It's too big

One good game isn't good enough, especially in a game where he was playing vs his old team, so obviously more hyped up to impress. Matic also had good games with us, but he also had more poor games where he let the game pass him by. Football is the long game, so long term Matic won't be a loss. It is only because he has a stand out game vs us that people rave on about him; the same as they do about Lukaku.

Of course missing out on CL we will take a bit of a hit, but we have won the league twice in the last 3/4 seasons. Being based in London and still able to spend large amounts of money, we will still attract good players. Liverpool and Spurs have won nothing since god knows when. We are only behind City and Utd for achievements in the last 5-10 years. If players want to play in the Premier League, it won't matter if we are out of the CL for a season. From the outside looking in, we've only had one bad season and that was under Jose, which was an anomaly. The rest have been successful seasons since 2012 with CL win, EL win, FA Cup, two league titles. I am not trying to be delusional or overly optimistic as I know we may finish outside the top 5, but players don't look at things the way fans do.

The overreaction is a bit silly. We are in the process of rebuilding after losing the old guard. The problem is, supporters are expecting the new signings to come in and make an instant impact when most of them have never played in this league before. Barkley has been out 8 months through injury, so his return isn't going to be swift. Bakayoko and Morata have been hampered with injuries and are in a new league, new country, and still adapting to new tactics/formation etc. Morata, I have faith, will learn to adapt to the Premier League, the same as Bakayoko, but it's not going to be easy. Some players adapt faster. You can go back in PL history to 10/15 years ago and I am sure there would be a big list of the top players who found it difficult initially. I understand the impatience, people are expecting instant results, but sometimes it just doesn't work out that way. People need to be more patient, we are currently going through a transitional period after losing many of our most experienced and key players from the last 5-10 years.

Hazard is worth more to us than £150m imo. In 2 years time he will be 29; by that time we will have had the best of him. Courtois, I dunno what could be done there. Whatever happens, I don't see RM shelling out the money for both of them. I think they will more likely bring in Lewandowski instead of Hazard and maybe buy Courtois or DDG. Who we buy depends, maybe Donnarumma or Oblak, god knows.

It's time for Roman and the board to put their foot down and say "NO" to players who may want to leave. We can easily do a Leicester or Liverpool and refuse their best player to leave. At the end of the day Hazard has two years on his contract and Courtois has another year left. We don't have to give in to a player's demands. Roman is loyal to certain players, yes, but considering the club put their faith in Courtois over Cech, the least we can expect is Courtois to show some loyalty in return.

The thing is, managers very often never go more than 2-3 years, so it doesn't matter who we bring in, their ideas will likely grow tiresome after that time span and we'll need to bring in a new manager. It isn't so much the manager, but Roman needs to decide what kind of football he wants and find a successful coach who can implement that style. After that manager leaves, we can focus on bringing in another coach with a similar mindset who can work with the players we buy. We would need to buy more technically proficient players too, which is welcomed highly by me.

Didn't stand out for me tonight vs Spurs. Sandro is not worth €70m imo. If he didn't play for Juventus i don't think he would get the hype.

We gave Giroud 18 month contract.

He's apparently on €150k a week. That is quite a lot for his age. We could offer 2 years for £100k.

I think it's obvious to see Hudson-Odoi has superior qualities to any of them. He has attributes which make him stand out, for e.g his blistering pace, dribbling, vision, passing, goal scoring ability. As good as our previous academy prospects were, they never had these attributes all at once. At 17 he's won U17 world cup with England, being one of the best players on the field, all at the age of 16 years of age. He turned 17 at the end of the last year and already putting up impressive stats for his age. We will have to get used to it anyway, as if we don't make top four we will be seeing more and more youth, which imo is fine.

Bit harsh mate. He sounded okay when he spoke to Chelsea TV

Not being funny, but Mourinho and Conte's style of football is done in this league I think. Attacking teams are now taking over as the dominant styles in the league, the more defensive oriented are losing steam. We need an attacking style with the players we have, not a defensive one.

That's the thing, I don't much care about headers as it's just as important to score with the feet. Dzeko would probably be better in this aspect, however I am not feeling that confident Chelsea will get Dzeko so...

It's nothing to do with that. We have a policy of 1 year contracts to over 30's. It's there for a reason. Dzeko either accepts the deal with an extension or stays at a struggling Roma.

I would like this to happen, but Dzeko wants a long ass deal and he's nearly 32. It means keeping him at the club until he's 36. Fabregas and the rest will want longer deals too if we make a precedent for Dzeko. As much as it would be good to have him at the club, the club's policy is there for a reason. People need to understand that.

Is Giroud better than Dzeko? Unless this is a loan I don't see the point in a transfer as he is also over 30.

It's easy to say that, but Juventus were not willing to let go of Sandro. He just came off a great season where he was one of their best players. Nobody knew he would have a sub-par season like this one. City bought Mendy who has missed half the season and is still unproven, and Danilo is average. Walker is a good wingback, but I don't believe he was worth the money City paid for him. I think Zappacosta has actually looked good when he's played, barring the initial couple of appearances.

Who?

I would rather have a self sustaining club than having to rely on Roman for every purchase. There's a reason why we're signing big deals and building a new stadium. City already have a good size stadium, but also they didn't miss out on CL money from last season.

Signing Hazard was good, but he hardly took us to the next level like a Neymar or the like would have done. For the most part it was bringing in Costa and Fabregas which took us up a level.

Palmieri I know nothing about.

How good is Kurzawa?

Hope so, style of play and tactics are dreadful.

Haven't seen the game, but has the ref been bad or players diving?

Need to be out this competition, nothing but a waste of energy with our squad size.