Mohamed Salah

[J-V]

7th best player in The World…

[suzy]

14 hours ago, Code said:

Another game,  another goal. 
 

 

Remarkable stats.

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

I know that it's been mentioned already but how fucking ridiculous is it that our league title hopes could actually be taken away from us due to players not being available due to an international tournament. It's like telling a boxer fighting for a belt that he can't use one of his hands for a round whilst his opponent just gets on with it as usual. AFCON can go fuck itself.

[Code]

It is just two games, we should be able to win them regardless of Mo and Mane missing. 
 

 

 

 

[Karl_b]

30 minutes ago, Code said:

It is just two games, we should be able to win them regardless of Mo and Mane missing. 
 

 

 

 

It's a minimum of two games isn't it? If their national FAs insist on them being released two weeks early then they'll miss the Chelsea game and if they get out of the groups then they could miss more games afterwards.

[Code]

30 minutes ago, Karl_b said:

It's a minimum of two games isn't it? If their national FAs insist on them being released two weeks early then they'll miss the Chelsea game and if they get out of the groups then they could miss more games afterwards.

It finishes on the 6th of February, starts on the 9th of January.

 

There is absolutely no way Egypt will call up Mo before the Chelsea game. 

[aws]

11 minutes ago, Code said:

It finishes on the 6th of February, starts on the 9th of January.

 

There is absolutely no way Egypt will call up Mo before the Chelsea game. 

I can't see Mo wanting to miss the chance to play and score against Chelsea so that he can attend a few extra days of pre-tournament training. 

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

1 hour ago, Code said:

It is just two games, we should be able to win them regardless of Mo and Mane missing. 
 

 

 

 

Hope you're right but the likes of yesterday would have been a real problem without Mo & Sadio and it looks like this is going to go to the wire. It's not like we're missing squad players here.

[Grinch]

I bet Senegal move heaven and earth to keep Mane for as long as possible.

[Barrington Womble]

5 hours ago, Code said:

It is just two games, we should be able to win them regardless of Mo and Mane missing. 
 

 

 

 

Nothing is certain yet though. They could even miss the Leicester game over xmas if their FAs want to be cunts. And even if it is just 2 matches, it means we lose our only 2 wide men against 2 sides who will be happy to sit in and you need your width. And with the final being on 6th, anyone playing in that may not be in shape for Leicester on 9th. 

 

Add to this Al Ahly have request the African federation bring the tournament forward as it overlaps with FIFA's club world cup, literally anything is still up for grabs. It's fucking ridiculous - and nobody is talking about the South Americans fucking off for world cup qualifiers in January too, which adds to the fatigue and makes a tough January tougher, combined with making the FA cup harder 

 

 

 

[Aventus]

3 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

Nothing is certain yet though. They could even miss the Leicester game over xmas if their FAs want to be cunts. And even if it is just 2 matches, it means we lose our only 2 wide men against 2 sides who will be happy to sit in and you need your width. And with the final being on 6th, anyone playing in that may not be in shape for Leicester on 9th. 

 

Add to this Al Ahly have request the African federation bring the tournament forward as it overlaps with FIFA's club world cup, literally anything is still up for grabs. It's fucking ridiculous - and nobody is talking about the South Americans fucking off for world cup qualifiers in January too, which adds to the fatigue and makes a tough January tougher, combined with making the FA cup harder 

 

 

 

Won't Chelsea be playing in the club world Cup? 

 

How will that effect them? 

[Barrington Womble]

Just now, Aventus said:

Won't Chelsea be playing in the club world Cup? 

 

How will that effect them? 

Nobody seems to know! It was scheduled for about now and it got moved to Feb (I think because of covid, but not sure). I think the PL have said there's no time for it. It's all a fucking mess. 

[Megadrive Man]

2 hours ago, Aventus said:

Won't Chelsea be playing in the club world Cup? 

 

How will that effect them? 

 

They have had 2 Premier League games postponed.  Gameweek 24 and 25 in February. 

[aws]

2 hours ago, MegadriveMan said:

 

They have had 2 Premier League games postponed.  Gameweek 24 and 25 in February. 

Remind me. How did the authorities deal with our fixture pile-up? 

[Mark M]

10 hours ago, Jimmy Hills Chin said:

Hope you're right but the likes of yesterday would have been a real problem without Mo & Sadio and it looks like this is going to go to the wire. It's not like we're missing squad players here.

Exactly.

Say that Villa game was one of the games we were missing Sadio & Mo for due to the Afcon I’d say most fans myself included would have said we’d win without them.

If it wasn’t for Salah we’d have dropped points in that match.

 

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

12 hours ago, Code said:

It finishes on the 6th of February, starts on the 9th of January.

 

There is absolutely no way Egypt will call up Mo before the Chelsea game. 

Of course they won't - they need to flush the PEDs out of his system first, so they don't get blamed for the doping! Get a grip, Code.

[an tha]

15 hours ago, Jimmy Hills Chin said:

I know that it's been mentioned already but how fucking ridiculous is it that our league title hopes could actually be taken away from us due to players not being available due to an international tournament. It's like telling a boxer fighting for a belt that he can't use one of his hands for a round whilst his opponent just gets on with it as usual. AFCON can go fuck itself.

Is fucking right.

 

Although of course there will be other clubs who suffer too....but the point is NO clubs should suffer.

 

The players are the clubs expensively acquired and extremely highly paid employees and them being pulled away from their employers during the season like this is just fucking wrong.

[Kevin D]

Why do I always feel nervous when he steps up for a pen? He's got ice cold water in his veins.

[Barrington Womble]

8 hours ago, an tha said:

Is fucking right.

 

Although of course there will be other clubs who suffer too....but the point is NO clubs should suffer.

 

The players are the clubs expensively acquired and extremely highly paid employees and them being pulled away from their employers during the season like this is just fucking wrong.

I can't understand why we can't get a genuine world calendar. I understand they can't necessarily play in parts of Africa during the summer, but perhaps there need to be a level of coordination where the other regional tournaments perhaps have a winter slot like we'll have for the world cup. There has to be a better way than this. I feel like we just need to rip up the current footballing calendar and start again - it might mean we need to adapt a little, perhaps our seasons will break in the middle occasionally for international football, but it's got to be better than this. It's not just the tournaments for me. The entire international calendar does nothing more than destabilise the club calendar all year. 

[Chairman Meow]

10 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

I can't understand why we can't get a genuine world calendar. I understand they can't necessarily play in parts of Africa during the summer, but perhaps there need to be a level of coordination where the other regional tournaments perhaps have a winter slot like we'll have for the world cup. There has to be a better way than this. I feel like we just need to rip up the current footballing calendar and start again - it might mean we need to adapt a little, perhaps our seasons will break in the middle occasionally for international football, but it's got to be better than this. It's not just the tournaments for me. The entire international calendar does nothing more than destabilise the club calendar all year. 

 

My solution would be to cancel international football entirely as it's fucking shit. 

[Barrington Womble]

22 minutes ago, Chairman Meow said:

 

My solution would be to cancel international football entirely as it's fucking shit. 

i believe those on the take may not agree with that. 

[Chairman Meow]

4 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

i believe those on the take may not agree with that. 

 

I concur. Unfortunately they want even more international football so they can try and milk it even more.

 

Football has very much gone down the quantity over quality route and as far as I can tell the only person involved in the game who openly seems to give a fuck about it is Klopp who doesn't want the players run into the ground to the point they are physically fucked.

 

[Anubis]

Aliou Sissy is definitely going to demand Sadio goes early as he clearly has an imaginary beef with Klopp because of the recent ‘small tournament’ misinterpretation.

[Barnesey]

1 hour ago, Barrington Womble said:

I can't understand why we can't get a genuine world calendar. I understand they can't necessarily play in parts of Africa during the summer, but perhaps there need to be a level of coordination where the other regional tournaments perhaps have a winter slot like we'll have for the world cup. 

South America is in the Southern Hemisphere too, and they seem to cope with a tourney in our summer

[No2]

What ever happened to rule about postponing matches if your missing 3 players on international duty? It still applies in the championship and lower leagues and rightly so.