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Dont see the massive hype in Donnarumma, hes an interesting prospect but quite overrated too, fair enough hes only 17 or 18 but even then I don't see him being anywhere near as good as Courtois or Cech. If we ever had to replace Courtois I'd prefer to see us go for Oblak, he is brilliant, probably just as good as anybody in goal these days.

But he didnt move to New York City and then there to Man City. He moved from Chelsea to Man City, had everyone convinced he was there on loan from New York City when in fact he wasn't. That is a fact. That is why he is a traitor to me. Why go to all that bother to cover something up? Just say you've signed for City and agreed to move to New York City after... not difficult is it. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jan/09/manchester-city-error-frank-lampard-new-york-city-fc-deal

I'm surprised anybody even cares what he says anymore or what he does. Hes a fucking idiot. He is along with Lampard in my eyes in the traitor basket, if he loves Chelsea so much why did he go to United??? Same with Lampard, if he loved Chelsea so much why City? Idiots. He is nowhere near as good as he thinks he is. Best result of the season for me was putting 4 goals past United just purely to put him in his place.

Good player, probably would play in the front 3 as opposed to our midfield but is a real hard working player and excellent technician too. Would be an interesting buy.

But hes a much much better player though. Chalobah is not bad but still hes hardly playing a lot or at a level to compete with Cesc, Matic or Kante. There is a lot of talk about Verratti and the Croatian bloke from Fiorentina being targets for us too, hardly promising for Chalobah's future is it?

What?!? If we refuse then someone else will come in with whatever they want and sign him instead of us, particularly someone like Man United, who have shown they aren't worried about spending huge sums on players in last few years like they did on Pogba, Di Maria, Bailly, Shaw... so yeah lets just start trying to tell Real Madrid 70M is too much for a player with atleast 3-4 years of a contract left, who originally cost them something similar and will attract interest from other huge clubs. If we want him get him, no point fucking about trying to lower a fee with Real Madrid, they'll just sell to highest bidder, we arent Arsenal. Also Real Madrid along with Barcelona are the BIGGEST clubs in the world, as if it wasn't hard enough trying to buy off them.

Hard for him going back the way with a speed merchant like Zaha but all in all he wasn't that bad was he? Kept at it, wasn't scared to try get in front of him to try and nick it knowing he'd be exposed if he didn't. Gives width going forward and always puts a half decent delivery in.

Good to see when Palace kept coming at us in second half we kept defending the box well, kept competing for 50/50s etc although it was a bit less than convincing going forward at times as it has been last few games. Pity to lose Costa and Kante but opens up a really big opportunity for Batshuayi and Cesc/Chalobah. Marcos Alonso had a tough game today but stuck at it, Zaha is no easy opponent and I'm sure he might cope a bit better against Bournemouth, Don't think their wide players are as fast or direct as Palace's are. Regardless 11 wins, 9 clean sheets, Kante and Costa (big loses yeah) get a forced rest on Boxing Day.

Big loss. Bournemouth will be a tough game, Cesc or whoever comes in for him will have to step up and do his fair share because they have a few half decent players in there and in all truth we've been effective rather than great this last couple of weeks.

Would make an interesting squad player here but does he have end product? This has been a big concern about him for years, he broke into Arsenal team scored like 7 goals but hasn't really improved or done more than that. Would be concerned about his fitness too

Good move for him. I think Wolfsburg are in a mess then now but can't see them going down. Regardless he will play loads and worth keeping an eye on.

He'd be an excellent option if we went for him, can play RB, CB and CDM/CM, good physical and technical attributes, one of the key components of the England side too when playing as the holding player. Really has come on since he went to Spurs.

Anyone see the wee man win that 50/50 against Kone the other night 😂 Sent him flying

This is the same Jamie Redknapp who thought England should look at Matty Phillips for a call up (guy is capped by Scotland), was only stopped by somebody telling him through an earpiece and he also said that Moses is "young English talent", when Moses is 26 and Nigerian. He is a stupid cunt. Whoever takes his opinion seriously needs a headcheck. How can he say a guy with 77 PL minutes is an unintelligent player? He's shown his true colours there. Is he at Cobham watching him train??? Be a different story if it was a Spurs player. Or Liverpool. Arse bandit.

Take it and run!!! 60M can get two better players.

Not a chance, that's an outrageous claim mate. Mahrez only ever got into double figures at professional level last season and then two other times while playing for Le Harve II at amateur level.... Hazard has done it 6 times at professional level. How can anybody say Mahrez is a better goalscorer when he's scored less career goals than Eden has? I don't see why we would want Mahrez or godforsake if anyone was to want Vardy here, look how poorly Leicester are doing without Kante, he was the glue in that team last year, Vardy and Mahrez won't ever do better than they did that season. None of them will ever do that well again unfortunately, although they have some other decent players in the team now. If there's even a chance Sanchez is thinking of leaving Arsenal we should try for him. There's no doubting the gulf in class if we had Sanchez Costa Hazard upfront as opposed to Mahrez instead, Mahrez probably isn't even an improvement on anyone we have who plays that position in the squad and Sanchez is more than capable of playing well on the right wing, he did it in his best season at Barca.

I think he means in the formation, he only has 4 places for midfield and two of those are for wing backs.

Pains me to say it but he's 36 and doesn't suit our system so it makes perfect sense to let him go end of the season but let's not forget about what a glorious career he's had here and he will always be our most successful captain and you could also say arguably best player? Also probably the best English CB ever as well as one of the best there's ever been in th last 25 years.

Simeone a shambolic manager? He took Atletico from a team that normally finished way off the title to league champions (most two sided league in world or was), won copa del rey, won europa league, won UEFA super cup, won Supercopa de Espana and got to 2x CL finals... all in 5 seasons. Shambolic yeah? He's probably taken them as far as anybody can take them without having £150m to spunk each year on world class talent like Barca or Real do, he's definitely overachieved there and that's mainly due to him and his coaching, they are probably the toughest team we've faced up bar Peps record shattering Barca and the Bayern team in 2012 (they absolutely battered us at times). He's also been La Liga coach of the year 3 times in 5 years so there it is it confirms he is definitely a shambolic coach. Him and Conte are more similar than you'd think, two ex players who were captains and club legends who rebuilt their clubs (Atletico & Juventus) very successfully, who have an emphasis on hard work, discipline and organisation/structure although Simeones work at Atletico is more impressive than Contes at Juventus, because he never had both Barcelona or Real Madrid in his league.

Another testing game for us. I honestly expect more of the same from what we seen from WBA, wingers tucking in to defend full backs, lots of men behind the ball etc, I mean Weat Brom almost played with a back 6 at times to which it worked effectively enough although Sunderland have had a lot of individual errors so might be a bit more chance of breaking the deadlock early. Can't give Defoe any chances either, he's not exactlt an amazing player but he doesn't need many chances to get a goal. Can see us winning 2-0 or 3-1 or something.

Making good progress based on half a season so far (I know goals dried up in comparison to first 10/11 games) but again lets not get carried away, he is highly rated at the club and by Conte going on his quotes earlier this season but let's leave him to get 50-75 more first team games somewhere without claiming he's the second coming of Jesus or that because he will have low points like all youngsters do but I am excited to see what we can get out of him, he has the right tools and attitude to be a first team regular here but he's still only in the championship just now, he will get to the PL eventually but it's a harder level. Can't see him being in squad next year. Plus I must say again Batshuayi isn't a bad player he's just not playing because Costa is playing amazing, why drop him or take him off after an hour when he's fully fit and playing that well.

I'd be surprised if such a rule even existed but if it does, let's just blame Mourinho seeing as 3 of the 5 talked about incidents happened under him haha. Although can't believe we recieved a fine bigger than City for the game this year, really is piss poor from FA, only potential blemishes is Cesc and Nathianels actions but let's hope nothing comes of it.

It's double standards though, when Rooney, Luke Shaw, Paul Pogba, Chris Smalling and Ibrahimovic have been poor/making mistakes he's never said a word. Two errors from Liverpool keeper (okay cost them points, which we all want, but still).... unfortunately as a pundit you've got to try and hide your ties to clubs which I know certain ex players and managers don't do but he was critical of LvG last year but isn't of Mourinho as much this year.. in all fairness I think we should all be able to question his stint as a manager, he talks a good game on sky sports but he went to do the real thing and was out of his depth, it's okay being an assistant coach for England but even then based on his managerial stint with Valencia it just shows that some ex players walk into roles based on reputation rather than actual experience and ability to being able to deal with everything related to it. It's got to the point where if he just let the kid have his quote and ignored it it wouldn't matter now but it's obviously hurt his feelings and his brothers who also worked there at the time so he's spat the dummy out now Klopps involved and it will rumble on again likely. Sure Valencia are a mess but 4/5 months before he was there they had finished 3rd or 4th in La Liga, normally when a coach changes automatically things get better but they didn't, they struggled to even win under him in like the first 11 game, suffered the biggest loss they'd had in the last 10 years or so and yes they still haven't improved under two other managers which is fair enough but doesn't mean that it's gone as poorly as it did under Neville or that he did anything that can be mirrored as even a minor success. Klopps won trophies for BvB, in a time where Bayern have usually dominated the Bundesliga with a massive financial muscle so if anyone was entitled to question Gary Neville and his credibility as a manager it's him surely? Same as if Conte was to or Mourinho or Pep or even guys like Koeman, Pochettino, etc. Like I said Gary Neville talks a good game on sky sports as a pundit, he does but his stint as a manager downed his reputation as opposed to have improved it. The fact he's back in sky sports studio than in another coaching role says it all really.

I hope we don't go for Nainggolan now. We got Kante already, Nainggolan is also probably 28 or 29, same age as Cesc and isn't an upgrade in all fairness to either Kante (wasn't 100% sure about getting him and not Nainggolan at first in summer but been proven wrong), Matic or Cesc. Not even gonna mention Rudiger because he's pretty average and isn't better than any CB we have at the club.

And 100% correct in all fairness. Neville was a top player (ok fair enough he wasn't in the same bracket as Paul Scholes or Thierry Henry who do TV work) and now is somebody who analyses players and tactics every week but he failed horrifically as a manager... even guys like Carragher, Jamie Redknapp etc, all ex players (good players in their day but again not world class like Henry, Scholes were) with no management/coaching experience. It's an odd world but it's as much as Nevilles fault as it is the players or Klopps for how they are still arguing/having jibes at each other. Phil Neville involved too, laughed at Chris Suttons comments about on radio about how the Nevilles are like the Mitchell brothers...