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I think he fits the requirements of what we need at the moment. Versatile player with a lot of movement who doesn't necessarily need a big chance to score a goal. Worked with the coach before so that's a bonus. It remains to be seen what our plans for the summer are, keep higuain or chase someone younger like Werner.

No thanks. He's probably the most overrated player we've had in the EPL these last few years. Liverpool are doing better since he left them and so are Barcelona without him in the side.

Paredes just retweeted this

Correct if I'm wrong but Barella and Paredes are 2 different profiles, no? One is more of an 8 and the other more of a 6. If so I'm having trouble understanding why the club is hesitant.

Seen him a lot at Bordeaux. Player with potential. Still inconsistent but so is Willian tbh. He's definitely capable of producing stats though. The problem with this transfer is that it's done in the middle of the season. The coach and club might think that it would potentially derail our top 4 chances because unlike them we've be giving up one of our starters. Needless to say I'm all for all in for this one. If anything it would force Sarri to play Hudson-Odoi.

Barcelona is my favorite club at the moment, Bayern definitely the one I hate the most.

The transfer rumours don't seem to be affecting his game at the moment. I would keep him until at least the summer and try to change his mind. If his only motivation for leaving is the lack of opportunities then he will stay otherwise we are just delaying the inevitable.

I think the fact that there are so few of them playing outside of Italy is already a strong indicator in itself. The current state of their NT is also very telling of the current quality available. Very few have actually moved to relevant clubs but in recent times players like Immobile, Darmian, Cerci come to mind. Those were touted as top players in their respective clubs and looked absolutely average. Obviously what I doubt first and foremost is their actual quality. They play in a rather tactical league with restricted setups to maximize strengths, less physically demanding too and slower tempo. Hence my concerns about difficulity transitioning to other leagues and overall quality. The transfer fees regarding english players is a different issue entirely. The money available to english clubs being the main cause. Clubs have the funds available to buy good players elsewhere and stopped developping their own. This in addition to the number of homegrown players required in the squads is mainly what resulted in these insane fees. Though I would like to point out that english squads at youth levels have been doing far better than italians in recent times. the young english generation coming in are some of the best they have ever produced. I would be far more inclined tu buy english talent than italian at the moment.

I don't know him since I barely watch any serie a games but I would be very wary when it comes to italian players. Most of them are overrated and have trouble playing abroad. .

The only way to keep him right now is to force him to stay against his will and pressure Sarri into playing him. Otherwise he's leaving this month. 18 months on his contract is long enough as long as we show him trust. Unlike the KDB situation, he's a chelsea boy.

Most exciting youth product we've had for a long long time and we are on process to sell him. Depressing times.

Sancho is initially a left winger but he's playing on the right for Dortmund and making a reputation for himself. Left or right it's playing minutes and taking chances that matter. Hudson-odoi could very well be playing on the right wing for us but at the moment he's barely playing anywhere. Pulisic is a young inconsistent player. We will have to be patient with him and give him minutes even when he's not performing well. We could do the same with Hudson-Odoi and ease him into the team but instead we're going to place our trust in a 64M player. There is no way whoever is in charge next season will be playing both of them at once.

The player is promising but this is bad news for Hudson-Odoi IMO.

Matt Law only gets informations from the club when they allow it. Which means they probably don't want this story leaked.

Young player is looking the real deal in pre-season and was arguably our best player. Season starts and he gets very limited playing time. Wants out in january. Eventually proceeds to leave for a german club. Sounds familiar.

I'd much rather have Nicolas Pepe if we're looking in ligue 1. Besides, Marseille will not be looking to sell anyway.

Kurzawa is awful, always has been. PSG supporters can't stand him. If we're looking at ligue 1 for LBs, Ferland Mendy is looking incredible for Lyon. It remains to be seen how he would do playing at a higher level week in week out though. In fact if we could raid them for all of N'dombele,Mendy, Aouar, Fekir. I wouldn't mind it at all.

The best thing about his interview is him acknowledging the bad circumstances in which Courtois left and not wanting a repeat of it. Other than that, nothing new. He still doesn't know wether he wants to stay or leave and is being honest about it so that there will be no surprises.

We need to stop fooling ourselves. He's not a manager who likes to promote youth, same thing happened at Napoli. The worst thing about the situation is that our current set of wingers is an issue. Willian and Pedro are old, Eden's contract is almost at an end and Moses clearly has no future at the club. We're lucky enough to have have produced a talent like him at the best time possible, but will somehow mess this up.

Jadon Sancho and Mason Mount are called to play with the senior team of england, while Hudson-Odoi can't get on the bench vs Videoton. If I were him I'd seriously consider leaving. He's talented enough to start for most teams in the EPL.

Slowly losing patience with Sarri regarding mid-week rotation and youth introduction. He just doesn't have it in him. This will cost us points in the EPL and possibly some very talented kids. I hope he proves me wrong but it seems very unlikely.

I think the World Cup gave him a lot of confidence. Proved himself as one of the best players in the world at the biggest stage. He's really a different player now. I think he used to feel inferior or lacked total confidence in his ability because of his past failures at UCL and WC. He probably didn't consider himself to be up there with the very very best until now.

Probably an unpopular oppinion but I think we need Morata in this type of game more than Giroud. He's too slow and lacks mobility which makes our press inefficient. If Hazard didn't suddenly decide to press in this game it would have been close to non-existent. I'm guessing he will come in at the 65+ min.

What worries me the most is Pedro's absence. So far this season, the substitution of a fresh winger coming in (Pedro,Willian,Hazard) proved to be very successful. I fear the lack of a quality attacking player coming on from the bench might be an issue if we're trying to change the course of the game. For that reason alone, I wish Hudson-Odoi was on the list.

Surprised no one posted here yet. I think this was his best performance in a Chelsea shirt so far. He's slowly building confidence and you can see it in his game. Just need him to work on fitness and play a full 90 min.