thebluekid

There is a rivalry, yes, agreed! Frustrating though that they now look like a youth team playing their first senior game; unbelievable!

Whilst Pep Guardiola is at City and they have the chequebook they have, it will be a miracle to win the title from them; what Juergen Klopp did that season with the squad he had is nothing sort of miraculous for them to have pipped this lot. Sadly for Chelsea, we don’t have that fear factor so most teams will come and play their cup final against us; Liverpool do still have that fear factor. TT wins this title, forget miraculous, they should build a f**king statue in place of Christ the Redeemer.

f**k me how easy is this for City? Yet they turn up at Stamford bridge last week as if it’s the World Cup final. Side note: This, going back, is why it’s boring watching City. Most teams just lose in the tunnel. Reminds me of back when Man Utd were that good they got the 3 points on the team bus coming in

Very true, very very true haha. Poor bloke would have nightmares.

I couldn't care less if we play Bayern; we should be playing top teams. If we lose, we lose, win, we win. To be quite honest last season felt brilliant because we played some top teams along the way. UEFA and football at the moment is an absolute shambles though isn't it haha.

Buzzing with the draw; however you can't tell me that all the top teams avoided each other coincidentally? Other that the potentially blatant fixing of the Utd draw?

Havertz hahahahahahahaha £73m for that

Bringing Lukaku on? For what? So he can stand around in the 12 yard box and zap all of our energy?

Hahahahahaha, they were calling us the ‘best in the world’ a few weeks ago. Luckily I think most proper fans realise were quite a long way off that aren’t we!? We have absolutely ridden the f**k out of the new manager bounce now, we’ve exhausted the 3 at the back; it’s now at that moment in the season where 4 weeks of bad results and TT goes off to build a legacy somewhere else. To anyone who actually believes the guff that Rudiger is a top class centre half by the way needs to accept he’s being carried by the formation and unless you want Bambi on ice back at the Bridge, give Tuchel a top, top centre half next summer, back him and let us try and get closer to the top 2 again. We are an absolute shambles going forward by the way. For a side that’s worth a billion pounds anyway.

I’m done. Turning it off because this will ruin my weekend and I’m not letting a poxy game of football make people around me suffer when it puts me in a bad mood. I could literally see that coming from the second Rom comes on and the entire team take a few yards back. Why have we come out deeper? I hate to say it but this is why Rom doesn’t suit the team; he changes how we play; we all of a sudden lose so much energy from the front which then pushes the whole team back. Will check the final score tonight; I’m off to actually enjoy my Saturday in the sun.

Wow, just wow. Absolutely lost for words with that. Wow.

We have absolutely zero midfield at the moment. Credit to Watford though, they’re pressing the life out of them.

Genuinely concerned that with key players injured this, a forward line that can’t hit a barn door and losing Mandy in January… This may be the start of the period where we settle in to 3rd.

I'm not gonna bet one scoreline, it's too risky I think! I just think they will do us because they have absolutely been written off as dead and buried. We've been there as a club; players completely downed tools, manager leaves, players all of a sudden find an extra gear. I will only ever bet against us on games where if we do lose, winning a little bit of money off it softens the blow. United at 5-1 is an absolute steal!!!!

Can see us losing this one; in fact I'm going to put a £25 kicker on them at 5-1 Bet365 just to soften the blow. We're due a loss, they're inevitably going to play as if their lives depend on them. Everyone has completely written them off and failed to understand they have world class players who can pull a rabbit out of the hat. Might be pessimistic but with all the media guff about us being the best team in the World, I think United will walk away 2-1/2-0.

Our finishing most games is absolutely shambolic but today has taken the absolute piss. Our forward players just can’t finish a cooked dinner.

1-0 Burnley written all over it.

Can’t afford to drop points today with potential City points being dropped and Liverpool gaining 3. Also can people stop defending Havertz? He’s sh*te. End of. Not good enough. You’re absolutely blinkered by his champions league goal and this god given belief that you absolutely must 100 percent support the player. For the money we paid for him we’d have been better off letting his ‘generational’ talent go elsewhere and put Gallagher in the squad who’d have at least offered something more than prancing around like f**king bambi.

Newcastle have literally turned up to just sit in their own half. Embarrassing. It’s a shame they’ve had a takeover because they should be in the championship.

Get Ziyech off the pitch for f**k sake.

Don’t even get me started on Ziyech as well; it’s genuinely like starting with 10 men. The guy is absolutely out of his depth at this level minus a few tap ins against Man City.

This isn’t very good so far. Just the 1 shot in 20 minutes against a low block bus is asking for dropped points.

Christ. I was really hoping they wouldn’t keep showing Amanda Staveley again; I’m actually trying to keep my dinner down. I know it’s halloween but f**king hell we all know she’s Skeletor.

Valid points, however I’d argue that he has only looked good because he’s had the vast majority of his responsibilities as a CB taken away from him in a back 4. The way I see it, Tuchel has identified his physical qualities are exceptional and the best way to get Toni Rudiger using them without it necessarily costing him too much positionally is by playing him in a 3. I really believe that he HAS to prove he can now play in a 4 at the back consistently before we start blowing him up. Christensen is completely different, he has proven himself to have all the qualities on show to make the step under a manager who believes in him.

I hate to be this guy but until he can consistently perform in a back 4 against strong opposition, we should really not be labelling him as this 'page turned' potnetial World Class centre half. At the moment he has an easy run because he essentially gets to be a 3rd defensive midfielder and press opposition players without worrying about leaving a massive hole in the back. Don't forget before a turn to a back 3, he was a headless chicken and cost us a vast amount of goals because he just can't command a back line. I'd read between the lines; Tuchel and the board are not idiots. There's a reason this has taken so long and it will probably be because they have reservations on his ability in that area. At the moment we can't change from a back 3 because it works for us. The time will come when we do need to and if he then proves that he really is a different player, throw the money at him. He has every attribute you'd want in a centre half but he's proved time and time again, the mental and positional attributes in a back 4 are far from his physical.