BlueLyon

To speed up the Sarri arrival, Juv is willing to sell Higuain to us for 27m. Id laugh, but we are stupid enough to buy Higuain for this kind of money.

If we lose him too, we might aswell shut down the club. And he should never be on 100k, not yet at least. He is 18 and he didnt show enough for that wage. If the starting spot and #10 aint enough good reason to stay at club that made you...

I hope he delivers for us, but given his career so far, people are not writing him off, its just the reality that he isnt up there with best talents/players. If anything people overrate him for now. How can he be viewed as Eden replacement/future star when he has done so little to prove it? He is an okay player thats why people are sceptical. And he cost alot. 60m is plenty of money. If the club values him that much, then he must deliver something. For that money you get top player, not someone who will have a good game once per month. But obviously he was brought because he is american to sell the shirts. Even if he becomes a world beater, it was not expected, because right now he just isnt that kind of talent. I would be happy though. Chelsea had a choice to bring Eden replacement or someone to sell shirts in Usa and just maybe explode here. They picked the later. Tells you all about where we are as a club.

Managers are not like players. Klopp took Liverpool from 8th to CL trophy. They like the challenge. They thrive on it. Sarri had club backing, he got Jorginho, Higs, Kova. He didnt have fans backing because performances were frankly shit on many ocassions. When we lost but played well, there were no boos. But when we played like crap, Alonso in lineup, same subs etc, obviously fans will boo him. So what he has to complain about? If he truly wants to just jump ship because fancy Juve offers him a nice job, then he is an absolute coward and a twat. The worst professional manager I have ever seen. Managers go through shit but they leave either because their contract came to close or near, they get sacked or achieve everything and want a new challenge. They dont leave a top club after one year just because they get a fancy offer. I criticised Sarri alot due to perforances and his decisions, but I always supported his stay and project. However the shit he is pulling, I realy want him to fuck off (if this is true and not just media bs).

Sounds like he just used Chelsea to stay a year and then join Juve, so that he doesnt move directly from Napoli.

Wasnt he talking about how he wants to keep Kovacic this summer, indicating he will manage us next season? And now he wants to jump ship to Juve? Well fuck him then if thats the case. As for fans backing him or booing him, he has to get one thing into his head that we will back him if he will deliver good performances, regardless of the results. But when the team lacks any sort of motivation for months, then he better expect the boos.

Rumoured broken ankle

Everybody good at this club is either leaving or injured. Fabulous.

He will likely have the best season or two of his career in spain due to league style and playing with better teammates. He is on last year indeed, but far from being after the peak. We are not a selling club and Real wanted our best player. The fee had to be big.

Jokes aside, wish him good luck and let the new era for us begin. Thank you Eden.

And thats why they wont win CL with Pep for next 15 years.

Baloney. Even Zidane himself probably doesnt know where exactly will he play. It will all come after pre season. Im not realy scared we are about to lose best player, but what we will invest the money into. Pepe, Sane, Ndombele, Aouar, Chilwell, Semedo, Skriniar,...all should be on the lookout by the club, but with ban here, they will all move before we return on market and even then this board will sign bunch of crap with Eden money.

88m£ is jackshit in today market, regardless if Hazard is 28 and one year left on contract. What the hell can we buy with that cash if we could? We can buy one player that is nowhere near Hazard quality or buy couple decent squad fillers. Market for english clubs is extremely inflated and we cant even manage to get 100m pounds for one of the best players in the world. Chelsea should tell Real to pay 120m£, take it or leave it. When we will be able to buy again, market will inflate by another 10m. Wait when we will try to buy a fullback, cb, midfielder and they all will cost 70m or more, never mind the attackers.

If we werent competitve back then, its quite possible Lamps and Drogba wouldnt stay. But we played CL semis on regular basis. Likewise, if Chelsea competed for CL nowdays, Hazard might have stayed. Its almost impossible to keep world class players if you are not competing for CL and domestic titles. Real just signed Jovic and soon they will sign couple more. They were shit last season, desperately needed to rebuild. Still they will manage to build a team "for" Hazard in his first summer there, something Chelsea couldnt do in 7 years. Its pretty clear why he is leaving, regardless of his dream to play for RM.

Mendy from lyon is also as good as done, announcement soon. I think they will also try to sign Ndombele or Eriksen. These fuckers buying everything left and right and yet their fans dare to say PL teams buy titles.

The main problem with Lampard is Chelsea boars and fans. Even if he has potential to make us a very formidable side, he will never have the time to do it, because we all demand instant success. Sure some will say thats not true, but as soon we have couple bad games, people start bitching here and call for every player from established ones to Odoi to be dropped. We all want chelsea youth to play as much as possible, but only if they deliver results. The moment they lose a couple, it wont matter if Lamps throws entire youth team on the pitch, people will call for his head. We dont have the spine to support a manager with long term project. Thats the problem with the board and the fans. Not all fans though, but most. Thats why it would be almost suicidal to bring Lamps. Because unless he delivers very good first season, he is done. If there is no trophy and we finish 6th which is likely, he is gone.

Unless Hazard picks a serious injury, he will be good for about 3 years at the least. He is fast, but he doesnt rely on pace alone. And he is very allround, I can see him as a playmaker or something. He provides that reliable touch which is welcome in any club, regardless of age of the player. Messi, Iniesta, Silva have all played well into their 30s and still kept world class level despite declining in pace (Messi is still very quick tho, but not as explosive as he was).

Thanks for everything and good luck Gaz

I believe we will do better for the future. Young players will get established and we will actualy have a new core for next era. If we bring Lamps or Allegri, they will be stop gap. We are just doing side steps. Make the most of the current team ala Conte and play whatever style suits them. The results would probably be better next season, but then we start all over again because thats not long term solution. Sarri has James, Rudiger, Luiz (Christensen), Emerson, Kante, Jorginho, RLC, Pulisic, Odoi. The striker is a real issue indeed. Others can improve and suit Sarri style or whoever that plays attacking football takes over eventualy. If the club sees Lamps as long term solution and start a fucking project already, then good. But we all know they would bring him for short fix which is just papering over cracks.

He spent 3 years there and didnt achieve the goal, thats why they wanted a new manager. Any bayern fan at the time wanted him gone because he didnt showcase "bayern philosophy" or whatever they called their german efficiency. It has no comparisson to Sarri who will leave after one year. I was bit dissapointed with the performances (not the results) from Sarri, but anyone who expected better results from first season is dumb. He will either prove his worth in 2nd or 3rd season or he will flop. No way to judge him after one season where he had to completely change our style.

Even the managers want to leave us now? This has to be a new low for Chelsea then.

I was the one to criticise him too quite heavily, but critique is to see improvement, not to see him leave. He was flawed, but IMO its a mistake to let him go now. He knows the team better than any other manager. We wont be able to bring many players if any and we lost our best player. I just hope we dont revert to playing hoof park the bus football. Not because I didnt like that style, but because its not working anymore. Who is going to take over? Lamps with almost none experience? Allegri? He is boring and predictable. The likes of Poch are never coming here so why sack Sarri? Id give him one more year to see improvement or let him go then. The board made so many mistakes, its hard to trust them to make a right decision here.

Rob retired. Im sad. Funny he actualy played zero games for us and has bigger legacy than Tibo. Enjoy the retirement.

Chilwell is actualy realy pacey.

Same happend with Eva Carneiro. Instead of just paying and be done with it, we drag it for a year and still end up paying them.