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@henrywinter You answered it yourself, I hate the phrase ‘anywhere else on field it’s a pen’, full well knowing threshold for a pen is much higher

West Ham disjointed, lax in possession, missing Summerville. Leeds deservedly lead. Should have had a pen, too. Kilman on Stach: late challenge, anywhere else on the field and that’s a foul. #WHULEE

@henrywinter Henry with his weekly arsenal wankfest. Gone from quadruple to double in back to back game weeks, they’re not immune to criticism

Frustrations in the EFL Cup final and now FA Cup quarter-final will be forgotten if Arsenal win the title. It’s always been about the league for Arsenal this season. 22 years since the Invincibles. Being best in the land, the champions, matters most. Lessons from St Mary’s still need to be taken: more players need to stand up to be counted, Max Dowman has to be given a run of starts now, wide or 10, and short-corner routines should be used only occasionally. Return of Raya, Timber, Saliba, Hincapie, Rice, Gyokeres and Saka (when fit and fatigue-free) to starting XI will help. #SOUARS

@MrBoldOne @EmiratesFACup Enjoy your quadruple, pal.

@piersmorgan Ahahahahahahaha

It’s ON. #Quadruple

Strong leadership by Chelsea to omit Enzo Fernandez for next two games. Unlikely to have played in the first, Port Vale in the FA Cup, but dropping him against Manchester City in the Premier League is significant. Chelsea need the points to get back in the Champions League positions. Enzo is a winner and productive (8g, 3a in 30 PL this season). But his exclusion is clearly the right decision. Enzo’s flirtation with Real Madrid was disrespectful to Chelsea fans, team-mates, head coach, staff, sporting directors and board. He’s vice-captain. He's captain in the absence of Reece James and certainly hasn’t behaved like one. Some of Enzo’s frustration about the club’s direction is understandable but it’s unprofessional and unhelpful to state it publicly. Liam Rosenior is under enough pressure without dressing-room unrest/division. Enzo has also criticised underperforming team-mates like Filip Jorgensen against PS-G. All a bit rich: Enzo kept giving the ball away against Everton (still had two shots well-saved by Jordan Pickford). Opportunity for Cole Palmer at 10 v City? Palmer is not in the best of form, is better floating inside from the right with the ball, and is a different type of 10 to Enzo. Chelsea have options with Enzo dropped. They have enough wingers (Estevao, Neto) to cover Palmer moving inside. They have enough midfielders with Andrey Santos/Romeo Lavia although Moises Caicedo is far from his peak form. A booking against City (the 32nd PL fixture so two-game ban for 10th booking applies) would see Caicedo miss Manchester United at home and Brighton away. Chelsea discipline needs addressing more broadly. Rosenior says he has spoken to Marc Cucurella about his comments in an interview with The Athletic. Cucurella praised Rosenior but questioned why Enzo Maresca was eased out. Should he have been punished by club, too? He wasn’t indulging in transfer speculation as Fernandez was. His comments were actually sensible (a new manager really needs a pre-season etc). And, of course, as one Chelsea fan observed, Cucurella is difficult to drop as no quality replacement at left-back. A final thing on Enzo… would he actually get in Real Madrid’s team? Would Kylian Mbappe welcome the Argentinian who mocked the Frenchman and his team last year? #CFC

@CFCDaily Nice to see some bollocks on this club

🚨🚨BREAKING: Enzo Fernandez has been left out the next 2 matchday squads as punishment

@CFCUnfiltered @CFCPys @CFCDaily @Laus1507 What an awful take

“I would SELL him, a lot of people haven’t cottoned on yet that he’s NOT good enough for what we need” “I would also SELL, but because everyone else is probably at a loss apart from Tosin, we could make significant profit on him” @CFCDaily and @Laus1507 on Andrey Santos 🤔

@CFCUnfiltered @AndyMckinstry84 @CFCDaily @Laus1507 Why the fuck do you care is it your money?

@AndyMckinstry84 @CFCDaily @Laus1507 Do you not agree he’s one of the only players we can make a big profit on?

@Blue_Footy @lequipe Poor guy how will he cope

Chilwell is earning €75k a week (€300k salary) at Strasbourg, according to @lequipe. He really sacrificed a lot to play active football. Something Sterling would've done earlier.

@SpursOfficial Is this AI? Why is his head so big?

Welcome to Tottenham Hotspur, Roberto De Zerbi 🤝

@CFCPys @alex_crook @talkSPORT Off you pop then. Love Enzo, fantastic player, but he plays in the one position that is easily replaceable with Wharton or Anderson

🚨🇦🇷 Enzo Fernandez feels that his personal ambitions cannot be matched with Chelsea's current project. (@alex_crook @talkSPORT) #CFC

@CFCDaily Should boo him out the stadium v City, no one’s bigger than the club

We’re pathetic if he has the armband again this season. I don’t care if it’s a power play for a contract. If I was a player I’d be looking for an exit this summer too but it’s better to go down the Cucurella route than this.

@GoldbergCFC He may get booed out the stadium when we play City

He’s legit talking about Madrid everyday…

@CFCDaily Player sales, £300m in sales you still pay agent fees

Someone is gonna have to explain this to me because having the highest agent fees by some margin, the same time period Liverpool signed Wirtz and Isak. Who did we sign or renew to command this?

@FutbolCheIsea @obionepodcast Couldn’t have said it better myself. Seen Hazard leave in his prime, if anyone else leaves I wouldn’t flinch

🚨John Obi Mikel: “No player is bigger than the football club. If Enzo Fernandez has had enough, put your hands up and f*ck off, and we move on. You should be grateful you're playing for Chelsea Football Club.” 😳 (@obionepodcast) #CFC

@TheAthleticFC Our LW is horrendous so I hope Rosenior gives the kid a chance

As a young boy, Ryan Kavuma-McQueen would watch highlights of Ronaldo Nazario and do 100 weaker-foot keepy-uppies to improve his technique. Now 17, the Chelsea prospect has been watched by Cole Palmer after registering 11 goals and four assists in 23 games for the club’s various youth sides. With an FA Cup quarter-final against Port Vale on Saturday, could Chelsea’s latest rising star be about to announce himself? @SJohnsonSport 🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/71523…

@NizaarKinsella Was it just financial or did he extend?

🚨Marc Cucurella said his contract renewal is "done" at the London Stadium yesterday. Any official announcement is still pending. More 👇 bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

@DeadlineDayLive @alex_crook @ChelseaFC @todd_boehly should be all over him and Ake + Trafford and Foden, you lot love city players

🚨 John Stones is NOT expected to be offered a new deal at Manchester City, with his current contract set to expire this summer. 👀 Everton are among the clubs monitoring the centre-back’s situation ahead of a potential free transfer. (Source: @alex_crook)

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