Jase

Why the fuck did UEFA even open the investigation since it was long ago?

So with City's ban overturned, it's do-or-die in the last 3 games then... ...and I am not confident.

OFFICIAL: FINANCIAL FAIR PLAY IS DEAD!

https://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/CAS_Media_Release_6785_Decision.pdf WHAT A FUCKING JOKE!!!!

According to David Ornstein: The club are monitoring Onana as doubts remain over Kepa Onana sits high on the club's list Onana will be available for around 30 million Euros Asking price and Kepa's salary likely to be the biggest stumbling blocks to potential deals for him There's been regular contact in recent months between the club and Onana's representatives Onana understood to be attracted by the idea of playing for Lampard and playing in the Premier League The club yet to decide Kepa's fate at the club - whether it's just a temporary loss of form or time to move him on Lampard also understood to be an admirer of Dean Henderson

Our board can be hopeless at times but if people think they are the worst, they only need to look at Barcelona's.

The manager's input has only been important when the board suddenly decide to. They may have gotten Jorginho and Higuain for Sarri but they have also signed players like Drinkwater and Barkley when nobody asked for them or not gotten the defender and midfielder and striker that Mourinho wanted after winning the title in 2015. One can hope this will no longer be the case moving forward but the board have a history of acting on their own. Otherwise, agree to disagree.

It's ironic you praised the board for "ignoring" the fans on those names when this is the same board who spent 70 million Kepa, who looks a totally lost cause now, 50 million+ Jorginho, who is neither here nor there, 50 million+ on Morata - we're lucky that Atletico are "generous" and 30 million+ or whatever on players like Drinkwater - they even gave him a 100k p/w wages! The board should be praised when they have gotten it right but let's not pretend they have not had their fair share of shockers over the years.

I cannot understand how people can accept Alonso as our first choice left back when we used to have arguably the best one around in Ashley Cole. Have the standards really dropped for us? Alonso is more of a wing back than a left back and sure, he pops up with goals here and there but his lack of pace, his lack of mobility and lack of ability hinder our attacking play so much. The fact that he is not capable of beating a player 1 v 1 or dribble past them means he has to potentially pass backwards or sideways when closed down or that we have to get into specific situations where we have to play him into space to potentially cause damage. You only have to look at sides like Liverpool and Bayern and see the benefit of having extremely good full backs - ones with pace, mobility, agility, ability, dynamism and the ability to create chances on a consistent basis.

If we want to talk about minutes, then Pedro had played more than Willian across the 2 seasons under Conte. 5,232 to 5,079. You're not wrong but the major difference in the minutes came in the Premier League and if you look closer at the games towards the end of the season, Pedro did start to play more and he was selected to start the Europa League final ahead of Willian, for example. If Willian is someone like Hazard, then sure selling him would just be stupid but he isn't. The point is we could have sold him for the big fee that was mentioned, the fee that is way more than he is worth and we could have used that money to reinvest in the squad. Plus with Willian's contract situation, we've basically come to the same point again with him but without getting any fee in return - do we let him go or keep him around because it would affect the balance of the squad? Do we give him the 3-year contract?

Knew he's good. Should have been given time and patience when he was at the club.

Willian wasn't here when Benitez was the manager. Hiddink didn't do much apart from just steadying the ship. Conte and Sarri played Willian initially but went with Pedro later on anyway. Lovely...then why do we even having discussions? Why do we even have forums? Let's just pack it in and be passive fans... This 'reasoning' is such a convenient or lazy one to be thrown around when you happen to agree with a certain scenario. Because when you don't agree with it, this 'reasoning' won't even be mentioned at all.

Am sure @Vesper has drawn up a list of potential replacements for Willian back then somewhere. But you're kinda focusing only on the downside had we sold Willian when we could have easily gotten the big fee for him and gotten someone younger and better. And let's face it, Willian is consistently average. He will put in 5 exceptional performances out of 50 games per season and the rest he just doesn't do much but people will think he's great and all that.

You're talking about someone who didn't want to sell Willian for 60-70 million...

Burnley still have an outside chance of qualifying for Europe. Only 4 points behind 7th and 2 behind 8th, which could be a European spot depending on what happens with City's ban appeal.

I meant her setting the fee too high that clubs are not willing to pay.

Imagine if we drop points here. IMAGINE...

We don't deserve this...

Provided she doesn't get too greedy!

On selling the players bit, let's see us sell first before getting far too ahead of ourselves.

You all mocked Solanke and now he's scored. lol

Why will Spurs throw away the Leicester match when they still have a chance to qualify for the Europa League?

Well, he's been linked with Man City and maybe United as well.