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Holy shit he clattered the post there, hope he is alright

Watching these games just makes me embarrassed on Nkunku's behalf. From being perhaps the best second striker in the world to playing against Shamrock Rovers on a Thursday night.

Video doesn't even bother me that much - when I watched it I had the feeling it is really his Dad is a big Man Utd fan and it was almost like his Dad intentionally wants to start a beef with Chelsea fans, and Mase just looks awkward and doesn't know what to say to him. What's he gonna do when his Dad says it is special - in front of the camera - tell him the truth which is money is the only thing that interests him? Money Mase lost my respect and support when he started to focus heavily on building Brand Mount - he quickly built a hugely inflated ego that needed popping, which surely has happened now. It was evident on the field as much as off it - he strutted around really thinking he was the King and the other players were there to support him. They will surely tear that number 7 shirt from him soon - hilarious and embarrassing that he is wearing it for them. Him hiring a PR company that uses Matt Law as a mouth piece to write pro-Mount/anti-Chelsea articles was the final straw that left him totally dead to me. Basically directly taking his Chelsea wages to pay a known journo to slag us off - talk about biting the hand that feeds you. I honestly think the fans and club were both very good to him and he spat in our face out of pure, undisguised greed and arrogance. Fuck him.

Wait and see what the story is I guess. My gut feel is that Mudryk does not need or want drugs to get an athletic advantage. He's an athletic freak naturally. He does seem stupid enough to take something without understanding what it is though. Who knows. On the plus side, from what I recall about the financial rules, in extraordinary circumstances you can write off or heavily write down money spent, from a book keeping / fair play perspective. So its likely the outcome of this is that we will go from a situation where Mudryk barely played but was down as a large FFP cost to a situation where he doesn't play at all and is totally written off from a FFP perspective. Obviously Boehly & Clearlake will be out of pocket in real £ terms though, even if they go after Misha they will never recover anything significant... But I doubt that, as fans, this will impact us really at all in any way we'll notice...

Colwill needs to improve a lot at the defensive side of the game, but he is only 21 so it feels pretty normal. He will become quite a player in his mid 20s I imagine. If we are patient with him... I find him as exhausting as Sanchez personally but still think they are the best options we have in the squad at the mo on balance.

Pretty great that people feel the need to have the debate though! For myself I find the whole conversation about whether clubs are in the race or not a bit silly. One can argue the whole top 6 or so are involved in the race still as plenty of games left and the gap to #1 is small in that context. It is just kind of meaningless. We shouldn't be building expectations a club should win something in the near future unless they have a history of winning things in the recent past. We could win the title this year but it is not a likely scenario compared to, for example, having a blip from an injury crisis that drives us down to 4th.

I said who is a clear upgrade on him, rather than just someone that could in truth just flop and end up being worse or perform at a similar level. Haaland is the only name I can think of that would be pretty much guaranteed a big upgrade. Can't really think of any others, but who knows. Very few elite number 9s these days, but I could be wrong of course... Feel free to suggest some names. I don't see Osimhen for example as a clear upgrade, rather he would be a huge gamble that could have huge upside or be a total disaster.

Agreed. He does miss some annoying shots but all of our great players did, people just forget... Not many clear upgrades on NJ in the world. Haaland and who? I do think we are short up front because Nkunku has not really banged and at any rate is not really a proper 9, and if NJ gets injured or has AFCON we will be short. But as competition / rotation for NJ, not replacement. He's one of the most promising signings we've made in years and only 23.

Either Duran or Samu would have been good additions to the squad to compete with NJ but this thread was filled with endless pages of people raging about either

On the other hand why mess with a team that is winning? I would keep any purchases minimal personally, unless we see unique opportunities... Who is going to sell us a world class CB or GK in January? Also, why are you calling them Clownlake? We are second in the fucking league under their management right now. Mistakes in the early days were under Boehly and since Clearlake kicked him out of the driver's seat and really took charge we've seen a pretty serious turnaround...

He for sure is the one player I would hate if I were an opposition fan... Proper wind up merchant. I kind of like it and I kind of hate it. Glad he's at least our cunt, and not someone else's. He is a dark art merchant. Arteta would love him.

Cucu got a red card? What happened?

Just seen Caicedo's little mini moustache up close Not a fan

Colwill is our biggest problem tbh Worry about him more than Sanchez, unpopular opinion as it may be. In a normal club he'd be out on loan for the next 2 years.

Thank god we didn't let Liverpool get Caicedo

That aged well

What the hell were our defenders doing, just abandoned Tosin to deal with like 10 players

lmao nj i love you bro but come on you got to score that

As usual, expect them to get worse from tiredness in the second half. Plus they have to chase the game now. We really run people ragged. Committing war crimes out here under Maresca I swear. They'll learn to fear this team.

I don't see Palmer leaving tbh, as long as we are at least respectably competitive in serious competitions and treat him right. I think he is absolutely loving life here and is genuinely thankful that we backed him when City didn't and have given him the big break he was fighting for for years. And the group around him is probably pretty much his dream setup. At least that is the vibe I get from the guy. He just wants to play and get some chippie chips. How's he going to do that in Spain? Can you imagine him eating Spanish food? Or trying to learn the language?

Funny how some posters on this forum have disappeared now that we're winning. Like they relished in our failures and hate the fact the project is starting to work. Always wondered how many posters on football forums are opposition fans being wind up merchants...

So long as people keep paying they wont change Cancel your subs boys. Best decision I've made in years.

One week of training only in clown shoes and fined a weeks wages seems reasonable to me

They only came to fly tip, probably finally emptied their pockets

Also something needs to be done about the Spurs fans behaviour. Throwing items on the pitch and nothing is done. So many solutions to this problem. One of the most obvious would be that clubs get fined for not removing people from the ground promptly if they do this. If they do it repeatedly force them to play in a stadium full of opposition fans.