Hopefully we have both Partey and Tierney back for Thursday but reading the comments here it seems Partey won't make it and Tierney is 50:50.

Not bothered. Benfica aren’t good enough to risk our players. We will have teams like United/Sociedad, Napoli, Leicester, Spurs later. Then we will really need them. They should rest as long as is needed

Take the extra time needed to make sure both are a 100% and there is a chance we can go on a decent run to close out the season. Hopefully Europa is still in play, and maybe top 6.

2 months later

Arteta says Kieran is probably done for the season.

That one is going to be a blow for our EL chances and with Saka the only other quality option at LB down too. Got to be smart with Cedric and Chambers to make sure they aren't expended for 2nd priority ties. Will be interesting to see if we go back 3 as norm.

Lets see. Still a long way to go till May 26th (date of Europa League final).

Ashley Cole miraculously made the 2006 CL final after being out 2/3 months beforehand.

If Auba, ESR, Øde, Saka and Tierney are all out that's literally our entire preferred front four plus our most important attacking player out of the rest of the eleven. 😆

You left out the man who is 7th in the Premier League goal scoring charts

No you said preferred team. Laca is our everything!!!!!

Saka and ESR both passed fit to play tomorrow. Great news.

Fuck these internationals. Odegaard was really starting to impose himself.

23 days later

Guendouzi broke his foot last night

jones wrote:

Guendouzi broke his foot last night

Well fuck. Not going to be able to sell him and he probably wont be any use to us next season.

Qwiss! wrote:
jones wrote:

Guendouzi broke his foot last night

Well fuck. Not going to be able to sell him and he probably wont be any use to us next season.

Should be grand for next season cant imagine it'd have any real impact on his value. His personality is the big issue.

2 months later

Gabriel has withdrawn from Brasil’s Olympic team. Knee tendinitis, will be out for the pre-season you would think. Maybe longer?

HomeSteak wrote:

Gabriel has withdrawn from Brasil’s Olympic team. Knee tendinitis, will be out for the pre-season you would think. Maybe longer?

Yea that's a nightmare. It can be the type of thing that you can play with but grumbles if you play too much and limits quad strength. Santa had it in his groin, and Kos in his Achilles.

speedy wrote:
HomeSteak wrote:

Gabriel has withdrawn from Brasil’s Olympic team. Knee tendinitis, will be out for the pre-season you would think. Maybe longer?

Yea that's a nightmare. It can be the type of thing that you can play with but grumbles if you play too much and limits quad strength. Santa had it in his groin, and Kos in his Achilles.

Still managed to deliver all those presents though, respect.