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This. Our biggest problem is signing mediocre player from outside rather than use our academy for squad/rotation player (drinkwater, Zappacosta for example). I don't care about getting our youth to become 1st team, it is difficult to get that kind of talent.

Because we don't have first team philosophy so it does not make sense to play the same way. Teaching kids Conte and Mou system where we play in a very low black with 5 defender will be too result oriented for youth development. But comparing us to ajax is impossible. Dutch league is very weak. Ajax can keep bringing their youth to 1st team every year and they will do ok in Dutch. In epl where you have top talent everywhere, you can forget challenging for title.

Brilliant performance by Ajax. Ucl semifinal after besting juve n rm at their ground is not a small feat. But If city beat spurs, it is going to be a fun game between two possession oriented team. I see city going to final. On the other side of the bracket This barca team is just so vulnerable at the back, they will get destroyed by Liverpool front 3.

It looks like Ole found the best way to stop Messi.

Lol Gerard slip was a game where we have nothing to play. It was not a big game at all.

I don't understand some people here. We went to anfield, created a couple of very good chances with Hazard which he should have scored. Got beaten by class goal by salah and mane. We played Cho who is clearly not ready to play against this kind of team. Watch how he defend and watch Willian. But that is not important, he is young bla2.

Wait I thought you want a flexible manager. To play football against pool team is a very dumb idea, worse than against City unless you have a very good team. Even city change their buildup to be very conservative against pool.

You have to watch barca, psg and pool to understand how they keep their balance. Pool front 3,all of them are really2 good at pressing both as a unit and as a group. So it does not matter they play In our team only Willian and maybe Pedro is good at pressing. But you can see the amount of outrage in this tram when Willian or Pedro play. Tuchel change to 343 this season to accommodate their front 3, because he has 3 ubdroppable player. That is the reality of we have our Diego Costa instead of Higuain/Giroud he won't get dropped against pool.

False 9 mean that he does not trust hazard in defense and we dont have good strike. That is a reality. If we have an ubdroppable striker, there is no way we won't play him.

Yup, losing hazard is a blow but since there are so many flaws in our squad, investing the money on really good fb and striker can actually improve our team.

We are also poor. This season I rate our team 5th above only arsenal.

Arsenal look very2 poor. Not enough pace in the squad.

In epl for sure. We struggle more in epl compare to Europe is imo due to the physicality of epl. Barkley is decent but RLC is much more gifted physically. With kante and jorginho as our nail down starter we need the other player to be able to handled physical battle. In general our team is not physical at all. We really miss Costa and matic physicality.

So? Oscar is very important for the balance of that team. With Hazard being poor at defending we can't have our no 10 to be poor also. Oscar pressing was excellent. Alonso was instrumental in us winning the league that season.

I actually think people who think that RLC should have started more is the one who is crazy. Back problem is dangerous. Sarri himself said after last week that he will check with Ruben about his back after the game because he understand the complexity of back problem. People have to understand, if not handled properly back problems can ruin player career easily.

We won the league twice with Conte and Mou with Willian as starter.

Yes jorginho is too slow against most team in epl but in my opinion that is not our biggest problem. We don't have monster striker so we need to create plenty of chances but most of the times against physical team which is pretty much all of team in epl we struggle to create anything. That is why I like Ruben. Clearly he has flaws in his game but he can beat player with sheer strength which is what we need. But he had back problems. Back problem is dangerous, it can linger for a long time of not handled properly.

Because majority of people here think CHO is already better than Hazard. He came on against Watford and look like an 18 years old player.

Lol and lol and lol. Selling ineacho is like when we sell Bertrand traore. I don't even discuss them. Because they are not important player Zavaleta, clichy and sagna are release for free because they are too old. Do I need to explain about us losing Gary Cahill or John Terry. Lol if city sell Aguero, kdb, Fernandinho or any of their key player then we can talk. Honestly, there is no point of arguing anymore.

I am sorry your argument make no sense. Of course it does. I don't get it. Asumme I have a team worth 500 m, I sell all of them for 500 m and spend it on 500 m player. I will have a 500 m team. The other team also have 500 m of player and they spend "only" 450 m without selling anyone. They have a 950 m team. This is a simplification of the matter but It does matter.

Nah Conte problem was letting Costa go. He is the perfect striker for super defensive team like Chelsea Conte. Finding a striker that can fight two CB without little service is almost impossible but Costa can do that. Plus you can forget about RLC for Conte. He is not suited to Conte 343.

Because comparing us to city is just dumb. City transfer budget far eclipse ours. It is not oh 500 m spend. If we can spend on players without selling anyone is completely different to sign player because we have sold somebody If city has to sell sterling and sane when they sign Bernardo silva and mahrez then you can compare us to city. City this season signed mahrez for 60m just to be their backup winger.

Nope. Southgate said Cho is ready. If he play him against team like San Marino or friendly It is just bs. It is pretty much the same thing as what Sarri had done playing Cho in euro or off the bench. So in southgate eye he is behind sterling, Rasford, Sancho in England pecking order.

I don't understand. Assuming he play 3 up top. England usually play Rashford kane and sterling. Soutgate can prove what he said is true if he start Cho above Rashford and sterling otherwise it is just bs. If he play odoi in friendly it is just bs. He need to play him above those player.

That is a horrible argument. It is different spending 500 m when you don't sell anybody with spending 500 m when you have to sell your key player. We have sold courtois, Costa, Cesc and matic. All key players for us and Pulisic hasn't even kicked a ball yet. Comparing us to city is a dumb argument. They target the best player they can get. They won't target player like Alonso, Emerson and zappacosta because they can afford getting the best player they can get.