Pizy

Badiashile if fucking dreadful on the ball and getting bullied repeatedly already by Mateta every time the ball is played up to him. Why the fuck is he starting again?

Badiashile starting when Fofana is fit and available multiple times is odd. Anyway, Palace may be in woeful form but they’ve still got some very dangerous players in this XI. If we play our far too frequent zombieball we can absolutely lose to them. With other results going our way and the Arse/United game hopefully doing the same we MUST win this.

Time to stop fucking round playing games with Palmer’s injury. He needs to either have the surgery or be sat for a long, long time until he’s back to himself. This is getting ridiculous at this point. In and out, in and out, never looking close to his best. He’s clearly severely compromised.

He definitely wouldn’t be the same player he was when we had him, you’re right. But he wouldn’t be asked to cover every blade of grass like he was last time since Caicedo would be next to him.

Thing with Kante is that I’m not sure he’d be open to a 6 month loan. He’s just about to turn 35 in a month and a half and will probably want one final multi-year contract with big wages before his career is finished. Don’t really see the benefit from his POV in coming back here for such a short stint as much as I’d like to see it.

Seeing Kante and Caicedo in the same midfield would be the stuff of dreams even if he’s now nearly 35.

Feels a bit strange that all these journalists were briefed a while ago now that a “top” or starting level CB was now a priority in January and things have just gone totally quiet. If the club think Jacquet is too expensive then why aren’t we hearing about an alternative? I don’t want to see Badiashile or god forbid Disasi against PL or UCL opposition, ffs.

Yep, we got our reason for the Douglas Luiz move. Essugo looks like he’s going to be a permanent crock just like Lavia. Both should be sold this summer and replaced with Wharton/Elliot.

What a strange signing. Robertson has looked cooked defensively for the past couple of years.

Forgot about that, ffs. Couldn’t make it up. Also kind of forgot that after that whole huge saga with trying to get his big move to Juve a couple of years ago he went on to completely flop there. The more I think about this the more I hate it. With Essugo now back we have 4 fit midfielders plus Reece and Gusto who we have used in there frequently. So what’s the point of this?

Only explanation is that Lavia had his one millionth setback and won’t play again this season. Rosenoir just said a week or so ago that Lavia was back training individually which was positive but I’m guessing that he re-injured himself. Another body in CM makes sense I suppose or else we’ll run Caicedo into the ground. And there’s no chance guys like Wharton or Elliot Anderson can be bought this month.

I legitimately laughed out loud when I just checked Twitter and saw the tweet. Tbf, if we would’ve signed Douglas Luiz on loan before this season started I’d have said it’s a decent stopgap option. He was solid at Villa. But hasn’t he been completely irrelevant for Forest since joining? In a team that’s not exactly flying this season? What an odd move this would be now.

On the other hand, how many times have we seen Chelsea come up against a team who are in a terrible run of form or in the midst of chaos and provide them with the perfect antidote?

Does feel a bit reminiscent of what we did with Xavi Simons. Agree personal terms, the player has said he wants to come to Chelsea, but now we’re dicking around with the other club on price and end up turning elsewhere. In this case though I doubt we buy another Buonanotte type random no-name but will instead just use Disasi. Which would of course be madness.

A tiny, poor team like this is when you’d expect the likes of Delap to truly show himself. Been totally invisible.

For me, Garnacho is 100% pointless in a game like this. He simply should only be used against bigger teams who try to play and have the ball so he can exploit space on the counter. He doesn’t have the skill or dribbling to consistently beat players. This is the kind of match we bought Gittens for but he’s so wildly inconsistent.

Genuinely feels like he hasn’t tweaked the team at all from what Maresca was doing. We are playing in an identical manor against a super deep, compact team. Ultra slow, sideways, no cutting edge whatsoever.

Hato HAS to bury that. We score there and the floodgates open second half.

Home against a tiny side with little quality and we’re playing walking pace zombie football passing it a million times sideways between the CB’s and CM’s.

Why is Estevão not starting? 🤦‍♂️

If the club “don’t want to block the pathway for our young CB’s” then why tf are they chasing another young CB who ansolutely blocks the pathway for for the current ones? Why not buy 28 year old Senesi for a third of the price and get a good 3 season’s out of him, after which time the young guys will be ready?

Villa are obsessed with former Chelsea players, huh. Linked with Gallagher, Tammy, and now RLC this window.

Man’s got pigeon shit in his hair and we’re meant to accept him as a serious option.

Holy fucking shit, we’re actually going to use Disasi as a genuine option and not signing a CB for the remainder of this season. Good lord. I’d rather us play Reece at emergency CB than him, ffs!

It just stinks of the idiots above Rosenoir telling him “have a chat with Disasi and give him a shot” because it could save them money this month. Or even worse, they’re going to force him to play Disasi a bit to put him in the shop window for other clubs to verify that he’s still available.