Jase

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'.

Here's the thing, if the players don't follow the manager's instructions and something wrong happens, they get criticized. If they follow the instructions and something wrong happens, they also get criticized. So, who exactly is at fault here? Why did we even play a high line against Arsenal to begin with? We should have defended deeper for a start, especially when we were not going to press or capable of pressing effectively. That setup is from Lampard and he didn't change anything during the game. To say Arteta had a game plan to nullify James is sort of kind for us when he had Arsenal repeatedly exploit the area between James and Azpi (later Zouma) and Lampard did nothing to sort that problem out. Can't believe I'm saying but we probably missed Willian doing the "donkey work" down that side on Saturday. Also, I know JT is arguably our best captain ever but there is a tendency to say things that makes him perfect when in reality, he also got exploited a lot while playing in a high line under AVB.

Yikes!

You said it as if Inter want to sack Conte when in reality, it looks as if Conte is trying to get himself sack with his constant moaning. Okay Allegri had some signings in his first season, notably Morata, Coman and Evra but regardless, he still managed to take Juventus to the final at the first time of asking and then another later. Conte doesn't have the greatest of records in Europe anyway. 2012/13 - Got to the UCL QFs (lost to eventual champions Bayern) 2013/14 - Got KOed in the UCL Group Stage (lost in the Europa League semi-final to Benfica) 2017/18 - Got KOed in the UCL R16 2019/20 - Got KOed in the UCL Group Stage (included a 3-2 lost at Dortmund after going 2-0 up and a 1-1 home draw against Slavia Prague) There also have been dodgy results along the way.

Seems like Lewis Dunk is a Chelsea fan... https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/8768651/lewis-dunk-chelsea-dog-didier-drogba/

We should be fine as long as the Spanish player costs less than 40 million.

Pretty sure the club broke their own policy when they also decided to give a 30-year-old+ Luiz two-year contract. The likes of Terry and Lampard must have spitted bloody...

Still can't believe we managed to sign him!

Lewis Dunk again!? He fits Lampard's height solution, I guess...