The Conte Thread

[LDN Blue 7,903]

36 minutes ago, The Skipper said:

I'd be more willing to give Batshuayi a chance than sign Lukaku to be honest. We need another attacking player, but it doesn't necessarily have to be a pure striker like Lukaku. I wouldn't mind if we signed a top winger and moved Hazard central as a second striker, for example. 

Problem is the cost.

Lukaku, if the sale happens, becomes the 4th most expensive player in the world. That mean he's almost an automatic starter  

[Jype 6,398]

1 minute ago, LDN Blue said:

Problem is the cost.

Lukaku, if the sale happens, becomes the 4th most expensive player in the world. That mean he's almost an automatic starter  

Yeah and that's why @The Skipper said he'd rather not sign Lukaku and instead see what Michy can do. I agree with him.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

1 minute ago, Jype said:

Yeah and that's why @The Skipper said he'd rather not sign Lukaku and instead see what Michy can do. I agree with him.

I doubt anyone would disagree. Overall consensus is, no-one wants Lukaku  

[Jype 6,398]

10 minutes ago, LDN Blue said:

I doubt anyone would disagree. Overall consensus is, no-one wants Lukaku  

Haha yep. From what I've seen over here on TC there's only one guy who's desperate for the signing, everyone else wants the club to stay as far away as possible. Never ever before have I seen so many people against a signing because usually everyone wants shiny new players, in other words the new flavor of the month, but nobody seems to want Lukaku so if that's not enough proof that it would be a pretty shit signing I don't know what is.

[Spike 12,049]

phresh OC strait from the mind of spork spagel : D ok

 

 

 

 

[Sideshow Luiz 2,310]

4-1-4-1 is surely going to be a 4-3-3 as well, if that's what they are going to do.

I believe this is what most people wanted to see last season too.

 

[bababoom 4,478]

Yeah 4-1-4-1 is basically a 4-3-3, Kante was the holding player while Matic/Chalobah and Cesc/Oscar were more advanced. 

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

Conte is keen to bolster his back line, while as many as five could be heading [out] the other way (Standard) #CFC

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

47 minutes ago, Eidur the Spider said:

Conte is keen to bolster his back line, while as many as five could be heading [out] the other way (Standard) #CFC

Oscar

Mikel

Iva

Remy

Miazga/Matic

[blu35_army 551]

Mikel, Iva, Remy, Oscar and pedro....

 

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

We really have to shrink that squad considerably.

We need a centre-back and left-footed left-back and that should sort our incomings. I don't believe that we may end up not signing a defender and not having in the squad left-footed full-back having ditched one already. I also don't think we will sign a right winger.

Conte has already shown that he doesn't like to rotate back four. Having said that, if we will indeed sign CB + LB we have 8 defenders and that's too much. Aina may end up on loan.

Do we ditch Chalobah again and Mikel John Obi will stay ? I can only guess.

I don't remember player from the Academy who begged for loan more than RLC now. He just needs to sort so many things, fitness level, awareness, speed of thoughts. He needs plenty of minutes.

Kenedy, Moses, Pedro, Cuadrado - 2 of them should go.

We have 40 games scheduled so far. I think we should go with 19-20 outfield players MAX. Remember that we went with worse numbers into 2012/13 season when we played 69 games.

 

 

[Barbara 15,149]

On 8/4/2016 at 4:03 PM, LDN Blue said:

I doubt anyone would disagree. Overall consensus is, no-one wants Lukaku  

I wish that was the consensus in the club too

[Unionjack 7,531]

7 hours ago, Barbara said:

I wish that was the consensus in the club too

I'd love to see him and either Costa or Bats together. Id use Lukaku-Costa and keep subbing Bats on rotation each game

 

13 hours ago, Blue Colored Sky said:

We really have to shrink that squad considerably.

We need a centre-back and left-footed left-back and that should sort our incomings. I don't believe that we may end up not signing a defender and not having in the squad left-footed full-back having ditched one already. I also don't think we will sign a right winger.

Conte has already shown that he doesn't like to rotate back four. Having said that, if we will indeed sign CB + LB we have 8 defenders and that's too much. Aina may end up on loan.

Do we ditch Chalobah again and Mikel John Obi will stay ? I can only guess.

I don't remember player from the Academy who begged for loan more than RLC now. He just needs to sort so many things, fitness level, awareness, speed of thoughts. He needs plenty of minutes.

Kenedy, Moses, Pedro, Cuadrado - 2 of them should go.

We have 40 games scheduled so far. I think we should go with 19-20 outfield players MAX. Remember that we went with worse numbers into 2012/13 season when we played 69 games.

 

 

We really have to shrink that squad considerably. - YES!

We need a centre-back and left-footed left-back and that should sort our incomings. I don't believe that we may end up not signing a defender and not having in the squad left-footed full-back having ditched one already. I also don't think we will sign a right winger.  - YES! Dont need a RW as Square has been better than Willian this pre season. Time at a big winning club that adore him has realy boosted his ego. Seeing how direct he runs at defenders is what Willian doesn't do. Please god let him stay.

Conte has already shown that he doesn't like to rotate back four. Having said that, if we will indeed sign CB + LB we have 8 defenders and that's too much. Aina may end up on loan.  - We dont have any bloody defenders that we can rotate with! Cahil,Iva/JT gotta go. They just dont suit the style of play now. If we dnt get CB/FB then we are buggered.

I don't remember player from the Academy who begged for loan more than RLC now. He just needs to sort so many things, fitness level, awareness, speed of thoughts. He needs plenty of minutes.  - YES totally agree. Should have gone sooner IMHO but think he was just hyped too much to go back on it and I cant see him going nowhere now unfortunately.

Kenedy, Moses, Pedro, Cuadrado - 2 of them should go. - Kenedy has been a now show which is a shame as I had alot of hope for him. Same with Pedro. Moses and Square have been great this preseason and we would be daft to let them go anywhere. Moses is excellent alternative to Esen and could be a gamechanger. Same with Square.

We have 40 games scheduled so far. I think we should go with 19-20 outfield players MAX. Remember that we went with worse numbers into 2012/13 season when we played 69 games. - So just xause we aren't in Europe this year we sell everyone? So what happens next year when we are there? We have to spend loads to fill the squad again. Its not about the amount of people we got its about the lack of quality depoth and creativity. We need to  bring players on that can offer an alternative to whats on the putch at the time. Not just replace like for like.

[Styles 9,790]

The season is a week away and we still have the same rubbish defence we did last season. This is ridiculous.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

8 minutes ago, Styles said:

The season is a week away and we still have the same rubbish defence we did last season. This is ridiculous.

It's like we're not really serious about it at this point. We badly need a centerback who is good at defending in one on one situations. So far only Azpi and pre-injury zouma as defenders can defend in one on one situations in a whole Chelsea FC. 

It's a catastrophe, we need to prioritize a defender at all cost, and if Koulibaly is delaying and arsenal is competing for mustafi the chances of getting an instant improvement on someone comfortable on the ball with one on one defending is low. Hopefully we're trying behind the scenes because this defense will pull the whole team down if it's not addressed. 

[Leif 6,006]

Well we know how our board sees things. Conte had a great team defensively at Juventus, so that should automatically mean he can turn whatever players we give him into similar.

[Styles 9,790]

5 minutes ago, kellzfresh said:

It's like we're not really serious about it at this point. We badly need a centerback who is good at defending in one on one situations. So far only Azpi and pre-injury zouma as defenders can defend in one on one situations in a whole Chelsea FC. 

It's a catastrophe, we need to prioritize a defender at all cost, and if Koulibaly is delaying and arsenal is competing for mustafi the chances of getting an instant improvement on someone comfortable on the ball with one on one defending is low. Hopefully we're trying behind the scenes because this defense will pull the whole team down if it's not addressed. 

3 of our back 4 can't defend one vs one.

We have the slowest CB pairing in world football and to compound that we'll have Ivanovic at RB who is equally slow.

[Antonio8 736]

30 minutes ago, Leif said:

Well we know how our board sees things. Conte had a great team defensively at Juventus, so that should automatically mean he can turn whatever players we give him into similar.

big mistake thinking like that..it's real that conte turns shit in flower, but it is necessary to buy at least one CB and one RB..