Sideshow Luiz

We're waiting for the Nike deal to kick in before announcing our signings. Have to have them in the new shirt.

Hahaha, that's the same shopping list we had at the start of the summer.

I don't disagree with you at all. One of my biggest gripes with this club is that they don't know if they are coming or going. There's no footballing identity that they are trying to nurture.

It's not the end, the club will go on. We're not after him because he's too expensive, simple. His wages + transfer fee + age + what it does to our wage structure. The club absolutely know that a transfer fee of 20-30M is very good for a player of this quality, we just spent 15 on Barkley. But, it's the other stuff. It must mean that we can't afford him. Same reason why Tottenham, Dortmund, Lyon and countless other clubs aren't linked with him.

You stupid idiot. Don't wish for ridiculous things like that.

Moses hits his crosses and shots the same. Smash it in a random direction.

Holy shit, Moses

Listening to the commentator talk about how unlucky that was for a second yellow. Unlucky would have been to get a straight red for that like Cahill got in the first match of the season.

Good god. Stay on your feet. The ref will give the foul when you are actually unable to stay upright

how are we not 3-0 down?

Jesus Bakayoko. "nice job winning the ball, Kante" "i'm going to fuck up this 5 yard pass, see if you can do it again"

Agreed. He's looking poor because he has to try to do everything himself.

And Okazaki dropping deep to put pressure on Kante.

Our midfield 3 being bossed by their 2. What do we do? Bring on another midfielder? FFS, this is poor. Just hoping to nick a result at home.

0 intensity with the closing down or the passing. Bakayoko and Morata look off the pace again. Moses with the usual stupid decisions.

Wouldn't mind seeing a goal. Anyone else remember those? Good fun, if I recall.

I never really believed the Conte to leave rumours that have been going around for the past year and a half (basically since the Arsenal match last season). But, I believe them now. I think he's gone in the summer. I understand that he wants a team that going to spend some money to challenge for the title, which we are not doing these days. But, I'm wondering what kind of conversation was had before he took the job. Surely these things were discussed and it's not like this new stadium has come out of the blue.

Tuchel did a really good job at Dortmund, but they parted company because he fell out with the board. I'm not sure he'd work here.

I thought Arsenal defended well today. We outnumbered them in midfield and still had to try to bypass from defence to the frontline too often. Cesc's passing was mediocre today. In our 352, it's obvious that we need a real box to box threat in midfield or it's just Hazard and Morata vs 4 or 5.

For the Lemar/Malcom depate that was kind of going on. Couldn't find a Malcom thread, so I'll post this article here if anyone is interested: https://statsbomb.com/2018/01/how-good-is-malcom/

So, win-win, then? We keep Kante and only have to hear from Jose every few years when we play PSG in the CL. Sounds good to me.

Was brilliant yesterday. Hopefully we can stop this narrative that it would be very easy to replace him. I don't know if he's going to stay long term, I get why he thinks about Madrid. But, it would be a massive loss for us.

Courtois MOTM for me

Holy shit. 3 missed 1v1s WTF?!?