Magic Lamps

No way that's gonna happen. Has he invented that rumour himself? Not even his daughter would give him the 10 after he threw her under the bus for those Conte emojis

They just cant get rid of him, too high wages, too old and injury prone. But the way they treated him is shameful and classic entitled RM. He scored what like 4 goals in 3 Cl finals including two winning goals. This man would have a statue at any other club.

Haha true. And we have another Chance in a few weeks. I really want that super cup. Eluded us twice before. Klopp won his first title in 7 years let's not make it a habit...

Thats true. Bad mobe by Sarri. But I really dont think so. Essien relied greatly on his power. Kante is an excellent reader of the game and he is good in tight spaces because of his low center of gravity. That wont go away with an injury even if his pace might

It was worth it though. Will probably be our last title for some time.

No Messi or Suarez we really should beat them given their lack of fitness. One could excuse us for still having jetlag bs Kawasaki but barca arrived in Japan after us. All our players should be mazch fit by Tuesday. No excuses anymore.

They are very different players tho. Mount is someone who roams in midfield and develops his attacking actions from late runs in the centre. Alli is more of a classic attacking midfielder who operates in the channels and makes early runs for crosses and diagonals to provide an aerial threat.

Drogba and Lampard were injured fpr most of the season and when they came back they made up 13points gap on Utd. It was a very unlucky season. A bad transfer window and bad injuries fucked us Still that game there vs Newcastle sich retro feeling. Zhirkov Ramires midfield, yossi fuckin benayoun, ferreira with that almost world class goal, feels like ages ago. Bruma, Mceachran and can aanholt possibly with their best game in a chelsea shirt. At least two of those still play at an ok level.

Looks absolute class. First time i like the away kit more than the home one. Even the hyundai and yokohama logos look good on it. Esp suits Azpi with his classy old school style.

He has never in his life played a 60 games season, hardly played in 2018, had a winter break. Had weeks off before the gold cup. He will be rested and fresh AF and he should be match fit already thanks to the gold cup.

Guys like Ngolo are the ones who always work hard, perform well but often get exploited in an office job as they are too shy and modest to take credit for their work. I am happy for him that he has a stage to shine for everyone to see and appreciate so every bully has to respect him for who he is. No one deserves it more

Its 50:50. Spurs have such a bad record of integrating big money signings in their team he could be a massive flop. Despite all of their almost successes, they still have this small club mentality which might play a part in making promising players regress after signing for them. Look at Lamela, Soldado, Janssen, Sissoko etc. They all could be described as technically proficient, promising, but still never really arrived. Spurs like to sign flavor of the month cos they can not afford or attract top quality. I don't know if this guy here is the real deal chances are spurs will ruin him anyway. Maybe it's just me but I will never fear Spurs, even if they sign Mbappe

It is a double edged sword. Players might not develop as good out on loan as at the club or might never want to come back. Dortmund also play for the German championship with green youngsters. Sure it is the league but would we be so much worse off having played CHO for Willian and Mount for Kovacic/Barkley last season . I doubt it Still it is striking that almost all world class clubs I know have a better record of flooding in youth from their academy than us. It is not even that I believe our youngsters deserve so much more rather that we prefer to spend on average players to make up squad numbers than give them to you haters. Some will not be satisfied with that but some will. Signing and playing the bakayokos, drinkwater, Williams, alonsos of this world over youth players that really identify with the club is the problem imo

Good selection. Just a bit confused with Kenedy and Palmer. Don't think they have a future here and should be sold. Same for Drinkayoko but I guess it's harder to get rid of them. Shame gilmour is not travelling as he is one of the few that could become a Jorginho backup Also I hate the city of yokohama in a football context -.-

You can literally see his thought process. he was fending off that challenge, controlling the ball, taking his time to make his decision, deciding to pass the ball to his right but at the time he was physically and mentally ready to execute players had long run past him, expecting the pass earlier and more forward. Mind this is a situation where he had an unusual amount of time on the ball to make his decision. Just too slow in his thinking. This is the kind of mistake you make in level E youth. If you still make them as a pro you are not meant to play at a high level. Such a (nowadays) Mourinho type of player. So focused on 6'2+, powerful, athletic players that you forget to check if they can do the basics of playing football right.

Glad to see there are still loyal, talented kids who pledge their future to to the club despite our poor record of integrating them. Good luck lad

+he is recovering from a long term injury right now and bayern are literally the only Club in for him. It also not that he is some Mbappe kind of Talent. This guy has some nerves. I have some weird kind of respect for that pure cheek and stubbornness. I get nervous when my paycheck is a few days late and this guy there is chilling, spinning his thumbs while stalling on a contract that would secure his and his familys financial Future forever

I also like how he still uses an 2 y.o. iphone 8..not on the hype train this boy

Didn't want to derail the discussion in the Super Frank thread so I put it here Just came across of this rare complete collection of his West ham goals. You already can see the scoring instinct and match intelligence at 18-21 y.o. Having seen most of his 211 Chelsea goals a dozen times, this really caught my eye how mature he already was taken all those excellent finishes. a few absolute crackers as well, worth watching till the end Lets hope he is as good as rookie manager as he was as rookie player.

Maatsen is one of those I never heard befroe. Was decent tho, still only 17 and playing i an position where we are not exactly loaded with quality. Given he will be kept on, he will have more chances to how himself. gilmour reminded me a bit of mceachran back in the days, lots of nice play but not really the conviction behind his actions to actually score. Mount and Abraham i am also really looking forward to. Esp abraham. If he hits the ground running, he could really help us this season.

lol I call this BS. Pulisic is a born winger, everyone can see it. He is quick, direct, great dribbler and crosser. Also we have more than enough players who can play as a 10 but only 3 more wingers. He will definitely start on the wing this season. Pulisic only plays more or less no. 10 for USA because no one else there has the same footballing ability as him. But here at Chelsea we still have plenty of players who are much better playmakers than Pulisic.

I'm not even convinced you can learn that. You either are born a scorer or not. This goal instinct like Gerd Müller, Ronaldo, Lampard, this ability to know where the ball will end up in the box is something you have or you don't. It does not define if you are a good player or not. For everything but strikers it is pretty much irrelevant but even some strikers are not natural born scorers and still make a career out of scoring goals when they just work their technique to create their own chances, score enough half-chances, have hold-up play or just stay in the position of a target man. Examples are Bergkamp, Klose, Drogba or Giroud. For Kovacic I am pretty sure he is not a natural scorer and never will be prolific in front of goal. Mount was a goalscoring midfielder even before Lampard coached him, so I don't think Lampard wil lhave that much of an impact on someone like kovacic. But he should be able to perfect the run-timing ability of guys who like to drive forward like RLC and Barkley. Still, you are right. Midfielders should take shots just to make this an option. how often do we see players score from rebounds or ricochets, poor shots becoming passes. When the opposition know your midfielders will shoot they will try to close them down, leaving more space between the lights for good passers to exploit. A player who can do both, like Lampard used to be one, is thus a nightmare to defend against. You saw that later in his careers, he wouldn't attempt that many long shots anymore being closed down earlier but always thread the ball through instead. We need more of that from Kovacic, try some shots and use the space for more direct, vertical impact. I would love him to become such a player. He has amazing technical ability, his close control is maybe best in the squad now with Willian's but they are similarly slow of mind in the attacking third as well. But with Kovacic i have not given up hope that he can lean to become more daring and decisive.

That overreaction....guys, they have been in training for 4 days or so. Hardly any first team members and a few kids even a dedicated Chelsea fan has never heard of. Also the Irish Premier divison is in the middle of its season, so the pros they featured were full inc ompetitive mode and much fitter than our guys right now. So a draw is a very fair reflection of the fitness+quality levels. Because that is what i saw as the reason we slumped in the game late on. Fitness+quality. not commitment or willingness. Just in the first few minutes you see very player on the pitch busting a lung to get forward, they were openly running into tackles because they were so over-enthusiastic. But I dont think you could go out and say they did not play for Lamps etc. It is a fitness exercise ffs. Thsoe games in Ireland have nothing to do with competition but only with getting fit against sides that already are. If its a good idea i dont know but it was obviously the lack of quality and lack of fitness that made us draw here not a lack of spirit.

Well they are both teams in the Irish premier divison (no 3 and 4). They are in the middle of the season, so no wonder they look sharper than us. i just wonder why we even go to Ireland, there is hardly any marketing potential there with that few dozens of population. I expect our showing to be similar to what we saw earlier. Those games in Ireland really are obviously just to get us going quickly physically against way fitter opposition. So i wouldn't read much into this. I expect this one to be a similar shit-show performance wise with all oru players being super rusty and the youth were obviously still very green.

dafuq how tall does tammy look there? maybe its just the camera angle but he looks a head taller than giroud