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Is it me or is he kind of adorable?

Tbf, I meant to say, no TOP manager

Cheers. Didn't think fullmatchesandshows would have it up so soon.

Yeah, sure. Wait for the one match I have to miss and play youngsters and win 4-0! Goals, anyone?

Is it bad that I don't even remember what he was actually banned for?

Yeah, of course Conte wants him to stay. No manager in the world would not. The club saying that they were waiting for the new manager to decide was clearly just an excuse and a lie. The board doesn't want to give him an extension and I don't think Conte 'making him a priority' would change that.

Yeah, of course you can't promise anyone an indefinite starting spot, but he should at least be promised a run in the team and a real chance of becoming a nailed on starter.

I was one of the first people to criticize Thibaut when he started making regular mistakes, and I sure as hell don't like his 'honesty' talking to the media. BUT this whole debate will look so petty and knee-jerk when Thiabut returns to his usual world-class form next season. He's objectively one of the best young keepers in the world. There is absolutely no reason he won't get over this bad spell and come out stronger from all of this.

If we have any sort of vision and long term planning from the board, someone should go to Andreas, offer him a starting position at least for the first couple of months for next season, and talk him into cutting the loan short.

http://hasalexandrepatoplayedforchelsea.com/ Just hit the 60 days mark!

Your own belief or inside info?

I would actually be okay with letting JT go if it is a step to bring back Christensen and give him a genuine chance.....but I know it won't happen. Btw, Christensen i homegrown. Ake is not only homegrown but also 'club trained'. I don't see how those two would weaken our current XI. Just have to have some balls.

No point. If we're not going to give him a chance now when he's the best LB we have then we'll never actually give him a chance.

Who wants to bet that we actually go ahead with this?

Take it down a notch, Pappy, take it down.

Fixed. I get why you'd want an unbeaten spell inside a season to help morale and gain momentum, but what's the point of it in a run-in, particularly when we have nothing to play for anymore..

Did it work, though? Having watched the replay this morning, I thought Remy's and certainly Oscar's market values probably went down after that match... Hopefully we get to see a bit different approach to matches after the break, then.

What exactly was the point of starting Remy instead of Traore when Loic is almost certainly gone at the end of the seasons? Why was Oscar played instead of RLC who has gotten much less playing time this season than promised? Why not start Mizaga (is that his name?!) when the match result has very little significance? Don't know about everyone else, but I would have gladly taken zero points yesterday instead of (an undeserved/lucky) one to see those three start. Also, since result wise our season is basically over, why not have a couple of players from the academy on the bench just for motivation and maybe a cameo? I'm genuinely beginning to believe that Guus is more worried about his unbeaten league record more than the future of this club...

Proud to have actually said from the start that Andreas (along with RLC) are our most important prospects. Probably the only one I got right, though!

HAHA Fuck off. I'm watching the Leicester match...

Liked it much better when the images were broken, tbh....sigh.

Somehow, for the second time in the past few seasons, our best LB is out on loan while we suffer for choices here. Happened with Bertrand and now with Ake. I just hope we don't make the same mistake of selling him..

Maybe he's upset that the images are broken...

I think he made two mistakes in the tie, the first was the lineup at Turin and the second was the tactics and subs in the second half yesterday. But at the same time, if it weren't for his subs and change of tactics in the second half at Turin and the absolutely genius tactics and starting XI in Munich the tie would have been a walk in the park for Bayern. Also, let's not forget that Juve were missing 3-4 crucial players yesterday.

His tactics took a team, whom you claimed in this very thread are not even on the same level as current Chelsea, literally two minutes from knocking out Bayern Munich, which you've also said was absolutely impossible to happen. Either Juve is average and Allegri's tactics were genius to almost get them to knock out the second best team in the world right now, or Juve are one of the best sides in Europe and Allegri's tactics are to blame for them failing to knock Bayern out. Which is it? Make up your mind...