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Ibime:
Boehly also bought rubbish. Everything he bought has already been shipped out. Boehly lost respect of his fellow football executives when he called an agent to enquire how much a player was bid for by another club, the agent said £12m, Boehly offered £14m. When the agent asked him why he didn't offer £13m, he said 13 is an unlucky number

Americans and drama

Griffon:
This ball fit reach 9 goals like this.

Griffon da Octopus.

This ball fit reach 9 goals like this.

19900

I wuz ere

izzou:
[color=royalblue]It was 150k and a loan deal.

Why can't Napoli pay the rest?

Sterling wey go Arsenal, Chelsea is still paying part.

Maybe his agent should have insisted on no loan, and watch Sterling collect 350 and rot on the bench.
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If that’s really the case, then Napoli crash the deal.

Make Una free Osimhen. Someone I heard we were offering £60k per week, a crash from his €200+ earnings at Napoli.

If na you, you go take such slavery paycut?

Ibime:
Comot dia!

Stop gaslighting and commiserate with us. No one scored higher than us yet we didn't walk away with 3 points.

raumdeuter:
Wonder why dem dem never lose game

Defence wins titles

Attack attack attack. Like it’s some Chinese tribal war

Emaprince:
Enzo is no longer needed in our midfield

The whole rough work is on Caicedo, soon he’ll be booked and those watching with hindsight will cuss him out.

See the amount of work that lad is putting in.

Kimbeast:
No need to even put defenders. Lets start all of Neto, jackson, Guiui, Nkunku, Palmer, Madueke, Felix etc and go all out attack. Whats the point of having defenders when you can go all out attack and outscore your opponent. Start all your attackers and win every match

milann:
If Chelsea have six to ten attacking minded players, why do you need a striker? Felix can play as a striker because he is versatile. Sancho can come in and net from the flanks. Mudryk can make it happen once in a while. Too many wide men means you have options to try new ideas to overcome the opponent. If Maresca were a smart coach, he would work magic with these plenty talents in attack

The simple point nateevs have been making for months. You create a system that enables your attacking band to create and score at will, not to be foolishly looking for a 30-goals a season striker.

Without a system that allows players to create, score and thrive on the final third, your 30-goals a season striker will just be an Emily Heskey in a Chelsea shirt.

Did we need much of Jackson to score 6 past Wolves? This simple detail keeps flying past the head of some fans here.

The current attack is good enough, something you can’t say about that defense. We can forward six but can we keep out two goals?

.

Raumdeuter you still dey play without Haaland?

NinjaMetahuman:

These mids dem gather just dey give person heart attack every now and then

nateevs:
Airmark, you should listen to me a lot more. I told you that going into the season with Sterling and Madueke was more of an emergency than the striker position, and any manager worth his salt - especially one who values positional football and trained with Pep - would realise immediately the garbage we are displaying in wing play.

The ruthlessness with which Enzo and the club have dealt with this confirms which department is more of an emergency. So we went out there and got Neto and Felix first.

These managers know that from a game of numbers, you can achieve top four consistently without a £120m striker, if your defence, midfield and wing play is top notch.

Anything else, and you are just Tottenham with Harry Kane.

The team is now top-four ready. We can now go out there and complete Airmark's wishes, if we find the right deal.

You know your onion.

QUALITY support cast is all you need. Shey no be teams dey play without a recognized CF ni, dominate and still win?

Punditry no be by 10 pages a day, if you know you know.

Ballzproblem2:
‼️Disasi is not in Maresca’s long-term plans.

~ @JacobSteinberg

add baddie boy , please we need quality defenders

Thank you Jesus 🙏

Ibime:
Who talk this one

Maresca. I said it days ago that he’s got balls.

I don’t know how he’s managed to wield such power. Two things, either he’s on a blank cheque of freedom or he’s simply carrying out the plans of Boehly dem.

kingBolton:
This was our on ball formation against city...

4-1-4-1.

The funnel formation.

19800. Plenty talk no dey full basket.

nihilistjnr:
Felix is on a SIX(!!!) Year deal.

At this point, we deserve everything we get as a club.

We signed him on loan, he flopped, went to 2 further clubs to flop, and then we decided to reward him with a reportedly 300k/week contract for 6 Years.

Maybe Walter White isn't actually dead, cos na premium stuff dem dey baz for Cobhams

LOL!

I’m still leaning on few good performances of his i glimpsed at Barca. Did he go ahead to flop?

But Felix was never a bad player few years back at Benfica, what changed?

See as everyone just dey pursue am away like the fart of a leprous witch.

Singapore1:
Remember those times when stores are running a promo? You see a TV worth $1000 being sold for $500, and you jump on it, shouting, 'It's cheap, it's cheap!' But in the end, you still spent $500.

Felix can’t be worse than Antony, Darwin Nunez, Gabriel Jesus etc.

For that fee, I’ll gladly accept him as a squad player. No big expectations, turn the music on when you’re in the mood, if you don’t want to, I’ll find solace in the fact that I only got you for 35m.

andrewbaba44:
Sir this guy is saying what ibime doesn’t like

35m for Felix is an absolute steal.

Vischy:
Leave am make him dey stan Enzo for nairaland,Donstan and havertz9 don disappear

Enzo5:
I understand the annoyance is due to the high transfer fee but that's not Enzo Fernandez fault, changing managers every time is what makes it look like Enzo is not the same player. Enzo makes tackles as well, the loss is painful but the season is just beginning please let us watch patiently

You’re now running a PR for yourself mate?

Lana1:
"Hold me responsible"

Asari and Tinubu playbook

I am expecting Hensben at this point to come out and proclaim that he doesn’t recognize this particular Enzo, just like Asari did with Tinubu

This season a fan is gonna get on the field for us and no one will notice.

I’ve been seeing lines like “the team isn’t built around Palmer, that’s why he struggled yesterday”, “you shouldn’t have sacked Poch, he brings out the best in Palmer” etc.

These are unfounded claims.

If there’s anyone who understands Palmer’s game more, it has to be Maresca himself. It was the Italian who took him through his development at City Academy before he was promoted to the senior squad.

Working with him now and getting him to fire should be an easy-peasy job. It’s not like we were playing manyoo or Everton, this was a fixture against the defending Champions and with a team still work in progress, there was little even the 2023/24 Palmer could have done.

popizaino:
I second this.

Ibime:
Surprisingly we have been quite compact. Thankfully a lot different from what we saw in preseason

1. Our press on City’s own half was much better than what I saw under Poch. The intensity and the determination to win possession of the ball as close to City's goal as possible was evident today. Notably, this pressure saw City defenders giving away possession through the course of the game.

2. Bar the two silly errors that led to City’s goals, I think our entire unit were compact & organized. For the most period of the game, we prevented the spaces City needed to play in and break any lines, this Maresca made work by keeping the distance between the defenders and midfielders quite tight. It’s one tactical detail which Poch clearly didn’t understand last season, which always left us wide and vulnerable, thereby, leading to the horrendous errors of Caicedo and the entire backline.

3. Maresca’s setup shows that it can beat the high press from the opposition. On couple of occasions today, I saw our defenders creating overloads to beat City’s high press, I never saw that happen last season. The only problem we’re going to have with this is having Sanchez in goal, his distribution is abysmal.

There are couple more of them but I can’t put all into writing. However, we really need to work on our chances conversion, omo it’s appalling.

Lastly, I think we’re going to have some midfield issues any time Lavia misses out. He seems to be the only one who knows how to sit deep and screen the backline, offering them the rare security they never enjoyed under Poch. Caicedo my nigga has Gattuso written all over him, while Enzo will be Enzo. We stayed compact and organized in the middle was primarily Lavia’s positioning. He left the pitch and Kovacic sliced through our loose pivot like a hot knife through the bread.

Maresca’s setup isn’t bad. This team will cook but would need some time.

Please any one with a streaming link?

Unlimited22:
Nah this man is ruthless

Chalobah, Gallagher, and now Chilwell and Sterling?

Very ruthless. His pressers alone are windstorms. Such balls he’s got to make serious calls most of our previous managers couldn’t make.

Funny enough, it’s just English boys that he’s packing up.