Magic Lamps

we still give away pens for fun it seems. at least happened in pre season.

Look how werners pace alone wreaks panic into opposition defenders hopefuly not injured here ziyech or Werner

Yet more Drinkwater Chilwell parallels

BC really sounds daft as a brush in his first interview, using "massive", "stuff" and "you know" twice in every sentence. I hope his not as stupid as Barkley on the pitch.

decent half. defense has been rock solid so far but hardly tested. i loved ziyechs crossfield balls and werners linkup play. RLC still has not shaken off the injury. I fear he is done as an elite player if he does not regain his burst of pace.

About the GK conundrum, I have watched a few game clips of Mike Maignan and from the little i have seen there plus 3 live matche sof him including the league game vs PSG he looks like the most complete of our 3 main options (him, Mendy, Onana). Maignan does not have as eyecatching characteristics as Mendy with his wingspan and Onana with his power and reflexes but he handles himself quite well. He does not parry the ball back in the danger area everytime and can actually catch the balls he should catch unlike the other two. He works mostly with his speed and anticipation a bit like a young buffon in terms of style albeit not with the same spectacular reflexes. He is very good in 1 on 1s bc of his positioning and pace. I have actually never seen a goalkeeper this quick on his feet. He literally has the pace of a winger. he is not super big but fairly athletic. he actually makes sprints to get the ball past onrushing attackers which looks crazy and i have never before seen a goalkeeper do this to great effect while being in control of the situation except maybe neuer. Other than that he is a fairly conventional, commanding and proactive gk who is alright on the ball. I think he is miles above even an in-form Kepa and also a bit younger.

Chilwell has insane leap and he might actually be taller than the quoted 1,78M IMO. He looks almost as Tallis Lampard on their pictures together and was clearly more than 3cm taller than Willian when they faced each other so maybe he will at least surprise us in that department. never thought Alonso was any good in the air btw. Sure he wins aerial duels vs all those tiny wingers with ease but he is of no use marking big, strong players in our own box.

that is irrelevant tho. A Corona test will detect the antibody just hours after a possible infection and days before there are any symptoms. In Germany we only quarantine till the test results are there.

Harsh considering we have nailed down 5 major signings already within very reasonable timelines this early in the window. 6 if you count Mbuyamba.

Awesome deal. Exactly the kind of business I love. Low risk high reward. can not do any wrong with this one. Either walks into the team next year or a nice 20m+ profit.

he sure does. But who is they guy who just got out of a time machine from the 90ies next to him?

why quarantine btw. Do a test and be done with it

That’s why we have a squad that’s deep as Mariana Trench let’s hope the players infected are Bats, Emerson. Drinkwater and Bakayoko so we can sell them as poison pills lol thiago Silva should stay in quarantine as long as possible he is probably in the risk group given his age -.-

so this probably not it

He sure has the potential with that contract we will never be able move him on. Not even that mad about the fee. Player was this expensive bc of the strong position leicester were in with his contract. But the wages are unnecessarily high. I bet he would have joined for like 150k as well. Huge slap for Marina if the 190kpw is true.

He is gonna turn 24 end of year. He should have 2 more years of development and then he better be the finished article we need. People act like he is fresh out of school but he is a seasoned wok veteran who still plays like a promising 20 y.o. He must grow the fuck up quickly

So they Sent a whole Chelsea TV team over to Milan? Weird

Wished we had stopped doing biz with Leicester after Kante. But chilly is At least a much better deal than80m for the slow ass convict

Which still means he will miss preseason and then has to be rammen into a side barely Training cos they are playing twice per week all season. i really hope he does well and is not the Rahman baba of drinkwaters

Welcome to the club. guess his first action will be to sit his injured ass on the bench to watch alonso fuck things up at lb the first few games. Thrilling.

They already are a bigger club, arent they. turnover wise at least they are bigger and they are part of a global football group. The sheicks are also more wealthy than Roman. But it doesn't matter. Chelsea is a unique, global brand, representing the best part of London, arguably capita mundi. City is just the other club from manchester. It will always be a case of ManUtd the biggest brand and then there is city their noisy neighbours. When people think aobut city there will always be Manchester and people will argue who is even the biggest club in that shithole of a town. We will be always hover above that. Who gives a shit about Manchester? But when people think London, they think Chelsea. This is our brand, everybody know what it stands for. fashionable, exclusive, king's road swagger, royal blue, Stamford Bridge, bit bourgeois, bohemian, English roots but international touch...so many Chelsea legends, legends of the game in fact... what the fuck does ManCity stand for?

I dont even think it makes a difference. Even assuming FFP was still in full force and we were forced to keep Kepa around we need to sign a 3rd senior keeper, which will cost 30m max. That keeper should be expected to challenge poor gks like Willy and kepa anyway so while we are at that we can as well sign a proper one.

Messi is not gonna win anyone the CL on their own again. Same as Ronaldo. They are still world class players but not really able to win matches all alone. Salah, Mane, Mbappe, Neymar maybe even Sterlign or Gnabry might be better than Messi overall right now.

Yeah we prolly wont win PL next 2 years but I doubt we would have anyway. We can still win cups. if we mange to do so, Lamps might have a chance of staying on. Messi mgiht have 2 more great years in him but he wont age as gracefully in PL as in other leagues. defenders will make a point of kicking the shit out of him and he hates that. City right now are already a well-oiled machine. Sure Messi is an upgrade on any RW in the world but he will block some of their further development when Messi commands similar power there like at Barca. Messi destroyed Barca, maybe he will do the same with city.

Pretty confident they will all be done soon. Thiago has made his mind up. Even tho Tuchel wants him to stay, Leonardo's lack of trust has sealed Thiago's decision to join us from what I read. Chilwell is too good a deal of leicester and the player to pass up on. We massively overpay on this so sadly gonna happen. Havertz is probably the most in the balance bc Leverkusen with their small club mentality are really giving us a hard time. Goalkeeper will still be a ride but I dont see us going into the season with just willy and kepa. I can definitely see Kepa staying for financial reasons but an experienced no. 2 will be signed who can eventually displace Kepa.