Jase

He's getting old. He has had tons of injuries in the last 3 years. He's been outscored by Alonso in terms of league goals since 2017/18. No thanks. We won't be signing him anyway.

Arsenal only had 1 shot in the entire first half against Brighton and that shot's xG is 0.06.

Heard Tier 5 is coming? England's tier system in a nutshell...

That's on Conte for not being able to counter other back 3s...

NULL AND VOID THE SEASON!

Not saying our youth is bad but christ, you really sound like some of those ******** Chelsea youth accounts on Twitter.

It's also because Sarriball is just bad and doesn't seem to work at the biggest clubs. He had better and more creative players at Juventus and still played bad football and got sacked. He just happened to have all the tools at Napoli. Conteball was largely fine till Conte himself decided to check out in his second season. What he did and got us play in the first season was arguably our most exciting season in the last decade.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/29/diego-costa-cancels-atletico-madrid-contract-leaves-six-months-early?CMP=share_btn_tw Costa left Atletico 6 months early and apparently due to personal reasons. Will have to pay €15m to Atletico if he joins a rival in La Liga or in the Champions League.

Just got sacked by Sheffield Wednesday after 1 win in 10 games. lol

Firstly, I find it funny how you're suddenly just plucking names like Gilmour and Bate and throwing them into the mix when talking about creative players. Secondly, yes, we have never lost with Ziyech but you made it sound as if we've played 100 games with him and won every single one of them when in fact, the sample size is very small and deceiving. Ziyech has made just 12 appearances this season - only 7 starts - played 612 minutes: ZIYECH'S STARTS: W 4-0 Krasnodar W 3-0 Rennes W 3-0 Burnley W 4-1 Sheffield United W 2-0 Newcastle D 0-0 Spurs W 3-1 Leeds (played only 30 minutes and the score was 1-1 then) ZIYECH'S SUB APPEARANCES: D 0-0 Sevilla W 2-1 Rennes W 4-0 Sevilla (were 2-0 up already when he came on) D 3-3 Southampton (were winning 3-2 when he came on) D 0-0 Man United Looking at the games Ziyech started this season, are you gonna tell me that we should not beating most of those teams - with or without Ziyech? Krasnodar and Rennes were hopeless in the group. Burnley, Sheffield United, Newcastle and Leeds are in the bottom half of the league. The one game where we played a top half team, we didn't win (surprise surprise!) and Ziyech had an absolute stinker in that game. We didn't beat all the top half teams last season but we managed to beat a few, without Ziyech and the other new signings. So really, is this "we can't win without Ziyech" really a legitimate excuse for our recent struggles? We won games against top half teams last season, so why can't we do it this season, especially with the new signings?

Is it really a good thing when we get free weeks under Lampard? Because that is when he will just use the opportunity to overwork the players and random injuries will pop up and lethargic performances will follow. It's been a trend ever since he came in. Lack of pre-season or not, that does not even explain Lampard's decision, for example, to overplay Werner, play him as a winger, when he did his best work at Leipzig as a second striker, to the point where he has looked jaded and his confidence looks shattered. That is not because we didn't have pre-season or even because of Lampard's inexperience. That is just a braindead tactical decision and bad player management. Moreover, Lampard knew we wouldn't have pre-season and the kind of the schedule we would have going into the summer and he still went out and bought the players that he did anyway. Is the lack of pre-season really an excuse then? We are into 18 months in Lampard's time at the club, not 18 weeks. That is why his first season was important because that should be where he set up the template of his system, embed it to the team etc and then you look at where we can improve, buy the players and fit them in. But so far, Lampard has made an absolute mess of it, even with the lack of pre-season. He was still changing systems at the start of the season before stumbling onto 4-3-3, then doesn't seem to have a clue on how to fit Werner and Havertz - his two biggest signings - in. Moreover, even if we get 3 weeks to work on things, will Lampard really move on from the playing style of us getting the ball wide and spamming crosses into the box? 🙄 At this point, we're just hoping Lampard will turn things around rather than actually have real confidence that he will do so.

Christensen must have blackmailed Lampard or something. It's a joke that he keeps getting opportunities to play even though he keeps making mistakes while someone like Tomori was never seen again after Bournemouth away (IIRC) last season.

Speaking of Hasenhuttl...

Honestly, I have no freaking clue anymore. Tuchel looks suitable because of his style of play but am not convinced at all due to his character and his tactical decisions. Allegri is fine by me, if only because he is tactically savvy and doesn't seem like a combustible character or close it, but don't think his style of play is suited to this team. Would be okay with Pochettino because he does seem to tick all the boxes but he's going to PSG. Otherwise, all the choices like Nagelsmann and Hasenhuttl are at a club right now and I don't think they will leave midway through the season. Never mind the results, Lampard is really making it tough to feel even confident that he will turn things around given he doesn't seem to have a clue of how to utilize the players properly and he is making us play like an expensive version of Burnley.

If we are going to sack Lampard, now might be the perfect to do it because if those 2 games get postponed, then whoever comes in will have 17 days (IIRC) to work with the players until our trip to Fulham. Otherwise, he won't have many days at all to work with the players.

They could have worked in the UK, just like in other countries who have managed to contain the pandemic, but there are idiots running the government.

He's a free agent now...

Guessing this isn't photoshopped...

Lampard is currently at 7/2 to be sacked, according to the bookies, but there's been nothing from the media to suggest his job is really on the line or that he is on the brink.

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