Jase

We're Chelsea. We do things that do not make sense.

Lille 1-2 Chelsea PRE/POST-MATCH DISCUSSION, LIVE CHAT AND ANALYSIS 2019/20 Champions League Group Stage Match 2 2nd October, Wednesday 2019 Stade Pierre Mauroy 20:00 Kick Off (UK time)

Face it, Vesper. Willian is a favorite of Lampard. He'll get and sign a new contract too.

Get ready fellas, Willian is gonna sign a new contract and stay till 2022.

If he improves and proves me wrong in the long run, then I'll take a pie to the face.

This is becoming a bit like the Sarri-CHO situation from last season. I don't disagree that Pulisic needs time to settle in, adapt etc but getting left on the bench and not getting minutes - be it just even 20-30 minutes at this point - aren't going to do him any favors in settling and adapting to the league. But I guess if he keeps up that attitude, keeps working at it, he'll get there. And speaking of Willian, with him suddenly getting so much game time this season - a turnaround from Sarri last season - I suspect that we will offer him a new contract and he'll stay for another year at the very least!

https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2019/09/28/pulisic-lack-of-chelsea-playing-time-very-frustrating/

Really is bizarre. They normally jump on the slightest thing. Not when it's English related. Only the other day TalkSport ran an article about us becoming lovable to watch because of the youth players. Chelsea...lovable to watch...for non-Chelsea fans!

The journalists love Lampard because he's English. The fact that no one seemed to have pressed him just a tiny bit more on it says it all.

Every dog has its day. And it certainly helps when the opposition tried to play an open game and give time as well as space to make passes, like Brighton did today.

OI OI OI OI OI

The endgame for the academy is getting players into the first team. We haven't done that in the past, not this many. We are just doing it now. Plus, it's the latest trend it seems.

@milan.cech you still haven't answered my question!

lol Why?

LOL

Not just Pulisic, some other weaklings in the team need them too!

It would be hard to drop one of our more consistent performers. It's either gonna be him or Jorginho. And both, IMO, do not contribute enough defensively.

Kovacic, I think.

Not sure why you seem to have the idea that a winger can't do both sides of the game if needed, that it must be 1 or the other. And based on Lampard's comments today about having 4 wingers, seems like the long term plan would be moving Mount back to midfield - whether as the No.10 or 1 of the 3 midfielders - and have 2 from CHO, Pulisic, Pedro and Willian as the wingers (at least for this season's choices).

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/sep/27/chelsea-callum-hudson-odoi-sterling-example?CMP=share_btn_tw

Seriously, who cares?