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Okay, so this guy hasn't won anything of note despite being a manager since 2008. The only achievement that people mention is that he got Brighton playing some nice football... just like Pochettino did with Sp*rs or Wenger with Arsenal (post-invincibles). Playing nice just for the sake of it means fuck all. Sceptical over this appointment, has mediocrity written all over it like with all English managers. Hope he proves me and all doubters wrong though. Good luck, Graham! You're gonna need it with those players.

That doesn't really hold up because Silva didn't play yesterday. We stuck with 3 atb even when going for the equalizer, probably because we were afraid to concede more, and even played Cucurella at LCB. Problem is that with 4 atb we don't look more like scoring, but we do seem more likely to concede. I don't know, it's a conundrum, the team isn't playing well in any system atm.

So we ended up getting a CB, ST and DMF on deadline day. Pleased with that.

Okay so that leaves us with only 2 natural wingers - Pulisic and Sterling - provided that Ziyech is also leaving. What's the plan then if we don't get Gordon? Surely someone has to come in.

Money My gooner mate says Auba needs several chances to score one, like 5 to 1. Basically he needs a team that creates a lot of chances for the striker, we don't. He also says that Auba is made for a team playing on the counter, not possession. Everything I've heard of him or seen of him is the opposite of what we need in terms of how we play (slow positional possession football). I also refuse to read too much into his La Liga record, they don't do defending there. I would be happy with him if he didn't get a 3 year contract and if his role would be an Eto'o or Drogba second stint - squad player and mentor for youngsters (not too sure about the mentoring part either because of his past with shit attitude).

Has Azpi ever played as CB in a back 4? Unfortunately most of our CBs are best suited to a back 3, will make it more difficult to transition away from it in the future. Have a feeling we might play Cucurella at LCB this game.

Feel some of the insults thrown at blahblah are uncalled for. Why is it necessary to call him a whiny bitch if he/she doesn't conform to the norm? I for one think he makes some good points. I'm all for giving TT this full season, but if there isn't any improvement after the money spent, and especially if we fail to make top 4, questions need to be asked. Too early for that at the moment though.

Neutralize our wing-backs and we have no answer. Whether we like it or not, they are our most important attacking players. Our front three's main job is to play the wing-backs through on the overlap. When teams successfully block this strategy, we revert to sideways passing in the final 3rd and eventually give it back to the backline as we have no answer once the wings are blocked. We look so shit in attack when that happens. RLC is a nice backup to have but shouldn't be starting when we have other options fit. Azpi and Trevoh were on the bench, WHY? They are natural center-backs, but Tuchel instead prefers to put Reece at CB and RLC at WB... square pegs in round holes and all that. Are Azpi and Trev really so shit that RLC blows them away? Azpi was good against Everton, then dropped against Sp*rs in favour of Reece to contain Son... but Leeds? FFS Leeds aren't Real Madrid or Tottenshits that you have to compromise attack for defence. There was one situation I remember where RLC was played in for a nice shooting or crossing chance, but he overplayed and squandered it. Reece would have blasted it first time! And knowing his shooting probably would have hit the target at the very least. That's a potential goal lost because we chose not to play players in their best positions. Reece is arguably our most important attacker, he should not be playing CB when it's not absolutely necessary imho.

I have a suggestion. What if we started posting transfer news/discussions into separate threads again for each player? Like it used to be back in the day. We have a whole "transfer talk" subforum dedicated to it, but it's not being used at all anymore and instead all transfer related posts are put into the Chelsea Transfers thread. As a result that thread is quite chaotic with transfer posts for all players and people squabbling with each other mashed into one place. It's especially tedious after not having checked the forum for a while and there are several pages to skim through, but most of the time I just want to see posts about certain players. I often end up going to The Shed End as they have separate threads for all players, which is more convenient to navigate through and information is more neatly organized.

Didn't Trev play mostly LCB on loan at Lorient? I could be wrong.

Because they are doing exactly what is asked of them and what they are paid for.

Why this cunt is still put to Tottenshits games after publicly celebrating their goals can only have one explanation. Where there is big money there is corruption. The more money is involved the more there is corruption, and the most moolah goes through England. I don't buy it that with all of its resources England can only produce incompetent bastards, absolutely not buying it. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years there will be a huge scandal over match fixing, hopefully investigative journalists are already on it.

I hope Casemiro doesn't go there. Why would he? Other than money of course. Hopefully they get Rabiot at most, ideally no one and be stuck with McFred.😏

What did he say? But it doesn't matter anymore now does it. He got his 1 week vacation for doing what he was paid to do with bribe money. It will happen again in the future and he or someone else will get a "deserved" week or two off as "punishment".

They should be looking for a no1 keeper instead. De Gea is wank. May I suggest Kepa? 😇

Gallas wasn't ex gooner. He went there after Chelsea. No way we are loaning him unless we sign a CB.

Is that ref decent or another crooked cunt?

Broja hasn't even had a chance to lead our line yet, how can you say that? If our only options are Auba and Ronaldo, I say we stick with what we have until a suitable long-term option becomes available. Both are past it egotistic toxic players who would cost a lot of money. Rotate Havertz, Broja and Sterling in that position, use a fluid attack where there is no out-and-out striker unless Broja is playing. Let the whole team chip in with goals like they have been doing for a while now ever since Diego Costa left. We won the CL this way. Of course it would be better to have a striker that actually performs and fits the team, but I don't think they are it. Having said that, I wouldn't mind either IF they wouldn't demand high salaries, would join on loan or for a short time, would accept not being automatic starters and wouldn't cause any trouble if benched or if we're going through a tough time.

They see how we have been willing to overpay and are taking advantage of it. That's what every decent negotiator would do. It's win-win for them, either they keep their prized asset or get 2-3 times more than he's worth. We have no leverage in this deal. Also, Fofana hasn't been anything special in the first 2 games. He's not a 100 mill € player, but again, we have no leverage here. Another win-win for the selling party - either keep or sell for 2-3 times the real value. They are fools not to sell for the amount we have already offered, but I suspect they know that we are willing to go higher, in which case they are not fools... Same as with Gordon. We have chosen very, very difficult targets where we have no leverage, so silly fees are to be expected unfortunately. But hey, if the money people at the club have crunched the numbers and concluded that it's no problem, then just go for it...

The same was said about Lukaku. In fact it was the only thing said about him. "Scoring goals" is not the only thing we should be looking at, it's how the player fits the team. We really are scraping bottom of the barrel with the likes of Auba and Gordon. Panic mode setting in. We missed a trick with Gabriel Jesus, the one that got away. 😒 He might be the difference between Arsenal finishing above or below us.

What is the situation there in England with Anthony Taylor atm? I hope he's getting abused left and right on social media and elsewhere?

Wtf is this talk about Anthony Gordon? It's a joke isn't it?

What a finish by the big man!

Actually we didn't lose.

Tuchel ripping into the cunt ref 🖕