Why do they even have to wait until September to start proceedings and 2025 to make decision. It’s been years, it’s just bullshit.
Don’t believe any justice will be done.

Luke shaw is a freeloader. We should release him on free agent.
I rather have an empty hole in LB than a paid empty hole in LB taking up the carrington hospital bed and giving extra job to the physios

My heart says we need to challenge for EPL but my gut says ETH still needs another striker, and a good winger. These two will cost us $200m, more than the rest of the squad combined.

i realise i repeat this too damn often, but I always feel inadequate when we don't have a plan A attacker such as RVP, Lukaku, and of course RvN. In every title winning team, you can always recall the 30 goal forward. And he is always paired with a top winger. We don't have it, and yes I don't even count peak Rashford in this group.
Garnacho and amad = 2 wingers and in my mind we need 3 lol.
Yeah, looking forward to Hojlund under RvN but as it stands injured (again) and Zirkzee is just an unknown at this point. Even Hojlund of last season was just so-so and not block busting.

Its always the lack of goals that do us in. You pick a fantasy pun, always start with no.9 captain (Haaland of course) and budget be damned lol.

This post has been edited by lee82gx: Aug 15 2024, 02:43 PM

No further news on Ugarte, seems like a difficult piece of business to conclude hmm

i didnt watch the game, lost motivation after the score to follow up. So did we play badly or what actually?

Thanks for replying. I don’t get any satisfaction from saying I never believed in false nine with no no.9’s. I know we are improvising / gelling whatever with the new players but no.9 is no.9 and you gotta pay 150m for him. There is no such thing as 3 x 50m false nines and rotate them just to confuse your opponent. Our own players confuse as well.

Gonna bet our MBE no.10 wasn’t even a false 10 and is definitely a false 11. A con.

Not getting osimhen at 70M€ will be a loss for us.

This should be last chance saloon for MBE. Antony, Sancho all also lost their starts and I really hope ETH wakes up before he gets sacked.

if napoli can't afford to pay Osimhen's wages and have to flog their star to Arab I am not convinced they actually are in the buyer's market.

please. we don't want another used sock from Chelski.

https://trappedinsports.com/football-news-i...-playing-style/

See, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out.
If you have a 4-6-0 formation with all 4 attacking midfielders ABLE to score goals maybe you can do it. But we are the lowest scoring team in top 10. Its like choosing to be Greece for 38 matches. Even Otto Rehhagel can't last that long.

I rather have him off our books salary wise. You get Sterling, he will come in with equivalently high wages and no sell on value anyway. Yes, footballing we will have a better option, but realistically I won't put him in the first team this year anyways.

Looks like we managed to ship out Sancho. Praise the Lord!

its an interesting window, where I say we get A for all the outgoings.

But I don't really say we get more competitive or the results get better based on out goings.
Its the incomings that will change our results and destiny.
Here
Yoro - wait till next season?
Mazroui - a B+ to B replacement of AWB.
Zirkzee - a B replacement for Martial (who is a D- kinda player) so nothing to shout about.
De ligt - B+ replacement of Varane who is a A- player when fit. Why isn't he playing again?

Nothing has been set alight. I still see struggle to attack, wide open goals being missed. Last minute collapses.

I say time will tell. Yes, we got rid of the baggage. But we need the new players to actually perform. No prize is given for the greatest player exchange in history.

The proof of the pudding is always in the eating.

where is ugarte? are we doing this on 31/8 11.59pm?

Why am I not surprised at all with our injury list? It is uncommon for our treatment table to be less than Chelsea active playing squad. Always been our aims to start a league of injured 11 and win it. More fun more joy less difficult.

Maybe just maybe this final season Ruud + Rashford = gold. But after that he can also be sold ala Sancho, 25M near end of the contract.

Not gonna lie, he is LZJ. Talent max output negative. Distraction plenty. Needs a good coaching and mentoring to focus on his football. Otherwise out.

Lets say it again, open heart surgery requires a viable replacement organ. Otherwise the patient is left without a heart.
So, please, Mr.ETH and your Ajax alumni, show us the results. We are not here to hope and wish, we have expectations.

Minimum expectation is not to capitulate vs Liverpool.

from deep inside the cave, peeping out.