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Hi, where do I go for the Cucurella thread? I think the Livramento one has been labelled incorrectly. Ta.

Although they will of course be counted as present regardledd, so back to 30305 :thumbsup:

It depends if you think whether a Cat 1 academy improves players skills above what they would do elsewhere. If you think its irrelevant, then your argument works. I disagree, I think for the likes of Lamptey, White, Sanchez, Connolly, Molumby, Alzate, they wouldn't have got to where they are now...

I suppose that Chelsea and Brighton invest a fortune in our academies because the current loan system increases the odds of producing stars. Remove it, we don't invest as much and the quality of training isn't as good - maybe Lamptey wouldn't have been as good... What would we have done with...

From the players perspective, elite academies help them. Would Lamptey be as good as he is if he hadn't been in Chelsea's academy during his teenage years? We'd have a foreign import, ie Montoya or Veltman in that spot, rather than a young British talent.

White struggled with us for the first third of the season in exactly the same ways he struggled against Brentford. But he/Potter/the team improved/sorted it out and he became fantastic. I have absolutely no doubt he can excel at Arsenal. If you can excel as a defender on the Premier Lee league...

Its the obvious reason he missed the game on Saturday, but there seem to be a lot assuming its for a different reason. 'Not very good' ?:lolol:

There's an awful lot of people on here wanting to ship out a player just because he's caught covid. Seems quite harsh to me?

.. in the Argus

I mean, Maupay suspended, Welbeck injured, Andone not ready, fortune may be shining on him... Obviously I'd be astonished, but..........!

Imagine if through chance and good fortune it all clicks and he becomes our 20 goal striker!

Can we please put a line under last season and start anew? We're just rehashing old ground here. Fwiw, my opinion is that our style of play will get the goals it deserves in full stadiums with passionate fans, and that Maupay and Connolly will each score a hatfull. But let's wait and see eh?

In your scenario, yes they're different, but I'm not comparing someone politely liking a striker with the OP's post. Obviously you and I would like a new striker, we all would, its the most exciting signing that is ever made in any season. But I'm comparing all the many many posts demanding a...

This guy may have put it very bluntly indeed, but is he really any different to the many posters who wrote stuff like 'why haven't we signed a striker yet? Pathetic!', 'We NEED to sign a striker NOW!' FFS where's our striker?' and so on. Its all part of the same thing. Barber got criticised for...

We've just sold a 23 year old centre back, and our 29 year old centre back has got knee ligament damage. We're just a suspension and slight knock away from having a Veltman-Duffy CB pairing with Gross and March as full backs. So yeah, it certainly feels like something we should prioritise.

So did we sign this player two years ago? Maupay has scored 18 goals in his first 70 PL games. How does that compare? Calvert-Lewin 11 goals in first 78 PL games Ings 21 goals in first 73 PL games Calvert-Lewin then scored 27 in his next 70. Ings scored 34 in his next 67. Jimenez less...

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Not bad 'news', I guess. Bloke has 24500 followers if that is relevant in the world of twitterati. To be honest this transfer felt certain every since the Getafe friendly was announced, so this just backs that up.

Whilst most of us have moved on, want to move on and should move on, I fully agree that we should respect what people have gone through, or what people close to them have gone through. It works both ways though, so if it's close to his heart I'll respect Duffys views as much as the posters on...

It didn't start with Biles and Mings isn't the latest, not sure why you're picking on them specifically. Naomi Osaka pulled out of the recent French Open and Wimbledon tournaments for similar reasons, and cricket has a long history of players struggling with the mental side of things, from...