BlueLyon

Because he didnt behave professional. I understand we are smaller than Madrid. But his bitching every week to go to Madrid one day was DISRESPECT. We signed him at 19 when he was ''nothing'', we gave him first spot by removing Cech and he kept talking about Madrid left and right. Besides most players move one day and they take families with them. Not sure how he didnt manage to convince his family to go to London. Even 4 years separated like this is weird tbh and I wouldnt want to be without my wife and kids like that. Eden was on verge of leaving too, but no one would blame him. No one. I would be super sad, but grateful for all. Because he acts like a champ and shows us respect. Its all about that. You see players move to another club with respect and players move to another club with no respect. First are not hated and later are. Courtois belongs to later. P.S.: and please dont compare this to regular people and their jobs. When you are on 200k a week, knowing you can be on that for next 8 years with GUARANTEED pay rise very soon, money cant be the motivator. You have enough of it. Reasons are not on capital level here or at least shouldnt be. If they are, then Tibo is plain and simply a greedy prick, valuing cash over club that gave him all. De Gea eventualy decided to stay in his club, so did Silva, Aguero etc.

Well its sweet sour signing. Just exactly what you would expect from Chelsea board. They actualy manage to get their hands on Kovacic (who is quite big talent), but they manage to somewhat undo it by loaning without an option. Real puts price at 100m next summer and we are out of the race. And all the Real jokes if we develop Kovacic and he says fuck you and goes back to Real to further improve, and we only watch how good he performs while us stuck back to square one. I cant understand people still have short term thinking here. We realy have to start with long term planning ffs. What will happen next summer? We lose Kovacic, we still will need LB and striker and probably RW etc etc. We have to slowly fix the squad and short term fixes shouldnt be an option. Unless club is confident they can land Kovacic next summer, I have no idea why would they agree to loan. It would feel like small club mentality.

Club would sign Fekir ONLY if they knew Eden is off. And Hazard is better than Fekir big time, so hopefuly this isnt the case.

I would. With current team, they wouldnt help us achieve much more. We are in transition (again) and every smart team will BUILD their team during this time. Not loan other players without actualy buying them because they rather give the spot and time to players who are set to stay here for a while. Put it this way. We got Kovacic and he has super season PERSONALY. However Chelsea as team isnt there yet to win stuff. But next year with signing or two they might be. However, Kovacic leaves and we are back to stage one without a quality midfileder, time and resources again have to be spend on Kovacic replacement, and those two signings are again pushed further. If we gave that time to Mason (huge long shot but just an example) and he exploded, we would have fixed midfield and could focus on those two new signings, hence improvement. If we had perfect team bar that one classy midfilder or winger, then yes Ronaldo/Modric would be good. But right now we are rebuilding squad and Ronaldo/Modric for only a season wouldnt outweight the chance to develop a player in their spot that would actualy stay here for next 5 years or so.

Its big shame he doesnt have buy clause. Madrid here wins every single time. If Kovacic performs well, they can take him back or demand big money. What I dont like is if we end up polishing him and he decides to go back to Madrid, because I have no doubt that even if he enjoys playing here and all, he will go back to Real. All they have to say is ''we will give you regular play time''. He wont pick us ahead of them IMO. I realy like we have Kovacic here, he could end up great loan, but this is sweet-sour situation because we might lose him even if he plays well for us. We dont have realy ambitious season ahead and we might give that playtime and polishing to some other player we actualy own instead of doing the business for Real and losing him next summer. Anyway welcome Mateo. At least this season, we could see fantastic midfield.

Only thing I consider reliable are Lopetegui comments saying Kovacic said he wants to leave and if he does, Real will get REPLACEMENT. Maybe they are ready to sell him, but we want loan first and they dont want to play that game...

Bertrand/Telles on deadline would be great but its never happening. Seems LB and striker will be priorities next windows unless Morata and Emerson step up big time.

Mate just because we played penalties against Inter, Lyon and Arsenal in preseason, it doesnt mean we will play penalties every game this season. And even then, Oblak is more than decent on penalties. I guess having world class reflexes, shot stopping ability and catching the balls instead of blasting it out means absolutely zero to you.

Chelsea to sign every available top quality player before window ends.

Yes. I was always dubious about tibo, he just never struck me as someone who loves chelsea. But I tried to convince myself over and over he is. But there was always shadow over him. Glad he is packing.

If we pull this off, it would be great. That cunt out of the club, and we also get decent replacement, but most of all, we will have some midfield now if we land Kovacic. Daaaaaamn. P.s. hopefuly there is buy clause and he ends up liking us.

Its crazy money but I cant wait to have a keeper who actualy wants to be here. Fuck Tibo. Good, not great and his weekly "I want to go to Madrid one day" were annoying as fuck.

Bit insensible, but if I was in board, fuck it and sign a quality GK and let Tibo rot on bench for the season. Will teach that cunt some lessons.

I will only be mad at Sarri if he caves in and plays experienced players just because reputation. Play young players and those who are actualy good. Simple. He gave Cho serious playtime so far and thats exactly what I want. If Willian and Pedro are shit, play CHO, dont play shit players over and over like Conte did. If we had a breakthrough youth player, be it CHO or RLC (long shot) this season, then it would mean more than a fucking title. We won couple titles since 2000 and not a single english youth product in starting 11 since Terry.

Its a long shot, but if the club was tiny bit ambitious, we would at least bid heavily for him. Tibo isnt perfect, but only way we dont downgrade is to get Oblak as replacement. Everyone else is clearly not as good as Tibo/Oblak. We spent 60m so far, I hardly hardly believe we dont have at least 60m available. Plus whatever Tibo sale would bring. Oblak isnt impossible at all when it comes to cash, but 1.) Would he want to come 2.) Can board even identify him as best option and be brave and bold to bid

Tbh its quite understandable spain prefered Nacho ahead of Azpi. He is more fluid and adjusted to possession play. Azpi will remain in first 11, no doubt, he is hard worker and quick learner, but IMO his role will be smaller. He was defender past two seasons with option to move forward here and there. Now he will have to press high, run more, play combinations with RW. Hysay isnt attacking RB yes, but much more composed with the ball than Azpi. Its simply phylosophy, Hysay was playing for Sarri who has completely different style of play to Conte or Mou. Defensive RB yes, but his role and style of play adopted to Sarri. Azpi is complete opposite, but he will adopt, im sure of it. He will probably look more out of place than usual in the beginning though

He was never starter in previous clubs, he had flaws, but back in Juve when he did play, he gave everything and realy worked hard, plus whatever he did with feet was actualy realy useful even if he didnt score everytime (still, he scored some brilliant goals). That game vs Bayern, he was nearly perfect striker and everyone expected he will be huge player soon. He wasnt regular on score sheet, but in big games, you could realy realy count on him. One year after joining Cfc, he cant shoot, he doesnt work enough and his link up is average as hell . The bigger match, the more he will flop and dissapoint Is it players being shit or club actualy squeezes the joy out of them? Current team; out of high profile players, Hazard, Kante, Azpi upped their performances since joining us. But Tibo went sideways, Cesc too (but he got old), Willian too, Morata complete downhill and same with Bakayoko. Former players like Matic, Oscar also went downhill (and then Matic in United back to being solid...) Meanwhile Kdb, Salah huge improvement once they left Chelsea. If Jorginho wont perform like he did in Napoli, I wouldnt be surprised at all.

Everyone, this is what people refer to as karma. Throwing out actualy good striker (Costa) for being a bit of a dick (and obviously everyone gets offended nowdays) and replacing him with "nice" striker. And obviously it didnt work. Like they say, dont replace something that isnt broken.

Like I said, this team will need two seasons to adopt to Sarri. Stop complaining after few games and support the team. How is it hard to understand we will need time to change philosophy? Unless you watch football for about 3 months now, that was pretty clear for everyone. BUT I do have something to say, and its not a complaint, but just something I felt a while ago and games have somewhat confirmed that. This team is more or less realy not suited for Sarri. He wont just transform players from defensive into high pressing. Its in their nature. Alonso, Cesc, Morata have absolutely no place here whatsoever and then there is Azpi. Wonderful player, but like some others, he isnt fullback to play possession football. He does simple things in attack, simple passes and crosses in middle. No dribbling (like Marcelo), no playmaker creativity (like Lahm). He isnt fast eiher. But he is hard worker and being top lad, he will adopt to his best and still play under Sarri. I just think he wont be as good as he was past few seasons, because he isnt realy Sarri type RB. And the board realy fucked up if they thought a single(!) player will be enough to change entire system. But regardless, I cant believe people already shitting on this team. It was expected we will start slow, our defence being crap for a while etc etc. I just hope club will stick with Sarri and give him 2 seasons even if we win jack shit. Liverpool with Klopp is perfect example how we might do for a while. Teams will destroy us often, but eventualy we will get shit together and reward will be huge. KTBFFH

Seems he just wanted Conte out and not leave the club. Humble opinion, he should only be sold for Bailey or Malcom (that ship sailed though). Martial isnt even RW ffs and lazy ass who needs to go to a well balanced club to learn humility and work ethic. Not ready to come here where everyone expect him to do miracles and the club being a big mess.

I wouldnt have my hopes high on Bats. Its all just wishful thinking he will be good because Morata is so bad. Fact is we need new striker. Emerson is completely unproven thanks to Conte. Had few good games, but that means nothing. He needs run of 5-10 consecutive games before we can judge if we need new LB or not (but who are we kiddin, Alonso will play anyway ) Luiz is liability as CB in 4atb. So far. I doubt Sarri will do miracles, Luiz simply isnt reliable CB (but he is great character and motivator to have). Barkley? Nothing special about him so far. Ok player, good potential and has chance to surprise positively, but as of now he is only decent player, not creative enough. I also have worries about Tib giving his all if he isnt focused on staying. And Azpilicueta. This one will be hard to say and probably unpopular. The man is fantastic defender. I realy realy realy like him. But I have doubts he can actualy play possession football. You know, in a manner like Ghoulam, Lahm, Marcelo who are very clever in attack, good on the ball and dynamic. Press high etc. Azpi is pure defender and when he goes forward, he can put a great cross, but he is hardly someone who can be realy creative from wing or take on opponents and dribble past/or pass realy cleverly (which is very important in Sarri system). Zaha isnt here, but IMO he is someone a big team would buy for rotation. If he ended here, it would be more as desperate option, just to add something in attack rather a real proven quality that we desperately need. ----- Now I know this is our reality, Im not pointing out we should replace them all or whatever, but IMO this team isnt one that can "go far". If we finish 4th, I would be happy enough fot upcoming season.

I prefer hoof the ball Godin over fancy Stones, Otamendi, Luiz, Christensen any day. Zouma can become great defender and honestly I wouldnt care if he wasnt great on ball.

Zouma looks alot more like another Salah/Kdb. The club should include buyback clause simply because there were too many fuckups recently. Anyway, we can discuss this again in 2 years

Watch him become top top CB elsewhere. The club was trying to get Rugani when you already had good CB who needs a bit of work (like Rugani doesnt lol) I realy wish he leaves as soon as possible because club once again showed no faith. Idiotic board.

See all youth wants to play for club one day. But club doesnt show faith in them. If Chalobah was given same respect and trust like Bakayoko was, he would be eager to stay here and fight. Agree about being patient though. People laugh at Lingard, but the kid actualy stayed and fought for his place, despite he was already quite old for "talent". He isnt great player, but I would love our youth had similar mentality. Fight for the place. Chelsea created this stupid common knowledge that young players wont be given much playtime and everyone knows it. The way we treat our loanees is nothing short of embarassing. We had RLC, Chalobah, Baker, Palmer. Neither got any real chance yet and probably never will. Winning youth player of the year rewards you with endless loan to holland or championship or season with first team where you get 3 games. And allright if your rivals are Ballack, Essien, Lamps...but fucking Bakayoko, Drinkwater or aging Fabregas given more faith and trust? F*ck, I would leave tomorrow too. One thing is buying world class players. Another is buying world class talents. But buying average dipshits to fill squad, when you have youth who is at least as good? Club simply didnt trust Chalobah like they trusted Drinkwater for being more " experienced and reliable". No wonder he decided to leave.