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It's New Year's Day, and I have nothing to do, so I've decided to grade every transfer we've done since the SDs took over using the classic American grading scale (A=4.0, B=3.0, etc).

I'm only grading incomings and I'm only grading players who have already joined. Buckle in.

Think this is very relevant for Chelsea to think about as they’ve become pressier throughout the season. You either need to make subs to maintain the pressure, or ramp up and down your pressure over the game.

Look at this @mclachbot.com graphic from our game against Brentford. We had 11 long build up possessions, which is 85+ percentile of all premier league games in the last 3 years and 12 fast break possessions which is 95+ percentile. This is very typical of how we played this season.

Yes. I’m more than happy to live with a non existent Reece, Josh & the occasion Fofana RB appearance

That’s silly money for a fullback

Why did we go into the season with 3 real midfielders?

Andrey Santos hopefully becoming a key part of the squad next season will make life easier for Caicedo minutes wise

Kier does a great job again breaking down what went right and what went wrong against Spurs.

Trigger warning: contains Anthony Taylor apologia

SJR looks a bigger dickhead by the day

I wonder if we go back in for Samu

Maybe we aren't the fourth best team in the country hmmmm

???

Erling Haaland has gone from overperforming NPxG by 17% in 2022, to underperforming NPxG by 18% in 2023 to underperforming by 9% this year.

Nicolas Jackson has gone from overperforming NPxG by 48% in 2022 to underperforming by 24% last season to overperforming by 6% this season.

Vicario is probably one of the best sweeper keepers around & key to Ange's high press. Now that's being replaced by a 36 yr old keeper who also isn't a good shot stopper anymore

Spurs losing Vicario is huge considering the replacement is a washed up Forster. They're probably our biggest top 4 rival this season too

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Room temperature take - what he did for Enzo's goal is even better

yh I’m gonna start using it more

At this point, anyone still claiming that we're not a better team that we were last season should probably just not be taken seriously

Tough schedule playing a big factor

Hopefully we capitalise well with this run of fixtures

Chessy 3rd 🤨👀

Wage policy sucks

Caps us from signings experienced players who are actually good

I wish

How did Jorgensen fair when he was playing for Villareal last season?