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He has his own guilt as well. Why only players from Calcio? Why? Since day number 1 of the transfer markets we are looking for expensive, slow, frail, unproven, old italian or playing for italian club players. The board has the right too, they already let Jose and flattered his Ego to the limit and look what happened - De Brewin, Salah, Mata, Lukaku.. and Conte's target are very questionable as well. When we failed to accomplish them, we just brought him just a little bit cheaper. But since his arrival, we are looking at the Calcio. That's suspicious. The Board and Roman are right in that case.

Not sure at all he has "no say". We bid for Koulibali, Radja, Sandro, Bonucci - ok, we failed. But we also managed to bring him Alonso, Zappacosta, Rudiger, Morata and now Emerson and Dzeko. All from fuc*ing Italy, all. All of them either slow, or frail, or just not good. Because Calcio is not the same as it was. No excuses, Antonio. The profile he's looking for just does not suit our club. He wants soldiers, tactical yesmen that follow the instructions diligently. I'm willing to believe he's afraid of coaching world class players.

I still don't understand how we managed to concede a goal from corner, scored by Monreal. This is unexplainable.

Why are we still buying mediocre players from Italy then, that nobody wants?

Nacho Monreal - the biggest threat from set pieces. John Terry does not like this. We used to beat this average team with average coach with 4-2-3-1. One of the two was Fabregas. How did Jose manage to beat them with only 5 defensive players regularly and Conte is 1/8. Please, next time we play Arsenal, pretend to be sick and let someone else running the game. The gardener, the security. They will do better.

Having a knowledge of players we are interested in, I expect Dzeko to get injured tonight.

How many minutes in a row does Bakayoko get in his account?

Great transfer. Next year this guy is going to make us champions again.

Right now Dzeko and Morata are not even at the same universe. It's quite clear he's coming to become a starter. Morata will have to fight Pedro and Willian if he wants to keep his position.

Since Roman bought the club, Chelsea is well known for his strong, almost unbreakable defense. And we tried only twice something else, both times remarkable fails(Scolari and AVB). And I have no problem with that. I'm even flattered when people mention Chelsea first thing to comes in their mind to be defense. That's our style. Solid rock backcourt, one diligent DM, one strong forward and discipline. Conte teaches that, Jose did, Carlo did, Di Matteo did(as much as he could), even Rafa tried the same. That's our style.

This guy Claude, so realistic prediction. :D

Lord, have mercy. If you have long injury, if you haven't played for a very long time, you are free to join Chelsea. We'll give you all the time you need, then we'll see you can't play and we'll turn you into a starter. Not sure a big football club or the Red Cross.

Why Wednesday again, did we not play the same day the first leg? Weren't we supposed to play Tuesday this time? 3-4-3 and we destroy them, we humiliate them. 3-5-2 and we get a close game, which we'll probably lose. Batshuayi earned his place in the starting eleven, Bakayoko earned his place on the bench, if I see Baka and Morata, I'll be wrathful. Especially Morata for his behaviour and Baka for not getting any rest and delivering only sH*t.

This guy is a big time player. I remember while he was playin for City how many times he saved them. Aguero scored the big amount of goal, but the most important were for him. Plus his amount wasn't that bad as you can see for a non stop bencher. Hope he ends at the Bridge in a week. The comparison between him and Caroll, Crouch and Barnes... bzzz. Just do something, for crying out loud, bring this guy.

Ashley Barnes will definitely destroy Barca.

Where's Charlie Adam rumor's topic?

I believe that's the case with almost every latin goalkeeper. Amazing reflex, decent saves and just a minute later - some crazy stuff. :D Low brain and too hot heads.

This time good line-up. 3-4-3 is working amazingly well against lower opponents. Absolutely no need to put another slow midfielder against 15 teams in this league. Willian and Hazard are our fastest, best dribbling players that understand each other. The combinations between them especially on fast run have always been working well. Conte must stop benching Willian for the good of this team. Batsman didn't score a goal, but his two shots first half were better than Morata would deliver. He's having tough time on counter attacks and when passing generally but at the same time had some very good deflections that, again, Morata would slow down with extra touches and claim for fouls after diving. Didn't like Bakayoko in and he was terrible but got no idea Drinkwater and Fabregas are injured. My apologies for that. The subs also good. Zappa for Alonso was much needed, because Marcos was slower than current Lampard's shape probably. Musonda with great pass, some great runs also and I'm glad he showed up. Maybe Ross aint ready and better not rush him in. Hope this Brighton team is going back to Championship. Unpleasant behaviour from these j***s, foul after foul, clear and clearer, they always unhappy with referee. Never apologised, especially this c*nt Duffy was for red card and he didn't check how Christensen was. Go where you belong, bloody peasants.

Nice work, Eden, this is the way stars should act.

Batman is so much better than Morata. It's not even close. If he is still here Wednesday and Morata starts I would seriously start to consider Conte as very unfair coach. Another match, another terrible performance from Bakayoko. We got lucky Moss didnt blow the whistle at least once. Not to mention he could do it twice, nobody would blame him. Willian and Hazard - our best duo. No idea why they don't play together more. Actually I've got some but I already spoke about Conte inequity.

Nice post, T'challa. It would be even nicer if Bakayoko and Mitchy contribution to this 2 titles were above the zero.

It's well known because of the facts we bring to the table. You've got nothing to say in his defense out of this support the team BS.

He is a guy you can definitely say about it's worth the talent and totally deserves some time. Not like some other starters...

Mmm, Luiz, Barkley, Ampadu... why not. They ain't worse than this... I don't wanna even say.