Magic Lamps

I hear Joao Mario is available for just 25m, West Ham looking to snap him up. That would be a nice partner for Kante. Much better than Drinkwater or Baka. I hear we were in for in 2016. No idea why that never materialised.

Yeah lost as expected. Bad bot really a bad performance. Just bad lick as we always seem to have vs Arsenal. At least we will not get humiliated by city in the final. And at least did not gonzo extra time so we can go to bed early

Now a front three with 2 players of almost no match practice great.

Another weird deflection going arses way

Hazard doing a morata

Decent half. Dominated them. Really unlucky to concede such a soft and freaky goal. But I guess that is the only way Arsenal can score. Pedro and Barkley are not really in the game sadly.

Maybe his best game so far. no misplaced passes, a few good runs and a a few nice tackles that the ref has been too harsh on.

Are Tibo and Hazard not gonna sign extensions? If they do it will be pretty hard for Real to get them this season. And for the season thereafter, Hazard will be 28 and Tibo is not irreplacable.

But when it mattered most they would be back to their best which is why we still won CL and FA Cup 2012. If I had to choose whether to have 2012 Lamps/Drogs or 2018 Hazard/Kante in a CL final, I would not think twice.

I think the lineup will be -----Caballero----- Azpi---Christ---Cahill Moses-Kante-Baka-Alonso Pedro--Hazard--Willian But I hope we will se a bit of Barkley and maybe better start with Drinkwater instead of Baka. But anyway, we will not win this, as Conte somehow never gets his stuff right with Wenger so the best we can hope for is to go through by away goals. So no need to get the midfield tight, we have nothing to defend. Make it an open game like the league fixture. Moreover, Not even sure this competition is worth our while anyway. ManCity will win it as they are heads and shoulders above the rest of the league.. I reckon Arsenal still hold a better record over them in cup competitions against City anyway.

I would always say 343 is better, Hazard can not do it all alone in terms of creativity up front and when Morata struggles to score you need another goal threat. Also I think loading the midfield with bodies to compensate for alonso/baka/cescs lack of defensive workrate/positional awareness is a negative and Mourinhoesque kind of tinkering and will not work against sides with superior passing game. The key position in a 3man defence system are the fullbacks. When those do their job there is no need for more than two competent, balanced central midfielders.

I am by no means an expert but what O have seen from.him is that he is physically a bit inferior to Sandro and Telles, a bit shorter and not as rapid. But technically he seems to be really proficient amd comfortable under pressure. He does not strike me as 0hysically made out dor the prem but that this is also a matter of mental adaption as many smaller fullbacks have succeeded here and bigger ones failed.

I doubt they will sell him in Jan. But in summer I heard he has this gentlemen’s agreement that the club will not be in his way

True. Sublime diwplay today. On his day he is some player. Shame that is every blue moon

Or eden. Diiferent class today the part i lover most was that by tripped g over his own feet the donkey unsighted the keeper

Palmiero has the advantage that we sign him after his acl injury not before 😅

I do not think he is. Would not make sense for them given they can reregister in for the ko stage. Also does bot matter as lonh as he has not played right?

I think you are right. Sandro's agent also said something along these li(n)es and now runours indicate he wants to leave... The agent will do anything to increase wages and his own provision. If Dzeko himself came out and said he wanted to stay it would be a different story. But even then there is the possibility of a nice wage offer to turn his mind.

The board obviously did not want him and rightly so. Turned out to be an absolute shit show for them. Their fans want him gone

Sandro is not worth 3times as much when numbers suggest he is statistically on par. We are not gonna sign a left back for more than 30m so we should arrange ourselves with that. I would also rather have a fit, inform Alex Telles but if it where this guy and Dzeko i cohld arrangr myself with it. A young player can recover fully from an acl. Rüdiger looks a way more serene, positionally aware and even faster player than before his acl so maybe roma have some real specalists in place.

I flew into holidays 11 days ago and Chelsea has not scored since. I hope we break the duck today otherwise i could not justify flying into the holidays again 😅

There are very good and world class players which might be unattainable in winter, super expensive or ineligible for euro competition hence a bad time for pursuing major targets. Alexis, auba, mkhi and even Sandro and Telles fall i to that category so at a stretch i understand why we are not pursuing them Then there are talents like malcolm, richarlison, bailey and that pellegrini guy who have shown some potential and might be sensible investments with resale value, reasonable january targets. Should be attainable for a club of our stature. Then there are healthy average players who can still do a job. Of those there are tons. And then therr are crooked, washed-up and out of form players like Andy Carroll who are almost useless even when they are not injured and are not even top flight level.

The thing is i could actually see this being a conte buy. He likes big target men and probably is ok with Carroll as we aee not to bid for a competent striker. Still hope a better alternative surfaces.

Ofc we are not gonna sigb him. And tge way he blows hot and cold, being a crying little bitch oon and off the pitch also makes me not want him that much. I think getting our wages policy put off for the 2 or 3 years he can still perform at the top is not worth it.i would mich rather have mahrez or bailey who are both goalscorers too and left footed

If that picture is legit and from now(he looka a bit young on it) it is no coincidence but a come and get me plea Shame our board will not pick it up. Even more so cos he is free to play in the cl.