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Sums us up pretty well.

Billion spent to assemble a team that could maybe compete on U21 level and I'd still love to know what was the brilliant masterplan in downgrading the keeper from already not good enough one.

Villa lost to Legia Warsaw this week, if we are below Polish league level, we should get willfully relegated to 4th tier

Absolute shitshow and disgrace, just get out of my club

What's surprising about this? We were useless to score in game to be won for an hour, so being down to 10 men means we are desperately holding for a draw now. I don't see any bigger idea in this team unfortunately, back to Potter times again.

Anyone still wondering why we need experienced players between those kids? That's why, we are done now.

What is up with those sketchy offsides? We don't need to be shafted by refs if we can't score anyway.

Villa collapsed completely, we can't capitalize on it for our lives

I don't doubt it, however it boils down to simple thing - on lower level, anyone with quality gets a priority, doubt any manager could afford benching competent Chelsea player if he was actually able to change things on the pitch. If he isn't playing, it means we overshoot the level of club we loaned him to and this level is not super high. Another blunder by the footballing department I guess and If there were no other options, it leads me to asking for 40th time in recent time, what is the point of us even having the reportedly world-class academy? Training with Chelsea staff and playing in development squad is still better than playing 30 mins of Championship football in span of the season.

Says a lot about clashing of the exciting talent buying strategy vs reality though. People were fuming they are not starting for us, meanwhile they prove useless for teams two divisions down so far. Should have kept them in our academy team, if they are not playing actual football anyway, I think our training base and staff is bit better, than Forest's or Reading.

Don't give me hope man…

Hard to grasp how abysmal they must be playing to be hanging at 2:2 with Polish team. Our league exist mainly to supply content for out of context football compilations. If they will proceed to plow through us, it means we are done.

Nah, don't fall into the injuries excuse trap again. It's not like whole Potter circus, our last year's result and this year's performance is due to James injury, yet there are some people who want to believe it. Yes, the injuries are taking the extra edge off us, but extra edge is nothing, given we don't have foundation. If it was two keepers with broken bones, yeah, sure, but it's not like this team relies, or rather should rely, solely on James and completely PL unproven and unknown player in form of Nkuku, who we somehow trust to put out prime CR7 numbers from the get go. Otherwise we just lack depth and miss out on developing players / losing money (Fofana) now. Looking at this, we wouldn't be anywhere near Top4 even without injuries imo.

3 minutes, lol, Angry Rantman can only look in disgust on this.

How potential sales of those freshly acquired players on long contracts would affect our FFP? I remember the post saying our owners were pretty much replacing Dodger's players all the time, but it's hard for me to think that we will see much transfer activity in a few coming windows as it's hard to pull this off in football. They just "paid the fines" there, but here fines are not just financial, but transfer and cup bans, so that's way more serious and let's be clear, if we will be fined, it will be the upper bracket of fines possible, because Chelsea. I could understand two or three players on unusally long contracts, but since we are stuck with all the players on 5+ years contracts, it means club must be even more clinical with those moves and they must turn out good. Is it even realistic by any means? Well, don't ask me… Perhaps Cucu and Silva and maybe Chalobah are on their way out, but either it's Toney, Oshimen or Brighton's 9th choice striker, it would be an addition to already bloated squad unless we are letting Broja go, and perfectly repeating the catastrophe of previous season with dozen of players for each spot. I don't see Mudryk or Noni going out in next two windows, not even mentioning what if, knock wood, Caicedo will not really take off…

Yeah, heatstroke, I was thinking about totally different club 🤦‍♂️ Fair move then, I guess. BTW Not even joking, sun exposure for too many hours is serious stuff, the brainfog is real.

4 games into season, they are 3rd, either they have good replacement lined up or we aren't most trigger happy club after all

Geez, we seem to treat those guys like a sack of potatos, Lamps flashbacks again. Long-term injuries, picked up during training is the most pointless kind of them all.

I really keep fingers crossed for him to succeed, but this whole piece sounds worrying and it's more about the club, than Mudryk himself. The quote can be very well be said about Gallagher, who is already crossed out by most of people, as well. Being a great athlete and having great mentality and workrate is very welcomed, but being basically not very good footballer at the same time is quite tough issue to overcome at this level. I know the new ownership likes buzzwords, but it's surprising they seriously decided to settle on "potential", as while potential is nice bonus to have, it doesn't solve shit in practical terms. Literally every player, who went through the U15 trials must have had potential in him. But there's a whole abyss between potential and an actual elite skillset. And this particular one comes as one of the least researched and most "spontaneous", to put it lightly, of club's transfers in recent time. Reading between the lines, the picture is rather grim here - The jump from Ukrainian league (and game of his life against Celtic or RB) is enermous, his head is clearly with his homeland (understandably so), player not really settled in England, feeling alone, homesick, passing the time with gym and video games is known beginning of many sad football stories, so I hope he will come good out of this and club will make an actual effort for him to do so.

That's obviously true, but there is balance to everything - time is priceless so it needs to be spent wisely. IF there is clear plan and visible chemistry, mentality and work being put in, sure, let the manager cook as we can see the effects and see something is improving, despite lack of results and it's reasonable to swallow a sub-par season for sake of long-term quality. People hated on Sarri, but surely he knew what he was doing and implementing it with iron consequence. But all the times I can remember we have famously not given the manager time were rather the opposite - the group downing their tools, manager apparently completely out of ideas, falling apart between players and manager/board, and stagnation or regress in terms of football played, not even mentioning the results. Just coasting on neutral gear for half of season. Hardly any point to be stuck in such situation. It was especially visible with Potter as there was absolutely no signs visible as from where he should take the means to turn things around. I can't recall any example where things were looking terrible and hopeless for years and then one day suddenly the team goes god-mode, because the manager's idea clicked. I'm still holding out any opinions on Poch as we are like two weeks in, but with current rebuild the main objective was to replace the indifferent mentality and build a proper starting point for Rocky-like process of development our game. As for today, I can't really see this mythical "hunger" that was quoted million times by fans and owners alike and any incredible shift in mentality or workrate of the team and that's worrying, but we will see I guess.

Top stuff that everyone wanted Alonso out for years, yet we still haven't made any improvement over him, rather opposite, and it turns out every two weeks we could really use Alonso 😂

Not like he dominated the PL and achieved everything possible to "Want a challange". Of course, he is trying to walk himself a permanent move and this loan is good for him and could be good for us, had we gotten top GK, but Lunin is decent and Courtois isn't really going anywhere, so if it won't work his return will be awkward AF. Hopefully he will made himself good PR in less demanding goal and we will be able to move on, as however pity, I don't really see much future for him here.

I think he was sold the same concept as Potter - that he will be held accountable in 2 years or so, trust the process, work with talents etc. But they somehow miss the fact that fans are blood of the club and the scrutiny will come much sooner. Had there been no fans and some non-Britain-first media outrage that went out of PR control, Potter would still be here. I'm afraid he was sacked by Twitter, not the board, that doesn't put the decisive people in greatest light.

Well, don't know if it's actually true, but it's just as worrying as the Foo Fighters physio. This is based on what? Absolutely arbitrary number that looks good on paper. Lord help us if entire transfer strategy looks like this. Doubt there is science proof that 25 yo is like peak potential for footballers, they are not U21, with 8 year contracts they are 33 when it runs out anyway. It's 25 because not 24 nor 26. We may be frustrated with dud transfers, but I'm afraid that given bigger picture, the transfer business is like least of the issues at the club.

Because Mamardashvili was not the pinnacle of all football bRiGhToN player I guess