LukakutoStamford

Not sure how Chelsea is going to compete. Hazard is the least of the club’s issues. The rest of the team is midtable at best and that includes Kante in his current position. Its the board and its transfer policy that has been causing this problem. Aside from CHO the young talent is garbage.

Belief matters to a point. As I mentioned to another poster I had better technique than he did at age 12. His technique is shit. He got anyway with things at Juventus and Real because there was plenty of talent to make up for his inefficiencies and he was never relied upon to lead the line. He does nothing to fix the problem. I don’t blame Hazard for not trusting him it’s like playing with a shit version of Torres, who compounds matters by flopping everywhere.

He’s got worse technique than I did when I was 12, and no I didn’t play professionally.

He’s terrible. One of the worst players I’ve ever seen put on this shirt. He’s clumsy and has the strength of a 5 year old girl and flops like a fish.

One of the worst performances I’ve ever seen in the PL. Should have been sent off, missed a penalty, and completed zero passes in 90 minutes.

Stop signing Spanish born strikers ffs! Morata is the typical players who looks good at Real because there are so many good players, but the spotlight shines on them to take control they wither away. It’s too bad Napoli won’t Chelsea anymore players as Dries would a better stop gap 9 until a top striker becomes available.

Jorghie Shore?

Do you blame him? The club is in utter shambles at the moment.

He does need to leave as things have gotten stale. That being said I think the short term behavior has finally caught up and unless a manager is brought in to foster youth development and long term development of the club things are going to be difficult for quite some time.

That’s because there are absolute weapons posting

Ahh yes, there it is Messi, Ronaldo, er al. do it all by themselves. They don’t have world class teammates and they pass the ball to themselves because they can do it all with no help. Yes, Hazard has no incentive to play he’s only doing it for the pay check. Sure players come and go it doesn’t justify giving the middle finger to your players or your managers. Chelsea is heading quickly down the Arsenal path.

Commits to what exactly? A board that rotates managers more than fast food employees? Or a board that screws the manager by giving a colossal pile of shit in the transfer after winning the title? The management at this club is unstable. It’s only going to get worse. Why should any player have to play for a club with a revolving door of managers? The whole thing is disgraceful and shambolic.

The problem with Hazard as a false 9 is that he’s getting mostly route 1 balls, which basically minimizes the chance that Chelsea will maintain possession. The rest of the team hasn’t shown the ability to bring the ball up, pass to Hazard at the edge of the 18, and make runs into the box to be played through. It appears that spending has been reigned in but the young potential talent hasn’t been brought into the team as needed. Granted getting De Bruyne and Courtois for less than 14 million pounds in total was the steal of the century. It just doesn’t seem that Chelsea has been able to lure young talent from the 19-22 bracket or at least young contributingbtalent save for Christensen.

Midfield is shit and passing from the back is horrible. Willian was giving the ball because Kante Moses etc. were making poor passes to him with 2-3 Man United playing hanging off of him. Tactics by Conte are atrocious.

Conte misused Michy. I find hilarious that people complain about Batshuayi’s consistency when Conte plays him 15-30 seconds. This quite similar to Mourinho KDB situation. And no Michy isn’t as good as Kevin but he’s a lot better than the scraps Conte gave him.

I’ll be glad when he leaves this shit club. He’s had to be the guy for just about his entire stay at Chelsea with next to no help. Hell, I was better than most of the tossers on this team. Seriously the best help he’s gotten was Cesc, and an over the hill Pedro, and twilight of their career Drogba and Eto’o. Hazard can’t play LW/CAM/CM/False 9/Shadow striker at the same time and yet that’s what is happening.

Shades of Fernando Torres

Free Eden. This team is so technically poor. Eden needs to play with players who have technical skill.

Batshuayi is better than Morata

Again the failures in the transfer window are hurting this team. Too many complimentary players no where near enough pace and technical quality. Sans Kante this team is a mess in the midfield. If Debruyne has a bad game there's Silvia, Sane, Aguero, Jesus etc. Chelsea loses Morata and they don't look like the could score in a whorehouse.

The thing is people are far too short sighted in this issue. At the time he was sold I made a post about 250 pages back that he would be world class and Chelsea would rue the decision. All this nonsense about winning two titles is complete garbage. They are independent events. Where this hurt Chelsea was 2013-2014 where having KDB in lieu of Oscar would have won Chelsea the title and it would have made Chelsea set up for the future. KDB is worth 150 million quid right now and Chelsea sold him for what 20 all because Mourinho's ego? This is the worst sale I can remember in football and it never needed to happen.

Hell, I could dribble better than everyone on this team bar Hazard

This team is waaay too slow and lacks far too much technical skill

Not quite the same. Charley has done f all thus far in his career. De Bruyne had 10 goals 10 assists for Werder Bremen and had 4 goals and 4 assists for Belgium for WC qualifying. De Bruyne was even MotM V Hull. I think Charley is talented but he hasn't shown himself to be a potential WC class player to this point.

This team is atrocious in regard to technical skill. Maybe it was physical and mental fatigue from the Atletico match, but some of the passing and dribbling was diabolical. The lack of control made Chelsea look like a U15 side at times. Conte had a mare. Not sure how playing hoof ball with a 5'6 Hazard up top is going to work. Kanye was good at ball winning but his passing oof. Bakayoko was dismal. Alonso was far too ponderous. For this type of game (City, Spurs) Conte needs to rethink his team choice and the formation.