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Guy has been wrong countless times and always comes out afterwards like "Oh it was a done deal but something extraordinary happened and it fell through OMG!" Wouldn't surprise me if it is true tho. Just hoping it isn't...

Got to hope it is all media / agent nonsense trying to raise the price Arsenal are willing to bid to get him.

Hard to even pick a good XI out of the group available. I guess Fofana should start and Carney too. Not a single one of our fit CM deserve to play, at CB only Thiago has earned the chance to wear a Chelsea shirt. I guess we should look at Badiashile next to him. Don't even place KK on the bench. Feel for Graham Potter when you look at the players he's got available to try to make an XI out of at this point tbh.

Puzzled by Madueke - doesn't look any better than CHO or the bunch of players we've already got that aren't good enough for the top end of the premier league.

Red card wouldn't bother me if he was a perm signing, but as a loan player it is unacceptable imo. Should be fined to claw back the money.

Maybe I'm wrong but have we ever seen him display that he is not extremely professional? I've never seen anything bad from him from that point of view. He just isn't playing that well and keeps getting played despite it, which is more down to our squad and management (not just Potter) than anything?

I think he should be a squad player for us still, but him starting every single game guaranteed as our no 9 has to stop

It is possible that training has been persistently subpar or a LONG time, given that we played so many games - didn't we play the most or close to the most out of any team in the world in the last year or two? It is quite likely that a lot of stuff that our coaches have wanted to do over the last couple of years has been impossible due to this. No doubt also played a part in our injury crisis. I am kind of hoping we have no European football next year whatsoever, maybe everyone will say I am crazy, but I remember in Conte's title winning year what a massive difference it made. I woke up with the opinion we may as well stick with Potter for now. Club should set a target finishing position with him and if he can't reach it with the lads we're buying in January and the ones we already have then sack him end of season. Feel like another manager right now will have the same problems and still struggle awfully and essentially not be setup for success, would be the beginning of a potentially great journey if they come in with our squad mostly fit at the time.

Money trumps everything in football

A great CM and a great GK would transform us. Probably better just to wait until summer tho and have our pick instead of taking those few who are available rn.

Surely he's got to get sacked now. I honestly think in the long run he could work out but seriously, there has to be a point at which a manager is sacked for bad results and we must be beyond it... That said, some of these players are not playing at a basic professional standard, and that is not acceptable no matter the manager. Avram Grant was a terrible manager but the players still showed up and fucking delivered. We need to sell some players immediately to anyone who will take them.

Ziyech looks good playing in behind btw?

Anyone else past grief, anger, and onto just finding it fucking hilarious?

We need to sign a GK on top of everything else. Pretty amazing how bad this squad is given the money spent.

Btw how much does 3 game ban cost us from Felix? Given his insane loan fee and I assume high wages that must be like £1m lost from that tackle or something idk?

Been a while since I watched the Championship, will we at least look like a good side down there?

Kovacic not able to pass at a basic professional level at the moment, kind of shocking tbh... Guess it shows it does not come naturally to him.

Feel like this is not particularly Potter's fault, but surely he's getting sacked at this point.

We are definitely being punished for sins committed

We'll ruin Felix in less than a month and send him back to Spain, traumatised and damaged goods. Poor guy.

This is true as well. Very good at short passing but very poor at mid/long passes, especially progressive ones.

Hope Potter has a John Sitton moment and fucking loses his mind at these players

We are so bad. Even if we go on to win this. Chalobah and KK both should be up for sale, buy one get one free.

3ATB makes a return?

Agreed would be stupid to sell Mount. No real injury record of note and delivered over whole seasons. Just needs a good team around him and to grow his decision making a bit.