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21 hours ago, ewerk said:


For those who haven’t clicked the link this is the great reveal.

 

 

This is up there with the lad who ate fish and rice cakes every day. Then on Wednesday he only had fish for breakfast and we weren’t sure what to do with it until he finally blew the lid off it with a fish and rice cakes dinner.

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1 hour ago, Dr Gloom said:

a classic :lol:

 

 

 

 

I like the fact he has to pause to remember what he's going to eat, it's fish and rice cakes you numb fuck :lol: 

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I’d forgotten all about that clip. Some dedication, mind. Those rice cakes are like eating a beer mat :lol: 

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5 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

Eats like a seal 

Probably had breath like one as well 

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On 26/08/2025 at 12:55, NobbySol said:

 

Problem is Chelsea essentially own Strasbourg, if you view the former as the blue chip of the group. If he's any good, he'll feed into them. Imagine it'll be a tough buy or they simply decline. 

 

 

"Samuels-Smith bought for 10 times his value, left 34 days later for an undisclosed amount. They really take us for fools."

 

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17 hours ago, ohhh_yeah said:

 

"Samuels-Smith bought for 10 times his value, left 34 days later for an undisclosed amount. They really take us for fools."

 

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Some of their transactions have been very questionable but they seem to be untouchable as a Football club. 

 

Despise Liverpool for various reasons but Chelsea are the club I'd love to see fall away from the top table. 

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this season has exposed our vulnerability at left back. 

 

if we decide to cash in on osuala we could try to replace him with a young striker more likely to impact the first team 

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Full back, probably right sided. We have Tino/Hall/Burn on the left which is serviceable, but we have Tino/Tripps/Krafth on the right which is not. Tripps can't cover every game at his age and we need a long term replacement to the 'backup/rotation' option there.

 

I think that's probably it for this window. Longer term we may need to start looking at the wingers again but it's too early to be sure of that.

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i'd also like to see a more creative CM as we rely heavily on bruno in that area. but howe tends to prefer runners to technicians in that part of the pitch. an upgrade on joelinton would be good, even if it's one for the future, because he's the weak link in the first choice midfield in terms of technique 

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if liverpool fancy tempting is with £80m for gordon i'd be tempted to try to trigger semenyo's release clause (said to be a similar amount). might be less chance of being gazumped in the january window. 

 

but this is guesswork - who knows even what our psr headroom looks like? we got the big money for isak but spent a fortune over the summer. 

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3 minutes ago, Christmas Tree said:

S T R I K E R 

W I S S A 

 

Joking aside, someone a little different up front would be good. Some variation on the flanks would be good too. Gordon, Barnes, and Elanga are all fast, but lack the trickery to break through a low block. I'd like to see Park have a go from the subs bench. But getting a winger who plays a little more like ASM and a little less like Almiron would be a good thing, in my opinion.

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A goalscoring midfielder would be nice (is that Ramsey 🤷‍♂️) and another fullback, but it'll be tricky finding one who's prepared to be a back up (potentially for years) behind our two very young first choices.

 

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20 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

barnes isn't that fast. he and murphy are probably the best finishers of the four wingers available however 

Faster than you, ya hoverboard bastid.

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Right back and central midfield. 

Wingers aren't a priority at all. Gordon is clearly fucked and needs some time on the sidelines which accounts for him being shit - I don't think he's been right since he pulled up playing for England not long after the Cup Final win. 

 

Elanga is better than we're seeing, it's a crisis of confidence for me. Weirdly I think he'd benefit from others being unavailable - I think it's all too easy to hook him if it's not going to plan at the moment. I think, also he'll benefit more once Hall & Livramento are back.

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3 hours ago, Craig said:

Right back and central midfield. 

Wingers aren't a priority at all. Gordon is clearly fucked and needs some time on the sidelines which accounts for him being shit - I don't think he's been right since he pulled up playing for England not long after the Cup Final win. 

 

Elanga is better than we're seeing, it's a crisis of confidence for me. Weirdly I think he'd benefit from others being unavailable - I think it's all too easy to hook him if it's not going to plan at the moment. I think, also he'll benefit more once Hall & Livramento are back.


Elanga looked absolutely clueless when Hall was going on the overlap. He needs some serious work on basic skills such as his tactical positioning but also on his body position when receiving the ball. Luckily he is at the best place to learn these things but it’s alarming that a £55m player is missing these fundamentals.

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