Juan Cuadrado

[Mufassir08 2,400]

The "I'm very happy to have him" line clearly suggests that he will be staying.

[JaKstone 307]

More deadwood staying, Great!

[Jype 6,398]

14 minutes ago, JaKstone said:

More deadwood staying, Great!

Nah if anything he'll be 'like a new signing', forgive the cliché.

From what I've heard he was good last season out on loan and is a player Conte's been wanting to manage since his Juve days so he'll have a clear role in mind for him if he indeed is brought back. That and the fact Cuadrado would be starting the season having been at the club for a full pre-season regime gives me hope he'd come good if given the chance.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

47 minutes ago, Mufassir08 said:

The "I'm very happy to have him" line clearly suggests that he will be staying.

Now, he’s a Chelsea player and he’ll stay with us. If something changes you’ll know.’
 

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

Player is kept on Conte request even though he was certain to go to Juve.

Early signs are that Conte has pretty big say about the playing squad here and I love it.

[Mufassir08 2,400]

1 minute ago, xPetrCechx said:

Now, he’s a Chelsea player and he’ll stay with us. If something changes you’ll know.’
 

I guess we ourselves are undecided about his future and maybe we are waiting to see how high Juve will go for Juan before making a final decision. 

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

16 minutes ago, Blue Colored Sky said:

Player is kept on Conte request even though he was certain to go to Juve.

Early signs are that Conte has pretty big say about the playing squad here and I love it.

Too soon to know...

[Stats 7,054]

Good. At least Conte has no idea of loaning him out which does benefit us in anyway at all. If Juve or any other team want him, pay a transfer fee instead of this loan business without no obligation to buy.

[the wes 7,212]

There's one thing about conte he knows how to get the best outta of players I hope he can get the best outta cuadrado when he comes back 

[King11Didier 916]

22 hours ago, Stats said:

Good. At least Conte has no idea of loaning him out which does benefit us in anyway at all. If Juve or any other team want him, pay a transfer fee instead of this loan business without no obligation to buy.

[Ryan Fong 2,776]

I very much doubt Conte can improve Juan dramatically. It's fair to say he is not a talented player, not explosively fast and his moves were too predictable. I'll be more than glad to be proven wrong though, but to me his best achievement will be an average-ok sub.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,891]

The standard double-talk method makes deciphering Conte's comments difficult. He might mean that he likes Cuadrado and wants him back at the club, or he might mean he wants to sell Cuadrado but knows what has to be said to maximise the price.

[Blue_Fox_ 2,086]

In a perfect world we'd be selling Ivanovic, put Azpi on the right flank and use this bloke as a backup rb in cup games or against weak opposition. We do not live in such a world sadly. 

[Ryan Fong 2,776]

The standard double-talk method makes deciphering Contes comments difficult. He might mean he like Cuadrado and wans him back at the club, or he might mean he wants to sell Cuadrado but knows what has to be said to maximise the price.

Still for me the best situation would be trade him in for someone with Juve. Bonucci is hard to get then why not Lichtsteiner?

[OhForAGreavsie 5,891]

2 minutes ago, Ryan Fong said:

Still for me the best situation would be trade him in for someone with Juve. Bonucci is hard to get then why not Lichtsteiner?

I suspect that Conte has something like this in mind.

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

6 minutes ago, Blue_Fox_ said:

In a perfect world we'd be selling Ivanovic, put Azpi on the right flank and use this bloke as a backup rb in cup games or against weak opposition. We do not live in such a world sadly. 

He's good at tracking back but he's horrible as a 1 on 1 defender, he'd get destroyed at RB even by pub teams.

[Ryan Fong 2,776]

I suspect that Conte has something like this in mind.

Yeh hopefully yes.

Since we are so desperate for competent defenders why not use Cuadrado who apparently Juve likes as leverage to get some fine defenders.

If we can't pull Koulibaly off I really wouldn't mind our back line with Lichtsteiner (Aina); Manolas (Cahill); Zouma (JT); Azpi (Baba). I know it's still not ideal because of the poor subs but still a fairly good upgrade of what we have now.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,891]

24 minutes ago, Ryan Fong said:

Yeh hopefully yes.

Since we are so desperate for competent defenders why not use Cuadrado who apparently Juve likes as leverage to get some fine defenders.

If we can't pull Koulibaly off I really wouldn't mind our back line with Lichtsteiner (Aina); Manolas (Cahill); Zouma (JT); Azpi (Baba). I know it's still not ideal because of the poor subs but still a fairly good upgrade of what we have now.

On the subs: -

I like Aina. My criticism of him has always been that he is prone to too many mistakes. I used to say that you could rely on him for 2 or 3 errors per game, but he did better on that last season. Minus those errors, we have a potential player there.

I also think Tomori must start to become a factor in first team squad planning. He had a brilliant season last term.