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Forest’s tactic of just parking the bus and launching long ball’s up to their big striker in hopes that he gets on the end of them has bitten them in the ass. You can only do that for so long. As I said, United will likely win this comfortably. You just know that this big #9 is going to be a handful probably bully our CB’s when we play them next weekend… 🤦‍♂️

Seeing the way the match is now going I think United still win comfortably. They’ve literally had 90% possession and Forrest can’t get out of their half.

Think they’re asking for £50m+ for him which I’m not sure we’re going to spend on whichever attacker we get at this point. We’re probably going to try for another “value” signing like Jackson.

The way Poch just described what he wants (a forward that can play anywhere across the attack and not an out and out #9) sounds like he desires basically a like for like Nkunku replacement. That doesn’t sound like Cherki at all, sadly.

He’s absolutely relentless. His pressing, running of the channels, and holdup play are spectacular. Few sloppy giveaways where he tries to overcomplicate things but he’ll iron that out. Just think, we paid what £32m for him compared to the £70m+ that United paid for Højlund who has showed even less at his previous club than Nico did.

Finally a W. If we can just play the ball quicker we look so much better. Sterling finally looking like the player we hoped we bought. Looks like a man on a mission to prove his doubters wrong.

Gallagher plays SOOOO many of those square hospital passes.

Chilwell could’ve put it ANYWHERE and scored there!!!

Btw, this is the match where Nkunku’s absence is most keenly felt so far. He would be amazing in this sort of match. Depressing that he got injured when he did. He and Sterling in this form on opposite sides would wreak havoc.

Don’t think Conor has been bad per se, but if we had a genuine creative gem in there instead of him like a Cherki we would look SO much more dangerous. We look so neat and tidy between the lines and in the buildup but then we look dead in the final third. We need a creative spark badly. This is the worst opposition we’ll play in the league this season and other than high possession stats we didn’t trouble them nearly enough.

Poor overall. Luton look way too comfortable out here. We should be relentlessly creating and attacking.

Gusto doesn’t look confident or composed on the ball in a Chelsea shirt yet. Needs to keep building it up.

Ordinarily I’d also be raging about using this back 3 system once more. But this is Luton. We should be smashing them regardless of system. If we struggle to score here still or God forbid lose I’m going to be seriously worried about this teams mentality.

Yep, the Tammy injury recently has completely fucked them. So I guess Jose and their owners have decided that rather than going out and buying a new striker for tens of millions, the loan fee + his huge wages are still cheaper than that. Just hope he performs well enough for them or someone else to finally take him off our books for good this time next summer. Because if he fucks up at Roma I don’t know what we’re gonna do.

Ivan Toney is nowhere near an £80m striker and we’d be insane to pay that. Even in our current era of dramatically overpaying for players that would be crazy. Think £45-50m for an established English striker would be fair. But for £80m you should be looking at a truly special footballer which Toney ain’t.

If we don’t win this and do so in convincing, stylish fashion then I’ll start to seriously get concerned even though it’s match day 3. We should be imposing our will from minute 1 and trying to get Jackson on the score sheet.

Unless we get an ironclad obligation to buy a loan just fucks us over once again. Next summer he’s a year older and if he plays like shit on loan he’s even harder to shift than he has been this summer. And it has already been nearly impossible. He has burned every bridge possible. Pissed off just about every club he has played for and also pissed off numerous clubs that he hasn’t played for. Next summer our options could come down to Saudi or terminating his contract. And this asshole could really fuck us over yet again by refusing Saudi another time. So a straight loan to Roma is a poor outcome even if they pay his whole salary.

Better not see the back 3 again. During this run of a handful of winnable matches we need to build comfort and chemistry with a back 4. The back 3 should only ever be used again in emergency injury situations.

Yeah, I rethought it the second I posted it. 🤣🤣🤣 Now that Carney is out we probably need Gallagher. Until Lavia is caught up with the rest of the squad fitness wise Conor will probably play as the most advanced midfielder tomorrow. What I’m not getting is how Ugochukwu apparently surpassed Santos despite only getting a handful of minutes so far. Because I thought Santos showed very well all preseason.

I mean, it’s a very solid loan for Andrey if he actually plays week in and week out. But I’d rather have kept him around than Gallagher tbh.

Nice. No chance that we can panic buy him now. Now we have to hope we don’t do something equally as stupid and pay £40-50m for Brennan Johnson. Feels like one by one the creative/attacking targets we’ve been linked to are going elsewhere. Which is positive in my eyes because it could actually make the Cherki move likely.

Poch did again mention this morning the idea that he wants the attacking signing to be “PL ready.” Who knows if that means figuratively (as in he wants someone physically strong enough to fit into the PL right away) or if he literally means he wants someone who already in the PL.

What “clear and defined role” would he have at PSG with Mbappe and Dembele there? Maybe next year when Mbappe is gone.

Nope. There really aren’t any links that are heating up for any particular attacker right now.

I mean, Cherki is that player.