Sideshow Luiz

I've been a Conte supporter (though I can see the writing on the wall), but this is absolute shit on a stick football. From minute 4.

Headed goal or missed 1 v 1 incoming.

Which team were the champions last season and which is the team that's going to be relegated?

Good god, just end this match. This is a steaming pile of garbage, I want to go on with my day.

He has absolutely no clue of where he's supposed to be or what he's supposed to do. It feels like he's actually trying to create a 50-50 ball with every one of his passes.

Exactly like that. I'd actually forgive the miss if he tried it.

Morata can't buy a goal with his feet. Next time he's 1 v 1 he should think about knocking it up to himself and using his head.

I hope Arsenal go for Enrique. And "steal" him from us.

I've never really rated him. These rumours bother me, I hope they go away. I'd rather go for Bailey AND Malcom.

This is kind of bad news. We have competition for a manager and I don't trust the board to beat Arsenal to our top target.

How about Barkley? Why did we even buy him?

We've given up so many points from winning positions this season. That was always going to happen.

I don't think selfish had anything to do with it. Should have been nailed on to score either way. That was a shocking piece of "finishing"

Haha. Sorry, missed that.

Someone tell the board that he is 29 so they don't chase him all summer then find out on deadline day.

If Zappacosta plays on the left, and Moses on the right, something is definitely up.

Biggest fix I've ever seen.

I stand corrected.

I feel for the away support. This team has given up.

I think he wanted to leave last summer, but would have had some sort of financial penalty. New contract for more money, now looking for a pay off. He's not stupid.

Holy shit. Pedro has been woeful.

Matches like this happen, but far too many of them this season.

FFS.

We're not a selling club, but we're kind of a net spend 0 club, right now. When teams have lots of money to spend the expensive players make the headlines, but really, the big advantage is that you can afford to miss on a target. Don't like your England International? Get Bravo for 30M. Didn't work out? Drop another 30 on Eduardo. When you don't spend a lot of money you can't make any mistakes in the market. We were left exposed by the combined downgrades of Costa -> Morata, and Matic ->Bakayoko. Spent a net 35M on "upgrading" Chalobah to Drinkwater. Can safely say that we struck out last summer. It seems that Monaco kind of hedge their bets a bit. They get in lots of talent. They don't need all of them to work out. 1 or 2 will fund another summer. Depends on what Roman sees as the identity for the club.

I've been thinking of this "philosophy" situation. I've often raged about our lack of "philosophy". But, I kind of realized that we have/had one. It was instilled by Mourinho. Look at the squad after he left. Same kind of players, in fact, most of his squad have stuck around until these past couple of seasons. It's why when things go bad, we always revert to pragmatism and defending deep and "suffering without the ball". The problem now, is that we don't have any leaders in the team, like those days. So, it doesn't work. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a NEW philosophy. And I think the club want that too. Campos and Jardim would definitely be a step in the right direction (though AVB was supposed to be the start of a new philosophy too).