Pizy

Apparently he’s pretty poor on the ball and passing. 😕

Ornstein corroborating now. Jesus. Will this kill our interest in Rice next summer? We won’t need two hugely expensive DM’s.

Just watched a comp on YouTube of this dude Alvarez. Looks to be a textbook destroyer. Which admittedly we could really use right about now but I didn’t really get a sense at all of what else he does besides tackling.

I won’t be able to clown United supporters about them massively overpaying for mediocre Dutch league players if we go ahead and do it too. For a dude that’s even worse than mediocre.

I also feel like if we don’t have a deal wrapped up for Gvardiol now with a loan back as Fab reported last night then we won’t get him. It was a genius idea to do exactly that so we’d have our long term defense settled before the summer rush from every big club next year. We could be in a terrible spot heading into next summer off the back of a dreadful season for all we know. So having a super talent like him locked in already will be amazing.

I really like him but over £100m for him? Man, idk…

The idea that we’re going to scramble in the final 24 hours of the window and sign a £100m player like Leão or Neymar is ludicrous. I hope none of our supporters are still holding out hope for something like that. Any attacking players we sign from this point are going to be short term stop gaps. We’ve left it far too late to get a super start/future superstar.

Don’t know how much truth there is to it, but I’m seeing people on Twitter saying Auba won’t even be ready to play until after the World Cup? If so, wtf is the point in us signing him now?

I’d take that, too. Hell, we could use both Auba and Zaha tbh…

I wonder if the club is at least reconsidering the CR7 situation. To buy a striker who will be out for who knows how long when we need him desperate RIGHT NOW just feels silly.

Lot of jealous haters from rival clubs laughing and saying “he’ll be playing for Real Madrid in a couple of years.” We managed to squeeze £100m out of them for 30 year old Hazard who had only a year on his contract left. Imagine the price we’d set on Fofana in a couple of years when he’d still have 5 years on his contract. If he develops into the CB that his talent suggests he’s going nowhere for the foreseeable future. On another note, it’s brilliant that we were somehow able to get him for FAR below the world record fee all the Leicester sources said they’d demand. Will hopefully take some of the heat and pressure off right away and allow him to settle. His every little mistake won’t be accompanied by headlines and criticisms about “the world’s most expensive ever defender.”

Fofana finally confirmed! An actual CB on that right side now! No more Reece shoehorned in there or grandpa Azpi!

It really is crazy that Auba and Sterling will surely be the extent of our attacking signings. Lukaku and Werner gone, CHO gone, Pulisic desperate to leave and shit anyways, Ziyech probably really wants to go and is bang average in this league. Mount and Havertz having a horrific start to the season and look like they’re still on summer holiday. Sterling is the only attacking player we have that we can depend on for consistent, high quality performances. And we’re going to get Auba who won’t even be able to play for a month and then after that will need who knows how long to get up to speed. Unless there’s some shocking, out of nowhere attacking in addition to Auba were in for another few weeks of unbearable attacking displays. And that’s not even mentioning the horror show in midfield…

True. But we desperately need a goal scorer right away. Like, immediately this weekend. We cannot afford to lose against WH or even draw.

You couldn’t fucking make it up. We may get the desperately needed striker and then not even have him available. 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve been thinking about this as well. Another poor result or two in a row and Boehly needs to have Poch on speed dial. Knows how to work in this back 3 system and knows how to coach a team that works as a complete unit. He has to be the guy if things don’t improve drastically in the next couple of weeks.

I still don’t understand it, though. We only lost TWO players. One of which wasn’t even a nailed on starter. It’s not like our team was dismantled and we lost 5 of our best players. We’ve brought in 3 (soon to be 4 tomorrow) very good signings. And yet we have zero spark at all. The bulk of the blame therefore has to fall on the manager. To look at our midfield situation where Kante is constantly injured and Jorginho can’t fucking run and to ALSO know that both are in their last contract year and still decide we didn’t need a top class midfielder is negligence. It’s unforgivable. Likewise entering the final 2 days of the window without having signed a striker and thinking Havertz is sufficient. We should’ve should’ve sold BOTH Kante and Jorginho and rebuilt the midfield THIS summer. And we should’ve identified a striker months ago. Criminal that we didn’t blitz City for Jesus.

Unless a new midfielder comes in during the week it’s back to that horrendous midfield pairing of Jorginho and Gallagher again because Kova isn’t ready still apparently.

An even more depressing thing to think about is that none of the players we’re linked with really solves our issues. Fofana will be a massive help because it takes long past it Azpi out of the team hopefully for good. So we should shape up defensively. But he may take time to settle. And then Auba can’t be worse than Havertz but without a creative player in behind he’ll never even get service. I don’t see any chance at all that we finish top 4 unless there’s a secret deal for a world class midfielder being worked on. And we know there isn’t. The only bright spot of this season so far came against Spuds when Kante totally dominated midfield and we asserted ourselves. Then he picks up his millionth injury in the last few years and we’re a dead team.

Disgusting performance. Worse than Leeds for me. Whereas Leeds played as best as they could and were great, Southampton did NOTHING particularly well and we still couldn’t lay a glove on them. 7 points from 5 matches. Negative goal difference. Just 5 goals scored in 5 matches. Dreadful, turgid football. No ideas whatsoever in the final third. No goals scorers. Humiliating defeats to Leeds and Southampton. Soon to be EIGHT points behind bloody Arsenal. If we fail to win the next match then Tuchel should be in serious danger. This is totally unacceptable with the quality we have and the money we’ve spent.

Oh, get the fuck up you time wasting cunt.

Never mind scoring goals, we don’t even scare opposition keepers. This is turgid stuff.

Havertz just totally useless. My god.

We’ve looked like late stage Mourinho’s Chelsea before he got sacked again. It feels like we don’t even work on attacking patterns in training. Everyone looks like they’re just told to run around and improvise.

Jorginho is a traffic cone defensively. Anyone turns us over and he is literally standing totally still and can’t move. We may seriously need to panic buy a midfielder this week or else Tuchel may not last the bloody season.