chippy

Yeah, forget the theworldwide health and economic crisis. He's a footballer and has the God given right to screw an industry out of every pound he can get from it. It just gives a bad impression of football and at a time when there are signs that people are losing interest in football and sports in general.

IHaaland and his agent might be in for a rude awakening when they sit down and ask for that astronomical salary. Such greed in times like this.😭

I'd rather we start thinking out our loan army of players who look well short of the level we need and make room for new players to come in. Connor really looked a very average player in a team that got relegated, so imho he's one of those we should be moving on. 15 mil is a decent price for him.

Palace want Connor Gallagher for 15 mil. Have to be honest and say I don't think Gallagher looks close to being good enough for our first team, so I don't see any point in keeping him here. A club the level of Palace would be a good move for him.

Can't challenge the facts so you once again come back with more insulting waffle that's all just inside your head. So there is no such thing as racism or discrimination towards White people then? Just a few examples for you. What would you call the Labour party having candidate selection policies on women and BAME's? Already the party has nearly 3 times the percentage of BAME people in the UK and Starmer promises to raise that percentage even more. The BBC have said they aim for at least twice the percentage. Once the BLM movement kicked off, the advertising industry decided to hire more black people to front adverts. I had no problem at all with that move because Black people were probably not fronting their fair share of adverts. However, it is very clear that the percentage is now hugely above 5 out of every hundred and that the industry is practising reverse discrimination. You're either against all discrimination, or you are not against it all. As for all lives matter. BLM very clearly do not think white lives matter as much as black lives. Only the other week they were on the march to a local police station after hearing about the death of a young lad shot by police. The march was instantly ended once they found out the lad was white.

These gongs are thrown around like confettti and become meaningless when given privileged people in sports and entertainment. I know a young lad who used to do his shift at work and then go straight to the FB warehouse to do his voluntary work for a 3 hours. It's people like him who should be getting some kind of recognition.

It was instant transformation under TT. From looking completely shot to playing better than ever. It shows just how important man management can be at the top level. Some players need a bollocking while others need an arm around the shoulder. Love to know what TT did to get Rudi playing so well so quickly?

Tammy is always going to look like Bambi on ice, but he still scores enough goals to be a decent enough 3rd choice forward for us. TT has treated him as badly as Lamps treated Rudi.

But he's more of a replacement for Jorgi and it's Kovacic who I want ousted from the side first. Jorgi has his flaws but I can at least see what he does for team. I am completely blind to what Kovacic is supposed to bring. The absolute definition of a nothing kind of footballer.

I must admit I've never seen Sancho play, so I can't even give an opinion on what I think he's worth. I will say though, I've seen and heard quite a number of people say he's hugely overrated and won't be all that in the Premier League.

Agree with that, but why is everyone ignoring the age old problem of Kova, Kante & Jorginho? Looks like we'll be going with a back five and any two from the above three. That leaves us with just three players to create and score the vast majority of our goals and that simply isn't enough!

Smacks of another panic buy. If we can't buy a striker of class, then save our money and spend it on a different position.

To be fair, they are making slow but steady progress under him.

Yes, first black manager in the top division and to this day, still the only black manager to win a major trophy. I have read that Ken Bates was actually a supporter of Enoch Powell, so credit to him for being prepared to put his personal politics aside and hire someone he thought was the best man for the job. However, he loses points for sacking Gulllit over a stupid contract dispute at a time when we were second in the league.☹️

I don't find it depressing because I accept where we stand in terms of how big a club we are. We're a big club, but we are not one of the real Euro superpowers in terms of history and massive support - Utd. Liverpool. Barca. R Madrid. Bayern and maybe Juve. We're in the group a level below those mega clubs.

I don't see James staying at Chelsea if he's going to become a bit part player and moved around in different positions. He's a bit of an odd one to judge at times and ooks better than he actually is. Good, natural striker of the ball into the box but far too often he's poor with his accuracy and his attacking stats are very telling. He might get better, but at the moment he's not doing enough.

After failing to land Conte, Spuds should have taken a punt on Potter, a young, hungry manager with potential who might turn out to be as good as Poch was for them. Fonseca is about as uninspiring as they get, so sometimes I have to feel a little bit sorry for those long suffering fans who never get to see their team even win an egg cup.🤣

Yes, but it's not quite the same level of what Maradona did with Napoli. We'd been seriel winners of big trophies for years who just happened to have a terrible season on and off the pitch the season before. Napoli were a nothing club who'd never won the league before Maradona. He took them to the title twice and they haven't won it since then. Imo, a greater personal achievement than winning the World Cup with Argentina.

Maradona doubled the attendances at Napoli and took them from a mid table team to the league title. That is proper superstar stuff and when a player is worth the mega money! I fail to see how we would ever get value for money signing a player like Haaland.

Couldn't agree more! He gets to make full use of his pace and power in the wide open spaces he's presented with by these joke defences in Germany. We do not know how he'll react to finding himself constantly squeezed for time and space in crowded penalty areas against teams that park the bus. And we're not exactly blessed with midfielders who are capable of putting him through with deft passes. The more I look at it, the worse this deal would be.

I know a fair number of fans want him to move on but I'm glad he stay on and try and to make it at Chelsea. Next season is really make or break for him though. Needs to become a lot more consistent and start delivering end product. If he can do that then he'll have a future at the club, if he can't step up then it will be time for him to move on in the summer of 22. Oh, and a fucking huge no to Christensen being used in any transfer deal! He came on leaps and bounds last season and barely put a foot wrong after the Liverpool game. I rate him and Rudi as second only to Liverpool's best two CB's and easily our best two since the heyday of Terry& Gallas and Terry & Carvalho.

It terms of him ever getting a top job again, it's a long road back for Frank now. His dealing with Rudi, shows he's got a fair bit to learn on the man management side of things. JT is going about learning his trade in the right way and this should stand him in good stead for when he steps into management.

Before Werner had kicked a ball for Chelsea, i saw a good number of posts on forums from people who'd watched a lot of his games in Germany. They were all saying the same things - he's not top quality and misses tons of chances.

There's also other factors that would make this a bad move. The pressure on TT to win the league would be enormous. Basically, it would be a 'win it, or else' level of demand. Way higher level of expectations on all the players. Unprecedented level of expectation on one particular player. Just imagine the media frenzy if he failed to score in his first couple of games. There'd be radio phone-ins just on Haaland. Being Champs of Europe + Haaland will get every other team extra fired up when they play us. It could very quickly turn into a bit of a circus and end up rather messy.

Obscene transfer fee and wages which cannot be financially justified in any kind of way. A financial ball and chain of a deal and completely blowing apart our wage structure like this is another very bad idea.