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Lampard explains new Chelsea role for ‘driver’ Jorginho https://www.football365.com/news/lampard-explains-new-chelsea-role-for-driver-jorginho Chelsea boss Frank Lampard has praised the influence of midfielder Jorginho on and off the pitch and has confirmed that the Italian is the club’s vice-captain. Jorginho was widely criticised under Maurizio Sarri last season but his fine displays this season are beginning to win over the fans. Lampard has been hugely impressed with the £52million man and believes he is key to the Blues on the pitch, as well as being an important presence behind the scenes. Asked if the 27-year-old has now assumed the role of vice-captain, Lampard said: “Yes, Jorginho is vice-captain as it stands. “Azpi [Azpilicueta] is captain, that was clear at the start of the season, and I think his professionalism and his career here speaks for itself. “And Jorginho, I keep talking about him as a character, and he’s a driver. I think it’s very evident to see on the pitch. So that’s the situation as it stands.’ On how quickly Jorginho has learnt English, Lampard continued: “It’s obviously important. I think we always try here to push that along as soon as players come in because communication is key, on and off the pitch, in the dressing room. “He crosses the borders, if there are any. It’s easy to come in and stay within your groups and nationalities, and Jorginho doesn’t. He’s a driver, on and off the pitch.” snip

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Baker is starting for Fortuna Düsseldorf tonight in the Hertha Berlin game he should have earned a pen when he was chopped down in the box probably their best player do far Dušan Tadić already has 8 goals and 10 assists for Ajax this year so an insane 48 goals and 34 assists in the last 1 and a quarter or so seasons that is indeed Messi-like numbers granted, against lesser competition for a lot of those games

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2 1 Dilrosun with a super super goal he looks a live wire had an amazing run before that too, but missed the shot

1 1 Vedad Ibisevic

Fortuna Düsseldorf do have a great old manager, Friedhelm Funkel, tonight's game is his 500th in the Bundesliga

lol nil 1 on a pen and FD got fucked on another pen that was not called (Lewis Baker was hacked in the box) so it actually should be nil 2 Hertha look horrid on defence

Fortuna Düsseldorf have CMF Lewis Baker from us CB Kasim Adams is decent the yank Zack Steffen is an oki GK and not much else, they have a really shit squad, also very old shocking how little they have done in the market to improve, they have the cash

they also have a lot of talent on the bench AMF Ondrej Duda RW Dodi Lukebakio (they bought him from Watford for £18m) CF Davie Selke and CB Jordan Torunarigha (22yo 1.91m) starters who are decent are CB Niklas Stark (German International) CMF Marko Grujic and RW Marius Wolf (on loan from Borussia Dortmund) '

LW Javairô Dilrosun for Hertha, 21yo, is worth a watch their best player, 20yo DMF Arne Maier, is still out injured

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well fuck we are cursed

people are probably going to lose their minds over this, but maybe we should loan Pulisic out to another EPL club (one where he is starting every or most games) for the 2nd half of the season then take a season-end reconnoitre and perhaps loan him out again or maybe even sell him with a buy-back clause (would much prefer a loan) Crystal Palace would be perfect London, not a threat, and they have SHIT for wingers other than Zaha, plus Roy is a good teacher and a grandfatherly type who can help Puli with his confidence

I will tell you the two teams laughing all the way to the bank off just 3 players Dortmund and Lille over a quarter of billion pounds for Pepe, Puli, and Dembele all three who have been busts so far

my post was about Mount I do not think it fair to toss Mount in as a potential block to Pulisic at winger yes, it is my opinion, but if we are going to ramrod in Mount as simply a winger for years, we are wasting the lad's talents my entire thoughts on Pulisic from the beginning was that he was a cynical marketing ploy buy I am on record here saying that multiple times I painstakingly went through and showed his lack of production, for the most part, at Dortmund, especially in terms of goals scored I am willing to go out on a limb, as I did back then, and call it a poor buy, at least so far I DO hope he comes good and proves me wrong, I truly do Also, now that we DID shit out £58m on him, we damn well had better try and play him a lot more than he is getting of late, especially in Euro games and cup ties again, my opinion, but it is madness to not even dress him for the Lille game and to carry THREE strikers on the match day squad (when we only play one at a time in the formations Lamps seems to have settled upon)

Malen actually has 25 goals and 10 assists in around 2400 total minutes over the past two seasons in top flight football, including Europe (CL and EL). He is tearing shit up at 19 and 20 years of age that rate translates out to around 40 goals and 15 assists over a full seasons minutes, all comps let's see if he can keep up that rate

that is a logical fallacy it is called appeal to authority you also posit a false dichotomy (ie that they are either (1) frauds OR (2) the posters here do not understand the game well) when there are far more than 2 simple binary options in terms of structural explanations so overall a shoddy attempt to try and belittle the posters here I rate it a FAIL

if you have issues with "fly over people's head" then take it up with the person that said it not me

do your maths buy him in summer 2020 (he will be 27) he turns 28 in March of the 2020-21 season (ie next season) turns 29 in the 2021-22 season so only 2 full sub 30yo seasons pass

I second this NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

pass, we would only get two full sub 30yo seasons out of him I am done with buying older players with short peak windows left

too harsh on AC IMHO he has been really good this year

I can get behind this if we do not make a move for Ibrahima Konaté