The Rising Sun

great technique from sanchez there

neto as a lw and estevao as rw
gittsen on the bench

Do we really need Garnacho? Ball progression looks good to me

Fuck knows why. Hes quick, beats players, then gives the ball away, or shoots into row Z or 10 yards wide. We've had enough of that type of player.

I love Tosin and there’s zero chance I’d think of selling him. A leader, very well liked and respected by his teammates, very solid almost every time he’s on the pitch, and importantly isn’t someone who is going to make a fuss if he doesn’t start every match. He’s the picture perfect squad player for a club like this. 
All these mentions of Wes Fofana in some of these stories is strange to me. There should be ZERO planning of the squad or team around him. His knees are a ticking time bomb that are likely to blow up at any moment he’s on the pitch. 

WORLD CHAMPION BUS

One of us 
 
 

Yep - people act like Nico is a long way off from being a great player. It isn't the case. 
If he fixes the 1%ers in his game, he becomes a great player. He is a very damaging player for the most part in the middle of the field. A few shooting and positioning fixes and he becomes lethal. 

Nico - without the pressure of being the main forward - is an asset. Except for finishing being a letdown in some phases last season, he was doing all the other work needed of a striker. 

Imagine, that fucking clown of a coach was about to start a defender in midfield over him if the injury didn't happen.

Anyone else worried about no of new players coming in? We can't replace half a squad every summer (and sometimes winter) and expect them to integrate without a problems:
- Sarr
- Santos (he spent 2 preseasons with us, but I still count him as new), Essugo
- Estevao, Gittens, Pedro, Delap
 
That's 7 players already, with rumors of GK, LB, CB, another AM, that would take us to 11 new players, with 2 new players already ready to be included for next season- Quenda and Paez.

Why not sell the whole squad and buy a new set of players for the season. Most fans will never be patient enough with our young players in the squad. Funny enough they are still clamouring for the club to sign similar set of players elsewhere. It is more of a back and forth thing 😂. I thought we did go for young, more consistent and experienced like R Leao, Rodrygo etc.

Now this made me laugh 😆

Hope we get this level of winger play again some day:
 

Fucking hell! lol read it all now!! 

The Tunis goalkeeper is one of the worst I have ever come across. None of the goals should have been allowed to happen. 
Such low quality.

He had a few good games towards the end of the season. Are we just going to casually forget he had the most unforced errors in the league… wasn’t it something in the region of 14!!! Are we going to casually forget his constant flapping at corners when trying to claim the ball, his ridiculous decision making with the ball at his feet, his weird sprints out of the box to be caught in no mans land???
He was Brightons 3rd choice GK before we got him for a reason.
Petrovic improved massively at Strasbourg and yea, it could have been a one off season but I’m far more prepared to give him a go than watch that absolute fraud of a GK Sanchez get another season in a Chelsea shirt.
 
 

Salary on signing is the biggest factor.added to what we have coming through. Big salaries bind clubs more than transfer fees. 

New? I'm lifelong fan of 40 years 🤣
gordon is a player i wish came to use when we originally went for him. He's top tier

Madueke and cash for Gordon is a deal I'd like to see

I honestly think rushing into a new keeper isn’t the way. Maignan is fine but not far and away better. 
 
I actually think Sanchez was quite good to close out the season. Always a bit shonky with the ball at feet but he is great in the air and was great at shot stopping. 
 
He has errors in him but he isn’t our biggest limiting factor imo. 

I'm bored of watching Jackson he's just not much good at anything and the fact people say he should be on the left says more about how poor he really is
Get rid, Delap will be better than him

Hope we don't get ektike .... He looks bang average west ham/brighton level.
I rate delap well above ektike.
He's the next rooney or cole palmer performance wise.
Serious striker and another from the unappreciated city youth squad.

Looks like there's been no training and a complete lack of game plan.
Just a matter of time before they score.
We are doing absolutely nothing .....