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I'd take Giroud in a second but no chance Arse would sell him to us.

We're a poverty club now. Looking for cheap, bargain bin deals. Basically like Arsenal over the last decade.

Tries to do the same thing every time he gets the ball. Nutmeg his opponent and try to run past. It rarely works.

The fact that it's taking us this long to sign a backup striker just reinforces my feeling that our board are terrible at their jobs. I could understand negotiations being ultra difficult if we were talking about a superstar or a player from a rival. But for fucks sake, a deal like this should be easy for a club like Chelsea. A club in Roma who are receptive to selling him, a player who by all accounts wants to come here, and us desperate for a new forward. Yet knowing us this still may go down to midnight on deadline day while in the meantime a couple more matches in which we could've used him go by.

Yeah, it's a no for me to bringing Carlo back as well. We need to find our Pochenttino. Someone who thinks long term and can build something with the thought already in their head that we can't competen financially with the Manc clubs. We'll have to win with our tactics and coachin rather than with financial muscle going forward. We're a tier 2 club like Arsenal, Spuds, Liverpool etc now. Can't compete directly with United, City, PSG, Barca, Real Madird.

This kind of went completely silent since yesterday, huh?

What I hope happens in an ideal world: We finish in the top 4, Hazard & Courtois extend their contracts, Conte stays and is given at least a couple of his first choice signings this summer. What will probably happen: We may scrape into the top 4, Conte's relationship deteriorates further with the club and he walks, we appoint a manager that will be very devisive, Hazard & Tibo go, and we start the whole rebuilding process again.

Okay, not world class but at his very specific job there are few better. Been one of their best players this season.

And if Conte goes we'll have another huge headache to deal with if the next manager doesn't fancy the likes of Drinkwater, Baka, Zappacosta etc. But since we spent big money on them the club will force the new man to "work with what you have" and then we're right back to having a frustrated manager.

The most common argument I'm seeing on Twitter when Chelsea fans are complaining about Conte not being backed is "you've spent loads, why are you moaning!?" Failing to realize that we didn't spend loads of money adding to an already good squad. We sold a world class DM and replaced him with a worse player in Bakayoko and we sold a world class striker and replaced him with Morata who isn't as good. Didn't sign a LWB, didn't sign a single attacking player other than Morata who was a direct replacement for someone we sold. Drinkwater was so obviously not Conte's first or even 5th choice, and Zappacosta was probably his 4th choice and a panic buy after we failed with everyone else.

He won't be sacked during the season unless top 4 is gone. We'll batter Newcastle this weekend and the mood will lift temporarily.

Can you blame him? Batshuayi looks like a deer in headlights nearly every game he plays.

It's honestly scary thinking about what could happen this summer. Even though we're not doing terribly in terms of the race for top 4 it seems like so much is festering behind the scenes at the club. Conte publicly (and understandably) taking shots at the club every week, the club working at the pace of Cesc Fabregas in the market, and a couple of our best and nearly irreplaceable players reportedly want to leave in the summer. I mean, it's not far fetched at all to think we could lose a world class manager, our talismanic attacking player, and our world class keeper in the same window. In a World Cup summer where prices skyrocket with good performances making it even more difficult for buying clubs. We think it's hard to sign good players now? Imagine how hard it'll be if a player we're after has a great World Cup. After we've got £150m or whatever in our pockets from selling Hazard. All of this because of the club's refusal to back the manager with HIS first choice signings. And all of this while City and United are getting stronger and stronger and building super teams. City are walking the league and could very well win every competition they're in this season. What are they doing? Going out now and spending £60m on Laporte and probably going after Fred as well. Think I read yesterday that they'll have spend €400m on their defense alone over the past few years! Meanwhile Chelsea are struggling to sign a backup striker. We're being left completely behind. Or maybe we already have been. Not optimistic about our immediate future at all. 😔

I just don't understand the massive discrepancy between his performances from one match to another. Like, I realize Arsenal are different to Brighton, but he actually could control a fucking football last weekend. He looked like a 16 year old academy debutant when he came on today. How does he go from looking pretty good to awful in the space of a couple of days? This is why he desperately needs a loan and also a perfect example of why you don't spend big money on a foreign striker who's coming off of one good season. A move to Chelsea was clearly too soon for him. He's too raw. Needs a good 12 months playing every week at a decent level.

Aguero, Jesus, Sané, Sterling, KDB, David Silva, Bernardo Silva. United just added Sanchez to their already wide array of attacking talent. They have a bunch of attacking players that are of a similar level. If one struggles there are many more who step up. Hazard is literally our only consistent top class attacker. Willian can be on fire for short stretches like he has been recently or he can be so frustrating that our own fans want him gone. Pedro can look good one game and then awful for weeks. Mahrez/Lemar/someone top class would transform us. Club don't seem interested.

Nothing has happened to Moses. He's in the same boat as Alonso. Good against teams that we're vastly superior to, exposed against top opposition. All 3 of our current wingbacks should be nothing more than cover or rotational options in a top team, not every match starters. If we had world class wingbacks we'd be challenging for the title.

Fair play to him. Solid performance. These PL refs really piss me off by constantly blowing the whistle on Baka, though. Seems like he gets punished repeatedly for simply being stronger than his opponent. Not all contact is a bloody foul which these refs seem to ignore.

Yeah, if this lad is fully fit if/when he comes in he has to play in the big games against good sides. Alonso gets roasted by opposing wingers and even fucking opposing wingbacks like Bellerin when he's defending and is so slow and stiff with the ball going forward that he can't get past anyone. Alonso should only start when we will be the dominant side. You need someone much more athletic against top sides.

Within the space of an afternoon I've gone from surprised if it doesn't happen to surprised if it does. Our club are pathetic in the transfer market these days.

Today really demonstrated once again that Hazard is a level or two above all of our other attackers with the exception of an in-form Morata. He's got to do everything himself and against better sides he simply can't every time. This will be the main reason he'll want to leave. Need more quality up there desperately.

Wenger has Conte figured out it must be said. Arsenal are the exact sort of team we struggle against. Quick, intricate passing between the lines. Midfielders who (unlike ours) are super comfortable in tight spaces and at playing one touch football. I dread what Barca will do to us, tbh. This Arsenal side have been terribly average this season yet played through us with ease in that second half. Oh well. Couldn't care less about the Carabao Cup. At least what we saw of Barkley was promising. Refreshing to see a midfielder who can comfortably receive the ball with his back to goal and either burst forward with it or pass it off. He was rusty obviously, but could add another dimension to our play.

See ya later Batshuayi. Hope it works out and he returns a much better player.

Don't think I've ever heard of "personal terms" being the main hold up in a transfer. Usually that's nothing more than a formality and it's convincing the other club to sell or the fee itself that's the main issue. Looks like the opposite here and everything with Roma is sorted. Got to imagine that its length of contract that's stalling things.

It really does seem to change by the hour. For a deal that seems as though it should be easy this sure is dragging on, though.

Best for both parties. Has to be the right club, though. We have to be 100% sure that he'd be the undesputed #1 choice at whichever club he may go to or it's pointless. Only way he becomes a better player is by playing 90 minutes week in and week out.