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Are you talking about Manchester United that let Pogba go for free and bought back for 120 million? Also, do you really think City treats their young players that well? Interesting.. We give young players a chance. We sign them, they can train in an outsanding training centre with the best coaches in the world among the best young players in the world. When they reach the age of 18-19, we find them loan clubs to introduce them to pro footbal. From now on, it's up to them. Of course not every loan spell works out, but like I said, real talents like KDB, Christensen, Lukaku and Thibaut will prove if they good enough or not.

Also, Dier is not even homegrown.. He is like the one fucking English player that is not HG

Good thing he can't play against us next week

He is 20 years old. How on earth is he ruined? He had one loan spell, he showed that he is good enough for LaLiga, he had some outstanding matches. Now it looks like we shouldn't force Betis, we'll find another team for him, he will shine there. The board failed again with it's loan strategy? Name a few players that played poorly at loan spells then became world class players when we sold them? Real talents prove themselves, no matter what. Christensen, Lukaku, De Bruyne or Courtois made an instant impact out on loan. I don't think it's our loan systems failure that McEachran, Di Santo, Van Aanholt or Kakuta couldn't reach the top level.

First, I wouldn't take him. He is a good player but I'd rather sign Van Dijk or De Vrij and recall Christensen and Aké. Andy and Nathan are both able to play in the midfield and in the defense, just like Dier. Second, Spurs would never sell him to Chelsea. They rejected our offer for Modric then sold him to Madrid for a way worse offer, they don't want to do business with their rivals.

He is leaving for Napoli or he stays. Very very good player but we shouldn't go for him with Costa and Batshuayi on board.

It's his first season at professional level(lets not count that two match for Chelsea las campaign), we sent him on loan to gain experience. Now he experienced what is it like to score goals every game and be the star of this team and now he know what is it like not to score goals for weeks when everybody expects you to. Hopefully he will profit from this experience. It looks like he kept on working hard and smiling and last weekend he scored again.

Why has he only played 280 minutes in La Liga this year? Was he injured or something?

If we did so we wouldn't have Moses right now.

Ivanovic lol

I haven't seen him play that much, I don't know if he could learn that role. Is he doing well on the right wing at Bayer?

Pedro and Hazard are not really wingers in this formation, more like left and right attacking midfielders. They tend to move free around the opponents third. Remember Hazard's second goal against Everton: Pedro and him were both on the right wing. Also, when Pedro scored against Everton and Spurs he was in the middle of the court, not on the right or left wing. I think James would enjoy this free, creative role too. I still prefer Payet though.

Aké should play for Chelsea next year for sure. He could play as RCB, LCB, DM and LWB. Definetly a must have player.

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I watched him a few times at Elche and Monaco and I saw him today, he is a good player, but not really a midfielder we need in our current position.

Could he be an alternative to Hazard/Pedro or he is a central attacker only?

Did Muriel burn his face too?

Sounds like a realistic game.

After the City game we play with WBA, Sunderland, Palace, Bournemouth and Stoke in December. We should win at least 4 out of 5 because in the first month of the year we'll play against Spurs, Liverpool and Leicester away and Arsenal at the Bridge.

Being a coach - especially at a top club like Chelsea - is a serious profession. Lampard and Drogba were great players, but if they want to be coach at Chelsea they have to study and probably gain experience at ther clubs. For example, Steve Holland started his coaching education at the age of 20 and worked more then 15 years before he joined Chelsea Reserves. Alessio also worked for several small Italian club before becoming Conte's assistant at Cagliari.

Scored three times today and it's halftime only.

I can't blame them. They are young, world-class players who have been working very hard to play at the very top level. They are not even English, why would they stay in a weaker team?

Pay the bills? What does it mean? Sorry i really don't know. Yeah, he is young and he can improve, but I don't think he can be a winger, he just doesn't move like that. Yes, he is somwhere between no10 and b2b, but he is definetly not like Matic, Kanté or Chalobah. In this system the three central backs, the wingbacks and the central midfielders must do all the defensive work while the two wingers and the striker can play free and be creative. Kanté and Matic can sometimes help our attacks, but they are key players because their defensive work. Baker is young but I'm pretty sure that he will never become a better defensive player than those two. Under Mourinho, Fábregas played in a pretty defensive role, but Conte doesn't count on him at all because he can't name him in the starting eleven in the middle of the midfield. Fábregas have a couple of hundred matches behind him at the very top level, still Conte doesn't think his defensive skills are good enough for this system, so it seems to be unlikely that Baker would ever play next to Matic or N'Goló.

I don't see him getting a chance here because he is a playmaker which we don't need. Oscar and Fábregas are out of favour, I doubt Baker could make it in 3-4-3.

40-50 million? This is plain stupid.. Like one year ago he was available for 600.000 euros, two months ago Napoli bought him for 15 millions. He is not even a key player there, he has spent most of the season on the bench and now he is worth 50 million?