Why do people think Pep’s taking a dig at Arteta? He’s literally friends with him, it’s just a Pep style sly-diss to the refs

Yessss thank you shit

Edit: nvm you’re called shit for a reason

Chuba Akpom being 28 does not sit right with me

Why do people still pretend like Rodri is better than Rice? I think give it a few more months and this will be an actual conversation

Chelsea truly taken up the Robin Hood role of your average mid table Prem team

2nd best after Dias. It’s just a matter of time before he’s the best though.

The first point is the reason we’ve dropped points this season, especially in the Chelsea game. If our wingers get nullified we’ve got literally no more attacking threat apart from hoping that Ødegaard scores another like 0.06 xG long range effort

Parteys only injured temporarily. Rice, Partey, Jorginho, Elneny. Even if Partey is injured he’s 3rd choice not 2nd

I was going to say. In fact we’ve seen much worse than that since Ange took over.

Considering City’s 2nd choice DM is Kalvin Phillips, you could do a lot worse than having Elneny as you’re 4th choice DM.

However the question is whether we even need a 4th choice DM. If the wages are low then I don’t see too much issue with keeping him, it’s not like we’d get a sizeable transfer fee for him anyway.

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Almost had hope for united until I saw that defensive unit 🤦‍♂️ nvm

Struggling to see where we’re going to get creativity from with the absence of Jesus, Ødegaard and Vieira.

ESR and Havertz are good on their day but they’re not going be playing any passes that unlocks a defence.

Surely if we’re going to drop Ødegaard we play Vieira instead of one of Havertz/ESR? I’m guessing the plan is to use ESR to tiki taka our way through that Sheffield low block bc he is rather good at that quick link up play

well yeah it was a mixture of Saka having an off day by his standards, Cucurella having a good game by his standards and Cucurella kicking the shit out of saka.

Even if Saka gets shut out “unfairly”, he’s still getting shut out. Instead of complaining about it and how bad the refs are, we might as well solve the issue at hand wouldnt you agree?

And I’m not just talking about the chelsea game in isolation, we saw it every time Saka faced Ake against City last season for example.

At times it’s hard to create anything when their fullbacks do an amazing 1v1 job to shut out Sakanelli. For these matches I wish we’d play Martinelli/Trossard Havertz Jesus as our front 3, gives us a completely different dimension to our attack and adds that bit of a chaos factor too that we lack at times.

Probably May last season mate

It feels nice having such a well-rounded team in the sense that there’s no clear standout player that carries us these days.

You could make a case for any one of Saka, Ødegaard, Rice or Saliba as being our best player tbh

Must’ve injured himself on Wednesday again 💀

Either way Stamford bridge is our training ground, should be a comfortable win lol

Is James available for Saturday? Might have to call KT back for this one game to humiliate him yet again

There’s no way El Shaarawy is only 30

You can tell that’s his preferred (fit) starting XI as well smh