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Mbappe - Real Madrid Pogba - Juventus, PSG, Real Madrid Kessie - not expecting creme de la crem teams for him. Maybe Newcastle. Dembele - Newcastle or Bayern Dybala - renew Insigne - Toronto Brozovic - renew or Newcastle Rudiger - Real Madrid Belotti - some Italian team Sule - PL maybe And many other players as well will be free agents... Romagnoli, Ginter, Corona, Kamara, Zakaria, Lingard, Cantwell, Tarkowski, Di Maria, Luiz Felipe, Onana, Isco, Sergi Roberto, Tolisso, Origi, Bernardeschi, Bale, Witsel, Modric, Lloris... Newcastle will grab many of them! If they stay in the league.

Just like Saul...

That is already happening. Rudiger, Silva and Christensen played more minutes. Chalobah around 100 minutes less but this is only because he got injured. So Azpi is basically number 5. And if we get Kounde for that RCB role really can't see a place for him. Rudiger, Azpi out De Ligt, Kounde in

It is great that we won CL and have another shot this season because Madrid dominance is coming. Vini Jr. Benzema/Haaland Mbappe Will be unstoppable. They are so good this season but under the radar. Also Simeone cannot really justify his big salary anymore. It is time for a change.

Inter top of the table after being 7,8 points behind. They will win title again, Conte should have stayed.

Only MFs in PL recent history who had seasons with double digits in both goals and assists are Gerrard, Lampard, KDB, Bruno and Eriksen. Some come close like Dele, Yaya... But many of these players are classic AM. Conor is CM which makes it even better. I really think he can be that new Lamps, Gerrard level of player. Maybe this season he wont reach that especially 10 assists but he is still 21yo it will come with time. So excited for his future here.

Mount is playing as an attacker, CG is MF. Cannot be compared really.

Conte will wipe the floor with others in top4 race. Normally it would be 70-30% for United but Conte makes every team 30% better so I think Spurs. And it would be nice set back for United to miss CL.

@ZAPHOD2319 Hawaii impressions?

What is Tuchels preferred formation anyway? Not sure he has any. He looks like a flexible manager who plays to players strength. Because he changed it in every club. So this is why I dont know what to expect for the future. For example with Frank we knew he likes traditional DM and eventually would bring one (Rice) and drop Jorginho. Conte and Sarri were also open books about their style. People are often speaking about Rice, guy from Monaco, even saw Casemiro links the other day but not sure TT is feeling the same way. In Mainz he had Polanski, after that Weigl and in PSG he introduced Marquinhos as DM. SO no one here is very physical player. He wanted Jorginho for PSG. Him changing it to 3atb here is I think more down to our CBs than anything else. And many Chelsea fans seem to forgot that defense can still be great with 4 atb system. Even with Sarri was very solid apart from 2 games. Will Tuchel switch to 4atb here at some point? If yes, what is preventing him now? What does he need? New CBs? How would Kounde and Gallagher fit in our team as I expect them to be here next season.

So CL last 16 first leg will be played on 15th/16th and 22nd/23rd February. Our CWC final is on 12th so surely they will put us to play on 2nd week?

Thing is that with Lukaku I expected him to score around 25 goals in all competitions this season but still not to be happy with him after all. Because this is who he is. But he is not even fullfiling my lowest expectations...

Played just 3 minutes. Not fair to focus on him. We are shit either way.

Yes.

25 games into season and again he is on top with 6 goals. Ridiculous.

Play 4231 with him as AM and build team around him. He played in this role just 5 games last season early on and it was very promising. Krasnodar, WBA, Palace, Southampton and Barnsley. In these 5 games we scored 20 goals with him having 4g 3a. After that he got Covid, Lampard changed formation and the rest is history.

We needed two actually 😂

We scored 7 goals last 3 games and only because of luck got one win today. If our defence was on previous level and kept clean sheets or even concede one goal in every game we would got all 3 wins. I agree those 3 players are under performing big time but it's essential for us to be solid at the back again because once we were we looked like title contender even with attacking players under performing.

At some point next week only Chilwell will be out so one injury cannot be excuse.

I said we had good run with CHO not that he should start. And no, I don't think Havertz should start either. I don't have any agenda, we have 7 players upfront for 3 positions. Ones who deliver should play. Simple as that. I said Werner should start today because he delivered against Zenit. I also said Mount was our best player against Watford and WH. But last 2 games he didn't deliver except tap in today. Main issue is that Ziyech got dropped for no reason. Against Everton for example Ziyech and Pulisic should be sure thing. 3rd spot between CHO and Mount.

5 bad games in a row. Embarrassing, nothing to celebrate here.

So are you worried? They did not produce anything. First goal was all Alonso and 2 pens won by Rudiger and converted by Jorginho. On the other hand Ziyech produced in every of the last 6 or 7 games he played and did not start last 2 games. Absolutely mental from TT. Our good run was when Ziyech and CHO played.

All are back next week.

Dennis from Watford is younger and have even better numbers in weaker team. Plus Raphina scored many goals from pens.