Gary Cahill

[NishC300 1,865]

Cahill is the best header assister! He's a head playmaker. (Modern football)

(This thread seems quiet)

[The Skipper 20,593]

Was outstanding today, fair play.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Was outstanding today, fair play.

Jose's defensive system really plays to his strengths. In a deep back four, Gary really is a great CB.

[lucio 5,390]

Poor all round from cahill. I'm sick and tired of his mediocrity. Not chelsea quality

[mtowle182 79]

when will he learn that it is not a good idea to back off of attackers when they're in your box, especially in your goddamn box ffs

[Jase 43,479]

Honestly, I have hardly ever see Cahill breaking up attacks, proactively putting his foot in like Luiz does sometimes. He only knows how to be reactive, backs off attackers and then only throwing himself to block shots! It gets even worse when he plays with Ivanovic and/or Terry in defence. All 3 passive defenders equal to recipe for disaster! :banghead:

[Gilvorak 3,734]

Should be our 4th choice defender. Very good backup nothing more.

[hjperdeath 2,226]

Needs to get rid of this weird habit of backing up. Putting your body on the line is like the first thing that comes in his mind. Brave but unnecessary.

[didierforever 7,349]

oh dear!!! i simply cant understand how a CB in cahill's position could have been backing away from marcelo at that position. very poor.

[NishC300 1,865]

I don't think Cahill's as bad as ppl here r saying.

He just needs to realise there is a time and place to back off and block. Sure sometimes like against Milan it can be gr8 but he had to put his foot in for the Marcelo goal.

[Leif 6,006]

So Cahill - Terry doesn't work for us. We know that now.

Cahill - Ivanovic has never worked.

Cahill - Luiz hasn't been tried much but it's safe to say that very few of us would feel safe going into games with that being our duo.

(See a trend?)

Yet despite this, Cahill continues to get votes of confidence and comments (or excuses made for him) like "HES A GOOD SQUAD PLAYER!! SQUAD-DEPTH IS WHAT WINS TITLES!!!!!!!" (Barcelona and Bayern pre-Guardiola say hi.)

I'm putting this down to his nationality. Being English and being in the national team has swayed people's opinion on him from what I gather. If Cahill was South American he'd get triple the bashing Luiz gets. Probably rightly so based on performances.

For me this should be his last season with us.

He's good at putting the ball in the back of the net but too often he lets the opposition do exactly that to us.

Edited August 8, 2013 by Leif

[Mceachran 109]

I don't think Cahill's as bad as ppl here r saying.

He just needs to realise there is a time and place to back off and block. Sure sometimes like against Milan it can be gr8 but he had to put his foot in for the Marcelo goal.

The thing is some of us have been pointing out his habit of backing off against strong attackers and us being appropriately punished. Didn't he do this same thing with Adebayor or Toure recently? both? So many times...

[zyzz 711]

The thing is some of us have been pointing out his habit of backing off against strong attackers and us being appropriately punished. Didn't he do this same thing with Adebayor or Toure recently? both? So many times...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaVwkv5zIAk

he just hasn't learned his lesson

[robsblubot 3,214]

Well, it may be that he just does not posses the skill to not back away in such situations. I don't know, but I wouldn't assume it's just a mentality thing. He doesn't strike me as a very rounded player and can't really turn his body that quickly and sprint, which is something you have to do if high up on the pitch.

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

Honestly, I have hardly ever see Cahill breaking up attacks, proactively putting his foot in like Luiz does sometimes. He only knows how to be reactive, backs off attackers and then only throwing himself to block shots! It gets even worse when he plays with Ivanovic and/or Terry in defence. All 3 passive defenders equal to recipe for disaster! :banghead:

Cahill being too cautious, Luiz being too rash. If only you could combine the two you'd get a perfect player.

[Mceachran 109]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaVwkv5zIAk

he just hasn't learned his lesson

These first two were exactly the ones I was combining into one goal in my head. You're like, an internet wizard.

[Jype 6,398]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaVwkv5zIAk

he just hasn't learned his lesson

Horrible, just horrible. And the worst thing is that just because he's English and by definition more of a no-nonsense kind of player rather than a flashy centreback who attacks a lot he usually doesn't get anywhere near as much stick as Luiz gets for his mistakes, which are becoming fewer and fewer if I might add.

Edited August 8, 2013 by Jype

[Tomo 21,681]

Well atleast the weird phenomena of over-rating Cahill is a thing of the past, thank fuck, he's a good squad player but thats it, he should never play in the big games (before someone mentions the Barca game he was great in the second half granted, but in the first half he was out of his depth and the main reason Barca were creating so many chances), he should be a cover for the lesser games and cups.