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If he was Armenian or Polish and bought from another club we would slander him to death after every match. We'd be so confused how an elite club expects to move forward with such a player. Our board evidently fell for the fantasy that we had England's future XI among our youth.

This commentary duo have had more talk of United's new striker than Chelsea's. Nice.

Our players lack composure after going a goal or 2 down. Oscar, Azpi and others have lost their heads already. This is why we need more proven winners who actually have medals already in their cabinet, not more kids or experiments unless it's a happy accident.

When you instill in your players over many years that the aim of the game is to score, that's what you get. Our players have had years of instructions to *not* be the more attacking team on the pitch. I hope we change that.

I'm so hard over Loftus-Cheek being used as a striker. Azpilicueta as our new centre back next please.

these quotes give me the feeling somebody's told Conte that certain players would slip right back into our XI last season after injuries despite not even training and proving they were the best option.

& 4 legs

athletes like actors & the people who influence them, lie about their height all the time whether they're short or tall. If you're 5'11, Hollywood makes you 6ft+ for marketing purposes (Vin Diesel is a good example. He even wears built-up shoes.) Same happens in music, Kendrick Lamar is 5'4 but tries to push himself as 5'5 (Lil Wayne is 5'3 and tries to claim 5'5.) I know it seems like it shouldn't happen in sports too but it does. Official sites usually have different specs to Wikipedia too, with the latter usually adding an inch. Wiki puts Kante at 5 ft 6 1/2. So I'd confidently put him 1 inch shorter. To put things in perspective, Messi looks a true 5'7 (which Kanye West is, but he claims 5'8). He'd have 2+ inches on Kante, you can see that if you compare them.

Lacazette's worst seasons mirror Lukaku's best seasons. + Lacazette's best season, he was like Suarez. Lukaku's best season, he was like an in-form Grant Holt.

I'm confused though (but it may just come down to their height differences) - why Aina and not Jay Dasilva? I don't have an above average understanding of football, but when I saw him play I was watching the best left-back I'd seen since Ashley Cole in his prime, youth or not. An article followed a few weeks or months later, tossing with the idea that he's a future Premier League great, which i totally agreed with - http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2539708-chelseas-jay-dasilva-has-potential-to-be-1-of-premier-leagues-great-left-backs So he obviously made an impression on some people. Nobody has ever been speaking of Aina after youth games.

All of us watching the youth games thought Musonda, Boga, Chalobah & Solanke would break through first. Evidently not.

& half a heart

This guy has 1 lung

I want to commit murder

His body is perfectly built, I don't know how he finds time to build his chest like he has. He's a freak next to everyone else -

There's being polite, but then there's being so nice that you have to be lying. ^^

Even with money it's a stupid move. What will extra money get him? He has his cars, he has enough money to live in the most beautiful homes for the rest of his life, his family too. There is nothing that will suddenly be attainable by increasing your wages by a few million per year when you're already on a handful of millions. It changes nothing, nothing at all, everything is already paid for. So if it's motivated by money, it's stupid. If it's motivated by something other than money, then what on earth is that, because it feels pretty stupid too.

Conte's respect isn't overdue. He's had only 3 seasons managing a top team in a top league. Pep, Mourinho, & Wenger, all have 10+ years of proof that they can manage the top teams in top leagues. Conte hasn't been around long enough to 'finally' get credit, he hasn't even been balling in the same league as the others. Whenever the abstract respect comes it'll be right on time. This here is his first chance to earn his respect outside of Italy. There is nothing overdue. He still has it all to prove.

Costa is essentially the player Grant Holt was for Norwich. That's to say we'd get the same results with Holt from that time in our team now.

If Moses practiced the 20/80 principle we'd never lose with him in the side

Why not just copy Juve's 4-3-3 regista lineup? Put Fabregas in the Pirlo hole in front of the defenders, then have 2 midfield destroyers in front of him, Kante + Friend, just like Vidal & Marchisio were the legs that protected the slow geezer with impeccable passing (exactly our own scenario). The crucial player would be whoever partners Kante & protects Fabregas, because he needs to defend for the latter and make up for the lack of passing ability in the former.* Our usual Hazard/Willian wings + a striker who's actually motivated every game, boom, not the best on paper but perhaps the best on the field. *On paper Oscar fills this role perfectly. On an actual field however, he does not. So it won't be him. Fabregas has no right to play any farther forward with his lack of legs, and he has no right playing in just a 2-man midfield with his lack of agility coupled with his priority to look out passes instead of intercepting them. He simply needs to be in a 3 man midfield and i think it'd work best how Juve did things.

they don't have the best education system in Brazil, don't blame them

The amount of hype he had one summer was crazy. It was like Essien had been put in a time machine according to whoever was linked with him

His fee isn't even a talking point. When you sell to your biggest rival, obviously inflation occurs. If he wasn't sold to Juve his fee would've been more 'normal'. This is normal though.

With the amount he goes forward we'd better have someone astute covering from behind. He's a battering ram who runs runs runs. Runs into people to disposes them, then keeps running forward before getting back in position. He looks fine, just wondering who'd partner him in theory. He dribbles a lot in his own box too. Very in his head sometimes. Luiz?