Magic Lamps

Can as well stop watching now. No way we are gonna win this with this ref and all their time wasting.

I had a bad feeling all weekend. everything was going too well. And when I saw that ref step on the pich I knew it was over.

Also from an absolute joke of a freekick

Same old story really. Not using our chances then conceding. Theme of our season. I am so tired of this shit

I dont get it. he has it on his left foot and a free shot lane yet he cuts back onto his right and into traffic.

Mount is looking our most creative outlet so far.

the ref still helping Villa out by blowing imaginary fouls that no even the Villa players notice.

Azpi/Alonso on the overlap kill every one of our attacks.

dafuq. giroud gets the knee in the back and the foul against him. the ref is an absolute cunt

I want Giroud to challenge Mings more. Mings is huge and looks tough but he is an absolute crybaby who cant handle decisive body contact

The tactic from Villa, viciously supported by the ref is to halt and disrupt our play by time wasting and hauling the ball out of play as often as possible.

I think this game could profit from Pulisic OMG Alonso you are kidding me

Yes, I think so

our layoffs are so shit... and there goes some completeley causeless whistle again.

RLC is obviously not yet ready, I dont ge this selection. At least we have 5 subs.

me neither. all three take too long on the ball and dont take enough risks with their passing. we need someone to play defence splitters which of all our players only Jorginho is half capable of

that ref is an absolute nuisance blowing for every fly that lands on the pitch

Damn we look rusty. The lineup is super defensive IMO. No idea why we can not go a bit more risk. welll...that is probably why -.-

Schmeichel, Chilwell, Söyüncü sure. Vardy probably. But he is basically an older slower Werner so only for a few games. Pereira no way. Maddison is overrated and no way Ndidi replaces Kovacic, joeginho or Kante. And I was talking about squad. If they Have a few injuries they can hardly replace them like for like as we can. Our squad has crazy depth compared to theirs. I think the Main Difference is that Rodgers has organised his back 4 very well hardly rotated it and Schmeichel is obviously much better than Kepa + Vardy has had this crazy run of form in midseason. Lamps hardly knows his best back 4. I think next season we will finish above Leicester with quite some margin.

Juve are really taking the piss lowballing us for one of our most expensive ever signings that has only improved as a play ridiculous. After what they did to us over Sandro we should not even be listening to anything below 80m which they can not even afford in their wildest dreams.

Telles is so good going forward he is somehow worth the risk if attainable for the right price. Other than that Hernandez is obviously the perfect player and I doubt he will stay at Milan forever. The only other viable option for me is Robin Gosens.He is quick, tough, extremely strong attacking output (better than Alonso) and also a great defender. I am against signing stop gaps for big fees on big contracts that dont get us anything in the long run. stop gap signings are only useful when you are under pressure to win stuff which we are not. We could go out and develop Maatsen if we wanted to if we are ok with more tiny players.

Honestly, Tagliafico is not really any better than Chilwell and I see him struggling badly vs epl wingers as 90% of them are bigger, stronger and faster than him. Eredivisie is a physically way less demanding league, so tiny/slight guys like him and Ziyech come across a little better there but at the 2018 World Cup Tagliafico was easy prey for Rebic, Perisic, Mbappe (obviously), Griezmann and even the Nigerian wingers. Dont get me wrong, he is not half bad, quite nippy and kinda tough for a guy this tiny but a poor match for our side that lacks physicality anyway. Also with 27 he is not exactly in the right age bracket to provide long term for us nor has he age on his side when adapting.

He looks more like a no.10 than a winger to me. Not sure if he is a good fit. We have made the mistake of signing unnecessary bench players for mega money in the past before when we could as well make up the numbers with academy graduates. This makes me think we should pass on him given his price, probable role in the club, lack of top-level experience and lack of pace. I know people are maybe panicking a bit bc Pedro and Willian will leave us leaving us with just 3 wingers in CHO, Pulisic and Ziyech but Mount, Barkley, Ruben, Werner can comfortabl play on the wing thus also relieving some of the stockpiling in the cm position.

I hope the scouts were watching and watching closely. Chilwell is like a weird hybrid of Alonso and Emerson. Quick and scores goals but just as suspect in defense as both. We should definitely distance ourselves from signing him. Either buy a really good LB or none at all.

You are right. Lampard speaks like a true politician. circumventing the question by praising the player. I don’t think we will sell Kante tho. He will not fetch his value in this market and he can still help us even he will probably not be the first name on the team sheet anymore.