Chelsea away Saturday 4th October 530pm

[fidget]

Salah has to be benched.
He hasn't had a single decent game this season.

[BobTheCharmer]

Slot hasn't got a clue what to do. Not a clue. He lucked out last year, now this is his expensive mess.

The lack of using chiesa is criminal. Regardless there is no press, no pattern of play, nothing.

Starting to look like Erik ten haag here.

[labourRed]

Salah has to be benched.
He hasn't had a single decent game this season.

Who plays though. I've thought about this all game. Frimpong doesn't have the quality. Bradley at a push. I can't make a solid case for anyone. We've too many players who like the left side and I doubt we can convert anyone of them.

I don't think we have Salah in the squad next season though.

[Irishnev]

Live by the sword….. die by the sword, mentality monsters win the game in Fergie time and now we’ve lost the last 2 at the death. We were so pragmatic last season and I don’t know why we’ve gone so far away from that. Hindsight is great but we actually won a lot of close games last season and now we are on a run of losing them.

We spent 400m in the summer but refused to pay an extra 5m to get Guehi in, they let Konate have the ball and stood off as he couldn’t progress it. We ended up with two midfielders in defence because we are unable to move the ball forward FFS.

Bradley will never be starter quality, too rash and too injured! Gakpo is ****ing infuriating and not starter quality either. He’s 6/4 but is such a softie and he butchered so many chances. Salah looks washed and he’s pure luxury now, unless he’s scoring or assisting then he shouldn’t be in the team, just can’t run anymore.

Poor Robbo, terrified of pace, stood off all the time and allowed them to cross so easily. Led to Enzo’s chance and he was too late for the goal. Wtaf was Slot doing brining on Endo, all he did was give the ball away.

If you told me I’d need to suffer for a season after winning the league when Slot joined I’d have bitten your hand off but it’s painful. All the money spent and the balance is wrong - no pace in attack, no Diaz replacement and nothing at RB

I’m sick of football

[labourRed]

Slot hasn't got a clue what to do. Not a clue. He lucked out last year, now this is his expensive mess.

The lack of using chiesa is criminal. Regardless there is no press, no pattern of play, nothing.

Starting to look like Erik ten haag here.

[Exiled_red]

Biggest concern for me is that I don't see the way we are trying to play, it's not like there is a style there of what we try to do and it breaks down because someone is in the wrong place or not quite on the right wavelength we just look all over the place in all aspects of our play

[danperkins]

Frimpong is the player I worry about the most. I don't think he's smart. And I don't think he's Liverpool quality. I hope I'm wrong but i can't shake the fact he's never going to make it here.

I worry about several of our signings to be honest. Frimpong is a squad player but doesn't look great, Kerkez looks so headless and Wirtz is just influencing games at all and they are passing him by. Isak needs a few more games and looks so unfit, Ekitike has looked decent in fairness.

The new players have not fitted in well yet but the system doesn't seem to work with them and begs the question, why did we buy these particular players if we aren't going to use them in the way they made their names and surely that is the reason why we bought them in the first place? What even is our style of play, I have no idea what we actually are trying to do. No tempo, no press, we have zero width, our fullbacks hardly go beyond the half way line and offer zero attacking threat, leaving our wide players isolated and always looking to go inside... it's infuriating.

[BootRoom]

Frimpong is the player I worry about the most. I don't think he's smart. And I don't think he's Liverpool quality. I hope I'm wrong but i can't shake the fact he's never going to make it here.

He'll do for now to replace what Salah has been serving up. We've got bigger problems to worry about than whether Frimpong will make it long-term.

[Kenneth]

Frimpong is the player I worry about the most. I don't think he's smart. And I don't think he's Liverpool quality. I hope I'm wrong but i can't shake the fact he's never going to make it here.

If we get other players (salah) out of his way and make him run the line he will get crosses in and create chances. He's rapid and would have cooked their left back with some of the passes to Mo today. But there is no point doing that if the rest of the team are looking for opportunities to pass back to the goalkeeper.

[kingfunk]

Let's not be silly. We'll be fine, we've great players in the squad but a lot of them are way off it at the same time. Just takes one to hit some kind of form and slowly that starts creeping through the squad. When that happens is anyone's guess, I'm hoping for the next game.

The balance is way off, unfortunately I think both our new fullbacks are mid table quality, we have no width, Salah and Robertson are finished st this level and Diaz was better than Gakpo (imo). Bradley not good enough, yes we have great players but there is not a hope in hell we will win the PL this season.

[BobTheCharmer]

This passing back constantly started when we won the league and hasn't stopped since. Fine the cunts everytime a needless pass back is made.

[danperkins]

How good was Caicedo today btw

[BobTheCharmer]

How good was Caicedo today btw

Everything we thought he was when we tried to sign him.

Grav is good but he isn't very strong. This guy is brilliant.

[peterbread]

I don’t know what to think. You could pick holes in a lot of what’s going on.

The fullbacks in Bradley, Frimpong and Kerkez should be offering real width and a threat in attack but play very narrow and go into other players spaces.

Gakpo and Mo are offering nothing in attack meaning Isak or Ekitike aren’t getting much service. The tactic of Mo not having to defend as much as in the past worked last season but isn’t this season.

That press from the front players is all over the place. They don’t work as a team more individually leaving huge gaps. You could see Dom getting frustrated with it in the first half.

Alexis has dropped right off so far this season. Letting the one true DM go and attack and not staying back like last season makes no sense. In the first half Gravenberch was pressing right up the pitch on the right side to cover Mo but it left us so light in midfield when they got through it.

[danperkins]

I don’t know what to think. You could pick holes in a lot of what’s going on.

The fullbacks in Bradley, Frimpong and Kerkez should be offering real width and a threat in attack but play very narrow and go into other players spaces.

Gakpo and Mo are offering nothing in attack meaning Isak or Ekitike aren’t getting much service. The tactic of Mo not having to defend as much as in the past worked last season but isn’t this season.

That press from the front players is all over the place. They don’t work as a team more individually leaving huge gaps. You could see Dom getting frustrated with it in the first half.

Alexis has dropped right off so far this season. Letting the one true DM go and attack and not staying back like last season makes no sense. In the first half Gravenberch was pressing right up the pitch on the right side to cover Mo but it left us so light in midfield when they got through it.

Grav playing so high up is ridiculous and balls are being played into the hole in every game.