BlueLyon

I find it interesting we pass teams who want to play against us fair and square rather easily. Huddersfield, Soton, Bournemouth...such nice squads. However teams with plenty of tricks in them like Palace, Burnley,...give us quite some problem.

I dont watch him much this season, but last season he was definition of efficiency and stability. Thats why he got big price. Everyone was over Bernardo Silva, but to me Lemar was the guy. He knew when to pass, when to shoot, when to dribble, when to keep the ball and he was great at everything. You have trick players with big stats, then you have players who actualy get shit done when it matters. Lemar is certainly the later. Perhaps we need player who belongs in former, but Lemar is quality too. Not to mention he is serious work horse, for attacker at least. Im not sure he is worth 80m now tho, but the potential is certainly there. If we ended up with Sandro, Lemar and Aouar, I would be in heaven.

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No, fancy haircuts, big cars, fuckboy attitude, swag and instagram pics give recognition. The fact mbappe ended 7th and Hazard 19th last season in balon dor, sums it all up. Welcome to 20s of 21 century. Performances on the pitch and off the pitch good guy mentality are overrated.

I always thought there was more recognition for Terry and Drogba than Lamps, at least outside uk. Drogba was popular face in media, for his kindness to africa especialy and gave him alot of attention, terry on other hand was always in some affairs, which made him realy popular, but still everyone respected and appreciated his quality on pitch. Lamps was obviously super player too, but IMO never got that fame of other two. Those two were always regarded among best in their time, but for Lamps, there was never as much attention to him as it was for Xavi, Kaka,...I mean Lamps got to 3rd place in balondor, but media never gave him recognition he deserved. He was certainly among if not most efficient midfielder in 00s.

Gremio has already announced they will put barca on fifa court for talking to Arthur without approval (something like that)... Gremio representatives stated they will not sell to barca after such disrespect...arthur has clause of 80m though.

I will be judging him at the end of next season. He may have crap games, he may have good games now, but the question is how good he can get and not how good he is now.

Defence GOAT. Shame he doesnt get enough recognition. Everyone jerks to Ramos, Bonucci,...for their long passes and goals, but real CB MVPs are Chiellini and Azpi, at least right now.

Tbh when it comes to football, watching Eden and others, but mostly Eden, it means soo much more than winning the title. Sure the tiles are fun, but goals, tricks, passes and dribbles are what makes football. Having a player like Eden who delivers it every week with a bang is worth much more than a title. If we had 3 players like Eden imagine that...all the awesome actions they would pull for years. Naturaly playing well goes hand in hand with titles, but I would still value great games by players more than title alone. I love our CL win against bayern, but my favourite game of Chelsea is hands down against Napoli at SB when we completely dominated them 4:1 after losing 3:1 in naples. That spirit, that fight and the fans were simply ecstatic. I remember that game like it was yesterday.

Bring on Psg then. They are in spotlight, they are under pressure and they are the ones who need proving on euro stage again after loss to barca. And we underdog kings. P.S. on another note like I said before, if Tibo wants to move to sunny spain, then ship him there and bring Oblak. I wouldnt miss him much tbh.

Funny how qarabag in a way saved us to promotion after those draws with atletico. Its like a miracle atletico didnt win either game against them considering we put 10 goals total against qarabag. Written in the stars? I loved how we played today, but finishing was below amateur. Would be 4:1 at least if we were calm in realization. Eden tho my fav player since lille days but this season he is reaching 4th dimension with these games. Shame he doesnt have single player on similar level here.

Not sure why again so many negative critics...we play well, defense is organised and when we retrieve the ball (we made several great tackles and intereceptions), we attack quickly. The ball flows from player to player and almost everytime we create something. We chase for every ball too. Just because we let them play (and so war they only waste time passing around midfield), doesnt mean we are not interested. First half, we prepared excelently IMO. Frustrate them with strong defence and kill them on quick counters. Every time we go forward, we play realy well. The only problem I see, we dont have quality finishers. Morata did well today, but missed that ball, same with Eden. Others are simply not good finishers. We need another player who can score, ie Pedro or maybe Willian who is in good form right now. Oblak is awesome too.

Jesus this kid is too good. Get him before the hype comes in. Seriously perfect midfielder for our team. He is young and needs time and regular time, but he is already playing at very high level there, much like Mbappe did last season, but he isnt in CL and no one knows him yet.

Everton is impossible imo, after Stones and Lukaku fiasco we wont deal with them for a while IMO. Besides I dont understand why we make such shitty loans so often when players dont even play for months. Just take a look at Sanches in Swansea, he is garbage but still plays. Probably because that was part of the loan deal. We must make such demands too when we loan out our players.

City is off the reach, but United? We are 3 (hopefuly we win tomorrow) points behind them. Its not something we cant catch. Our target must and have to be 2nd place. If we keep up with them in december, then it will be january window. Althrough I dont believe we will make any big moves, its still opportunity to get more depth. Should be more than enought to finish ahead of United who are already beatable. Winning against swansea and nufc will be very important, united plays arsenal away and city at home City tho...

Evra too

I think it would be decent try. Not super expensive, quite young and I follow Red star and Partizan quite alot, I realy like how he plays. Rather take risk with him than someone like Benteke who would cost fortune for what he can offer. Its question if he can make transition to PL, but for now he is scoring for fun. Like around 40 goals in 2017. However he missed two sitters vs arsenal, so who knows.. I also just realized it was Conte who brought him to Juve few years ago, I can see why we are interested.

Mate, Kondogbia was dogshit for two years and he is ripping laliga apart this season. Maybe its a fluke, but what realy matters from then on, is mentality. And Bakayoko is certainly a lad with good mentality, thats why I think he can become very good. Sure he wont be doing rabonas and 60m passes, but he can become very allround midfield powerhouse. Another example, Dembele was on exit doors after rather shit games for spurs, but Pochettino made him extra good player. If people werent as short sighted... Bakayoko doesnt have that excelent ball control, but he has the size, dynamics, tackling and very good dribbling. Doesnt show it in chelsea yet, but its early stages. Put all that together with some improvement and you get one hell of a midfielder.

Yeah I totaly get when some are mad in heated moments after or during match. Im fumming with Bakayoko too when he fucks a simple pass. But thats not a valid reason to question why we bought him and state he will never be good. There is plenty of time for him to prove his worth. But when you read certain posts continuously out of nowhere and then same posters completely turning their view few months later, its just sad. I dont understand how some fans are still one sided, after seeing so many players proving us wrong. I have been like that when I was younger few years ago, but much like people do, you grow up and with years of experience in football, you can make a decent objective opinion on players. Its not hard to see Matic obviously had quality, but fans here called for his head. Or Eden. Or Kdb. Or Salah. These players keep proving our fanbase how we dont value what we have. How they should be sold once they caught bad form. Now we have good young midfielder in Bakayoko and he deserves a chance. Fans want us to develop young players and give them chance but at same time they lack patience and trust. Same is with Loftus Cheek. People write him off already and how we need new midfielders. Give him the time. Lets see. If he gets sold, he gets sold. But until then, we are there to support him and other players.

Haha I guess it is. Football makes me calm too (unless chelsea plays ) Maybe it will end up as good match, never know.

Sadly Monaco are a shadow of last season. And Psg got better. Would be realy interesting match otherwise.

I just hope that people who are trashing him like they thrashed Eden two seasons ago wont support him once he gets good, much like same people ass lick Eden today after screaming on that thread every day to sell him until he loses value. Such "fans" are not needed. I know people including myself are prone for mistakes and misjudgement, plus the temporary anger after matches, but hell some should learn a thing or two by now. Its not all black and white. Go to sleep and deeply think about certain stuff before posting opinions on here. Every player deserves criticism from time to time. But criticism in posts like he is garbage shouldnt ever play, he should be sold, he is a lazy twat etc...thats all rather disrespect and lack of loyalty and trust in our players. Few who write such posts actualy admit mistake later on, but most just turn the side once the player becomes good and they instantly bandwagon and become their biggest fan as if they always were. And when player hits bad form, they blame him again for everything bad in this world. At least stand by your opinions then. Or admit mistake. But posting certain players should basicaly fuck off because they are shit and the next minute praising how great they are, thats some hypocrite shit right there. Such fans should simply remove themselves or at least not write posts until their head is cool if they are too angry and uncapable of reasonable thinking after games. It makes the forum toxic for me and I believe for many fans around here. But thankfuly the players are often proving our negative fanbase wrong and make them look like proper fools.

He is on several levels ahead of others... For example that action with Zappacosta when he passed to him and was perfectly waiting in the box for Zappa to pass to him back, but that dude tried to cross which resulted in block. Im sure its frustrating for him sometimes, hopefuly we buy quality player next to him and hopefuly he stays.

Maybe the problem isnt in player but the club as a whole. Bakayoko was better in ligue 1 and not just because it was easier league. He was also better in CL. His passing needed work, but he dribbled much more and his defensive output was also much better. Why? The confidence, the idea. Some players at chelsea simply dont recieve that for whatever reason. In another club he will be a star. Chelsea has absolutely zero clue on how develop a younger player unless he is already top class. Salah, Kdb, Lukaku, Bakayoko might soon follow that. Tbh I wouldnt be surprised we sell him once and that to a rival and see him perform brilliantly. Not saying he has same ceiling as those three, but certainly he is miles better than what he is showing here.

Yup Conte could always throw Eden, Pedro, Willian, Morata and Cesc in starting eleven to play fancy football. But we would then have no bench and defense. And the moaners would start moaning about lack of tactical awarness by Conte. The negative posts in thread are pathetic. First half we were equal, second not so until after we conceded. We created quite a few chances but we couldnt finish. And thats a big big problem, but not on Conte. Its not his fault Morata or Drinkwater lack confidence 1v1. Its not his fault we have shit bench either. Cesc comments tho. Every fucking time people complain why he plays against pressing sides because we get skinned as result. Today when he was benched for Drinkwater for that same reason, people cry why he didnt play and call for Conte head. Unbelievable. And for the record, all fans calling Conte out for his defending, and how Pep is playing super footy, if Pep was here he would buy 10 attackers by now. But with current team we have, he would done fuck all. So stop comparing those two. City is splashing the cash left and right and all we do is selling good players with no backup clauses and then we are forced to buy their replacements, which results in millions spend, very little squad improvement and no depth on bench. Conte makes allright work, but the fact he cant rely on 40m Bakayoko, 60m Morata, 25m Zappacosta etc while having no quality backup options on bench is simply not his problem. For bigger picture look up to the board, there are Matic, Mata and Lukaku in united, Sturridge, Salah in Pool, De Bruyne in city, Cech in Arsenal...they are doing great work in selling player for profit instead of creating good depth.