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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.

Shields is the hot shot right now. And so far he merits picking up the players more then any other. Until I see otherwise he is doing good so far.

I think they will buy Liverpool since with us Todd and company can't sell for a few more years.

Guy has fallen out of rhythm lately as he is doing a Ronaldinho. Partying and forgetting about the futbol. Such a shame.

I'm happy for him, I think this would help England win finally for once in a long time.

I think we should try for Hincapié if we can't get murillo.

Seems like Joe Shields is the hot scout at this moment. Everything he says we will listen and try to buy. Crazy what a good call on Palmer can do for ones reputation.

I think we might go for Murillo since he is already in the pl. Let's see how much he would cost.