Magic Lamps

UEFA Incompetence League here we come 🥳

is he really better than the Romanian fella spuds snapped up for pennies? i am through with young players at this point. recently came across a full match video of the 2007 league cup final where we had that badass makelele, essien, lamps, Ballack midfield. Our 1st choice fullbacks were injured so we played lass and bridgey, Terry got a nasty head injury. We played vs a young arsenal side with lots of mediocre players I already had forgotten about. Alliadiere, denilson, hoyte. Also 17 yo Theo Walcott scored the first goal. Still we never looked fuzzed at any time. 2 Drogba goals (great Ballack assist for the 1st, arjen Robben cross for the 2nd) later we walked away with the trophy without ever really breaking a sweat. (Lamps hit the crossbar with a great shot from 30m, so unlucky in how many finals he hit the crossbar, CL final 08, club World Cup final 12 and el final 13 too) Point this moment we are basically aspiring to become wengers post 04 arsenal. Full of young, inexperienced players who might even be full of desire and energy (obv not Caicedo) . We might even turn up for that possible league cup final vs Liverpool , we might even score the first goal and dominate possession like arse did vs us in 2007. but pool will sure as hell just see us off with their experience without even trying too hard. They know they have this in the bag. arsenal had a project back then too. Bought so many promising players, formed a team, even had a decent manager. What did they win? Zilch. Many will not know or remember most of their young players from that time. They all had world class potential but in the end never won anything and returned to their local leagues at the end of their disappointing careers. The exact same thing will happen to our current generation of players. That is why no player under 25 no matter how talented on paper will get me excited one bit at this point

there was literally no physical contact before those 3 misses. He just choked, fluffed his lines. Clear lack of killer instinct. Nothing to do with his physical weakness which is obviously still a problem in other situations.

things have been going over his head. all these kids on social media are super quick to start the hype and once he got his "cold" palmer hype and shit like that he instantly started misfiring already in the last game. He is a capable player but same mental fragility like the rest of these spoilt brats.

More than 3 wins on the spin were obviously beyond this sorry bunch of losers. We all knew which way this was going after palmer missed that first open goal.

I love how our main strategy tonight has been injuring all their players for the return leg so maybe they will have to forfeit by not being able to field enough players.

we are the 5th worst team at late goals in the league. who would have thougt. today we can not even blame the ref. He has actually been consistent for once.

completely forgot broja was even playing. Sterling obviously doing diddly squat in the box.

Liverpool are laughing all the way to the bank after doding that bullet. Klopp was taunting us the other day how well it turnd out for them not getting the fraud.

Even Palmer has been blowing hot and cold during his time. Gusto IMO has been our best signing so far with Petrovic being ok as well. The rest are obviously all pants.

My money is on the latter. Kdb and salah were dug out by actual football scouts not boehly's moneyball clowns.

There is no process. This is how it will be the next x years under boehly. we should make our peace with that.

even after we lose the ball in midfield get caught on the break, Caicedo ist just casually jogging back. what a lazy useless freerider

Hasselbaink also identifying Caicedo as main culprit for the goal. What a surprise. How many goals has this fraud cost us now? 5? 7? Joke of a player. Send him to the reserves at let him ride out his 100year contract there.

A player just needs to play long enough for us and he will just start to become an absolute choker in front of goal. We could have prime Pele playing for us and after a couple of weeks he would look like a one legged timo werner.

Not so cold palmer.

Noni has spectacular pace but he is just so incredibly unclean with his touch half the time.

Caicmehdo with a huge marking error for their goal what a surprise

Guess we all knew what was coming after his comments about palmer Let’s see. At least it is consistent that the goalscorer broja is dropped against an opposition of his level

Not too shabby but ManUre get 20m from the trash plumbers. That has to be the yardstick. I know we have nowhere the same brand reach yet but ManUre have been doing fuck all for over 10 years as a club so we should at least have closed down the distance a bit.

Nonetheless been a flop. Wasted just as many chances for leipig than for us. Him coming back to the PL is understandable move to save his career. Will be sad to see him at tottenham but he will not make them much stronger. Their counterattack will be even more rapid now tho.

I like how are still going for it but still weird how at 3-0 they were playing for their lives while when 1-0 down in the league we usually stop playing altogether.

What a poor performance so far. Caicedo and Broja are still absolute pants. They really should not play football on a professional level. We should just demote them to the reserves and forget about them.

He did. Scored a great Hattrick for us vs stoke too. But then would go on to waste a gazillion chances right the next game moaning and botching around while patting his hair. Able but annoying player with a whiny brattitude

Wow manure never learn do they Speaking of terrible biz. They will agree to loan back sancho to Dortmund and subsidise a major stake of his wages . Kagawa, mikhytaryan now jadon. Has a transfer from bvb to manure ever worked out?