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It is not a problem. This is why you have different players in the squad, to give balance and not be one-dimensional. I feel Pedro compensates what Eden lacks very well and Eden compensates what Pedro lacks. This is one of the reasons why we have been so good this season going forward as opposed to when Hazard and Willian were playing together. Hazard is or at least should be a central player like he prefers and like he has been this season. He is more a playmaker than a runner and scorer, every Chelsea fan should have figured it out by now. If you force Hazard to be something he is not you take away the positives from his game (see last season for reference).
And people saying he would never play a ball like Neymar yesterday and other shit should get a grip. Unprovoked negativity, Hazard had absolutely nothing to do with yesterday's game yet he's still brought up over here in bad light. It's alarming to me that you rate our star player so poorly that you bash him every time you get a stiff one on something somebody else in some other team does. Would Neymar have scored THAT goal against Arsenal? Let's think about that for a second. Sometimes I get these evil thoughts and wish he would just go, so I could read those same people crying and moaning like always. You lot deserve Kalouda.

I dont remember you (or anyone else) saying that about Kante when we were on 13 match win streak. 
However now after average game or two, all the doubters are coming back. Its a knee jerk reaction and a bad one.
Im all for listening peoples opinions and make conversation etc, but when peoples opinions change as the wind goes, and making conclusions when someone is doing well, he is best player in the world, then when he has poor game, suddenly some get idea that he should be replaced eventualy. And we all know same people wont be saying that when he puts few worldie performances again, which he definately will. 
Eden, Costa, Kante, Azpi are arguably best buys we made in past years and sure they will have bad games. Every player has bad games. But that doesnt mean they are not good enough and need to be replaced eventualy. 
And for your info, Kante lost like 4 games since he came to PL, I dont know what you call consistent, but he is as consistent as it goes (and yes, he played well against big sides too).
And to continue about Kante, he is primarly a defensive mid. He can act as b2b, but his first task is to break attacks, intercept and tackle and he is nearly world class at that. He is not Pirlo, so I dont expect him to have such technique, then again his passing in general has been very very good. 
I wonder what you would say about someone like Makelele if he was here now.
 

Im all in for people saying their opinions but there needs to be a level.
Saying Kante aint good enough for our side is like saying Messi will never be as good as Kalou. 
My point is, its ok to have your opinion, but never go full retard.

This forum has gone down the drain with some of the people that post on here. Can't even properly discuss football on here anymore. 
Has one bad game, and gets called out on here. Piss off. Don't come back here and post that garbage. His short passing has been the best in the team by far over the course of the whole season.
Need to start banning people that post garbage on here. 

Life at TC after a loss, doesn't surprise me anymore. Let them vent, next game we win with him beasting he will be underrated instead of overrated again.

Yeah, he's been quiet, average, rubbish, shit or whatever you want to call him. But to be honest, I wouldn't blame him. Why even bother when you know your shit defence will just ruin all the good work? Before we could begin today, you already had an idiot committing suicide and giving a goal away.

But guys, Willian was Chelsea's player of the Season last year! 
I cannot stand Willian's non-contributions in attack. He's simply allergic to scoring any open play goal, and constantly hiding with the types of runs he makes to avoid putting himself in goal-scoring opportunities. 
Like I was saying all summer, Upgrade needed. 
EDIT: The prosecution rests it's case. 

Id still keep him. The one that had to be sold was Willian, I was saying it for the longest. And now people are realizing how average he was. 
Willian hit his peek, Hazard has more to give. 
Granted we are over relying on him, because if he don't perform we don't do much. 

And I wish for a good corner from willian. Not happening

No he's not. He's just not the new Messi people envisioned he'd be. You can't fault a player for failing to meet the expectations you projected on him.
Hazard has a couple of bad games and it's the end of the world. He's not reaching his potential, he lacks the hunger of a top player, he doesn't care enough, blah blah blah. The likes of Neymar, Reus, Bale, Sanchez, De Bruyne etc. go through bad spells as well. Whether that's a couple of consecutive games or (much) longer. I remember how Neymar was dominating in the first half of 15/16. He was a force and he was looking like a Ballon D'or winner. The level he reached in the 2nd half of the season was well below that though and no one is talking about him being the best player around anymore . It's completely normal. You can't perform at top level every game. Even Messi and Ronaldo can't do it but they can masque performances with goals (that's what makes them freaks) and the perpetual hype train makes sure poor performances are quickly forgotten.
And Hazard has it worse by being surrounded decent attacking players and without the support of an offensively capable fullback. Chelsea is still rebuilding as well because the foundation of the team has been exposed.
People seriously need a reality check. Two average games. What a disaster... He can't win games on his own. Pass the ball to Eden and let him do everything is not a sound gameplan.  I'm not saying you can't criticise him but don't tell me he's not a top player.

Go retire ffs

Offers nothing at all. If Conte just wants players to run; we're fucked against anyone with a bit if quality.

Typical Oscar performance: run around like a headless chicken and contribute absolutely nothing. Outplayed by every single Liverpool midfielder? Would he make their team? Of course not.
But Conte's a fan so heyho. Have to watch this joke for another year.

Same old, same old. Can't beat his marker, and when he does, best believe that cross is hitting the first man. 

He hasn't even kicked a ball yet for us and you guys are moaning. 
Just remember who we currently have at RB. Moving Azpi over there alone would be a huge upgrade and if Alonso can become a consistently good (doesn't even need to be great) LB that can link up with Hazard and put in dangerous crosses our team is much better.
Wait until he makes a handful of appearances before we start shitting on him.

He is better than Cahill and Terry... Some of you are acting as if we downgraded our defence. 
He is a different type of CB. A flashy one. One with a whole lot of skill. All his mistakes were overblown when he played here, and I'm sure that won't change now that he is here again. His positioning is lazy at times, but he is a tough player along with the fact he is so skilled. He gives us pace up the back as well which is something we needed. 
 
For all the talk of his mistakes, I really don't think he makes any more than someone like Cahill or Kompany in recent years. 

Mourinho axed, Luiz returns. For me it doesn't get better than this.
Relation between Mourinho and Luiz was far from good. I think Jose was the reason why Luiz celebrated against us in that CL game. Luiz even said for french press about Mourinho that "he might be special for you, but not for me". Luiz never looked really happy in french league. Things are normal now: Luiz a Chelsea player, and United with a successful but annoying manager that you would love to defeat.

Might be controversial but he wasn't that good against West Ham. But it's Oscar and the expectations are so low it's understandable.

I hope he'll shut a lot of mouths this season. I can't believe the amount of criticism he's gotten from Chelsea fans in a season were most of our players underperformed. You'll think a player like Matic will at least get the benefit of the doubt from some of his past performances. It wasn't that long ago he was arguably our 2nd best player behind Hazard. 

Drogba-esque lay down for Costa, just brilliant. I believe he can become a really great player for the club.

some of the posters here are downright embarrassing... it's like our board is an embarrassment for not throwing an extra 20M straight away when a bid is rejected. Some of the spoiled fans here are a bad look for our club, sad..


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So he is having a medical at Schalke now with a view to a season long loan. Now, I now he did not exactly catch everyone's eye but I think this is stupid from our POV. He is our only natural attacking fullback. Unless we have a replacement in store, this bemuses me but Chelsea being Chelsea, shouldn't really. He is only 22 and was in a very poor team last season but you could see last season that he was very good offensively and I am surprised Conte did not want to work with him this season as I genuinely believe he could have improved him.
Seriously, if this means we are going to keep seeing Azpi at LB, I am going to do my head in. Yesterday showed how much of a bonus it is for when you actually have attacking full backs (Marcelo). Had enough of this inverse full back rubbish. Why do we pay big money for young players then when they don't perform to high standards we give up? That is why you have to work with young players and bide your time with them. This is a huge problem with the club.

It's quite simple you know, just breathe, relax, and take it in. The club want to win as much as you do. Collectively their decision makers know everything you do about football and almost certainly more. In addition they have experience handling transfer activity, they know the people with whom they are dealing and, crucially, they know the resources they have to play with. You have none of this experience or knowledge yet you rant away.
This summer's transfer activity has already yielded a player who will improve us by the way.

Must be the only one who likes it when a player is actually saying what's on his mind. The political correctness and soulles robots bore me to tears, which is why I haven't watched player interviews in a looong time.

We need to sell different players first imo. Cesc isn't one of our biggest problems.