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My version of the answer is easier to say but more complicated to assess than a straightforward count of goals and assists. Rom simply needs to make us a better side.

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Sheva was, as I said after watching him at World Cup 06, absolutely finished when we bought him. The phrase I used at the time was that, "He had nothing to offer us." The same was true of Torres who I never rated at all, even when he was scoring goals for Liverpool. Irrespective of that temporary success he was a fundamentally limited player. If Eden was an if then every player we ever signed was an "if." There are ifs everywhere but there really shouldn't be one in the argument you make about buying a 100,000,000 player. Let's hope TT was the one making that argument and let's hope that he at least has no doubts.

This was before ManU decided Rom wasn't good enough for them. It also predates the time many posters here point to as the period when Rom made his supposed improvement at Inter. I believe Rom will score goals and I believe he will also frustrate us. Let's hope there are enough of the goals to keep the frustration from boiling over. Meanwhile I simply am not excited about this move and I would be lying if I pretended otherwise.

If we're going down that track then Barella makes three.

Yes, a second Super Cup win would be am encouraging curtain raiser for the season.

Stats are tough. Very tough. They have to be assessed in context and giving the correct weight to that context brings you right back to judgement calls. Without considering stats alongside 'the eye test' they can deceive but then without considering it alongside a player's statistics the eye test can let you down too. In the end passing the eye test gets you the gig but you have to churn out stats to keep it. It's clear that TT isn't sold on what he sees from Tammy and nor, it seems, is any rival manager sufficiently impressed to push his club into meeting Chelsea's valuation. It's a catch-22 for our number 9. No one is impressed enough by what they see to give him a chance to pad his stats and, as they stand, his numbers aren't enough to overcome people's doubts. The solution depends on finding the right balance between a manager's faith in Tammy's ability to help his team, and Chelsea's expectations about the lad's transfer fee. Inevitably that means any move will take Tammy down a level. After that it's a question of whether or not he works his way back up again. Despite the continued doubts of many, including me, this is what Romelu Lukaku has done so there's the example for Tammy to follow.

I really hope that the consequences of stupidities like these will force football to wake up at long last.

So bad.

Is this real or might this be Barca holding a gun to La Liga's head and asking are you really prepared to loose the jewel in your crown or can we push you into blinking?

#Two Toni Rudigers# #There's only two Toni Rudigers# #Two Toni Ruuud-i-gers# #There's only two Toni Ruuud-i-gers#

Yes I am telling you this. SFL is an extremely intelligent man who made the absolute most of his abilities but, for example, he did not strike a ball with same timing that Gerrard did. This isn't to say that Frank didn't sometimes get it right and Gerrard sometimes get it wrong. If I need someone to score the goal Gerrard did against West Ham in Cardiff however I'd call the Liverpool man. Some things you can learn but some you can't. I think the very fact coach and player are still having to work on this nine years after I made the point that it would remain a problem shows that I was right. What's Rom going to have learned in the last 12 months that he didn't learn in the previous 108? It won't surprise you to read that I don't consider myself to be naive. Anything can be worked on but not everything can be fixed. Believing that would indeed be naive.

I've picked out this sentence to respond to before reading the rest of your post. I'll read on shortly. I'll respond by asking the same question that I asked in 2011 when this point was made. If what you say is correct then why don't all players simply practice until they are Lionel Messi? The reality is that there is an underlying level of talent which underpins and anchors what a footballer can do. Based on how hard they work and how well they apply lessons learned, players can force themselves to the top of their talent group, or slide towards the bottom of it, but they won't jump groups. Hakim Ziyech is a talented footballer but no amount of extra work after training is going to turn him into Zinedine Zidane, never mind Messi or Pele. I said a decade ago that Rom is an intelligent bloke who would learn his lessons well and make the most of what he was given. He has done that. This may make him the best available solution for Chelsea now but he is not one that will satisfy the club's manager for long.

I agree about Mbappe. Looked very worrying indeed. The talent was there but the footballer wasn't. Overplaying and complaining summed him up.

Prime Diego is who I'd like us to sign. Who should we look at to find those qualities?

Of course he is. That is why United weren't too fussed when he left and why, despite posturing to keep his value high, Inter aren't too bothered now either. I believe that Rom is the same player he was when I wrote him off as a Chelsea prospect in 2011. I had endless discussions at the time with people claiming he was young and that his touch would improve. I said then, and believe just as strongly now, that players' innate qualities become fixed and permanent way before the age of 19. Experience and training can teach a player how to make the most of what he has but what he has, his basic talent level, isn't going anywhere at that age. In the winter of 2011 I said that Rom would make a career for himself because some of his attributes are outstanding but that he should not be at Chelsea. I claimed that any manager of a top level club finding himself with Rom as his first choice striker would soon be looking for an upgrade. So I think it has been and so I think it will be with TT next summer if we sign Rom now. The Belgian will score goals for sure but he will leave everyone feeling that we need more up top. If Rom wants to return it'll be because he feels Inter's less than 100% commitment and because he likes the jingle of the proposed pay packet. It won't be anything to do with him feeling that he has 'unfinished business' with Chelsea. It's far more likely that someone at Chelsea has unfinished business with him.

@MoroccanBlue will have his own ideas in response to this but I base my opinion on the players' characteristics. On that basis I have preferred Mando's Chelsea chances over Tammy's since the former was playing development football and I said so here at the time. Will Broja get the nod from TT? I can't say of course but I'm convinced he has a better chance than Tammy.

Your memory is better than mine because I don't remember ever seeing this. Fair question and fair point but I felt Broja is the better player even before he'd played a single first team minute. I think Mando has better tools and uses them. Whether watching live or on TV he has never disappointed me.

I understand your point but this is all speculation. So many variables that we do not and cannot know. Are City planning to buy both or are they pursuing two understanding that they can only land one? Are both offers purely cash only or will both include one or more player? Both Kane and Grealish really want the moves and are pressing their clubs to release them. Haaland may be more relaxed about Chelsea and so will take a way more expensive personal deal to prise him away from BVB. Etc.

This is clearly true. Dortmund's position is completely transparent but be careful. If @Jas reads it he's likely to reply with some ridiculous gif as if it's a punchy rebuttal.Yes Jas your response when I made the same point a couple of months back irritated the heck out of me and, as you can tell, it still rankles. 🙂 This forum is a place where articulate people debate their opinions. I've read your stuff Jas and this most especially applies to you. Disagree by all means, even when you are as spectacularly wrong as you were in this case, but you have the ability to express yourself man. Any old body can post a gif.

I don't loose any sleep over Marina's work. If you are to be a good negotiator you must establish a reputation for being honest, straightforward, reasoned and firm. That sometimes means walking away from the table if minimum requirements are not met. These requirements are not pulled from thin air either. Rather they are the result of cold calculation. People calling for players to be dumped at low prices recognise that signing them was an error but are arguing that the club compounds that original mistake by making things worse. Agreeing a poor deal now is just throwing good money after bad. You can't fix the mistake you made a few years ago by making another mistake now. In each case the club will consider the pros and cons of any purchase offers versus any loan offers and choose the one which makes better financial sense. We here don't have the numbers so we can't judge. We can complain but in doing so we simply advertise the fact that we don't know what we're talking about. As for the impact of having these players around the squad, this is virtually never a problem. If a suitable sale can't be found they almost always go on loan. They therefore don't bother Thomas Tuchel and they don't bother the players who are staying. That means they don't bother me and hopefully they won't bother you either.

I'm with you but you have the first and last words the wrong way around. Your post should start with 'Too' and end with 'to'. I realise that you copied 'To stingy' from the post you replied to but two wrong 'to's don't make a 'too'. 🙂

Dear Luca & Harry, If you think you have a deal with Daniel Levy, but it isn't unambiguously written down, signed and witnessed, then feel free to think whatever you want. Just don't be surprised when the alarm wakes you up and it's time to get ready for work. Regards,

I would say that you are a bit more generous towards Camavinga than I am. Others, yourself included, would probably say you are just more realistic to make allowance for his age. Either way I don't believe in Camavinga any more than you do.

I agree that if comparing playing styles there is more similarity between Lewis & Kova than there is between Lewis & Billy.