Kurt Zouma

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

Looks like Jose might be thinking of turning him into a midfielder.

[killer1257 3,282]

Looks like Jose might be thinking of turning him into a midfielder.

----Zouma

Matic----Cesc

It could work,although Zouma has to pass the ball faster,but apart from that Zouma and Matic will win almost every aerial duel and would bring a physicality in our game that would even supass Makelele and Essien.

I still prefer RLC as a midfielder because he can actually do more with the ball.

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

----Zouma

Matic----Cesc

It could work,although Zouma has to pass the ball faster,but apart from that Zouma and Matic will win almost every aerial duel and would bring a physicality in our game that would even supass Makelele and Essien.

I still prefer RLC as a midfielder because he can actually do more with the ball.

Will be interesting to see how this develops for sure.

[lucio 5,418]

Why has he lost his place ?

[killer1257 3,282]

Why has he lost his place ?

Because Cahill has more "experience"...

[CFC888 219]

Kurt has not lost his place. He is still recovering from knocks sustained in the West Ham game. Jose said they were quite bad and he would need to be managed carefully in the immediate future.

[Jase 43,479]

He's been called up to the France senior squad.

[CurlyHairLikeLuiz 1,625]

Good lad! Deserves a place.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Congratulations to Mr "I love contact". Hopefully he gets a chance to get his first cap.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

FNL with Zouma and Remy:

[ShpendZhubi 66]

[nyikolajevics 2,587]

Perhaps so but if that was really the case, then he would have played Zouma much earlier already and I don't mean just in the League Cup and/or Champions League matches. Cahill's mistakes already happened long before that game at White Hart Lane and if I remember correctly, Zouma only played the second half against Spurs at the Bridge because Cahill picked up a knock to his head in the first period.

He is very young man, he probably needed a little time to adapt. Also, he is not a world class player nor a big money buy, there was no reason to make him a starter immediately. This is a process. Zouma is becoming stronger and better, hopefully he'll be a regular in a year or two.

[lionsden 4,689]

France has replaced Spain,germany and belgium's status respectively as the country with the biggest talent pool in europe/world. It should be illegal the wealth talents/top class players at the french NT's disposal.

[Jase 43,479]

Zouma got his first cap for France today. Came on for the last eight minutes against Denmark. France won 2-0.

[Jase 43,479]

He is very young man, he probably needed a little time to adapt. Also, he is not a world class player nor a big money buy, there was no reason to make him a starter immediately. This is a process. Zouma is becoming stronger and better, hopefully he'll be a regular in a year or two.

Obviously Zouma needed time to adapt but the point was, would he have gotten so many minutes had Cahill not actually been dropped OR if we hadn't lost that game 5-3?

[Stingray 9,441]

Obviously Zouma needed time to adapt but the point was, would he have gotten so many minutes had Cahill not actually been dropped OR if we hadn't lost that game 5-3?

To answer: no. But he got some minutes in which he showed his worth. I do expect him to be a coming man. [emoji7]

[nyikolajevics 2,587]

Obviously Zouma needed time to adapt but the point was, would he have gotten so many minutes had Cahill not actually been dropped OR if we hadn't lost that game 5-3?

I think it was going to happen even if we didn't lose against Spurs. Cahill and Terry played crazy amount of matches in December, they obviously got tired. Zouma played five full games in January: three alongside JT and two with Cahill. I think it was because those two needed an easy January, not because we had one bad game against Spurs.

[Badboy 1,526]

Obviously Zouma needed time to adapt but the point was, would he have gotten so many minutes had Cahill not actually been dropped OR if we hadn't lost that game 5-3?

Yeah but its irrelevant Jason the fact is that he got the mins and he has proved to be competent at this early age which is great for us.