Jase

Yes but at least let Werner get off the mark in the Premier League.

Bloody Jorginho!

Reguilon who?

Did Chilwell take set pieces at Leicester? This is kinda all strange to see.

LOL

Here's something more colorful...

Zouma starts.

Pretty sure Rice is a Lampard target as opposed to the club's, going by the stories out there. Partey or not, it's almost irresponsible that we don't seem to have other alternatives and are throwing all the eggs into one basket. Unless West Ham get relegated, there's no guarantee either that they will change their stance on Rice next summer given he's on a long term contract there and Rice isn't even doing anything to try and force the move, regardless of what he has said in interviews etc.

You would not be wrong there if Rice is the best defensive midfielder in the world but he isn't. It is debatable whether he is even the best option out there. Plus, it's not as if the other options are useless or that their club want to insert a buy back clause. Take a short term hit? If West Ham don't want to sell now, what makes you think they will sell in January? If we don't get him now, we'll very likely have to wait till next summer and given our midfield problems right now, can we afford to wait until then? Are we gonna spend the next 7-8 months complaining about the stupid mistakes, the midfield setup etc over and over again and watch it cost us chances of winning games and maybe even challenge for trophies? How is this the same as panic buying in January? We already knew for the longest time possible that the midfield is a problem for us and we have had the whole summer to address the issue but we haven't. If we don't get anyone in now, chances are we won't buy anyone till next summer and we'll see and complain about the same old problems repeatedly over the season.

Ben Chilwell looks to Ashley Cole to ignite his fire at Chelsea https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/oct/02/ben-chilwell-looks-to-ashley-cole-to-ignite-his-fire-at-chelsea?CMP=share_btn_tw

Guardian's story on the CHO-Bayern situation... https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/oct/02/bayern-munich-in-talks-with-chelsea-over-callum-hudson-odoi-loan-deal

Spurs have signed Carlos Vinicius from Benfica it seems.

Our Champions League Group Stage fixtures confirmed (plus with Premier League fixtures below): Oct 17 - Southampton (H) Oct 20 - Sevilla (H) Oct 24 - Man United (A) Oct 28 - Krasnodar (A) Oct 31 - Burnley (A) Nov 4 - Rennes (H) Nov 7 - Sheffield United (H) Nov 21 - Newcastle (A) Nov 24 - Rennes (A) Nov 28 - Spurs (H) Dec 2 - Sevilla (A) Dec 5 - Leeds (H) Dec 8 - Krasnodar (H) Dec 12 - Everton (A)

My concern is Lampard consider Werner and Havertz as winger options and play them there if/when needed. And when they don't play well there, we'll be having endless debates over their best position etc.

You might be right in that it's BS and there's nothing from the English media side yet but the problem is, Lampard didn't shut down the CHO rumors either earlier today.

If we sell CHO and don't get anyone in as replacement, we're setting ourselves up for failure.

So, we started the transfer window on fire but are now seemingly gonna end it on a damp squib...