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I would actually love to see Mitro here. He is tough motherf*****

It could be possible, OGS seems to really like Rashford. But this transfer makes too much sense for us

He will surprise many people

Just imagine selling Fabregas, Willian, Morata, Drinkwater, Moses (pretty much deadwood even though two of them were pretty much starters ) and buying Malcolm, Piatek, Paredes and Barella. That would be HUGE! But this is Chelsea. We will keep Willian instead of Malcolm and buy Andy Carroll to lead our attack.

Based on skill set, probably not But Silva at least has "pitbull mentality" ...

Club is probably expecting transfer ban in the summer so this is gonna be an important transfer window as it seems. With both midfielders heavily linked with us I assume one thing... We don't want to sell Hazard and we are probably expecting that Real won't let us keep Kovacic if we play hard with them. And also.. Barkley will have to step up big time if he wants to stay near first team.

If Hudson leaves than Malcolm could be an option, what do you think?

He is best suited to play alongside classic wingers that cross from byline.

Not in the squad today

What else does he need to do??

Not sure that Bournemouth is ready to spend 19M on player just to be Defoe replacement. He was their 4th striker... Solanke is injured so I think that Bournemouth are gettin ready to sell Wilson in summer.

Could be very useful as creative attacking midfielder, especially versus teams that defend deep.

This! Kante, Kovacic and Jorginho seems like a great midfield for games like City but most of the time we would need someone more creative alongside Jorginho and Kante/Kovacic IMO. We need extra creative force versus deep defensive lines

Was watching a little bit of Real Madrid - Villareal tonight and that kid Chukwueze is really something Great player, great player ...

Our biggest weakness apart from striker situation is nr. 10 position IMO. City struggled when Silva and KDB were injured, not because Gundogan and Bilva are not good midfielders but because they didn't have a creative force in midfield. Liverpool struggled to break down teams that defended deep when they played Wijnaldum-Milner... Look at their scores when Shaqiri starts in nr. 10 position, they are scoring for fun. They both have much better trio upfront but with lack of support they can't produce miracles. The same with us... Kovacic and Kante are probably worldclass midfielders but they can't create. They are b2b midfielders and they need creative player alongside... Barkley used to be this kind of player at Everton but right now he is "too safe" with backwards and sideways passing. Fabregas would be the best choice right now.. Maybe RLC but I am not sure. Mason Mount seems like an option for this position or James Maddison from Leicester. Someone with that flair... I would even try Hazard there with Odoi in his natural left wing position.

Tbh Kovacic is more suited to Kante position I think RLC is our only true attacking midfielder that could do damage in final third ...

Oh come on.. I won't blame Hudson Odoi if he leaves.. He should start this kind of games

What about Thorgan Hazard? Do we have a buy-back clause in his contract? Even if we don't ... I remember that he was talking about returning to Chelsea was his dream He is setting the Bundesliga on fire this season - 8 goals and 6 assists (2.7 key passes per game), 3 more goals in 2 cup games. Also the best rated player in Bundesliga based on whoscored (7.86) But probably our best solution for RW would be a scoring left footed inside forward ... someone like Salah. Nicolas Pepe is having a great season in Ligue 1 - fast, left footed and likes to cut inside at takes a lot of shots.

But we have Alonso.. Only player in the PL that won't get rotated during christmas period

We expect too much because of our results in last two months... These are still our first few months of attacking/possession football after years of defending and counter attacking. Guardiola hardly managed to reach TOP 4 in his first season with City and with probably better team than ours. We played a great game against Liverpool and Arsenal, had a great run without defeat and after first loss there is already panic among our fans... Calm the f*ck down please! Sarri has a philosophy, it is the right thing to stick with it! You can't learn attacking football in three months, we will need more than that, maybe even more than one season and few new players (right ones). Kante is a great player but I am afraid that he is a great player in certain system. System that was played under Ranieri, Conte and in system that is played in France - counter attacking. His passing under pressure is not good, so we would suffer with him as defensive midfielder if we want to play the ball out of the defence.

Kepa Azpi - Rudiger - Christensen - Emerson Kante - Jorginho - Kovacic Hazard - Giroud - Hudson Odoi Is not gonna happen, I know, I know. But I would love to see Morata, Luiz, Willian and Alonso benched.

Ampadu and Hudson-Odoi have to start!

What? He has 10 goals...

With Hazard out we will need some extra creativity from our midfield so I would try and start without Kante and with Barkley/RLC - Kovacic midfield duo infront of Jorginho