Barrettinator

It's probably my anti Spurs bias but I really REALLY didn't want Poch as a manager. But now that he's here, I hope he exceeds all expectations by a country mile. His Spurs teams lacked any sort of cohones. Then again, Spurs are serial bottlers regardless of manager. And he was hardly able to sign the best players. Just hoping he's immensely successful with us.

He needs to have a similar surgery to the one his sister got and have these problems fixed for good, no matter how long it'll take him to recover. Not sure why he didn't do it all summer. Perhaps trying to impress the new manager? Anyway, it needs to happen.

Problem with a lot of players you listed is many were done at the whims of a managers wishes with instant results in mind and/or no particular big thought (Torres, Lukaku, Bakayoko, Kepa) or we waited until the cat was out of the bag before cashing in (Pulisic).
Havertz and Morata were largely inconsistent yet we got most of our money back, that combined with the ages and (relatively speaking) smaller wages would mean I'd like to think they'd be a competitive market for most of the players acquired January and beyond.

I sincerely hope that's true. He needs to go. Now on to Lukaku.

I don't know why they ever comment on anything. No one gives a sh*t about City and their fans, no matter how many trophies they win. Only thing interesting about them these days is Haaland.

I don't know why they ever comment on anything. No one gives a sh*t about City and their fans, no matter how many trophies they win. Only thing interesting about them these days is Haaland.

I don't know why they ever comment on anything. No one gives a sh*t about City and their fans, no matter how many trophies they win. Only thing interesting about them these days is Haaland.

Personally just happy we've moved on from the days of Drinkwater, Emerson and co.

Lukaku and Ziyech need to f**k off now. Sad to see CHO go but he hasn't been good enough, even for Leverkusen. What Saka is today is what I thought he'd become. It happens in football. I also thought Josh McEachran would take over from Lampard.
Ultimately, it's entirely possible we can raise a further 70-100m in sales if you count Lukaku, Ziyech, CHO and possibly Chalobah and (I hope not) Gallagher.

I don't know why they ever comment on anything. No one gives a sh*t about City and their fans, no matter how many trophies they win. Only thing interesting about them these days is Haaland.

Lukaku and Ziyech need to f**k off now. Sad to see CHO go but he hasn't been good enough, even for Leverkusen. What Saka is today is what I thought he'd become. It happens in football. I also thought Josh McEachran would take over from Lampard.
Ultimately, it's entirely possible we can raise a further 70-100m in sales if you count Lukaku, Ziyech, CHO and possibly Chalobah and (I hope not) Gallagher.

Lukaku and Ziyech need to f**k off now. Sad to see CHO go but he hasn't been good enough, even for Leverkusen. What Saka is today is what I thought he'd become. It happens in football. I also thought Josh McEachran would take over from Lampard.
Ultimately, it's entirely possible we can raise a further 70-100m in sales if you count Lukaku, Ziyech, CHO and possibly Chalobah and (I hope not) Gallagher.

Right. On to Olise and a backup GK and I think we're set.

Personally just happy we've moved on from the days of Drinkwater, Emerson and co.

I was listening to talk sport a couple of days ago and laughed when they said 'expecting them to go from 12th to winning the league is asking far too much, it just won't happen'.
While I don't think we're ready for winning the league, it's not like we haven't done something similar recently. Won the league, finished 10th, won the league again the following season. I've made peace with the chaos over the past 10 years. Especially because it almost always comes with a bounce back season.

I was listening to talk sport a couple of days ago and laughed when they said 'expecting them to go from 12th to winning the league is asking far too much, it just won't happen'.
While I don't think we're ready for winning the league, it's not like we haven't done something similar recently. Won the league, finished 10th, won the league again the following season. I've made peace with the chaos over the past 10 years. Especially because it almost always comes with a bounce back season.

I'll never not be shocked at the sudden drop in the second half of that season. Around Christmas, it looked like we were definitely winning the league.

Also makes me laugh with I hear "not done enough to overhaul United, Newcastle etc".
Our 21/22 team finishes 2nd in last season's league, a lot can change in a summer.

I was listening to talk sport a couple of days ago and laughed when they said 'expecting them to go from 12th to winning the league is asking far too much, it just won't happen'.
While I don't think we're ready for winning the league, it's not like we haven't done something similar recently. Won the league, finished 10th, won the league again the following season. I've made peace with the chaos over the past 10 years. Especially because it almost always comes with a bounce back season.

If some crock journo tells them today that it's actually 400k/week, they'd believe it and run with that instead. Anything to make themselves feel better. Forever feeling like they're being bullied all while being media darlings.

Even if he was in fact a boyhood Chelsea fan, no chance he saw Zola play. He was what? A year old in 2003?😂

I think that as well as following Chelsea from a young age, modelling himself on N'golo Kante, Moises probably went up to Liverpool and thought what a fu**ing sh*thole, he met the locals, heard the accent, smelt the piss around Anfield and drove straight down to beautiful, leafy Cobham in Surrey and thought, this will be a beautiful place to live and raise my Kids