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.