Pizy

Come on, Bats. Score a couple here.

Yeah, was just gonna post about that quote. I just watched his latest press conference and he again moaned about us without having the balls to directly name us. Every week he seemingly moans about fixtures congestion and how "some teams" have so many days to train and for the coach to get his ideas across to their players. Well, José, we wouldn't be in this position if you had done your job well. I really do hope like hell that they miss out on the CL again this season. Another year of PL + Europa League + the other domestic competitions would be hilarious for them. José might actually cry.

Money doesn't really matter. Even his age wouldn't be a huge deal. The Oscar money would more than cover it and if we get a good 3 seasons out of him in his prime then it's worth it. Especially if he contributed to a title win this season. Not that I believe any of these reports. Too good to be true.

Yeah, to me Forster is a big, immobile lump. Not a top class keeper. Courtois is pretty irreplaceable with a like for like keeper in terms of quality right now. Anyone we'd get in will be a young keeper who can one day reach his level. Which is why it's imperative that we convince him to stay. I wasn't really bothered about him going over last summer because he was coming off a poor season. This season he's back to being his world class self and has improved his distribution and ball playing abilities under Conte and the new goalkeeping coach. Too good to sell.

Every month or so the rumors about Courtois leaving flare up again. I'm not believing a word of it now. I think he's happy here now when maybe he wasn't before. If we win the league he's got no reason to leave and he'll probably be offered a new deal he can't say no to.

Imagine if we now go and strengthen the squad by the end of the month. Just a piece or two and I don't think there's any looking back.

It's like we expected them to give up after conceding so late in the first half. Instead, they came out and did the opposite and took the game to us. We have no controlling midfielder who can take the game over and settle the side down with Matic and Kante. Cesc is the only one who can do so in our squad which is a problem. We also weren't helped by the fact that the ref called every ticky-tack foul against us and we got none ourselves. I was fucking raging! Every time one of our players would lightly graze a Hull player Swarbrick would blow his whistle. This may seem odd to say considering we're 8 points clear, but we could REALLY do with a midfield signing.

One of our poorest halves this season. We just let a fucking awful Hull team completely dominate the ball and they were winning every 50/50 tackle. Fabregas coming on completely changed the game (again!) and we took control from there. HUGE improvement needed next week.

Get Cesc on, FFS!!! We can't get a bloody touch!

Our attacking play was decent and we were popping the ball around nicely. Just hard to break them down when they park the bus like this. Hopefully Diego's goal will have demoralized them and they'll drop a level.

No Snodgrass. That's their biggest goal threat from both open play and set pieces out. Embarrassing if this is anything but 3 points.

At the same time, these small teams with very little talent love to pack the midfield with as many players as they can in order to make it difficult for the big sides. Fabregas may be overrun. Would like to see him start, though. Perfect sort of opponent to use him against.

Conte rates Courtois as the best keeper in the world. Said so himself numerous times. Weve sold players who weren't even in the first XI for mammoth fees so imagine the sort of bid it would take for Madrid to buy Courtois. Chelsea won't be bullied by Real Madrid. Even if he himself wants out we hold all of the power and can demand silly money.

I have absolute faith that Conte won't allow us to do what Liverpool did today and completely overlook Hull at home as if it's a banker. Hopefully our players treat this with just as much importance as the Liverpool match next week. They shouldn't be able to live with a focused and "at it" Costa and Hazard.

Unreal.

Must be infuriating as a City fan this season. You see them perform like that and like they did in the first half against us and wonder why they can't play like this all the time. Like United, though, their finishing is abysmal. They have all these super expensive, high quality forward players and still struggle to score. It's kind of shocking and could mean that Spurs can easily pip them here.

I'm hearing Yaya's lazy ass is the lone deep midfielder for City today? Against the Spuds pressing? This should be interesting... Lets go, City!

If City and ourselves win this weekend, title race over?

I cannot stand Firminho. He's ugly as fuck and always has the dumbest, cheesiest celebrations.

Liverpool will win this 4-2, watch.

Any further word on Snodgrass? He's really their only consistently dangerous player. Don't think Hull really have anything to trouble us if he isn't playing.

Kind of glad that most of our rivals play tomorrow and we don't until Sunday. Whichever way their results go it'll ensure our boys will have added motivation to win. Arsenal and Liverpool have bankers while United have a tough one against Stoke. Then we hope for a City win. As long as we maintain our focus and don't think Hull at home is are an afterthought this should be a straightforward 3 points. Need the momentum heading in to Anfield.

United really don't get enough stick in the press for their terrible purchases these past few years. Memphis, Schniederlin, Darmian, Schweinsteiger, Shaw who doesn't even play, Ashley Young, Di Maria, Falcao... Just awful.

Fantastic if true! I was just thinking how nice it would be for us if some club either turned his head or bought him before we played them.

Didn't come to mind at first but now that it's been mentioned, he does shar many similarities with Raheem Sterling. He's basically Sterling on steroids. He's a bit of a brainless pace merchant who can absolutely destroy teams when on form. You'd have to think a top manager may be able to improve his consistency but would he get games here in order to do so? Don't see how, really. If we want another tricky wide player why not just use Musonda?