NikkiCFC

Surely Chris, Rudi, Alonso, Zouma and Kepa cant fuckup enough in the back vs how much can Havertz, Werner, Pulisic and Ziyech produce up front?

His reaction for the first goal is comedy gold.

We got over 15m euros for two Zouma loans (Everton and Stoke). Two year loan Kepa to Valencia 15m. Plus they pay at least 50% of his salaries. This is 25m saved. After this period he still has 3 years left on contract so if he does good in Valencia we can sell him for big money or take him back.

Yes. Bayern may get money for Kai.

I think CHO will be first backup to both LW and RW position. So plenty of game time.

What about this dude?

Man Utd pair Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes both injured after training ground clash https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/breaking-man-utd-pair-paul-22298617

Can't see your reasoning. We wanted close to 200m for Hazard summer before. When players have one year left on contract their price is usually 50% cheaper. Courtois left us for 30-35m after great World Cup. If he had more on contract he would cost around 70m surely. Sane was quoted 100m one year ago. You think players have the same price with 2,3,4 and 1 year left on contract? Dortmund wants 100-120m for him now. So next summer it will be 60-70m max by this logic no doubt.

We need this guy...

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I did not. But some people did when we had this discussion how he is to big for Chelsea and he has small numbers because of Mourinho/Conte system.

In the season 05-06 when we won the league we lost 3:0 to Middlesbrough. In 99-00 when UTD won the league and become World champion we beat them 0:5. FFS Liverpool lost 4:0 last night. CL spot is all that matters now and a couple of horrid displays will be forgotten very soon. And we had 5 wins in a row ( we won against 3 top teams at the table in this period) before losing to WH. It is just one match. We can easily go on winning run again. About CL place I am not worrying because I expect Leicester to lose a least half of possible 18 points left. Did you see their schedule? And form? So we can lose 1 game and have two draws and we would still finish above them. Wolves and UTD would overtake us but who cares. 5th place gets you CL.

But all of this doesn't matter if we get CL place. Btw City also lost three times against Ole.

10/11 2nd in the league with 71 points and QF in the CL. 17/18 5th with 70 points and won FA cup. Just one more loss and we will have 69 points max. But I agree with you in terms of expectations. With Conte second season we wanted to defend title now with Frank we did not believe in top4 before the season.

Conte dont play LB. And is he even better than Biraghi and Young? But thanks...

He is 30yo in 6 months. Yes a lot of injuries but just one goal in around 1400 minutes this season. I remember people saying in the team like Real or Barca he would score like Messi/Ronaldo.

This is only PL? Because we conceded from all Lille, Ajax, Valencia in CL.. UTD in FA cup both goals. Even Hull and Grimsby (goalkeeper made assist)... So surely over 20 goals... At least 1/3 of all goals this season. UNACCEPTABLE!

All three goals we conceded at SB in three games this season against City and Liverpool have been from set pieces. And arguably all three fouls have been unnecessary. Chris and Azpi against Liverpool and Kante against City. So not only we defend corners and crosses badly we also make stupid fouls in dangerous area. And I just realized 3 of 4 goals we conceded against UTD have also been from set pieces. And Ndidi for Leicester... God, anyone have stats? How many goals in total we conceded from set pieces this season? Surely over 20... But I agree, we are very much capable even with this squad to keep clean sheet against best teams.

Roman is most important figure in our history but yeah Chelsea was great and cute before. I mean Vialli is our second most successful manager with 5 trophies from 1998 to 2000.

Only? They have nothing to play for. I think they will drop a lot of points.

Injured again...