Michael Tucker

Cracking performance. A joy to have them back!

Absolutely terrific post - the thinking person's take on it all. Well said.

Sure. Whoever they are. Do you know? Pretty sure that his name is Abramovich. 'Bye Roman! Rudiger. Azpi. Mendy. Kepa. Silva. Sarr. Jorghino. Kovacic. Havertz. Kante, etc. Off with their heads! But I guess that you really mean Lukaku, Werner, and Ziyech. Isn't that right? Like Hudson-Odoi, Chalobah, Loftus-Cheek, Chilwell, James, Christensen & Mount? Whatever the club did or does, I seriously doubt that you'd really be happy.

Yep. And again. It's the only approach that makes any sense.

A few Chelsea rumours (for what they're worth): over at Chelsea a left-back is a key target with Sergio Gomez of Anderlecht and PSG’s Layvin Kurzawa reportedly wanted, and reports in Spain suggest there is interest in Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong.

Well said mate. Some people stun me with their attitude. They don't deserve this club, this coach, this owner or this team. Yes (before somebody tells me) everybody has a right to voice their opinion - but some opinions make me wonder why anybody bothers.

^^^^^^^ I can only assume that you missed the bit where we won the Champions League?

Across this and the next transfer window: Alonso, Barkley, Lukaku, Ziyech, and possibly Loftus-Cheek.

A lot of things are said on-line. Best not to believe most of them, as far as I can tell. See above.

This. Lukaku never looked to be at the races in this one.

Says who? Seriously nobody that I can make out issues 'official valuations' - do they (whoever 'they' are)?

I think that Marina and Bruce has a shed load of work to do: Before we start buying new players, we need to re-sign a few (you all know the names). Not only because we want to move forward with them, but them departing would definitely send the wrong message. We also need to offload a few.

I think that you may be mistaken. They seem to me to be morphing into a more than decent combo up front. I wouldn't be writing ay player off just yet.

Not a fan then? :).

His first 2 seasons were hampered by injury, the fact that he shared striker duties, and his absence at AFCON. If you called DD a 'donkey', then I'm surprised that you got it that wrong (although you certainly weren't the only one).