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Thats what a defensive coach does to you. Asks for dross as transfer targets.

Emerson pleeessseee!!!!! We cant have a defensive handicap on the left wing this season....

Milan, new contacts for Chelsea's Bakayoko It goes on the Milan negotiation to bring the Rossoneri tiemoué bakayokoof Chelsea . Therefore, it is always aimed at the French midfielder of the '94 class who wears the Blues shirt since summer 2017. New contacts for the player who approaches Milan, a club that wants to close this operation with the loan formula with a right of redemption. What a last few days this could be...

It will honestly be our most technical midfield in years. It will soften the blow of not replacing morata with a finisher for me. At least one part of the team will be complete (midfield)

I'll be so happy if we can pull this off. I rate kovacic over Savic (SMS) and he'll take our midfield to the level of Mancity. Kante Jorginho - Kovacic VS Fernadinho KDB - Siva

Not a chance that Barkley suits the 8 role more than Kovacic. Kova is the better dribbler (Highest dribble % completed in laliga last season), better passer, better in one touch football (pass and move), better first touch and is not injury prone. Barkley is probably a better long range shooter but thats about it. Kovacic progress has been slowed at madrid, if he gets significant game time, he's on the same level as prime Rakitic.

Dont worry. Contes tactics are easy to learn but easy for opposition to figure out. Sarri's tactics are harder to learn but when it comes off finally, it will be a thing of beauty.

Good point on Giroud's hold up play. The main point I was trying to drive there was Giroud had mbappe and griezmann to take the goalscoring burden off him, so he could concentrate on the role Dechamps set out for him. But we dont have that luxury of goalscoring wingers in chelsea. Hopefully the players weakness get protected by sarri's system, but I hope it doesn't come at the cost of losing top four because we have failed to get a goalscorer (we wouldn't want kante to start considering the PSG offers would we? ).

He just came back from the worldcup today. Doesn't mean much for now, wish he comes though. He's by far better than Barkley

We need to play Hazard and Kante from the go. They need to be blended into the system as soon as possible.

At least he's better than Butland

This is why I mentioned before that I'll rather give Bulka the no 1 role. Because when we go out to make signings, Butlands and Bakayokos abound

Finally!!! I thought Courtois has gotten into his head.

Honestly its not like I am saying Sarri doesn't need time, all I want is for Sarri to have a little more backing from the board. He got his midfielder in Jorginho, he was denied his defender in Rugani(we're playing an inconsistent luiz because of this decision), denied his CM in Golovin(we're playing an incredibly slow fabregas because of this decision), but I'm okay with those. What I am not at ease with is the striker position. I think a lot of fans have been spoilt by hazards ability and have forgotten how crucial a striker who can score 20-25 league goals is to a team. What happens when we fully adopt Sarri's system, playing fluid football, creating chances and Morata ends up missing all the chances and we lose anyway? We'll be going down the Arsenal route with such conditions. Anyways imo any realistic chance of our top four hopes depends on if we have a player in our team that can score 20-25 league goals. Lets hope Morata delivers like many hope for. Lool lets hope they deliver. Giroud is a world cup winning striker without a goal or shot on target in the whole tournament, but he had goalscoring Griezmann and Mbappe to score the goals. We have willian, pedro and hazard. Lets hope they can help the team.

Its incredible really how we're not active in the market. I really thought we would have taken the initiative to get Higuain, a player who worked with Sarri, understands his system, and scored 36 league goals under him, even if it was a one year loan. But we moved sluggishly and now we can see that Morata is still the same old striker as majority of last season (falling on the ground from breeze, missing easy chances with his feet). The loss of Costa was enough to make us score just 56 goals and ultimately out of top four. We still havent done anything to address the lack of goals from the team, we think Hazard will suddenly score 30 goals to compensate...... Even in this preseason we haven't scored more than one goal. Bottom line is, we're in for a dogfight in the top four with Torres... Morata as our striker.

If we got Higuain, the fraud Torres... Morata would have been on the bench. If we got Golovin, with his high energy and pressing, the snail Fabregas would have been on the bench. If we get top four under sarri with attacking football, Sarri is a Legend.

And the players seem to have forgotten 1. All the pressing learned during preseason, 2. The one touch passing 3. Runs behind the defence

Just see the difference between Tammy Abraham and Morata....

That alone could see us nick top four. Morata is not reliable enough to lead our attack, I'll be even willing to give Hazard or pedro a go in strike over Morata (like sarri did with mertens).

I cannot wrap my head around how he's been fooling our managers to think he's a great player. We could have Marcelo in our team and Alonso will still start... Incredible

Wrong, I'm making assertions based on a full season and preseason of watching a weak "fall on the floor" striker that cant score with his feet, even if its a penalty.