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No forward options for MF to pass to....

Lets see how he does tonight. Will his head be in it?

If he doesnt want to play tonight, dont sell him, let him rot in the reserves. His job is a footballer, even if he wants out of the club, he should play if hes told hes playing. End of. Pre season is meaningless, wish people would stop using it as a meaningful excuse for anything. Its basically for a manager to get experiment/implement formations or whatever and its there to get the players match fitness up. Also how many games did Moses play for us this season? A handful? So if CHO played maybe a few more games hed he happy or fans would be happy? I doubt it. If your going to use a lack of playing time at least compare him to someone who features regularly... jesus christ. Moses. Really. Also Sarri likes experience? What about Diawara, Zielenski, Hysaj, Milik... younger players he worked with at Napoli? People saying Sarri has fucked up need to get a grip. First 10 games or so we were unbeaten. Nobody said CHO should be starting then. If the team was playing well and winning, who would give a shit? Nobody. Just like in the past when we won nobody was that bothered about young players coming through. And thats pretty true. CHO could have played more yes. He still has plenty of time too though and Willian and Pedro are worse than what Bayern have out wide too.... Youd think we just signed Messi and a handful of other world class attacking players and he has to leave for the good of his career. Again. If he wont play tonight, take a tough stance, demand more money, fine him and let him play reserve football rest of the season.

100% agree. People were jumping the gun saying he could come from Vitesse and be part of the squad in the summer. I am under the impression he needs maybe 2 years of regular PL football to develop still. Right now, we all know he likes to go forward, hes good at freekicks and corners etc but does he really have the other facets to his game to play as the advanced 8 in a Chelsea/Sarri 433 next season? Or any hugely outstanding ones? Not for me. Statistically he takes more shots per game than he makes key passes and he is dispossessed 1.9 times per game. Not bad but 4 goals and 2 assists in the Championship, theres the huge scope for improvement which must come from him being more decisive, having more of an impact in the middle and final third. Decision making, when to shoot when to pass more? You dont shoot you dont score but weve seem with Barkley its not always the answer. I hope he can add more goals and assists from open play this season though. Maybe have more an impact in the middle third too. Huge potential but I would say physically and technically the championships a huge change from the Dutch league, where everyone tries to play out and attack.

Obviously the man himself too but I am talking guys who are more modern day. Even then nobody will forget Cryuff because the effect he had on football as a whole is still huge in the modern day, your Peps, Bielsas, Sarris etc and the likes of Barcelona, Holland and Ajax as a whole all have his influence ingrained in their philosophies and traditions. Without Cryuff none of these guys or clubs would be as they are. Hes arguably one of the most important figures in modern footballing history. Not even just for his legacy as a player, as a manager.

Potentially. I think Ajax knew how good de Jong and de Ligt could become but didnt expect such a fast trajectory for them. Could be same for this gut if he were to be a regular feature. Great club for talent though, hope they never change being so committed to young players. So many guys like Sneidjer, Van der Vaart, Ibrahimovic, Suarez, Huntelaar, Seedorf have all gone through Ajax at some point and all have had amazing careers, along with countless others. De Jong, De Ligt, Neres, Dolberg are all gonna go on to bigger things too in next few seasons.

Would be surprised if a kind of 8th-14th place PL team didnt consider him. Relegation battle probably not his scene as a lot of them are physical counter attacking teams, would need to be a team that play decent quick football on the deck to utilize him best. Bournemouth maybe. Theyve plenty of runners and pace as it is, bit of guile would help.

Theres on their last legs but have been 2 of Bayerns better players this season... as they have been for years... while being in there 30s... James arrived like a year ago in the summer when Ancelotti was there. They are hardly that much older now 😂 Gnabry the Arsenal reject, who Bayern tapped up and signed him off Werder 6 months after they bpught him off Arsenal on the cheap as they wouldnt sell to Bayern directly. Arsenal reject yes but just like Salah and de Bruyne the Chelsea rejects? Dont be so arrogant to assume CHO is better just because their willing to smash their transfer record for him. Gnabry is a German international, who was excellent at Hoffeinheim last season scoring 10 goals in 22 gamss. Theres no doubting CHOs potential yes but hed effectively be 4th or 5th choice to start with. Never heard of Kingsley Coman? Won league titles with PSG, Juventus and Bayern before age of 21. Has fallen off the wagon a bit since Pep left Bayern but the talent there is frightening and there is glimpses every now and then. Was considered one of the best young players not long ago before Mbappe burst on the scene and still plenty time to show it. Fully fit his pace is a real asset. Likes of Muller etc have struggled but Bayern have struggled as a whole this season. When Bayern play well Muller is always in about scoring or making goals. For such a rounded but hardly outstanding player he has had a huge impact at club and country level. Sarri not playing CHO every week isnt an issue for me, I doubted hed start every week but most games I expected to see him get 25-30 mis or so off the bench, particularly if we needed to get back into a game. Again a January move to Bayern seems odd. Summer yes 100% makes more sense but January mot so much. Leipzig would be better for him at this moment in time. Dortmund wouldnt even be a good move at the moment for CHO.

I doubt it. Scoring taps in the championship is fine but we seen how bad he was for Swansea. Hes a year wiser for it but I dont think we should be rushing him, he needs another crack at the PL somewhere else, to show he can do it before even being considered to come back here. General play still leaves a lot to be desired.

If he wanted to stay here he wouldnt have accepted Monaco's offer in all fairness. He didnt want to be a second choice/string player, which is why he was open to the offer as it guaranteed him more of a chance to play, which is more important than money, and in all fairness it was either going to be this month or the summer it happened with his contract running down. As well as the clubs stance on over 30s and wanting to rebuild the squad he would probably have been an unfortunate casualty anyway but I think he had plenty to offer still.

Rumors of Kagawa being avaliable from BVB for 2-4m euros. Would be a bargain for someone. Still a good wee player.

Ribery, Robben, Coman, Gnabry, even James and Thomas Muller can all play in those wide positions. James didnt even get a start most weeks in any of those 3 attacking positions behind the CF at the start of the season. They are breaking the bank because the markets inflated and we rate Callum very highly, much higher than what City rated Sancho only selling him for 7m obviously, or they didnt expect him to do so well so fast. If CHO isnt willing to wait to the summer to try break ahead of Pedro and Willian, why move to Bayern in January to be stuck behind at least 4 much more senior players (Ribery, Robbem, Coman, Gnabry - all good in their own regard and better than Callum for sure) as well as their new signing Davies who arrived from the MLS. Throw in Muller and James who can operate on both sides too if needed if there was say a massive injury crisis. Going now makes no sense, in the summer makes more sense because Ribery and Robben both probably wont be there. Even then if he goes now or in the summer, he wont go to Bayern and start instantly every week,l because regardless of how stupid this club can be, if your good enough to start for Bayern Munich, youd simply be starting here.

He probably wouldnt be on the bench if Costa wasn't injured/suspened/whatever reason he wasnt playing. Kalinic is going to be sold which is why Atletico want Morata. To replace him.

Would have to say I agree. He clearly didnt see a long term future at Chelsea when he signed that 3 year pro contract, which was probably a smart move as he hasnt featured regularly but after Bayern talking about him publically and a transfer request, drag it out, we didnt pay for him so we arent suffering by making him see out his contract.

Hypothetically we could have Lamps but thats only hypothetically and I would be very surprised in all fairness. Theres a bigger chance that Roman would never go for a British coach because well firstly he hasnt so far (although he wanted Fergie at the beginning when he took over) probably for one reason being that all the best coaches arent British and probably still wont be in 10 years time.

No chance.

Rabiot is still more a defensive player in my eyes. He is box to box but he definitely isnt a hugely attacking player. Very good on the ball though and gets stuck in, can carry the ball well too.

In all fairness, the guy would probably be rotation here for a bit to start with but he will start for PSG undoubtedly as they didnt replace Thiago Motta in the summer when he retired and Thomas Tuchel made a huge deal of it a while ago in the media.

Because why spend money on a player a club doesnt want when you can get him on loan and then feel free to sign him afterwards if he does well?

"Higuains weight an issue" how many times did we see that before he signed? Ffs the guys a pro athelete look at the photos there too, weight an issue my arse. Welcome to Chelsea, Higuain, no doubts for me he will be worth it, good pedigree and experience. Put the ball away for fun his whole career.

Boom, get in. Personally I was surprised Emerson started the gane and very very suprised how well he did in both lhases of the game, offensively and defensively. What Sarri said seemed to have worked, lit a fire under the players arses. Wheres that Eden Hazard bloke been for about 2 month?

I would say hes a better player than Piatek, Frankfurt are a decent outfit too (better last season) and come the summer I wouldnt be surprised if something was on the cards, a team at a bigger level, someone like a Dortmund (I know their top of the league but) where the platforms really good for young players because they have patience and the pressure isnt huge or an Atletico where they bring strikers on really really well (although they are pretty stocked up in that department when Morata goes if he hasnt already). Think Bayern might go for him too if they dont get Werner and IF Kovac stays as they worked together last season but I would think he would be wary about making a big move too soon and not playing every week as well because he had the same at Benfica and he still needs to play regularly to further develop but the potential there is potentially huge.

Think Piatek might flop at Milan in all honesty. He had a good start at Genoa but Milan is another level all together and although they arent amazing could be too big a move imo. Better platform than Madrid though, hed really struggle there if he didnt start well.

What a player that boy de Jong is. Brilliant signing for Barca. Will take over from Busquets in the long run but will probably play with him as he is a multifunctional player who can play as a 6, 8 or as a CB in a back 3. Barca trying to get de Ligt as well. Another huge huge talented Dutch player.

Again Sarri is not wrong. Eden doesnt inspire me completely as somebody who is demanding enough to push himself, yet alone 10 other players. He is more a talismanic figure as opposed to a captain. I would say theres a difference bit that's just me. Some would say they could be similar. Meh.