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'This season there were some other things happening, but last year was fantastic': Willy Caballero - the man set to start the FA Cup final in place of £72m keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga - defends the struggling Spaniard and says he hopes he STAYS at Chelsea https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8580397/Willy-Caballero-play-ahead-Kepa-Arrizabalaga-FA-Cup-final-hopes-STAYS-Chelsea.html

5m.

Last season we stopped Arsenal from playing CL. This year we will stop them from playing EL.

https://www.football-italia.net/156603/report-inter-and-brescia-agree-tonali Report: Inter and Brescia agree on Tonali Corriere di Brescia claims the two clubs have agreed on an expensive loan deal with an obligation to buy the player for a total amount of €35m in 2021. Are you shocked? Rice will be at least 65m pounds so half the price. This English players tax has to stop and come back to reality.

Speaking of POTY the great journalist Simon Phillips of The Sun gave 8 to Zouma and James More than he gave to Pulisic, Giroud and Azpi... Kovacic as POTY is ok for me but I would give him 7.5. He gave him 9 lol That is Hazard from last year tbh. What a joke.

But still after restart is 25% of the season. And it is not like Pulisic was not good before. He was great in that best part of the season and our winning run of 6 PL games. He had 5 goals and 1 assist in this period. Second game in this run was Southampton away and I feel this was the last good game for Mount in his great start of the season. After this we waited more than 2 months for his good game. Also we had CL. Pulisic was massive in both Ajax games and Valencia away. Mount did nothing in full CL campaign. Do you remember anything significant? Like I said before Pulisic has most MOTM performances in our team. I honestly think he has Ballon d Or potential. This gave me some perspective for my question. Henderson is POTY in PL this season it seems and Modric even won Ballon d Or before. Many would ask how Henderson over KDB, Mane but you cannot always give this awards to attacking players. So it is similar with Kovacic-Pulisic for us this season. But would not put Mount in this conversation. That would be like Lallana gets best player of the season award

My number one choice for GK. We have been linked with him this summer. Playing for Trabzon where our former player and assistant Eddie Newton is a manager. They just won Turkish Cup. After Kepa I think it would not be smart to spend again crazy money for GK. Even Oblak. We have great experience with Cech and Courtois who were relatively anonymous when we signed them. I know some push for Rajkovic but as a Serbian i rate Cakir more. Just look at this video, he is so good! Come on Chelsea, bring this guy!

Roman Abramovich Would Have Sent Me To Siberia If I Finished Fourth – Former Chelsea Boss Avram Grant https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/sports-news-roman-abramovich-would-have-sent-me-to-siberia-if-i-finished-fourth-former-chelsea-boss-avram-grant/357691

On the site I quoted you can vote from 1 to 10 after every game. Overall season: Pulisic is on 7.1, Kovacic 6.7, Giroud 6.6 and Mount 6.4. James, Kante also have more than Mount. And many players are on 6.2 or 6.3. But standard is very low this season. I want Chelsea to win titles and have 5 or more players in team of the season. This year no one is near. But not my point. I posted today on this thread to get some answers and no one answered. 1. Why many think Kovacic had better season than Pulisic? 2. For you. Why do you think Mount had better season than Pulisic?

I only bring stats and real arguments. I also have Willian in top 5 and I want him to leave. Majority of people are never right. After all Trump, Putin, Erdogan are most popular in their countries. 100% of North Koreans vote for Kim...

Eddie Newton won Turkish Cup with Trabzonspor. First trophy for them after 10 years. And I want Cakir!

I was hoping for real arguments here. Except Pulisic did not play enough minutes I did not see any. And this was taken down when I said Kovacic played just 347 minutes more in PL. Pulisic had Hazard influence on us this season. And some think Mount had better season than Puli? WOW! And he was consistent? He was missing in October, November, December, January, February. In this 5 months he had three good games max. Against Spurs for example. POTY has to be someone consistent full season. On WAGNH our fans rate our players after every game. 24 times he had 6.0 or less. 6.0, 5.6, 5.9, 5.7, 6.0, 5.9, 5.6, 4.9, 4.8, 5.6, 3.3, 5.6, 5.4, 4.1, 4.3, 5.6, 5.8, 5.9, 5.1, 5.3, 5.6, 5.8, 3.6, 4.9. So 24 of his 51 games this season have been 6.0 or less. 47% of games he has been horrible or non existing! And I did not need to see this since this is also my impression when I look back. Plus 4 more games with 6.0-6.5 rating which is also not great. Now this is 55% of games. Even here on Talk Chelsea he was voted just 2 times this season as player of the game. Leicester at home in August and last match against Wolves. Pulisic had 10+ MOTM games this season. And while Mount was missing in around half of games this season Pulisic had 6 or 7 max games off. Azpi and Willian have been most consistent players if we consider that they have been regular all season. So this Mount was great narrative is complete BS. Around 50% of games he was non existing or horrible. 30% solid. And 20% good/ very good. @Puliiszola so no, he did not need Hakim, Kai or Timo this season to look good because he did not have a good season.

No one said that.

Olie and Puli nominated for POTM. Alonso in February I think and Willian earlier in the season... Is that all from our players?

And now very stupid question... Hypothetically (never gonna happen) if for example Rice or Chilwell decide to retire from football like Schurrle and want to do something else in life and than change their mind week later can we sign them for free?

I think we have better shot at Ter Stegen than Oblak. He should be like 40m cheaper. 2 years left on contract with Barca and rumor is that he is not happy there, does not get along with Barca teammates. Almost never post anything with them on social media. Job for agent Rudi and agent Werner?

Yes cup games but Barkley scored amazing goal against Liverpool and winning goal in Leicester (where Mount did nothing and got replaced after 45mins). So cup but top opponets. If Ross had 3500 minutes this season he would have double digits in both goals and assists. I know Mount offers more in terms of pressing but that is what players like him have to do because without that where would they be? I compared Mount in Vitesse and Baker in Vitesse. Very similar season they had there. Baker scored 15 goals. We would never know, but maybe Baker would have even better season than Mount if he got a chance in Chelsea? Season after Baker played for Middlesbrough and Tony Pullis did not like him. He was not fortunate to have someone nursing him for one more crucial year in Championship and year after in Chelsea. For next season... Even I would look good among Kai, Hakim, Timo and Pulisic if we really play two number 8s. Fucking Bojan Krkic scored 36 goals in 104 games for Barca in LaLiga. But he had best teammates in the world. Messi, Xavi, Iniesta... So if we really play with this formation next season it is only one reason Frank doing it. To accommodate Mount.

Relax... It was the same with Werner. No £54m Chelsea deal in place for Werner, claims RB Leipzig director “We haven't had an exchange yet,” he told Sky Sports Deutschland on the 24-year-old. “Accordingly, we have nothing to report. Timo Werner is a player for RB Leipzig. He signalled a few weeks ago that he was busy with a transfer. Until now nothing is done. “We are concentrating on the final sprint in the league. We want to qualify for the Champions League. That is the only thing we are currently discussing with Timo. 12 days later. OFFICIAL: Chelsea sign Werner Chelsea have announced the signing of 24-year-old RB Leipzig forward Timo Werner on a 5-year deal. The club note that he will join the Blues in July and is still to pass a medical.

Game over probably. Fulham:Brentford final. Never mind, Conor will play PL anyway, I hope Guehi also.

Brentford 1-0

I cannot go against Gallagher. What a stupid camera angle on Brentford stadium btw.

And Barkley has 5g and 5a in 2000 less minutes than Mount. RLC had 10 goals last season in less than 2000 minutes. 6 PL goals and 2 assists in just 982 mins. I did not start this Kova vs Mount discussion because they are completely different players. With Kai, Timo, Puli and Hakim next season I would rather have two players in pivot behind and Mount cannot play this position. I do not expect anything in the final 3rd from guys like Kovacic, Jorginho and Kante tbh. Mount plays as most attacking midfielder or even winger sometimes. So playing Mount as a starter would also fuck Kai because like someone else said playing him as a number 8 is his weakest position and it would not have any point. I am ok with Mount as squad player but our goal is to be better than Pool and City. His status this season in the team is for me like Lewis Baker playing 3500-4000 minutes in Chelsea in 17/18 season after amazing season in Vitesse. But this did not happened because we are Chelsea.