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Be a tough game if we don’t improve our performance v Everton. Hopefully no Kai in the starting 11 because it was like playing with 10 men last week. Bit worried about Kuluveski too for Spurs if I am honest. Has been a revelation since going to Spurs. Think he has like 9 or 10 assists since signing there in January, only Dembele from Barca has more in that time period. Not even mentioning Son and Kane too. Defensively have to be very good.

One thing I really liked was the lack of touches he took when it came to passing. I know Chilly is only back from an injury but even before, sometimes, he can take 2 or 3 more touches than necessary. Or play a softer pass that slows down the build up. I don’t know how long he played but how many times did Cucurella get the ball out of his feet and fire a quick pass into a team mate? Even under pressure? This sort of thing will help our build up play and allow the guys in MF to get on it quicker. RJ and Chilly both sometimes are very guilty of this, although they are both good enough not to need to do this.

Devastated he’s leaving….. not. Never been up to it, good to see Boehly being ruthless and pushing for a sale and not a loan.

Dont think he was necessarily bad there. Thought he was a positive. Actually his ability to take and carry the ball, relieving pressure and getting us up the pitch was impressive. Plus his movement in and around the box, you can see what playing in a Pep teams done to him, he’s always sniffing around the penalty box, never standing still. Was unlucky not to get a goal yesterday.

Overhyped at times and no doubt the massive contract killed him. If he went to Bayern he’d of already been back in the PL playing for a bottom 10 side. Thats his consistent level just now unfortunately. Injury wouldn’t of helped too either but I think he was given too much too soon.

Really unlucky. Then for the umpteenth time, another horrible corner by Reece James….

Broja on about 30 mins too late. Havertz has a lot of convincing to do based of today and games in pre season.

Loftus-Cheek? RWB? Wow. Why not throw Cucurella on instead and keep RJ RWB. Madness.

Broja for Havertz please.

Mendy bar that first half save is having a shocker. Hasn’t taken one cross well.

Penalty. 100% a penalty. Hopefully this opens the game up now. Wish someone would punch that cunt Yerry Mina in the face, undoubtedly one of the worst CBs I’ve ever seen but seems to cut about as if hes a major player 😂

Fully agree. He also needs to learn to stop giving away the most stupid little fouls when next to nothings on for opposing defenders. So stupid. Just relieves the pressure. Reece’s delivery from corners and set plays has also been abysmal so far.

Need the first goal to kill this crowd off. Every time they get a foul, a freekick, a tackle etc their fans get going. A goal would kill this…. Some save Mendy after poor attempt to get the corner.

But in a possession based team, traditionally, if your number 6 is of the ilk that the likes of a Jorginho, Busquets, de Jong (at Ajax) are then 9 times out of 10, they drop into the space between the two central defenders or in the zone just in front of them when the teams in possession as most modern day CBs go out wider and play higher. So you’ve still basically got 343.

Jesus Christ really On that chance - should of been a corner anyway, but usual from our attackers, indecisiveness when it matters. Just had to put it across the 6 yard box there at pace.

De Jong would be a upgrade on Jorginho as well as a huge asset in the long term IMO. Much much more athletic and has all the other technical aspects you’d expect from a potential great Dutch midfielder player. Throw in his versatility too having played as a CB, a 6 and an 8 in various games for Ajax, Barca and Holland. Ok hasn’t worked great at Barcelona but he hasn’t exactly been poor either. Plus he’s played as a more advanced MFer as opposed to the role he’s better suited - where Busquets plays - and in a struggling Barcelona team.

Are you ever happy? 😂

Tbf signing De Jong, another CB and another attacker would be a pretty impressive window. Depending on who those other 2 were to be, it could be an incredible window to be fair. Thats not even taking into consideration sales. Levi Colwill going to Brighton on loan as well is also a massive coup as opposed to on a permanent deal. On Redknapp and De Jong thing - he’s not saying anything that hasn’t already been reported. If FdJ leaves Barca he wants his deferred wages paid, to go to a CL team and he apparently appreciates the idea of living in London much more than Manchester….. so aye wouldn’t say that Redknapp's letting a top top top secret bit of information slip.

I think he will need some time to adapt, clearly he has a good skillset and ability but I think the jump in quality and teams sitting in against us most weeks as well as looking to punish spaces that the likes of him and James will leave trying to get forward, it will maybe take him a bit of time to hit that level he was for Brighton at times. Good signing either way.

Ah fuck. Was that the 1-1 game? Where he assisted Welbeck?

I see. What game was that?

Until he signs who knows where he will play. Surely he has to be competition for Chilwell as well as Alonso’s replacement first and foremost. Never even heard of him playing as a CB so where this notions come from is baffling. Signing him and then chasing another CB indicates he wont be playing as a CB I would of thought…..

Same was said for Chalobah last season. Regardless, I do think Tuchel is the sort of manager brave enough to find out how good or how ready Carney is. Plus based on how the other signings have gone, Tuchel 100% has signed off on this. Also another move that shows promising signs from Todd Boehly and his ownership, not just after ready made players who are the complete package/can make an impact in terms of off the pitch also but young, homegrown talent who can make a long term impact. I’m sure at the Dodgers he has had made significant investment in young talent that has come to fruition in their team and its success.

Big season needed. If he doesn’t show anything of note this season I think he will be getting the Timo Werner treatment - benched, a lot. Although basically 75% of our attackers since well depends how far back you want to go, could all have got the same treatment.

Good to see people who have complained about us not having proper backup/competition for Chilwell and Reece James for maybe 2 seasons are now complaining because we are looking at signing some decent backup/competition for these players (although hopefully not KWP). I mean we are likely going to be letting Alonso and Azpilicueta go (apparently if we can replace them they are free to go), do yous want us to have no back up RB/RWB and LB/LWB? This whole speculation “oh we’ve spent this or will spend this on defenders” or “the budget this, the budget that”, those discussions are pointless unless any of you are Todd Boehly or anyone else involved with the ownership 😂 who knows how much we will spend this summer? I mean first folk complained we didn’t sign anybody for however long, now its we are potentially buying too much defenders… what next, we haven’t signed another attacker? Or central midfielder? Or that we haven’t moved to a new stadium? Or don’t have a kit deal with brand X Y or Z? Fucking hell, cheer up, I for one am incredibly optimistic that we will be seeing a few more faces in the door yet. I don’t think the new owners are going to just replace what we’ve lost, I get the feeling there will be a few upgrades on certain players also.