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Bellingham as you can see is overperforming his xg drastically at this stage and that should normalise eventually. But if Joselu plays a decent bit of minutes this season (over 1700) he could be a top 3 scorer in the league.

Also love the box presence he offers the team, smth we haven't had since Morata and even that was as a backup. Having a central outlet occupying the CBs makes the creative players jobs so much easier.

He deserves much more respect and credit than he has gotten and never deserved the ... doubts in preseason.

(After losing a game to a Serie B side) “He turned beet red, and sitting next to him was Adriano Galliani, wearing a bright yellow tie. Together they looked like a rainbow. Two days later, he came and asked us to forgive him, because he could never be mean through and through. He’s a teddy bear, deep down. The secret of our track record is the fact that he’s a regular guy.” This is a quote by Paolo Maldini, who wrote the foreword. He talks about how Ancelotti was a dear friend, in addition to being a coach. He says that Carletto was the wind that made him flutter!

He genuinely is one of the few people who comes across as super likeable. The yin to Ten Hags yang ,sorry not sorry. Perfect vibes for the Brazil managerial role and top 3 RM manager ever.

• Tchoumeni
• Camavinga
• Valverde
• Kroos
• Modric
• Ceballos

Don't think there's any argument against these guys. But then

• Bellingham
• Guler
• Brahim

Any of those could be counted as an attacker.

One of the negatives from Saturday’s game was Antonio Rüdiger picking up his fourth yellow card of the season, but Ancelotti was clear that he hadn’t spoken to the German about his discipline. He explained: “I haven’t spoken about this, I wouldn’t tell a player to think about suspensions. When he’s suspended, we’ll put somebody else in. We have many central defenders [laughs]. I laugh because Tchouameni doesn’t like playing central defence, which is a bit like Camavinga at left-back. One day we’ll have Tchouameni in central defence and Camavinga at left-back.”

Now which one of you mentioned playing with 11 goddamn midfielders, you happy, you jinxed it

When the penalty was awarded, before Joselu missed, there was confusion as Rodrygo appeared to be a candidate to take the spot kick. Ancelotti was asked who the designated taker was and looked to explain what happened: “Every game, it changes. Because there isn’t always the same line-up. Today in today’s line-up the player who had to take it was Joselu. I don’t know if the players on the pitch spoke to give it to Rodrygo, today’s taker was Joselu.”

That led to some questioning whether Rodrygo himself actually wanted to take the penalty. Ancelotti suggested that he did, sharing a little more insight as to what happened on the field: “Did he want to take it? I told Rüdiger that Rodrygo could take it if he wanted, I don’t know what happened, the players spoke.”

The proportion of backlash thathad come towards vini outta this is disgusting

Carlo Ancelotti: "Modric is not happy because he is not playing a lot, but he is very motivated and always wants to help the team. He has a very important role in this squad, in the dressing room."

Honestly what was he even expecting.

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