MrExcalibur100

Hazard can't shoot as well as Pedro does so doesn't take as many shots and taking shots just for the sake of it instead of applying his quality to the team (as thankfully he does) won't make us better as a team. No one gives a fuck is Hazard is not satisfying your outrageous demands at this point. 2 league titles in 3 years. Best player on both title winning teams. Chelsea legend already. Loyal. What the fuck else do you want from one man? He dribbles past 4 players and then doesn't score a 25 yard screamer afterwards? Do you know how ridiculous you sound? Make up your mind, if Hazard is helping us win titles, I don't give a fuck if he isn't firing at will from 25 yards.

Even when it opens for him to shoot it's still a bad idea because his long range shooting is not that good. So why even mention it in *that* instance? What the fuck are you on about here. See this is the problem Zakhov.The bolded part is video game esque ignorance with all due respect mate. Do you know how extraordinary it is to have the ability to dribble past 3 or 4 players consistently within a single stride? Then you expect him to get the ball out of his feet so quickly and then have an accurate shot on goal. That's lunacy. Nobody can do that in football. Not in the history of football. Except maybe Messi. Very few players in the history of football possess the talent Hazard does. Stop complaining about what you think he isn't doing right (which is mostly unfounded). Can he be more selfish sometimes, yes. But lets focus on what can make us better as a team not what you think *might* make Hazard a better player and it won't since his long range shooting is not great (except when he's running with the ball from certain angles).

You're taking shit because Pedro is actually better than Hazard at shooting. Much better. It's like wondering why Pedro can't dribble past 4 or 5 players at once like Hazard can. It's a moot point to make at this point to anyone with even an oata of common sense. Hazard can be unselfish sometimes (that is hardly saying anything revolutionary) but criticizing him for it in that instance he chooses not to shoot on sight is stupid. He had jus had a dribbling moment and the ball was probably still stuck under his foot. If he shot from there it will most likely have gone way over the bar. Congratulations for turning the Hazard page into why didn't he shoot on one occassion (after he just recovered from a fucking leg break no less).

It's not good. The long range goals he's scores are either speculative (Stoke away with his left foot, Hull away) or when he was running from certain angles (Hull City away 2013/14, goal vs Burnley, vs Hungary at Euros) Believe me I know what I'm talking about. That is by far the weakest part of his game followed by his corner kicks). Seriously he's played about 250 games for us already. This should be obvious.

Very solid all round display. I love his composure with the ball at his feet. It still remains to be seen how it will work when Conte wants to play a 3-4-3 and everyone is fit. Will he play Bakayoko-Kante there without Fabregas? Where will creativity come from central areas. We shouldn't have to rely on Hazard, Pedro/Willian to do everything.

I thought he was the Man of the Match today. Superb striker performance considering how much he was isolated up front with that 3-5-1-1 formation. His style of play and technical quality is so much in sync with the way we play and with our other players. So much more pleasing to the eye than Costa's street-fighter style and arguably even more effective. It was all what we say from him in Madrid and Juve but it's nice to actually see it for us on the pitch. He's going to have a lot of fun with Eden, Willian, Pedro and Cesc this season. A lot.

Shut up. Please just stop it. He could have had 2 assists in 10 mins after breaking his ankle. Get real and stop moaning like a child because Hazard is not a perfect player. Who is, every player has flaws. This isn't FIFA or some video game, it's real life. Hazard rarely shoots from long range because his long range shooting is not that good. It's common sense. Seriously, some of you have serious issues.

That's been the case since the 2014-15 season when he announced himself as the best player in the league and one of the world's best players. I've always felt in comparison to other top European football countries, Chelsea and English football excluding maybe United done a poor job of marketing their star players but that tide seems to be turning. Dope video. I know Hazard likes French rap a lot. Even though I don't understand it, sounds like actual Hip-Hop not the ringtone rap garbage.

He's not brainless. He statistically creates a lot of chances for teammates and has improved on his end product. He's just not that good and hasn't taken his game to the next level as I thought he could. There's a difference between being "brainless" (whatever that means) and not that good.

He's not even fit to lace Willian or Pedro's boots.

So what if they can be starters?! That's not the point. The point is several of our Champions League rivals (and I use the word rivals very loosely) have players on their bench better than half our prospective starting XI. Now that's just embarrassing. What's our ambitition? If it's to scrape top 4 and bow out in the last 16 of the CL then okay, but our insane board expect Conte to retain the fucking title and compete seriously in the CL and if he doesn't, Roman starts visiting training and pressurizing the manager with the sack. That's my whole issue with this shite 2017 transfer market of ours.

Renato Sanches, Bonucci. It's laughable when you actually start to think of the many failures. All these names are better than what we've got and would have brought some excitement

It's just laughable how some posters are now happily stating we had a "solid" market. Just like we had in 2015/16? We never learn and we're now happy to settle for mediocrity. Good luck ever aspiring to be even close to the level of the likes of Madrid, Bayern and Barcelona. As it stands, we're just another overrated English team. Anyway goodnight everyone.

Zappacosta, Drinkwater, Rudiger......... We wanted world class signings to build on the GIFT title that Antonio won for us after a season from hell and that is how our board repay him? Remember salivating at the prospect of Alexis Sanchez, Sandro and Griezmann. Even Tolisso and Danilo. This is how our board chooses to repay him? What do they expect him to accomplish this season? All very strange.

The funny thing is you actually think I take you comments seriously. Hilarious!

This is our fucking squad going into a Premiership Title defense, Champions league and 2 cup competitions. Look at how light it is. No real improvements. Horrible, god-awful window. We have a bunch of rookies running our club. Total shambles.

Happens, no?

Merson on SSN concerning Barkley : "You can't live in Liverpool all your life"

Seriously what the fuck is going on????

I don't get why Barkley is rejecting us though. He has his problems but he's still a really talented player and he also has an opportunity to start. Conte could have turned him into something special. What an idiot.

Marina is an amateur. She needs to be sacked ASAP. Totally out of her depth. But she won't because she's a sock puppet of Roman, one of his proxy pawns in our board. I can't remember the last time we had so many problems signing players and this isn't a recent trend either.

More woeful failures in the transfer market

We could have gotten him on loan and convinced him to sign permanently as I'm sure he will have loved it here. This transfer market has been a total failure, complete embarrassment for us. Totally ridiculous.

He looked sharp today. It wasn't easy for him initially to get in the game because of all the long balls and poor technique of some of our kids. We grew ino the game and Hazard began taking people on without any fear of being tackled is a positive sign after a fracture. Could easily have had a goal and an assist and should have been given a penalty for a foul in the box. When he returns, he would not need a lot of time to get back to his stride. Overall good B+ performance from Eden.