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Seriously? His attacking play is not shit, its pretty decent... could do with work on final ball but theres a reason us, Man United, Man City, Spurs and whoever else have all been linked with him. Hes good defensively yes and ranks for most tackles in PL (or is it Europe) IIRC but his attacking play certainly isnt shit. I think potentially here (obviously with work in the team) or at a Liverpool or a City he would be very good in an offensive capacity and a big issue because hes so quick and can beat people 1 on 1 too. I actually hope none of City, Liverpool Arsenal, Spurs or United go for him and Chillwell. They would be some full back pairing.

He might make it there next year if hes still set on leaving....

Think Heung Min Son from Spuds should of definitely been considered as well as Hazard instead of Pogba but during voting period Pogba had been involved in like 15 goals in goals and assists in that 10-15 period under OGS. Anyway. Its always a popularity contest. Alexander Arnold shouldnt be in, personally I think Wan Bissaka has been better, probably one of the break out players of the season in that regard too but City and Liverpool are in the title race so what do you expect.

If Sarri stays and we continue with 433 he will not play in his much more natural positions which are either as a 10, second striker or a CF. Unless Sarri changes his system or we change manager there is no chance this happens, he is good enough to play wide probably but hes more effective centrally be it as a striker in a 2 or off the striker in whatever capacity. 100m or whatever we get for Hazard for a player to shoehorn him into a wing position which is likely, would be a bit odd. Unless Sarri goes 4312 like he did at Empoli but doubt it.

Im sure it was said we were after him before Ajax got him.

Think if we dont get a transfer ban and miss out on Pepe, although I reckon he will go Bayern like reported a while ago, Neres should definitely be considered although it probably would be better for him to be loaned back to Ajax for another season as the guy is a bit lightweight and can still make the wrong decisions at times as seen in the CL this season vs Juventus but he has impressed me with his willingness to run at players and has been involved with 16 goals in 20 starts and 8 sub apperances in the Erevidise. As well as 2 goals and 2 assists in the CL. Definitely be interest this summer from other clubs though due to Ajaxs CL run and maybe some of them, such as a Dortmund,.would be better suited. Even if he came here and didnt go back to Ajax I think his directness and dribbling ability would offer us something different to Pedro and Willian. Hopefully we are still tracking him, I am sure we were before he went to Ajax.

Felix will eclipse both of their careers in the game, the guy will be a top, top player. He is better than both of Callum and Christian. We dont have a chance, Ronaldo has told Juve to sign him and Barca/Real/Bayern will all be very interested too.

Has made big steps but think him and Rudiger are too similar to play together. Also dont think hes technically competent enough to play out like Luiz, Andreas and Rudiger.

Hasnt shown anything this season yes but watch the other seasons he played for Dortmund there is definitely something there that with a bit of work could be a very good player. Yes 60m is an inflated fee but what isnt these days? Way I look at him is, Sterling cost City 49m and that raised a lot of eyebrows despite him being a better level than Pulisic. The fee wound people up even more so after his first season at City which was very poor, you need to wait and give these young players time. He has potential, not the level of Sterling but its just a comparison in regards to how his first season panned out at City in comparison to now where hes arguably the best goalscoring winger in the PL alongside Salah and Mane. Pulisic could come here do decent then properly kick on the next year. Realistically talking thats like Eden under RDM and Benitez, first season here was probably inconsistently below what he and many of us would of liked considering his reputation/talent but few seasons later and boom (again Pulisic will never be Eden level but in terms of progression even the Sterlings and Hazards can need a year or two to grow). People are also getting far too caught up with Jadon Sancho at BVB and the fact Pulisic hasnt played as regularly this season, it will be interesting how both of them do next season. A lot can change, as Pulisic probably didnt expect 2 seasons ago when he was playing regularly to now be a bench player for a season.... dont think its fair to judge him on a season where he was in a contract dispute and signed with a new team midway through the season. If hed played every week and done poorly fair enough but he hasnt and with previous seasons showing promise (end product needs work) it could turn out a decent move still. 60m is a lot but thats modern day football. Lukaku cost 75m. Alexis Sanchez makes 500k a week. PSG bought Neymar for 220m. Any deal can be looked at as ludicrous.

Writing off Pulisic before hes even pulled on the shirt is typical Chelsea isnt it?

Hazard is 110% off. Regardless of CL or not. As for Pepe? Transfer ban? Hopefully it is only 5 or 6 months instead of 9 months like they can be but regardless, hopefully he gets a good recovery and can come into contention some point next season.

He got more space staying wider in both matches though in fairness. While I will agree he needs to come closer to goal to have a bigger influence but even for his assist today he started outside the box and had a chance to isolate someone one on one as opposed to coming inside and being met by a plethora of bodies.

Shame as hes made big steps this year. Over 20 apperances in all comps but only 8 or 9 starts, still, he hasnt been great of late but lets be optimistic, hope he comes back stronger and can kick on next season. Still lots of potential, his career is hardly over as someone stated up there, jesus christ what a comment eh

Pedro ran in behind though. Burnley were happy to let us get the ball wide because they tucked in with a narrow back 4 and their wingers coming back to help their full backs, knowing all too well we would just cross it and thats their bread and butter, how many headers did we win inside the box? Callum or Eden barely made penetrating runs in behind their full backs or between their CB and FB, Pedro did 2 or 3 times and while nothing came of it, variation was needed, there was one he was arguably blocked off on that could have been a foul. Once we lost Kante we lost another guy who makes runs into the box at times, as his goal proves too. Burnley CBs would win the majority of any high balls coming in because thats how they play week in week out, packing the midfield, being compact, narrow, letting teams play through the wings and cross it.

Kante yes because his energy is huge for us in midfield but disagree about Callum, not for the first game in the last few he was pretty ineffective. All for giving him a chance but you have to hold every player to the same standards and he wasnt anything more than ordinary. Neither were Pedro or Willian but again if they had played that first half it would be same things said.

True but one mistake shouldnt be a problem if you've got quality to come back from it. We just kept making errors and were horrible v Bournemouth and City. Also on the front foot v City? They scored after about 4 minutes hardly say 4 minutes of being in the front foot is worth mentioning.

Tbf you can barely pinpoint a 4-0 loss to Bournemouth and a 6-0 loss to City through two players making one individual mistake. There were probably about 30 mistakes over both games. A 1-0 yeah sure or a 1-1 yeah sure but multiple goals, analyse the whole games after giving the ball away goals can still be avoided.

Hmm. Wonder if this is anything to do with him playing a lot of minutes recently or just bad luck. Bad news regardless. Only positive is that an injured player has less suitors.

Did Hazard, Pedro, Giroud do anything kf use in the second half? Useless... also I think Hazard hit the first man or fucked corner deliveries in the second half more than anything else. Burnley may have played shite but at least they could defend, be it luck or how they plau. If we could of defended that second goal we would have won as they offered fuck all second half. Shocking with guys like Azpi, Luiz, Christensen, Emerson, Jorginho we couldn't defend that 2nd goal but the likelihood is Burnley 110% would never have been caught out so poorly in a situation like that. Fuck knows what happens now.

Defending for their second was embarrasing. No wonder we drew. Conceding goals like that deserves nothing else.

Source? Not seen anything anywhere? Ah nevermind u mean De Ligt yeah lot of talk hes going.

Well hes said his kids there studying English so probably why he stayed. Also what realistic top jobs have come up for him? Lots of rumours about him going back to Juve in summer. Will be interesting if so.

Would of dropped Emerson for Alonso in all honesty, Burnley CFs will target him from crosses I feel, peeling onto him at the back post when defending from our rightside. Similarly to what Kane, Fellaini etc used to do to Azpi. Although he is better offensively it just takes one chance for Wood or Barnes to do this and get a goal. Still, a good line up, hopefully a good result. Lets see how it goes. Hopefully Ruben puts in a big performance.

Would say theres hoping for him to do well and then putting far too expectation on him, this guy hasnt played a PL game. He looks ready to be a member of the squad for me yes but that comment is ludicrous, no offence mate.

Well if we beat Burnley tomorrow and Arsenal drop points today (hopefully) then it becomes must win for us, if it isnt already considering what is at stake. United have lost 5 or 6 in their last 8 games under OGS. True. Think they will be stubborn but hopefully we get a good result tomorro night. Ill be keeping an eye on Arsenal Palace score today hopefully Palace can dig out a good away performance and take points be it a draw or win.