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It isn't difficult to understand. He's American and got some ability.

Yep. The people who write players off after 1 month are the ones who never learn.

Totally agree. As is to my disgust, but Willian is just better for the team atm.

Brilliant Tho not introducing Kepa as the manager instead of Frank was a missed opportunity for more comedy

Can't look past Jorginho for that role. It's not like we have an abundance of leaders, but Jorginho is one. In line to take over from Azpi when the time comes.

Every time I have seen a Solskjaer interview I'm left very unimpressed. He never looks confident, always nervous, fake smiling, clearly doesn't believe in the cliche phrases he spews out after every game. Boring and uninspiring. If I was his player, I wouldn't feel much hope listening to his pressers where he clearly doesn't want to be. Lampard on the other hand... I think he will turn out to be a manager for whom players would "die" for.

He really does look impressive. If I'm not mistaken he was voted Derby's fans' player of the year last season?

If you asked me now, I wouldn't want him back. I want to see us become a collectively cohesive team, not a superstar and the supporting cast.

Yep and yesterday was a prime example. Zouma and Tomori(?) got burnt badly because they didn't get any leap like the attacker.

Impossible, they are inevitably conceded every game several times. It's not a solution, a solution would be to defend set-pieces properly. I've heard that learning to defend zonal is harder than man-to-man, but yields greater rewards once mastered...so I'm willing to give them time to improve on that.

I would understand that if it was maliciously directed at a whole race, but it was aimed at a single individual who, as I understand, is his friend(why would he be if Silva is being a racist prick towards him?) and didn't kick up any fuss over it. I don't see any intent to dehumanize or pickawhatever anybody either. Unless Mendy expresses that it somehow hurt him, then it's a non-story for me. The only thing I blame Bernardo of is that he wasn't smart enough to realize the snowflakey world we live in these days and shouldn't have posted that publicly. If you want to see real racism, then I can dig up some nazi forum links from dark web for you. 6 game ban for something that the supposed victim didn't even complain about is far over the top and is probably being done only for PR purposes (hey look! we're combating savage racism!)

Whatsapp is a sellout to facebook, use telegram instead. Sent from my Mi A1 using Tapatalk

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But if it was a white child with some white cartoon character? Sent from my Mi A1 using Tapatalk

Just looked up this B.Silva case. Did anybody ask Mendy what he thought about it? To me it seems like friendly banter, nothing more nothing less. Racist? There is REAL racism in the world which they should focus their energy on, not some harmless jokes. The word "racism" has been devalued so badly, as if friends joking among each other is equal to some violent nazi pieces of shits

Correct. Worst footballer for me has to be Bakayoko. Most disappointing? Torres by a landslide.

Actually for his size he went down incredibly rarely when he had the chance. Was often able to stay on his feet when pushed and shoved while many other wingers would have gone down, so I wholeheartedly disagree with the opinion that he went down too easily. He took many hard tackles almost every game and shrugged them off, he was lucky not to get serious injuries just like Lampard was, for example.

Yep, I'm not worried about RB at the moment for this reason. Reece will eventually take over as natural progression and Azpi will be a good backup on the pitch as well as a good influence off it. No need to go for RB in the coming market.

Circumstances for our youngsters and Pulisic are different, Chelsea has been their home since they were kids, Pulisic meanwhile has that whole adapting to new club and country thing to do first before he can start firing like the graduates. What I am quite certain of is that he has been left out of the team mostly due to defensive reasons, introducing other wingers has definitely helped our open play defending.

We're one month into the season, I think it's a bit early to start labeling him delusional or stubborn. Saw someone say he is more stubborn than Sarri... fuck me Sarri took over half a season to start tinkering with tactics and to stop making the same subs over and over again. What I see in Lamps and the young players is them trying their best for the club, but they simply are not yet good or experienced enough to instantly make us what most would like us ideally to be. It's part of the learning curve for Frank, for the players, and even for the fans to start being more patient and supportive.

Want to see James, CHO and Pulisic starting here.

A liability out of his depth. Nervous every time he gets the ball under pressure, teammates are clearly avoiding passing to him, positioning is suspect. Should be sold next summer and replaced with a ready-made CB to partner Rüdiger, let AC and Tomori fight it out for rotational spots if one of them doesn't come good BIG TIME this season. But as things stand, Zouma needs to go and instant impact signing needs to be made.

He should, but we had nobody to put at RB/RWB. Otherwise if we did, then Azpi over Zouma in a back 3 all day long.

Horrible player, frustrating to watch in and around the box.