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Haha that is funny considering he plays this season in training ground for Real 😄

I said this when they were 2nd. Now down to 5th place.

Just 2 clean sheets with him for Milan in 17 games. I think people are over rating him because Romagnoli got dropped for him but that decision looks very stupid now. Milan was 1st on table for majority of first part of the season and now 5th. Losing to Lazio at HT.

And he scored today. Not sure why no one wants to give us at least 15m for him.

Funny how people are mentioning Hazard a lot but not a word about Tibo Cuntois😄

Chelsea have stepped up their interest in Raphael Varane and are willing to pay €70m for the Real Madrid defender. {Mundo Deportivo} I think this is happening. Pretty much Perez confirmed he is leaving and Varane said PL next step. Liverpool already got Konate and Kabak and Utd is apparently focused on Kounde.

I would not do either. His fee would not be more than 10m. 32yo this summer with one year left on contract. Keep him for next season and if he is still performing good in the end of the next season we can speak about 1 year extension if not let him go for free.

In 40 years exactly.

Leeds in the last 6 games faced Chelsea, Liverpool, City and United. Undefeated. Looks like Bielsa finally fixed that defence. Next season could be huge for them. They settled in PL.

Juve can play Super League next season with Real because it seems they may miss out on CL 🙃

Ofc I mean only PL. Believe me I remember every of his open play assists because they are so rare. Last season also just 2. Wolves and Burnley. I don't think people realise how big that stat is. Zero open play assists in the league. That is like Werner having zero league goals or Mendy having zero clean sheets. 12 different players managed open play assists this season but Mount is not among them. Keep in mind position he plays and the fact that he is 1st in team in minutes played. By far actually. Mount 2546 minutes. Werner 2243 Kante 2021 (2 open play assists). Chilwell 1939 James 1917 Azpi 1846 Jorginho 1752 Kovacic 1694 Pulisic 1376 Havertz 1342 Abraham 1020 CHO 999 Ziyech 995 minutes played. All these players managed at least one open play assist. Considering his position and minutes played I think it would be weird if he is 2nd on the list or 3rd. But not only that he is not 2nd, 3rd... He is not at all on the list! Ederson and Johnstone! 2 GKs managed one open play assist this season! But not our attacking midfielder with most minutes in the squad. Shocking! If I continue to analyse his offensive game you may find more interesting stats... Only 8 players have more shots on goal in the league. Kane, Salah, Bruno, Bamford, Mane, Watkins, KDB and Firmino. So he is a bit wasteful there as well. There have been situations where instead of shooting he should maybe pass and make assist. We praise him for corners but he has 118 corners taken which resulted with 3 goals. Chilwell took 26 corners - 1 goal, James 24 corners - 1 goal and Ziyech 19 corners - 1 goal. So in terms of percentage they are all better at set pieces. 6 goals is solid but 4 came against teams that will be relegated and one from penalty. By saying all this I totally expect him to win POTY because he is favourite player for 90% of our fans.

Worth mentioning that Ederson played 5 more games.

Hmm, stats show something interesting. I do not remember but look at this: Torres in his first full season here 11/12: 11 goals 16 assists. (This is from Transfermarkt so they count penalties won but the same goes for Werner). 3040 minutes played. Werner this season: 11 goals 12 assists. 3190 minutes. When people praise Werner they always say assists, penalties won etc... But was the same narrative with Torres? Because this clearly shows that he also did good job there.

Wonder how will ref do here considering UEFA vs REAL war.

@Vesper who is this guy?

You dont think he can play in double pivot? I think with 5 at the back plus 2 defensive midfielders we are way to defensive which limits our attack massively. Put SMS there and this changes. We really need MF like this. Jorginho, Kante and Kova offer nothing offensively. Gilmour will go on loan so we are one injury away from having no player to rotate in MF. Mendy Varane Silva (Chris) Rudiger James Kovacic(Kante) SMS Chilwell Plus front 3. Could be amazing!

For me biggest game since Munich night. So in the last 9 years! We played semi final in 13/14 but after winning two European titles in a row it did not felt so important. EL finals also, we were huge favorites before the games against Benfica and Arsenal. Plus it is not CL. 2 titles in PL in this period but we won them relatively comfy with 8 and 7 points ahead of rivals. I never felt our titles are in danger. And now this! Facing Real for the first time in decades! I think we have good chances, we just need to be clinical. They play tonight without Kroos, Ramos, Lucas, Mendy, Valverde. Hazard still not match fit. COME ON Chelsea! WE CAN DO THIS!

If we get Varane and keep all the guys who are performing great Azpi, Rudi, Silva, Chris. Wonder how our back 3 will look like? I think Azpi would lose starting spot (plus getting old).

It is so unfair how in football in general attacking players always get more praise. We have 2nd best defense in the league. Actually best if you count only Tuchels time. But we are 7th in goals scored. Could be 8th if Leeds score tomorrow. This is why POTY should be Mendy or some defender. Did they did their job consistently good? Yes. Can you say that for any MF or attacker? No.

This is why he has zero open play assists this season.

Lampard won 29 points in 19 games. After today Tuchel also won 29 points. But with 14 games. 5 games to go. He took us exactly at half season. So I expect him to finish around 10 points better than Frank. Should be more, did not expected to lose points against WBA and Brighton. Major difference is defense. With Frank we conceded 23 in 19 and now with Tuchel just 8 in 14 (5 in a game). But goals are still missing. Just 18 scored in 14 games. Arsenal and AV have nothing to play for. And add Fulham. This should be 9 points. LC is another game like today, 6 pointer, we should get result there and who knows we may get something out of City again.

I swear Tammy is still growing.

Just 5. Ridiculous decision. Red card was just 4 mins.