Preparing myself for Hull to be cut adrift today. Been playing much better football over the past couple of games, but think West Ham will grind it out like they did against Burnlry. Win for them and they’ll be fine.
Only been watching the Palace Chelsea game for ten minutes but doesn’t seem all that great so far. Someone please tell the fella with the drum to stop.
Nobody can say definitively either way, so i think it’s fair for him to hold that opinion, but i probably don’t agree with it. He’s ahead of where he should be for a 22-year-old centre-half, but some way off looking like a £45m footballer…if he ought to.
Stones has’t been the problem for City on the whole. He’s made two big errors in games, but he’s generally been pretty good. The issues are the players collectively struggling with their positioning under Pep, the unsuitability of our old full-backs, Bravo, and the lack of a regular partner.
Even at the price, i think Stones will prove a great signing over time, but City aren’t helping him. They need to do what Chelsea have done with Luiz - afford him protection in a regular defence and play to his strengths. Pundits overhyping him because he’s English don’t help…but then neither does people who don’t watch him every week having #bigopinions on him based on the odd episode of Match of the Day they catch or a Vine of him underplaying a backpass.
Ultimately, it’s not his fault somebody decided he was worth that money, and he seems like a smart lad. The media should be more responsible, but i don’t know if he should have a tougher time of it because of where he was born. Same for Raheem Sterling. Same for Dele Alli, Marcus Rashford, Luke Shaw, etc. We should’ve learned lessons from Rooney, really.
So I didn’t go and instead watched it on TV. Quite glad about that.
Chelsea didn’t get out of second gear really and we didn’t really offer anything, we look really unfit as well the team looked knackered after 70. Doesn’t help when the sub options included Fryers and Campbell. Hopefully we can offload Townsend in January.