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Just switched on the 6pm news on BBC1. Maguire's arrest was the lead report. A bit daft given what else is going on.

 
He was selected for England before being found guilty, surely he has to be dropped now, you can't batter policemen and still play fo England.

 
coco said:
Meanwhile we've arguably made the worst transfers in that same period.

We went from regularly finishing above them by 20-30 points every season, to finishing behind them the last 3 seasons by 5pts / 25 pts / 33pts.

So what happened to us ? why did we lose the plot ? Who to blame ? Who should shoulder most of the blame ?

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Conte's 2nd season was the worst transfer window this club has ever had. Someone has blood on their hands for allowing Conte to sign this much sh*te, especially that Drinkwater transfer. 

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Conte's 2nd season was the worst transfer window this club has ever had. Someone has blood on their hands for allowing Conte to sign this much sh*te, especially that Drinkwater transfer. 

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I still cannot quite fathom wtf went on in summer of 2017. There was this atmosphere of gloom around the club seemingly from the moment we lost the FA Cup final. I've never felt so dismal about a title defence as I did going into 17/18. Contrast that to this year where despite having a much worse preceding season, we seem to be (fingers crossed) getting our main targets and there's a feeling of contentment among the fanbase. It's funny how football works. You'd have thought that we would have been able to attract players of Ziyech/Werner/Havertz calibre in 2017 as reigning champions, yet bloody everybody was turning us down that summer. Felt like Conte had zero pull power.

 
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I still cannot quite fathom wtf went on in summer of 2017. There was this atmosphere of gloom around the club seemingly from the moment we lost the FA Cup final. I've never felt so dismal about a title defence as I did going into 17/18. Contrast that to this year where despite having a much worse preceding season, we seem to be (fingers crossed) getting our main targets and there's a feeling of contentment among the fanbase. It's funny how football works. You'd have thought that we would have been able to attract players of Ziyech/Werner/Havertz calibre in 2017 as reigning champions, yet bloody everybody was turning us down that summer. Felt like Conte had zero pull power.
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It was a horrible season, even though we won the F.A. Cup, it was just horrible. Salah and KDB were taking the world by storm, we kicked out Matic for an absolute donkey in Bakayoko. Had Conte moaning and whinging every single week in the press about the club and transfers. We went from this really good team that dominated the league to absolute sh*t the next. Out of all those Monaco players, we picked the worst one, all of our former players we sold scored against us that season. It was just a miserable season, that was mainly due to the atmosphere Conte instilled, he made it almost as dark as the Jose era in his 3rd season. 

 

 
sh*ts about to hit the fan down Barca way, as Messi has officially said he's leaving

 
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sh*ts about to hit the fan down Barca way, as Messi has officially said he's leaving
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It could be a blessing in disguise really. Barcelona has had problems for years now, they've been sh*t in Europe for easily about 5-6 years, since they last won the CL really... 

How many big scorelines have they had against them in the CL? Liverpool, Bayern twice, there's probably more that I can't think of. They need to get rid of the likes of Messi, Suarez, Pique and bring in some new players. 

 
Just can’t see him leaving. I think It’s all smokescreen and a power play from him. 

 
A way of avoiding any responsibility, the media won't talk about his lack of effort because it's always the club, other players, the manager, well basically anybody is to be blamed but him.

He as the best player goes invisible when the club needs him the most and so many good players couldn't fit in because he wants to hug the ball, but that can't be talked about because they made him look like he's bigger than the club that made him.

The club and him might end up in court because if he wants to break the contract and walk away but he would need to pay a huge amount of money, what a tragedy if that takes place because he is maybe the best player in their whole history so to end up in court as a legend with your own club is a big, big mess...

 
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Just can’t see him leaving. I think It’s all smokescreen and a power play from him. 
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Yeah, can't picture Messi anywhere else. He's been at Barca since he was 14. It makes no sense as there are few, if any clubs out there who would be prepared to break their wage structure and budget on him.

 
It would be cool to see Messi playing in Argentina, for a big club like Boca or River Plate but the economy is really bad so I don't think they would be able to afford him. He did watch the Copa Libertadores final that was in Madrid recently though so maybe he could consider it once his contract expires next year. Or just join Pep's City for free then. 

 
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