Juan Cuadrado

[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 6,058]

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 6,058]

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.

[Chelsea4 1,521]

Cuadrado is back.

 

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

Cuadrado isn't cut out for the premier league that's the bottom line. When we played Stoke when Shawcross clattered into him Cuadrado yelped like a little girl I was in the West Stand and you could hear it quite clearly. It was a hard challenge but after that and for the rest of his time with us he completely went into his shell. Can you imagine a right side of him and Ivan ? God it's a horrible prospect.

[Chelsea4 1,521]

15 minutes ago, Iggy Doonican said:

Cuadrado isn't cut out for the premier league that's the bottom line. When we played Stoke when Shawcross clattered into him Cuadrado yelped like a little girl I was in the West Stand and you could hear it quite clearly. It was a hard challenge but after that and for the rest of his time with us he completely went into his shell. Can you imagine a right side of him and Ivan ? God it's a horrible prospect.

 Cuadrado was great last season and Conte knows how to get the best out of him and the right side would be much better in defense because Cuadrado is good at defending he has played for Juventus as a RWB and he was great.

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

10 minutes ago, Chelsea4 said:

 Cuadrado was great last season and Conte knows how to get the best out of him and the right side would be much better in defense because Cuadrado is good at defending he has played for Juventus as a RWB and he was great.

Playing well for Juventus is not the same as playing for Chelsea it's a lazy comparison. Harry Kane was brilliant for Spurs yet terrible for England that in itself is probably a lazy comparison. What I saw of Cuadrado was as I said someone without the physical attributes to cut it in the Premier League. As the old cliche says '' Could he cut it on a Monday night in Stoke? '' Cuadrado couldn't cut himself shaving.

[OhForAGreavsie 6,058]

1 hour ago, Chelsea4 said:

 Cuadrado was great last season and Conte knows how to get the best out of him and the right side would be much better in defense because Cuadrado is good at defending he has played for Juventus as a RWB and he was great.

First of all, I have been told by another member that a response I made to an earlier post of yours was patronising. I appologise for that.

Tthe most we can say for Antonio is that he thinks he knows how to get the best out of Cuadrado.

A question to you, or anyone else who may know the answer, did Juan make himself Juve's first choice right wing-back or did he mainly play there when others were unavailable or rested?

[Unionjack 7,531]

Personally I HOPE that Contes being sly with Juve by keeping him. Either because he wants to use him in swaps or as a fuck you to Juve thinking if you wont sell us so n so you can see how it feels to want.

But Conte must have watched Square every week while hes keeping his eyes on national team players. So he might just think he is going to be good for us.

Players can sometimes change when theyve been away for a bit. Come back a changed man

We shall see I guess.

[Captain Ahmed 528]

#JC

[Chelsea4 1,521]

5 hours ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

First of all, I have been told by another member that a response I made to an earlier post of yours was patronising. I appologise for that.

Tthe most we can say for Antonio is that he thinks he knows how to get the best out of Cuadrado.

A question to you, or anyone else who may know the answer, did Juan make himself Juve's first choice right wing-back or did he mainly play there when others were unavailable or rested?

When Juventus played a 3-5-2 he was usually playing he has started 16 games and came on 12 times.

[Barbara 15,149]

On 16/07/2016 at 5:25 PM, Jype said:

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.

we have so much deadwood that really, keeping Cuadrado as a squad member is the least of my problems and I don't like his football at all.

There's a long list of players that should leave Chelsea either because they aren't even squad member material or because being squad members they actually take away opportunity from younger players I'd rather have. Iva, Mikel, Oscar, Pedro, Remy (love the guy, but he has to go). Also Marin (LOL FOREVER) and Salah are on my list ahead of Cuadrado among the players we should get rid of. Why do we keep those guys and loaning them over and over is beyond me. Just sell them already and get done with it. It felt so depressing to see Marin in the first training session with Conte. We really need to move from some players we have on loan.