Jase

Out of those lot, Barkley looks the easiest to be sold. There is likely a market for him.

Official...

If the long term plan is to play 4-3-3, then one of the midfield slots is more than readily available for Mount.

Better pray he doesn't get injured...

Welcome back to earth, folks...

You will be surprised...

You keep using Kante and Pulisic as excuses to defend Lampard but completely ignore the fact that some other players have also suffered muscle injuries this season and why they have happened so many times, beyond than just the situations with Kante and Pulisic. And this is not even about blaming Lampard for the heck of it. If it has happened to only Kante and Pulisic, then fine, I take your point completely but given others have also suffered the same problem and the number of times it has happened, it is only normal to question what is going on and if there is something not right with the way Lampard trains the players, especially when our injury record overall in previous years is good. Is that really offensive to you? Just want the players to be healthy and not get unnecessary injury when it can be prevented!

On Reguilon... https://global.espn.com/football/soccer-transfers/story/4153115/chelsea-in-advanced-talks-with-real-madrids-reguilonchilwell-deal-stalls-sources

Really? Then LOL @ those who went gaga over him being a Chelsea fan...

Can't wait for the endless Havertz v Sancho comparisons next season...

If Pulisic is really out for only 4-5 weeks, then he should be back for the start of the season. At worst, he'll miss the first week or second. Also depends on when we will actually start the season, whether the Premier League will give teams like us a later start date instead of September 12.

Like I said, it depends on several factors. And mind you, Conte and to an extent Sarri, managed to get good contribution out of those defenders you mentioned there. In Alonso's case, it's his physical attributes that let him down but that can't be helped. In the long term, probably not. Short term, possibly. Having said that, I am not sure whether Terry and Lampard will be able to co-exist within the same coaching team. Not sure if they will have the right dynamic.

ITK.

Whether or not Terry is a good defensive coach or the right fit for us is debatable but saying he is a bad one just because of Villa's defensive too simplistic. We don't know how the dynamic between him and Dean Smith works and since we are all screaming for new and better defenders, maybe Terry just have crap ones to work with at Villa?

But why does it need leaders to tell Lampard that the team can't cope with pace? He is the manager and he should know the players better than most. We even have the recent Liverpool game as an example. Lampard may have a certain way of playing but defending deeper or doing anything similar doesn't mean he has to sacrifice that and he has shown that he can be adaptable with how we set up - see games against Man City or Man United. So the way he set the team up made little sense, even more so when he failed to sort things out during the game.

If those lot are gonna show that kind of attitude, then they should be binned immediately. Plus, the likes of Rudiger and Alonso don't have much leg to stand on given they have been the problematic defenders in the team. Also while we need a strong defender in the backline, we can't just rely on that one person. The backline needs and should be working as a unit. We may have had someone like JT marshaling the defence but he also had Ivanovic, Cole for example. It needs to be a collective responsibility rather than just individual responsibility.

Does it matter? It is just suicidal to play a high line against pacey opponents if the team can't press effectively. Yes and that's because RDM reverted to the pragmatic style that suited the players. We didn't play a high line against Man City and Man United recently for example but decided to do so for whatever reason against Arsenal.

JT from that 3-5 Arsenal game would like to say 'hi'.