Mudryk move now looks more probable than just possible.

Big game on Sunday. A point or more would be nice, though it’s the one game of the season they will raise themselves for and our record there is woeful. Any optimism engendered by our start to the season is tempered by the fact they’ve handed the whistle to the dreadful Craig Pawson.

whoring himself out to us for months and wasn't genuine about joining us in the end, just wanted to get out of Ukraine. Bullet dodged and not the player Chelsea need. Yet another No 10 with no No 9s for them. Silly fee too.

Would be great to stuff Spurs tomo and go 8 clear. Would be a big statement.

Absolutely bonkers.
Has to be the most expensive player in the world that hardly anyone has ever heard of imo.
To go from nowhere to just shy of £100m is barking.
Could easily turn out to be another Pepe now all the hype & expectation will be on his shoulders.

I would like to know how good the kid is. Can’t be held to ransom and over pay. We will be linked with World Class forwards soon enough. Chelsea will not be in Champions league next season. Young Danilo might be required and available. What is the score with Vlahovic?

Keep on going. Don’t make excuses. Winning mentality combined with having fun. Average age of squad is 24. Do not need to upset the apple cart. Strengthen where necessary when the right player is available

Rumoured we offered 50k a week then Chelski came in with 100k a week for 8 years!

Not hard to see why his head turned.

100k a week sounds very low for someone commanding that fee...50k sounds like a pi$$ take...

will be quite interested to see how Chelsea are fairing on financial fair play come the end of the season...spending like a drunk wag currently...

I'm glad we were not held to ransom and it sends out a message to other clubs as well that we'll pay what we consider value and fair and not what they do, his wages would have upset the dressing room as well being paid higher than established players like Saka etc. Predicted we'd win 0-3 today so was never worried but next week at home to United is much more of an acid test, we owe them one for Old Trafford where we we played well but lost. Tickets must be like gold dust atm.

Yep, way over-priced based on what he's done up until now.

Imagine LFC get Gakpo for £35m & this dude is going for nearly 3 times as much?

Bonkers.

Really good performance yesterday, and a few observations.

It is a great stadium to watch football, to be fair. Atmosphere was predictably febrile, but more toxic than usual. I don’t understand why their fans felt the need to boo all our black players (it wasn’t just Thomas) throughout, but that’s where we are, I suppose. Didn’t see the shenanigans at the end as too far away, but I’m guessing even the Met won’t have too much trouble identifying the ginger lad having seen it on replay…

The normal reaction after a derby, especially if you lose, is to berate your own. Spurs actually aren’t a bad team - though Sessegnon (attacking) and Kane were good. The game had gone before they got on the front foot and it felt as though we still had another gear.

United is now a massive game. I’d like us to be more cautious on this one as they picked us off on the counter at OT and the same thing could happen again.

£16 million!

Maybe the rumours about Mueller Rice have foundation! Any sightings?

I think Arsenal should up the bid on Trossard to around £80 million and then let Chelsea outbid them.

There was a scene in one of those old films possibly Demetrius and the Gladiators where one guy said he had his eyes on a pair of beautiful Egyptian female slaves who were identical twins for his wife. The big I AM wanted to show his status and kept out bidding our guy. The prices got crazy and the big I Am showed everybody he was the big I Am and paid 5,000 sesterces, a jaw dropping sum that had the crowd gasping. Our protagonist then bought Victor Mature….Demetrius for 50 Sovs and the big I Am, having done his nuts looked on in absolute rage as he knew he had just been played.

The desire to play for the Arsenal is something I can stomach. It’s the downing tools that worries me. Quite a lot older than our current pool too….

it's a good signing, we don't need mega signings at this point to upset the apple cart, grandfather mes used to tell me that Man City signing Rodney Marsh was the end of City winning the title when he joined them when they were top of the league half way through the season.

Just this once...

We love you Tottenham, we do
We love you Tottenham, we do
We love you Tottenham, we do
Oh! Tottenham we love you.

Is there a more spineless outfit than spuds?

You wouldn't believe they're trying for top 4.

Got a few cans at HT last night, thinking it would be an enjoyable second half. Hadn't even finished the first one and those clowns were 3-2 down.

If, and I know it's a big if, Spurs held on and we won our game in hand against Utd, we'd have been 11 points clear.  As it is, I'm still waiting for the slump in form, bearing in mind 2 or 3 draws could be enough to topple us.

We've got a lot of kind fixtures til April bar City, it's important to put out our strongest possible team in the FA Cup match against them on Friday as it'll be a psychological blow to the team if they lose.

Claudia Kowalczyk

Arsenal’s latest signing!

Holy Mary mother of God

……..and she comes with the bonus of her boyfriend is a decent centre back but quite frankly after seeing a video of her in action, K don’t particularly care. She is a cracker! Well done Mikel!