Baba Rahman

[chelseafan26 293]

It was nice knowing you baba. Knowing this club, I would not expect to see him on the pitch any time soon

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

2 hours ago, chelseafan26 said:

It was nice knowing you baba. Knowing this club, I would not expect to see him on the pitch any time soon

Into the dungeon he goes where Loic Remy, Falcao and previous tenants Djiloboji & Kennedy resided!

[LAM09 6,744]

Hope today won't impact his season too much.

[the wes 7,212]

On replacing Rahman at half-time, the Dutchman explained: "I don't want to make a fake injury. I took him off because of the error.

"He has to cope with that. He was very down in the locker room about his mistake, but we have to make decisions like we did."

[the wes 7,212]

I hope this error doesn't destroy his confidence ffs that's all we need 

[Leif 6,006]

evidently Guus has absolutely no idea that Baba is only 21

[OhForAGreavsie 5,892]

11 hours ago, Leif said:

evidently Guus has absolutely no idea that Baba is only 21

Obviously you're aware that Guus does know Baba's age, and does understand the need to protect the confidence of young people, so what are you actually saying here? You are saying that you want Guus to make the same decisions you think you would. I say you think you would because if you had all of the information Guus does, the knowledge gained from working with the young man six days a week since December, his assessment of the kid's personality and motivational triggers, then for all we know, you might see things the same way Guus does.

Leaving that aside however, and accepting it to be possible that you are right and Guus is wrong, there is still a difficulty here. Given his lifetime involvement at the top of the game, why on Earth would he think you know better than he does? How on Earth could Guus persuade himself to ignore his own opinions and go with your ideas instead? Imagine if he turned up at a press conference and said he'd done that? He'd be laughed off the planet. You nor I have a record which remotely compares with Guus's, yet we still have confidence in our views about football. How much easier is it for Guus to have the same degree of self-confidence when he has repeatedly proved to himself, and everyone else, that his ideas work?

The man took all the factors of which he's aware into account and made a decision, a decision he has earned the right to make.

[LeonDavis23 371]

Why wasn't Oscar taken off after missing those pens then?

[lucio 5,418]

14 minutes ago, LeonDavis23 said:

Why wasn't Oscar taken off after missing those pens then?

because he is hyped up and supposed to be a "top player"

and maybe the misses came too late in the game

[Polo7 3,496]

2 hours ago, LeonDavis23 said:

Why wasn't Oscar taken off after missing those pens then?

Because as shit as Oscar is, he probably doesnt let things like that mentally effect him. Baba was a mess in the changing rooms at half time.

[Muzchap 8,966]

Think Guus made the right call - football can be very cruel and in his eagerness to atone, he'd probably have made more mistakes. 

Guus doesn't strike me as a vindictive person, I'm sure he'll start again next match 

I'm sure whatever Guus does, he will be criticised ??? the bloke can't win - wicked unbeaten run, ended by PSG and bounce back and win the next game against a known bogey team

i wish all the complaints we had about this season were limited to substitution complaints ???

[iseah100 5,612]

Don't think it'll have a long term effect on his future or confidence. I'd be willing to wager he starts next match. We don't have many other options either way.

[the wes 7,212]

Steve Nicol has hit out at Guus Hiddink’s decision to sub Baba Rahman off at half-time against Southampton, claiming that theChelsea boss has risked “killing” the youngster’s confidence.

[Unionjack 7,531]

4 hours ago, the wes said:

Steve Nicol has hit out at Guus Hiddink’s decision to sub Baba Rahman off at half-time against Southampton, claiming that theChelsea boss has risked “killing” the youngster’s confidence.

Fuck me if Steve Nicol said it then its gotta be right. Daft ginga jock.

 

[King11Didier 916]

If Terry was on the pitch I'm sure he would go to Baba and encourage him in some way. But now in our team there aren't such leaders and thats why Baba was so down in the locker room as Hiddink claims.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,892]

15 minutes ago, King11Didier said:

If Terry was on the pitch I'm sure he would go to Baba and encourage him in some way. But now in our team there aren't such leaders and thats why Baba was so down in the locker room as Hiddink claims.

If someone reading this was at St. Mary's, would you tell us please how this looked on the day. As far as could be told from the coverage no one did talk to Baba and encourage him to get his head up but, watching at home, we could only see what the director chose to show us of course. Did any geeing up happen off camera?

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,919]

Dropped today jesus Christ what happened in the locker room? Did he try to kill himself after that mistake?

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

We need a new left back his not good enough. I would sell him back to Germany