NikkiCFC

Embarrassing behavior from Barca and LaLiga. Messi did so much that they should do whatever he asks. Real acted like real gentlemen when Ronaldo left for Juve. Barca should do the same. Some symbolic figure like 100m should be enough.

Ok so no national team games this time... Frank will still have some solid group to work with during the internationals... Why cant he just test negative instead of doing quarantine for 14 days? And start training with the team...

I think if we buy Rice he would play as DM next season. Havertz 189cm, Rice 185cm and Silva 183cm would be our 3 tallest players if he plays CB.

Doherty 186cm RB/RWB this is solid start. And now rumors that he wants Diego Costa as Kane backup. Not sure if they do that Skriniar-Ndombele swap but after that they would only need LB. Tagliafico would be great.

Delete! New Tottenham signing Matt Doherty hilariously gets rid of old tweets revealing him to be a 'HUGE Arsenal fan' after £15m move to north London rivals https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8678755/Tottenham-signing-Matt-Doherty-looks-guilty-deletes-tweets-revealing-HUGE-Arsenal-fan.html

'From the next season there is no excuse, we HAVE to fight for the title': Nemanja Matic insists Man Utd must be among title contenders after showing the 'proper' United post-lockdown https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8678683/Nemanja-Matic-outlines-Manchester-Uniteds-Premier-League-title-ambitions.html# I do not like Matic or UTD and I do not think they have any chance but this is the right mentality. I wish some of our fans have the same.

I think after Kai we will still get this guy and Rice. Basically the club decided to go with Mendy and Rice instead of just Oblak. And money wise that would be similar.

This guy... WOW! My feeling is that he will end up at Bayern.

Our starting defense should be: Chilwell, Silva, Zouma, Azpi and new GK. None of them played last night except Azpi as CB. And do we know the reasons why all the players did not play? Zouma? And we will for sure play more friendlies? PL start is in 15 days.

Any possible Messi deal would surely include other players. If Pep want him he would have to give up on three starters for sure...

Still no my two favorite Chelsea players: Conor and Kai

And he was played out of position and with youngsters who are not on his level. I want him to play with starters in midfield!

And speaking of Trent and Liverpool, what about Harry Wilson? Every time I watched Derby because of Mount and Tomori and Frank he is the guy that impressed me most. 15 goals for Frank that season. Even last season 7 goals in the PL for relegated team in just 1663 minutes. Very good player. Why Klopp did not gave him a chance? Forget starting lineup, no place as a backup? He putted more trust in some random Japanese dude? He may now be sold for 15-20m to some PL team... I do not know if last couple of years struggles changed the perspective for some fans but sometimes I cannot believe what I am reading. Some want us to suffer for two more years and than to win title... I think if you mention something like that in the meeting with Roman he would kick you out... That is bullshit considering we have all the resources. And after all we have our own experience. Mourinho in his 1st spell here did not need 3 years to build something, and how much time Conte needed to change things? For example if we did not have transfer ban and Sarri stayed I would want title in his second season. He did well in the 1st year. 3rd place, won EL, cup final even managed youth nicely. What is after that? He would probably buy back than 3 or 4 great players like Aouar, Barella, KK... He got Jorginho, Kovacic, Kepa in the first season as well. Sorry, but as a Chelsea fan I am not programmed to celebrate top4...

You say this and than you complain about lack of fate in our youth. You are so overrating our boys...

Sancho never got a chance at City. Look around, Fati gets the chance as 17yo and you see there is a lot of potential so he will play even in Barca. It is the same with all wunderkind talent around the world. Do you know how much Mount played last season? Abraham? Even in previous clubs. I myself saw more than 5000 minutes of both of them and I think I know what is their level and what kind of a players they are. If we continue with them as starters they may become just a little bit better but we should already have an idea of their future level and it is not Chelsea starters (my opinion). In fact, I think Mount was overplayed last season. James and CHO are still not there, they should play more and I never criticized them because I think they did not fulfill even 20% of possible potential. James last season played around 50% of all minutes, this season he will play even more and even more in the season after. So it is up to him. It is the same with CHO. I mean we have just 3 wingers, so he is the 1st backup for both Ziyech and Pulisic. And Pulisic is injured all the time so Callum will play a lot. Again it is on him.

If any of the youth is good enough they will play. Even as backups they could establish themselves as players here. But we are Chelsea ffs, we are not happy to finish top4 every season. I rate James and CHO but if they perform like today how long we would need to wait for them? Azpi is still better than James. Tammy is what he is and that is not good enough. I do not see much place for improvements either. Same with Mount, he is not going to become suddenly some creative force. So no point in overplaying youth just for the sake of it.

Rudiger...

He hangouts with Drinkwater, what do you expect?

Pulisic for CHO and Havertz for RLC and it would be completely different.

Alonso liked the post how he is better than Chilwell a couple of months ago. He is ready to fight for the place.

We are playing 4-2-3-1 which is a good sign. I want Havertz as solo advanced midfielder. But Kante does not play alone deeper and is allowed to go up. Another good thing. Defensively Kante-Kova double pivot.

Was hoping to see Gallagher with first squad players like Kante, Kova...

I agree but it is weird that Frank contradicts himself. Frank Lampard says Chelsea could solve set-piece problem by signing tall players https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/03/frank-lampard-says-chelsea-could-solve-set-piece-problem-by-signing-tall-players And: Alonso 188cm - Chilwell 178cm Abraham 191cm, Giroud 193cm - Werner 180cm Rudiger 190cm, Christensen 188cm - Silva 183cm.

Nothing is going to happen on weekend as usual.

This means Pulisic is new number 10?