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Politics and off the pitch drama don't have anything to do with my comparisons, only what I saw happening on the pitch. And yes the club needs to be sold.

Twitter has ruined journalism. I despise "articles" like this that cherry pick a few idiotic posts from random bums. Talking in general, not saying they are all wrong, but this type of reporting from newspapers is just ridiculous. Are there any unbiased outlets left in the world that don't pursue their own agendas?

And that was a title defence too. Still I think the worst title defence in recorded history. The same thing happened during Conte's slump, lots of people popping up saying it was the worst thing ever. Nah, not even close, Conte's slump and our current state is a joy compared to that.

After Conte's title it has been downhill yes, but uphill from Mourinho. If it had been only downhill then we'd be in Championship.

That was Hiddink's work. I'm talking about the individual's discord.

Am I the only one for whom the individual's palpable discord period was the worst ever and everything after hasn't even come close? 16th... It was horrible. It was a miserable time in my life as well, usually football used to cheer me up, it has always been one of my escape methods. But that year under Mourinho watching Chelsea made everything worse, I fucking despised it. Give me grumpy Conte or clueless Sarri any second of the day.

Yeah perhaps The only thing I didn't like in that line-up was Alonso obviously. Never expected him to start RLC and CHO anyway so can't say I was surprised. We have switched to 4-2-3-1 two times now (wow!) and both times looked more threatening. Need to start doing that more, and playing RLC and CHO more. Put Kovacic and Kante in double pivot and RLC, Haz, CHO in front of them. In my mind I can see it working better than that 4-3-3 dross.

What's so silly in that line-up?

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It's probably a Chromium thing. I'm using Brave which also has this problem.

I wish the hype train would slow down a bit. Yes he's put up some good numbers, but watching him play, he still has a long way to go. Don't want him to start thinking he's good enough already, other than scoring and assisting he needs to become more aggressive off the ball, which I feel is exactly why Willian and Pedro are preferred in crunch games. He could have been used more this season, agree with that, but he's nowhere near frozen out of the team like Cahill or Drinkwater (or even Ampadu to extent, which irritates me a bit).

Maybe I played too much footie games in my younger days, but Eintracht Frankfurt has always been a kinda mainstay in Bundersliga. I mean I know they're no world-beaters but they have been there for so long that you at least should have heard of them. Anyway, on their day, anybody can beat us, and on our day we can beat anybody. However I like the chances of beating Slavia Prague.

Ronaldo is a mutant. How is he still so good at 34 I don't know, he must be doping! With his jump he could participate in the NBA dunk contest. I didn't use to like him and don't particularly still do, but there is no denying his skill and achievements. One of the greatest for sure. Oh and how I wish we had somebody like Chiellini in our defence.

Juve have fucked us too many times in the transfer market for me to prefer them over Atletico, who on the other hand have saved us from Torres, Morata and Costa (they paid a good price for him considering the circumstances). I've always been for AM when we haven't been participating, they deserve it and it's about time they win it.

CHO needs to start and RLC too (later replaced by Barkley). Rest Kante and play Kovacic there. Even though that line-up is risky, we need to be fresh for Everton and we have a 3 goal lead, they should be able to hold it. Caballero Zap - Rüdiger - AC - Alonso Kovacic - Jorginho - RLC CHO - Giroud - Willian

So there is an agenda against Chelsea, confirmed. Treated differently from other clubs. Maybe we just refused to bribe the crooked fat cats at the top? I still don't understand how this would work legally if our appeal is successful in the end, they would need to compensate us outrageously.

Let's hope it'll be a cracking game with us coming out on top!

You can't expect a player, who's been rusting for the good part of last 2 years, to always be at the top of his game. It's not like his competitor Alonso always has above OK games. People need to have realistic expectations and give evaluations accordingly. Alonso has already proven to be crap, Emerson has yet to start 3 games in a row for us afaik, he can't gain and maintain any momentum to prove anything like this.

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It has built-in Tor, that's even better.

We can still go over FIFA's head to some sports arbitration court, no? Can't trust FIFA to be unbiased in their decision making.

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I don't understand the logic. How can they enforce the punishment when the appeal hasn't been processed? The result could be that we are found innocent, but we would have then already served one transfer window punishment for nothing...

No, just no mate. We need to get rid of shit, not keep or take more in.

Why was he being booed against spurs?