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I thought he was dreadful in the first half too, sure he did a decent job capitalising on a horrific mistake by their new CB but overall thought it was his worst ever performance from us and he had to go off Nkunku doing a terrible job for the time he was on the pitch is its own thing. With the benefit of hindsight, he should have brought on Guiu. But lets be real, if NJ had stayed on the field performing as he was, the pitch forks would be out that he DIDN'T make the sub - and people would say he should have at least tried Nkunku. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't!

Jackson was having one of the worst games of his career

We would be relegated with Lampard, come on man, he's not ready for PL and may never be.

Surely at least 1 of the directors have to get fired over the goalkeeper situation. Spent endless money and we haven't got a single playable goalkeeper at premier league level, either in the squad or out on loan. Fundamentally they picked all of those GKs (aside from inherited Kepa situation) and couldn't find a SINGLE ONE in the market. Liverpool have at least 3 goalkeepers I know of that are completely clear of our best GK.

Usually I am in favour of playing NJ for the full 90 even when he hasn't scored, because his confidence is still there and he keeps plugging away and he could still score at any time Today I am happy he is off, looks like a shadow of himself, just wasting time keeping him on.

Sanchez can't even throw the ball man Usually even goalies who are shit with their feet can throw the ball properly

True. At this point we have to say he is an amazing flat track bully and not a big game player. Must be a mental thing. He just can't do the same things with space and time in these games that he does in other games.

Not the first time Madueke played everyone on No concentration, no brains.

NJ's confidence is so shot man

It would be very cash positive for them from a financial fair play perspective, as they would instantly book a huge profit on Garnacho but take on (for this year) only the transfer fee divided by the years of Nkunku's contract, so maybe that might be like £60m in £10m out for the year for a £50m paper profit while being totally cash neutral in real terms (aside from Nkunku costing way more in wages surely). It would be a strange deal for both clubs though - I mean I guess from our side we get his wages off the books as another highly paid player not delivering vs expectations of his salary. I would rather get Chilwell out of the bomb squad to Man Utd tbh, at least Nkunku has some value to us on the field.

We should not be signing any Man Utd player, they've got minimal quality in the whole squad and wont let what little they have go ffs. Anything they're chucking us, given their league position and desperation to turn it around, is going to be a Mason Mount-esque hit and run for a bunch of cash for a hugely overrated player that the buying club will regret forever after. Just stay the hell away. I agree that Diallo is pretty much the only player they've got that has the kind of quality to play for Chelsea. Bruno Fernandes as well, perhaps. Rest of that squad is complete dogshit and they belong where they are in the table - frankly they could finish lower. Because almost to a man it is a desperately poor squad. They need some kind of miracle to even start the turnaround - like some moron paying £60m for Garnacho. No thanks.

Um, I could not disagree more. Chilwell is finished man. His physical qualities are totally gone, and he has no technical skill on the ball. He's an extraordinarily limited player who had his day in the right system (when he was young and had more pace). Basically plays a dead style of football and doesn't even do it well anymore. The good thing about Chilwell is that he's a nice guy that doesn't cause troubles. That is his quality. He has no others.

£50m insane misuse of funds for him, he's not worth any more than Madueke for sure, absolute max is £35m (slightly more than Madueke but ok inflation is real) and wages max 60k In the right conditions of course we could add him to the squad but for 50 fucking million you can buy two very good players with good scouting. Cole Palmer was 40!

If we sign him its to replace Mudryk in the conference league squad, occasional sub appearance in PL for final 10 minutes. I am interested in almost any player at the right price, if we're talking £20m and he's coming in on only a small raise on £50k pw (supposedly his current salary) then why not. If we're talking money that isn't back of the sofa money then it would be mad to sign him.

But no where near as bad as Garnacho! If you dislike Madueke, you will despise Garnacho.

Garnacho is worse in every measurable way, much less of an all round player than Madueke, much more selfish. THAN MADUEKE. Very strange signing if we go after him, only makes any sense if its a mutual backscratch with them buying from the infamous Chelsea bomb squad.

City's business is getting pretty big for a January window - as much as they do need fresh blood, I wonder if this is before a potential transfer ban or something... Get the shopping in while you can.

Dewsbury Hall starting! Got a few players out there that wouldn't look that out of place in a relegation dogfight.

Two main reasons: 1. Have you seen his face? He's got the kind of cunty face that immediately makes people dislike him. 2. He's a low football IQ, extremely technically limited 20 year old, don't we have enough of those already?

Willian won two PLs with us didn't he, only scored 2 goals from 36 PL games in 14/15? I think a team can live with one hard worker who doesn't put out big goal scoring numbers but has basically every other quality you want, indeed it can be good for balance, but the rest of the guys around him need to put out decent numbers. Personally I like him and glad we got him in the squad, one of the best wingers we've had in years and years overall, but he's got to be a piece of a jigsaw and probably not a completely guaranteed starter.

Didn't even realise this guy was still on our books. This club has surely made the highest volume of transfer mistakes (in terms of number of players) over the last 10 years of any club in world football. Man Utd perhaps have spent even worse than us, but not by assembling a 1000 man squad.

Very different situation though, they are facing a situation more like what we faced at the end of the Drogba/Terry/Lampard era, where we had an insane squad that just happened to all be old 'all of a sudden'. We've got a very promising young team that is just supposed to get better. There situation cannot be ignored and it cannot be hoped that it will improve - without intervention, they are guaranteed to continue to seriously deteriorate. I'm sure they knew this was coming but thought they had another season or so. That said I don't disagree that we should be trying to bring in some elite players into the XI asap, just think City's situation was actually far more desperate than ours. January not the best window for that but still, at least 1 - any elite striker or CB we can get ahold of.

Heh, just saw Osimhen is only 4th top scorer in Turkey, 1 goal ahead of Dzeko who is 38 years old. Surely at this point he just sees out his contract with Napoli and then gets a free transfer to somewhere. Unbelievable how bad he + his agent bottled it and ruined his career.

I think there is a lot of recency bias in football, so the fact we didn't score many in the last few games turns focus to that. But the real problem in our team is for sure CB+GK situation. Very good competition for NJ would be the icing on the cake to me.

Mainoo would maybe get a start for our French club. Maybe. Typical over hyped guy because he came through at a big club situation.