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Jesus Christ, can never get bored with those lads, same stuff since at least 20-something years

On LiveScore as I cannot watch, for god's sake what is going on there…

I think You underestimate how much we got used to being shafted by officials. Studs no studs, doesn't matter. Contact could be light, but what was the point? Will GK react the same to open space vs striker running towards his head full speed and boots up front? This situation is exactly why strikers try tu jump over keepers with legs high up or avoid them otherwise. There's a difference between playing pro football and some sunday league shady bs.

So… How is Kepa doing in training? I think we are in situation, when Mendy could use a little break and Kepa could use a little play. Is Tuchel reluctant to rotate just now, or he is in poor form?

He lacks some agility to compensate for his size, but we all knew this from very first day. Can't really blame him today, as first he was effed up by our own defenders in some crazy judo shitshow and second time by our very own Jorghi. At least he was sober enough to play 10x more dead than he actually was when kicked by Bowen. However due to way we defend (or play in general), fans who are easy to sink players in shit and mistakes he made I'm afraid he is going the very same road to loosing any confidence that Kepa did.

Yeah, so another dragging game, hard to blame Mendy for first goal, rather defenders positioning, Jorgi almost costing us again, terrible to watch, but points are point and league is won with points, not occasional 1:0 with Pool. 100% correct decision on WHU - Bowen tried to be cheeky and ref caught it. Not the first time, as he pushed Cucu after his yellow "foul". You can't touch GK, full stop. Of course, FA will pretend they didn't hear Rice and Moyes ass pain against ref, because they are not Chelsea nor Mourinho, pathetic.

No point in those set pieces, we can as well pass those corners to Mendy

Commentators biased against Chelsea, ref biased against Chelsea? Oh, that's new, lol

I feel like going full overdone tiki-taka against parked bus may not be most viable. Don't we have some simpler moves up the sleeve?

If the club got Mendy, they could probably got Maignan as well instead, for some reason they didn't, perhaps Cech rated Mendy higher. And mix of Donnaruma looking for money move + Raiola to deal with, c'mon…

Yeah, this is an interesting dilemma - did he accept he got the golden ticket from life by having literal boatloads of money being thrown at him for six years for doing f**k at all and living his best life or is not happy at all, as he had true footballing ambition, that ended up in a gutter. And how does he handle being rich and not having to do anything anymore in life vs being one of most hated and laughed off footballers ever? Always intrigued me that he never just took a money and went different way in life, by starting some business or whatever, but stuck to footy and trying to rebuild himself in other clubs (but Chelsea also had a say here I guess). It can mean that he just wasn't capable of doing anything else in life or that he really tried to be decent again, but failed after all. He partially answers it, but still, the interview is done for a reason and he probably aimed to come out with certain image there. Gotta love it. I remember I was rather young lad playing Fifa, when Baba Rahman was in Chelsea and now I'm old prick and he's still here for next 1,5 years. And one could probably count his Chelsea games on fingers during this time. It's like he is an eternal being here, I don't think we should ever let him go.

Hope this guy writes an autobiography one day, I'd be genuinely interested in his outlook on life.

I fully understand the general sentiment of mocking Alonso, but I won't be surprised if he'll be killing it for them – less rigid defense, less pace, more individuality, more carefree attacking? Alonso may be a baller for Spanish league and the've got him for peanuts

What's the point of permanently offloading Gilmour out of everyone? We really should hold tighter to our academy players and we can use every MF possible. Did he demand first team football, fell out with TT or is supposedly so inferior to Gallagher?

Personally happy with that. We are not Bayern, we should look for quality from teams better than us, not scrape the literal bottom of the barrel for anything remotely usable…

Who said we are not pushing? It's not like the business club does is the one reported by random twitter accounts and what they not report is not happening. I'm sure club has an array of options wider than what came to mind of 14 yo spanish "sport journalists".

If we were into going into war with this shit he can as well not pay. What are they gonna do? Footy has seen such move numerous times.

I know people would love to sack everyone as if it was that easy solution, got used to people wanting to change outfield players for equally crap ones, but idea of sacking Tuchel is, for a time being, beyond ridiculous. There is no one remotely capable of taking over, if we can't get Pep or Klopp, just forget it and don't even joke about Poch. We are stagnating partly because we pointlessly start over every two years. We replaced most of players and a manager a few times, yet we are still in the same situation that we were during Sarri taking over. There's clearly a bigger issue at this club, that changing a few faces here and there doesn't fix and doing replacements rather than improvements rarely pays off.

I can't see anyone I'd say did good today, yet I'd add that a) Azpi was spent 1,5 years ago and making increasing number of costly mistakes. Legend, but deffo shouldn't be a sure starter of every single freaking game, so that's more on club not finding replacement. It's like we were starting Cahill every game till today. b) Mendy was by some weird accident god mode for a long time, but imo he is overperforming anyway - he had never been a top keeper or top talent, he's just solid guy, who had been put in shoes way too big for him and that's also on the club for not sorting it out. It was like Cech's "Yeah, actually I knew some guy, let's get him", than top club buying top keeper who fits it. Let's not forget club even registered freaking 40yo Cech at the time. I guess Abramovitch himself was next in line to stand between the posts.

We lost cohesion with ending of prime Fabregas. Hazard did partly fill in, but we lack any playmaking, vision and creativity since then. Until we will find a new creator and leader, who is unfortunately not Jorghi, we are doomed and no 100 mil transfer of 15yo defender will change that. We are just repeating, in a worse of better manner, some play schemes, but without lively playmaking we will suffer forever

Less than a minute to go, Mendy only one to rush forward, c'mon…

We look like we lack skill, but worse, we look like we lack any will…

We make look Soton like top-table technical masters

Nah, seriously, if we won't turn it around now, it's a downward slope from here.

Like the old times - 15 mins we looked reasonable, then we fell apart completely, shambles.