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I don't think Atletico could ever afford him. That's us fucked for a season or 2 until he compromises for China then.

guys, guys dont eat too much mushroom or you wont have mush-room left

Indeed. This team is a point-gatherer, not a dominant team which should be expected to win on the day vs. big teams. No fun for us in the league or CL next year with Moses/Alonso/Matic/Cahill/Costa starting. But the reality is, most of them will start. Enjoy our title win. This team, compared to the greats back in '04, pahaha.

We don't have enough players with good 1st-touches. If we did, we'd be able to fling it around with a lot more certainty, and move forward a lot more quickly, nevermind exploiting counter-attacks. Kante/Matic/Costa/Alonso/Moses/Cahill/and maybe even Pedro. How can a side have so many technically inferior players? How can we expect anything more from our players? It's a miracle what we achieved this season.

Conte's a half-time wizard, never forget it. But if he goes back to his acutely timed subs....

He's almost on par with Hazard if not exactly on par in terms of ball control. Not dribbling or crossing, but his vision, his creativity & execution of passes are all top tier. Hazard has him beat in movement, dribbling, scoring, & using his body better. He lacks the body & IMO the stamina. He's built for Serie A. I think the structure of La Liga does the opposite of benefit him. There's only 3 or so teams in that league in which a player like Musonda can take strides, and the only 1 he'd be able to start for (Atletico) play a style counter-intuitive to his. But in Italy, he has the ability to start for & could make himself a European household name, at - Roma, Juventus if he first played for another Serie A club and impressed, Lazio, Napoli, even either of the Milan clubs. All clubs would let him flourish and all clubs would benefit from what he brings. The only other teams outside of Italy you can say that for are Man City, Monaco & Dortmund. I've never seen a more talented player at youth level, for any club, so we must ensure he makes it, even if it's abroad and not with us. He can't become a Marco van Ginkel or a Lucas Piazon.

This isn't a joking matter, so I mean it when I say this - I fear for the mental stability of their fans if they lose. This could be the straw that sends some of them over the edge. London's a big place and a lot of people are already contemplating ending it all - often it's just the football team being the saving grace in their lives. Hopefully we have a few failed attempts and nothing beyond that.

I hate the idea of Bakayoko coming here. It reeks to me of the club trying to be smart in almost a witty manner. The guy's surrounded by players who're better, but Chelsea want the credit of taking the lesser jewel and having greater reward. We've always had this habit as a club, whereas Man City just go for the literal best instead. That's where we allowed them to become dominant; us chasing the likes of Oscar and Willian before they're the finished article, so we can take credit for getting players before they're big, but City go out and buy the likes of De Bruyne, Sane or Silva at the top of their game, once they've actually proven they're a top dog - something Bakayoko's yet to prove (Fabinho & co. have proven they are). Out of Monaco's wonder-bunch, if you left just Fabinho, or just Lemar, or just Silva in that team while all the others were sold, you'd still expect them to be top 2 in their league. But if the 1 lone survivor is Bakayoko, and all those other players leave, surely nobody can picture that boding well for them. Shame is they wouldn't have shelled out so much on Tielemans unless they were certain a midfielder was moving on. So either Fabinho who a lot of us like joins a club which probably isn't us, boohoo, or we get Bakayoko according to the papers, boohoo again, IMO. It'd be like Real Madrid choosing Willian over Hazard. Just because they've both given top performances in top games for a top team doesn't mean they're both top players. One has been carried more than a few times, whereas the other hasn't. This applies to Monaco.

Since signing Hazard, none of our rivals have signed an equally if not better player. It doesn't begin with this. Until a player who surpasses Hazard is brought in at a young age to one of the Manchester clubs everything's calm on our side of the lake.

Only 4 points between winners Juventus & 2nd-placed Roma. Juventus fans considered it a good season; Roma fans considered theirs to not be all that great. Amazing how the 2 mindsets have changed in just a year. 'Juventus can't be topped; Serie A is a one-horse race' - etc. Lol. I'd agree that Juve are the only team with enough power to do well both in the league and in Europe, but they won't win every league title for the next decade. There's 3 or so teams who'll get in there too, maybe Lazio, Napoli & Roma. No team had fewer losses than Napoli; and Juventus have only 1 win more than Roma, 2 more than Napoli. Next season's going to be twice as exciting as this one. This was a building season for every league bar La Liga.

I like the look of this Ajax side. They've packed the midfield with experience while keeping the front all young talent. Having young guys in the centre would've had them run over. Now, I think this has gone from a 80/20 affair in United's favour to 60/40 United.

We're like a chubby & spoiled big brother who keeps trying to take toy trucks & figures from our little bros.

This is stupid. Life can and should be mourned / celebrated at the same time. Anything else is depressing & contrived, which achieves nothing that will benefit us. Actually it hurts us to be so easily influenced. But the majority are the majority for a reason; easy influenced sheep to the shephards in life; and they'll just follow eachother crying until told what to do next. This adolescent behaviour is dangerous. If the majority are doing something, it's probably the wrong thing to do. That's whether it's sitting too much, eating the way they do because 'the doctor said so', using social media, living a 'usual' 9-5 & reserving weekends for getting wasted, ... to the mourning and shutting down when terrorism occurs. It's the adolescent way to respond. Unfortunately for many nations, the majority of people over 22+ still seem adolescent. Many people die old, as an adolescent. Many countries are run by adolescents, many parents & aged forum mods are adolescent. Your boss can be adolescent, your big brother you look up to, the pub owner too. Even some big boys who run the Premier League are adolescent. Most people haven't taken the steps to finish their logical & emotional development, which is up to the individual to conclude. So, most people have no merit at all to suggest how things like this should be handled. Yet most people, are suggesting. They think they know something, like they can figure politics, the country, religion out - yet they can't get their own life & head together. Then there's the people who look like they have crossed that finish line, so their opinion surely holds weight. They talk properly and wear collared shirts. Perhaps they have broad vocabularies, vast wealth, maybe even a blue tick on Twitter & a Phd - all the 'adult' things such as wine and terrible dark chocolates too - and this fools people into believing, that's a finished article. That's a leader. That's setting the example I should follow; I should talk to my family with respect by default, greet strangers with a handshake and smile, save 10% of everything I earn, and plan to retire at 65; not forgetting to hang my head in solemn for 60 seconds total each time injustice happens in the world. 2 different species of sheep, taking us nowhere, doing nothing new. And sheep are slaughtered by the likes of ISIS. Anyone who's remained calm, and borderline but not quite indifferent to this situation, has been in the 'right' if we have to be right/wrong, IMO. They'll have already accepted a long time ago that the world (policies, elections, science, religion) is rigged the way it is, and will only change if they or someone with a similar mind turns themselves into a martyr. So the most they'll do is come up with a few decent proposals for minimising terrorism, which they'll either throw into a fire, or, a mayor/politician's office given the connections. A bit more productive than Tweeting outrage at strangers, at least. Bit more productive too than discussing it briefly with your family/co-workers, then doing your usual jobs slightly more quietly than usual for a day. The majority of these vocal mourners are noisy sheep polluting what could be opportunity. This doesn't go for anyone involved in the tragedy, that should go without saying, but probably won't.

With the amount we'd no doubt spend on Lukaku + 2 back up players who never see 10 appearances each, we could buy Messi. We could buy any of Ronaldo, Isco, Modric, Suarez, Dybala, Cavani, Mbappe, Bale, Belotti, Kroos, Vidal, Nainggolan, so many more. Everyone's available when we realistically consider how much we tend to spend. (90% of the superstars in world football, including at Bayern, Madrid, Barcelona, would come to us these days, all things considered, no doubt.) Couple that with league-win money... And yet out of all these, out of all the others not mentioned, people want to focus on Lukaku. If Drogba had never existed we'd never have been linked to this guy. He wouldn't be watched or courted by any of us. Only a romantic notion of somehow reliving the old days keeps this silly Romelu flame alive. It's like Milan fans thinking they were replacing Pirlo by bringing in Montolivo ; and Barcelona fans gagging over any short dribbler from South America (Araujo, Iturbe, Dybala, Correa) in hope they're the next Messi. They never come close, even the best of them. All Lukaku offers is goals, and there's plenty of strikers without the marketing power who score just as many, have more experience and all-round qualities, yet wouldn't cost a penny over £14m, since they've played their days in the Bundesliga or Serie A. And of course, they've never made an emotional Youtube video to connect with the hoards of young people who influence a player's value more than performances do. A player's value's determined by his social media following, not his ability. That's the reality football has embraced. The majority of huge-sum transfers in the past 3-4 years, plus the ones to come in the next couple, have involved potentially above average players, with large followings & unique personalities. Never before in football would you pay even half the amount we do now, unless a player was already exceptional. Players are just brands now. The change only happened a couple years ago, but the change was aggressive. I've never taken a marketing lesson in my life but even to me it's clear as day how the entire structure of the game, the way players are recruited/promoted, has changed. We're still in the infancy of this new era, so we don't have many bad examples yet for people to learn from - but Pogba's showing to be one, slowly, and so would Lukaku, quickly.

Who's Thiago

I bet Roman's even more surprised than all of us that we won it. If there was a season to make him fall back in lust with the club, this was it.

Now put your feet up and enjoy Hajime No Ippo big boss lad.

Today we say goodbye to one of the most consistent English players the league will ever see. In this lifetime, the next lifetime, nobody born on this land will hone the same great qualities to the same great extent. Goodbye Defoe.

Arsenal's last good season's on one of these.

Just because our neighbour splashes £500k on a Lamborghini doesn't mean it's a good deal for us to then go spend £400k on one. Not when we could get a Porsche for £200k which given our unique location & roads, will give us more pleasure, mileage, and sensibility. It's not got the brand coverage Lambo has, but it's superior in every functional way. Let's go get a Porsche striker, not a higher-output-but-works-for-4-years-with-constant-electronic-malfunctions striker - which is what Costa is too.

Both Jose & Pep spent too long in Spain. They must've been so arrogant to genuniely believe only Madrid vs. Barcelona matters with all else said; because everything suggests they didn't study 1 other team during their tenures. Sure, they spoke with scouts and whatnot pre-game to scope out who they're against, but neither of them watched the progression of the football world. Neither of them watched the slow rise and declines of other leagues, seemingly. Both are better brands than managers now. And that's because they put more energy into shaving adverts etc. than re-remembering the basics. Neither seems like a fan of the game, like they wish they were on the pitch. The managers on top right now do give that energy.

I actually think he's too naturally handsome & youthful looking, and wouldn't want other players & supporters of ours feeling riled up and hostile. Even the greatest men feel envy at moments, and all it takes is a moment for wars to start. He's far too risky.

If this was real you'd either be from Lisbon or Arkham Asylum.

I hope other people agree that it's obvious he considers Chelsea and not United home. I'm not sure what makes it obbvious but it feels so.

This has to have more than 3 goals from us. Gonna feel good being 20 points on top of Man City. What sort of manager inherits that City team only to be 3 points safe from a Europe League place