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Shocking defending, but love on the first one how he pops straight back up after being knocked down, can't stand when a player just sits there looking mournful whilst play goes on around them.

I always assumed that this and the Falco deal were solely done to gain favour with their agents who would then owe us in the future with players who could actually be useful.

NOOOOO

Never going to happen but the answer is DaSilva.

Are people really that offended by such a gesture? Its hardly a Nazi salute, if somebody in the heat of a football match gave me a finger I for one would just laugh it off as its just not something to worry about. Also I was unawares based on a lot of football sites that the reverse peace sign isn't widely known as a swear outside the UK.

Heresy, as good as he is the Mack is the ultimate DM.

I'd start him over Ivanovic in there, Terry would need 2 pacey players alongside him.

I haven't seen much of him but from what I did see I quite liked Van Ginkel, decent technical skill and likes a tackle, could be a handy squad player to rotate with Fabregas.

Absolutely love him to bits but if we want to transition away from a half-arsed tikitaka to a more robust unit then he's not the man for the job. Having said that if we did get him back then I would be ecstatic.

Worst one was the Kenedy one where he burst through the middle of the pitch and Jagielka straight up body checked him. According to the commentary he was trying to get out the way despite leaning in with his shoulder almost as if he was bracing to make contact.

I still would like to see Willian in a 433 as a CM playing Ramires's old role just with more technical ability. If we are as close to securing Conte as reports suggest, get him to suggest some tactical systems we can trial run till the end of the season.

I've been a strong critic of his but Courtois looking reassuring today, good save that from Lukaku.

Commentator: Not sure Costa's done anything wrong there. Keown: Didn't think he had a chance to win it. On a 50-50 lofted free kick into the box featuring about 15 players overall all looking to get on the end of it. This is quite possibly the worst commentary I've ever heard.

I imagine its a reference to his winner against them in the 2009 final.

It was the Suarez bite that did it for me, in his post match interview instead of mentioning how one of their players had committed assault and then stayed onto score 2 minutes after injury time was up with the ball going out of play, he kept praising the Liverpool fans reaction. Any committed manager would have led with that let alone Mourinho who would have probably run him over with the team bus outside the stadium.

If you follow Jason Cundy on Twitter he often gets wind of it a few minutes before it goes public.

Genuinely didn't see Matic in there until the third time I looked at the team sheet, clearly my brain is unwilling to comprehend the failure that pivot will be.

Last thing we need is his ego, he'd walk in and demand to be our first choice striker even if Costa was scoring weekly hat tricks. Player power is the opposite of what we need right now.

So our starting team with that exodus would be: Courtois, ???, Cahill, Ivanovic, Rahman Mikel, ??? ???, ???, ??? Traore Personally I think if the pain is that intense then he should sit out the rest of the season whilst receiving specialist treatment to get rid of any and all injuries. The league is gone and he's not playing well enough to advance us in the FA cup so let's give Kennedy/Traore/RLC his remaining minutes. Ideally he gets fixed up by the Euro's where he can regain some form and thusly confidence with a hunger to rebuild his reputation under Conte next year.

95th minute offside Terry winner please.

I'm sorry to be the one to bring this up again, but how is Emenalo in such a senior position? I don't mean it in 'screw him he's sh*t', but how did he catch Roman's attention? Is he a skilled businessman outside sports? etc. Answers would be appreciated from someone who remembers him coming in.

I feel like I'm the only one who would keep Matic if only for another season. He's been appalling this year but just remember how good he was when he returned. Maybe under a new manager we can see the best of him again.

Terry's confirmed on Instagram that he's out for sure.

I assume so or he would have come on towards the end today to help close out the game.

Can't see a thread for the return game but: Courtois Azpilicueta, Cahill, Ivanovic, Rahman Mikel Fabregas, Willian Hazard Traore, Costa Diamond formation Smash the heck out of them.