Magic Lamps

I dont thnk he has improved at all sicne joining us from Marseille which is mainly because he has 0 footballing intelligence. He is the Willian of centre forwards. All the primary skills (pace, strength, finishing, aerial ability, positioning) needed for his position but none of the secondary ones (game intelligence, anticipation, off the ball movement, link-up play, passing). He is still a bang average footballer but he is at least athletic and mobile so he would score a lot more than HIgs and Giroud even though he will be just as frustrating to watch when fucking up attacks with his poor link-up play. But i 'd rather have a striker who is useless in link-up play but scores than someone who is ok at link-up play like the ones we got but either cant finish or is too slow to get into finishing positions. Giroud is just terrible in the box because he is so stiff and immobile. Whenever Hazard puts a brilliant low cross into the box giroud can do fuck all with it because he niether has the anticipation nor the agility to get in front of his marker and connect with it. And when he does he tries some outlandish backheel flick. Giroud on the other hand is still a world class finisher but can be taken out of the game by his inability to move back from offside and can easily intercepted when on the ball as he is so fucking slow in acceleration. Also he has a movement radius of a beermat. Michy as an athletic all round package. whilst without any outstanding physical qualities he is always either stronger, quicker, more agile or simply faster to react than his marker which makes every ball you send in to him in the box a potential goal.

lol so the atmosphere will be fantastic, so many young enthusiastic people will have the chance to travel to Baku in great numbers thanks to the great foresight and clemency of Uefa... in other words a typical Arsenal home game

The Europa league was his first tile at Chelsea, let it also be the last.

Sarri is shit and needs to go. He is not good enough and never will be. He is completely out of his depth as is Marina, the rest of her muppets and half of the squad. Sarri is only the peak of the iceberg. His appointment is the result of poor of a multi-year streak of poor business and football decisions. As is the amount of power that has been amassed by certain directors in the club that has also seen a plethora of average players signed and stay here for good.

lol makes you almost hope the ban will stick so they will not invest it on those two turds. I actually do not care how much we get for Hazard because we either will not be able to do shit with it or do actual shit with it. I think we will drop out of the top 4 but we will still be in Europe. Hazard leaving will cost us 20-25 points but others will step up in his absence so we regain maybe 10-15 points. I think 60 points are a reasonable tally for next season. And i honestly do not mind a few years of mediocrity to the point that i would stop being fan. sure i would want us to win titles but something radical such as a club sale would need to happen fo rus to be competitive again. We have been on a downward spiral not only since 2012 which was lucky and the (second) last hurray of the old guard but since 2010 where we last were the dominant force in England not only by luck but by sheer class and were unlucky to go out vs Inter in the CL (people talk about övröbo but we were denied 2 clear penalites here as well)

white is not his colour. makes him look super pale and will accentuate his love handles^^

fair enough. But actually I was trying to make a point about how Pulisic consistently displayed all the character qualities I value in a footballer. Humility, work ethic, white-belt mentality and full dedication on his task. I think that is something you miss in 95% of footballers who become entitled with their first big deal and never get their heads out of the clouds ever again.

Even though he is so far just a pace merchant with reasonable footballing ability he already has a life-long reputation of professionalism and dedication in all of the footballing world. I do not think he has the out of this world talent like Hazard but he has the right work ethics and age to become a very good player.

That's true. even if we take that 1 draw out bc CL football was also secured, it is still a poor record. Just ending up in the top 4 is not an argument Sarri should take into field to justify hims taying. He has to win EL to make this season kina a success and remain coach. Even though IMO, even if he beats Arsenal 10-0 he is a failrue and should be sacked.

No we wont. English teams dont play them any more

Play anyone just not the guys who will play in the final. -------------------Willy------- Zappa--Gazza-anyone--Alonso ------------------anyone---------------- ------Kovacic-----------Barkley------- Anyone-----------Higuain-------Anyone I have no clue who from the u23 we can play and who are out on loan so just fill that out accordingly lol

Pogba is really hit and miss tho, despite being already 26 he is quite immature. dictatign the tempo is such an overrated ability. even toni kroos cant dictate any tempo when the midfield is overrun or he has to play vs a low block. dictating the tempo is only useful in very few match situations and even then it is easy to learn for any midfielder. long passes is the only thing i would say, pogba has on RLC so far. And if RLC gets his injury stuff right he can become the superior player given he is more than 3 years younger.

do we have more than 6000 loud away supporters anyway? no one wants to go to Baku. OUr fans got drowned out by eintracht support today it was shameful. In the end fans do not matter much. travelling and pitch size is the home advantage. and we are tied with arsenal on both for that so whatever we defo need to get a new lb. but if we cant i would really try to give baba one last chance. he cant be much worse than alonso or emerson. Emerson is actually a very fine footballer. just no leftback if we are honest. sumblime pace and dribbling but not an expert defender. Alsono probably would have been a decent midfielder in the 80ies as well when his lack of pace wouldnt matter. Anyway. i have not seen much of Gaya recent years but today vs Arsenal he was an absolute trainwreck, just saw the re-live of their match. pathetic defender and also got booked for an incredibly shitty dive.

Back when Lamps and Drogs were ours there was not even the possibility that we could lose to arsenal in a final. We would always crush them in important matches

Where we actually in for him tho?

incredible what a shit player he really is. he had acres of space and never got the final ball right. pedro the same tho. really no idea who is gonna score goasl for us, our blind strikers, our clueless wingers. Arsenal will absolutely smash us if we dont learn to defend properly.

yeah the good casue is called marinas wallet

We could always do a behind closed door friendly for conditioning. This trip is absolutely bollocks. Arsenal will be horrible. Have you seen the goals their striker scored. Absolutely quality finishes. Put that next to Higs or Giroud....worlds apart

Absolutely fuming. Dafuq game vs bew england, 4 days after leicester...poorest run club in europe. Thank fuck it is 2 weeks before the EL final

He was crazy save on the double chinned Austrian

Well great idea bringing on pacencia lol

Thats it. Good luck in the final

Our greatest triumph was on pens against Germans. Lets hope history repeats itself Yup and our gravest loss as well

True. We are always shit in pens anyway

Just dont let Jorginho try one of his joke pens