BlueLyon

Player availability, IMO LB and CB are the easiest. They also cost less than wingers or strikers, so the january inflated price will still be realistic to pursuit, unlike some strikers who are already super expensive, but they will be even more in january. But yeah, with Alonso and Emerson, I dont see chance board would buy another fullback. Emerson has to show something first before being sold and Alonso is "key" player. Idealy we would ship Alonso or even Emerson (if Sarri has no plan to play him) and buy new LB because there are many who can be persuaded like Telles, Firpo,... New CB can be easily bought in january with someone like Rugani, but again I would like the board to target someone better like Hernandez or Skriniar. That said, striker is absolute crucial thing. But I think we just cant get anyone good enough in january. I dont want some short gap that will only fill squad places and then we wont be able to get rid off. Just maybe with Ibra reported to return to europe, a cheeky bid for a six months/year wouldnt hurt anyone, seems impossible though. RW should be targeted in summer IMO because we have to ship Willian/Pedro and we wont do that in january.

Oh thats cool then. But Hysaj wont be cheap, do we realy need to spend this much on backup when we desperately need starters? We could put James as backup for Azpi anyway.

Brace yourselves, winter is coming

He is not great right now, but anyone saying we should sell him should rethink about watching football. Hazard is still regardless head and shoulders ahead of anything at the club, specialy now that Kante and Azpi dont play as great as they used to. It is hard to replace him right now, and absolutely impossible to do it with our current clueless board. People saying our burnley game was most complete and Hazard didnt play, well great, lets just stick with Pedro and Willian for next 5 years then. Also having someone like Eden out injured is completely different to not having Eden in club at all. The players react differently. Just look at Real, they didnt seem bad when Ronaldo was out injured/rested, because they wanted to prove themselves. Now that Ronaldo is actualy no longer at the club, all pressure is fully on other players and they are dogshit. Without Eden we wont be even near CL, especialy when you look how ambitious the club is, targeting fucking Ruganis and Hysajs...

The board and managers lack balls for years now. No one wants to play less known players and maybe risk a game or two in favour of bright future, so they just stick with past-it "proven" players.

If its true, wtf? We want to replace Azpi before we replace Alonso? And with fucking hysaj of all people.

What is more, Eden might leave in summer, which means only Azpi and Kante remain of the 3 reliable players we had. But Sarri managed to ruin both. Lovely.

There are so many good available LBs out there like Grimaldo, Telles, Firpo, even Chilwell,...literaly no excuse for the board not to pick one in the near future.

Up until 1st goal we were ok. We had control and all. Then we created 2 serious chances, at which point it should be 2 up and game in our hands. Instead our might attack flopped time after time and they got themselves back in the game after realizing our attack is not working. We should kill the game off, but we didnt. Thanks to our attacking lineup.

Hazard is seriously underperforming too for a while now. Not that he is bad, he is still one of best on pitch, but when you know his ability, he is way off right now. He was flying in early months, but then he faded once our title chances got shot seeing how good Pool and City are doing. He had these out of form games, but almost always put serious performances against top teams, however he was usual bad vs spurs last week and I doubt he will be fired up for City. Then again, with Willian and Morata against top side, why even try hard. One player cant defeat them and Hazard's team mates in attack are as shit as you can get for a top team. He is literaly surrounded by 3 worst players in squad; Willian, Alonso and Morata. I would get my hopes shot down before match even begun if I was him.

It probably has nothing to do with training at this point. Just lack of balls to try something new. Marcos is established player, one who won PL and obviously wont be dropped. Same with Willian. Same was with Iva when we already had Azpi in squad, but he was on bench until Cole injured himself and we were forced to play Azpi on left.

I fucking hope it happens. Because if we win that game with them, this lot wont be dropped for next 3 years.

Dont want to sound arrogant, but 5th place isnt good enough. CL is absolute must. We cant go another season without cl football for all the obvious reasons. As for Sarri, I doubt he will drop Alonso even after such shitshow tonight. We need at least two more losses for anyone at club to realize something is wrong ffs.

The fucking arrogance when you rotate vs Wolverhampton and plan to go full strenght vs city, thinking you can snatch 6 points. Instead of at least 3 vs wolves, we are on good course to end up with zero. Amazing.

Just dont fucking pay 60m for Kovacic in summer. We have RLC and money has to be spent elsewhere. Kovacic is nothing but flair. He offers zero end product that can actualy change the game.

Yeah Kepa and Hazard are underperforming but thats not going to save us every damn game. They are still decent though, but not great. What does Alonso or Morata offer past few weeks? Absolutely fucking nothing. Thats the difference.

Its not one game though. I was silent most of this season, but tonight you can see damn glimses its all same old shit. New manager, old problems. Alonso is pure shit and you dont need to be expert to see it. We even have better fullback in Emerson atm and he isnt playing. Rotating in such important game, as if we can afford to rotate since its going to be hard to win against city anyway. Might as well rotate there, because its not like Willian and co are going to destroy them. We arent 1st place quality, but top 4 is defintely crucial. No fucking excuse. And Arsenal, spurs are both in much better form now. We had good start, but thats over. Arsenal started weak, but they cought their form and actualy play consistently good now (somehow we are doing the opposite) Everyone saying Cho is not ready blah blah. RLC was last midfielder anyone would think about at start of season but look how much wonder some playtime did for him. Cho needs a damn chance and when you have Willian who is absolute piss, why the hell not play CHO? Because we would lose? We are losing eitherway 2:1... Not much can be done with striker indeed, we simply need to buy new one soon. But finaly, we started well and got better, then that was over and now we are crap for at least 1 month. Our attack is terrible overall. We played only spuds of the good teams and they spanked us. We played shit even against some terrible teams.

Well Kovacic gets in the game and alredy fucks up a simple pass

We have Emerson and he isnt even on bench haha What we need is striker though because our attack (Morata, Giroud) is pure shit.

Honeymoon period is over. We played better two months ago when we should actualy play better now if things evolved properly. It just goes to show that everyone was in high spirits in start, worked together etc etc, but now that faded and we are back to bad form with bad results AND bad performances. Our attack linkup is non-existent ffs.

Thats for rotating against wolverhampton. If we dont win this, how will we win against city? What was Sarri thinking anyway? To rotate tonight and go full strenght vs city? Its all about 3 points man. We have more chance to win against wolves and should go full strenght against them because its easier to get 3 points. Even with best 11, our chances against city arent that great. Now we are losing against wolves because we didnt pick strongest 11, and we might aswell lose to city even with strongest 11. Bloody great thinking. We just arent that good yet to be able to afford such shit. And if you are rotating, he didnt do one rotation that actualy makes sense (Alonso_Emerson)

We should be 2:0 ahead but obviously our finishing is crap and they get brave and score 1:1 Fucking hell just drop Morata. He is awful.

Cool signing for them. I like Soton, hopefuly they stay in prem.

Apparently negotiations fell apart between Juve and Sandro who wanted same wage as Dybala and Pjanic and Juve board took it very badly. If there is any chance he will be available next summer, we should be all over him.

Its actualy realy funny how us and United ended up fighting for two shit strikers, meanwhile Arsenal grabs not one but 2 realy good ones with no competion.