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Fair point. In a strange way, I kind of enjoyed him doing that even though once he stupidly lost it. None of our current crop have that alpha confidence of yesteryear of demanding the ball under pressure and being composed on it, even under pressure. All we see these days is players treating...

You called him the weakest link on the pitch though, which by no means I felt he was. He wasn’t great, but he wasn’t bad (relatively) either. Physically looks no worse than half the team that was out there. I couldn’t tell Locatelli was on the pitch. Bonucci and Alex Sandro move like they are...

Probably a lot to do with watching him hit 70% of his attempted crosses directly into the full back nearly every game being such a clear visual. I believe that issue itself is down to a combination of: - new environment, slightly nervous so no additional finesse and just trying to cross it...

This is simply not true aside from his ineffective shots. We all dislike his lazy demeanour and the fact he doesn’t maximise his attributes. But our midfield group is average to the point we are far worse on the pitch without him. The Miretti-Paredes-McKennie combo the past three games was...

Let’s hope Maccabi are as shit as Bologna.

This is a category C game so only 8 cameras. And a call in favour of Juve, so 0 cameras.

Camera angles weren’t available from that side of the pitch to see it again.

Bologna have just sat off and not put pressure on the ball at any stage. Even I’d feel comfortable playing out there.

We don’t do that in training. Just light jogs, stretches and crossbar/corner challenges.

We would’ve been stuck with Dybala for 3-4 years. Sure it may have been better this season for the sake of consistency, but he will declined rapidly imo in a few years. At least if this doesn’t work out, we are not tied down past this season for once putting the power in the hands of the club...

I don’t think he is a natural CB watching the game yesterday. Probably more suited to RB or at most RCB in a 3. He lost his man on the back post for the second goal, they did have an overload but we’ve been watching Alex Sandro and Cuads/Lichtsteiner do that for many years.

Unless you are a centre back chasing pass accuracy and touches on the ball, being happy passing to the other centre back, then it’s impossible for anyone to do well with this team at the moment it seems.

Perhaps if we actually did some physical training, we could actually play some coherent football for more than 20 minutes before burning out? That’s Kulusevski, Zakaria and De Ligt pretty much saying the same thing. It’s a clear pattern.

Sometimes it’s good just to see someone who looks like they give it a shit whilst we are getting smashed and outplayed by every opponent instead of the regular straight faced CEO, sporting director and president along with the smiling coach and polish goalkeeper.

I’ve never really agreed with the idea of going back to something, particularly after great success. In football terms it rarely works out. However, this has been an utter car crash with Allegri 2.0 and his Jihadball. It’s up there with Lippi 2.0 returning to the national team trying to...

The point they are making is correct though. Del Piero never showed any weakness to the cameras, outside world or the fans. As Buffon mentioned after losing the CL final, Del Piero told him not to cry on the pitch. Whilst we are down at the moment, we are letting everyone else revel in our...

Not sure if it’s been mentioned here but the current conditioning of our players and number of injuries could also be down to players deciding not to play through minor niggles. Hardly any footballer is playing at 100%. It’s easier to go down and not play when you’re feeling the pressure, lost...

As I expected at the start of this season, this year will be pure torture and the best we can hope for is 4th. Dinosaur can take his Jihadball and leave, we can finally hit rock bottom at some point during this season, start to take some steps forward once the remaining guff have their contracts...

This in all likelihood will drag on until the World Cup break and reach new levels of low. Once you’ve lost a dressing room and the vast majority of the fan base, you’re not getting it back. There may be a slight bounce, but it’ll crumble even worse after it.

I’m not writing him off after 8 games obviously. Bernard got quite a few assists last season with a similarly mediocre team with the same management, that’s not exactly a great stat to use as a measuring stick. So far a fairly direct swap from De Ligt, Dybala, Bernard, Morata, Chiellini to...