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Juve's entire board has resigned due to a £250 mil hole in their finances.

Ha

Amazes me nowhere is criticising the turret that is Harry Kane. Doesn't run, barely jogs and relies on everybody to move around him while he picks them out.

Has there ever been a top player this immobile? Has any succesful team ever played with this bizarre Pirlo but also a centre forward role?

I've never seen him deliver when it matters and the better the opposition gets the more he struggles.  World class technically but you can't get away with plodding about like a middle aged man at a wedding for 90 minutes. Until we get a more mobile front line we'll never do much more than penalties, set pieces etc we've seen for years

You compare how Lewandowski moves for Poland with Kane here and he looks like Ricky Lambert 

20 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

Why?  Don't know about humidity but it's not particularly hot

Japan Costa Rica was 31 today.

Certainly toasty 

Harry Kane Dad running everywhere has me in stitches.

Actually watch the man just walk about like he's a 37 year old Ronaldo it's brilliant 

33 minutes ago, sidcow said:

They're getting highly irritating now. 

We've been wank all season I wouldn't be that bothered by us

3 hours ago, Keyblade said:

I know this is a joke, but I wonder if Pep is getting to the point where he'll need to try wacky things like this to get some sort of feeling of accomplishment. Maybe take on a smaller job after City. 

Did that at Barca towards the end with Fabregas up front, 3 at the back (Two of which were CM's)

To quote the great Ainsley Harriot.

Spicy

I'll take a pulling players up by their shirt, some cynical shirt pulling with a side of comedic rolling around.

From both sides, to be clear 

Just now, Tom13 said:

Oh I'd take that. Anyone but Southgate or Gerrard.

I actually think he'd be great.

The standard of management in international football these days is abysmal and having a plan, even a whip into the big lads 4-4-2 plan would put us right up there 

Suprise Dyche appointment to secure us the world cup

4 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

I dont understand how you sack a winner like tuchel and (as impressive as he seems) replace him with someone that hanst really won anything major

 

Not a fan of this mentality at all.

Everybody cries about lack of English managers at the top of the game and when one is given a chance we get takes like this.

What was Potter meant to win at Brighton exactly? The prem?

9 minutes ago, Chindie said:

Gomez is a comedy defender. He got physically and mentally broken by the 7-2 and since then no Premier League team should be touching him.

No.

He's been collectively injured for over 3 years and he's barely 25 it's nothing to do with one loss.

Just now, foreveryoung said:

I like Chelsea 's style

Nah

7 minutes ago, Zatman said:

Nunez was a poor signing, he needed another season to develop and show he isnt a one season wonder

Really early to say this even if I agree he should have stayed put.

He looked good against Fulham 

I think he's decent. Haven't watched whatever shitshow Gerrard is inflicting on you this season but he's an upgrade on some of your midfield.

If you play with a 3 of him, McGinn and Kamara you're going to look awful though.

Just now, jacketspuds said:

This has nothing to do with Dean Smith. We were right to replace him when we did. We just made a huge mistake bringing in an inexperienced PL manager who has proven to be nothing short of a failure.

The fact he’s being paid £5m a year to do it as well is even more disgusting.

It felt a bit suspect when it was first announced, too.

Struggled in Europe, didn't actually set the league alight in Scotland the media will just make you believe that because he's Stevie G.

5 minutes ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said:

sold their best 2 players

Don't buy this really, factually true but Phillips isn't worth an entirely new midfield and the statements of 'sold their best players, barely avoided the drop last year' is proper Graeme Souness level of analysis.

Raphinha is an irreplaceable world class player but our squad had so many holes we're a lot better with 5 new bodies.

5 hours ago, DCJonah said:

They look good so far. 

I can't tell if you're taking the piss.

I think they're in for a shocking season 

13 minutes ago, Peter Griffin said:

He didn't take 11 months. He was out injured for just 278 days which is just about 9 months, depending upon how many days in the month. That that is one single example. My comment uses the word 'mean' in the timings and is actually backed up with verified data 

Nah, nobody has ever recovered from a ruptured achilles in 5 months.

An NFL player did last season through pretty groundbreaking treatment, and I'm fairly sure he's the first ever.

Took Koscielny 10 months

Just now, Genie said:

Where is the £42m in additional fees confirmed?

Forbes, it's pretty widely available if you Google it. Looks like his dad got a massive chunk too.

Just now, Genie said:

What’s the news?

He had a relatively low buy out clause in his last contract. 

42mil in agent fees because Riola is/was his agent too. In some bizarre world the 100 mil they've paid is still relatively cheap. But it's not the reported 60, either way.

1 hour ago, VillaChris said:

 

Says it all nowadays that Man. City can just go and get Haaland in a few weeks for a decent fee and their neighbours are now scrambling around trying to sign mid table forwards in their mid 30s.

Was Haaland a decent fee?

If you believe he cost anywhere near 60mil do I have some information for you

2 hours ago, foreveryoung said:

Poor move for Smith, always said should have waited. He had money from a pay off he's never had before, there was plenty of time to chill and spend time with the family. He could have got a better prem job lower end of the table ofcourse.

The sort of prem jobs that become available mid season are always bad.

This year's will be Everton, Bournemouth, Forest, Southampton.

Are any of those jobs you'd fancy him to do anything but get relegated with? At least Norwich have a track record of getting back up, it wasn't a poor move. That he's failing currently is on him and shouldn't be put on the club when they've previously walked the league.

24 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

new proposed UEFA rules, you can only spend 70% of your revenue on wages, agent fees and transfers

and according to forbes chelsea's 2021 revenue was $586m compared to our $236m

putting the "fair" in to fair play

To add to this ours was 210.

If we expand our stadium to 55k Radrizanni (owner) reckons that would put us close to 300mil.

This from the 3rd or 4th biggest city in England, with no nearby rivals practically for the county so our catchment area for fans is enormous. We were even 6th in the country for shirt sales in 2021 and none of it matters.