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Training is different from playing. He's had an injury and played only 30 minutes in the last 6-7 months. Am glad that Ziyech is back fit but just like Pulisic in the last game, I'd rather we ease him in than just throw him straight back into action and risk another injury, which happened a lot last season because we rushed players back.

You gotta factor the traveling, jet lag etc. He's 36, not 26. And furthermore, we knew when we signed Silva that he's not gonna start every single game. So, I don't get what's the fuss around this.

It's because he came back late from international duty...

Mendy not fit. Silva won't be available after returning late from international duty. Pulisic fit to play. Ziyech fit to play but not ready to start. Chilwell fit to play.

Looks like Mendy will be the only one who will miss the game. We'll know more from Lampard's presser at 1:30pm UK time later...

I don't mean this window specifically, just in general. Every season, we just loan out all these players and they all just seem to accept it (and some complain about it later on). Do they not want to settle down at a club, in a country etc rather than constantly move around every season?

Not aiming at Moses but find it bizarre that these players that we constantly loan out don't take charge of their career and just tell the club "enough is enough. I want to go somewhere to get settled down". Instead, they seem content to just get loaned out every season and in some cases, they complain about the club's loan system somewhere down the line.

International football just ended yesterday and Bayern are already back playing today...

You make our situation look rather desperate when it's not.

The thing is (a) we don't know when exactly Silva got back to England and (b) he's already 36 years old. He may not be able to just brush off the jet lag etc like it's nothing and plus, we have Sevilla to come on Tuesday. Think we knew from the start that Silva wasn't going to be able to play every game. So, I won't be surprised if Lampard rests him for this one especially when we have Sevilla to come on Tuesday.

So all those posts of people getting excited about Haaland...

Romano may be reliable but I don't see what's the point of talking so much about Haaland right now when (a) any potential transfer move for him is like 9-10 months away (b) only Romano himself has said this. If more sources start saying the same thing, then I'll be more than happy to join the conversation. Otherwise I don't see what's the point of talking about something that just came off from one person. And we will buy players next summer for sure but if you want to talk about Haaland, go ahead. I am just more interested to see how Lampard develops this team first before worrying about who we will buy next summer.

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It turned out that Liverpool were able to negotiate a fee structure with Wolves for Jota, meaning they didn't have to pay 40 million upfront immediately. Werner had a release clause and I believe Leipzig wanted that fee to paid up right away. And I also believe Jota is on lower wages than Werner would have gotten there.

Yes but think we also got lucky that the other clubs suffered financial hits from the pandemic. If the pandemic had not happened, I highly doubt we would have gotten Havertz and Werner for example as easily as we did. Bayern or Real Madrid would have likely signed Havertz and Liverpool may well have gotten Werner before we suddenly swooped in.

Could care less who said it. This could be all just empty talk for all we know. Furthermore, if Werner is Lampard's long term plan to be our #1 striker, then I don't see how it makes sense to get Haaland into the side. Neither is going to be happy to sit on the bench and even if we move Werner out wide, it will solve one problem and create another when we have a number wide attacking options as well as tons of midfield options. And constant chopping and changing the team isn't going to help anyone. As I said, let's see how Lampard develops the team this season before before we start thinking far ahead into next summer's transfer targets.

How is this even comparable? On paper, yeah, Haaland is obviously the much more fancier name and player than Rice but if you look at what we need in this team, we need a defensive midfielder more urgently than a striker. Personally, I don't believe this Haaland rumor one bit - especially if people are gonna base it off a quote - and I would be more curious to see how the current team develop and play out before we start to worry about next summer's potential transfer targets.

Find it bizarre that club managers have not made much more noise about players playing international matches in this congested season, especially when the COVID-19 cases are flaring up again across Europe.

https://theathletic.com/news/chelsea-transfer-antonio-rudiger-germany/LZwqxmLRk4Oh How close did he come to leaving Chelsea? The 27-year-old is yet to feature for Chelsea this season and acknowledged that he had opportunities to leave Stamford Bridge this transfer window. “Naturally, I looked at a couple of options in the two weeks before the end of the transfer window,” he said. “There was a possibility of a loan deal, in order for me to get more game time. Due to many different reasons and the shortage of time, nothing materialised in the end.” Did Chelsea really want to move him on? Rudiger has been a peripheral figure for Chelsea this season and The Athletic understands that Tottenham Hotspur, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Roma and Barcelona all expressed some form of interest in the defender during the transfer window. But Rudiger claims Chelsea were not determined to push him out of the club. “The club didn’t tell me that it was absolutely necessary for me to find a new club and that they definitely didn’t have me in their plans for the next few months,” he said. “I also turned down one or two options myself. I wasn’t prepared to pack it all in simply because I had been left out a few times. I enjoy living in London and like being at Chelsea.” What does Rudiger’s future hold? Rudiger is hopeful that Chelsea’s cramped calendar will afford him a chance to come back into the fold. But he also hinted at his need to move on if he keeps being frozen out. “It is what it is now. I will accept it for the time being and try to show myself in every training session. We are in many different competitions, it’s two games per week all the way from now. “Sometimes in football, things can change very quickly. That’s why I will continue to give my best every day and try to convince the manager.” Chelsea return to Premier League action with a home match against Southampton on Saturday evening.

Germany are sleep walking into another potential disaster under Jogi Low at next year's Euros.

If that had been Abraham, you would have been shouting from the rooftop over it. You could maybe argue that one of the defenders should have just taken him out (and maybe risk him getting injured!) but it's never easy to stop a player suddenly running at you, especially once you start backpedaling, and he still had a lot to do to score that goal.