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Perhaps so but Guardiola failed to adapt to what he had at that point and kept playing the same way and got exposed almost every week. You would hope Sarri doesn't turn out to be that way.

Hope so. Guardiola's Barcelona and Bayern had good defensive records but he went all gung-ho in his first Premier League season and look what happened. Hopefully, Sarri is more adaptable.

Surely he's going to start ahead of Alonso in the back 4? Alonso is bad, especially in this system!

Death. Taxes. @Mana coming into the TalkChelsea to complain about Morata.

If you compare the two, then duh. But that hardly means Zappacosta is fit for the role... Funny thing is, we don't necessarily need to play them in the same role in the side... Good god. What ever is your problem? You came back here after some time away and are being rather aggressive in your posts!

Box-to-box midfielder? Kante's passing ability isn't WOW but it's severely underrated. He has improved so much on the ball over the last 1-2 years that he's more than just a midfield destroyer and he can still get better! Besides, I know we all imagine Sarri's football is like the utopia of attacking football, where we have endless amount of ball passers but I would like to think he also knows how to add a touch of defensiveness/pragmatism in the team. Can't be going all gung-ho in the Premier League. Plus, it would be criminal if Sarri benches someone as good as Kante, who is by no means incompatible to Sarri's style.

So you are basically saying quality doesn't matter?

First it was Kante and now Zappacosta. The latter has always looked decent in crap oppositions. Just wait till we play half decent teams...

Game is now live on Chelsea TV.... https://www.vipbox.st/perth-glory-vs-chelsea-fc-1-online-stream

Yeah...seems like they geo targeted the stream to only certain countries.

It's free on Twitter it seems... https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1dRKZgVAlRzGB

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You don't necessarily need to 'agree' with the whole post to actually like it though.

People getting excited Golovin liked the post...What if he only did so because of the first part of the message as opposed to the second one? 🤔

Does this work? 🤔

Maybe the board did screw up or maybe Golovin feels going to Monaco would be better for his career. We don’t know exactly for sure, do we?

So, we desperately want Rugani but only gonna offer him, who is only 23 years old, a 4-year-deal? Convincing.

OR maybe Golovin finds going to Monaco would be better for his career. After all, it’s not like we have a stellar record in making young players better.

Find it peculiar that people are upset over missing out on a player that most didn’t even hear off before the World Cup. Anyway, this Monaco deal seems to have Emenalo written all over it. Not sure if it’s as conclusive as reported given the contrasting reports we have heard over the last few days.

Courtois will only go if we can find a replacement, according to Kristof. But god knows who that replacement is gonna be. There have been some underwhelming names mentioned.