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Hopefully he plays a similar role to Giroud for us, feel like he'll link up well with Sterling. I hope he can bring a bit of confidence back to Pulisic as well, he showed patches of what he can do in that free role behind the striker at the back end of last season. Will be interesting to see how the manager uses him & Havertz together once he recovers from his jaw injury.

Klopp also hasn't finished lower than 4th since the 15-16 season and he broke the Liverpool winning PL curse. Most of their big signings like Alisson, Van Dijk have paid off. If Tuchel finishes outside top 4 this season with the amount of money spent, questions will definitely be raised. The club has backed him with these signings, there's even rumors that the club wanted Ronaldo to spearhead the new ownership this season but Tuchel declined and was persistent in wanting Aubameyang...even though he was let go on a free by our local rivals.

He's definitely in the pressure cooker now. If Fofana & Auba don't start clicking right away....I really do fear for Tuchel. No excuses as even United are scrapping their way to wins and their offense hasn't even clicked yet.

That's probably the biggest positive from the window. Getting rid of the deadwood in our first team squad should have been a priority and that's what our new ownership group has done. Hate to bring up Arsenal but they've done similar with Arteta in charge (in terms of getting rid of players who they don't need).

Cech was due a few poor showings considering the top class career he put together at Chelsea. Mendy's known for having brain fades and being beaten at his near post and charging out of his goal for no reason, that was the summary scouting report I got from multiple Ligue 1 fans who have been following that league for the past 5+ years. They said Mendy is solid most of the time but if he loses confidence, it'll likely take 8-10 games for him to get back on track.

West Ham will batter us as we literally have no midfield available. Don't think a goalscorer is the biggest concern for us at the moment, we should be more worried about the defense buckling under pressure against sides that will very likely end up in the bottom 6 of the PL. Rice to score from outside the box just to show Tuchel what he's missing.

Agree with this but we have no-one else in the squad who provides a similar output to him. Banking on RLC as a backup midfielder (considering his injury issues over a long period of time and the fact that lower back injuries are very likely to flair up at least a few times a season) is also quite risky by Tuchel & the coaching team.

I honestly don't know what fans expect from him. He can't work miracles without any backing in the transfer window. We were clearly lacking in terms of fullbacks and wingers heading into the season. The board do nothing about it apart from signing Zappacosta on deadline day (who has looked average at best). You replace Conte with any other attainable manager and I doubt we would be in top-4.

Cahill will always be an average defender. He's had some high points in his career at Chelsea but if i'm being honest, he'd probably be at some other club if he wasn't homegrown. Would love to see a Chelsea backline in the future without any limited players! I don't get the hate for Rudiger. He's still got time to improve as a defender at 24 years of age....as for Cahill, he should be at his peak.

Hopefully he moves to a different club. We should be focusing on wingers & wingbacks. We don't need a square peg for a round hole.

I'm surprised at people's reactions to Bakayoko. Did everyone really expect him to become a class midfielder over night? He is as raw as they come from the French League. Barely played two full seasons of senior football, gets a big money move to a top club and he's expected to be the new Matic. As his former mentor (Makelele) mentioned in multiple interviews, Bakayoko has no discipline in his game, he'll never be a calm midfielder, ready to sit and recycle possession, he's unpredictable, he can do something brilliant then make an awful mistake straight after, he has a while to go before he becomes a consistent threat.

Simple as that. Win the FA Cup, see how far we can go in the CL and retain top 4 and we can move ahead to next season positively. If we want to move ahead next season, we need to clear out the deadwood in the first team and sign decent squad players (or even blood 1-2 loaned out players as squad depth).

This game showcased Chelsea's biggest flaw. No attacking identity. It's shocking that we don't have another player in the squad capable of creating/scoring goals apart from Hazard. Questions have to be asked as to why we signed both Bakayoko and Drinkwater when it was clear that we needed another quality attacker (like Salah, Mahrez etc)

Fixed.

I hope we win...but this game has a 2-1 loss written all over it.

As if Pogba would go on a 'televised' interview for MUTV and say anything negative about one of his team-mates. Every man and his dog knows Martial's attacking qualities, we saw that Monaco, we saw him being touted as the next Henry for a reason...but right now with Mourinho as his boss, he needs to put in a shift on the defensive end or bide his time and play the super-sub role. This whole situation is similar to Real Madrid and Benzema. In more than one press conference after Higuain got injured, Mourinho said: " If I can't hunt with a dog, I will hunt with a cat"....then later on Benzema said: "Mourinho called me a cat to motivate me to fight for the team, to make me more aggressive, to let out the anger inside of me"

Martial is perfect in his current role. In Mourinho's tactics, he wants that burst of energy from the bench, he doesn't want to see Martial jogging around the pitch, letting his opposite number off the hook in the defensive aspect of the game.

Hopefully dropping Luiz acts like a catalyst for the rest of the team...as our next 3 fixtures are gonna be tough. West Brom (A) - they always play better against us...just like Palace Qarabag (A) - must win if we want to progress in UCL Liverpool (A) - hopefully our wingbacks can keep up with Salah and Mane

How did Van Gaal damage his reputation beyond repair? He's never been known to play exciting football, he went to United, steadied the ship, helped push Rooney out of the club and he gave a chance to Rashford (who will be playing for United/England for the next decade).

It doesn't even matter if they get sacked because they will find another club sooner or later... Managers at Chelsea don't want to play the youth because they don't care. They know it's a short term gig, so why bother 'helping' the club in the long run? You either trust a manager for a longer period of time (United, Arsenal, Everton with Moyes, Liverpool with Rafa) or you go for the win-now mentality (Chelsea with Mourinho and Conte).

Traore wanted to be a starting XI player....as for Michy, he doesn't seem to care if he's second choice, he's more interested in twitter

Whilst I like Conte's passion on the touchline...if he doesn't have a plan B in terms of tactics, he won't be at Chelsea for much longer

If I see a Fabregas - Bakayoko midfield

The question should be: How are experienced professionals allowed to down tools during the season? I get the feeling that the players who ditched Mourinho in his 2nd spell may be doing the same thing to Conte this season... it could be anyone out of Courtois, Cahill, Fabregas, Hazard, Pedro, Willian

There is one "BIG" name out there. Proven Premier League Manager, former national team manager, available on a free. Let's get Big Sam in charge.