General Chelsea Stuff

[Jase 43,479]

Just now, Tomo said:

Why did we never see this type of energy for Ross Turnbull?

Nikki was too young to be on TC back then.

[Superblue 6,372]

2 minutes ago, Jas said:

January 9 - February 6, 2022.

Ok, so he's pretty much certain to miss the City and Spurs games, but looks like being only those 2 for the league. Obviously 2 tough games but I was expecting it to be worse than 2 league games (I guess a couple of rounds of FA Cup too which he may not have even been likely to play).

The other consideration I guess will be that our fixture list doesn't take into account the World Club Cup yet I assume and therefore there may be a game or two in that to re-schedule.

[Tomo 21,751]

Just now, Jas said:

Nikki was too young to be on TC back then.

I was talking a general sense. There seems to be many seemingly ready to defend/make excuses for Kepa so why didn't Turnbull have a similar fan club?

[Jase 43,479]

Just now, Tomo said:

I was talking a general sense. There seems to be many seemingly ready to defend/make excuses for Kepa so why didn't Turnbull have a similar fan club?

You spoiled the fun!

Think it's because Kepa is still the most expensive keeper on earth and he was our #1 for 1-2 seasons. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,375]

Just need to hope the rumors of Lazio wanting Kepa on loan are true. 

[NikkiCFC 8,286]

It's because Kepa played 7 games under Tuchel and had 5 clean sheets. In last 2 games he conceded 2 goals but he is not at fault for those. If our attackers delivered we would have won. 

Everything that happened under Lampard is forgotten and irrelevant. 

I berely missed Chelsea game in the last 20 years so ofc I know Turnbull but didn't used forums back then. 

I remember even Hilario delivered against Barca when Boulahrouz had Ronaldinho in pocket. 

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

23 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Why did we never see this type of energy for Ross Turnbull?

Ross Turnbull was probably a better goalkeeper lol

Also he was usually goalie 3, Hilario was gk 2 and he was just as terrible as Kepa and we often enough lost with him in goal like in the Community shield 2010 or that weird 2-4 vs City when he completely grabbed air several times

[Tomo 21,751]

14 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

It's because Kepa played 7 games under Tuchel and had 5 clean sheets. In last 2 games he conceded 2 goals but he is not at fault for those. If our attackers delivered we would have won. 

Everything that happened under Lampard is forgotten and irrelevant. 

I berely missed Chelsea game in the last 20 years so ofc I know Turnbull but didn't used forums back then. 

I remember even Hilario delivered against Barca when Boulahrouz had Ronaldinho in pocket. 

While I accept he wasn't given the best platform to perform under Lampard, Edou also played half a season under the same manager and was still stocking up on clean sheets bar the final month.

The biggest problem with Kepa isn't the obvious mistakes he makes it's what he doesn't do. People can say all these long shots he lets fly past him are "unsavable" but if that's the case why aren't other keepers conceding these type of goals regularly? How many of those type of goals have Cech, Tibo and Edou shipped between them for us? I'm sure there's a couple more but off the top of my head I can actually think of only one for each keeper (the first Cech ever let in for us, the Henderson goal and Xhaka goal) which leads to one of two outcomes, either most of them aren't as unstoppable as made out or the opponents actually do pretty much think "fuck it it's Kepa". I mean even his distribution has gone to crap which was the main reason we even signed him.

It's not like he was being world class then suddenly turned shit, the signs were there under Sarri we just tried to convince ourselves it was a first season in England thing.

[Beigl 1,387]

The problem is Kepa isn´t dependable over the course of a whole month. He might string 2-3 clean sheets together, but there´s always a great possibility of a disasterclass, especially when you consider our opponents next January.

Remember when Cech was out in 2010? This happened. I honestly thought we lost the league back then and I can easily see such scenario if we are in a title race next season.

 

[Tomo 21,751]

9 minutes ago, Beigl said:

The problem is Kepa isn´t dependable over the course of a whole month. He might string 2-3 clean sheets together, but there´s always a great possibility of a disasterclass, especially when you consider our opponents next January.

Remember when Cech was out in 2010? This happened. I honestly thought we lost the league back then and I can easily see such scenario if we are in a title race next season.

 

And to add further to that, if City and/or Liverpool roll out beast mode again we'll have to keep up such a relentless pace to the point even one dropped game could prove fatal.

[Superblue 6,372]

7 minutes ago, Tomo said:

And to add further to that, if City and/or Liverpool roll out beast mode again we'll have to keep up such a relentless pace to the point even one dropped game could prove fatal.

I don't see that happening again this coming season. City and Liverpool were miles ahead of everyone that year, I'd be surprised to see City match last season's total next year, let alone a team hitting 90+ points.

[Tomo 21,751]

On 16/06/2021 at 16:41, Superblue_1986 said:

I don't see that happening again this coming season. City and Liverpool were miles ahead of everyone that year, I'd be surprised to see City match last season's total next year, let alone a team hitting 90+ points.

I hope not but you can never rule out Pep teams especially going on mental winning runs.

Even last year with a 'standard' title winning points total they broke the record for consecutive wins in all comps.

Edited June 20, 2021 by Tomo

[Jase 43,479]

https://www.marca.com/futbol/villarreal/2021/07/28/61019d5946163f75898b462f.html

According to Marca, Gerard Moreno has returned early from vacation to prepare for the upcoming Super Cup game. Only Pau Torres is missing for Villarreal now (he's at the Olympics)

[Jase 43,479]

 

[DH1988 1,346]

Not sure where to put this but with Rom returning, do you guys think that we will show more patience in future? Or is that why the Baker’s of this world are still hanging around?

Think of the players we’ve sold in recent years who have gone on to be class.