Fernando

I'm a big fan of Murillo. The only worry I have is if he is really good with the ball at his feet? I like him because of his strength and PL acclimatize. But compare to the others how good will he be in a team that wants to hold the ball more? I like Hincapie but he is rash at times. Get's a lot of red cards, more then any other player there I think.

Yes the directors are doing good with strikers and target they want. Even in the mid and wingers. But they need to get ASAP a good director with defense. As well with set piece like Arsenal did and now they are good at this.

Yes when you have a really good team already set up at times any okay coach can do good. Look at us making it to the final of the CL with Avram Grant. We could have won it, but that would not put Avram grant a genius. Just inherited a well good team. Right now with Chelsea we are doing good because there's two things. 1 we come back from an improvement season that was led by Poch at the end of last season and two I think Maresca is good. So we are not a complete build team yet, a work in progress so both of these have helped us.

So we have spent a lot of money and nowhere near good, as well current united. So money by itself is not enough otherwise we our united will be winning as well. Pep is a once in a lifetime coach like saf.

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And City is in the top four...so what is the issue? Just like City now, SAF wasn't amazing every year.

SAF also had some woeful season

I'm glad, because before his injury he was really good. But after he came back he has been woeful. Still a lot to desire but improvement is good because it raises his value.

Much better game and with Caicedo. I always said it before buying them they was my dream pair. Hopefully that partners can grow into why I always wanted them both.

We have Sancho being bought next season....Paez and Estevao coming. I don't think we should. Let's fix the defense first.

Kind of like kante. Maybe the Saudi league will be good for him.

Yeah I liked what I saw from him in terms of personality last season. However the loan was the right move.

Yes because most of us here always say, the manager is supposed to get his player. All the way back from Mourinho. And we have seen time and time that it can be a hit and miss. Altough Mourinho mark 1 did good but after that Mourinho has been woeful. Carlo for the desire in Torres, Conte buys etc etc. A lot of these are awesome managers but had woeful calls in buying players. So because of taking all these example I'm leaning that we are doing the right model, not rely on a manager input to buy players but the directors as a team should do that. Of course you have exceptions when you amazing talent in coaching like United had with SAF and currently City with Pep. But those type of managers are rare, we hardly get to see these types of managers coming left and right. Hence the wise choice is how Chelsea is being set up with scouts, directors and what not. The only department we are lacking is a transfer guru for defense. We are good at other parts, but defense we need a better transfer director for that.

All under Roman not Todd and company.

I still hope they are saying that just so that the value does not fall and we can sell them when an opportunity comes around.

I am not really sold on this guy. Should be sold if someone comes knocking. In general our defense needs big improvement.

Always been a top manager on my books for me. I was surprised he couldn't do it with Tottenham.

Liverpool is counter attacking. That will not work against City, Real Madrid and the like. To be elite we need players like Kroos to help us control the mid.

We won't have creativity in the mid. All defensive minded, we need some creativity.

Was a good sell, but to replace him with KDH was just dumb. Get rid of KDH and get creative mid to help us control the middle better.

So basically with Caicedo, Lavia and Santos we are good for mid, but they are more defensive minded. We would suffer like Real Madrid that lack someone like Tony Kroos to control better the mid. Enzo was supposed to be the solution for this, but has not been to that level. Not sure if we will sell him and replace with someone that is creative...creative not defensive because we are good in that department now.

But he has done good so far. What are you on about? This is serious knee jerk reaction as always. On the whole Maresca has done much better then Poch or any other manager since Todd and company has been here. Club just need to focus on defense and gk.

But why? Those guys are insane money. Unless is true that they got some hand in Chelsea, and thus are happier to have some of Chelsea then Newcastle?

So Todd team is about to win. It took them a while to get this good. I think we are also on that trajectory. Probably on their 5th season we might see a more mature Chelsea.

Yes it seems we need a scout for defense. Because most of these scouts as you mentioned are more for attack minded targets. Kind of of like when Poch did not want a set piece specialist to come and work with us. Arsenal did that and it has done great for them. Likewise we need to get some defense specialist that can help balance the attack minded scouts and set up we have.