egg

13 year revival! Some blasts from the past on there. On topic, I favour a good old fashioned hammer and chisel.

From what you posted. You've said you expect us to get better for less money than we pay Forster. Unless they're free, we'd be paying a fee, but even free there'll likely be a signing on fee. Factoring that in, I'm not sure who you expect to get for less money who'll do better. You've seemingly changed your point to that you'd like us to splash cash on a better keeper. I'm with you on that, but transfer budget is not known and I'd hazard a guess we won't have masses to spend. If it came down, for example, to keeping Forster and spending cash on a another 10, or getting another keeper and not getting a 10, I'd be happy to keep him.

So cheaper, better, and presumably free. You don't want much!

So we're back to this nonsense. It's reasonable to assume that Forster is affordable to us, and that a better keeper would cost more. Thus, it's hardly controversial to suggest that we'd struggle to get better if Forster's wages are the level of our budget.

Contraction

Grinder

So a pundit who knows what he's talking about.

Twist

Ore

Failure

It doesn't and it can't. That's part of the reason that xG is such a nonsense - it doesn't factor in the lottery that is the reality of football, ie someone getting in the way, a worldy save, a foul, anything spontaneous or that otherwise just happens. It's nonsense.

Cheek

I didn't want Puel to go, but wouldn't have him back. That said, I'd have preferred to see a Puel organised team out there on Saturday than the shambles that we saw. There'd have been some fight and less goals.

Then have the booster.

"it's a fact that it was most likely to be 4-5 goals" Wtf is that nonsense? The only fact us that it was actually 6 goals. Anything else isn't a fact but an opinion.

Mate, you're making yourself look a bit silly here. We got battered. Anyone who saw the game will tell you it could have been double figures. I'm not sure what you're hoping to prove banging on about stats and xG, or whatever. Just watch the bloody game and you'll see a team out thought and out fought lucky not to get smashed 10 nil.

Gadget

TWar "Ralph has improved the deteriorating Broja".

Tino has gone backwards. You've said time and again that Broja has been poor recently. That's not improvement. Djenepo has regressed too, ditto Diallo, and Walcott has fallen off a cliff. Regardless, he's tactically shite and unable to learn from his mistakes - yesterday is a case in point.

He's had a cracking half. Superb bit of covering when he drifted across to left centre back to sort out Salah. A decent RB must be able to defend first and foremost, and Walker does it well.

Easy to see why, shocking defender. Man City have targeted him all afternoon.

Dragged him into my fantasy team this week ahead of the double game week, especially the game against us. Feels wrong, but there's points at stake.

Thanks, couldn't find it to post. Embarrassingly easy for them. I'll wait for TWar to tell you that it wasn't 442 though!

Watch some matches. Compare how those teams compare to Chelsea. Maybe listen / read what Tuchel says. It's not complicated with a modicum of tactical understanding, but in simple terms, more men in the middle yesterday plus Mount between the lines plus a mobile Werner left us waiting to be picked off. Our 442 was easy to pick off.

To be fair, I'm sure most would have seen that 2 in the middle against their line up was mental.