Btw, how much better is our attack is with Okafor in there speaks so much to not only Giroud's decline this season but mostly to Pioli's hard head.


Oh, and I always watch even if I leave it on while I do something else now that the games have no real value. I always watch. I watched through the horrible 10 years of the banter era. This is still heaven compared to that utter hell. Let's all remember where this team comes from. We were forced to endure the likes of Mesbah, Constant, Vangioni, Sosa, Mati Fernandez, Poli, Bertolacci and on and on and on, sully the shirt we all love.

I still appreciate watching the games now because this team has a lot of promise, and we're 3/4 parts away from being a top side imo. Yes the season was ruined because the decision that should have been taken last January was not taken. But I have great hope for next season and that is why I want us to keep the core players at the club. Leao and Theo for me are the biggest players we have along with Mike, we have to build around them and get the best out of all of them. Mike is expandable because a GK can be replaced. The best LB in the world and an explosive player like Leao, not so much.

Disagree about Leao. Yes we've wasted 2 years of his career playing this horrid football where we absolutely waste all his good qualities. But Pioli's out come summer, so I have high expectations.

Theo for me is the one untouchable. Absolutely have to do everything to keep him. I don't believe he's agreed anything with anyone, but if Bayern come in with a huge offer, the club will, sadly, consider it. For me, anything under 120m for Theo should be turned away. If Cucurella is worth 62m Pounds, than Theo is wroth twice that and more. We better not be needy b!tches in the summer. Theo is the best LB in the world, anything other than a record fee and the fans should riot.....

I'd personally only try to shop Mike around a bit this summer, don't make it seem like we want to sell, but throw out feelers out there. He needs to renew and he's going to demand top dollar. But his injury record and season performance has been sub-par. If we can monetize him for a good fee (around 80m) to some EPL club, then we need to take the money and run.

If we can get a coach who is capable of getting the best out of Chukwueze and Leao .i.e we play in a way that releases them from the constant double marking. Watch out.

Chuku is finally showing that he can ball. Too bad Pioli never really gave him a chance. Puli is good in the centre as well, but unless we get in a decent DM, we should not be playing 4 attackers out there against any half decent side

Do we know why the Curva is protesting?

1 - #Inter are the 1st team to arithmetically win the #Scudetto in a city derby in the history of the #SerieA (since 1929-30); furthermore, the Nerazzurri are the 2nd Italian team to win at least 20 Scudetti, after Juventus (36). Unforgettable.


Pioli... All thanks to his stupid thinkering. Lost us 2 games against Roma and now this.

Like I said, you were right, I was wrong. The run of good results in the easy fixtures, all mostly settled by individuality were clouding my better judgement. More than that, the fear of who they might choose drove that desire more than anything else.

And I'm still worried about who they might choose. It has to be a top coach, capable of getting the best of our players. It cannot be a run of the mill journey man again.

That's why I was sort of ok with settling with Pioli. But after these 2 weeks. If I could I'd go there and kick him out DJ Jazzy Jeff style myself

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Inter getting a 2nd star before us. Makes it even more bitter by the fact that they engineered 5 of their titles through calciopoli and were assigned one on paper. Absolutely disgusting team who we've now let walk all over us for 6 consecutive games. All of which being in a humiliating fashion with the highest of stakes to play for. Super Coppa, CL semi and now Scudetto decider for them.

Thank you Padre Pioli, you're no longer on fire, but you should be set on fire.


Sac him tonight Cardinale, or all your credibility is going down the drain

And Inter win the title against us

The cherry on top of the sh!t cake

Pioli should have been sacked last season during January. The writing was on the wall then. He never learns.

Calabria off too

Completely lost their heads after only showing up in the last 10 minutes

SHAME!

No Theo or Tomori against Juve. Could lose 2nd place as things stand now

It's criminal that Chuck has been made to sit this last month btw, has been much better than Pulisic. Who's looked tired and slow as of late.

Adli is such a f@cking performer btw. You showed nothing all game, sit the f@ck down. Theatrics do not change the fact that you're mediocre

We should just fire him tonight and let Bonera or someone, anyone take over for the rest of this dead rubber season.

Letting Pioli stay on past today gives all the wrong signals to everyone.

Letting Inter win the title against us. While laying down for them!

We have no midfield, it has been like this all season, and he's actually made it worse as the season went on with RLC playing so high now. Inter are literally waltzing through with acres and acres of space. Disgusting

Every chance they create is a f@cking replica! Bring the ball down in the middle, draw our CBs up, play it wide, cut it back into our box. FFS!

We need a striker out there!

Facepalm...

And we always concede the same replica goal against these mofos

He never learns

He'll see out the season but he's definitely out come the end of it. Now I'm reading rumours about Lopategui and f@cking Pellegrini and back to being worried.

It better be someone excellent FFS. We have not had a top coach since Carlo

Absolutely disgusted by today.

I don't know WTF Pioli tried to do today, but that should be his job right there. Unacceptable. Players gave up before the whistle started and we had not lost to these chumps for years.

Terrible cup coach, terrible tactician, dog walked by a novice, started the game with a 5-1-5 formation, wtf did he expect? Kept letting Gabbia get isolated against Lukaku. DDR simply used the Inzaghi school of Pioli whipping, send in long balls to the strong CF and let him bring in the oncoming runners. Did the same thing in both legs and we kept walking right into it, just like we do each time we play Inter. This guy never learns.


Leao, Theo, Pulisic, Giroud. All terrible, but when the opposition work to nullify their individuality, we have no answer, because that is all we rely on. These guys to bail us out each time.


The amount of times we let them get all 10 behind the ball and then blast it into the crowd... I mean, school yard kids show more tactical aptitude...

Anyway, we'd have been hamiliated by Leverkusen anyway. This season needs to end, and a new coach needs to come in. Bring me Sarri/Conte/De Zerbi/anyone other than this f@cking idiot. He had me fooled he'd turned things around, but that was obviously the easy schedule. We cannot waste another year with him. He hit his ceiling with that Scudetto and it's been downhill since then.

It feels like we have 10 men FFS. They've been down a man since the 30th. Shameful, shameful display

The dumbest sh!t I've seen in a while

How many times have we tried to hit this into 20 men clustered in the box?

Pioli should be gone tonight FFS! We're going to get killed by Inter

Benches Tijjani to play Calbria in midfield and Musah at RB

Make it make sense

Unfucking believable what I'm watching FFS!!


WTF PIOLI?? WTF?

I don't want them to win the Scudetto against us. That would be the big shame badge added to the season if we allow that. I think their draw against Cagliari today means that they have to win against us to make it mathematically a done deal. So just do everything to not let them win!

As for the Roma game, I don't think we should start with 4 attackers. Although RLC does make it feel that way anyway with how far up the pitch he's playing. But the fact that we don't have a natural DM leaves us too wide open in the middle to do this against a decent side.

We all know Okafor should start. But Pioli trusts in Giroud way too much. And he will rely on him again, and this time, he'll probably cost him his job.

Today again with a huge miss. His touches and hold up have been complete @ss lately.

Okafor is so versatile, quick, can interchange with the wingers, and he's been coming up clutch all season. We have to go with him in attack.

Puli or Chuck on the right doesn't matter to me, both are playing well. Actually gutted for Chuk today, a grand total of 1 inch combined in both offisde goals. The 2nd one for me was criminal. Should have stood.

Also, agreed about Pioli. I let the good moment and the fear of the unknown cloud my better judgment.

You are right, he must be given his marching orders at the end of the season, no matter what happens in the EL. We've reached the end of his cycle ang keeping him would just be beating a dead horse.

If we manage to keep Theo and Leao for another season, I want a manager who will get the best out of them. And that is not Pioli.

I think the Roma game is 95% tactics and 5% clamming up in the big moment. We've played big games before and did the job. As you said, a novice out-smarted Pioli's one dimensional set-up.


3-3 against Sassuolo, we can thank our lucky stars that it wasn't another big embarrassment. Kjaer and Thiaw man. The defensive phase has been appalling all season, mostly thanks to our wide open midfield. But Kjaer should retire, he's done. And Thaiw, not even a shadow of the player who burst onto the scene last season. Thinking he was a one hit wonder at this point. Thank god he's out against Inter with that yellow he got today.

We're actually staring down the barrel of an Inter Scudetto win in the derby and I honestly cannot face it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)


Let's see how we recover against Roma. No excuses. We should win that. If De Rossi neuters Pioli again...