calculatingInfinity

No. No you would not necessarily have heard of it already. I also think it's silly to think Chelsea have not already had contact with Drinkwaters agent and Leicester, even if the press did not know about it, and the bids hadn't started officially until now.

I highly doubt it, even if he is decent on the ball. Andreas Christensen is a way better bet, as an emergency RWB... Even if he also really isn't good enough to play that.

This is an idiotic way of looking at things. Conte no doubt admires a lot of players, and saying he is a big admirer doesn't mean he was ever first priority. But could end up being the realistic option after Matic left, as a bench option. Chelsea were never going to buy another midfielder, with Fabregas, Matic, Bakayoko and Kante here. Had to get one out, before starting to put the signing into motion. Big admirer =/= first priority signing, even without getting rid of your own bench options first.

Show me proof.

Yes. But for all we know, those reasons could be availability and such as well. Anyway, I haven't watched all that much Monaco, but I know they are fairly different midfielders anyway. Edit: just realized Clockwork had already made this point, and better.

Watched pretty much every match of his for Palermo, which was mostly as a super sub, and then a limited amount of matches for Torino. He is an impressive player, but I do have my doubts about him, being able to do it at a bigger club. What a hot take. Are you Marina, Emenalo, or a person with similar role at Chelsea, or just talking straight out of your ass?

Would be an absolutely fantastic signing, so hopefully it happens. He is exactly the kind of CB that would be great in a 3 men defense at Chelsea.

Fucking retard.

Matic looking like last seasons Matic again. Slow and badly positioned at all times.

They are a rather poor imitation of the vintage Pulis though. They are pretty terrible defending, even if trying.

Can someone gif or gfycat that pass from Luiz and chance to Costa/Hazard?

I am sure Avram Grant won't bother making such demands.

I would say Kante fought hard as well, and did win some good balls, even if overall not being that impressive either.

It's true he doesn't have much to work with. Be he (and Oscar) can put in some work effort at least. But he is just such a soft body cunt, just like last week.

Matic is a fucking tragedy. Has been absolutely dog shit for well over a year now. Doesn't add anything attacking, turns slower than a large ship, doesn't really get in the way of anything defensively. Just overall a waste of space. Oscar and Hazard yet again showing themselves to be the true soft lads they are. Ivanovic however has been the worst. The captain that keeps making dumb fouls, and then keeps arguing, to the point where he doesn't get into position for the fucking set piece. Also constantly out of position, thinking he needs to help out Costa up front.

It's all Costa's fault again right?

Some pathetic posts today about Costa, who scored two good goals, and missed one huge chance. Too bad he missed it, but it happens to any strikers. Yeah he complains and dives a lot, but his attitude is still worth so much to this team. Just look at everyone around him. We got Hazard who pulls out of just the sight of a tackle, Oscar who has absolutely no balls or fight in him, Willian who is just not performing well at the moment, and Matic who turns slower than a ship, and thinks slower than my beagle. I would also like to see Batshuayi start a match, but I want to see him with Costa. Maybe this is possible in the next match, when Kante doesn't have to play as deep as he currently does, when Terry isn't in the defense needing cover all the time.

Conte screaming at Hazard, who decided to slowly jog into the middle and lose the ball.

Chelsea not losing this because of Costa. He had a huge miss, and scored 2 others. That is what strikers do, they miss every once in a while, even very easy goals. Were losing (and now drawing) due to Courtois and Cahill being idiots. Mind you, should have been a freekick on Cahill, but giving him so much time to get the ball, was idiotic.

lol

Soft lad Hazard

Saving himself for the euros for ehm, a move to PSG?

Yep. I absolutely believe that with 2, maybe 3 signings, Chelsea would be one of the favorites for the league. The board is letting Conte down badly right now, and it will eventually lead to his sacking, no matter how unfair. Just imagine if we get one injury in the defense, or even worse, two injuries (or suspension) and it would all be a complete disaster back there.

Matics performances the last 1 ½ year summed up

Doubt they did. There was quite a few targets, including Manolas and Bonucci that seems to have been true. Still doesn't change that this is a huge failure of a transfer window, and absolutely pathetic. Even with Kante in, and Michy who seems very promising, not getting any proper defenders is such a huge failure. Now we will end up with trash similar to Papy and Miazga again.