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Imo he is captain because 1) He's English and longest serving member. 2) It's a natural progression when the captain (JT) leaves, the vice-captain takes over. 3) He was on-field captain in our title-winning season. 4) He is quite a determined player. All in all people are making too big a deal out of this captaincy nonsense. Leaders will lead, followers will follow regardless of title or armband.

Would be unwise of him. Getting sacked is far more lucrative than buying out your contract (the manager has to buy out his contract in order to leave, doesn't he?).

Or both of them unavailable together. Fabregas - Drinkwater in a Champions League quarter final... or even against fucking Huddersfield.

Would be a luxury signing in our current state, can we afford one? For this money you can buy a much better midfielder than Drinkwater, or a much better wing-back than Alonso. Somebody will get sacrificed if this happens. Christensen sold or loaned in January would be my guess then. We also have Zouma on loan. However, getting in Oxlade and Drinkwater would allow us to sacrifice Cahill instead - in this case I can't see a downside, upgrades all around.

No way we would splash 58-70M on Morata if we still had Costa.

He doesn't score much at all, so it doesn't make much sense to position him to play to one of his weaknesses (13 goals in 162 apps). He doesn't play RWB at Arsenal now because they have Bellerin for that, here he'd most likely displace Moses which makes sense, because he's a decent crosser.

This interview was probably a move to lower his price and force Chelsea's hand. Unlikely to be a coincidence that it happened during the season's 1st game either.

It's a shame how it's all ended, he was a cracking player for us. It's also clear that his stinky performances post-January were more of a psychological issue when he knew he wasn't wanted here anymore. Eva-gate 2.0.

That in itself is not an issue to have a specialist in something (think Maka, nothing special on the ball), but for the team to fully benefit from his specialties he needs to have class ball-players around him. If we do not or when we're having a bad game in possession, his limitations will show more than it should, and it's not his fault. Luckily we do have good ball-players and we saw last season how effective we can be with this model, unfortunately currently the squad is just depleted.

Worry not, we have the mighty Kyle Scott. Sigh... 2 games, 2 losses. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

Understood, but what did GC do? Straight red? How did we perform 11v11? Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

Can't watch the game. Saw 0-3, shocked! What happened? Why Boga subbed for Christensen, what formation we playing now? What did GC do? Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

You don't start with a high bid, that's like the most basic thing in negotiations. However, no improved bid in a few weeks? That is worrying unless we have another target in mind. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

Nah we have Kyle Scott lol. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

We are missing out on realistic and good targets exactly because we are wasting our time with clubs/players who will never want to talk to us. Another dead end. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

Probably the stadium thing is hindering us, see no other explanation. We didn't really have such problems before the talks of a new stadium got serious. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

Man what i would give to have Isco here, brilliant player. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

Yes he said that.

Always good to have a player that has no significant weaknesses.

You don't belong here with your sensible and well thought out posts.

How people still can't understand that Nate wanted to leave, to play week in week out and to progress to be good enough for starting XI in the future? He wouldn't have been able to do so here. Our board is also very lenient towards players who want to leave, they will be allowed to do so even if it's a double POTY winner wanting to join our rivals.

Poor Monaco, will they have anybody left? Mendy, Bakayoko, Silva, maybe Mbappe and Lemar too... all gone. Would they be willing to sell Sidibe too? I definitely wouldn't mind him if we somehow managed to pull this off.

Last, by far. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

We won 2 out of 5.

Interesting, I will try to mash something up. Blackman Aina - Zouma - Kalas - Dasilva van Ginkel - Pasalic Palmer - Loftus-Cheek - Piazon Abraham