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Having a nr.1 goalkeeper like Willy is disaster long-term. There is a reason he wasn't first choice at City with only Bravo his competition, both are backup level in a top club and both seem to understand it. He'd insert too much insecurity in us with him flapping at every ball coming into the box. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

Sell one of Pedro or Willian and give the spot to one of our youngsters. Hudson, Musonda, Boga.. whoever, can't keep ignoring the talents. There is no point in signing average semi-established players to block them, waste of money unless the signing is of far superior quality. Throw one in the deep end and see what sticks, we have never actually tried that, but in these times it makes more sense than ever. Hudson-Odoi was exciting, a breath of fresh air, we need that. I think he had the first shot on goal for us, two in quick succession even. Nobody yesterday showed that kind of drive that he injected, and we had Hazard on the pitch. Something to think about... I'm tired of signing middle of the road players that don't elevate us and couldn't give less shit about the club. At least our boys would play their hearts out. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

I don't understand what he means by playing on the right or left in a midfield 3. The pivot? Wing-back?

What a dumb article. Written on 30th when links to Carroll had died out ages ago and we were on the brink of signing Giroud, like we eventually did. Why not write about him instead? Anyway, the answer to the posed question is NO.

Have to admit it is annoying with all the attention whoring. Glad I've managed to stay away from it and have no active social media accounts.

Do you what favour? Social media rules these days,it is what it is. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

It was his PL debut, stop being so salty and let the kid share his delight. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

He isn't complete shite either. He can actually play ball and seems very determined, think he would put his body on the line for the team if needed. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

Harsh on Christensen and Rüdiger. If we sold everybody else I couldn't care less.

Hopefully our next head coach won't rate him and freezes him out. But I fear this won't be the case, the club will probably pressurize to play him. Can't let 40 millions go to waste now can we.. 40 fucking million for a player who is worse than 17 year olds in our academy.

In our whole team we have choices between bad and worse. GC is barely a footballer by nature, Azpi wouldn't be worse no matter who he naturally is.

It's not like Bournemouth have giant attackers. Azpi would have been fine and he wouldn't have lost every foot race like GC.

Agreed. Azpi or Rüdiger would have been better there imo, or even Ampadu. It's a shame that both Luiz and AC are out, they are really our only competent CCBs. Couple that with the fact we didn't have a striker, disaster being the result.

Runs like a tractor, so fucking slow. 2nd goal I actually thought was offside somehow, because I thought Cahill had stopped sprinting as in the play had stopped, but shortly I realized it was him sprinting. The common denominator in all 3 goals, if you are a key ingredient in all the conceded goals, well then that's just piss poor for a captain.

We have no midfield (I'm including wing-backs here) and this game proves it. This is probably why Conte wanted a target man, so we can bypass our midfield altogether.

Could have really used him tonight with all the high balls to Hazard.

Even though it was offside, it was amazing to see Azpi not passing sideways to Zap. An actual through ball!

Bakayoko and Cahill fucking up, shocking.

Tbf, thinking about it, this makes more sense than Džeko taking consideration their demands also. It felt as though Džeko was after his last big contract and nothing else, there were no reports of him actually wanting to come here, on the contrary it was said he'd prefer to stay but the club was the one pushing the deal for money reasons. Giroud on the other hand I think is happy just to stay in London and have a similar role to what he had at arsenal. As a target man I think he is better too, hated going against him. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

I think it has a lot to do with the stadium (1bn isn't a joke), plus the fact that new rich and state owned clubs have driven up the prices and wages so quickly that our natural financial progression can't keep up. Our financial situation is probably stuck in times when you could buy the best players for 30-50mill only a few years ago, those same players would go for 100m these days. It's a hell of a upward spike in a very short time and with 1bn reserved for the stadium, i am not at all surprised. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

Yep, we are the pinnacle of fame.

^ I love how they feel the need to say all that publicly in social media.

Surely he didn't say that? It has TrollFootball markings, probably just trolling.

Yeah, being beaten to a trophy by fucking Arsenal stings no matter what cup it is. Adding that they beat us in the final last season and in community shield. Fuck em.

And we could end up with 2 trophies, and they may not. Don't understand this argument.