Fernando

I expect us to win. 
Would be surprised otherwise. 
Would be amazing if Garnacho has an amazing game against them. 

Mohamed Kader Meïté

perhaps the next Osimhen or better

https://scoutedftbl.com/mohamed-kader-meite-breaks-the-internet/

 
Jake Entwistle, SCOUTED’s striker expert, branded Mohamed Kader Meïté “the most exciting centre-forward prospect in Europe.” He is, Jake says, a leading example of modern football’s new favourite meta.
That meta is particularly profound in French football. Born in Créteil, a suburb of Paris, Meïté developed through a number of local junior teams before moving to Stade Rennais at the age of 15, the earliest at which players can move from their immediate locality to pursue opportunities elsewhere. The greater Paris region is an incredible producer of talent; almost every club the length and breadth of France profit from the capital’s exports.
Meïté has developed rapidly at Rennes. Scoring regularly for the U-19 and B teams, he led the former to a prestigious Coupe Gambardella triumph this year, as captain and top scorer, while featuring in first-team squads since making his senior debut in January.
His most notable moment in Britanny came this past weekend, when he carried a comeback against Olympique Lyonnais. He scored one, forced another, all as a second-half substitute in the primetime Sunday night slot. The cameo performance has gone viral on social media, and the intricacies of it underline why Jake is so excited about him. Let’s break it down, play by play.
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When we have Andrey Santos, it did not make sense to have James in the middle. Maresca has been reluctant to use Santos for some reason but he's looked solid to me and plays like a midfielder in that role. 

It’s not that we think we will win it but the fact that we should be competing like a seriously dangerous team having spent the money we have. I know it’s boring to keep banging on about it but the facts are the facts.. 
 

Outrage as pro-Trump rapper and country singer release pro-lynching song: ‘Hang ‘em up high at sundown’
White rapper and singer call for public hangings after raging against reactions to Charlie Kirk’s death
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rapper-lynching-song-country-b2827708.html
A white rapper known for viral anthems supporting Donald Trump and Republican officials has released a music video with a country singer calling for public lynchings.
Over a banjo riff, the chorus of “Good vs Evil” from MAGA rapper Forgiato Blow and country singer JJ Lawhorn repeats instructions for hanging people at “sundown,” an apparent reference to “sundown towns” that violently enforce racial segregation.
The song calls for “a big tall tree and a short piece of rope” to “hang ‘em up high at sundown” and “leave ‘em swinging so the folks all know you don’t mess around in our town.”

A verse from Forgiato Blow, whose real name is Kurt Jantz, lists three white murder victims whose killer or accused killers are Black and Latino. He named the killings of Austin Metcalf, Laken Riley, and Iryna Zarutska, who was fatally stabbed on a bus in North Carolina. Jantz says she was killed by a “n******.”
Later, Lawhorn sings “we ought to do it like they did it way back in the day because grandaddy’s way works best.”
The song follows the assassination of right-wing Christian activist Charlie Kirk, which has provided the Trump administration with a framework to prosecute Democratic officials and left-wing groups by using a sweeping campaign against protected speech.
“I’m done being silent in my faith!” Jantz wrote in a post on Instagram sharing the song. “Im done being a silent conservative, I’m no longer concerned that truth may hurt your feelings. Jesus is coming back and we are all part of his mission! I am Charlie Kirk!”
“SOMEBODY HAS TO SAY IT,” Lawhorn wrote.
Jantz, the self-described “Mayor of MAGAville,” has been the face of a “MAGA rap” subgenre built explicitly around support for the president with provocative songs referencing right-wing culture wars and Trump’s agenda, seemingly designed to bait critics.

“In the wake of all the violent killings recently… is it time to bring back public executions?” Jantz wrote on X. “RT if you agree!”
“Meanwhile they say the left is engaging in hate speech,” one person wrote on social media in response to his latest song.
“Insane how unsubtle this is,” another wrote.
“What else do you call this other than a call for violence?” asked another.
More than 6,500 people, mostly African Americans, were killed in racist attacks between 1865 and 1950 in the aftermath of the Civil War and emancipation and through an era of white militia terror during Reconstruction and in the years surrounding the Civil Rights movement, according to the Equal Justice Initiative.
Black people were the primary victims of lynching, though immigrants from Mexico, China, Australia, and other countries were also lynched, and some white people were lynched for aiding Black people or for their position against lynching, the Equal Justice Initiative found.
The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act — named after the Black teenager whose murder in 1955 magnified Jim Crow-era violence that galvanized the Civil Rights movement — designates lynching as a crime punishable by up to 30 years in prison.
It passed the House of Representatives in 2022 by a vote of 433-7 and cleared the Senate unanimously. Joe Biden signed it into law that year.
Following Kirk’s death, Trump and right-wing figures quickly sought to punish left-wing voices for rhetoric they blamed for his killing, with a renewed commitment from the Trump administration to crack down on the “radical left.”
“For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals,” Trump said in a speech from the Oval Office.
“This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now,” he added. “My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it.”
Elon Musk — who owns X, where the song has been viewed more than 100,000 times — called the Democratic Party the “party of murder” and accused media outlets and educational institutions of “programming people to murder.”
He said that he was going to “fix” the platform’s AI assistant Grok after it cited research that showed right-wing violence was more prevalent than left-wing violence.
Between the January 6 insurrection and the 2024 election, there were at least 300 cases of political violence, marking the largest surge in such attacks since the 1970s, according to a Reuters analysis.
Since 2016, there were nearly three times as many partisan-driven attacks and plots in the United States as in the previous quarter-century, a 2023 Center for Strategic and International Studies paper found.
Yet a large body of research has found that right-wing extremists have killed more people than those associated with any other political cause in the United States within the last two decades, though many of those attacks don’t map neatly onto one political ideology.
Trump’s Department of Justice recently removed a study from its website showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

Partey playing for Villareal tonight.
He'll be staying here in London -  in Southwark Court tomorrow on a charge of raping three women

extremely detailed post in re Noni
 

Ligue 1 is miles ahead of both of these leagues. It also became a sort of farmer league for PL, they taylor made players for us, high percentage of players signed from there work out here. We can send players like Sarr or Paez as last step to RSC, if they work out there, they can be promoted to Chelsea. But from Belgian league? I don't think so.
It's very wise we chose to invest there.

Emanuel Emegha’s move to Chelsea provokes fresh fury at Strasbourg
The team is climbing up the Ligue 1 table but fans are sick of being treated like ‘pawns’ by the Chelsea owners
By Get French Football News
  Luke Entwistle Mon 15 Sep 2025 11.04 EDT Share     Strasbourg are a club torn between inertia and evolution. Change is visible all around the Meinau: in its recently developed stands and on the pitch where, in two years, they have gone from perennial relegation strugglers to Champions League candidates. The motor for change was BlueCo’s purchase of the club in 2023. The takeover was met with stout opposition and the team’s upward trajectory since has done little to remould public opinion.
“I feel like we are back at the beginning. I am so disappointed with the reaction,” complained Liam Rosenior on Sunday, exasperated by the latest fan protests. You needn’t scratch too much to uncover the resentment that bubbles beneath the surface of the Meinau. The 15-minute strike, where the club’s ultras remain silent at the start of matches, is now just a common feature of Strasbourg fixtures, and you are never more than a few weeks away from a lengthy and often explosive supporters group communique denouncing some facet of the management of the club.
    BlueCo have always been the target of the fans’ ire – and that remains the case – but recent protests have also seen other figures caught in the crossfire. Marc Keller, who played for Strasbourg in the 1990s and came to the club’s rescue when it went bankrupt in the early 2010s, is the latest target. He built the club back up from the amateur divisions but fans are furious that he sold up to BlueCo. Strasbourg’s supporters federation called for him to “face his responsibilities” and leave before their match against Le Havre on Sunday. “We will never accept what Marc Keller has done to the club by selling to BlueCo,” read the statement.
And what the club has become is acquiescent. What Chelsea want, Chelsea get. Ben Chilwell hardly fits the team’s needs but that is largely irrelevant to BlueCo given their extensive portfolio of players. He needed a new club and interest wasn’t forthcoming, so Chelsea sent him to Strasbourg to join Mathis Amougou and Diego Moreira, who have also made the same move in recent seasons. Chilwell made his debut in the 1-0 win over Le Havre. He was hooked at half-time.
  View image in fullscreen Ben Chilwell had a forgettable Strasbourg debut. Photograph: Icon Sport/Getty Images
  Strasbourg fans are unimpressed by BlueCo’s opaque dealings and asset juggling. Ishé Samuels-Smith joined Strasbourg from Chelsea on a permanent deal this summer before returning to Stamford Bridge and then being sent out on loan to Swansea City – all within the same window. “They’re taking us for fools,” read a banner unfurled by the Strasbourg fans in response to the saga.
A more disparaging banner was reserved for Emanuel Emegha, who will move to Chelsea next summer. The power dynamics within the BlueCo “family” mean that Chelsea get the pick of the crop. Emegha scored 14 league goals last season and was handed the captain’s armband over the summer, but he is now preparing to move to Stamford Bridge.
The announcement of the deal was not well received in Alsace. “Emegha, pawn of BlueCo, after changing shirts, hand back your captain’s armband,” read a banner. Rosenior said that Emegha was “devastated” by the banner. “I don’t know why they want him to leave straight away,” added Moreira. “OK, he has signed for Chelsea, but he is still here.”
Emegha’s insistence that he is “100% focused on Strasbourg until the end of the season” has not appeased fans. However, that he remains in France at all this season is a testament to Strasbourg’s newfound exceptionalism. While the financial realities of French football force others to sell, Strasbourg are able to retain their assets and resist even the advances of “top European clubs that play in the Champions League” – as revealed by Emegha himself.
  View image in fullscreen Strasbourg fans express their fury with Emegha. Photograph: Icon Sport/Getty Images
  Having brought in 18 players this summer for a combined €110m, making them the top spenders in Ligue 1, above even PSG, Strasbourg are now the envy of French clubs. And yet, despite joining the elite, fans are reminiscent of the times of hardship, of relegation struggles and financial worries. Rosenior pleaded for fans to applaud his players after a hard-fought win against Le Havre; he was met with hostility, boos and jeers. “Please, please,” he shouted, but the Englishman cut the image of a man fighting a hopeless battle.
The win, secured through Joaquín Panichelli’s late penalty, takes them up to fifth in Ligue 1 and level on points with third-placed Monaco. Having finished seventh last season, their performances so far this campaign suggest they will be in the race for a Champions League place. It would be quite the achievement but, for many Strasbourg fans, it still won’t be enough.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/sep/15/emanuel-emegha-Chelsea-fresh-fury-strasbourg-ligue-1

Maybe. Though with respect I prefer to take the word of over 120 organisations and Genocide Study experts, historians and UN Genocide qualified professionals, Israeli Holocaust experts and holocaust survivors along with the Isareli group B'tselem
According to a United Nations special committee,Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières, B'Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, International Federation for Human Rights, numerous genocide studies and international law scholars(including the International Association of Genocide Scholars), and many other experts, Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians during its ongoing blockade, invasion, and bombing of the Gaza Strip.[ Experts and human rights organisations identified acts of genocide, such as large-scale killing and use of starvation as a weapon of war, with the intent to destroy Gaza's population in whole or in part. Other such genocidal acts include destroying civilian infrastructure, killing healthcare workers and aid-seekers, using mass forced displacement, committing sexual violence, and preventing births.
By August 2025, the Gaza Health Ministry had reported that at least 60,138 people in Gaza had been killed—1 out of every 37 people—averaging 91 deaths per day. Most of the victims are civilians, of whom at least 50% are women and children.[Compared to other recent global conflicts, the numbers of known deaths of journalists, humanitarian and health workers, and children are the highest. Thousands more uncounted dead bodies are thought to be under the rubble of destroyed

In the summer transfer window, Juventus considered the possibility of signing Emanuel Emegha. 
In the Premier League, there was interest from Aston. And then from Champions League club Bayern Munich. 
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Chelsea are looking to extend Moises Caicedo’s contract with a pay rise which could take him to a salary of £200,000

The shooter ? yeah maybe. His dad a staunch Republican dobbed him in apparently. 

Interesting, the only problem is that Epstein is dead so we couldn't question about this connectiong as a Mossad agent. 
But if Kirk was aware of that I'm sure his wife would know......
People can always question his now widow wife in the future about this. If she did know something, did his husband mentioned anything about this? 

he wanted to rotate the line up after a IT because of phisical issues

And while I agree Gittens needs more time, its a shame the club paid so much on a player that is clearly still a project. When we have FFP constraints and other positions that desperately need strengthening.
It's less about Gittens the man, and more about how the club decides to prioritize things.
Seems like a very scatterbrained approach.
Just like their inability to secure a permanent shirt sponsor.

Many people also said the same about cucurella and Caicedo.
So they are not always right. 
With this guy I'm going to give them the Caicedo treatment. Rather wait next season as he is too raw. 

Contrary to most, his attitude can be a good thing. Everyone wrote him off or is writing him off, so use that, similar to what Cole did, everyone laughed at us for signing him over Smith-Rowe, and/or for £40m, a ‘nobody’.

Many people also said the same about cucurella and Caicedo.
So they are not always right. 
With this guy I'm going to give them the Caicedo treatment. Rather wait next season as he is too raw. 

Many people also said the same about cucurella and Caicedo.
So they are not always right. 
With this guy I'm going to give them the Caicedo treatment. Rather wait next season as he is too raw. 

Yea I agree and that's because for me they are so much in loved with their political affiliation. 
Because they are republican, they will use that as their "glasses" that will shape their worldview. 
Now to the person who killed him, he just made him a martyr. This Charlie Kirk guy, my wife and I hardly knew him. I seen him once when he was doing debate but never really followed him. 
I was actually surprised to see my daughter 12 years old listen to him, because she told me she liked to see them debate, him and his opponents. She enjoyed those debates with opposing views.... 
But after he died my wife and I have seen him more, lol. That's what happens when you create a martyr. 
In the end my wife told me he was a bit arrogant in the way he came about with his debates. "Prove me wrong" it's very arrogant and that was his motto it seems. 

Agree. Free speech doesnt mean you're allowed to say what your point of view is -but then shut down left/right whatever you disagree with.
This seems so common right now -the right in the UK bolstered by Vance and Musk yesterday with his video link to the London demo - keep saying free speech is not allowed -it is and both sides/views need to be respected. Same as on this forum we encourage challenge the argument, and not the person posting.
If I had a criticsm of Kirk, the videos I've seen, apart from the content -his 'debates' seem polemical rather than a two way deconstruction. Apart from that he seemed naive in his Worldview - quite a narrow perspective. He was also, like other right wing conservatives such as Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens seeing how the US was being played by israel and was critical, but also terrified according to his closest friend.
Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer, was ‘frightened’ by pro-Israel forces before death, friend reveals - The Grayzone
 

In the end then my opinion is that the legacy the Kirk should be follow is that of debate. 
Weather I agree with his view point or not people should be able to do that. 
If we truly live in a free society people should voiced their opinions in a respectful manner and safe environment. 
As a Christian first I don't agree with all of Kirk views, he used to put his devotion to his political affiliation often time first and when you do that it will influence your ideas. 
If I had to weight into how much I agree and how much disagree I will say 70-30....it's made up just like that so I'm not sure. 
I can say what I don't agree with, as I stated before I don't agree that weapons is a god given right (this is core under the maga, right wing ideas). We shouldn't have that kind of power for the reason that according to the bible we are a falling race and people under those conditions can do scary stuff. Sin in the heart of man drives people to do crazy stuff. 
I can also say I don't like how he attacked immigrants at times, as well the bible speak about this that we should take care of the foreigners and treating them fair. Of course bad people can come in and we need to take care of ourself for that, but we should help people that really want to be here not criminalized them. 
Those are few things that I heard from him that I don't agree. Might be more if I take more time to listen him carefully. 
But this is my opinion after taking my time to listen carefully what he has to say, not depend on the opinion of some Journalist that write with a bias and thus might not be honest with the content they have as they will chose and pick what fits their agenda. 

Agree with this. PSR rules are arbitrary & made to benefit some groups more than others.
If we unfairly took direct advantage over other teams in securing multiple top players, or directly influenced match results through unscrupulous means, that's a different story because it mocks the competition and puts other teams on the back foot.
The only way BlueCo will look good from this, is if they manage to stave off serious punishment from the FA & the Premier league.
Anything else will look like an own-goal from the owners.
 

Upgrade to Sancho. 
So glad we didn't took Sancho buy and send him back to replace him with him. 
Well done Club.