BlueLyon

Apparently Mancini wage wasnt paid by City but some company outside England. Cool we were bought by Roman years before FFP. We probably did same things back then, but they were not illegal in football world. Now with FFP they are and hopefuly City and Psg get bans. But obviously nothing will happen because money talks. City, Psg and uefa will just pay off the journos to keep quiet and everything will fade off.

IMO it doesnt mean much. Lukaku went to United too despite Mou being there. If anything, Conte will want Hazard even more than Lopetegui.

Yeah, I have been thinking about Sancho alot too. Quality talent and has that end product like Mbappe had. Bvb is reportedly interested in Clarke-Salter and we could do some sort of deal for Sancho (and also give them CHO with buy back clause if he doesnt get playtime here) I would prefer Cho to develop here, but if he doesnt get the chances, its pointless to keep him here. After all, he is only our biggest talent in long time, what is there to lose.

One good buy last season and he cost 15m. Dont let that distract you we forked 80m on fucking Drinkwater and Bakayoko.

Great to see Tomori and Mason get chance to play. I expect Cfc win, but it will be tough.

Very nice win, but even nicer to see two english players do well in Chelsea.

Now bring Odoi on and this will be perfect

Rubeeeeeen

Icardi is ideal because our current strikers are so crap. If we had okayish striker, spending 100m on Icardi would be nuts. Better to wait for more complete striker. But yeah since we have shit strikers, almost anyone would be welcome. And Icardi wont be coming here ever. He is either going to stay in inter or move to spain.

Its worrying that only up and coming strikers that scream world class in the near future are Mbappe and Kane, both unavailable. Icardi, Lukaku, nevermind Morata will never be great strikers. while Dybala, Griezmann arent real strikers. Lewa, Suarez Cavani, Aguero, Costa, Higuain...are on the old side too. In all these years I am watching football, I dont remember such shit amount of striker options out there. And to think awhile ago you had prime Henry, Villa, Drogba, Etoo, Trezeguet, Ibra, Torres, Nistelrooy, Rooney play at same time, nevermind the upcoming goalscorers in Ronaldo and Messi. If Icardi is so called the best striking option out there, its just sad. He has crazy instinct for goal, but lacks nearly everything else for allrounded striker. Doesnt have the strength, speed, high work rate, ball control or vision of top striker. Basically a poacher. Then there is donkey Lukaku and even bigger donkey Morata. I pray someone explodes on stage in next two seasons or we are screwed.

Our attack aside from Hazard is dire. Realy cant score or create anything. But you are right, options are bad. Bunch of unproven strikers, we would have to hit a lottery to get one that creates difference. But perhaps a RW like Bailey or Inaki Williams who can score would ease the situation.

In january, a big signing will probably be expected and I dont see we will change our defence midseason (unless we realy struggle) and strikers are realy hard to come by, so improvement on RW would be logical. But even that is mission impossible. What position can we actualy improve in january? We realy missed the chance in summer not shipping Willian off.

I dont know why people wanted more from Kante. The man is a destructor. A hard worker that breaks play. Yet people point out he needs to do more in attack. More goals, better passes, more creativity? What the fuck? Did media completely brainwashed everyone into thinking everyone is good only if they score goals and make assists? I dont remember people saying "oh this dude Makelele is ok, but he needs to work on possesion and score more goals". Give the man a break. He is a DM beast while he is only allright in this advanced role. But he wont be the great game changer because thats not his style. People seriously dont appreciate anything anymore. Regardless of what anyone says, Kante isnt suited in this advanced role because his attacking outlet simply isnt that prolific. And his defensive atributes dont come as visible. But that doesnt mean he isnt crucial to the team. He does the hard work, so Jorginho can do his job and Kovacic can do his. Yet all we hear is "Kante man you gotta improve; better passing, better control, more goals, more efficiency, because we dont realy mind about the fact you are destructor so just drop that shit and focus on attack. We dont want you to be who you are, we want you to be more, something else, score goals and make assists because thats what counts"

Both Morata and Lukaku are below what you expect from a striker. Just a big fish in small pond type of strikers. They arent big players. Both Chelsea and United shoot themselves in the leg when paying 70m each on those two. Not that there are many better options, but still.

Sarri time bitches. I would like a win, but this feels so great. To think united thought they will win this and actualy started to fight for the club in a trans, only to be denied in last fucking minute. Fucking love it. P.S.: after equalizer i started shouting so loud like its new year 1976 and the neighbours thought im in a row with my dad again hahah Also I dont wish any bad to Mou, he applauded the fans, it was cool to see. I respect the history he achieved with us. But also fuck United. Come on blues!!!!

Panzerrrr Rudiii

A bit inconsistent for now, but extremely promising, very allround player. If we cant get Kovacic on permament, Ndombele should be priority (or Neves)

He plays Juve, Milan, Inter and Napoli in next 20 days. Even if he bangs a goal against each, it wont matter that much because right now he is in crazy form and no one knows how will he recover when he hits a bust for few games (and he will like any other striker). But as of now, he scored against some realy realy average teams and that means almost next to nothing. Let him have a full season, then we shall see. If the price is anything above 50m in summer, avoid in big circle. Not worth the risk for a player with just one good season (Belotti, SMS are good examples).

Such a honest and humble man.

He is english and he has some potential, but can he actualy become top full back? He is injury prone and doesnt seem to be consistent enough. He is like lb version of Barkley, someone who is good but not realy great; ie a rotation option. If we go for another LB it better be some top class prospect or already established player. Even on free, it might be a no brainer yeah, but that means if we get Shaw, we wont get another LB and we are stuck with 3! LBs, but neither is real quality.

The old guard

The way I see it is Hazard was always dreaming about Real since being a kid, but all these years at Chelsea have grown feelings toward the club that are bigger than he thought and now he is sorta torn between moving and staying. I hope he stays but if he goes, everyone will understand. Chelsea would lose a massive player though.

IMO its just his development. He has been here for few months and is still a kid himself. Im sure he will get better with time. For now I totaly understand he wont be the most vocal person on field. But he is calm which is important. He came for record fee and tbh he is handling that tag brilliantly, I thought the pressure will get to him, but he was ice cold since that first interview when he signed. I just have good feeling about him. Coming from smaller club, the fee we paid for him, and that giant contract he was willing to sign give me alot of optimism he will stick here for the long run because he wants to and respects the lenghts the club went to sign him. Thats completely opposite to Tibo, his success in Madrid and family had set him to return there one day, despite Chelsea giving everything to accomodate him. Tibo came (or say returned) here as a star while Kepa is star in the making and if we are the ones to develop him, he will be alot more loyal. Thats why its always better to sign players from good, but not best teams. Torres, Sheva, Morata,...they were already Pool, Milano, Madrid bound. There are rare situations when players coming from big teams overcome their former team and become fan favourites like Makelele or Ashley Cole. Im sure Kepa will always have Bilbao in his heart, but he never had a connection to a big club before. Chelsea could be one and thats why I have good feeling about him, if he continues to improve as GK, Im certain he will end up as one of the Chelsea next generation greats

I feel both Barkley and RLC should have 2-3 full seasons in some middle table clubs and then they would become very good players. But here under heavy pressure and no regular playtime, I can see them stagnate. They lack that decisive edge, consistency, end product and some mental strenght, all that will come from playing week in week out.

Two games against shit opposition and we only managed to scrap 1:0 both times. Next one is bate, another average team. I expected we will roll over the teams in this group 3:0 at least, regardless of our form. But oh well, two wins and RLC got some minutes, so its not that bad. Our attackers without Eden are poor too, I wish CHO gets a game or two soon. It would be amazing for his development and surely we can afford it, I mean there is no chance we end this group in 3rd or 4th place.