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Aubameyang or Alexis Sanchez. Deluded gooners think the club is at fault for Alexis and Ozil not singing new contracts already, but I'd bet my house that the main reason for this is the players. Both want to see if come May this team is the real deal or another season when they win no important trophies and finish top 4. Don't think money is a problem for Alexis. Guess that in the summer he'd even sign a similar contract to the one he has now should Arsenal win the title. This is why IMHO he stalls the negociations - to see if that club is capable of challenge the likes of Conte, Guardiola, Klopp to the title. But, if come May, Arsenal win jack shite (again) and he's still not signed the new deal, I'd jump right on with with both feet. Imagine Chelsea league winners with Alexis Sanchez our first signing of the summer. Haha. Goonettes going to burn Emirates down hahah

Only as a winger, Brandao was the centre forward.

He a right winger, turned centre forward at Dortmund after Lewandowski left.

Walked out of the press conference after the first question. Took a dig at Conte & Chelsea in both his post match interview and the press conference. This fucking useless mongrel talks about deserving this and that, playing beautiful football. Haha. What did United do today to have looked that special and deserve the win? First shot on goal in the 40th minute after Steklenborg's howler and then the one that's hit the post. What else? I tell you what, fucking dross, boring, hoof ball football against a poor Everton side. Makes it all sound about him. "Unlucky, we deserve this, we deserve that, we miss a lot, had we not missed that, we play beautiful football". Same old, same old. Well let me tell you this, had all the top teams converted all the chances they'd all be at 80+ goals scored by now. Scored the same amount of goals as Bournemoth this season and less goals than WBA and Palace but still acts like a prick. Horrible, horrible human being. It's only a month since he's played his first team at home against a 2nd string City team in the League Cup and still could not register more than one shot on target, while playing dull football. Mad in his head this guy.

The pessimist in me was proved wrong. I thought Chelsea could not win at the Etihad, not because we're not good enough, but because we're still a work in progress, playing away from home against one of Europe's best clubs. Lucky a little bit? I think so, yes. But in the end this is a team that recently has beaten Barcelona 3-1 in the same ground and although they were hammered 0-4 in Barcelona, they missed tons of chances at 0-1 down and only lost 0-4 because of that red card IMHO. To think that City was going to have a quiet game was naive. City was bound to create clear goalscoring chances because they have huge quality up front. There is no team in this world that is going to come to the Etihad and limit City to only one or two shots on target as long as Guardiola is there, playing free flowing football. Them baggers thinking the other way are as much as deluded as Mourinho. And the same ones trolling the comments section the other day, saying Chelsea did not deserve to win. Glad I was proved wrong. Chelsea now have a superb manager in charge that, if allowed to do his job with no interference from up stairs, is going to transform this club completely. One year ago had anyone told me that in a year time Chelsea is going to go to the Etihad, score three against a Guardiola team, miss another sitter (Hazard), have the full backs bombing forward, always build from the back with no nonsense long balls everytime, I'd have told him he needs his head checked. Diego Costa MOTM. David Luiz what a transformation. Antonio Conte

Still buzzing. Need the post match thread to vote that monster of a player Diego Costa MOTM.

Otamendi picked up only his 4th at Burnley, is in line to play this one.

I get so tired reading all the bs coming from United's fan base and deluded players and staff on how they're unlucky and can't explain what's happening to them. By hearing them talk about this you'd get the impression they are some sort of tremendous team playing ultimate football. Like they are the only ones in this leage creating lots of chances, whereas others only create two and score two goals every week. They've played Burnley, created a lot, scored none. WBA played Burnley, too, created ten chances, scored four. They're unlucky they concede in the first minutes, they are unlucky they miss sitters, they are unlucky the opposite GKs do their job. Mourinho has really installed a siege mentality there, it's them against the world.

With Nainggolan and Payet I think Chelsea would get stuck with two players nearing their 30s come the start of next season (Payet will already be 30 by then actually) and frankly not very much room left to improve, for neither of them.

A different team "to the Chelsea side who started their last away game at a title rival — the 3-0 defeat by Arsenal two months ago — and his conviction is difficult to contradict. While Chelsea’s starting XI at the Etihad is likely to show only three changes from the team who folded at the Emirates, the players’ confidence, attitude and performance levels have been transformed in the interim, as a remarkable run of seven successive Premier League wins after ending Tottenham Hotspur’s unbeaten start to the season on Saturday attests."

Very much agree with this. We're rolling high at the moment and I think the only flaw in our game is the way we handle high intensity teams. In order to deal with intense pressing teams you must have technically good midfielders to spray the ball left and right with ease. This is why I think that the game next week-end is our biggest test so far. I think Conte should go for the 3-5-2 this time and add an extra midfielder in there. Guardiola is definitely going to use a three man midfield and look to win the midfield battle. I know this, we know this because this is what he does, he said it many times that by winning the midfield battle you win the game. It is his philosophy of football so I think it'll be suicidal for Conte to go with only with Matic and Kante as his midfielders in this game. Against a very capable and comfortable on the ball City midfield. A ball playing LCB is needed I agree with you. Also a technically good midfielder to partner Kante (someone in the mould of Mousa Dembele, but way more faster). For the right forward position my dream signing would be Aubameyang. And definitely two wing backs, either to cover for Marcos Alonso or two proven ones. Saying Chelsea end the season on a high, we cannot let the mistakes from the past hunt us again - squad must be improved no matter how good certain players are.

He didn't just "kick a bottle". You could see the 4th ref Anthony Taylor rushing to Jon Moss immediately. Mourinho must have said something nasty to him. Twat. Just watched Ander Herrera's post match interview. Not only Lingard and him have the most punchable faces in world football, but he is also overrated as fuck and as much as deluded as his manager.

Losing the plot already hahah you fucking deluded old tosser Keep going this way you're slowly but surely turning United into the laughing stock you've become already.

Not the best of performances but who cares fuck of you Spuds

Spuds losers play Champions League football every 50 years get drawn in a group with no big team in it and still can't get through haha. Ice hockey score tonight had it not been for Lloris' saves

Funny as right now I'm listening to LA's radio Real 92.3 and Big Boy is live on air with his morning show. He's asking people "What artists cannot sit at your Thanksgiving dinner table?". Two chaps have just called in and they both said Kanye West haha

This league used to be decent years ago but right now I would not touch anything coming out of Eredivisie with a barge pole. Dutch football as a whole is a complete mess at the moment as a matter of fact. Memphis Depay ripped that league to pieces so I guess the standard can't be set any lower. If this kid Dolberg can become a decent player in the future than good for him, but scoring goals in this league is by no means a guarantee that you got your hands on the next Suarez.

Every average fan and their dog could read Leicester's tactics last season. Old fashioned 4-4-2, lots of balls for Vardy's pace over defences blah blah blah. All this for 5 rounds, 10 rounds, 15 rounds, 38 rounds. They all said that a moment will come when Leicester will crack. Well they did not even though you could read them like an open book. Everybody knows Messi's movement but they can't do nothing about it. Everybody knows that Robben likes to come inside on his left foot 99 out of 100 times but nobody can't stop him. Everybody knows that Terry likes to attack the first post at every corner kick but that did not stop him from scoring tons of goals exactly this way. Had football been this easy you know...................................... Funny reading scousers talking about other teams getting undone during a season because of certain tactics. I guess it's probably because they have been so successful with four at the back during the last 26 years in which they won FUCK ALL haha

Top of the table! The Italian way!!! DAYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM Antonioooooo, Antoniooooo, Antonio, Antonio, Antoniooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo FUCKING GET IN

All eyes on Chelsea this being the only PL game tomorrow. Fans, managers, single moms, they will all be watching us. Perfect timing to put on a stellar performance and make them fear us even more.

Had this been April with the table looking as it looks now, then I'd probably wank all over a United win. But since it's so early in the season and Chelsea play Boro this round I think I'm going to settle for an Arsenal win. Or a draw. Tons of (negative) records have been broken since Fergie has left United - they are due a new one. So I guess it's time for Wenger to win his first PL match against the deluded one. Fucking hate them both but at this point it's more refreshing watching Mourinho and United fail.

Premature to be talking about ANY deal at this point. It all depends on how we finish this season. Should Conte win the title in a league with Guardiola, Klopp, Wenger, Pochettino, Mourinho then automatically he gets the aura of a world class manager and players get more attracted when Chelsea come knocking at the door. But a finish outside of top four... I don't know. So let's see what happens come May and then we can start talking about big transfers.

What a plonker

Batshuayi should be enough to beat Boro but we need Diego Costa back for the Spurs and City matches. Praying it's nothing serious

He's built like a tank but I'm afraid that injury and the extended time on the sidelines affected a lot his status in the squad. Seeing how much our defenders play with the ball at their feet under Conte I think that atm Christensen is ahead of him in the pecking order because of his ball playing abilities. For me Azpilicueta and David Luiz cannot and will not be dropped by Conte in the near future so it remains to be seen who is the one to be putting Cahill's place in the starting 11 in danger come next summer. It's either Christensen or a new signing imo.