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Diego! Diego! Diego!
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Azpi signs a new deal until 2020, great news!
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Oscar to china for £60 million?
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Oscar to china for £60 million?
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Great deal for all parties if true.
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unless we do a cuadrado with the schurrle and KDB money!
£60m for Oscar would be fantastic business. |
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Courtois; Azpilicueta, Luiz, Cahill (c); Moses, Kante, Matic, Alonso; Willian, Hazard, Costa
Subs: Begovic, Ivanovic, Zouma, Chalobah, Fabregas, Pedro, Batshuayi |
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Yes, it looks like the Oscar deal is a virtual certainty. I will be sorry to see him go but it's a great piece of business.
My worry is that we'll go out and spend the money on a couple of relatively unknown young players with "potential". We are not going to sign players like Griezmann or Verratti in January, so I'd rather we waited until the summer than just throw the money around. I see we are linked with Bakayoko, the young French DM from Monaco. Might be ok at the right price, but not at the £40m being quoted in some parts of the media ! That's the problem, there will be agents rubbing their hands together at the thought of a nice little earner from Chelsea in the New Year. |
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Costa has won the "Not Playing on Boxing day" trophy then!
11 games without a card and then he pulls off a laughable challenge to earn a yellow today! |
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Lovely finish by Costa, made it look so easy.
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Tight game. Good header from Costa to break Palace down.
If we were going to miss Costa for a game than better it's against Bournemouth then against Stoke or Spurs. Ref has been a bit lenient with not booking a couple of the Palace players since Costa was yellow carded though. |
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Tight game. Good header from Costa to break Palace down.
If we were going to miss Costa for a game than better it's against Bournemouth then against Stoke or Spurs. Ref has been a bit lenient with not booking a couple of the Palace players since Costa was yellow carded though. |
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Pretty poor but 3 points !
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11 wins on the bounce, and another clean sheet. Happy days. Not at our best but we showed that grit and determination that prospective title winners need. We created more chances once Fab came on and should have wrapped it up really. Alonso was unlucky with that free-kick.
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11 wins on the bounce, and another clean sheet. Happy days. Not at our best but we showed that grit and determination that prospective title winners need. We created more chances once Fab came on and should havewrapped it up really. Alonso was unlucky with that free-kick.
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The 3 points are nice but we haven't commanded a game throughout since Everton. Understand you can't always have things your own way but think we should be managing to score more goals than we are currently. Good thing Conte brought on Fabregas when he did because we were not in control of the game at all. Just booting the ball away under relentless Palace pressure.
Also, I think Alonso is going to be targeted a lot as it's obvious he's the weak link. Although I'd rather have Baba/Ake/Kenedy playing there, I wonder if Conte might be tempted to just upgrade in January. |
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The 3 points are nice but we haven't commanded a game throughout since Everton. Understand you can't always have things your own way but think we should be managing to score more goals than we are currently. Good thing Conte brought on Fabregas when he did because we were not in control of the game at all. Just booting the ball away under relentless Palace pressure.
Also, I think Alonso is going to be targeted a lot as it's obvious he's the weak link. Although I'd rather have Baba/Ake/Kenedy playing there, I wonder if Conte might be tempted to just upgrade in January. |
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3 points, always the main thing, but not playing too well at present.
Think Fabregas should be starting. In great form. We lack a bit of imagination without him. Nice to now be able to just sit back and enjoy the football all weekend. Our job is done
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Kenedy is back at the club now, isn't he? I wonder if he'll be loaned out again, or whether Conte will keep him around for the rest of the season?
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The 3 points are nice but we haven't commanded a game throughout since Everton. Understand you can't always have things your own way but think we should be managing to score more goals than we are currently. Good thing Conte brought on Fabregas when he did because we were not in control of the game at all. Just booting the ball away under relentless Palace pressure.
Also, I think Alonso is going to be targeted a lot as it's obvious he's the weak link. Although I'd rather have Baba/Ake/Kenedy playing there, I wonder if Conte might be tempted to just upgrade in January. It wasn't a great game to watch, but they're the sort you have to "win ugly" if you want to take the title. I get as much satisfaction out of a result like that as I do out of playing pretty football and winning 5-0. I also thought Alonso had a decent game. I can't see anyone currently on our books doing better. Yes, we could upgrade but it would cost us. Maybe Ricardo Rodriguez from Wolfsburg if he's available? |
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11 games in a row. Absolutely fantastic.
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3 points, always the main thing, but not playing too well at present.
Think Fabregas should be starting. In great form. We lack a bit of imagination without him. Nice to now be able to just sit back and enjoy the football all weekend. Our job is done ![]() |
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A few months ago I said I'd never be able to enjoy watching Costa because of his discipline problems. Stupid booking today, but I'd still like to take it back. The turnaround in his performance and discipline has been incredible.
Huge game coming up for Batshuayi. Hardly played since the first few matches and now he'll have to come in and make an instant impact..... |
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Batshuayi shows promise. I really hope he gets a hat trick.
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