Blue Armour

Funny how we're talking about lack of strikers, and Leeds have put 3 past us without any CF.

We're 3 down too..not sure what he was thinking by preventing his run. Senegal getting embarrassed in Leeds.

With all the negativity atm, I want to leave one nugget of positive advice for my fellow fans here. Yes, we're 5 point off Arsenal atm. But it's still game 3, and we surrendered a 5 point lead at the top of the table in Nov to the eventual champions. And the same Arsenal who were 9 points behind us last season after the 3rd game made up a lot of ground by the end. So, don't let Mendy, Koulibaly and Chelsea ruin your week.

Will we see Mendy demand a post match interview like De Gea did after the Brentford game?

This is why I refused to get excited after the Spurs game. This is just a recap from last season. Turn up against tough opposition and then wilt against lesser opponents next week. Tuchel also needs to cool his jets. He's on a suspended touch line ban. You have to be careful about when they'll pull the trigger.

Maybe true,... but I was just thinking of us loaning out players like Colwill, Gilmour and sidelining Broja whilst going for seniors like Auba. Anyway. We need at least one replacement for Werner/Lukaku. I suppose this is going to be it.

Spurs at least look horrible to watch. But not sure if that's saying much. During our title win under Conte we've also ground out lackluster 1-0 wins along the way, because of Costa's goal threat. This 1-0 win doesn't seem that different. Arsenal on the other hand seem to be playing well. They've also been given an easy run of fixtures to begin with (unlike last season). The only problem for them is that they will have tougher fixtures when we reach the congested parts of the season. Will be interesting to see how they cope.

Arsenal got rid of washed up players like Aubemayang and are integrating more of their youth players to play winning football. For some reason we are choosing to go the opposite direction with regards to players. Starting to reek of short-termism. Also, this isn't like how we once got Giroud from Arsenal. Giroud was signed as a pure squad option, namely to give us a target-man. His attitude was top notch and we benefitted from it.

Imagine Aubemayang arrives here and starts giving CFC exclusives to his former AFTV buddy Troopz

Have doubts about Fofana, but if getting him means avoiding Maguire., do it.

He's even worse off the ball IMo. A CB that lacks any sort of awareness of what's going on around him. Let's players slip past him to result in his fellow CBs being pulled out of position. That's not the sort of stuff you can coach. That being said, they don't call Daily mail the daily manc for nothing. Someone at Chelsea must have entertained the idea. Just hope other people at the club, with better judgement, dismiss it eventually.

Hope Barca hold onto their demands and we get priced out of a move. No need to spend silly money on Auba.

You say stop-gaps, but our so called stop gaps seem to demand a lot of playing time, disrupt our playing style and create a toxic dressing room. This is like Lukaku all over. We want chances to be finished while forgetting how those chances are made

A 30 yr old Aubameyang, I could see some sense in getting. But at 33 years of age, he's going to be far less effective in this league. He won't have the pressing energy of Werner/Havertz. And is he okay with being a squad option? Would be just better to ask for a loan move, instead of a full fledged transfer. Are we really going to stick with him past this season?

Yes, second fiddle. Fair enough, in 08-09 he won the lowest scoring golden boot competition and helped us out when Drogba was unavailable. But when we returned to trophy winning form in the next season, Anelka was pushed out into the right wing., so that Drogba could play in the center and take on goalscoring burden. I'm not dismissing Anelkas efforts. I'm just saying that he wasn't the main man because we had superior goal scoring players in the squad. He instead took on an unselfish role to help setup the teams attack. Aubameyang is coming here with the expectation of taking on most of our goal scoring burden.

Anelka worked for us because he was a very intelligent player. He also set his ego aside and played second fiddle to an in-form Drogba, especially in 09-10 when we won the league. No problems if Aubameyang is here just to fill the squad. But is Tuchel really bringing him here just to be an option on the bench?

No doubt a Tuchel decision. For better or worse, this is the effect of giving the coach full control of transfers. Personally not a fan of coaches trying to rejuvenate their former players. It didn't work with Benitez and Torres, nor with Saari and Higuain. And to add to that, theres a depressing list of washed up strikers we signed, including Pato and Falcao. Granted Aubameyang is not as extreme a case. But after seeing Lukaku fail at United, and then subsequently fail with us, you would think we would learn a thing or two., after noting Aubameyangs final season with Arsenal.

I dont think Sterling has been bad by any stretch, but I don't want him wasted in only a false 9 role. In the Tottenham game, their CBs (Dier in particular) were on his heels the whole time. I'm hoping we can sign another attacker that can free him up some more, so that he can have a bigger impact. He might be a better finisher than most of our previous attackers, but by no means the most clinical. He's been known to miss before (as evidenced in his prevjous teams).

If Tuchel is feeling adventurous in the next game (which I feel he should), he will continue with RLC at RWB with Gallagher in the middle. Fully expect him to bring back Azpi at RCB, with RLC in rhe middle.

Also, no retrospective action on Romero it seems, based on the reports. Anthony Taylor will also NOT be barred from officiating Chelsea fixtures. No doubt they will assign him to our next big fixture. Lingering like a bad smell.

Screwed by a striker named Immobile. Couldn't make that one up, lol.

Carragher was very gleeful when we drew and Tuchel/Conte had a fight. Wonder what he thinks of the Nunez headbutt. Is that what he loves about the league? Lmao.

I hope there is one more surprise transfer out of nowhere and it happens to be one of the 3 in this list.

Mike Dean retiring to become the VAR chief is much worse than him staying on the pitch.

Credit where its due. Imperious performance at RWB, and just as good after being shifted to CM. He could circumvent the need for getting additional RB cover. Played against Madrid too, I think in RWB? The only thing left is trying him out as a false 9 like Conte once did.