Kurt Zouma

[BlueLion. 21,491]

  On 08/02/2016 at 23:29, Kieran. said:

No chance he'll be fit in six months. Will be closer to a year.

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He's got the benefit of youth on his side, at least. I have every faith he can be ready for the start of next season.

[Yeboii 1,844]

He works very hard in training (most of them all according to Matic), so he does have a shot to be like 8/10 or 9/10 of what he would have been before the injury

[johnnythefirst 1,076]

Damn, just saw the pictures. Sickening injury, poor guy...

[the wes 7,212]

[the wes 7,212]

Zouma has been are best centre back by a mile this season zouma will be missed ???

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

  On 09/02/2016 at 17:47, the wes said:

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Interesting. People calling for Zouma to time his jumps yet he is more efficent in aerial duels than Terry.

So all those dissing Zouma, now tell JT to work on his timing. Haha.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

  On 08/02/2016 at 23:29, Kieran. said:

No chance he'll be fit in six months. Will be closer to a year.

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Nah I don't think it'll be a year man. He'll have the benefit (though he won't see it that way) of missing the Euros and thus giving him the entire summer to rest and look after his own physical conditioning. Don't expect he'll be ready for the beginning of the season, but I don't think it'll keep him out until 2017. Expect to see him October earliest.

[mccg 1,528]

deffo missed as we are deffo the Chelsea pensioners at the back now,i think Zouma just needs to know when to go for header and when not(that 1 was reckless imho) 

[the wes 7,212]

  On 09/02/2016 at 18:05, LDN Blue said:

Nah I don't think it'll be a year man. He'll have the benefit (though he won't see it that way) of missing the Euros and thus giving him the entire summer to rest and look after his own physical conditioning. Don't expect he'll be ready for the beginning of the season, but I don't think it'll keep him out until 2017. Expect to see him October earliest.

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I hope zouma  doesn't end up like van ginkel ffs being loan out and his bad injury

[Kieran. 6,317]

  On 09/02/2016 at 18:05, LDN Blue said:

Nah I don't think it'll be a year man. He'll have the benefit (though he won't see it that way) of missing the Euros and thus giving him the entire summer to rest and look after his own physical conditioning. Don't expect he'll be ready for the beginning of the season, but I don't think it'll keep him out until 2017. Expect to see him October earliest.

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Really really don't think so but I hope I'm wrong! I feel sick about the whole thing.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

  On 09/02/2016 at 18:12, the wes said:

I hope zouma  doesn't end up like van ginkel ffs being loan out and his bad injury

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Difference I find is that Zouma was actually a regular in the team. Unlike MvG and even Romeu, Zoma became a permanent fixture in the team for the whole season. The former 2 played but sporadically. Only Romeu was really hyped and by then we'd filled the midfield vacancy. It's clear Zouma's ceiling of potential is higher than the aforementioned.

[Spike 12,049]

  On 09/02/2016 at 19:14, LDN Blue said:

Difference I find is that Zouma was actually a regular in the team. Unlike MvG and even Romeu, Zoma became a permanent fixture in the team for the whole season. The former 2 played but sporadically. Only Romeu was really hyped and by then we'd filled the midfield vacancy. It's clear Zouma's ceiling of potential is higher than the aforementioned.

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Romeu was getting serious minutes just before his injury. He was starting under AVB, remember? Van Ginkel was also just starting to get important minutes before his injury. If both hadn't been injured they might have been pushing for a starting berth, now we shall never know. The difference between the two midfielders and Zouma is that they became injured just when they were making an impact, not over a year later.

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  On 09/02/2016 at 19:18, Spike said:

 

Romeu was getting serious minutes just before his injury. He was starting under AVB, remember?

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Yeah I do, but I meant it was so short-lived that we quickly moved on to be honest. That's why I don't think we'd loan Zouma out when he would come back to fitness because he because an important part of that back 4. Certainly the only one who showed any signs of turning up, particularly early in the season.

It's funny looking back though. How shit scared were we Barcelona would come calling back? The many debates on the definition of buy-back v buy-out clauses - Now we couldn't care less so to speak, no-one mentioned any sell-on clauses hey?

[Spike 12,049]

  On 09/02/2016 at 19:22, LDN Blue said:

Yeah I do, but I meant it was so short-lived that we quickly moved on to be honest. That's why I don't think we'd loan Zouma out when he would come back to fitness because he because an important part of that back 4. Certainly the only one who showed any signs of turning up, particularly early in the season.

It's funny looking back though. How shit scared were we Barcelona would come calling back? The many debates on the definition of buy-back v buy-out clauses - Now we couldn't care less so to speak, no-one mentioned any sell-on clauses hey?

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He looked impressive in that short life.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

  On 09/02/2016 at 19:23, Spike said:

He looked impressive in that short life.

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No doubt, had a positive attitude to start attacking plays from his position. You do wonder what could have become of him if he did remain injury free, at least he's got a new lease of life at Southampton. Though it looks like his injury didn't affect him too much, he looks a shadow of his former self (from what we'd seen).

But in trying to keep this on topic of Zouma, I think there are distinct differences that'll benefit him at Chelsea. He's a favourite of fans and management alike, he's young but mature enough to share a position with John Terry and keep Cahill out the team. People say how his knees will be a problem because he relies on his pace and strength, to be honest until he comes back and proves that theory wrong all we have is theory. But the graphic @the wes showed goes to disprove that slightly.

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[The Skipper 20,593]

Potentially our future captain if he recovers well. IMO. 

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