Jase

I have stated the reasons for being "annoyed" and I can't be bothered to repeat myself again. "Annoyed" with Giroud? No one is arguing against his goal record. It's more about his general performance, especially for someone leading the line. And of course you think they are all doing very good...am not even surprised! Really? Alonso was dropped because of the accumulation of mistakes/under-par performances under Lampard, going back to last season. What happened at West Brom was the straw that broke the camel's back. Azpi and even Emerson were played ahead of him at various points last season.

I don't know why you guys keep on throwing the comparison at me. Am not the one who have been comparing Mount with Grealish, Maddison etc! Is Mount's end product good/consistent? No. Should he be doing better? Yes. Am I wrong in saying that? No, especially when you have pointed it our yourself as well. That's all I have been saying! He's part of the problem why we're malfunctioning in attack.

All remaining teams in the Europa League... Tottenham Ajax Arsenal Molde Rangers Granada Shakhtar Donetsk Villarreal AC Milan BSC Young Boys Dynamo Kiev Dinamo Zagreb Slavia Prague Man United Olympiacos Roma

It's Leicester v Arsenal this weekend btw.

Err, Leicester have gone 1-0 down to Slavia Prague...

Err, did you quote the wrong person or...? Because I wasn't even talking about the development of Mount/Abraham.

Chilwell wasn't tearing up trees yes but was he a complete disaster? One also gotta ask, what has Alonso done to just walk back into the starting XI? His last act before Tuchel came in caused us to be 3-0 down at HT against West Brom and then decided that he was better off being in the team bus than sitting in the stands to try and back the team. The only reason Alonso is even back in the XI is because of the change in manager. You can point out that Alonso is better in this and that but how do you expect Chilwell to get better if he's just sitting on the bench? The annoying thing here is that we're supposed to be building for the future by playing players that were bought for the future but instead, we have suddenly gone back to using the players that aren't our future, should be sold and would have been sold if it wasn't for the pandemic. Said it in another thread, it's a bloody shame that Lampard was tactically incompetent/out of his depth because he had the right idea of the squad personnel for the future. Now? God knows where we are again under Tuchel. Moreover, having someone more dynamic and quicker than Alonso would also help out our general play. You see what we have on the right side with CHO/James and you see what we have on the left with Alonso. CHO/James both have pace and the ability to beat players and get forward. Alonso isn't capable of that. He doesn't have the ability and pace to beat and get past players, not even one on one. If you don't play him into space, he's not going to create anything. We are seriously the only top side around that are obsessed with playing a slow, snail-paced FB.

This is funny. You just mentioned about Chilwell's lack of game time under Tuchel the other day and now you're suggesting someone else who is not a FB or WB at all and is horribly out of form to be played ahead of Chilwell at LWB.

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But have you forgotten what the club did with Luiz and Willian? They gave the former a 2-year deal and then tried to give the latter a 2-year deal as well. If Azpi is happy to play as backup, then I don't see any harm of keeping him around. He's well settled in London, well liked/respected in the dressing room and done overall a good job as captain on and off the field.

Here's what Azpi said recently when asked about his future... https://www.goal.com/en-us/news/kepa-backed-to-clear-Chelsea-bumps-contribute-a-lot-as/kzue9rhtx7eo1djo3yp1zgk5q “I am very happy at Chelsea. I don't like to look too far ahead. “I enjoy the moment, I have the ambition to leave the club at as high a level as I can and I am going to train and play with the hope of continuing to do important things. Hopefully that lasts a long time.”

Could end the season in 8th if he plays all the remaining 13 league games or 13 games in all competitions.

I mean, he gets into goalscoring positions but it doesn't change the fact that he has only 13 goals in 87 appearances for us. That's 1 goal every 6.7 games. Way too demanding on him? He plays for Chelsea, not Derby County and if anything, it's probably a testament to him that people are saying he should be doing better, because he can. No one wants him to turn into another Willian that does all the hard work but becomes braindead in the final third.

Just find someone who isn't an anti-forward passer!

Isn't Lampard's wife gonna give birth soon or something? Doubt he would take the job right now, even though it would be interesting to see it happen.

We also need better passers in midfield. We need a Fabregas in midfield. Too often we would just pass backward or sideway, thus allowing the opposition to get back into their defensive shape and making it hard for us to penetrate. Even having a dribbler would find it difficult to do anything if they have to beat 2-3 players every time, as already seen in some instances with Mount.

TBF attacking midfielder or no attacking midfielder, am sure Tuchel and Mount himself expect the end product in the final third - both have said so about creating chances and scoring goals. Otherwise if we take yesterday's starting XI for example, only 2 players would get the goals and no one else would score them and not many others would even create the chances. If Mount can get better with his end product, he would likely go on to be among the best, and I also think he has more potential to improve than Wijnaldum had anyway.

Both. I could but am lazy to do it now. I only checked the stats because I was bit bored. I am well aware of the holes in that stat. There's no need to take it seriously.

So, you're like Mana but with friends who are Man United fans instead. 🤪

LMAO