BlueLyon

IMO Kante-Jorginho wont work. Kante likes to roam aroud and Jorginho isnt your typical destroyer. We need a DM that stays back and protects the line of defense. Without DM, they just roll through the middle. Unless we suddenly start pressing like mad, then it would work, but with current work ethic, there would be too much open space in middle without proper DM, something that was exploited this year without Matic.

Nope, he is done. At very best a sub and option against shit sides. If we want to move forward as a club, Cesc got to be out. He is midfielder, but doesnt know how to defend, how to lead, how to motivate, how to sacrifice himself for the team, how to shoot, how to set tempo. He is slow and absolute piss under pressure. Cant take corners, cant take set pieces. He had marvelous pass, but that went out of the window too.

Haha yes. Well we did splash cash for Diego replacement, the board will be probably serious to invest in new CM when Cesc leaves. But unlike with Costa, we wont get much cash for Cesc, if any at all. Or, we will play with Cesc in first 11 for another season

TBH I think its absolutely urgent we sign experienced midfielder who can handle that role instantly. Its such crucial position that we cant afford inexperience and mistakes right now. Althrough players like Soler, Weigl or Aouar would be incredible long term investment, they are simply not ready to lead our midfield, especialy not Aouar. For Sari and Jorginho, they look fragile but are much more dynamic players than Cesc, dont let that deceive you. Both can also keep the ball under pressure, Seri has great balance and Jorginho awarness is probably one of best out there. He almost never loses the ball. I never liked Cesc, everyone created picture that he was midfield leader, but I never bought that shit. He played for so long, captained Arsenal, part of Barca and yet he never struck me as a leader. He always dissapeared when it mattered and he never stood his ground, be a man. I disliked him back in 2014 when he was still good player, but he always felt like a liability to me. He was main creator, main source of control and creativity in our team, but he dissapeared against every decent side and thats big problem. I wanted we get rid of him earlier, because if your main midfielder cant lead your team in big games, thats problem. But people here never saw this because of his magic pass. If we had competent midfielder, we would achieve more IMO. But regardless, he was master against shit sides which won us the title in 2015. Seri probably fits us more, Jorginho is more of Klopp player, who dictates tempo from the back, while Seri runs with the ball, looking for right pass. But neither is typical DM that would suit PL side apart from City or Pool, so if we go 4:3:3 next season, we would need another DM unless board gives Bakayoko another chance (which we should). Would be nice to get Fekir, Jorginho/Seri and Bailey and play mor expansive football, but thats pipe dream. To end it, I actualy doubt we will get any of above mentioned, I dont think we can pull it off honestly. Jorginho is linked with City and Pool while Seri has apparently feet problem and wants to move to spain. The youngsters are probably smart enough to avoid us too.

Yup. The bad results is solely on us. Ref made shit choices and their players killed time, but thats about 20% of the game. In remaining 80%, we were uncreative, slow and without any finishing edge. Blame our team. I dont give a shit if Willian and Pedro arent our first choices, we played for hope to get in CL, thats a game where you give 110%. And you see Willian put absolute shit show in first half. He stepped up in second once Eden came up, but thats too late. You just cant rely on our players to do their job against Huddersfield. Its one thing when you have nothing to play for, but this was almost finale of our season and the players were awful.

Theoreticaly they could lose to Leicester and if we won agaisnt Newcastle and tonight, CL would be ours. But I agree on last sentence. We were awful in 2018. Still dont understand how can you bench Cesc last season because you realise he isnt good enough, but play him every game this season when he is even lesser player. The guy was unfit to play PL football as regular in top side since 2015, yet he is still in first 11 in 2018. Hopefuly this is the final wake up for the board to get some shit done in the summer. We desperately need midfielder, striker and RW and go back to 4:3:3, be it with Conte or without. Im done watching Alonso, Cesc, Moses, Morata, Willian, Pedro, Giroud in first 11. They are bench players at best.

Cmon lol stop hating on Huddersfield and ref. We played at home against average team and we fucking bottled it. There is nothing else to say. We had Pedro, Willian, Morata, Cesc, Hazard, Giroud available and we couldnt score two fucking goals against that team.

Our own faulty realy...first half was pure shit and if we took this game seriously from start, we wouldnt have problems. Their players killing time is something we all knew will happen if they get result. We should do the job in first half

Whats with Christensen and heading? He is very poor in attack.

fullbacks are absolute garbage while Emerson sits on the bench all the time. And next time around, Conte will still pick same players over again. Cesc is shit for whole season, yet Conte plays him every game. Willian apparently in super form, when we actualy need him, he decides to put in worst game of 2018. Pedro is no better. But again, Conte will make changes after 80th minute. Also Morata is pure garbage again. I expected us to roll over Huddersfield on 50%, it seems we cant do even that. Fully deserve europa league.

From what I saw, they like to play, IMO they are one of those sides that arent super agressive and defensive bunch of cunts and it suits us because we can outplay them with experience. Im realy positive about the match, it should be easy job, but I dont want to jinx it. They are fighting to stay up afterall. Newcastle away will be tougher IMO. Spurs have Newcastle and Leicester at home, both in realy realy shit form, but hopefuly they bottle either game.

Probably has alot to do with their players being tired too.

Our team isnt exactly crap, but he realy doesnt have much benefit from playing with Chelsea for past few years when he didnt have single equaly good attacker, aside from Costa, nor the defensive game we play for ages. Yeah he shown world class level many times and there is no excuse for his regular form breaks, but honestly he is playing with bunch of players who simply arent world class and dont have ambitons to win everything. For example imagine him being tutored by Didi, Lamps, Cole,...compared to Alonso, Cesc, Morata. Only outfield players of genuine class are Kante and Azpi, Willian is too hot-cold. Costa was great striker and no wonder Eden had his two best seasons playing next to inform Costa (sure everyone played better but thats the point; more quaity around you pushes you further).

Thats just ridiculous haha. Dont tell me that based on one shit performance we were smart to sell Salah, same guy who scored 31 goals in PL and 10 CL goals this season. Their front 3 clearly lacked the energy after Roma game, but we also had good plan indeed. Another time and we might concede 3 in first half. Im convinced he wont be. He was already good in Roma last season. Maybe he wont score 40 goals again, but he is pretty much guaranteed 20 goal man who also proved in key matches. Its not like he scores only tap ins against shit teams. Are yout two actualy believing that he will be one season wonder based on reasonable facts or is all this just to downplay Pool player just because he isnt here anymore?

IMO, we should go back to 4:3:3, Azpi right and Emerson left.

Yup this is where Pool missed coutinho's playmaking and long shot. ---- Great win and still chance for top 4. I know it was shit season, but if we end next two PL and FA final with win, I can safely say Im alot more positive for next season than last year. Last year we won title, but fa final was a disaster and I still remember everyone say we have to improve big big time in summer because we got exposed. I was very woried for thia season after that defeat, unless we strenghtened in summer which didnt happen. If we win next 3 games (regardless of managing 4th place), it will show promise and I think exciting next season. Rudiger, Kante and Eden were fantastic today. On other hand, as I said before Cesc is biggest liability. We need top playmaker in summer and I would pay serious cash for top midfielder...fullbacks, striker, rw,...all that should be secondary.

Crystal palace having worst first half of season and they are 11 on table now. Who would believe they can pull it off?

Juve defeated Madrid two weeks ago aswell.

Sell him this summer. That way we get cash and there are two top keepers that we could get in Alisson and Oblak. Jus dont wait to let him go next year for free and possibility on missing quality replacement in either Alisson or Oblak. Im done listening to his bs and he isnt even world class GK, one good performance in 5 decisive matches isnt good enough.

Why do you still read media, 4/5 of the "news" is bs anyway. Problem solved Their liga record is awful tbh, they got lucky in CL over and over again. But luck isnt just given, they do have very strong mentality and never give up in CL games.

No. A year ago, fine. But the club brought too much deadweight already. Maybe we dont have the cash to buy 100m+ player, but lets not kid ourselves we cant afford to spend big. Last summer we spend over 200m and I have no doubt we can do the same this season (considering we should sell some aswell). Money was never the problem. But when you spend 100m on Drinkwater, Bakayoko and Barkley... There will always be cheaper options that have huge potential and quality. Sadly I have no trust our board can pull such transfers

Past it or not, what people should see is that after pushing to Bayern move few years ago, realizing his dream move, now playing there for years, he looks like he couldnt give two shits and he probably doesnt. Thiago, Kimmich, Alaba were seriously dissapointed and thats what you want from your team. Lewa went in this tie unsure if he should wear Bayern or Real shirt and the two performances show that. There was zero grit in him to win the game. Dont forget he was pissed about teammates last year for not winning golden boot. Fits perfectly with Real

Muller and Lewa were crap in both legs. Lewa was decent in linkup, but he was nowhere to be found threatening real defence. If Bayern had Robben instead of Muller, they would won the game IMO. On side note, Im getting sick of Real always getting away with it, I dont mind Pool winning it at all. Most of their fans are idiots indeed, but the team deserves it the way they played so far, credit where its due.

Only way to see him work is if he improves tactical understanding of the game. He has plenty of talent, but he is problematic. Maybe he could be next Anelka for us, but we need solid main striker first.

Because money. They eventualy stop giving 100%. Just look the odds who makes it in top football, most had difficult childhoods, our youngsters have it all on silver platter since they are like 10. Terry was cleaning boots, Ruben, Odoi, Chalobah, Mceachran are/were driving ferraris at same age. Its very hard to keep strong mentality then. For poor kids, football is everything, for rich ones, its only a side job. Sure there are extremes too, but I guess our staff doesnt know how to lead our youth after they become indipendent with proper guidances.