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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Hopefully he means this and isn't just playing the diplomat. With our dramatic improvement in attacking options next season Jorginho can be a massive part in helping us dominate teams. Should never be sold this summer.

Our defensive frailty may not rear it's ugly head as often if our attack is dramatically better and more clinical. Someone like Havertz (and Werner and Ziyech) will help us convert our dominance against small teams into goals. As we have seen for the past couple of seasons with Liverpool and City you blow teams away, make them surrender, and they don't get at your defense. How many times this season have we completely dominated terrible sides, failed to score, and then they sucker punch us and win? If you have a chance to after a mega talent like Havertz relatively free of competition you have to grab it. Do we need him? No. But we will have an INSANE selection of attacking talent at our disposal rivaling City or anyone else in Europe if we get him.

I really, really hope Kova can get fit for this. It's going to be another battling opponent. We desperately need Kova's close control and running with the ball between the midfield lines.

Pretty terrible result for Arsenal considering the chances they created and who Leicester were missing. They could've been out of sight if Lacazette scored that diving header. No Maddison, no Chilwell, no Ricardo. That'll feel like a loss to them. Oh well. Leicester still have some tough games left just like us.

Couple inches lower and that was a leg snapper. Lucky kid.

Feels gross cheering for Arse.

Rüdiger + Zouma for the remainder of the season, pls. Zouma dominates nearly every physical duel and we have to trust that Rüdi has learned from his benching now and cuts out the mistakes. Because AC is lightweight and is constantly in danger of getting skint in our own box. Can't take him anymore.

Reece James has that same problem that RLC does. They both have all the physical tools to be monstrous, freak footballers but they are both so nonchalant, loose, and lackadaisical. If they had aggressive, assertive mentality to go along with their physical ability they'd be world class. Also, much as I love Billy and he's one for the future for sure, Jorginho is our midfield boss without question, instantly made a dramatic difference when he came on.

Fucking hell, I nearly had a heart attack in stoppage time. Our defending will be the death of me.

Midfield is completely nonexsistant. They're just easily playing straight through our whole team with one simple pass. We are desperately missing Kante and Kova here.

AC AND Zouma get destroyed by a simple bit of play. FUCKING EMBARRASSING!!

Whoever scores next I feel will win. If they score to level it I think our soft as fuck players will crumble. If we score next we can just shut it down and smother it.

Willian makes it 3-0 and we are on the sofa watching Arsenal v Leicester. Moments later Palace have taken the game to us and our players look like they've been punched in the mouth. Reece and Barkley really need to sharpen up. Both are far too slow and making poor decisions.

That goal has completely killed our game. We've totally retreated and they're taking the game to us.

Reece easily giving it away again...

Courtois (or any tall keeper) saves that quite comfortably.

Reece has been so sloppy since the restart . What a dreadful pass that was. Game on when it should be done and dusted. Ffs.

WHAT A FUCKING FINISH! ROCKET!

Both took sloppy in our passing and also dwelling far to long and taking too many touches. Palace are pinging it around much crisper than we are. They're clearly hungry to get in our faces and make us panic.

Been said in other threads, but where would Jorginho even to? Madrid and Barca don't need him. Juve now don't need him. We'd be idiots to sell him domestically. PSG maybe?

He was one of our players who seemed to really enjoy the managerial change and stepping away from the "Sarri's son" label. Frank seemed to really like him, too. He is one of our on pitch leaders. Now hes not worthy of a minute of football? Despite injuries to Kante and Kova?

Jorginho had started and was a key player nearly every game pre-lockdown. Now he can't even see the pitch for a minute post lockdown. You mean to tell me Frank just suddenly doesn't fancy him? Nah. No chance I'm buying that this is tactical. He has been one of our best players this season. The only explanation that makes sense is that either he himself told Frank or the club that he wants to leave or the other way around. Not buying any other diplomatic answer Frank willl give. You don't just completely freeze out one of you key players like this. Not at a time where you need experienced, veteran pros to see you to the finish line where every match is hugely important. Something happened.

It is indeed a shit load of money, but he is a 21 year old English player who is basically the face of their team. He's always going to have a super premium placed on his head with those factors in mind. If his development continues and he steadily improves (which it should) then you'd have to say he'd be worth it since he'd anchor our team for a decade. But I'd rather use the bulk of our remaining budget, whatever it may be, on Havertz.

Yeah, SMS and Rice are totally different types of midfielders. Rice makes much more sense as a target for our current setup. SMS is awesome but just not what we need right now.

Our new away kit looks like vanilla ice cream with blue sprinkles in it. Love it! That new Liverpool kit is one of the worst I've ever seen, though. Wow.