Chris

Ah well.

England players constantly making shit decisions with the ball. Frustrating as fuck to watch.

Ew. I’m talking about her follow up tweet. Where after all that hyperbole she’s not even arsed enough to do any of the stuff she wants to see happen.

what an utter fucking dickhead.

I feel the same way. Helps that all the flag-shagging Brexit knob heads aren't ruining it for everyone though. And there's no need to cheer for Harry Kane either. Still, every time I hear "It's coming home" the struggle to stay on the support bus is very, very real.

There's no way I'd be bringing that Chelsea dickhead back for the final, star player or not. Let Toone keep her place, she did well against the Aussies and deserves it.

Don't think there's any putting the genie back in the bottle when it comes to sticking Trent back in the right back box now unfortunately. The argument isn't whether he CAN defend, as it was for so long. It's whether he can be arsed to defend. Comments at the weekend suggest our new vice captain cannot be arsed defending.

Agree 100% about the chemistry and the luck involved with everything meshing. Mentality is another. I'm just not seeing close to the same mentality from this group as we had during the peak era. The ability to meet adversity head on and smile at it. I guess the likes of Milner were key to that. And it's irreplaceable. Sorry for the platitudes, but I'm not sure the desires there from anyone to get back to the mountain top.

Age profile is one thing, quality is another. I don't think we a) have like for like quality with the players replaced and b) those we haven't replaced look a lot less than what they were. In terms of a) I don't think we'll be talking about Diaz, Nunez and Gakpo in the same breath as Mane and Firmino when we're sat around reminiscing about that era. The latter two are all-time club greats, unquestionably. The others are good players. But when we've had that quality for so long and have relied on every ounce of it for the prizes we've won, the drop off is stark. Still time for them, I know. But if I could have Sadio at 25 or Diaz now, there's no fucker picking Diaz. And it isn't even close. I'm not sure I'd take two Diaz's over peak Sadio. We're doing it again now. We relied so much on how good peak Fabinho was. We needed him to be as good as he was to win what we won. His replacement is going to be less then. The only way it wasn't going to be was if we got one of the top lads we whiffed on. I could go on. Henderson was a great captain. Now we have someone who's only good to have around when the going's good and he's being praised to the hilt. The rest of the time he's a sulking twat. In terms of b) Again we relied on every ounce of magic from Alisson, Virgil, Trent, Robbo and Salah to win what we won. Except Alisson, none of them are what they were. It's a massive, massive uphill climb to get close to where we were. And, when you consider those factors, as well as the system being in a flux with no true identify anymore, I'd say it's impossible. So, reset your expectations when it comes to this squad. Top 4 is pretty good going.

I'm not sure whether he's *the* guy. Probably not. But he was an absolute monster in the World Cup.

Basically. Everyone's going to moan like fuck regardless. Sign someone? Moan about who. Sign no-one? Moan they didn't pull out all the stops. There's effectively no realistically available player out there that could redeem this given the funk most people seem to be in.

But Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.

Here he is in the new away kit.

"No, thank you. Oh and have you seen our new bone saw?"

Blows my mind there are people who watch enough football to know stuff like this when it's not their full time job.

Seeing a lot of "we've been screwed over by agents" in the last few pages. BE FUCKING SAVVIER. Don't remember us being continually embarrassed by their games before the behind the scenes infrastructure fell apart and we swapped our key blokes for fucking Gru from Despicable Me. Fucking amateur hour.

Playing at the BOSS Night Ultimo Cringe Fest? I'll pack his bags for him.

Didn't look like that on Sunday, to be honest. If you want dramatic, I got you! When you say "one player away from being championship contenders" we might be if Alisson goes!

Instead of "why would he go to Chelsea over us?" or "If he doesn't want to play for Klopp, fuck him!" or "whoah, 8th choice at Chelsea?!" or "who'd wanna live in London?" we should have a bit of fucking self awareness. We're an absolute state right now, very much in the middle of a down swing, without the funds (or the willingness to spend the funds) to guarantee the club a speedy return to the elite and regular competition for the biggest prizes. There are giant gaps in the team and in the most important positions at the club. And, for the first time, there are big questions about whether the manager has it in him to build a second great team while deviating from the only method that has ever worked for him. London is very attractive for players (especially non-English players) and, you know, people in general. It's probably a top five city to live on the planet especially if you have that much money for shopping, clubs, restaurants, and every fancy-ass experience you can imagine. Chelsea have a top manager AND they're paying all the big money. Delusional not to think they're a great option. Like players give the slightest fuck a batshit owner spending too much money and breaking all the rules and would prefer a skinflint one playing by the rules that's not going to spend to get them closer to success. Get a grip.

Looks like Adams might be going to... *checks notes* Bournemouth.

Haha! Giant A. Stach! Fantasic.

For the asking price it's definitely worth the risk. Get him regardless.

I think most of us were pretty high on the Kone and Thuram thing to begin with. Wouldn't be a bad result to just revisit that.

I'm not sure anyone really thinks we did? Three weeks of fucking them about with stupid bids might have made them less inclined to pick up the phone to that vapist bum Schamdtke. Like if you promise a girl to take her on a date to the restaurant of her choice and then phone her up and say "meet you at Nando's at 8?"