4 hours ago, evissy said:

6 hours ago, ozboy said:

It’s off topic but I agree. Hopeless.  In my view Zidane is exhibit A for the good player doesn’t mean good manager. It has to be said that inter under conte look good for their level of talent and without a striker. More to the point ManU have looked well ahead of last season  and  spurs will be there or thereabouts. Athletics looked great today but real made them look good. Costa couldn’t miss and showed pace. 

Zidane won 3 Champions Leagues in a row for Real. They are in a sort of transition if you can call it that for Real. Missing Ronaldo is not an easy thing to fix. Looks like Bale is going out as well to China to earn 1 million euros per week!

Good cup team. League records been hopeless for years for supposedly one of worlds best clubs enough on them and back to us. 

Edited July 27, 20196 yr by ozboy

Back on topic, it’s only bloody match day isn’t it!

At bloomin’ last!

Looks like mostly the backup team starting this one. Last chance for people like Kenedy, Bakayoko, etc... to stake a claim for the season ahead.

link when available, please

Kick off delayed 15 minutes, no reason given. 

http://leadingred.us/live/2443/reading-vs-chelsea/

21 minutes ago, Zeta said:

Looks like mostly the backup team starting this one. Last chance for people like Kenedy, Bakayoko, etc... to stake a claim for the season ahead.

Quite amusing lineup .. seeing as the Daily Fail already told us that Frank had told Bakayoko and Drinkwater to find another club ?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7293331/Chelsea-news-Frank-Lampard-ready-let-Tiemoue-Bakayoko-Danny-Drinkwater-leave.html

Edited July 28, 20196 yr by Sexyfootball

And also today, Caballero staking his claim to be #1 goalkeeper and also captain .... ?

Edited July 28, 20196 yr by Sexyfootball

I'm amazed at this line-up. Even if Baka and Drinkwater were to excel, there's simply no room for them in the squad. Same goes for Tomori. 

stream

 

Edited July 28, 20196 yr by charierre

Has anyone else paid the £10.99 for the pre-season games and having problems getting the stream to start?

On ChelseaTV pre-match... commentator was mentioning Hudson-Odoi and said "and he's just signed a long term contract... cat out of the bag?

I mentioned in Hudson-Odoi's thread, that clubs hold back big news for the right time to release it... it's basic PR

meanwhile, the fans can't understand what's taking so long, and jump to their own conclusions about a player 

Are we wearing last season's away kit?

1 minute ago, Amputechture said:

Are we wearing last season's away kit?

I was just thinking that myself.

Reckon a few of the players starting today will be leaving one way or another with the next two weeks. 

Bakayoko can't complete a pass, he is too busy to pass it towards Giroud.

Bakayoko not helping his case early on

free header for Reading nearly in

We're losing.

well trailing now

Broke our high press far too easily there and we just left ourselves open. 

lol great finish