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I’m here for this beef

 

It’s me and I’m loving every single minute!

I think we just haven’t negotiated one. The deal with BOXT expired at the end of last season.

Overall I felt like it was a decent performance yesterday. We were lucky in places but held our own. Nice to see us go for it rather than sit back and defend. West Ham will be disappointed to not get a point but it’s great to get a win under our belt so early in the season.

 

Two moves I just do not get. Rating Dalot but not Garner. I do think Garner is a lot more raw than most people appreciate, but no way should be be selling a rotation youth product when we're so short on CMs as it is.

Then keeping Dalot, let alone rating him, good god.

 

Also Garner for £14m is a laugh. Liverpool would get £30m for him. United are so atrocious at selling players.

 

Yet he's still under-rated imo.

 

Dalot isn’t a footballer and no one can convince me he is.

 

An assist machine! Hard to believe that Kovac started coutinho over him, but I guess that explains why Kovac only lasted one season.

 

This angle makes it look a lot closer than I thought it was (I don’t think it’s clear like the person who posted this said)

 

I didn't think that one was even that dramatic during the game when they were showing the forward angle. One of the commentators said he'd gone through Havertz' ankle, but I don't think any replay clearly showed that. Could definitely see the toe poke away though.

The Richarlison offside has a bit more weight, but the one I don't understand is the Romero hair pulling. I thought it would maybe be a red, but it wasn't punished at all, which makes no sense. How can that be nothing?

 

Yanking someone's hair should be an automatic red.

 

Only thing that makes sense is that Taylor didn’t see it live, so no foul. Then on replay, VAR can only determine if it’s a red. They said it wasn’t a red. So he got away with it. I was surprised they said it wasn’t a red tbh.

But the Richarlison offside thing I think they got right. He was too far away from Mendy imo. And yeah, if you just look at a still shot image you can make the argument he impeded Mandy’s sight line. But when you watch the video, Mendy saw the shot and reacted like any other keeper would. His five for the ball wasn’t delayed. There was a shot, he reacted, and he just got beat.

 

Tuchel’s behavior was a clown show though. He let his anger over that Bentancur tackle take over his behavior and confronted Conte after our first goal. The implication was that he didn’t like Conte coming towards his bench area. Then a few minutes later Chelsea scores and he acts like a maniac running past Conte and our entire bench. He knew exactly what he was doing. And then the obvious post-match handshake conflict. Once again, all on him. He could’ve just shook Conte’s hand and kept going. But he wanted to cause a scene.

 

This is one of my favourite things in football, i just wish players let them celebrate properly lol

 

I was thinking more that it's hard to make the argument that the striker isn't affecting play in some way when the ball is struck right by him. He's offside and between the ball and the keeper. Just one of those stupid parts within the rules which there's not really sensible governance for.

Tuchel was a knob. Although, I wasn't sure on the first altercation whether Tuchel was reacting to Conte celebrating or whether Conte reacted to something Tuchel was saying to the 4th official. The full time situation was all Tuchel though.

Anyone else notice that despite the fairly fiery end to the game, a lot of the players were pretty chilled with each other once the managers were sent off?

 

I’m thinking “am I wrong for thinking he is shit?” Also makes me wonder how bad Obi Wan Bisaka

 

The players all keeping their cool was a surprise to me as well. Especially during the hair pulling incident. Cucurella didn’t really react to it. Didn’t argue with Taylor. During the VAR check it seemed like none of the players even knew what was happening. And after there was no red given there was no reaction from any of them. There was clearly a hair pull, you’d think at least Cucurella would be pleading with the ref and maybe influence a decision.

 

If I was cucurella I would’ve gotten sent off after a no call on getting tugged to the ground by my hair

 

About what I would expect the club to ask. Feel like we have an agreement with him that we will sell him if the offer hits a certain amount but not for anything less.

 

Fucking hell, don't go fishing for the new info on Mendy's case. Just saw some of it read out on Sky and let's me just say it's harrowing.

 

Yeah, this one is tricky because I think he absolutely is interfering, but you don’t really want to see great goals ruled out because of something innocuous like that.

 

You weren’t kidding.

This is 100% the footballer that was mentioned by Molina as a known sex offender sold from Ligue 1 to PL. No chance he hasn’t been doing this before he moved to the UK. It sounds like they both knew what they were doing.

Horrific.

 

"LOOK ME IN THE EYE"

 

You saying Molina made me think of that list that was shared in here awhile back. Couldn't find it, but I did find this, and uh...