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I think we should sell him and put a buy back clause on him. We cant make the mistake of slowing down his progress because Sarri clearly doesnt rotate.

Alonso is a cross Chelsea has to carry. We have to find players to accommodate his defensive weaknesses instead of trying to improve other areas. Even Hazard had to track back to commit a tactical foul on Rashford, because Alonso was caught out of position again. Every big team targets his wing, Mancity kept Mahrez and Bernado silva on that wing and scored two goals and created many, Arsenal kept Mykiterian and Aubameyang on that wing and created even more, Defensive Mourinho kept a quick Rashford on his wing and created all ManUnited chances from Alonso's side. He scores 1 goal every 8 games to make his contribution look so huge, how he has managed to con his way to become one of our key players baffles my mind constantly.

Alonso is a cross Chelsea has to carry. We have to find players to accommodate his defensive weaknesses instead of trying to improve other areas. Even Hazard had to track back to commit a tactical foul on Rashford, because Alonso was caught out of position again. Every big team targets his wing, Mancity kept Mahrez and Bernado silva on that wing and scored two goals and created many, Arsenal kept Mykiterian and Aubameyang on that wing and created even more, Defensive Mourinho kept a quick Rashford on his wing and created all ManUnited chances from Alonso's side. He scores 1 goal every 8 games to make his contribution look so huge, how he has managed to con his way to become one of our key players baffles my mind constantly.

Some stats on Willian Willian made his professional club debut in 2006 for Corinthians. Since then he has made 346 League appearances as an "Attacking midfielder". He is yet to score 50 League goals. 49 goals in 346 league appearances in 12 years. He averages a goal every 14 games. Averages 2.71 goals a season. Has never hit double figures for a season in his entire career ever. Comparing him to 4 Chelsea attacking midfielders/wingers that were sold during his time at the cost of him or not, these are the stats: Schurrle - 65 goals KDB (has also played CM) - 60 goals Salah - 93 goals, surpassed Willian's entire PL tally in one season Mata - 92 goals

Its very annoying when people use physique as an excuse for morata. He know's he's physically weak and doesn't want to hit the gym? Just hoping the ref will give him a good time so that he can play well is bull. Physique, first touch and one touch passing is all part of hold up play and Morata is terrible in all three.

Incredible. Throughout the video of all Hazard's touches in the match, he only passed the ball to morata once. The moment Giroud comes on, you see the link up between them. Hazard is smart enough to know that morata will fall to the ground and lose the ball anytime he passes to him. Morata is truly the reason why Hazard didn't play well.

This video says something important in the last 2 mins of the video. Alonso attacks leaving space behind but Kovacic provides defensive cover so that Luiz doesn't have to come out of shape. But Barkley doesn't have the mindset to man mark so when we lost the ball with Alonso high up the pitch, that forced Luiz to chase Mata and lose out which lead to Martial's second goal. Kovacic's absence contributed a lot to what made us start hoofing the ball in the last 30 mins like Sarri complained about after the match. Barkley is the goal threat while Kovacic is the ball control and defensive cover.

He needs two, three touches to get control of the ball. That is average technique at best not Lukaku level bad, but average. It's also why he rarely gives one touch passes to Hazard because he cant even control the ball well enough to pull it off like Giroud does.

That is the main problem. He has no first touch, he cant finish chances, he cant hold up play so that Chelsea can sustain attacks in the danger area. Falling like a baby every goddamn time, He's such a liability, its unreal.

Two poor games from Hazard against westham and now Manchester utd and we cant score an open play goal. It is a worry, Morata was an absolute disaster for him, never even tried to link up with Hazard today.

Full Pre-Match Press Conference

Apparently the size is 100ft by 50ft - same size as the Pride Of London banner

I didn't realize that it could be 300K after tax, thats a lot lol... But worth doing for Hazard. Get rid of Fabregas (on High wages) to compensate for Hazard.

I don't know what Mourinho does to these players when they get to Manutd, but watching Pogba in Juventus and France is a completely different class to when he plays for United. Lukaku is Belgium's top scorer (2 again in his last match) 24 league goals in his last season at Everton, but suddenly looks like a donkey under Mourinho. I just gave both of them the benefit of a doubt. Even Rashford looks a world beater for England and under Van gaal but Mourinho can't get his attacking players to perform so their being underrated now imo.

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Kovacic is a given if we sell Hazard. Our board will be so stupid to not get him in if Hazard leaves. Isco is possible if he fears not having any game time with Hazard coming and pushes for a move. But its a long shot. Hopefully Hazard signs some sort of deal 400k or so and all this ends

The possibility of Hazard going has made Kovacic even more important to us. We could use him and isco as a bargaining chip if it comes to that. We will need all the quality we can get to replace someone of Hazard's caliber.

Full Sarri Interview

I remember when I was an advocate of Mbappe hoping and praying we get him early while he was in Monaco. What a player he's turned out to be, incredible. Hopefully we try to get Malcom from Barcelona if we cant get Hazard to stay in the summer.

I think he's saying Madrid want Neymar and Eriksen. [Paco Gonzalez via COPE]: Real Madrid are not planning to buy Hazard in the winter. Rodrygo Goes will join Castilla in January. Real are looking into Eriksen as Modric's replacement and are also discussing about Neymar. Hopefully they stay away from Hazard. They need goals and that Ronaldo level marketing from Neymar don't they

Surely the best thing for all parties would be a new contract with a buy-out clause? Say around £150 million exempting teams in England? That way, Chelsea get the extension they want, and Hazard knows that (provided Madrid pay up) Chelsea can’t and won’t stand in his way (i.e. they can’t simply reject all bids). And he’d get a nice pay rise too, of course.