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False 9 and Emerson suddenly in the group after being left out whole season, except for the cups. In case of emergency if Alonso (and he will) struggle too much.

And another fun fact - RLC's goal was the 400th scored by Chelsea in London derbies, in the PL.

Yeah, he has a little knock from Thursday.

Hope Carlo and Napoli does the job in two weeks and Inter doesn't bottle it. It'so close to the perfect scenario for me.

Yeah, I really don't get it why he's constantly taken off in games like these which are still very close. We seem to lose control of the midfield every time it happens. It happened during the Liverpool game and yesterday too. Other thing is, Barkley may have took his chance with 2 goals in 2 games but this game + the Liverpool one, he was largely at fault for two goals. You can blame Alonso being high up on the pitch for United's second but there was such a big hole between him and Luiz which should've been covered a lot better. I like Ross a lot and I think he can thrive under Sarri but I don't think he should come on for Kovacic in big games, but it seems Sarri likes to stick to his 4-3-3 under any circumstances, and Jorginho is undroppable. If he took off Kante everyone would've go for his head.

If the rumors about Sarri wanting Higuain to come are true, I’m starting to dislike him even before he has signed the thing. He’s got worse targets than Conte.

So, according to Italian press, Sarri and his staff are going to be in London today, but according to the English press or Matt Law specifically, they still wait for an offer from the club. It must be great to be a journo.

Until an official announcement or at least picture of the new manager at Cobham, I won’t look too much into rumors. The media was certain Artera will be the new manager of Arsenal.. and suddenly it’s Emery and that came from Arsenal’s spokesman basically. Atm, lot of things are kept in the dark in our club, even to people like Matt Law who seem to have some inside information. I’m more surprised, there haven’t been any talks about the next DOF since Emenalo departure tbh. Wouldn’t be more logical to appoint a DOF first, then a manager and then to think about the squad? I guess we’re doing things backwards. The club have their work cut out for them with the short summer this year.

I don't expect a manager of his quality to end up in Russia, but it would be interesting development if it happens.

His release clause. If we don't manage to negotiate a deal until then, it will be a lot more expensive, and add the money we need to give Conte and his staff, then it's going to be a ridiculous sum. Probably half our budget. I wouldn't want to think what's going to happen in that case.

Yep, it looks like it unless he goes to Monaco and we get Jardim but I think the Jardim rumours were just that anyway.

The most reliable journo for Bayern. And from what I read, a lot of Bayern fans thought before he reported this, Leverkuzen won't sell to Bayern. Don't know what was the story there.

Apparently Lukaku won't start. He was very good against at Old Trafford, but still I have bad memories from the year before when they played with Rashford and Lingard.. Still, could be mind games from Jose.

Atm it seems that way. All of the big clubs are known which manager will they have next season, but it doesn't stop Conte to take a year off. Ancelotti, Guardiola did it before. And he can absolutely take a year off with the paycheck he's getting, if he's sacked.

Yeah, Enrique rumors heating up.. But this paragraph was the most interesting for me: "With the Paris Saint-Germain job going to Thomas Tuchel and Max Allegri and Sarri potentially staying at Juventus and Napoli, there is an increasing fear that Conte could take a year off and collect his full compensation." Does the club really fear this could turn into another Costa situation but with Conte this time? I knew our club is in shambles atm but this will be a new low.