i cant even remember a half decent winger on the left after hazard.. Pulisic was probably the best but too inconsistent and always injured.. after him the next best was werner i guess... these clowns are beyond belief - when they took over we lost our entire CB defence, had no striker and no LW..

since then they bought a washed up sterling, on loan sancho, 75mil for Mudryk, 90 mil ffs for gittens and garnacho... And now we are in a position that we have to play an ineffective neto on the left or rely on an 18year old estevao

could have just set fire to a pile of cash instead.. they call themselves professional scouts.

fck winstanley .. fck liam.. fck blueco

Ah the lesser spotted Gittens. Will probably be seen early next season only to be injured again. Very handy really or his lack of ability would be exposed for all to see. I expect he will hide in the treatment room with the others for as long as possible.

• If Alonso can get a tune out of this lad i will be amazed.

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8 minutes ago, OTL said:

Ah the lesser spotted Gittens. Will probably be seen early next season only to be injured again. Very handy really or his lack of ability would be exposed for all to see. I expect he will hide in the treatment room with the others for as long as possible.

• If Alonso can get a tune out of this lad i will be amazed.

Presumably Alonso knows something of him from the BL. One hopes. Small. But something. Possibly.

Genuinely a left sided Madueke. All pace, nothing else.

Much like Garnacho and Neto, only good showings were against relegation fodder or championship/league one sides.

He’s the worst of all our options on the Left.

We won’t be able to sell him ‘cos of the f**king ridiculous transfer fee and who’s going to really want him on loan?

Releasing him seems the best option for all parties.

Keeping him around will only limit Derry’s minutes, who should definitely be our rotation option next season if he doesn’t go to a Cov on loan.

13 minutes ago, The Boehly Babes said:

He’s the worst of all our options on the Left.

We won’t be able to sell him ‘cos of the f**king ridiculous transfer fee and who’s going to really want him on loan?

Releasing him seems the best option for all parties.

Keeping him around will only limit Derry’s minutes, who should definitely be our rotation option next season if he doesn’t go to a Cov on loan.

Has a 6yr £30m contract, he isn’t walking away from that.

And much like Jorgensen, will there be accountability on what feels to be like our 67th disaster signing?

No, of course not.

3 hours ago, markpitts said:

Has a 6yr £30m contract, he isn’t walking away from that.

We could always give him the Bosnich/Mutu treatment and plant-a-packet

He's been with us for a season now but I feel like I've never properly watched him play. A few games here and there, mostly early/pre-season, interspersed with a few sub appearances, then seemingly constantly out due to injury. I thought he looked exciting in his CWC sub appearances, but then again I still felt some optimism about the club back then after that good end of season run of results.

His signing was a total gamble for such a young player with no PL experience. There might be a decent squad-player in there somewhere, but if he's never available and doesn't push on from last season then it's not much use to us and we should call our losses.

Scored that one good goal, but otherwise no bnetter than Garnacho.

15 minutes ago, bluedave said:

He's been with us for a season now but I feel like I've never properly watched him play. A few games here and there, mostly early/pre-season, interspersed with a few sub appearances, then seemingly constantly out due to injury. I thought he looked exciting in his CWC sub appearances, but then again I still felt some optimism about the club back then after that good end of season run of results.

His signing was a total gamble for such a young player with no PL experience. There might be a decent squad-player in there somewhere, but if he's never available and doesn't push on from last season then it's not much use to us and we should call our losses.

It was a gamble any serious club wouldn’t have taken. He never scored 10 league goals in a single season while he was out there, so I don’t see what they were seeing. There is a study that compares Bundesliga’s level to the Championship, seems crazy but all three of Kane, Diaz & Olise exponentially increased their outputs in that league. Kane at 32 is scoring at a rate of 1.5 goals per game, making him a 50 goal a season scorer.

What pissed me off is some fans referring to a CL game v Madrid as proof of his quality.

1 hour ago, markpitts said:

It was a gamble any serious club wouldn’t have taken. He never scored 10 league goals in a single season while he was out there, so I don’t see what they were seeing. There is a study that compares Bundesliga’s level to the Championship, seems crazy but all three of Kane, Diaz & Olise exponentially increased their outputs in that league. Kane at 32 is scoring at a rate of 1.5 goals per game, making him a 50 goal a season scorer.

What pissed me off is some fans referring to a CL game v Madrid as proof of his quality.

..may i cut and paste this to almost every post or thread related to Blue Co. please.?

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He'll get another chance under Alonso, and that is the right thing to do. To speak candidly, I saw nothing from him last season that gives me any confidence he'll make it at Chelsea. Hope I'm wrong.

From the little we've seen of him I have the impression that there's more to him than there is to Garnacho. He tries to take on players at least. If we had to keep one of them, I'd keep Gittens.

Of course ideally we'd replace both with a proper winger and keep George as cover.

Realistically though, we'll end up keeping both and selling George to try to recoup some of the £90m spent.

I also have forgotten just how sh*t he was and therefore suggest we keep both him and Mudryk.

The worst left-wing saviour double act since Andy Burnham and f**king Wesley the weasel Streeting...

Are we sure he isn't dead?

has a new signing every turned it around after an underwhelming debut season riddled with injuries in the premier league? You hope for his sake and the club’s sake he is fit for a full preseason.

I wish we'd not signed him. But if we had to sign him, I wish we'd paid less money. But if we had to pay that money, I'd still rather keep him than Garnacho.

8 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Are we sure he isn't dead?

If he was he would still be more effective than Garnacho.

This thread really remind me of Mudyrk thread.

I don't know why as I know it's completely irrational and no doubt I am going to get battered with 🤣 from you lot but:

For some reason I have a feeling that Alonso might try to retrain Gittens as his right wing back. He may well see the possibility of turning him into his new Frimpong. If he can teach him defensive discipline and improve his heading, then there is more space in Alonso's formation for Gittens to use his pace going forward and he can cross a ball when required.

Whether it works or not is debatable but he certainly looks a busted flush where he is especially as Alonso has openly been making eyes at Kenan Yildiz for some time (yes I know that our cretins will fail to deliver Yildiz for him).

Perhaps the reality is that I am clutching at all and any straws just to be put out of this wet lettuce Gusto misery.

On 07/04/2026 at 09:58, Jangz said:

i cant even remember a half decent winger on the left after hazard.. Pulisic was probably the best but too inconsistent and always injured.. after him the next best was werner i guess... these clowns are beyond belief - when they took over we lost our entire CB defence, had no striker and no LW..

since then they bought a washed up sterling, on loan sancho, 75mil for Mudryk, 90 mil ffs for gittens and garnacho... And now we are in a position that we have to play an ineffective neto on the left or rely on an 18year old estevao

could have just set fire to a pile of cash instead.. they call themselves professional scouts.

fck winstanley .. fck liam.. fck blueco

On 07/04/2026 at 09:58, Jangz said:

i cant even remember a half decent winger on the left after hazard.. Pulisic was probably the best but too inconsistent and always injured.. after him the next best was werner i guess... these clowns are beyond belief - when they took over we lost our entire CB defence, had no striker and no LW..

since then they bought a washed up sterling, on loan sancho, 75mil for Mudryk, 90 mil ffs for gittens and garnacho... And now we are in a position that we have to play an ineffective neto on the left or rely on an 18year old estevao

could have just set fire to a pile of cash instead.. they call themselves professional scouts.

fck winstanley .. fck liam.. fck blueco

Sancho n Sterling were fine.

1 hour ago, WhiteWall said:

I don't know why as I know it's completely irrational and no doubt I am going to get battered with 🤣 from you lot but:

For some reason I have a feeling that Alonso might try to retrain Gittens as his right wing back. He may well see the possibility of turning him into his new Frimpong. If he can teach him defensive discipline and improve his heading, then there is more space in Alonso's formation for Gittens to use his pace going forward and he can cross a ball when required.

Whether it works or not is debatable but he certainly looks a busted flush where he is especially as Alonso has openly been making eyes at Kenan Yildiz for some time (yes I know that our cretins will fail to deliver Yildiz for him).

Perhaps the reality is that I am clutching at all and any straws just to be put out of this wet lettuce Gusto misery.

Issue with that is he needs to fit James, Gusto & Quenda in the same RWB role.

11 hours ago, markpitts said:

has a new signing every turned it around after an underwhelming debut season riddled with injuries in the premier league? You hope for his sake and the club’s sake he is fit for a full preseason.

I don't think 'Igor Thiago gets into Brazil World Cup squad' were on many people's bingo cards a year ago.

4 hours ago, markpitts said:

Issue with that is he needs to fit James, Gusto & Quenda in the same RWB role.

• Think Quenda may be pigeon holed for LWB and possibly RW on rotation

• Think James will do this, and possibly stints at RCB, but not consistently, so this offers a shared role between them

• Think Acheampong might actually go out on loan with no option if a good situation arose

• Jemima Puddleduck can go and warm the bench for Sonia Bompastor if we can't get shot of him.