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They’re still spending the Coutinho money

Estevao’s talent has never been based on pace. He was never particularly quick off the mark.

You can see how it stood out amongst the other buildings.The Crystal Palace itself can be seen in this picture. It was destroyed in the fire of 1936

The (water) tower you can see in the 3rd picture was pulled down during WW2 to avoid it being used as a navigational aid by the Luftwaffe..

Before uncontested drop balls !

Come a bit early for us. Not fussed about the result. As long as we look to go at them quickly when we get the ball, like we have been doing, Ill be happy.

I think the deadline is noon on Friday to be able to play on Sunday. Not going to happen. Aye as Scott says will be back soon, but best case is bench for Arsenal.

The transfer deficit since 22/23 is around £750 million. That's purely the difference in what we've spent buying players and minus how much we've received in transfers from selling players. Our overall losses taking into account all income ( broadcasting, commercial etc) and spending for 24/25 season was a record for an English club at -£342 million I'm not clued up about whether or not all that matters, but what I DO know is that that amount of spending should have consolidated as a top elite club and enabled us to win titles and other trophies

Yeah, has lots of very good qualities at a young age and especially as he's playing in an unfamiliar league and a new club Rooney, although familiar with the PL and was playing for Everton, was just 16 when he scored THAT goal v Arsenal, but he had the build and look of someone much.older. Our lad is looking good though, hope this loan doesn't hold him back, he needs to develop into a PL player. Not sure Burnley was the best place for that to happen, hopefully the club won't let him stay there if it's not good for him

From the BBC football site last night... Player of the match Number: 12 D. Satpaev Average rating 7.18

From Sky Italia posted this morning: Speaking to Sky Italia at the Gran Gala del Calcio ceremony, Palestra delivered a positive update on his recovery. “I'm fine, it's still a few days away, but I feel much better,” he said. From the ceremony.

I guess Palestra is out for a while?

I guess if there were any average defensive midfield free agents we could sign as a temporary measure we wouldn’t be able to register them?

I personally think Strasbourg have a lot to thank BlueCo for. They could have sent them Garnacho and Badiashile.

Gonna be like a new signing…oh wait! Seriously though really looking forward to watching him this season.

We weren't totally sold on this bloke or we would have closed the deal several days earlier. If he goes to the bin dippers at least we will have increased their cost. Monaco and their CEO are not important to us in the grand scheme of things, and I think we have missed out on a player who would not have held down at starting place in our midfield. Hardly a disaster, what was his name again?

The vast majority of these rules are badly thought through and implemented, they didnt think about the ways clubs would use this, and how they would need to look to "game" them. Look at the start of it all, how the claim was it would lead to more youth players getting into the 1st team, whereas they are now basically the most saleable assets clubs have and will continue to be sold much more than ever before.

Scuro said in his statement that Camara wanted to stay (which was a lie) and was quoted as saying, "I'm very confident that soon he will have even better options and offers than the one he had yesterday." Either he was talking out of his ass, or there is truth to Ben Jacobs' report.

Absolute nonsense. Lahm, Alaba, and Kimmich are generational outliers, not templates. Bayern didn’t “convert defenders into midfielders every three years” because the roles are interchangeable; they did it because those players had elite midfield traits long before the positional switch. Lahm was basically a midfielder in disguise and is the smartest player he's ever coached, per Guardiola. Alaba played everywhere growing up. Kimmich was a 6 before he was a full‑back. A CB in a high line still plays with the entire game in front of him. That’s not midfield, and it’s nowhere close to operating as a midfielder. Pretending those roles overlap is just ignoring the fundamentals. Midfield success depends on things you can’t shortcut. Anticipation, tempo control, technical ability, constant scanning, and the intelligence to solve pressure in tight spaces. These aren’t traits any defender can “pick up”. They’re core midfield behaviours that defenders simply don’t develop by default, and your example of 3 generational players proves as much. Acting like a CB can step into midfield and replicate that because of modern positioning is, frankly, farcical. You’re treating one of the most cognitively demanding roles on the pitch as if it’s a plug and play skill set. It isn’t, and no amount of tactical buzzwords makes it so. If you were even remotely right, Van Dijk would already be a world-class #6, Pep would have kept Stones at DM permanently, and the TAA in midfield experiment wouldn't have been abandoned the very moment it started.

Would hasten to add hard to split my score on the dislikeometer between Spurs and Liverpool hate both with a passion although hard pressed I think Liverpool still give that extra buzz of satisfaction personally when we beat them. The 4-2 FA Cup win still ranks amongst my favourite experiences at the Bridge.

When I first started supporting Chelsea as a kid was probably QPR based purely on where I lived and Chelsea and QPR being the two nearest clubs and a large demographic of those areas supporting local teams, QPR had a decent team at that time from what my ageing memory allows (Rodney Marsh era) lol. From a club to club perspective I think was no doubt Leeds at that time. Evolved over the years to be Liverpool but would defo say Spurs probably the longest running rivalry that I've seen during my years.

For me it's mostly Spurs and Liverpool, followed by Leeds and West Ham. I suppose the current Arsenal team would be up there now, but historically I've not given much of a sh*t about them. Couldn't care less about the manc clubs.

Same here, mostly because of their insufferable fans

I hate losing to Liverpool. They are definitely the worst team I hate losing to. 😭😭