BlueLyon

One of the biggest issues is also Jorginho. Ever since he was found out by Everton and then again by spuds, he is a shadow of himself. He was immense prior to that and we were winning and playing good football. Then it went downhill. If he is in the squad to keep possesion but we do fuck all with that possesion, its absolutely pointless to have him in first 11. Kante is also playing in wrong role too because of Jorginho and Sarri. Sarri needs to get his shit sorted. Playing Eden and Kante who are our best players out of position, playing Willian and Alonso who suck and Jorginho who has little to no impact. Dont get me wrong, Jorg is important but for the sake of nice ball rotation and possesion stats, it brings 10 other problems to the table that have to be adressed. Sarri will have to change something. You cant fuck up the entire midfield just to accommodate Jorginho. And Willian playing worst football in ages, but instead of dropping him, Sarri puts him in his favourite place and instead throws our best attacker Eden in false 9 where he cant thrive as much. Eden on left, Pedro in middle because of his runs and tactical understanding and Willian on right is how we should play until we find new cf. Didnt Pedro sometimes play false nine in barca before? But just because Eden can hold on ball better, yeah lets just play him in middle because of that and completely fuck up his entire impact he can give from the wings. We have been crap in chance creation before but now its travesty looking at Willian, Alonso, Pedro and Azpi try to create something from flanks.

@Unionjack I guess the players werent up for yahooya today.

And Alonso or Willian. I think we can compensate for one, but both on pitch at same time is overkill.

Well I said that because of Willian "shots". 9/10 times he tries weak, on the ground and straight at gk shot. Sure it happens sometimes, but thats his every week average. Also when Alonso missed that chance in 90th min I actualy started laughing my ass off. Usualy I would be mad, but this is comical. And you know they will be picked for next match again. But dont worry we will eventualy get better

Ha ha ha We are a joke. Becoming that bitchy Pep team with all the possesion jerking but cant score. Saying this wasnt our day and we would win anyother time, its bs. We have been dealing with absolutely shit finishing for months its miracle we have won as many as we did. Its not just the finishing but chance creation and creativity. We are bang shit at that. If it was just finishing, a proper scorer would solve it. But its way more than that. When we need to score, we absolutely struggle to get anywhere in danger zone. Look at city, barca etc they put 10 players in attack and obliterate opponent. Not working always, but they are very dangerous. We are just passive. Where the fuck is directness and determination in this team? After we conceded, it was still leicester closer to their second than us to equalizer. Alonso and Willian are garbage but at this point its all on Sarri. Why the hell he keeps picking these players is beyond ridiculous. Jorginho is top in dictating the tempo, but he is slow and cant do shit in defence and it all got to a point of how useful is he actualy in the game? We have all the possesion big thanks to him, but still cant win so whats the point? Kovacic offers nothing in final third. Kante is extremely poor despite working hard. His city performance was top, but 80% of games this season he was far cry from his best. Willian and Alonso same old same old bad. If those two continue to play Sarri deserves the sack . I understand he wont bench them after one bad game, but they have been shit for weeks now.

Like licking lollipop through glass.

We should just drop this striker pursuit and go with false 9. All strikers are either super expensive (and not even elite), too old or inexperienced. Go for Richarlison, Depay,...or someone similar and buy striker when a proper one will be on the market.

What did he achieve though? Some fancy flicks and tricks but thats it. Even last year when he was supposed to be on big rise, he was just above average. Doesnt have any sort of end product either. Then he got benched by Sancho. Its true he was injured but even when fit, he didnt have anywhere near the impact Sancho has. But because he is american, his is hype reached another universe. So yeah, I understand alot prefer Cho who is homegrown and talent wise on par with Pulisic. Pulisic might have more games on him but didnt develop much in that time, soo....and he didnt have regular playtime in months. If he came here, he would be completely inexperienced rookie, just like Cho. In the end its all about who we give the chance. For those 60m, dunno what the board is smoking again. To pay that for someone who is benchwarmer for Sancho in borussia. We need a starter for rw. Pulisic isnt that and if we want to develop talent, we already have Cho.

Yes lets get another low confidence plagued striker who is also 31 years old and super slow.

Jesus our finishing is so crappy.

Yahooya.

They will want close to 100m still. Is he realy worth that cash considering his age? I would honestly go with Skriniar for similar sort of money who could be our pillar for next 8 years or so. Koulibaly is great, but anything above 60m on defenders is a joke unless they are already great and young. Defences are built on team chemistry and defenders playing together for couple seasons. Attackers are other thing because they can offer individual qualities that change the game in a second.

Shame Guingamp is so shit this year. They are such a nice team to watch. Played realy entertaining football and managed to end up around 10th place in ligue 1 for a few seasons despite having spend less than 500k a year on transfers.

Nothing new here... Lille was ready to sell and they already agreed with Lyon back in summer, but Pepe didnt want to move to further develop himself.

IMO he has done all the right steps forward. Last year at Palace, he was great. Enough to warrant him place with England, so far he made some positive impressions in given chances. At Chelsea, he again improved over last few months, his workrate has improved and he finaly looks like he gives a shit when playing, that was one thing I hated about him. Talent was always there and now he is going up with his mentality. We all scream for youth to be given chances, but as soon they get couple games (if that), they get criticised into oblivion. Its a process that might take couple years with some players. Some explode at 18 like Messi, Mbappe, Fabregas,...some are late bloomers. We should give RLC two seasons at chelsea with enough matches and then see what will happen. I always though we dont trust youth enough. For example, Kovacic came here and instantly became starter. Due to good form of RLC and Barkley, spot is open. But who knows if how would RLC play if he was given week in week out matches? Including big games? He might suck in some, but so did Kovacic, Jorginho, Kante or any other midfielder. Thing is his ceiling is high and he has room to improve. I dont get excited and hype players generaly, but I have big hopes for RLC. If he wont have playtime here, he will eventualy play for other big team.

Unless Eden leaves, no point in having two players who love to haggle on ball and dribble. One is fine, but not two. Also there is a reason Isco isnt a regular. He looks super player and realy fancy on the ball with those tricks, but does absolute fuck all in 80% of the time he plays.

Probably lacks in tactical understanding, positioning, offside traps,... Besides he is more useful in middle with his powerful runs. He can be extremely useful carrying ball forward with his strenght, pace and technical qualities. Has good shot too, so its quite unpredictable for defenders. If he develops well, he is going to be some player.

Again, the board just showed how clueless they are when they extended Alonso contract from 3 to 5 years.

IMO he isnt ready for top team. I watch most of lille games and last year he was dragging them above the relegation along Thiago Mendes. This year he continues his development, but along better teammates. Thing is, he isnt very hard working and when he isnt in form, he offers almost nothing in those games. That said Lille is a joy to watch. Him and Bamba are great this season. But they arent ready for top team yet IMO.

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I gotta disagree. Its all about promoting youth. What pisses me off is that we buy fucking Drinkwaters instead of trusting our youth players. We have Tomori, James, Mount, CHO, Ampadu plus Barkley and RLC. Add 3rd GK and we are set. But the board will buy some dead average players on inflated english fees instead. Only exceptions would be Ramsey who is free or someone like Sancho, Lookman or Chillwell who look like real deals.

Agree but I would prefer we get someone before Hazard leaves, so the transition will be easier. Having no "star" player will push us at least one place further down. We are not Eden Fc and will continue to play at top level after he leaves, but there is no denying he is by far our best player and brings 1/3rd of points per season easily. If we want to win any title or even finish top 4 anytime soon, he has to stay. He is simply that important even if people dont see it. What makes us serioud title contender is another player like Hazard. Costa was that in some spells, but now we dont have anyone else. Solution to a better team will be to bring more Hazard level players, not selling him to buy 2 promising ones. And in the end we dont need to sell Eden to generate money for another star player either. There is enough cash to spend already and plenty of deadwood to get rid of if we need more money. That said, idealy I would understand Hazard sale, establishing CHO in his role and strenghten other areas too, a process that would take few years like you said, but it would pay off. However the club is a mess at the top and I dont believe they can pull off something like that. They lack knowledge, trust and belief in our youth to do it. At best we would throw all cash at couple players and pray sarri makes them work or fire him if he doesnt. Rinse and repeat.

And what makes you think our board will get proper replacements? Liverpool has 3 TOP attackers. City has even more. We have Eden. Even with him, we should still aim to get two players next to him on similar level. But the board is happy with what we have. If Hazard leaves, at best we will spend shitload of cash on ONE new player. And then pray he turns good. We did the same with Costa who was replaced by Morata. And Matic with Bakayoko. If people think we will suddenly sign two top players to make a better team if Hazard leaves, they are living in fantasy world. We wont be able to attract the likes of Dybala or Griezmann, so we will target someone a level below that. And he is still going to be expensive as shit and the outcome might be either a positve or another Morata scenario. In the later case, we would be screwed. So yeah, for the moment the best for the club is if Hazard stays and Chelsea decides to actualy buy someone on similar level to Hazard, something we should have done years ago.

I kind of accepted it when he plays on rw because he is clearly better on left. But today was his same old average and he played in his preffered spot. Not cool.

RLC is much better talent than Barkley. I dont know how people didnt see it. But performances recently finaly show it for everyone to see. Only player that has both phyisical and technical qualities. With some more polishing, he will be good player and hopefuly we dont regress him into squad filler but full first 11 material. Alonso was realy poor, but that challenge in the end was right one or March would be 1v1 with kepa. Also Soton winning vs arse. Hasenhutll already showing his worth.