There are too many average performers in the team. Who are the actually good players ? There is Costa, Hazard, Zouma, and Azpi, Courtois and that's it. Hopefully people give have patience with Conte because we might be in for a very rough season.
There is no news because they are working diligently on the mega transfer on Lukaku, which will set us back a decade. So you better hope there is no more news until the season starts.
Words are harsh but the club makes abysmal decisions that test the fans' patience. They sell the good players quick for a small profit (De Bruyne, Lukaku) and the average ones are kept long term hoping that they'll improve. They're kept long enough until the fans start really disliking them. People would be much more vocal on here about Mikel if he wasn't a bench player because he's been too long at the club for what he offers. We have a weird philsophy and I don't really know who to point the finger at because we never know he is actually making these stupid decisions. Was it the manager, the director of football, the owner etc no one knows.
I am only fussed because we have a history of terrible decisions selling decent players and being left over with shit. I don't trust the board to get a decent replacement.
Don't forget Baba Rahman. As soon as a manager gets a look at him, they want to send him to some far away land where he's never seen again. And he wasn't cheap either.
Hazard made one misjudged pass as soon as he came on and he said something along the lines of "that's the Hazard of last season". When he scored the goals they didn't give him any credit and blamed the keeper for both goals. If it was Ronaldo he'd be down on the field himself to fellate him.
Didn't give Chalobah the credit for his amazing performance.
Lied about Costa having a bad attitude and a problem with Conte which was why he wasn't playing when the club have made it clear he has a back injury.
Said Pedro did nothing all game which was fair enough.
CB should have been top priority this season but we've signed a new striker and a midfielder before doing anything for CB. At this point I hope we just pay Roma/Valencia/Napoli whatever they want. Losing a couple million pounds is way better than how much we'll suffer if we go into the season without a new defender. Terry and Cahill are both way past it.
He is too old and slow. It would be all right if Terry was quick, but Terry is slow himself and it just compounded the trouble. Marcelo waltzed into our 18 yard box for the goal.
Couldn't be a biased Belgian eh ? I actually like Bats a lot. I am surprised at how good his hold up play is. With Traore when he was fouled he'd go to the ground for a free kick, but Bats had the strength to hold the ball and the technique to bring others players in to play. He's also really good at creating space for a quick shot. I'm really, really impressed and happy because I know that when Costa gets injured (as is bound to happen) we have someone good to step in.
I really hope that we are going to soon start clearing the deadwood on this team.
I just looked him up as I didn't know the name. Yes it was him. I was surprised to find that the twat actually played for us for 8 years ! Really poor. He is usually very fair but he was extremely critical imo. Should have at least said something positive about Chalobah who gave an amazing performance.
The commentator just completely ruined the game for me. The sad thing with the imbeciles at ESPN is that here in the USA we are forced to pay for the channel on our bill. Thank goodness ESPN have donkey dick in terms of actual football this season. Premier League will be on NBC and Champions League on Fox.