Jadon Sancho (confirmed loan signing)

[simon ward 50]

Mushy peas are shit.

Having married a Yorkshire girl, I've spent my whole married life avoiding mushy peas like the plague. The work of the devil, they are.

I'm with you ME!

[VILLA MOLE]

He will do the square root of f*** all for us and will be moved on at the end of the season. We will wonder why we bothered. A Leopard doesn’t change its spots. A gifted footballer he may be but his attitude towards the game will soon surface.

I’ll put you down as undecided then.

I'm certainly hesitant to ask him what he thinks of ketchup or mushy peas.

why is there no mention of curry sauce  ?

[Brazilian Villain]

Can someone share the debunking, please?

That was last season, he's gone from the lurved up stage of the relationship to "talk later, babes. I've got an early start at work tomorrow".

[Monty]

Can someone share the debunking, please?

I mean it comes from La Repubblica, that should be enough.

[Sexual Ealing]

Fabrizio Romano also said it was bollocks, and he'd know bollocks.

[trinityoap]

I agree with LeonW. I am convinced that this was a deliberate ploy by the mancs to unsettle a leading player from a club they regard as direct competition to mess us up. Bastards. Other conspiracy theories are available.

[Somniloquism]

Mainly from Tap-in merchant but the article doesn't even have the agreed fee correctly which was €30mil and not €20mil.

https://www.goal.com/en-gb/lists/chelsea-co-owner-todd-boehly-jadon-sancho-as-completely-fake/bltb5ee21ae6409006f

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Mushy peas are shit.

Having married a Yorkshire girl, I've spent my whole married life avoiding mushy peas like the plague. The work of the devil, they are.

I'm with you ME!

Having lived in both Sheffield and Leeds I'd managed to avoid their mushy peas until one day I went to Bradford where I was introduced to a meat pie drowning in mushing peas with mint sauce. I was not amused. Only thing worse I can think of is chips with gravy. Savages!

[Brazilian Villain]

Having lived in both Sheffield and Leeds I'd managed to avoid their mushy peas until one day I went to Bradford where I was introduced to a meat pie drowning in mushing peas with mint sauce. I was not amused. Only thing worse I can think of is chips with gravy. Savages!

So you're saying a Francesinha is nicer than both of them?

[eamonn]

He will do the square root of f*** all for us and will be moved on at the end of the season. We will wonder why we bothered. A Leopard doesn’t change its spots. A gifted footballer he may be but his attitude towards the game will soon surface.

He'll contribute more than Bailey has recently, I'd say he did more for Chelsea last season than we got out of Bailey or Ramsey.

Not so much v Bailey 23/24 or Ramsey 22/23. Both performed at an elite level for us under Emery, granted for a short time. Ramsey was nowhere near as bad last season as some here seem to have convinced themselves.

One league goal by Ramsey last season seems to be the stick to beat him with. Personally i liked his driving runs and defences being shit-scared of him. He was a bit of a div for getting that red card at Bournemouth mind.

[brontebilly]

He will do the square root of f*** all for us and will be moved on at the end of the season. We will wonder why we bothered. A Leopard doesn’t change its spots. A gifted footballer he may be but his attitude towards the game will soon surface.

He'll contribute more than Bailey has recently, I'd say he did more for Chelsea last season than we got out of Bailey or Ramsey.

Not so much v Bailey 23/24 or Ramsey 22/23. Both performed at an elite level for us under Emery, granted for a short time. Ramsey was nowhere near as bad last season as some here seem to have convinced themselves.

One league goal by Ramsey last season seems to be the stick to beat him with. Personally i liked his driving runs and defences being shit-scared of him. He was a bit of a div for getting that red card at Bournemouth mind.

Same amount of league goals as McGinn. The metric mikes need something to hang their hat on I guess. Bailey was a great fit too, either starting or off the bench, until his confidence disappeared. Metrics have their place but don't explain balance of the team/squad.

Let's see how Sancho goes.

[algy]

He will do the square root of f*** all for us and will be moved on at the end of the season. We will wonder why we bothered. A Leopard doesn’t change its spots. A gifted footballer he may be but his attitude towards the game will soon surface.

I’ll put you down as undecided then.

I'm certainly hesitant to ask him what he thinks of ketchup or mushy peas.

why is there no mention of curry sauce  ?

I love curry sauce with my chips, me. Never used to bother with it, but tried it about 4-5 years ago and have been a convert ever since. Definitely on the range of “lovely chips” condiments along with salt & vinegar and chip spice & Dutch mayo.

Never touch ketchup. Struggling to think of a single thing it improves where there’s not a much better option (brown sauce, mustard, curry sauce, …)

[paul_e]

The reason people talk about him only getting 1 league goal in each of the last 2 seasons isn't anything like that, it's because he got 6 in each of the 2 previous seasons and we all thought he was going to take another step up and move into double figures but the injury got in the way. Since he came back he was improving but still haven't got back to the player he was and the lack of goals is 1 sign of that.

1 of the biggest problems we had in the first half of last season was the over-reliance on Watkins, Rogers and Duran in the final 3rd, if those 3 didn't score Villa didn't score. Asensio and Rashford spread the goals around more but Bailey and Ramsey in particular needed to offer more. I'd have loved us to have no reason to sell Ramsey and to see him get the chance to find his form again but with our hands tied I'd rather sell players who we know can offer more but weren't than be forced to sell someone that was.

I get that there's more to it than just goals, it's an argument I use all the time, but an attacking midfielder/winger does need to provide more than we saw from JJ post-injury because the alternative is that you're just adding pressure to other players to make up the difference. If you have that happening with 2-3 players at the same time you have problems that nmo amount of nice interplay and youtube highlight moments can fix, it's a results game and you don't get anything for looking good in 'safe' areas of the pitch.

Against Palace we had more shots, more possession, more successful carries, more corners and more free kicks in the opposition half but no one would claim we were the better team because they were far more effective than we were. after least season Sancho is more likely to change that for us than Ramsey.

[dcdavecollett]

Ramsey's sending-off at Bournemouth was down to:

a) confronting a home defender after he had been badly fouled,

b) taking a second yellow for a 'ghost' foul in the second half.

Match ref? Stuart Fucking Atwell.

[brontebilly]

Ramsey's sending-off at Bournemouth was down to:

a) confronting a home defender after he had been badly fouled,

b) taking a second yellow for a 'ghost' foul in the second half.

Match ref? Stuart Fucking Atwell.

I rated JJ more than most on here but he left us in the shit that day.

We showed a lot of grit that day, none more than Cash and Martinez to hold on for the win after. No sign of that grit in the last couple of games.