Tiemoue Bakayoko

[The Skipper 20,593]

Yeah. Fabinho doing great things at Monaco without Bakayoko this season. /sarcasm 

[robsblubot 3,502]

2 hours ago, MrExcalibur100 said:

It's almost as if they take special delight in watching managers fail after a season of success. It's common sense we had to capitalize on the gift title (and it was a gift since no one expected it) that Conte delivered. Instead they hang him to dry. I don't know what to say anymore. Roman needs to take a hard look at himself also. 

they have to spend the money somewhere... 

every transfer window they target 5 superstars who have no interest in playing for us, but they only find out at the end of the transfer window... then they end up with a lot of cash from selling loanees, as designed.

^^ fabinho would have made a lot more sense considering that we already had Kante. 

[communicate 2,703]

8 hours ago, MrExcalibur100 said:

Again everyone could see we needed someone like Tolisso to compensate Bakayoko. A central midfielder with both technical and  physical attributes. We are now in a situation were an injury to Kante makes Conte put David headless chicken Luiz in midfield and we get totally dominated

I don't think we can complain on midfield situation.

We have 4 midfielder fighting for 2 spots. 2 just happen to be injured. 

[communicate 2,703]

The amount of criticism at Bakayoko is ridiculous. Hopefully it does not come from the same person who was excited to see him when he first sign with us.

I have no problem with bakayoko, you can tell that he still need tons of work even Conte said that his initial plan was to play him behind Matic in the beginning but Matic is gone so Bakayoko need to grow fast.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

The sooner we ditch Cesc "slower than grandpa" Fabregas, Cahill and Willian aka zero fucks given, the sooner we will play better. 

But oh we dont have a bench. Nice one, board.

That said, I dont see Baka as culprit, yes he was poor, but he has plenty of talent to improve and his play time is justified for the time being, unlike those three mentioned above.

Also give Azpi some rest, he has been awful recently.

[blues.bridge 343]

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[Ljpaddock 187]

sorry come again mate?

[Leif 6,006]

10 hours ago, blues.bridge said:

Under the appearance of the setting it passes to five meters horizontally or 10 meters backwards. There are two cast iron rolls in place of his feet, he is a bumper who has the same Cahill confidence on the ball, but he is big, big and bad and he tries to break down the other team.It is poor, but poorly strong!

 

Here, this is Bakayoko! Last year with the game of Monaco that was so overwhelming, proactive, spectacular and overwhelming in the trequarts (especially in the championship, with very low hands) that this miracle was almost passing through the beautiful choral outline made up of his teammate!

put beautifully. almost Shakespearean.

[positivefootball 195]

Just finished watching the game. Bakayoko is useless. 

[Stats 7,053]

4 minutes ago, positivefootball said:

Just finished watching the game. Bakayoko is useless. 

He was Jekyll and Hyde. Had good and bad moments but will get better.

[positivefootball 195]

1 minute ago, Stats said:

He was Jekyll and Hyde. Had good and bad moments but will get better.

Too slow, weak and lacks positional awareness.... I hope he can get better but I really doubt. 

[manpe 10,861]

Struggling without Kante.

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

Bloke is 6ft2 yet he sometimes looks like a little girl on the pitch. Also his passing is dreadful. 

[The Skipper 20,593]

Guy’s had no preseason and is carrying an injury and still played. Yes, bad game, but he didn’t let the mistake get to him and was a lot better after it. 

Still has to work on his awareness a lot, but he’ll get better. Just love that he stepped up for his team today even though he was in pain/injured. 

[LAM09 6,744]

Can't believe how raw he seems to be.

[Styles 9,790]

41 minutes ago, The Skipper said:

Guy’s had no preseason and is carrying an injury and still played. Yes, bad game, but he didn’t let the mistake get to him and was a lot better after it. 

Still has to work on his awareness a lot, but he’ll get better. Just love that he stepped up for his team today even though he was in pain/injured. 

Does the injury worry you?

At no point to this season has he looked like the athlete I thought he would be. He looks really slow and sluggish. Major concern tbh.

[Leif 6,006]

Do you think the board were into Bakayoko before Monaco's last season? I doubt it. I think they just threw money at a flavour of the month.

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

Positional awareness is severely lacking. Having kante press like a hound, im not sure you want Baka as his partner suring up after. 

Someone said he has the same confidence on the ball as Cahill. I see that alright. I just keep thinking, ARE YOU FUCKING DAY DREAMING OR SOMETHING? midfield is the least forgiving position for that. 

It's like he could be sitting watching the lottery draw with his ticket in his hand. First ball comes up, he checks his ticket, he has that number. Second ball, quick check . . . Yep! On his ticket. Rinse and repeat for all numbers and . . . . . . It would still take him 60 seconds to realise he's won