer from Barca that we foolishly turned down, thus allowing Barca to grab Malcom for only £37m. Vinícius Júnior from Real is a wild card at LW.

If he can't score in this offence, he can't play in the EPL. It's tailor-made for a striker to bag 30 goals. Look at Sarri's past teams. What a disappointment Morata has been.

Tell Hazard to renew. Zero chance he should be made captain if he is leaving in 9 months. He either renews or he is gone. Zero chance we let him go on a free. It that did happen, you know Roman is dumping the club. Luiz needs to be benched and sold, not rewarded with the armband. He is the number one most likely player to cost us multiple points. Every time he walks onto the pitch its a crapshoot if/when he will fuck up. Once the season started I have toned down all other dissent about our players. Luiz is the only exception because he is our worst starter by far (especially if you take Morata off the board). We have 2 potentially WC CB's rotting on the bench (especially AC) whilst shaky the blowout gives up multiple goals off of horrific lapses.

Other than Azpi.(who I would give it to) what oldies? Hazard hasn't renewed, and is gone in 9 months if he refuses. Luiz is shit, I will NEVER accept him as captain, let alone a legit starter. Cahill is soon gone, Willian and Fabregas (if he was 4 or 5 years younger maybe) need to follow. Pedro? No, not captain material. Kante is too nice.

If one group game at home wins the CL, there would be 1000 champions.

watch the scouser twats, top talent on display all around

Dembele is going to end up being a top 5 player in world, ZERO chance Barca sells him, he has EVERY skillset a player can have. Insane pace, passing, shooting.

2 1 Inter!! Vecino at the death doing a dance here!!!! fuck the yid cunts

1 1 Inter, wonderstrike from Icardi. What a player

I don't trust anyone in the press to give realistic numbers when it comes to Euro footie. I look at what it would cost to actually buy players on a team. I think most on this board have realistic ideas. We as a collective have more common sense than any random 50 journos do. Here is a case in point, albeit not about valuations. Shaka Hislop is spewing all over that Bailey is fool to come to Chelsea because he will sit behind Hazard for years. Bailey is a RWer, not a LW, and Hislop also said Hazard will be here for years to come. Unless he can mindread Eden, if Eden refuses to to renew, this is his last year here unless we wind his contract down and let him go on a free in 2020.

Where did you find those valuations? Lets look at AM (who they say is worth only £294m) I will be conservative here: Griezmann would cost at least £120m Thomas Lemar £80m Saúl Ñíguez £120m Jan Oblak £100m Koke £100m José Giménez £90m Lucas Hernández £90m that's £700m for just SEVEN players Doubt me? Try and prise them away for less.

CIES Football Observatory n°233 - 17/09/2018 Economy Transfer cost to assemble the squad: Manchester City at the top http://www.football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/b5wp/2018/233/en/ Manchester City has spent almost €1 billion in transfer indemnities to sign its present squad members (add-ons included). This is the highest figure ever measured for a football team. Issue number 233 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the data for all of the big-5 league teams. Seven English Premier League teams are in the 11 top positions of the table. The biggest increase compared to last year was measured for Liverpool (from €437M to €704M). The Spanish giants (Barcelona and Real Madrid), Juventus and Paris St-Germain (2nd overall) are the only non-English teams in the top 11. The best-ranked German Bundesliga club, Bayern Munich, is 12th. Total transfer expenditure to make up the squad for clubs from the five major European leagues went constantly up during the last decade. In 2010, a big-5 league had spent on average €67M to sign its squad members. In 2018, this figure reached a new record high of €161M. During the same period, the amounts invested to assemble the squad by English Premier League clubs went up from €126M to €326M. Transfer expenditure to assemble the squad (million €)

Benfica has little to fear in terms of being in a 4 way race. In the 84 years of the national league, Benfica, Porto, and Sporting Lisbon have won all but two Primeira Liga titles; the other winners are Belenenses(1945–46) and Boavista (2000–01). Sporting is a hot mess atm, so maybe Braga or another team may pip them for 3rd, but I see almost no chance Benfica or Porto will not win and also grab the CL places.

They had to loan him due to FFP reasons.

No one said we don't need to buy an actual world class striker. Zero chance what we have is close to good enough. I say Giroud over Morata, but that is because the only worse regular on the squad than Morata is Luiz. Neither deserve to be in Chelsea blue. Neither should be here. Both should have been sold. Our board is shit. If they give Luiz a contract extension until he is 34 I am going to lose my mind.

3 different positions. Chiesa is a LW, Bailey a RW, Dybala a secondary/primary striker. We need all 3 players. I think Hazard leaves in the summer. He shows zero signs of renewing. As for striker, Morata/Giroud are not remotely close to CL winning quality.