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He was a far better player pre Roma injury, he has most definitely lost a step and is less explosive, and I did not want him here, as I had suspicion he would be like Zouma, perma damaged, as they had similar knee injuries. I was ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL the way in for Alex Sandro back then. I was just sickened that we never got him after 3, 4 tries. The other one that just hurt so much on the multiple fail ront was Nainggolan, and also Koulibaly. Those 3, plus KdB sale are the worst memories I have of the last 5 years in market, plus the Drinkwater buy. Bakayoko (even though I so so wanted Bernardo more) I was actually bit excited about. as I thought we would also get Thomas Lemar as well, as that was what Baka was saying (Agent Baka, lol) I still cannot believe he is such a poor player, he truly looked the dog bollocks (and against some great teams) at Monaco

and except for almost no goals if you pull Barks and RLC to the bench.. We simply have to get goals from our MF, as we are so crippled at 2 of our 3 front positions. I just do not see it working out for Kante, UNLESS we went to that other formation OR we buy Icardi or Dybala (or some other monster goal scoring CF) AND keep Hazard and get a monster RW. Get those 2 pieces to the puzzle the pressure is off the MF. Our board is probably not going to do it. I think we sit pat this January, even on a new striker, unless we can get some sort of serious price break from someone . Maybe, MAYBE, if we are lucky we nip Suso from AC Milan for RW (which would help a shit tonne), but I think we trod on with Willian and Pedro and leave it to Sarri to will goals out of Morata and Giroud. I honestly think the board thinks that all our starters are basically in the area of being so good we cant improve on them, including Morata. Certainly they look at shit Willian, dodgy defending Luiz, slow as fuck Alonso, and no-go for offo Azpi as being top 2 or 3 in their positions in the world. Sarri does too, for Alonso at least. The board refuses to sell deadwood, yet also refuse to admit mistakes and to buy better players, PLUS are paralysed with fear or wilful ignorance about Hazard potentially leaving. Same for CHO (and THAT is REALLY on Sarri). I will never forgive him if CHO leaves and then goes Sancho-Nova at another club. We are running on an incredibly string of luck all year so far. That shit is bound to end, and when it does, the train wreck may be worse than the normalcy bias crew can wrap their heads around.

If we get Kovacic on a perm basis, dont see the reason for getting him either, unless we sell Kante too. Obviousy Drinkwater, Moses, Bakadonkeyoko and Cesc need to go too, so Ramsey would be more than likely Kova's backup in the role Kante now fills (and isnt doing a good enough job).

His greatest moment as manager Chelsea - Liverpool. FA Cup-1977/78 (4-2) Victimpool were reigning European champions

Kante cannot be the DL PM DMF, you are correct, but that's not where the issue is. Kovacic would be the superior player IMHO where Kante is now, with Barkley or RLC playing the AMF role. The strongest possible team we can put out now IMHO is GK Kepa CB Rudiger CB Amapdu (when healthy, otherwise have to suffer with Luiz, who was exposed again tonight multiple times) LB Alonso (because Emerson is just not good enough and this is also why, due to Alonso's lack of pace we need Ampadu in as the other CB as Luiz is no longer that fast) RB Azpi DHDMF Jorginho CMF Hybrid B to B Kovacic AMF Barkley LW Hazard RW Pedro CF Giroud the best way to fit Kante in is to do to a back 3 (Azpi, Ampadu, Rudiger, with Amps in the middle) then Kante as a floating destroyer BUT still keep the 3 man MF in same roles and same 3 at the front 3-1-3-3 with the 1 being Kante flying like a wasp on turbo all over the back third Kante and the CB's still immediately get the ball to Jorginho to put Sarriball offence in motion Kante floats and wins balls back and helps support the back 3 no fullbacks are needed, and Azpi is a great CB, so BYE BYE turtle Alonso (unless you want to give him a shot at striker, lolol)

Ridiculous CHO has 1 game, 30 minutes ALL YEAR so far! Teenagers starting or getting significant minutes at big or pretty big clubs (some are simply so good now that I list them even though not at a huge club, as they would still be getting big minutes at a bigger club) GK Gianluigi Donnarumma AC Milan (for years now) GK Alban Lafont Fiorentina (for 4 years now) CB Boubacar Kamara at Marseilles CB Matthijs de Ligt at Ajax multi year starter as a teen, WC, top 10 CB already CB/DMF Declan Rice at West Ham CB Malang Sarr Nice (for years now) CB Ibrahima Konaté RB Leipzig CB Dan-Axel Zagadou at Dortmund RB Trent Alexander-Arnold Victimpool (just turned 20, but started as teenager) RB Achraf Hakimi at Dortmund (best under 20yo RB in world, has exploded this year) RB Diogo Dalot at Manure (started 2 of his 5 games as well, and would have more, but he was injured for first 2 months) DMF Arne Maier Hertha Berlin (tonnes of starts) DMF Dennis Geiger at Hoffenheim (31 starts, including CL) CMF Houssem Aouar at Lyon (close to WC already) CMF Amadou Haidara at RB Salzburg (deep run in EL as a teen) CMF Christopher Nkunku at PSG over 60 games as a teen, over 20 as a starter AT PSG CMF Phil Foden at Shitty CMF Mattéo Guendouzi at Arse CMF Tom Davies at Everton CMF Weston McKennie at Schalke, started on a team that captured a CL place CMF Fran Beltrán at Celta Vigo RMF Abdülkadir Ömür at our new sister club Trabzonspor (he was a starter at 17) LMF/LW/LB Ryan Sessegnon at Fullham AMF Nicolò Zaniolo at Roma AMF/SS João Félix at Benfica LW Jadon Sancho at Borrusia Dortmund turned 18 a few months back, already starting and one of hottest players in world football LW Rodrygo at Real Madrid (in January) £41m for a 17yo LW Vinícius Júnior at Real Madrid £42m for a 18yo 7 games, 2 starts 4 goals, 2 assists LW Paulinho at Bayer Leverkusen £23m for a 17yo 7 games 3 starts LW Justin Kluivert at Roma multiple starts as 19yo LW Willem Geubbels at Monaco (started a game as a 17yo, injured now, back soon) LW Alphonso Davies at Vancouver (full time starter at 17) LW Jacob Bruun Larsen at Borrussia Dortmund 20 games, 10 goals 6 assists as a teen part-time starter LW Ismaïla Sarr at Stade Rennais in Ligue 1 27 games, 5 goals, 9 assists as part time teen starter RW Kylian Mbappé PSG RW Moussa Diaby PSG BEHIND MBAPPE but STILL 8 games , including 2 starts 2 goals 3 assists as a teen RW Christian Pulisic at Borrussia Dortmund full-time starter as a teen for a team sitting on top in the Bundesliga RW Reiss Nelson at Hoffenheim part-time starts as a teen for a CL club RW Ferrán Torres at Valencia 18yo 6 games already including 2 starts, one of them La Liga RW Yann Karamoh at Inter had 18 games including multiple starts as a teen, played 35 games the year before as a part-time starter (in Ligue 1) at 17 and 18yo CF Luka Jovic at Eintracht Frankfurt part-time starter as a teen CF Patrick Cutrone at AC Milan part-time starter as a teen CF Myziane Maolida at Nice, teenage starter CF Matheus Cunha at RB Leipzig, teenage starter CF Timothy Weah at PSG, 18yo, 3 games 1 start, 2 goals CF Moussa Sylla at Monaco, part time starter since 17 CF Jann-Fiete Arp at Hamburg part-time starter since 17 CF Moise Kean at Juventus, dozens of games as a teen there and on loan to Serie A Hellas Verona CF Pietro Pellegri at Monaco part time starter at Genoa since 15, now at Monaco as a 17yo

To replace Neymar, who is Real bound (or maybe back to Barca) Jesus Christ, they go from strength to strength. I am sure they go after Dybala or Icardi or both too with the Neymar quid. SMS is in the mix too, along with Neves and Frenkie de Jong. Maybe even take a stab at de Ligt at CB (they would sell Marquinhos or more likely Presnel Kimpembe plus Draxler and ageing Cavani). Talk about buying a CL!!!

Tweeks yes, at times BUT We just flat out need better, younger players NO CHANCE we roll forward over next 2,3 years as a top 10, let alone top 5 club in world with: Luiz (and other than Ampadu, bad backups backup to Rudiger) Azpi (sorry he just isnt a Sarriball RB atm, he simply has to turn it around) Zappacosta is just not good enough Current backup options at DH DMF (buy Tonali!!!) as Jorginho cannot play every minute of every game and Cesc is a spent force Alonso (Sarri is insane to call him on verge of being best LB in world) Emerson doesn't look like the answer either CMF/B to B hybrid options if we lose Kovacic (as a non-adapting, out of position Kante is looking more and more like not the answer) Current options at AMF if Barkley is injured Willian RW (shambolic!!!) Pedro is soon simply too old and frail LW could be a true nightmare soon, if both Eden and CHO walk Centre Forward (worse shape than RW!) and finally truly massive amount of deadwood on the books, draining us badly and losing value daily

and Patrick Kluivert wasn't even listed, lolol

Aaron Wan-Bissaka v Alonso super worries me. He has insane pace.

Palace are playing like shit at least. last 5 games 4 losses and a draw

We have Bournemouth at home in quarter finals

lolol, yes, literally

I will rephrase, I cannot vote any of our on field players (playing for CFC tonight) as worthy of MOTM. Our 2 loanees were good except fot that horrific own goal. For actual Derby players that have nothing to do with CFC, I would go for Lawrence for MOTM.

Oh, for Derby I would go for Lawrence. He was a menace most of the game. Ripped us up.

TIRED and/or OLD and/or non confident team Derby comprehensively outplayed us, they are super unlucky to not walk out winners

this is the worst I have seen us play all year. The lack of effort on defence is very worrisome, most of our players are simply being beat to every ball or certainly most. Cahill and Cesc are 100000000% shot, they are slower than most of the Derby players. I refuse to pick MOTM there has been no good player for us, Willian has reverted back to shit even on the LW Kovavcic and RLC (out of position even) are only remotely oki performances

No CHO yet again This is also killing his development. Its madness that other big clubs seem to to get their youngsters at least SOME time and we don't give them a sniff. It also puts our starters at risk of injury and grinds them down further due to massive minutes.

Kante has been basically invisible Everyone rants about how he needs to be on for defence, well I havent seen shit

Its madness, he is burning up our future with POOR player management

Look at who stayed on!!!! Would you be happy?

LUIZ burnt again, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr just when I am so trying to have faith on him, he does this shit

UNREAL Sarri puts on Pedro (who gets injured by a gust of wind) OVER CHO and fucking pulls AC and leaves CAHILL ON!!!!!!!!! I am fucking PISSSSSSED

I dont care if we have to pick up partial wages, but can we PLEASE BIN DONKEYWATER!!! And Baka and Moses and Cahill, FFS!!!!!

Same here. I asked my father on Skype and he said Doug Rougvie's nickname was Thug Rougvie, lolol.