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Such good forward play by Pedro there

That wasn’t a pen…no matter how much we all want it to be.

I might have a half time brew.

Callum clearly playing for a 1-0 snatch and grab.

That defending wasn’t great at all

Lucky but he was well offside.

Hoping Caicedo is ok

Almost.

Think we are keeping it tight. Not doing anything stupid.

Very cautious start

I reckon we’re due one at Wembley.

Just tweeted from Fabrizo: Chelsea have had a direct meeting with Xabi Alonso and final decision is expected very soon. #CFC plan to announce their next manager before the World Cup, talks are accelerating. Chelsea also spoke to Iraola, Glasner and Marco Silva as part of their list.

What sort style does Alonso play? Is he adaptable at all or one trick pony/philosophy manager?

It does look like it’s happening with Alonso if Ben Jacob’s if saying it. He’s well sourced. Liverpool should sack Slot but they won’t. Especially as he will likely get CL.

Here’s his quotes: “The information we have is that Chelsea are exploring a deal for Xabi Alonso and that he would be open to this possibility. It would seem that Alonso is at the forefront of Chelsea’s minds at the moment but the process continues. Expect news in next days / weeks. (@David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC podcast)”

🗣 @LaurensJulien: "They [Chelsea] have gone through the process of speaking to those managers [on the shortlist], not fully interviewing them, in the sense of, like there have been chats, and then some of them have presented already their project to the club, and what they would do, like Xabi Alonzo, for example, who apparently was quite impressive to the people that interviewed him." ~ @ESPNFC

Chelsea have also MET with Iraola. Something that has been acknowledged by the recruitment department is the need for the team to become more physical. That heightens the appeal of Iraola. There is a sense he is capable of scaling up to a bigger job. (@guardian_sport)

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.dailymail.com/sport/football/article-15811787/xabi-alonso-cesc-fabregas-chelsea-manager.html Essentially the article says Alonso couldn’t manage Chelsea’s dressing room and Cesc would be a better fit. Opinion piece.

interesting question about Roman. I believe Romans model got found out towards the end and he wasn’t hiring or buying elite players. He had dropped from title challengers to top 4 challengers. Granted, there was ALOT to political issues going on and he clearly had to step back a little and couldn’t enter the UK so will cut him some slack.

The question with either Alonso with whether he can make the step up from a mid level club to elite (granted, I know we are not currently elite). He failed at Madrid so it does make me question his man management. Surely Iraola will stay at Bournemouth if they make champions league? Surely?!

🗣️ @SkyKaveh on Chelsea target Xabi Alonso: “It's an open secret that his dream job is to manage Liverpool” (🎥 via @SkySportsNews) Not to say that he doesn’t want us. Suppose it’s abit like any club legend in management.

Alonso is an interesting one. Slight question marks about what happened at Madrid but it is a funny changing room. One thing is that I bet it will massively annoy the Liverpool fans. I reckon most of them want him instead of Slot.

Trossard always looks ill.

There you go. They regret it now

So close by Weat ham. Hope they don’t regret that