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I'd say more of our fans underrate him than overrate him. None of us are deluded enough to consider Willian world class or anything, but the hate I see talked about him on Twitter is ridiculous. Many of our own fans talk as if he's a complete donkey. If we were to sign someone like Mahrez that's the only way I could see Willian being displaced on the right. That's not happening and to be honest, it's not totally necessary. We'd see much more of an improvement in our attack with an Oscar upgrade than a Willian one. Coincidently, Mahrez could play there too. Just don't think the club are even considering any attacking mids currently as we have scrubs like Pedro and Cuadrado taking up roster spaces.

Everyone needs to stop moaning about the price. Who fucking cares that he may cost £50m? John Stones was woeful last season and just went for £50m a few days ago! This dude was one of the best CB's in Europe last year and has the potential to be the best. Worth it. Koulibaly + Zouma at some point this season hopefully. Future back 3 of Koulibaly, Zouma, and Chistensen. Pace, power, great on the ball, massive size and physicality. Dont care what he costs, just get him in.

Having watched everyone else this weekend I'm feeling a bit more confident. Everyone else is just as shit defensively as we are. Get Hazard firing like he has been and Diego back to being himself and we'll be in business.

Sadio Mane is a fantastic player. Would've loved him here. Klopp can make him a world class player. Unreal combination of skill, pace, power, and end product. He's got it all. Actually a bit jealous Liverppol have got him.

That was sensational from Coutinho. Liverpool should have seen out to press high and take it to this Arsenal B team. Very poor performance from them.

When you're already ugly as fuck like Firmino is, why would you have a terrible hairstyle that makes you look even worse? Jesus, he looks like a mutant!

We'll buy back Djilobodji for £35m before he has a kick for Sunderland.

This Arsenal XI is a joke, right? Wenger is taking the piss with their supporters, surely? Liverpool should run riot against that team.

Just look at all 3 goals again. The defending was literally comical. Bit like ours... First 2 goals came from terrible defensive mistakes and for Zlatan's (while it was a great finish) they just stood off of him and allowed him about 3 touches before getting his strike away. If we don't get defensive reinforcements I'm not looking forward to facing Zlatan. And this was before Pogba and Mkhitaryan have even really played.

Bournemouth can play some pretty football when in possession but they're woeful defensively. This is the sort of team that the likes of Zlatan will destroy and score loads against. My tip for Golden Boot.

Two absolute gifts from Bournemouth for the goals.

Christ, 90 seconds in and these NBC commentators are already drooling about United...

Think Zlatan may bag a couple here against Bournemouth.

Somewhat relaxed and quietly confident right now due to attacking players showing promise in preseason that they're back to their best. I'm sure as Monday afternoon comes closer I'll start getting more nervous. Already having nightmares about Payet ghosting past Matic or Cesc depending on which of them starts or passing clean through our entire team. Or Andy Carroll bullying both JT and Cahill. Or just about anyone running at Ivanovic.

Spurs really do have a nice looking squad now, it has to be said. Great striker up top, plenty of steel in the middle with Dier and Wanyama, creative sparks like Eriksen, Dele Alli, and Lamela, probably the best CB partnership in the league, and good, modern fullbacks in Rose and Walker. World class keeper too.

Yep, was just thinking the exact same thing when I saw this tweet. Just like last summer, Conte will have given the club a list of targets and our board just can't get anything done. They're penny pinching and looking for discounts. Also like last summer I feel well panic buy towards the deadline. Let's just hope we at least panic buy good players this time.

This is exactly what I'm afraid of with Kenedy. Though at least with Watford we saw with Aké that they'll play him if he's good enough. I have the feeling we'll never see Miazga in a Chelsea shirt again. Djilobodji style. Struggling to care either.

Has he done much at Inter yet? Haven't even heard his name mentioned once since he moved there.

My prediction. A 4-3-3. Need steel and numbers in midfield to combat West Ham. No way should Cesc start this one.

Disagree. I think he's probably the first loanee that I can actually see with a future here. He was already almost ready for the first team so a loan to a top team like Ajax where he'll play every week should only improve him. I expect him to be a Chelsea player again for sure.

Loved that press conference and love Conte already. You can just tell he lives and breathes football and is the right man to change the mentality of these players. While there likely isn't anything he can do to improve the terrible defense because that's more a case of skill rather than confidence, but players like Hazard, Matic, Oscar, and Costa will all excell under him again I think. You can also tell he badly wanted to talk publicly about transfer targets but has to remain tight lipped.

So are Inter finally on their way "back?" How can they suddenly afford to pay £40m for a player? I thought they were still fairly irrelevant like Milan are these days.

Surely not for us. It's gotta be Everton. We couldn't seriously think a CB from Sunderland is a legit alternative to someone who was one of the best CB's in Europe last season?

Better to get it over with now before dying a slow, painful death by Cahill/Ivanovic.

Maybe like our 5-3 against Everton 2 years ago?