OneMoSalah

Not sure what that has to do with football, people make mistakes in life but it’s not like you know him personally is it? JT Wayne Bridge thing was the same. Bad what happened but ultimately a mistake and totally irrelevant on the pitch. As a footballer he’s committed and comes up with goals, sure he’s struggled this year but who hasn’t who played regularly last season? Moses? Cesc? Luiz? Willian? Pedro? He’s been playing every week this season, same as last year and has looked poor yes but until he gets some more adequate competition - Emerson hopefully - then he has to play.

I sincerely hope not. Hazard should play wide or off the front. Sick of seeing us go with a false 9. Just leaves Eden extremely isolated and when he comes deeper to get the ball a lot of the time nobody is in front of him looking to get in behind. 3 CFs is needed, Morata, Giroud and Batshuayi (or would rather see Hudson Odoi get the minutes in all fairness if Batshuayi goes but no way Conte lets Batshuayi go and uses him more often) would do the job. 3 different types of players.

Not sure why Conte would say we need 3 strikers then let Michy leave, even if Giroud comes in or by some minor miracle Dzeko happens. He always had like at least 4 CFs at Juventus.

I don't think 120k a week is exactly unreasonable, considering he'll be one of Roma's highest earners considering his City wage would of been quite big (wouldn't exactly be one of our top earners on that money, both Courtois & Hazard if they renew will get almost double (Tibo), triple (Eden) that. Cesc, David Luiz, Morata... all bound to be on more than that), although I can see the reluctantly to offer him a longer deal than we would have originally wanted to. I'd imagine that there is more chance of a compromise on salary than on the length of the contract. Hardly ridiculous demands, most players we will sign will want a pay rise. Think 3.5 years is something our board wouldnt move on. They'd of wanted like 2 years.

Drives a hard bargain? Like paying 35m for Drinkwater, 40m for Bakayoko and 33m for Batshuayi? We've overpaid for players we've signed in the last how ever many years except a few (Costa, Cesc, Kante, Alonso who you could say we've gotten value for money) then failed to pay a bit more for players who have genuine quality in comparison to what we have gotten (Kyle Walker, Alex Sandro, Danilo).

Still not sure what anybody seen in Bertrand to think he was going to be a good player for us. Squad filler yes maybe but again, he struggled to displace Ashley Cole who was on a downward spiral (although he still offered good performances in games where he played despite not being used that often under Mourinho in particular), sure Mourinho had his favourites like Ivanovic at RB but LB was very much a spot that was very much there to be contested, to the point where Cesar ended up playing the role (and to an excellent standard) but yeah, Bertrand, isn't missed, when Emerson comes in we will have 2 decent enough LBs of a better quality. Plus in regard to Mourinho's style, it worked didn't it? Nobody complained at the time when we wont he league etc, sure it was shite the season after but again the club were standing still and everyone else was going forwards. We were probably worse under Benitez.

He just needs to play. If no PL club is willing to take him then sending him to Celtic with Brendan Rodgers is as good as it gets. They have games vs Zenit coming up in EL and quite frankly nobody knows what could happen. Also there’s lots of games to play in SPL. Win-Win

Yeah, incredibly risky too, only had 2 seasons where he was really successful and that was at Barcelona (won a treble and a double), took Celta to 9th the season before he went to Barca, had a poor stint at Roma years ago. Linked with Bayern as well, which if they offer him the job, I can't see him coming here - why would you. Watch we'll get some second rate manager in all probability. Or Carlo.

To be fair, hes 17 years old, he will get more and more confident if he continues at this rate but he just looks like a midfield player to me, always wants to take the ball, sure he has looked good at CB too but I honestly think he should be allowed the chance to play more in MF, he will receive more touches of the ball, gives him the opportunity to be more involved and hit those sort of passes. If it turns out hes better suited to CB then fair enough but regardless if he ends up at CB in the long run or at CM, he will be a very good player. World beater bit of a loose term, don't think he'll be up to that level but he can have a very good career, hopefully at Chelsea. I think hes surprised everybody though.

Best move for him right now is to go to a club and get loaned back to Fulham for another season. Really impressive goal return for a 17 year old, seems to be quite consistent in his performances but could do with another year there playing regularly. Fulham have to watch out as well that they don't burn him out, hes 17, Wilshere played a lot of football 17-19 and look how badly that affected him, they really need to be careful.

Again, clear to see hes still rusty but he got a bit more involved in limited minutes. Always looking to take the ball on the half turn and get forward. Hopefully in 2 weeks time we'll properly start to see him at 100% in terms of match fitness and he can show us a bit more.

I think he'll be used more as a 10 or wide man yeah. Can't see him anywhere else at Celtic. Unless he plays as an 8 in a 3 man MF but Celtic have got plenty of CM options so maybe not as likely.

Needs to be kept in MF, what a pass for Pedro's chance, absolute class. Sometimes he might go sideways a bit much but he very much mixed it up today I thought, although in limited minutes, offered something Drinkwater and Kante didn't in terms of looking forwards. I hope Conte stays because he seems to really rate him. Regardless, bright future for this guy in MF or at CB, although my personal preference would be in MF.

Yeah its quite a scary thought. But his holdup play is terrible although in all fairness today sometimes he did some things that probably surprised himself, as well as all of us haha.

100% agree pal. Celtic has been an excellent platform for guys and in the past the likes of van Dijk, Wanyama, Forster have gone from Celtic to the PL and now are all pretty good established players. VVD still think nowhere near £75m but that is what it is. Moussa Dembele will move eventually and Patrick Roberts is bound to make a name for himself in the PL too (Man City player but can't see him getting a huge chance there) although hes been injured a lot this season. Charly just needs games, hes got ability, he just needs a run of games and to build himself up to being used to playing 30-40 games a season because physically he isn't much, the intensity and physicality in the SPL will give him a good understanding of how football can be against teams where you have 60-70% of the ball. Like you said as well he will develop a winning mentality too at Celtic, they are clear favourites for everything but with the 6-10 games in Europe they get each season too its a decent opportunity for him to get used to playing against some bigger teams as well. I think as long as Rodgers is at Celtic, we should look at some of these younger kids coming through and try to make some sort of arrangement, not even only with Celtic, Steve Clarke is at Killie, we seen Hudson-Odoi come on and look good in a short space of time today, imagine if he had the chance to play 30-40 games a season in Scotland? He'd be a good player for somebody there.

Yeah, 100% agree. 18 months and I can count only one hand the amount of half decent games hes had. Like 3 or 4.

Was unlucky against Norwich with his shooting but today he probably didn't hit the target more than once, if at all. Solid enough player, pity he wasnt 3 or 4 years younger he could still grow a bit more but I've said it before 35m was too much but thats the English/homegrown VAT on top, isnt it?

Musonda going on loan to Celtic (apparently) will hopefully mean that he will at least have more chance being in the squad, although Charly hasn't been in it a lot either recently but still, who knows. Does anybody know how long Willian is out for?

Made his intentions clear as soon as he got the ball didn’t he, didn’t seem intimitated or nervous. He’s been excellent at youth level this season. Hopefully gets more minutes.

I still think Neymar if he were here would have better amount of goals and assists than Eden does, that is my main issue with Eden, great player etc key to the team but people keep talking about him like he has to leave to hit that next level, he has to score more goals to hit that next level, his team mates don't necessarily stop him scoring more goals because he does get into positions where your thinking go on shoot, just isnt being ruthless enough in situations where others would shoot without second guessing. Not only this season but the last 2 or so seasons, hes been excellent in a lot of things, chances created, dribbles per game etc but goals still an issue and for me will continue to be because I know how good he is, we all do, but again... needs to boost his goals. Both Mourinho and Conte have also said he can score more goals. Be surprised if Roberto Martinez hasn't said something similar. Sure Neymar loses the ball more but he is that sort of player, he takes a huge amount of risks. not that Hazard doesn't but do you think people will really tend to give a shit if Neymar was losing the ball X amount of times a game despite constantly scoring and assisting every match? That gives him a bit of leeway. In the way we play, losing the ball in the final third due to trying to be overly ambitious wouldn't necessarily be a huge issue for me, too often will one of our attackers do the hard bit then play a sideways or backwards pass instead of trying something a bit more unorthodox or perhaps something that might seem less probable to come off. Even in our MF the same issue, get so far then go backwards. Not directly an issue with Eden but the team in general, sure maybe holds him back a little bit but don't think its like stopping him from hitting that next level. I still think more can come from all our attacking players. Regarding the whole domination thing, we do dominate a lot of our opponents for large periods of the game, it can't be said that we don't concede play sometimes and come under pressure but that happens, there is plenty moments where we have the opportunity to score a few goals more, if its late on Conte shuts up shop but hes an Italian isnt he? Also I'd rather see us win 1-0 than draw or lose trying to go for a 4-0 at the 75th minute and onward. Wouldn't say that Cesc and Pedro being sold from Barca makes them bad players, Ozil and Di Maria were sold at Real, Sanchez at Barca.... Salah, De Bruyne, Lukaku etc were sold from here and have gone on to make good careers as well. But yeah fair enough, difference of opinions. People would have Salah back here because hes better than Willian or Pedro. Probably mainly due to the fact he actually does something with the ball when he gets it. Hes not predictable. We compare them because they both are world class players in their own right and play in the same position? (Unsure if sarcasm or not).

I think Neymar could do the same here as hes doing at Paris for sure. I think hes that good, 3rd best player behind Messi and Ronaldo. Talking about Paris, I don't think they have that much of a better team (the whole we are an extremely poor team thing is a bit OTT, in fact its very OTT, every team can be improved and ours is no different, even City, even United etc. its just we aren't doing it to the level they are but its hardly as if we are now a Championship side or a bottom half of the table side, we are still one of the best teams in the PL), they have an awesome attack and better full backs as well (Kurwaza maybe questionable hes good but Dani Alves is like a different level) and then Verratti in MF (player I'd love to see here, or even Rabiot, hes not exactly a flashy player but hes pretty good) but again Hazard, Kante, Christensen, Courtois, Morata, Cesc... all these guys are more than good enough and wouldn't look out of place at PSG as well. Its a lame excuse to use the structure or surrounding players to try and say this is why he isn't as good as player X because in all honesty Neymar has brought them up a level, he is so influential, his stats are unbelievable for a wide player, he can play poor and still score 2 goals and create an assist or whatever. Hazard can do that, he has done that at times here with various players, guys like Willian, Pedro, Costa, they all looked better when he played because he sees things other don't, played good combinations with them etc etc. When Hazards on tune, hes great, he will score, he will do flicks, tricks etc, but these things will go unnoticed in comparison with these top 3-5 players in the world because they can do all that too but they have very good and consistent stats. I still think Neymar will be the next guy to win the Ballon D'Or other than Messi or Ronaldo, he is the most probable guy. I don't want to sound like a prick (but probably will here), I'm assuming your Belgian (if not your username is very confusing lol) and there also may be a bit of bias (although it really has nothing to do with anything, fans of clubs and international teams tend to prefer their guys over player X or Y). There is still a lot of things Hazard can do, he really should be scoring at least 20 goals a season and also regularly because he is good enough to do it I feel, here or anywhere else, these world class attacking players, (Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar, Lewandowski, Suarez - regardless of their team mates, their international team mates, opposition, level of league), you expect them to score a certain number of goals a year and they do or they score more. Suarez at Liverpool is a prime example of how Hazard can be like that, continue to get even better here, score more, assist more, become more consistent, play poorly and still score 2 or create 2 etc. Lets say for instance if we were to take Suarez out of that Liverpool team the year they finished 2nd (can't get over that Demba Ba goal still) and they would not have finished 2nd. Hazard has been key in PL wins for us too. He can go that next level, continue to do so again but be better, set his own bar higher. This is why I think Neymar is better and more likely to be that number 1 player before Eden is. I know Eden brings much more when he plays too, chances created etc but stil; think he should be being pushed to score more goals, particularly if we are gong to see him more as a second striker or as a false 9.

Think that boat has sailed. I don't think hes anywhere near as good as people thought he was or what he thinks he is. He was pretty decent under AVB for us and one season at Liverpool but still think hes vastly overrated. If he stayed and played more as a right winger here he'd of been a mainstay, his skill set is more applicable to that role for me, although he got extremely greedy and shot almost every 2nd time he touched the ball before AVB went haha.

Please that is a lame excuse. Neymar has elevated PSG to another level along with Mbappe and Dani Alves. They were pretty poor the season before hand (big players performing extremely poorly. Platform or not doesn't deter from the fact Neymar is more likely to win the Ballon D'Or than Hazard because he is a better player, who is more consistent as well as being involved in more goals. In all competitions Neymar has scored 24 goals and made 14 assists. That is 38 goals he has been involved with, in half a season (15G 11A in league, 6 goals 3 assists in CL, 3 more in French Cups). Where as Eden on the other hand has got 12 and made 4 assists (8G 2A in PL, 3G 2A in CL, 1G in League Cup). 16 goals. If Eden had those sort of numbers to go with some of his performances he'd be right up there for me, in terms of top 3 attacking midfield/forward players but he doesn't and that's why he will never win Ballon D'Or. One day he will be unplayable, score 2 and look head and shoulders above everybody in the PL, then the next week hes somebody else, 0 goals. He needs a ruthless streak in him to add more goals, because I know stats are overrated and people mention about who plays for us and who plays for PSG/Barca/Real depending on who we compare him to but there is so many moments in Chelsea games where I watch him and hes around the box or in the box and I'm thinking cmon shoot, score, but he doesn't.. he passes, if he just thought less or didn't try to be so fancy with some of the positions he gets in and just do what Diego Costa was very good at, hammering the ball in even if it hits the keeper, he'd easy add another 5 goals a season. Fair enough hes not the biggest concern in the squad but I look around Europe and see Neymar, Dybala, Suarez, Lewandowski, Messi, Ronaldo whoever else, scoring shit loads for fun (or mostof the time), Hazard has got huge levels of ability but he just lacks that killer instinct. Just on the whole general Neymar/Hazard/Ballon D'Or subject.

Neymar proved at Barca that without Messi, they could rely on him to be a catalyst. He was the best player on the park in that PSG game by a country mile (Messi and Suarez involved too), which is the greatest match in the CL that I have ever seen, although Munich was pretty good in terms of just how everything fell into place. I've never seen Hazard put in a performance like that one Neymar did v PSG or against Bayern this year in the CL but many won't, particularly that PSG game, the performance was something Messi would of been proud of. I think Neymar or Suarez would win the Ballon D'Or if Messi or Ronaldo weren't involved.

Interesting that he has his heart set on Barca move. Hes a good talent but they are more than well stocked in MF: Busquets, Paulinho, Rakitic, Coutinho, Iniesta, Andre Gomes, Carles Alena... can't see it happening anytime soon unless they are to offload at least 2 MF players, although they'd probably sell Rakitic or Gomes for right offer. I'd like to see us go after somebody in this mould, think Arthur is able to control games and is very mobile. Also on Barca and their MF I think Messi is that good that he could eventually play as a more offensive minded MF player when hes 35, 36, 37 for them with ease because he is that good, wouldn't be surprised, I think he could play to hes 40 and still be an outstanding player - might seem far fetched in some peoples views but don't see why he couldn't because he is capable of amazing assists, key passes etc.