Magic Lamps

Our FA Cup loss to Arsenal probably handed Wenger that lifeline. Good for us, that Arsenal will remain still uncompetitive for a while. That club really has not ambition whatsoever. Though we should watch out and stop that worrying trend of Arsenal beating us at Wembley.

Would welcome him here for that price. 30m are almost a steal. But retracable price given he will be in the penultimate year of his contract. Versatile, decent pace and height, technically astute and left-footed. All things we are not that richly equipped with on the wings.

This is so depressing. Walker, Sanchez, Mendy and maybe even Bernardo Silva are all signings we could use, too. I am not anticipating that we will not be doing good business as well but I wish we would get shit done as early as City too.

Correct. Because you never were Chelsea. The club is and has always been bigger than you.

It really does affect you badly. It is actually detrimental for you health to not drink regularly. The body can store energy for 16 hours. Actually intermittent fasting of solid food can be beneficial but depriving yourself of water, esp as an athlete is like bullet to the head. What relevance to your religion does fasting even have? Such a bullshit thing to do. Some bonkers pedophile medieval Hitler's crackpot idea and a billion people shall harm their health? Btw do Muslims in Norway die of thirst because the sun never sets there in summer? Luckily the 9th month of that funny calendar always coincides with off-season. Otherwise I would be strongly against signing players who submit to brainless nutrition rules. We also do not sign alcoholics even though the effect of alcohol on your body is quite similar to fasting liquid.

Leaning towards the same. It's the formation, the discipline, the motivation that made our season. This is definitely not a bad squad, the first xi is probably tied best in the country but not by much.But the squad is thin and lacks in quality in very important positions. Matic, Moses, Alonso are not good enough for CL. Cahill and Costa are not quite good enough too but can hardly be replaced. Pedro is not the level of hazard but fine for now. This 3-6 players. There is no way we can upgrade on 6 players in one summer. Even 3 will be a challenge. Also Conte surely is at fault for his average cup results to some extent at least. Tbf there are mitigating factors to all of his disappointing cup campaigns. One not listed is that it is hard to get your motivation up for an da cup final when you already won the league, a much bigger trophy. I have actually very seldom seen a title winning side reach the average level of their league performances in a later cup final. Usually if they win it they do with a below par performance against a badly inferior side. Like our double win in Portsmouth were our defenders were clearly lacking focus. Portsmouth were all over us and even got a pen. Even Bayern were lucky in most of their DFB Pokal finals and simply won by having the far better players. When teams are a similar level of quality the not title winning team might have the greater motivation. E.g when we beat ManU 2007 . Still there is no real comfort in that thought as it feels bad to lose a cup final ESP vs arsenal even tho it was the best arsenal performance I have ever seen.

Actually he completely scuffed his shot for the first one shot straight into the direction of ospina and the deflection bailed him out. The second one was the exact same. Straight at ospina but no deflection. Tbf his control was world class in both cases. i still hope he leaves or at least we buy a proper striker. Going into the cl with bats and costa as our strike force is suicide.

This game should herald the end for Matic. Not only at Chelsea but in top flight football in general. His performance range goes from average to useless and today when we needed him the most he badly failed us and was by far the worst player on the pitch. They identified him as our weakness and exploited it brutally. When even Arsenal exposes you you should know you are not even close to good enough. Championship level player. His position is vital for protecting the back 3 and he is the worst possible player to play thetre..i am convinced we would have won with even with Chalobah or cesc there. Neither could have offered less protection. Let alone produce any less offensively. Matic got dispossessed at least 6 times simply running into trouble needlessly. He is slow. Takes ages on the ball. Takes it out of space, runs into other players like a headless chicken. Unintelligent. No clue about build up play. Technically horrendous. Right foot completely useless. Even with his left he can barely complete a basic pass with the required accuracy and pace. Please just leave and sabotage ManU or whoever.

Giftee goal clearest handball ever. Horrible refereeing on both ends. Matic with one of the worst performances of a cm ever. Average player. Has to go.

Dp

When you play the Game of Loans you win or you get sold. There's no middle ground.

Performance-wise he has fully earned to start vs Arsenal. Costa has been poor this year apart from one or two games whilst Michy in only 3 games has scored 4 goals and produced overall solid to brilliant cameos. I am usually against experiments in crucial games but it is not that Costa has been consistently brilliant in those either this whole season.

Completely OT but I think that is actually a bird, probably a canary No offence but I pray your boy Matic's vision is better than yours

Dafuq is Barca in pot2? Doesn't the uefa club ranking coefficient also come into consideration when computing the pots?

The other way round is actually much more suitable given either's preference for cutting inside.

Utd are mad. Signing all this talent including Griezman and James. They probably can take place on the bench next to Mata and Martial when Fellaini leads the line for Mourinho

Holy crap that performance yesterday was horrendous. Would not have expected him to be perfect after that injury but he really lost a lot of sharpness, presence and balance adding to his far from perfect positional awareness. At fault for Janmaats goal and could not deal with crosses from either side.

meh. shame he is injured so often. He is arguably one of the quickest players in Europe and might have been drafted in the wing back role as back up to Moses, but we sure can look at better alternatives. I am a bit under-informed tho but the only game I ever watched of his was his MOTM display vs Germany at the 2014 WC so he thought he was quite good.

Tbf he spoke English himself with the reporter, only Courtois translated to him, so he obviously has more problems with understanding than reading which tbf is nothing to be ashamed of. I learned French in school for like 8 years and can write the language fairly well, however when I am there on vacation I only understand bits and usually have to switch to English.

Good win. Showed that our backbup backline is not quite the level of the first one

Prödl the only player who did not get this is basicaly a friendly deservedly sent off. Just 40 mins too late.

Prödl the only player who did not get this is basicaly a friendly deservedly sent off. Just 40 mins too late.

Dafuq did he do there

feels so damn good approaching a game knowing you are champions already. Is like going to the parties already having secured that when you come home your bed will not be empty.

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/steven-gerrard-explains-why-liverpool-123422879.html that explains a lot....