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But you have not accounted for the incoming Jota penalty

FB should have been for Ayew, Bilal our best player so far

Yep other than Coopers staff, he’s got JTR with him although Hake left with him when he left Man U & probably would have been more of a help, he’s been offered his own manager role back home so can’t blame him on that. Barry’s highly thought of so that’s another 1 in and we will be negotiating with members of that original team he put together I’d imagine so hopefully the 2nd half (business end) of the season we will be on a better footing staff wise. Just think due to Ruud’s circumstance, as in he was an assistant himself, he didn’t have his own team to follow him immediately so it was always going to take a little time getting them in.

Yeah on all accounts he had put a team together to go elsewhere abroad but the lure to Man U as ‘staff’ was to tempting for him personally so that team broke up and have since probably found new jobs 🤷‍♂️ Had he been Man U perm manager for more than a month I’d imagine he’d have ‘his’ team with him who would then come along for the ride but…

I guess the difference here is that your guy was in a job & had his staff with him, so he goes they go with as part of the package. Ruud was an assistant coach with Ten Hags staff, yes he moved up to interim but again TH’s staff. Word is he was pulling a team together prior to taking the Man U coaching role as he had manager jobs lined up but once Man U came in he dropped the options. The 2 guys he did know there 1 has come with and the other (Hake) looks to be getting a manager job himself back home. I imagine the rest of the team he was going to get prior to Man U have sorted themselves out so if he wanted those there is the compensation and breaking of contracts along with do they want to come to consider I guess, not a simple come with.

Not sure we will be paying upwards of 30m when the young ARG is 8m + to many suitors mentioned for Fikayo Tomori as well as those mentioned there’s Villa, WHam & more than likely his destination Juventus

With a thread for every player getting slated…maybe Rodgers was right

The money men will want him out the club if Enzo doesn’t name him in any squad for the 2nd part of the season, they are not daft. A decent loan could see him off their books and whilst they might have to honour his contract they would also see some return from buying club with 2yrs left on the book 🤷‍♂️

But who ever loans him won’t be funding his £190kpw wage not because they can’t but because it makes no sense for Chelsea to force his wages on someone else. If they want him gone they will agree to fund must of his wage because part is better than all. The 6 month reference refers up to the end of this season, he still has another 2 year on those wages up to June 2027. They will cover any loan wage just to get him in the shop window and a successful loan gets him a move to that or indeed another club probably in the summer but him not playing means he’s there till his contract expires.

Just seen ref watch and even Dermot has broken ranks and said it was a pen

Yes and didn’t MotD also say VAR put it down as a save (action) when reviewed, bloody ridiculous it wasn’t a Schmeichel style legs spread type of save it was studs 1st if I catch you I’m going to hurt you type of save. Same with the punch clearance type saves when it goes wrong and they clatter someone’s head they get away with it because they are deemed trying to make a punch save but if they missed the ball and hit a head it’s a bloody foul surely, otherwise any outfield tackle foul should be let off if that’s not the case because “ref I tried to get the ball but I missed and got his leg sorry “

Played along side Winks the 2 could form a decent ball playing partnership but you then lose the DM break up side of the role. Last season the 2 together with Ricky coming in would have been successful as we didn’t often need a headless DM bombing around and we could pass our way through. It might even work this season but you need that 3rd midfielder to come in to plug gaps that a player like Ndidi does when in a 2. Im not writing him off just yet solely because he’s not had enough time with a fixed partner.

Yeah I get it was the striker that was mentioned in his interview but I’m sure he’d be speaking to this chap also as they would have crossed paths for the ARG unders if any truth in the story.

Hopefully as this has broke sometime before the window opens we already have the deal wrapped up, if not then sadly we’ll end up losing out on him as much as Facundo might be telling him to come here.

Not a bad shout tbh As rash as they are I think Faes and Okoli need to start as we will need mobile CBs against Liverpool’s forward machine. I would be happy if they are sat either side of Coady or Vestergaard. Again agree I’d also select Hamza to be used as the RB supporting Midfield allowing Soumare to progress with the ball & being there with Winks if it’s lost/ turned over because these break quickly and if just Winks in the hole they will pass around him with ease such is their passing and speed. Vardy maybe just for the spirit but VVD tends to keep him quite and as he don’t run as much now would Daka be a better option 🤷‍♂️ Bench is honking mind 😂

I wonder if it was the Wolves player that shouted leave it andJJ assumed it was Ayew. JJ was rightly marking a man towards the centre of the box as the play shifted to our left and facing play he didn’t know that Ayew had let his player wonder off behind him, it just seemed an unnatural movement by JJ to not have heard a shout of some kind.

RVN obviously knows what he’s about but not sure we use a premier loan spot to get him when we have 4 or 5 in the same area as bad as they have been, we need goal providers from the loans & be buying defensive players to future proof us. His market value is 3m if he thinks going forward he’s a player that will replace the likes of Skipp, Ndidi, Hamza & Soumare to work along side Winks then push them with a 5m bid as much as they say he’s highly rated by them I can’t see them doing anything but buying their way out of trouble now.

There wouldn’t have been many, if any, French or Irish club teams that would have got much change out of the Bears yesterday, was a day everything clicked Tigers did very well to earn, & that’s the right word, a try bonus point because Bears were awesome in defence also, I didn’t think we were going to make it but well done for never giving up on it.

The 🍺 back on 😂

We beat them 2:1 on 23/11/94 he played but he never scored. Our goals came from an OG and David Lowe, Wright scored a pen for them

Shame for Rooney that to lead 3 times but draw, would have seen him out the bottom 3 as well but probably enough shown against a top 6 team to keep him in a job for now.

Fury is 4st heavier than Usyk this time round and a stone and a half heavier than he was in the 1st fight, in fact I believe this is the heaviest he’s ever been for a fight. There is obviously a reason he’s done this and I hope it’s not so he can just lean on Usyk hoping to tire him out because if Usyk can evade him that’s a lot of timber to carry for 12rds.

I know Marc Guiu is down as a striker but if he can play off either side he could be a decent shout as Enzo might be willing to let him go on loan in January and it will be to a premier league club but doubt to a top 8ish side so we could get our noses in there with Enzo connections. We can only have 2 loans so these need to be young hungry energetic forward thinking players that will make a huge contribution to our team goals wise & eager to show off their attacking talent for their home clubs at the same time, we should be happy with that because we should be going for loans of players we probably shouldn’t be able to buy. What impressed about Guiu, apart from the goals and I know the standard of the opposition wasn’t great there, was his pressing the kid never stopped and if that is going to be part of RVN plan he could be a great option paired with either Bilal/Facundo along side Vardy/Daka. The big issues of our defence is where we should be putting our money in January and should be looking for the best options to purchase, we don’t need 1s for the future at this stage we need a few rocks that can step in now and for fear of sounding like Cooper they need to understand what it will take for a club like us needs for the 2nd half of the season ie Huth types. We certainly need ready made fullbacks akin to Reguilon who won’t cost the earth but can step in day 1 and still be in their prime years to warrant a 3/4 deal. They would also need to be adapt at covering their sides without having out and out wingers in front of them. Centre backs will be a little harder to fill as we have an abundance of experience but we need pace and not sure we can find the premier combo of experience and pace from a premier league club willing to sell in January. So its dropping to find the best of the championship someone not currently in their prime but exceeding their age and has pace along with already being settled in the UK v dipping abroad on someone with those attributes and hope their character can settle them quickly, a Milenkovic type or maybe Godfrey could be an option and why he’s being linked his versatility would come in handy to play with the CBs we have now along with being RB & DM cover. Midfield and permanent wing options might need to wait until summer.

We hear about the open public shootings but not so much about the domestic incidents, here it looks probably like the 17 year old did it as they are not looking for anyone else, so sad that it might have been born out of a simple argument with his parents & there was a fire arm to hand, I’m speculating of course. Further down in the article along the same lines it tells of a father ,who’s wife had filed for divorce, also killed his entire family 5 kids and wife then himself back in Jan 23, how many of these incidents happen in the US that aren’t worldly reported. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/utah-family-5-five-found-dead-their-home-1-teen-survived-2024-12-18/ Yearly figures must be alarming for any gun related death due to suicide, robbery, domestic, mass shootings & anything in between, but still..

Wouldn’t any appeal run along side any suspension like in the case of Spurs & Bentancur's?