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So neither a confirmation nor a denial that he's off. Why do I get the feeling that this'll come down to the last moment of deadline day? It's what Chelsea do.

I'm just scared shitless that if a move for Dzeko falls through we'll return to Crouch or Barnes. Shite that would be underwhelming for a relegation candidates, nevermind the bloody champions. At that point I'd just stick with who we have and use Hazard as the striker in emergency situations. It's Dzeko or nobody for me.

Argh. These conflicting reports are frustrating. Some saying he's virtually a Chelsea player pending personal terms while other saying the club haven't even decided if they want him. Get it done, FFS.

Come on. Get him in before our next PL game.

True. But with the side they're building there I'm not sure DDG will feel a huge desire to leave. Especially with all the drama happening at Real Madrid.

So it's not really as close to a done deal as Di Marzio made out, huh.

Seems insane that he hasn't extended yet. Makes me think that either nothing has been offered yet which would be Arsenal-level madness or that he wants to go to Madrid and has refused to sign anything. Can't imagine the club are incompetent enough to let a world class keeper wind his contract down so far without trying their hardest to renew him so I'm going with the latter. So not only will we then lose a top keeper who will be difficult to replace, we'd also probably have to sell him to those cunts in Madrid for a bargain price.

Pretty stupid of anyone to ask a current player of any club about transfer targets. What's he going to say, "yeah, our current strikers are shite and we really need someone new." Of course he's going to say what he said here.

True! 😂 Watford will have a new manager in to lift the mood so they'll probably play out of their skin. West Brom are always annoying as hell. Hopeully Spuds can beat United, draw to Liverpool, and then lose to Arsenal. That'll be my ideal scenario. Think Liverpool are the most dangerous of the 3 behind us so I want them to start dropping points.

Spuds dropping points and apparently have a super tough run of fixtures coming up that coincides with us having what should be easy ones. Great chance to reestablish a small gap on them. The quicker we get in new signings and get them + Barkley settled the better. Crucial few weeks coming up.

The whole point of us being after a striker this month is because Batshuayi hasn't been good enough. Why then would we go after Carroll, Crouch, Slimani and Ashley Barnes? Makes no sense. The English football media don't have a clue. At least I hope they don't. I trust Di Marzio and his colleagues more and they say Dzeko is close.

Okay, yeah. It's officially time to completely ignore everything the English media say. Ashley Barnes? Get the fuck outta here.

Surely as someone who payed for years in the PL he knows how often teams have to rotate. He'll know that he should get plenty of game time. I actually think he'd start more games than people think he will.

The type of striker who will be a total beast to deal with against small teams. Either to replace Morata in games or to play with him. This would be a great acquisition. Really hope it happens.

One of those rare situations where both clubs will emerge stronger I think. United get a world class attacker to add to their already very good set of attacking players. Arsenal get Mkhitaryan who will actually feature every week instead of being abused by Mourinho and they also get Aubameyang who is class. They should no longer be so dependent on Alexis to drag them through games. Think United are now a good shout for the CL just like City are. Annoying as fuck.

Quality of opposition and the form of Hazard and Willian should be taken into account. When he isn't asked to do anything difficult he's fine. When the level of opposition is better and he has to pick out tougher passes and be more than just someone who breaks up play that's the real test.

The hell does that mean?

Better fucking not.

That first half was the best we've seen Batshuayi. Second half he went missing a bit. Just really bizarre that the defense was so all over the shop today. Another day and with a little less luck they'd have scored a couple. Anyways, I'm happy with the result. That combined with a couple of signings by the time we next play will really lift the mood around the club.

We cannot keep hold of the ball to save our lives here.

More abysmal defending that we get luckily bailed out of.

This is just awful, embarrassing defending here. We're making Brighton look like a CL contender.

About the 3rd time a Brighton player has thrown himself to the ground with zero contact and the dumbass John Moss awards a free kick.

That was a obvious makeup call there. Clear foul on Hazard.

The one shining area of this poor run were on has been the defending. Now we look like fucking Liverpool at the back! If we don't score a 3rd before they score we may drop points here. Or worse!