Baba Rahman

[the wes 7,212]

none of this would have been a problem if we kept luis

mourinho try to keep Luis but Luis wanted to go back to Madrid

[Blue_Fox_ 2,086]

Mou fanboy no#1 has spoken.

Dude, all i've seen from you today is not accpeting any logic and calling Mou's fanboy whoever disagrees with you. Get a grip.

[Azul 1,615]

Dude, all i've seen from you today is not accpeting any logic and calling Mou's fanboy whoever disagrees with you. Get a grip.

Let's just say you have different opinions, let's leave it at that.

[robsblubot 3,595]

The interesting point imo isn't whether Jose was right, but the fact he at least wasn't as wrong or crazy as the Internet claimed (tc included).

Can you really blame Jose for his choices knowing he sees this kinda defending in training? His reasoning was sound: in 2-3 games ivanovic will get his shit together - and imo he has already - but baba may take a lil longer.

Bear in mind this was against the terrible Aston villa at the bridge - imagine one of the tough away games Iva struggled with.

[Stats 7,142]

mourinho try to keep Luis but Luis wanted to go back to Madrid

Yeah but if he was playing games he would have stayed. That was most important reason why he left.

[Barbara 15,149]

The interesting point imo isn't whether Jose was right, but the fact he at least wasn't as wrong or crazy as the Internet claimed (tc included).

Can you really blame Jose for his choices knowing he sees this kinda defending in training? His reasoning was sound: in 2-3 games ivanovic will get his shit together - and imo he has already - but baba may take a lil longer.

Bear in mind this was against the terrible Aston villa at the bridge - imagine one of the tough away games Iva struggled with.

I can see people's point that he's young and needs games to improve, but I also agree he's far from an improvement to Iva. They're on the same level in 1x1s if you ask me.

I saw this from Baba against Walsall, against Maccabi and now against Villa. All three VERY VERY VERY weak oppositions and he still made the same kind of mistake.

One team is from Israel league and that says all you need to know, the other is from whatever lower division in England and Villa today showed one of the worst performances I've seen recently, and given I've watched all Chelsea matches this season, it means they were really bad...

So people defending him saying he's adapting to the league, will say what when we look to the other two matches? He went through horrible streaks and decent streaks in all three matches and people think is just a big coincidence, or that he hasn't had enough minutes, or whatever else?

I think he has big flaws to his game, and yeah - kill me Mourinho haters or whatever - he's small. So being small, limited and prone to errors, especially on 1x1 isn't any improvement to Ivanovic. But I do agree that at least he has a ceiling over his head and Iva only has the descending years of his career ahead of him.

All in all, one of the biggest problems we have in this squad is lack of decent full backs. Only Azpilicueta counts as one and as much as I want youth to be developed, if Luís didn't displaced Iva, it won't be Baba who will and Luís is a hell of a FB - who struggled his first months here, just as Baba is - but lately wasn't played simply because José didn't dare to rotate.

[Last Sicarius 610]

I will have been waiting with compare with Iva to 15 games as Baba with will start. Iva just shows his skill in this number of games...

[the wes 7,212]

Yeah but if he was playing games he would have stayed. That was most important reason why he left.

the reason Luis wasn't getting on cause Dave and Ivan were outstanding last season this season Ivan been awful I wish he hada stay now

[Myself 793]

the reason Luis wasn't getting on cause Dave and Ivan were outstanding last season this season Ivan been awful I wish he hada stay now

Apart from the first 10 or so games Ivanovic was pretty bad imo

[Barbara 15,149]

Apart from the first 10 or so games Ivanovic was pretty bad imo

I wouldn't say pretty bad, it was a slow burn towards the bottom rock. He was getting worse and worse, but I think we've only seen the very worst at the end and then it carried on to this season. He continued from where he stopped.

[Myself 793]

I wouldn't say pretty bad, it was a slow burn towards the bottom rock. He was getting worse and worse, but I think we've only seen the very worst at the end and then it carried on to this season. He continued from where he stopped.

Yeah, normally he's on form at the beginning of the season but he's not even giving us that anymore.

I really don't see any reason for keeping him in the squad anymore.

[the wes 7,212]

Yeah, normally he's on form at the beginning of the season but he's not even giving us that anymore.

I really don't see any reason for keeping him in the squad anymore.

sure he's on his last year of his contract we not see him next season

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

Yeah, normally he's on form at the beginning of the season but he's not even giving us that anymore.

I really don't see any reason for keeping him in the squad anymore.

Its ok mate, we only got 7months and 2 weeks before this nightmare ends and Ivan is no longer a CFC fullback.

Our over 30 policy has really saved us here. There's no way the board is giving him a new 1yr deal, absolutely no way.

Right?

[OhForAGreavsie 6,067]

Naturally people are going to roll out the old caveats but, bottom line, Baba simply has not looked the part. Nowhere near it.

[didierforever 7,349]

The interesting point imo isn't whether Jose was right, but the fact he at least wasn't as wrong or crazy as the Internet claimed (tc included).

Can you really blame Jose for his choices knowing he sees this kinda defending in training? His reasoning was sound: in 2-3 games ivanovic will get his shit together - and imo he has already - but baba may take a lil longer.

Bear in mind this was against the terrible Aston villa at the bridge - imagine one of the tough away games Iva struggled with.

baba had a very good second half. compared to the first half, the only reason i can come up with for the difference in performance is nervousness which is understandable. so i cant judge him on this game. and i definitely cant say that jose is right. the point is we kept a clean sheet. if iva had played, grealish would have raped him.

ps - iva has got his shit together? in the last 2 games he played, he was man-handled by brahimi and was dancing to the tune of tadic.