Just re-watched the highlights and I wonder if the players were told not to run at 100% this early in pre-season. Each time we were over-run on the wing, the wing-backs (Barco, Adingra and Cozier-Duberry) were basically jogging back. It may be they're all a bit lazy but given our injuries last...
Clearly a Bloom double bluff. Leak we're interested in McKenna knowing that Chelsea will step in to hire him now rather than poaching him from us later.
They fire Pochettino and we hire him (our original target).
We just look knackered. Not just physically but the decision making is consistently a split second too slow. Injuries and Europe have drained us.
End of the season can't come quick enough.
Emeka Ifijagwa (spelling definitely wrong). Don't think he scored but did have an absolute bullet shot that would have torn the net. I think the issue was visa-related not registration otherwise we would have been punished for playing him.
Pretty much every club is a stepping stone club isn't it? Other than Citeh, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern and maybe PSG, every club can and does lose players to a bigger club. The benefit of us doing so well is that the clubs that we might lose players to has reduced significantly. For example...