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Easiest win over Everton? They were so bad. From our perspective, a solid performance and were the better side but it's just a shame that we didn't really put them to the sword when we should have. Other than that, good win, 6 points from 9 games. Now go sign players!

Perhaps so but you know lots of the fans won't see it that way. They have a blind spot for our youth players.

Liverpool are apparently going for Renato Sanches. If they get him, would AOC even get to play in CM if he joined them?

Think it will mostly depend on how much playing time he'll get. If he's going to play more than Liverpool, then he'll likely move up there.

Too easy to say that's the case though. I mean, we all know the real competition in a tournament doesn't begin until the knockout stage. The group stage is supposed to be a procession. I mean sure, with the way the pots have been allocated in the Champions League, some clubs are bound to get harder draws but ideally, you want to get an easy group because you do not want to suffer the disappointment of being knocked out early or knocked out in the stupidest/smallest of margins. Remember how we came third in 2012/13 group all because Shakhtar scored one away goal more than us in the head-to-head matches? Also recall there was a season where Arsenal, Dortmund and Napoli all ended up with the same number of points in the group and Napoli missed out on qualification due to lowest GD (IIRC) in the head-to-head mini league. And not to mention, you also want an easy group so that it doesn't take too much of the team for the league games.

We do love buying injured players all of a sudden...

Just noticed that Daily Mirror and Daily Mail have also reported the same thing (neither of them quoted Telegraph). So there might be some truth to it..?

If we sign him, imagine the fans' fury of selling Chalobah, Ake etc and buying Llorente.

Starting to think watching paint dry is more fun than seeing our board attempt to sign a player. Are we actually even going to sign any player? 1 week left and there is absolutely nothing concrete on actually signing players.

They did. UEFA have a generic sequence to determine each matchday's matches. As alluded in the screenshot above, that sequence doesn't always apply because there are certain factors to take into consideration (e.g. teams from same city can't play at home on same matchday). The media - I believe it was London Evening Standard who tweeted it first - jumped the gun before getting official confirmation. The fixtures are usually only out an hour after the draw.

If people actually believed that Juventus are interested in Cahill, then they seriously need a brain check...fast!

Talk about jumping the gun! That's not the right fixtures...this is!

It's based on club's coefficient ranking.

Getting Atletico and Roma and with Conte's dodgy European record hanging over him, this is gonna be awkward to say the least.

Full 3rd round draw West Brom vs Manchester City Everton vs Sunderland Leicester City vs Liverpool Manchester United vs Burton Albion Brentford vs Norwich City Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Bristol Rovers Burnley vs Leeds United Arsenal vs Doncaster Rovers Bristol City vs Stoke City Reading vs Swansea City Aston Villa vs Middlesbrough Chelsea vs Nottingham Forest West Ham United vs Bolton Wanderers Crystal Palace vs Huddersfield Town Tottenham Hotspur vs Barnsley/Derby County AFC Bournemouth vs Brighton and Hove Albion

Matt Law's transfer story is getting really boring...

Anybody staying up or waking up for the League Cup draw? It's at 4:15am UK time tomorrow.

Group F is so 2011/12

If you wanna have some fun, try out this group stage draw simulator https://draw.inker.fun/#/cl/gs

The Champions League draw will take place tomorrow at 5pm UK time and here are the confirmed pots: Odds on us ending up with Atletico Madrid, Napoli and RB Leipzig (or something along that difficulty)?