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You'll never be happy about anything my man Neto has more assists last year than Madueke has had in his entire career I think. They play quite differently though and personally I hope & expect we are keeping both.

I guess the clubs theory is if you have 60 extremely injury prone players, at any one time you'll only really have a squad of 25

What the hell I took my dog for a walk, came back and we fucking signed someone out of no where lmao Need a moment to process how I feel about this signing. He plays mostly RW right?

Feels like 70mins+ of the XI for City would probably be in order? Not gonna lie I have absolutely NO IDEA what our best line up is, even when everyone is available and ready to play. Reece will be out due to suspension, and Cole, NJ + Cucu aren't going to be ready until the City game itself Maresca said, which I assume means sub appearances at best vs City. I guess probably this means Colwill LB/LCB and Malo RB/inverting? Probably Lavia, Caicedo and KDH play for their pressing / physicality and Enzo drops to bench? Who knows. Nkunku and Madueke surely both start too. It is refreshing that we will have to put some potentially very good players on the bench soon, unlike last year where we usually had every good player we had on the pitch and then a bench full of filler. I'll go with this but I'm not thrilled about it: Jorg; Malo, Fofana, Tosin, Colwill; Lavia, Caicedo, KDH; Nkunku Guiu Madueke.

If he was staying you'd be posting that its a joke, never good enough, poor ownership, total disgrace, obviously should be buying someone etc etc

Is Disasi our 'veteran' CB now?

Actually Maresca's system is heavily focused on man marking...

Based on what we've seen Chalobah is definitely (at least) competitive vs the other CBs. Feel like he is better defensively than all of them. Shame he wasn't even given a chance.

Was your mind made up on Maresca before he even took the job? Kind of feels like no matter what he says or does you would be annoyed? I agree with everything he said tbh, I don't think he is making excuses, just answering questions when put to him in a pretty straight forward and honest way. Also don't disagree he'll probably be sacked in <2 years, probably ~1, he seems like a nice man so I hope it works out with him but obviously history teaches us that it is unlikely at Chelsea. Personally I like that we've moved to playing positional football. Whether Maresca is up to the scale of the job I wont even start to judge until he's had at least a few competitive games, and even then really don't think it makes sense to judge too much until the new year. Everyone is pissed off but its not his fault that the club has repeatedly sacked managers, spent a tonne of money and a lot of it quite badly, and failed to tackle some simple fundamentals. Also I don't really care what happens in the Inter game, why do you? I usually only watch them to get an eye on some of the young players that might come through in the future, like Guiu, or when we have a new manager to have a look at how he might be setting them up - which turned out to be pointless last year as Poch played one system in preseason and then abandoned it as soon as the league started. They are training games, essentially an open televised training session. It is well known good or bad preseasons have no correlation with results in the actual season. I don't really care what the result is vs Inter as long as no one gets injured and we get fitness into the legs of those who are a bit behind and we want fit for City.

Yeah he said after the game that the line was way too high and that he was trying to coach it out of them, "a habit they have from last season" Also in the press conf the other day he mentioned how due to the insane schedule travelling to/around the US and playing every 2 days that the only real training they've done is the 2 weeks before the tour with some players, since then mostly they've just had time for little video sessions to talk about ideas and not actually practice them on the pitch and so it is not really possible to improve the problems until they get back for the ~10 days they've got in Cobham before the first real game. That means some of them (Caicedo, Enzo, all the ones who joined during the tour) have had at best light touch training on the field in the new strategy, and some video sessions. I hate these intense preseason tours abroad tbh. If the club really want to be bold and do things differently they should be contrarian by being the only top club to give their managers a proper pre season, letting them spend it all at Cobham, and just play a friendly a week in the UK or something. Matters a little less a couple of years into an established managers reign maybe but when you change manager every season it is really dumb to give them a shit preseason every year.

Mudryk so bad in 1v1s, only has one idea and its too predictable: cut inside and get a shot off, never take a man on the outside and then decide what to do after...

Mudryk loves to disappoint :(

I mean I never really thought about how Sterling nails his wife before but if you want my guess he is the kind of guy that blows his load as soon as he is fully inside and then just rolls over and goes to sleep In the morning he gloats about how he rocked her world and genuinely believes it (She has a secret toy in a cupboard)

Look at that progression from GK through the field up to Guiu for the shot... The potential is OBVIOUS, I don't care what anyone says.

Think Jorg is much better on the ball and very promising for us in possession. Not close to Sanchez at the rest of the GK game though imo.

Only CB I would immediately transfer list tbh. Definitely keep Chalobah over him.

He definitely is not perfect, but he is our best winger by far at the mo

I'm still trying to process WTF Bads was doing when we conceded I am offended he plays in a Chelsea shirt if he can't be bothered to sprint in that situation. I've got time for players making errors when trying their best but if you can't be bothered to RUN in a clutch situation to cover the goal man idk what to say that is just fucking shameful

Absolutely, he is great in this system, gives him repeated 1v1 opportunities. If he can become clinical after winning the 1v1 he will be insane but if this is his general level great squad player we've got already.

Enzo showing dat quality, Noni top work. Bizarre seeing such high potential in this side but also such obvious problems in different places in different situations. We will be way better with Cucu LB but concerns at CB are very serious tbh

Sterling is a chronic disappointment

Jorgenson hesitant, but Bads should have been back to clear that too tbh... literally just a matter of not slowing down to walking pace and you're back to clear that. Shameful shit honestly, what excuse is there to NOT run in that situation? Even a youth player clears that.

Thought that was an underweight pass from Nkunku as well tbh

We are still pretty bad OOP.

Back 5 wont help. CBs making bad individual errors, both in passing and in simple 1v1 defensive moments. Bads + Colwill both been poor for most of preseason, unfortunately. Rest haven't been much better, if at all.