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Can't believe this hasn't been ruled out altogether yet by Frank. If CHO was valued highly when he was on the last year of his contract then imagine how much the asking price will be now? No way Bayern are stumping up the cash + he is in Lampard's plans. He has an excellent burst of pace and even with Ziyech, Pulisic around, CHO is a direct winger that who could be of real value to our attack this season

Not out of sight yet. This defense needs a cleansheet to gain some confidence

If Pulisic can go today then Pulisic for Tammy and Timo up front has to be the change soon

Better performance. But still side-to-side and cross FC

Nonetheless, a small upgrade in the position with lesser tendency to do a seek-and-destroy job in midfield

Has played as the lone DM. Remember him against Liverpool earlier this year in which he was excellent

Falk got that Mount story wrong this summer

I am having doubts over those figures. Matt Law said the Chelsea asking price was 30m and no club matched it.

Chilwell will start at LB

Wondering if anyone knows if his visa issues are what's keeping him away

Could we see Roman attend the game?

In before we are 2-1 in the 75th minute against Rennes on final day needing a win to qualify

Drogba and Malouda doing us a solid.

Lampard's quotes suggest he's on his way too and there will certainly be interest for him.

Yep. Makes me think there's a midfielder signing in the last few days

Werner should play down the middle again with Havertz behind him. Hopefully, on Saturday we will see this. This season was always going to take a while to get going. Players don't have an attacking plan at the moment. The end of the game told you everything. Team held possession for a good few minutes but went nowhere with it except for side to side.

Retain Malang Sarr and send Emerson and Alonso out? Or make Azpi backup LB. Just thinking of solutions in-house. Too much of a leap for Maatsen to take up that role.

Collectively poor in the second half except for Kante who was fresh. Tough luck for Mount. Penalty is a lottery. Anyway, not bothered about Carabao Cup this year when the season is so packed. At least helps free up fixture congestion in December.

This should end the Chilwell-Reguillon comparisons for a while

Why play a full strength team? Spurs will definitely rotate with Thursday in mind. Can give gametime for guys like Ross, Oli and Tomori

Funnily, if he had stayed at Chelsea, he could have gotten a chance at first team football when Kepa's form nosedived

Why would Telles come and be a backup?

Too dramatic this is. But it will still be tough to move either Emerson or Alonso before the window.

Not happy with how this blew up but fair enough from Lampard. Coaches don't take behaviour like this. Everyone in the squad were in shock after the first half, even Lampard must have been seething. I see no issue with that emotion coming out at the end with Alonso.

Yes, we have to acknowledge that the first three shots from WBA went in and two of them were casual turnovers and one was a setpiece. The issue is going forward against low-blocks. Three goals scored but so many attacks eventually turned to Reece James crossing. There's no midfield player confident enough to ping the ball down the middle and try to pick the lock. One of the few times they played down the middle was the Havertz pass to CHO for the second goal.