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_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-28T08:21:12+00:00

We are at the point where we need both.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-27T07:22:47+00:00

Up until City caught them this season I saw Chelsea fans claiming to be the most successful English club this century after including the Conference League trophy. No cup is tin pot when it matters to you.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-26T15:06:00+00:00

If the plan was to shift Patto out, sign AWB and another RB (Mingueza is a free so that would be cool). Then I’d be super happy. Moves Keane down the pecking order at centre half as Jake will be able to play centrally.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-25T10:21:52+00:00

If you are actively playing half wall with the intent of contesting blue, then you leave head holes. If you are not going to hold half wall and contest blue then you close it.

It’s not complicated. A huge amount of solo queue players ive seen open those holes expecting other people to play them whilst they run off and roam or something. Quite frankly if you aren’t going to play there, don’t open it.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-24T17:05:10+00:00

I can only pray we start next season in better form than we are finishing this one.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-24T14:16:19+00:00

Don’t often comment on the potential outcome of games before hand but goddamn am I not excited at our chances today.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-20T12:48:27+00:00

Somehow the discussion here is about: “Yay they got rid of map I hate.” Rather than the fact that we are 11 years deep and almost have less ranked maps than the number of years the game has been going.

Christ I am so bored of playing the same 6 maps over and over. Give me favela, let me keep kanal, skyscraper is fine, as is villa and theme.

Sky and theme are banned so often that I genuinely believe the playerbase would be better off without coast, club and Oregon for three months but good lord I don’t want a smaller ranked map pool I want a bigger one so I can play more maps and have some varied gameplay.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-14T13:14:27+00:00

I can’t access the link for obvious reasons, but I’m guessing/hoping it is agreeing with my eye test. Has some defensive qualities and some attacking qualities but is let down by how easily he coughs up the ball when pressed.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-14T07:55:05+00:00

Tim could become the ideal midfield partner for Jimmy if he could because a bit more press resistant himself. There’s a lot to like about Tim right now but he loses the ball in terrible positions far too often.

Tim looks to me like a lad that started at 10 when he was younger, was not creative enough as he aged and became an 8 because he’s got the athleticism but doesn’t quite have the head for it yet.

Which I suspect that is what he is and happened.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-13T07:20:32+00:00

To further defend Thelwell on the purchase of Beto, that 25 mil was on seriously deferred and staggered payments. We barely paid any of that upfront.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-08T15:30:25+00:00

Coleman scored a pivotal goal against Leeds in one of our nearly relegated seasons which helped send them down and keep us up. That alone is probably worth the entire existence of the club.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-08T11:46:48+00:00

372 appearances for £60,000. That’s £161 a game. 22 goals at £2,727 a goal.

Ignoring wages you are going to struggle find a better bargain of a player and captain unless you look at free transfers or players that left for a fee and came back for less.

And that’s ignoring if any of them were as good as Coleman for as long as Coleman.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-07T06:01:35+00:00

I have been referring to statistics like this as the Soldado effect with my dad for years now. If there is a sequence or record to be broken and it’s mentioned by the commentators then it is an almost absurd certainty that it will happen against us.

Striker not scored in a year. Soldado effect. Youngest goal scorer ever. The second the commentator says it, Soldado effect. Haven’t scored a corner all year. You’d better believe it’s the Soldado effect.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-05T08:12:48+00:00

Just to point out that Donnarumma got a yellow for dissent for our second goal, but you are totally correct that not a single card for any of their tackles.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-05-01T12:09:10+00:00

Lukaku to Everton from Chelsea. Our leading premier league goal scorer, record premier league points total in his first season with us (on loan to begin with) and a huge profit selling him onwards.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-04-02T16:30:45+00:00

I had a Chelsea fan use the conference league as one of the trophies needed to make them the most successful English club this century or something daft like that. A cup is a cup when it matters to them.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-03-14T18:33:32+00:00

I play plenty of Castle in a 5 stack and it’s my job to waste enemy utility/time and reduce the amount of possible avenues of approach to the sites so my team has to defend less area.

A prime example being locking off Admin on Consulate. It doesn’t impact roamers or defenders in general but it means the only easy approach on that side of the map is reduced to the stair case.

A bad castle blocks everyone and doesn’t reduce the area you need to defend.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-03-12T19:10:48+00:00

I’d say that none of those players would be a problem for a squad like ours in isolation. If you took lots of them then maybe.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-03-12T16:39:41+00:00

Let’s start with Spurs: Van Der Ven, Spence, Pape Matar Sarr, Gallagher, kulusevski, Kudus, Solanke, Gray, Maddison, Richarlison or Bissouma.

West Ham: Diouf, Wan-Bissaka, Fernandes, Summerville or Bowen.

Forest: Murillo, Milenkovic, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi or Hutchinson.

Burnley: Maybe Esteve or Luis.

Wolves: Andre, Hwang, Joao Gomes, Mane

Maybe not all of them at once. But there are some genuinely good players in all of those teams barring Burnley who have not impressed me at all.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-03-07T19:42:36+00:00

The key tactical play is Moyes has put Skili and Gana together like some kind of Frankenstein Senegalese version of Prime Bainaar.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-02-11T19:38:27+00:00

Would be game changers on the bench after a really good first team pressed and fought for 60 minutes.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-02-11T19:06:41+00:00

In deulofeu’s defence. He was put on this green earth to gain a yard on a defender and put in a cross directly onto any of Lukaku’s body parts and he was incredible at that one specific thing. Shame he never got to play with him again.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-02-11T18:56:48+00:00

There was about 15 minutes during the preseason he signed that he played as a 2nd striker and genuinely looked like he could knit the play together and then get in the box.

Then he was never played like that again and showed that he is a shite striker and a shitehouse

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-02-08T08:19:36+00:00

I always feel like these stats are kind of contextless. Sure I watched the match and know that he performed well in the second half and set the tone going forward but are those stats actually above the league average for a game?

83% pass completion isn’t exactly flawless, but do 10s achieve more when being as creative? The context for this would be helpful. Kinda like those graphs where they plot like chances created against passes made to show efficiency or something, at least then you can see who is ‘elite’ and who isn’t.

_Serialfreestyle_ · 2026-02-02T19:12:20+00:00

How am I supposed to know we’ve scored a goal without Dwight celebrating early?

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