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A pedant writes that a left sided CB is a left sided defender :wink: And left CB in a three is supposed to be one of Cucurella's positions. This potentially puts Chelsea's £63 million man behind Badashile (and Koulibaly?) for that spot but he should just about be ok at left back until Chilwell...

Exactly :thumbsup:

Yep. This is becoming another classic object lesson in the difference between being a "big club" and a "good club". No doubt with their never being relegated, their ability to still attract half of Liverpool as fans and their trophies (at least from 1995 and before) they are a bigger club than...

"He is so so much worse. When you’re a Premier league striker who gets put through on goal with half the pitch in front of them ….and his next touch is a tackle" This is classic Neal. Give him space and time to think about things and he falls to pieces. Give him an instinctive moment and he'll...

You're the expert. Where's the red wave?

How many goals have the team scored when Welbeck has been playing? You do know goals don't count double if your striker scores, right?

Agreed. He wants to start. Will be interesting to see what happens when DCL is fit.

Might not be De Zerbi. Still nothing announced and Juve looking in all kinds of trouble today,

After he'd gone Potter alluded to difficulties in dealing with him. And now, there he is scoring for another team. Would he have signed a new contract for a new boss?

Agreed. I presume you mean low expectations of Maupay but I saw this on their forum just now and they seem to have low expectations of everything. https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/everton-fans-fan-hope-survey.115982/ I can't quite work out if this means they're entitled enough to...

Possibly, but it leaves us Welbeck, Trossard, Undav and Ferguson as options when we play one up top, so I would say it will only be if we find the right player at the right price. Let's not be signing the next DJ Strollabout just because some of our fans are itchy on social media.

Yep. I really don't see Wolves struggling. Leicester on the other hand.....

No way should we be selling him to another PL club. Our first target, according to GP on the Sky programme is 40 points. That's the same target as Everton, Fulham, Forest and Leeds. I really don't want to see him scoring against us either. High value sale abroad is ok if we feel it's time to...

Yeah, I don't think it's certain we'll get a new striker in at all if Maupay goes. I think Undav is the Maupay replacement. Mitoma looked decent at LWB plus we've got Colwill so Trossard can push up. Welbeck, Undav, Trossard, Ferguson seems plenty with Sarmiento and Enciso able to play as...

Another Maupay fan here. Would be sad to sell him to a rival team but if he’s now behind Undav and Welbeck we might want the money. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

More like a fully fit Welbeck is one of the best players in this league still. We should be crediting our medical team rather than digging out Maupay. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This. We HAVE replaced Maupay. He even looks similar and seems a bit grumpy.

Maupay is about at his level with us. If you've ever played against someone who's even been high up the non-league pyramid or had a couple of pro trials you'll appreciate how astonishing that level is. But, no, he's not the next Cucurella or White in our transfer out terms, and no one anywhere...

Possibly, but he had surgery for his persistent hamstring problems in October 2021 that was potentially shit or bust. Since coming back from that layoff he's looked a totally different player and not been out again. I accept that we could sell Maups and he could get a career ending injury a day...

If there's no new contract possibility then we do need to cash in now-ish. Undav replaces him and that means we have pretty much what we had last season in attacking option terms plus Mitoma and Ensisco. I can see him going and I don't think there'll be another attacker coming in. Welbeck...