Marcos Alonso

[Tomo 21,733]

2 hours ago, MrExcalibur100 said:

Alonso has become a very important determinant for our season. It's very important he shows his quality and establishes himself as a first XI player for us to have a realistic chance of finishing top four.

I just hope fans don't get on his back if he starts slowly and makes some mistakes. Certain sections of our fanbase were very quick to pounce on Baba's mistakes and now he's out. Just remember that the only other option is Ivanovic at RB and Azplicueta at LB before anyone of us jump on Alonso. 

Quite the contrary with Baba, i saw people massively over exaggerating his displays due to the desperation for Ivan to be dropped. Some games he was beyond hopeless and i went to his thread to witness a wankfest, not even Torres had such hopeless displays sugarcoated that much. That was one of the reason's a few people (me included) pointed out that he is actually rather average. Infact the only thing that would have really changed swapping Ivan for Baba is which flank the opposite manager would have targeted.

Regarding Alonso however, i do hope we start bleeding him into the team in the PL starting at Hull and hopefully he is 10 times an improvement on Baba.

[Parky 739]

Didn't get to watch the game but how was his debut?

 

 

[Cripen 110]

Didn't get to watch the game but how was his debut?

 

 

There's room for improvment, BUT he can overlapp and cross! [emoji4]

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[The Skipper 20,593]

The new Paulo Ferreira. 

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

Both goals came from his side, and he had a major part in conceding them as well

Gave the ball away for the first and for some stupid reason left Shinji in the box and ran out leaving Shinji wide open.

There were some positives, but if Ivanovic had made those mistakes, 80% of the forum would have had an anuerism.

That said, I'd still rather play him. It was his first match and other than those 2 mistakes, he was solid everywhere.

[Abreu03 292]

Overall it was a good debut, 6.0 note. Just tonight he hit more crosses than Ivanovic in the last 2 years.

[akgw13 867]

He definitely made some mistakes but he looked good going forward when given the chance. I think costa would have got on the end of that low cross. I would love to see how he plays with the acres of space hazard creates. Solid debut, room for improvement for sure. Would like to see him get a string of games in with the starting XI. 

[zekinjo 449]

Alonso is currently little bit slower for PL but technically and fiscally exactly what Chelsea needed. If he doesn't play he won't make progress at all. Same happened with Filipe Luiz, he barely play and we're talking about a guy who's among 2  very best LB in the world.

[Styles 9,790]

We really spent 24m on this guy. Absolutely sickening.

And this is absolutely a Conte buy.

[LAM09 6,744]

We really spent 24m on this guy. Absolutely sickening.

And this is absolutely a Conte buy.

Are you writing off someone that's only started once?

The fee is just a number that should have very little relevance in this market.

[Beepu 1,714]

Can't really judge from the little time he's played. But he did seem abit slow, especially in that wingback position. Would give him a run of games to settle rather than see Ivanovic start though. Easy choice.

[Parky 739]

I thought he had a decent game. Certainly not a slow player once he gets up and going. Big frame and can deliver a decent cross. Won't ever be world class but Conte can mould him into a solid LB/WB given enough playing time.

 

 

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Good game.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

I thought I'll never see the day we have a left-footed leftback that can cross since Ashley Cole 

[The Skipper 20,593]

He's so slow. 

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

40 minutes ago, The Skipper said:

He's so slow. 

What?...

[robsblubot 3,504]

Impressed.

good game against hull

good tight control and under pressure...  body strength and good crosses on top of it.

[the wes 7,212]

Has long he can kept big Ivan off the team sheet I'll be happy man