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The players on the pitch all showing why they are 2nd wardrobe

This is what I was talking about in his thread. Unnecessary risks. He has this unhealthy attitude towards his body. I appreciate his fighting spirit but damn so excessive

Is the game televised/streamed regularly or this another one of these League Cup third round black outs?

The question is whether we switch the 80m signing to accomodate the 100m signing or vice versa... this tactic might be a decent ploy every once in a while, but there is no way TT is gonna make that a permanent. He is rather conservative in terms of positional play. It is really Kai's job to adapt to the new situation. False 9 is a hardly a permanent position but rather a tactical option we palyed last season bc our strikers were misfiring. No coach except Guardiola has every played a false 9 over extended periods IIRC. Kai should not be fixated on that role. If he really only excels at false 9, this is a big problem but only for him. Right wing/right attacker is exaclty the position he mostly played for Bayer Leverkusen and where he scored most his goals. this is why i think he just suffers from a dip in form and should be fine in the long run.

You are right, Mendy never looked like 1,97 but player heights and weights used to be completely fked on the website overall. I see they re-measured/fixed this to some extent now, also uploaded new pics. Chilwell is now listed as 1,80 instead of 1,78. Looks accurate to me. Mount the same, now 1,80. Even though chilly always seem to be a bit taller than Mase. RJ who was listed at a completely bonkers 1,75 before (which would have looked ridiculous with his then listed weight 90kg) now got 1,79 which still looks a bit short to me but his posture is terrible. Pulisic got upgraded a good 4cm as well to 1,77 which seems excessive. Looks 1,75 to me. Werner, Ziyech and Kovacic appear to have shrunk a cm. Alonso and Havertz each got an extra cm out of it as well. Other than that no changes of note. Overall, the mean height of the squad has increased a few mm over night, good stuff

Bayern last year had the same schedule coming back from Qatar and they drew to the worst team in the league due to the lack of rest. We should make use of our huge squad. I don't care too much about COC, CWC is more important. Also it is not a given it is as close by as Qatar. Can as well be south africa or Brazil

poor game and also missed a pen

KDB, Mahrez, sterling and Foden playing the full 90mins surprised me. Would have wished akinfenwa had welcomed them with a few more bodyslams tho.

yeah, the FA/league association is incredibly incompetent. We should do it like liverpool in 2019 with the two-squad-solution. Just leave some of the dregs at home and play them+some u23/youth players.. Anyway, we should play the whole tournament with the weakest possible lineups and not invest anything in the competition as we ar eat a huge disadvantage from the outset.

Important to tie him down. Other than Azpi and probably Trev he can play as the middle CB. Also with Rüdiger and Thiago Silva possibly leaving in summer, we would be in an grave predicament if we had been unable to sign him up.

I don't get it. no one watches qualifiers. How can they make money with more qualifying games? there has to be a huge miscalculation underlying. Anyway, i have stopped watching international football altogether and I encourage everyone to do the same.

Lacroix is on €28kpw, costs €35m, is just 20 years old and already the best defender in Bundesliga.

His agent is asking for something silly like 250kpw that is exactly the problem.

He looks sharp af. Two outstanding PL performances back to back. He was out against Spurs fastest player - son- and shepherd him wide. For the goal he comfortably outjumped Ali a player 5cm taller and 13 years younger . Maybe he even has another world class year in him. Surely still has the fitness

should obviously have scored but you still can see how his pace and runs opens up teams. Even if he always misses his shots, opposition teams can not simply let him run and hope for the best, so if we use him wisely, his runs and lukaku's power can cause a lot of havoc.

I still think he is in general a garbage player but probably in the best form of his career. He turns 31 in 3 months tho and his lack of pace is killing a lot of our plays. he makes up for it with his direct goal threat but we would be better if he was just a tiny bit faster. Anyway, if Chilly really is not the solution than we have to buy anew. We will not win CL again with him starting throughout the campain. Alonso is fine vs meh teams like Spuds and Arse but he will struggle big time vs City, ManUre, PSg, Bayern like he did vs Liverpool

Good performance but what the hell was he doing when Lukaku put him through. Refused to take the shot when the shot was on and then shot when the pass was on.

Good gritty win. Faced some adversary yet came through. The team just is not faced mentally by being battered for patches, they just switch Up a gear and strike back. One worrying sign tho . We stand and fall with Kante. If he is not there to protect jorginhos slow ass, we produce turnovers . All of our attackers were harmless today. Apart from lukaku it’s no surprise sadly. We really need to be in the market for a well rounded winger/am

As he always does

Maybe but as long as we have Mount they don’t Even Need to do that

Kepa the least of our problems so far . Alonso, Jorginho and Silvas lack of pace is hurting us. Albeit the latter is having a decent game . Chilly and Timo should come on .

Too many slow players in this team and not enough really fast ones

I think we are a bit overrated and start to believe our own hype. Every pundit having us as champion already. We have massive holes everywhere as soon as teams press us well

Jorginho is just terrible

Mount is an embarrassment on the ball atm