Sexyfootball

I would argue strongly that what we see in blue is the illusion of passion, rather than actual passion. Running 30 yards to shout at an opponent or the referee after another player is fouled might be a nice optic for TV but it doesn't actually achieve anything. We rarely/never see a crunching legitimate tackle, or any actual verbal or physical leadership when he is captain ... but we do see a lot of petulance and faux hard man acting ...

I don't know how anyone can watch the World Cup, particularly the Final, and come to the conclusion that you need to sign more Argentinians, especially when we already have a massive discipline problem.

Here's a whole team plus full bench of players signed by BlueCo that I wouldn't particularly miss if they were sold/released :

Kevin Keegan has died aged 75. Terrific player and athlete (remember well his performances on the TV program Superstars), and 2-time European Footballer of the Year in the late 70s. His Newcastle team played good football under him as well. RIP KK

Probably Jackson to Villa, Chalobah to Como, Disasi to ? and Acheampong to ?

Midfield is what I'm most concerned about. As it stands, we only have 4 first team midfielders - one of whom does not want to be here and two of whom are sick notes, one in perpetuity. 5 goalkeepers, 12 defenders (9 centre backs), 4 midfielders, 11 forwards I'm not including Denner and Satpaev in those numbers as they aren't shown on the club website. Ditto Disasi, Paez and Datro Fofana.

So Italian clubs do have a bit of money to spend after all. Just not on the dross that Winstanley, Stewart and Shields have signed ...

#213 in the Sofascore World Cup player ratings ... BlueCo: "That'll be £120m please!" https://www.sofascore.com/football/tournament/world/world-championship/16#id:58210 A move to Atletico Madrid is probably the best we can hope for, but I suspect we're stuck with him ...

The Telegraph summarising things quite nicely : https://archive.is/OhDER

Sounds like Arsenal might be in for Stones as the Saliba replacement/cover

Why not have both LOL. Hopefully one of them would be fit to start each game !

“Nothing was ill-intentioned. My family and I have a lot of respect for the English, especially my wife. Everyone who cleans and cooks at our house in London is English, and we really love them.” So ... trying to position the English as his servants ... such a w**ker.

Aymeric Laporte anyone ? 32 years old ... currently at the mighty Athletic Bilbao ... he could bring their GK with him as well LOL

Hilarious from CFC.LDN ... a whole article about the World Cup Final that fails to make any mention of the words "red card" ... https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/article/enzo-fernandez-and-argentina-beaten-by-spain-in-world-cup-final

Valentin Barco the ginger Argentinian rumoured to be signing for us from Strasbourg, who got slapped by Bellingham