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Our PL fixtures on either side of the UCL group games: Wolves (a) Valencia (h) Liverpool (h) Brighton (h) Lille (a) Southampton (a) Newcastle (h) Ajax (a) Burnley (a) Watford (a) Ajax (h) Crystal Palace (h) Man City (a) Valencia (a) West Ham (h) Everton (a) Lille (h) Bournemouth (h)

Our UCL group fixtures: Valencia (h) Lille (a) Ajax (a) Ajax (h) Valencia (a) Lille (h)

You're in luck, @Tomo. We begin against Valencia at the Bridge. Liverpool start at Napoli.

The first match will be in between Wolves (a) and Liverpool (h).

Could have been A LOT worse but our group won't be easy either. SHOULD get out of the group though.

This is meant to be specifically for Chelsea as it's in the Matthew Harding section. But you bastards can't be controlled and go off the rails.

No Kante for France's upcoming Euro qualifiers. Good.

Getting Inter would be shit TBH. And I still remember Conte's Juve smashed us back in 2012/13.

We got either Macclesfield or Grimsby at home in the third round.

Confirmed UCL group draw pots! Can't wait for us to get Real Madrid, Inter Milan and RB Leipzig in the CL group stage... [The draw is tomorrow, Thursday, at 5pm BST]

Doesn't change the fact that you're still having to hope the good Luiz turn up for the game.

lol If you say so...

Okay, CHO may have played primarily on the right side last season but wingers playing on the "wrong" side is not rare, is it? So, I don't think this is a case of fans judging a player playing out of position. It's just a case of judging players in the position they play in - a winger - regardless of whether it's left or right. Furthermore, a winger playing left or right is completely different to a midfielder playing in midfield. There are far more different roles, responsibilities etc in that position than playing as a winger - left or right. I don't disagree with your point on Loftus-Cheek, mind.

Agree with you on Pulisic’s physical struggles but CHO was hit-and-miss in the Premier League last season. The comparison with other players is just annoying - each player is different and they adapt differently. And if we buy another player next season, it’ll be because we need replacement for Willian/Pedro rather than Pulisic (or whoever else) not performing.

Are the knives already getting sharpen for Pulisic? Yes, he needs to get better but let’s not act as if he has been here for years. He’s in a new league, a new team - a team that is undergoing transition no less - give him time, be patient. He’s only 20 after all. Also funny you mentioned Pulisic must step up but the same wasn’t said about CHO. Let’s face it, he did well for us last season but it was pretty much only in the Europa League where the oppositions weren’t great. CHO has the potential, but he still has a lot to prove. It’s hard to predict our future first team players right now. We need Pulisic, CHO etc to step up - not just one or the other

Mourinho only did that in one game (away at Man City, IIRC). Even then though, you still require Luiz to be 100% discipline and focused in carrying out the tasks and those things are never guaranteed with Luiz.

Waiting to see what is CHO's reported wages when the contract is eventually signed. The amount that has been reported gets ridiculous with every news. Hard to believe that we would pay 3 players over 200k per week, especially when two of them are not even fully established players yet.