Tiemoue Bakayoko

[milka 3,390]

[Fernando 6,585]

Well I hope this is true because he was one player I wanted. 

I think if Fabregas stay we can then play 352.

[milka 3,390]

Maybe Matic leave .

[positivefootball 195]

Meh...Seems he was second choice after Tolisso was out of reach.

[milka 3,390]

No .

We want Bakayoko before Tolisso .

 

[jernej93 569]

20 minutes ago, milka said:

No .

We want Bakayoko before Tolisso .

 

I am sure we were after Tolisso to lower Bakayoko's price  he is tailor made for Conte

[zekinjo 449]

So we're buying a replacement for Obi Mikel or he's an upgrade to Matic? 

We need to cover Oscar's position too. 

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Kante, Bakayoko AND another technically gifted midfielder (Cesc, Verratti, etc etc) in a midfield three = Yes.

Kante, Bakayoko in a midfield two = recipe for disaster IMHO. They'd be chasing shadows all game long against a decent pair of midfielders.

[!Hazard! 3,394]

Signing him is another indication that Conte wants to play 3-5-2. There's no way he could function properly in a two man midfield next to Kante. 

[Artandur 939]

20 minutes ago, !Hazard! said:

Signing him is another indication that Conte wants to play 3-5-2. There's no way he could function properly in a two man midfield next to Kante. 

Everybody seems to have this opinion. Curious which of matic' traits you guys feel we'd be missing in that scenario? I feel after we played nearly the whole season with matic-kanté, that antonio would definitely see bakayoko-kanté as an option ?

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2698509-scouting-notebook-tiemoue-bakayoko-the-perfect-foil-for-man-utd-paul-pogba

Know very little of him bar the very few games I've seen him play. Thought this was a good assessment of him and how he's have been good for utd. Should be a good addition to Antonio's champions 

[jernej93 569]

Another amazing deal from our board if this is true. Kante and Bakayoko for 67M !! 

[!Hazard! 3,394]

1 hour ago, Artandur said:

Everybody seems to have this opinion. Curious which of matic' traits you guys feel we'd be missing in that scenario? I feel after we played nearly the whole season with matic-kanté, that antonio would definitely see bakayoko-kanté as an option ?

To me it seems that Conte only played Matic-Kante because there were no better alternatives within the squad. Surely he won't do it for another season. On the other hand, Conte had to play 3-4-3 because the wingbacks we had were mediocre and for 3-5-2 you really need to have extremely good wingbacks or otherwise the whole system falls apart. The whole 3-4-3 was a huge compromise on all levels and it still worked amazingly well. Let's see what Conte can do next season if the board will buy the players he wants.

[the wes 7,212]

 

[Chelsea? 892]

Looks like we've spent 100mil so far and I'm not sure we've improved our squad.