BlueLyon

Whats special about Verratti? The man can pick a pass like Cesc or run half the pitch to throw his body on the line and tackle the opponent. But he doesnt do elasticos so yeah...

I think he could be one of those late bloomers starting at age 25 and on... He is probably best for #8 in 433 and those players need experience. But theres the thing .RLC has physique and technique, but lacks motivation. If Conte keeps him in our ranks, gives him decent amount of chances and moulds him like Pogba, then maybe he can make it here. Like Roberto at barca. He is obviously overhyped, but there is still a chance for him. But if we wont give him playtime, better sell him with clause.

The only thing Im realy dissapointed is that we look incredibly shit under pressure. Doesnt matter against which side. Derby County or City. The players start to panic, hoof the ball, pass back, all the way to GK, make stupid mistakes. Then there is the movement and passing vision that is rubbish when we get pressed. I would get the idea that our players were used to control the game and all of sudden, opponents decided to riot and march against us. As if our players faced that for the first time. But its not that, we always played the same style which was defending for more or less majority of time and let opponentc press us. So maybe the players are simply shit in this aspect, mentaly and technicaly. I hope Conte fixes that. Gives more composure and control to our play. And make earlier subs. That would be great start.

I will be worried when we take things for granted

Now thats what I call taking chances. He did realy well yesterday, simple stuff, but his composure on the ball is very good. Seems like those that we didnt count much like Moses and Chalobah are proving us and the club wrong.

Didnt Luke say he went to United because there was bigger chance to play? As if Jose would keep playing players he knows, ahead of Shaw. If Shaw realy wanted us, he would join us for smaller wages, as long he got some sort of trust he will play. i dont know how honest Luke is, but I bet we didnt want to pay the fee either. Like always. Now three years later, we bought Luis, sold Luis, bought Baba, loaned Baba, signed Alonso. For about 50m (not including Luis as we got most of cash back) and for who knows what wages. We went for cheaper alternatives and we have fb problems for few years now. Instead we could have young english player who is actualy good too. Maybe its the fate, we get bad luck for few more years at fb and then we pull another Ashley Cole, this time from United haha

Great comeback that was well deserved. No lucky goals, moments of individuals etc, but we actualy attacked as team. That first Cesc goal was brilliant. Costas run, Edens backheel and Cesc finish. Lovely! Moses definately deserves more time. His physical presence was something we were missing in attacking mid for a while. He should give Willian a good run and hopefuly Conte picks the best one, not the most expensive one. Chalobah deserves some more time, meanwhile RLC was just poor. The kids head is in all the wrong places. Alonso...well I said my point about him during match, and stick to it. By no way I like his type of fullback and he was poot in defense and kept simple when in possesion (was his first game though). But he should still play ahead of Iva. He wont though. Cesc got his two goals and had good game after 45minute. But the first half shown he is still problem for our midfield because he is not quick enough. Unless we get two Kantes, I dont realy see him in first 11, because it makes our midfield immobile. I realy like his attitude though. Costa got his victim again and once he came on, he was a proper beast. Missed few chances, but his play was just fantastic. He was very polite vs liverpool and it didnt work well. Love him or hate him, to get best of him he must be agressive. Eden was on fire too. If those two were in this form last friday, we could win. All in all good prep for Arsenal. Players heads are in great shape now and we should give gooners a real test.

Realy good second half and extra time. I just hope we can do that from the get go in next games, instead of waiting this long.

Cahill is bad. Everyone knows that. No need to point it out every match. Just like you dont say sky is blue every fucking day haha. If he has good game tho, I always praise him for that. The thing is, we dont fucking need another Cahill. And we just got that in Alonso. I been saying since I heard his rumours he is going to be average, and we should instead go for Fabinho. But no he might be good you know, they said. He can play CB they said. Fuck that, 25m for this. We needed a FB that will give us more drive to the wings, because Iva is slow. And no we sign another wood. Give me dynamic fullback anyday over this potato of a player. Obviously people will blame Alonso because we needed good full back and he just isnt. His defending is poor, his ball play is simple. No speed. And no, he wont improve. Because you cant when you get one game per two months. Iva till next summer it is.

Blaming? Not realy. You cant blame someone who is bad that you expected wont be good enough from beggining. Thats exactly why Im sick of these signings. Shitload of cash for unrpoven players, hopefuly they will turn out great in that one or two games they will get. Even if he can be good. he wont get the time. And he has absolutely no connection for chelsea to show any fight for the team whatsoever. You got to love our problem solving. Buy new average LB and switch our best defender back to other side, because he is apparently much better there, while in truth, he is better on left and will need about 10 games to adjust to his new (old) RB place. We should just throw 30m or whatever for Fabinho and be done with. Now we have Alonso who wont do shit, who we paid 25m for, and he will be on our bench for ages because we dont want to lose money and no one will offer 25 for him. And next summer when we will need new full back? The board will be like we paid 25m last year, so there is no way we will go for top fullback, but hey Conte, we can give you 20m which is not enough to buy the one you want, but more than enough to buy another average one. Also now you can see why Conte doesnt play Cesc. His passing cant save him for the all other areas he is poor in. The defence is beyond shit, but tbh Luiz at least offers something in terms of play and if he had good partner, good fullbacks and a proper midfield ahead, he would be just fine. In other news, our players look same old slow and immobile as last year. Im sure if we signed Messi and Ronaldo, they would play like they are in their 50s ffs. The first few games and preseason, there was improvement and quite big one. But since Swansea, then Liverpool and now this, with every game the play gets worse and slower. is it the mentality, I dont know, but if players gave up after two games, they can all fuck out of club, because apart from very few individuals, I see no grit, no passion, no fight in majority of players who should put their body on line for the pay they recieve.

Hahhaahahha that shit is getting too funny now...or realy realy sad.

Ah i see...yeah I saw those for match vs leicester.

yeah but still weird as one would expect them to throw their logo left and right to be visible.

Tbh if we get proper replacement, I would mind him leaving. Never realy proved his quality on the pitch and I never liked him as a person much.

I just saw on chelsea fb page that we dont train in adidas apparel anymore, but some plain blue gear with badge and sponsor only. Interesting, probably because we are moving to nike...but we have contract till summer, no?

"I totaly didnt want more money, Napoli is my dream club" In other news; pigs fly...

Mourinho fucked up when he didnt sign Alex Hunter.

This was Contes first league defeat at home after 30 games.

Whats going on with valencia? Are they that bad because they actualy have decent team

Once ours, now best player at City and still very young. In the end, its just very sad that no one at chelsea saw what me and plenty of other fans saw. You know, United had same thing with Pogba, Barca with Thiago, but we are the club that cant afford such stupid shit. The problem is, we dont learn shit. Kenedy who IMO could end up a realy good player, but Im certiain that we will fuck it up somehow.

If Matic was still that great DM, we could play him there with Kante as roaming b2b and Cesc the creator. Sadly Matic cant own DM place anymore, meaning we have to play Kante there. And Cesc cant play either in such case because Matic is too slow for the role he is given now.

Take a look at @SkySportsStatto's Tweet: https://twitter.com/SkySportsStatto/status/776898310783238148?s=09

Apart from few players, we are simply to inconsistent. We all know how good is Hazard, that Oscar can put in great attacking performance, that Willian can put in great warrior display for whole night to help his team, but sadly it happens every 5th game.

Where did this lad go...its just sad to see him doing a Mikel these days. He was decent today, that run for goal was lovely, but far from a DM he was two years ago.

Pedro took the mantle from Cuadrado for the useless big name winger on the bench.