Sideshow Luiz

I know. He's a gigantic child.

Apparently he is the one being blamed for setting off the fireworks at the end of the Spurs match. From Telegraph: The Spaniard is alleged to have slapped more than one Tottenham player and member of staff in the groin area, sparking a number of verbal and physical reactions.

They are absolutely throwing everything out of the pram. Fucking love it.

Butt-hurt Spurs. They've lost the rag. Go fuck yourselves. They can go to the Leicester club shop and get some gold patches put on their kit next year. Willian can show them where they go.

He said it! He did it!

WHAT A FUCKING GOAL!!!

No excuses. Just how I saw it. Visions of personal glory < team.

He had visions of glory

Should have played Hazard in there. He was screaming for it

Let's go!!!!

That doesn't mean that much. It just shows that even in a terrible season, we still have it over Arsenal. Those games ultimately didn't mean anything. This one does.

Need this win. Got to have at least 1 positive from this season.

They should just give it to Iazzard. Joke season = joke award.

I think he's off this summer. I'm okay with it, depending on the fee of course. He's not irreplaceable and he's not as important for us as De Gea is for Utd. I see Forster's name being thrown around, but I'd rather go for Butland if we were to go the English route. I'd like Lloris but that's a pipe dream. Ter Stegen would be a possible option for us, I think.

That last one isn't going to happen, I'm afraid.

I agree. Before they were RM rejects, they were highly sought after. They are only RM rejects because that's what RM do; they fall in love with someone else and you can only have XI on the pitch. Sneijder left Madrid and won the CL at Inter, then went to the WC finals. Robben has had a fantastic career at Bayern. These are just two more examples. A lot of these players are pretty good deals (in terms of transfer fees), of course they are on RM wages, so the fees have to be a bit lower.

I think he became obsessed with beating Pep and Barca and the Barca way. He became even more defensive and pragmatic. https://www.theblizzard.co.uk/articles/the-devils-party/

I said it more in jest. I suspect he'll use a 433 since that's what he wanted at Juve.

I haven't completely given up on Oscar. It's true, I don't think he's progressed much. But, I don't think he's a real no.10. I see him as more of a CM in a 433 type of system. Could possibly be a 10 in a 2 striker formation. Basically, I don't think he has the mentality for a second striker type role.

I was hoping for Bielsa too. Bielsa interim, to Sampaoli permanent. Here's a scary thought: Maybe that's exactly what has happened. And this is how we're going to play next year.

Not familiar with Murillo, but Koulibaly has been pretty beastly when I've seen him.

Yeah, I don't know why he hasn't changed anything. New formations, etc. More pitch time for some of the youngsters has been good, but I'd like to see a bit more. We're basically playing friendlies for the rest of the season anyway. Ask Conte what he'd like to see, and try it out.

I think everyone has posted their comments on Conte in the "Next Chelsea manager" thread, sometime over the last 2 months.

Shouldn't it be Blind to Chelsea then?