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Rather have put CHO on and saved Puli for midweek.

65 mins in and Kepa has barely had a thing to do.

That's true, but Willian was the better all-round team player.

Vesper posts some. Think they'll be on page 3 or 4 in this thread

Nice to see Werner keep his cool there.

Attracting new fans is crucial to the growth of a club, both here and worldwide. Being known as a dull, boring tram to watch will not help us in any way. Furthermore, grinding put results in today's era will not win you the league in England. Going forward, we've got to find way more flair and creativity than we have at the moment.

Been the case in most games for most of the season, no matter which combination of players we use. Lots of very dull games, so we must be a very hard watch for the neutral fans.

True!l All fans naturally moan when decisions go against their team, but this is fucking blatant bias!

I would like this absolute cunt of a Ref to simply watch the fouls on the Chelsea players which got no cards, then watch the one he gave James and then give an explanation. He'd splutter like a lying MP. Cf

Never mind a booking, ive seen players get sent off for fouls like that by Dinho.

Alonso would have buried that with his eyes closed.

Alonso would have buried that with his eyes closed.

Never been good.

I remember that horrific, shameful, embarrassing display against City in Conte's 2nd season when we went out petrified from the opening whistle. Whatever happens today, at least we are not scared of them now.

Losing to City wouldn't worry me. However, another loss would the 3rd in 4 games, which will be a concern at this stage of the season.

Wanted to add this, but no edit button my phone? Shame Tammy has been frozen out though. Not been great by any means but hardly any worse than Werner. Seems like his days at Chelsea are numbered under TT.

With all the games we still have to play, TT faces the difficult balancing act between trying to win every game and trying to keep players fresh by having to rest players as well. The league and CL are more important, so I'm happy enough with this line up.

Didn't see West Spam losing this one, so a very nice added bonus indeed!

We could challenge without a Kane or Haaland, if the following happens. We get Agueto and he stays fit. Werner improves to about a decent, average level. Tammy stays fit and chips in with a dozen or so. Puli stays fit and plays like we know he can. Kai starts to be more consistent. CHO improves on his end product. Yes, a number of ifs there, but all very possible.

I actually feel a bit sorry for Kane. Great to be loyal and all that, but there comes a time when he must accept time is running out for his chances of winning the major trophies and move on from that shower of shite. Its a disaster for them to not be top four after Liverpool being dire, us changing manager and having strikers who couldn't score in a brothel and Arsenal being as bad as ever. Fred Flintstone is finished as a top manager!

Thanks for that info on Lamprey. The transfer makes more sense after reading that. Think he might well be playing for a top 6 club in a couple of years.

Again, nobody is suggesting we sell James any time soon! Selling Lamprey for a laughable 3 million was criminal! Might as well have given him a free transfer. The only possible reason I can think of for why the club rated him so low, was maybe he's one of those odd players who aren't great trainers and need the match day atmosphere to show their best. As for KDB and Salah. I've read that they both wanted to leave due to lack of playing time, so we let them go.

The standard of German football is probably the lowest its been in my lifetime. Let's not forget that Werner was banging them in for fun but look at him now. As for the CL, that has an awful lot of rank teams in it too. Not saying he's crap, just not worth the money or close to it. Personally, i'd rather take Aguero for a couple of years while we search for a good, young striker at a decent price. Time our scouts (do we even have one?) earned their money and found a player or two instead of lazily going for just another expensive flavour of the month. There's still plenty of very good value for money players out there if you look long and hard enough, as the scouts for the likes of Leicester and Liverpool have shown.

Not worth anything like the money and wages being quoted for him and certainly not suited to the way we play. Having a hot streak in a pretty shit league. Move on and wait for a better value player.

No doubt Rudi ruffles feathers and is a hard, aggressive, giant pain in the arse at times. But who wants their teams CB's to have the character and personality of a Vicar? Take away Rudi's fire and negative character traits and he'd probably have been a bang average championship level player.