BlueLyon

Aguero wasnt PL proven when he came to england. Neither did Suarez or Costa. Its all about skill and mentality. Tbh if we get Lukaku and Alexis, everyone will be jumping off their seats, but watch those two play and they will bang hattrick each against wba and shit their pants against bayern real barca. I hope we pick better options than those two.

Entertainment wise, yeah that would be great. But success wise not so. We were always playing on emotions and mentality rather consistent quality. Lets say we play Barca, Napoli and Leipzig in groups, we need to give consistent run againt everyone to get further. This is where I think our club is not yet on that level. If we get lesser teams, we progress one way or other. Once we are in elimination stages, the further we go, the more emotions will be around for us to progress. And we are rather good in such moments. Thats why I can see us win against barca, napoli etc in elimination stages, but not so much in group stages when we dont yet have that drive. Its wrong mentality, but its how we played CL for a while now. Maybe Conte will change it tho.

I completely agree with you. He is like the Mertesacker of midfielders. So much skill on the ball, so much speed. He must play against Arsenal, so we can see the clash of titans between Matic and Mertesacker.

Terry, Lahm, Alonso, Thiago, Totti. So many legends leaving this season

Well these goal to min comparissons are rather pointless. Its great he is finaly getting back on track and scoring, we all knew he has potential back then when he signed. The same hype train went around in august, but soon everything calmed down. So what if he managed to score all these goals in such short time? Cool, we have nice potential striker, but it means nothing at all. Its potential, not definite. Giroud, Ba, Remy had decent ratios too, doesnt mean they can start as Chelsea striker. I will start Bats hype when he does two things; convince Conte that he is capable of playing every game as first choice and secondly, return that faith from Conte in form of at least 20 goals next season and good performances in big games. Thats when hype can start. He is promising, but got a long way to go. Its nice he got some time at the end, he deserved it.

And now his watch has ended Mr Chelsea the greatest captain there ever was, thank you for everything

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Its alright mate, nobody is At least if we play realy well in FA cup final, we can give him some minutes there too

Tbh laliga and ligue 1 has sleeve spnsors for a while (example barca-beko) and I guess if PL gets sleeve sponsors, doesnt mean we will soon be putting them everywhere. Its just following what others are doing. Some leagues even allow sponsor on back where usualy players name is with players name under the number or vice versa. PL was very restriced and clean so far when it comes to sponsors. Sleeve sponsor will only replace PL badge on one side, so it should still look clean more or less. Unless obviously logo is ridiculous like our Carabao. But City one doesnt look that bad tbh. I agree side logos should only be in white or black single colour. Psg, Barcelona have them in white so its allright. But if we throw whole carabao logo with that red bull it will look rather awful.

Wish we dont do that, but its gonna happen most probably.

Well then if you have a team of similar aged players, some years later they all have to be replaced nearly the same time which is impossible. Every team needs young hungry and experienced wise players to work. We are in position where all our experienced players left and we didnt make proper replacements back then, thats why we have to sign one or two older players. Be it Nainggolan or whoever else. Besides if someone is realy good, doesnt matter if he is 22 or 30. Sheva was already in decline, while Maka or Ballack played big part here despite their age. Age got nothing to do with why someone like Sheva floped. Torres was at peak years and flopped too. Its all about form of player and Nainggolan in this case isnt going down, but keeps high level of performances. Its allright to build dynasty and all, but we already have Azpi, Tibo, Kante, Eden, Alonso who will form that dynasty here hopefuly. We will probably get younger RWB and striker, thats why midfielder and another CB can be older. That gives you 7 younger and four experienced players (Luiz, Pedro, CM, CB) which is perfect. Soon we will also hopefuly improve our RW with someone near Edens age, so theres that.

It sounds right, obviously. Pogba didnt deserve 90m, neither did Higuain, or Belotti for 50. But market is not ''right'' for years. He has many years left and plays for psg who has money and big ambitions. He is young and already performed well for years now. Going by market prices these days, that pretty much varrants at least 80m. Belotti rumours pops out, 50m. Kessie 40m, Diawara 40m, Bakayoko 40m,....Verratti 50m? And there were those rubbish rumours about 30m bids. Its funny dont you think? PSG will sell him for giant price IF they sell him and whoever will be bidding, it starts at around 60-70m and on. These rumours coming out are plain bs I guess, the press will link us to every player on globe.

Spuds didnt get the memo we are already champions lol

Ridiculous prices thrown around daily, yet every time Chelsea is linked with Verratti they say 30m, 40m, 50m lol. Someone is taking the piss.

I know, but this is all Alexis style of play. Its his decision making. He must know better and quicker when to pass and when to dribble. He is far from great link-up player. Very good for a striker standards, but rather average for a top winger. He is soo frustrating at times, making these weird decisions by dribbling infront of his own penalty area or trying to do all alone. Since we were linked with them, I watched more of Arsenal games and he often passes too late or not at all. if he is going to be on our right, his decision making must be on top and his understanding with Eden and striker, but I dont think that would be the case. He likes to be superstar of the team, he complains alot and gets very frustrated if things go south, once that happens, all you can do is sub him. However I respect his work rate. Sometimes I think I see two different players on pitch. One that scores goals and tracks back alot, then the other who frustrates the shit out of supporters with solo dribbles and complains. Then there is his age. I agree we need one or two more experienced leaders, but Alexis is not that. He is not long term solution and neither someone who will be brilliant addition to squad. I can totaly see him at City and do Sterling. Allright player, but nothing realy extra. Maybe Im wrong, and if there is no other option, I guess Alexis would be allright. But big rival fee, his age, his attitude may not be worth the hassle. Maybe just get someone who does not have our rival's label and will make his name in PL as Chelsea player.

No player is great in every game. Griezmann had quite amount of very good games against top sides, while James is not playing in such games because he goes in hidding much like Cesc did against better teams. Like you said his attitude is poor and that gets exposed by better teams. Yeah, Griezmann is not penalty taker and should not take them in first place. Besides Griezmann will always be judged by scored goals, James is being evaluated by whole performance and even if Griezmann gets decent performance, but doesnt score, people will say he was average.

That sucks. I would expect considering PL is english, you would have even more games covered in UK.

This is why we shouldnt get him. He has these farts every match, sometimes very near arsenal penalty area.

It makes sense. If other game is more exciting/important and you still catch celebrations from champions, obviously they will do that. But I would also expect sky or whoever to stream more than just one game on their channels.

Just wondering, you guys have no other channels to watch Chelsea games other than Sky/bt sports? I know they are official partners, but I would expect you guys get several channels to watch your favourite team. Even in my country, there are like 5 domestic sport channels showing PL games, there I could pick between 3-5 games every week, and I could see Chelsea every matchday.

Isco is alot quicker on ball than James. In the end its all about that. How quick you pass the opponents. Isco is basicaly slower version of Hazard, while James is more of Ozil, with better shot. Well tbh we dont play with wingers. Eden and Pedro are more of second forwards or sth, with Moses and Alonso providing width and crosses. I agree Isco is not best choice for the spot, Griezmann would be ideal. But he is just so good on the ball (almost Eden). It would give us another option in attack when Eden is marked/not in form. While James and Isco are not fast, they have entirely different style. Isco is quicker on ball, great dribbler and can either pass or shoot. He has good balance. James on other hand has better vision and great shot. Thats why Isco fits our right side better than James. I was never impressed with James attitude either tbh. Very poor in big games. Realy wish we get Griezmann tho.

I would love if he retired here. And Chelsea should without a doubt retire #26. Its very unusual number and Terry is the man that was raised at Chelsea and captained it for over a decade on highest level. It would be the right thing to do.

Yeah the board must support Conte this time. I think interest in CL from Roman, players and Conte is once again increasing and maybe we will spend bit more. I would say we will never pay 90m for any player, but in this case we have 70m from Oscar alone and Costa who might leave for crazy money, never mind the market went crazy in past years. Im positive we can spend that on one player and still have left for other targets. The question is if board wants that.

We are champions, with CL next year, top manager, some great players, and we definately have money (Oscar sale) to get Griezmann. For Antoine, Chelsea should be no brainer, he would play along Hazard and Kante in balanced team with team mates close to his age. His position would be second striker, nearly perfect, meanwhile he would be on wing for United with alot of tracking back. Unless the reason is money or such big love for Pogba, Griezmann should chose us. We were interested in Griz for years now and we still have Costa who might be the ticket to get Griezmann, at least from Atletico's perspective. Sure its all about Chelsea policy, if we wont spend bit more, we will be in trouble. Maybe not next year, but soon. Dybala, Verratti, Neymar,...neither is available. So to improve, we need to go all on Griezmann or Isco, with former suiting us more. Pedro is quality this season too, so if he keeps up, we should be fine for now, but with player like Griz, we reach next level. I would go balistic if we pulled such move in summer.

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