BlueLyon

Er bleibt.

If we dont plan to use him then sell him. Buy Chilwell. But dont be surprised if he soon blows out in juve or wherever he goes. He is nowhere near as bad as our management pictures him tob be.

I like him alot, has that pace, dribbling and some power in him which makes him unpredictable. But for now he is a very selfish and generaly loses a ball way too much from tactical perspective to play in big club. He made big improvement since leaving united though.

Im not fan of Higuain, but still 6 month loan could be very good for us. We dont lose anything, but we get experienced striker and improve our attack. I dont think we can get Cavani, Jovic, Maxi, Werner or Icardi in january, so Higuain is the best bet. Certainly much better than forking 50m on Wilson or Arnautovic. Then in summer, we can get proper striker. As for speed, Higuain is quite slow indeed and he would be useless in counter football, but the way we play with possesion, all we need is someone with good link up, hold up and positioning, all that Higuain has. He will probably miss some sitters, but still nowhere near as many as Morata. Fact is we need striker in january and Higuain might be best solution. He will score a couple goals to win us some games which should help us to top 4 finish. Thats all that matters now. We can focus on searching for 20+ goals a season striker in summer.

IMO he wont be that bad here. He wont be great but not a disaster either. I feel he will have similar impact like Etoo had. Nothing great, but positive still. That said if its more than 6 months, It wont be good for us. Higuain can guide us for rest of the season, but shouldnt be brought for longer. If he realy makes an impression we can negotiate in summer to buy him, but I doubt that.

So he is the guy to save our season eh? No idea what to expect here, but he cant be worse than Morata or Giroud.

Alonso trying to win a bet that he can play worse than Bakayoko last season.

Alonso will be starter until his contract runs up in 2023 at age 32. He will be on wheelchair then, but still ahead of Emerson.

Probably first time I have sweet sour feeling when we scored. This means Willian wont be benched for another 3 months.

Once more if the club doesnt see we need new striker...there is no danger, no presence in penalty area ffs.

How did you figure Willian one? He was playing ahead of Pedro except for first few games when we were actualy good. Willian is like first player on Sarri list to play if fit for whatever reason. Zouma was quality prior to his injury and then never got a chance to get back in first 11. Would be better to test him out compared to aging Cahill who had no future here. Just a short sighted management. Azpi and Alonso arent ideal for Sarri either, but they still play. Zouma isnt world class on the ball, but he isnt that bad that couldnt adopt to Conte tactics of defending for 70min and counter attack. Its just that the manager didnt have any faith, simple. Yeah Mendy was backed by Pep because he was his guy, but if Zouma was highly regarded by the club, he would get minutes even after Mou left. As for Christensen, I said he wasnt immediately benched, but still too soon. Young players need sometimes 6 months, sometimes more or less to get back to their best. We had ideal chance to play him because we didnt exactly chase the title did we. Yet again short sighted management went for aging Cahill and we still missed on CL.

We are playing without 3 players. Alonso and Willian are absolute dogshit. Alonso gets caught in defence over and over and his crosses never reach anyone. Willian is on the ball alot but does absolutely fuck all. 1v1 against the keeper and he misses entire target. Then Kovacic. What the hell is his role again? We have like 70% possession and he is completly invisible. Doesnt dribble, doesnt create, slow as fuck and no end product. Some fancy trick here and there, but otherwise just a body to make side passes. Get rid of those three asap.

Zouma was at least for me the most talented old school style CB in 2016 before he injured himself. He was simply a beast; fast, agile and had massive leap. His tackling was superb, went so hard in challenges but timed it perfectly. He reminded me of Vidic alot. He had potential to be absolutely world class with no exaggeration. I will never forget how he caught Aguero and broke him down without faul. He did that stuff on regular basis. But thing is he was someone not to be fucked with and Im sure opponent attackers shat themselves abit when facing him, a thing you dont find with CBs like Stones, Laporte, Christensen,... Yeah he was rather poor techicaly indeed, but we didnt need two techical CBs until Sarri came. He might lose a bit of his atheticism, but he still is very much one of fastest and strongest CBs with massive leap in PL. Its a shame he doesnt suit Sarri because I fully believe he will play for top team in PL and perform at top level. He was called up for NT not long ago and did realy well too.

Zouma was fit last year when we still had Conte. But we shipped him out on loan to Stoke where he went to play almost all games and did very well. Christensen deserved to be benched for a few games based on his performances, but he is young and it is expected to be inconsistent at that point. Therefore he should play to improve. I was criticising him alot in that period, but given he is young, he just has to play. We ended up 5th anyway, so we might aswell develop a few players along the road. Christensen played very well prior to barca game. But the way we handled situation after put alot of pressure on him. Someone like Klopp would handle it better. TAA had some horrible games down the road, but Klopp didnt put him under even more pressure. And if anyone who plays shit for few games was about to be benched at this club, Willian shouldnt be starter for 2 years and Alonso shouldnt be starter anymore either. Its clear there is some bias towards young players. Experienced ones can play shit and get away, young ones are axed and blamed for every mistake. When it should be the other way around since experienced players are supposed to take responsibility and young ones are only learning. What will happen with Pulisic if he doesnt perform from start? 3 bad games and he will be benched for half a year with Willian back in first 11?

Still baffles me how we completely killed him off after that injury. He was a starter, then picked up serious injury and after he came back, you knew there was no plans for him anymore. We didnt want to give him any serious playtime. Look how City treated Benjamin Mendy inury. He was out for almost a year, but not for a second Pep forgot about him. As soon he was fit, he came back in squad, got few games and then regular spot. And here the club was planing on loaning Zouma out because he needs to play whole season first before he could play here. Seriously? Why not just gel him in aquad? We had Cahill who was bad anyway. Its absolutely pathetic the way we deal with these young players. One day you are hot shit, then injury or mistake and you are completely out. Same with Christensen. Undisputed starter before that barca fuckup. Sure he was bad there but then the club froze him out completely. As if he forgot how to play. And surely he has low confidence after being treated that way. He might have few shit games, but with full backing his confidence would rise and he would improve last season.

The way Salihamidzic talked, Bayern looks seriously interested in CHO. Going public and all that, it doesnt happen often. To me it sounds Chelsea doesnt want to sell, but Bayern going public to add more pressure on us because everyone will talk about it and it might impress CHO. Robben and Ribery are off, and its likely Bayern wont be signing any other wingers which means huge chance for CHO, since their squad is constantly injured. Add #10, nice wage and most importantly Sancho talking to CHO how great buli is etc, Odoi might be persuaded. Mbappe and Sancho have been just talents with no experience and in span of couple months, they became undisputed starters at age of 18. Odoi has talent and seems to have good character, so there is big chance he can do it too. He is also very direct which is the difference. Not just flashy tricks and dribbles, but he actualy makes things happen. From our perspective, it will probably huge mistake and big loss, but I can see why CHO would want to move. Look at Musonda or Christensen who decided to stay and compare to Ake.

Well at least in theory it gives him better chance. We might invest in top striker with Edens money, who knows. Meanwhile Hazard is near impossible for him to get starting spot anytime soon unless Eden picks up injury.

The ONLY reason I see why he would want to leave is if we keep Hazard, because that essentialy means he wont be starting on lw for next 5 years or so. And he probably doesnt want to play RW in his key development years. Thats the only clue I can try to figure, unless there was massive trust issue from the club, but then again why would they try so hard to keep him now. He is london born, only 18 and already had some playtime, so he can hardly complain about that. Never looked frustrated with club or players etc. Meanwhile Bayern doesnt have top LW and he could develop nicely there. Sancho is doing great too, so its a league that fits his profile to develop. I feel he could return here after a couple of years if he makes it in bayern and we need new LW. Long shot though. BUT if we lose Hazard too in the summer, then the board is going beyond everything stupid they did. This would be monumental fuck up then if we lost one of best LWs in the world and super talented LW youth product.

They are realy similar aint they. Fun fact, Paredes was coached by Sarri back in Empoli. EDIT: no he was not, I was miss informed by website. After checking the years myself, Sarri left the summer Paredes came.

Thats pretty much clear. Everyone talks they hope CHO will stay which indicates Cho is talking to Bayern but didnt decide yet.

He was dogshit in valencia so this move might be good. Overall, summer is the time for the board to make up their mind and either keep or sell Bats. No more loans.

If there was to be any truth here; Summer: Barcelona offers Chelsea 60M for Willian but Chelsea rejects it. Winter: Barcelona offers Chelsea Malcom+10M for Willian but Chelsea rejects it again. Cant tell who is more stupid here...

Sorry but he never hit many long passes, even in napoli, at least when I saw him play. I didnt watch many games though, so I decided to check his stats at he had around 2,5 last season too. Also, if you compare Cesc and Jorginho in europa league where we faced poor opposition and therefore neither has excuse to deliver; Cesc averaged 8 long passes compared to Jorginhos 2. Jorginho can hit them long balls but he is doing it very rarely.

It was more of a joke but yeah maybe not doctor per se, but healthcare in general. People love money. For every one who genuinely wants to help, there are 10 who are there just for the business. Sick people need care, medication, treatment; all brings cash. More sick people more cash. I'd argue that business people in healthcare are absolute worst people out there. They pretend to help people while making deals behind the door devil himself would be proud. Most countries are short of doctors. But wave with some money and behold; your appointment is tomorrow. Pointing on the business people here, not the doctors or nurses.

You know what the doctors say. A healthy client is lost client.