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Could have done without the "one of the best" bit, damages his credibility, but other than that it looks encouraging when he doesn't play in a cup final.

We have no perfect skipper in the squad, not even close, but if what has been reported about Azpi is true, then he's not the least worst of the bunch. Sent from my Mi A1 using Tapatalk

We have no one with leadership qualities who doesn't blow hot and cold. Sent from my Mi A1 using Tapatalk

Yup, have a good feeling about Rüdi. He was quite tame when he first arrived understandably, but he has progressed to become a leader on the pitch. Well, at least his attitude on the field is a head above the rest other than Luiz. Sent from my Mi A1 using Tapatalk

Give the armband to Luiz. Azpi is not who I thought he was.

Glad Sarri didn't get punished. Even though he could have acted better, at least this shows that the manager was backed and the offending player punished. Restores some of that authority that had been lost.

What, he was struck blind for a good few minutes? Azpi didn't say he didn't see it, he said he was on the other side of the pitch.

Yeah we have exactly zero leaders in the team.

His penalty taking style is exactly what you would describe brilliant if successful, but stupid as fuck when you fail.

What did he say? I'm also massively disappointed not to have seen Azpi anywhere near. JT would have dragged him off by his feet if needed. Overall that incident said quite a lot about the state of our team currently.

Caballero could have made the saves. It's speculative, but Kepa lost for a fact and we never got to see if head coach's decision would have won us the trophy. Hence, I blame Kepa for taking away the opportunity that should have been instead.

I find it hard to believe, he just doesn't want to feed the drama with all that "player power" thing and him losing the dressing room. If all it had been was him thinking it was a cramp and it really wasn't, then by that time the doctors would have surely told him, but he was barely even involved in the pre-shootout team-talk. I think somewhere during the initial substitution attempt he decided he wanted Caballero on regardless for his penalty track record. Also the way Kepa didn't even approach Sarri after ET was a disgrace. The only way Kepa would have been excused was if he had made the saves to win the shootout. He didn't, so I blame him. If he had listened to the manager, we could have won it, but we will now never know. Needs to punished for costing us a trophy.

Rlc you beauty! Pedro shoot ffs! Sent from my Mi A1 using Tapatalk

I don't recall any booing for Hazard.

HAHAHA, typical name-drops. Not gonna get any of them but there will be plenty of "links", I'm sure of it. We're a mid-table team, those players would want to join clubs with ambitions and chances to win major trophies. We're gonna be hustling for domestic cups at best for years to come.

Doesn't make much sense. We can lose players but not gain any... We already have bad players and we can only get worse. If Sarry stays, he needs new players ASAP, otherwise nothing will come of it and we will unfortunately need a pragmatic manager to keep us afloat.

+ Pep wanted him badly, this says something. Jorginho is struggling no doubt about it, but I think in a well functioning team he'd be a monster.

Pathetic isn't it? Even Ivanovic and Oscar weren't booed iirc and they were much worse towards the end. Jorginho needs confidence, like everybody else, random booing won't help.

The players have no urgency or aggression

Sorry, I'm high and totally missed it somehow EVEN THOUGH I specifically searched both pages You are god

@Vesper waiting for your streams

I don't know why you're equaling me to the board. I'm not talking on their behalf. Sent from my Mi A1 using Tapatalk

I don't care what he did in Napoli and our board has proven to be clueless time and time again. I now see the reality of who he is and I don't like it. I knew he got Napoli playing some delicious stuff, but had no idea he was so stubborn... I also can't see such a one-dimensional manager winning anything meaningful. It's all tease and no cumshot with him.

The only question is Kova for Barkley or Barkley for Kova. I think Barkley will take this one and Kovacic will get nice ~20 mins.

I get what you're saying, this is something I'd been saying until recently and in general it is true. But you just have to look at what Sarri is and isn't doing and it becomes clear that he doesn't have what it takes to lead us to success. You have a winger (CHO) and a striker (Giroud) on the bench, yet he brings on a defender for a defender in a competition you're about to crash out from, nothing to lose anymore - all to win. Defender for a defender, fuck's sake. It's not an isolated case either, his game management has been shit all season when things get tough, but that one just took the cake. Predictability? The easiest manager to plan against, you know every single time how and who he will play and what his subs will be. Defeatist comments in pressers? I'd rather take "suffering" than somebody who flat out admits he's got no idea. If he showed some reactions and some signs that he knows what he's doing and changing things up while maintaining his core philosophy and improving the team (the infamous Pep and Klopp comparisons, but they at least tried different things until they got where they wanted)... but it's not been like that! No reaction, no nothing. Aurelio De Laurentiis had a point about him.