BlueLyon

Doesnt matter what Costa said or did, the board and possibly Conte acted completely opposite of professional. If Costa wanted to stay here, thats first thing Chelsea shouldnt be messing with. He was alright player. If we wanted to sell him, then fucking find the buying club, make a deal and au revoir. This whole saga with sms's and Conte vs Costa and Costa being exiled doesnt help our club one fucking bit. There should be only two options; Costa playing elsewhere or Costa staying here in good relations. Period. I dont defend Costa, but if someone is acting like a dick, you dont act like a dick back. We are bigger than that. But seems the board, Conte or whoever the fuck is dealing with this matter is totaly incompetent. We are now with unhapy player, who could be quality player and on top of that the way we are dealing with this could set players and coach apart. Overreaction? Maybe but we all know we had massive fuckup under Mou. And I bet if Costa was realy happy here and Conte told him he aint counting on him anymore just like that, well Im sure players wont be happy at all. One way or the other the cracks will show.

Tbh I dont give a shit how much money we get from player sales. Did we spend 70m from Oscar on new winger or AM? I would rather see Matic in juve for 20m, in some other league, for all I care if he brings them title. But to sell him to rival with coach who made him play best in his career? The sheer thinking and seeing every week how amazing Matic is under United, how he connects them, how he makes them play better, how great he plays himself etc etc...isnt worth a penny nevermind 40m. I had enough with Cech, Mata and partly even Kdb or Lukaku. Seems we are the only top team in england next to arsenal that sells players to rivals ffs. At least nick Rose from Spurs, Alexis from Arsenal but our board has no clue and other clubs are not as stupid anymore.

As much Im fumming about the board, Im still super excited for this season. It will be interesting to see if we can climb up or are we going to do 15/16 (hopefuly not haha). Which kids will get chance and take it etc etc. Much better this way than being dunno Bayern fan where you know league is already yours. At the very least, united and city growing means improvement of the league and english football, chelsea will have to follow it to stay competitive. And we will finaly see more english teams in CL knockouts...

Glad we are not the only club out there, barca board is awful aswell...

I saw about 10 minutes of the game...what a fucking disgrace Neymar and Di Maria falling and faking fouls every 5 seconds... It was guingamp...Ronaldinho would dribble their entire squad, not throw himself on the ground every second.

This is whats alot more worrying than Matic case alone. We comfortably finished first, United 6th yet two months later they look far far bigger title challengers than we do. Maybe we dont have whole picture and we will get reinforcements and get realy realy good, but as it stands right now, seems we took 5 steps backwards in summer and that is not acceptable by any level of explanation. It just goes that someone(s) at this club are unfit to make us a better and more competitive club.

Whats realy funny is he trained on his own and looks better prepared than our entire squad atm. Might be just motivation playing for new club, but in that case the fuck is with our players if they dont have motivation to retain title... I seriously cant explain why sometimes most of our team looks like they couldnt give two shits and the moment we say they might not be first option, they start thinking about move to United where they get super motivated (not all players but most does look like that). And back then we read all kind od stuff players turned against Mourinho and yet we see Mata, Lukaku and Matic, three players that could blame Jose the most, rejoined with him, seem very happy. Maybe behind the scenes Jose aint that ego fucker that media presents him to be.

I absolutely agree with you. What I meant, the only reason I would somehow understand the sale is if we get better, younger midfielder, but seems that wont be the case. But on larger scale, as you said we gave our rival exactly what they needed. PL will be won against westhams, and even if Matic plays shit against top 6, he will be key for United against everyone else, and in that case United can win title much easier with Matic help. We gave them very important player. Nevermind the worst scenario what happens if Bakayoko somehow doesnt play well here? Matic should be kept until january at least to see if Baka can hold his position alone, meanwhile we would identify proper competitive midfielder, sign him and sell Matic. What we did in reality is beyond any reason ffs. Even if Matic eventualy flops entirely, the sheer prospect of what he can do for United tells you not to sell him to rival.

I dont care if he ends up shit or brilliant at united, as long our board gets a fucking replacement as good as Matic. If they fail to do that, they should never sell Matic in first place ffs. Even selling Matic, leaving us thight against burnley and spurs is a mess itself. Getting Drinkwater for 30m in the end wouldnt solve shit either. We would only splash that goody money united gave us, the fee we couldnt "refuse" on average player. Yeah, brilliant job. Not a single positive in selling Matic unless we actualy get quality midfielder, which we obviously wont. And whats worse, Matic himself may not play brilliant whole season, but he makes others play better, say whatever you want, Its true. And we just sold him to a team that needs such player badly.

I miss captain JT

Are some of you realy discussing Kante quality again? Im wondering when will you guys ever appreciate our player when he is not having the very best game of his life, because as soon someone has average or decent game, he can be easily replacable apparently because he is nothing special?? We should all appreciate the players we have as long we have them because often only once they are gone, people realise what we had. And no, the board wont throw 90m for a new midfielder after.

Everything will be known once Juve gets new LB I guess. Im still positive he will end up here

Shame Cahill did that stupid challenge which ended Bogas debut. But at the very least if the board doesnt buy players, I hope Boga and Musonda get their chance. Bottom line if we mess up this season in terms of results, developing either of the two in quality player would give me same joy as winnig title realy. We havent developed a player since Terry and thats was ages ago.

Tibo Azpi-Christensen-Rudiger Moses-Luiz-Kante-Alonso Willian-Morata-Pedro? The bench however would be ridiculous. I think with such 11 we would have decent chance, after all they dont play at whl.

Indeed. My biggest hope is he evolves into something like RVP.

Tbh I would be happy with someone like Lanzini atm. Eden wasnt super expensive or playing for top club. But the quality was there. Boudebouz had awesome season and went for 7m to Betis, at such price it would be no brainer to have him here. Its nice to think how would we link up Eden and Dybala, Alexis or Griz, but usualy you just need to find the right player, even from smaller club or someone who is no longer wanted at big one, take a look at Robben and Ribery...

On his day he is quality, but he is too much of a poop to actualy lead our team week in week out. He is nowhere near what people say he is when comes to playmaking. Cant control the ball, poor under pressure, cant dictate tempo. Instead of calming down teammates and tempo of the game, he makes nervous decisions all the time. Nevermind how awfuly slow and immobile he is. Two or three long balls per game are not enough to play him regulary. But sadly we dont have anyone else, and as impact sub he is still rather good player, taking on tired defences. But its pretty clear our midfield gets overrun with Cesc in middle, like it did in 2015-16 season.

I still wait the day we spend those 70m from Oscar sale on good attacking player to team up with Eden.

Good game, been saying we should either play Morata as starter or Morata and Bats together. Hopefuly he continues in such style, good game.

Cesc is not first 11 quality anyway. But now when we have no one else, still better than nothing. When does Baka return from injury?

The day we get someone similar to Eden, we will reach next level. No wingback, no midfielder or defender will bring such change than having not one but two players of Eden calibre. Sadly I think we will only target such player if we sell Eden.

Great second half. With Morata, Baka, Eden and Pedro, we shoul be much better. But please sign two wingbacks and a mid ffs.

Tbh I remember players saying several times that Costa is great guy and everyone likes him etc etc. Be it for his clowning, it can take the toll on players if managers tells someone like that to fuck off. And can people please stop with China bullshit? The bid came but Costa never wanted to go there. He said it he wouldnt go there because he wants to play world cup next year. If anyone, I would say Chelsea wanted to sell him, but he only wanted Atletico. It makes sense why he played worse after january and its now known Conte told Costa back in january he will sell him in summer...

In the end Conte will get the sack. Fucking bullshit of the board.

Because he plays on left side... He is technicaly RCB or RB. Much better on that side. But nevermind everyone is having horror half. Bats is invisible, I prefer Costa antics all day over this. Willian tries everything on his own. Kante is DM and arguably most composed player in this team. Cesc is absolute shit too. A playmaker but is shit in posession and cant set our tempo anyhow. Two or three quality long passes dont make you a starter in such team. But great that we sold Matic, yeah. Defenders are having nightmare, however our attack is piss poor too. No chemistry whatsoever. Hopefuly we come back second half, but I doubt it. At least play Morata.