Patrick Bamford

Hence why I say it

Someone's feisty today

Katy Perry wrote:Are Chelsea tickets really that high? I remember when we had Mou and he complained about the lack of noise in our home games, and fans answered that the prices are too high for young supporters who are usually the loudest. I've always remembered Arsenal having the highest ticket prize.

Also, @fatman123, did you manage to take a picture with Lord Bamford himself?

Those were the box seats with food etc, they're the most expensive ones in the ground.

A few years ago when I did go to the game I laid ~$120AUD and they were among the cheaper tickets in the stadium. This time around all of those tickets had been taken by members with more loyalty points than me

Recalled from his loan at Burnley. More, I'd suspect, to find a more suitable destination than to be brought into the first team fold a la Aké.

https://twitter.com/squawka/status/820320570743148545


Dire

Needs to get back to playing regularly even if it's one lower division.

Btw why do teams ask him on loan if they have no plans whatsoever to play him?

I think we'll end up selling him to Boro.

He's done with us.

They ask for him on loan to use him exactly as his recent clubs have – as a hopeful punt to throw on in the closing stages of a game to try to nab a goal or a result. His own fault he's not making the most of the opportunities given, however sparse they may be.

Partly Chelsea's fault, they never put him in a good loan spot.

I'd have kept him at Boro.

I mean, we can blame Burnley, Palace and Norwich for not giving him chances and us for loaning him there, but Bamford himself should take the lion's share of the blame for completely flopping.

He's a poacher who scored tons in the Championship and he didn't adjust his poaching skills to level of the defending in the PL nor tried to expand his game towards being useful outside of scoring. That's the reason why goalscoring machines in the Eredivisie who is pretty much at the level of the Championship fail in England as well. Think of Von Wolfswinkel, the back-up striker Spurs currently have, Luke De Jong, or even former blue Matja Kezman if we want to go deeper in time.

On the brink of a permanent move to Boro according to widespread reports, for somewhere in the neighbourhood of £10m. For a player without a single first team appearance for us. Hilarious and wonderful.

Very good sale. The one in charge of negotiating the price of the players we intend to get rid needs a pay rise