OneMoSalah 8,886 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 15 hours ago, Pizy said: While maybe the right thing to do to establish that the manager is the authority, in this case it may be a cut off your nose to spite your face situation. Perhaps if Timo and Kai were match fit you can drop him without thinking about it but they’re both just back from COVID or injury. We need Lukaku in this period. Especially a Lukaku who looks dangerous again these last couple of games. If we lose these next two huge PL games (which everyone probably expects we will) and Spuds continue to win all their games in hand (which isn’t outside the realm of possibilty under Conte) suddenly they’ll be ahead of us. Like Arse, that would’ve sounded impossible not long ago. I don’t think he has to do this to prove who’s in charge as he’s already shown on a couple of occasions he is the man making the decisions and had made some big ones. He is doing it to purely make a point to Lukaku and anyone else who might be thick enough to do anything similar, to the same way he also harshly subbed CHO on then off v Southampton last season for ‘not being happy with his counter pressing’ and then he subbed Mount off at HT v Spurs a few months back, although IIRC he did say he could have brought many off and then talked about energy levels, second balls etc. I think the fact he’s done this sort of things before, the squad will 100% back his decision and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the senior pros have also had a go at Rom. bigbluewillie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alabama 1,992 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Laylabelle said: That's the thing. He said crap but we've hardly been firing..then again guess dont know what's been said behind scenes. It's a mess Least Arsenal only have one game to get played. Spurs have 3. Its bad that only us and City have played 21 after today. Everyone else is all over the place. We won the CL without Lukaku while playing very good football though I desperately want us to win or challenge for the league but there is nothing you can do the kind of luck injuries convid situation we find ourself even Pep will struggle to survive.... Fukc Lukaku we are Chelsea...if he can leave the club today or tomorrow.. bye bye we will win trophies and play very good cohesive football without him even though we lose today Edited January 2, 2022 by Alabama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,206 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 1 hour ago, cosmicway said: Lukaku went potty. In Italy he was playing against high school kids. the best CB's he had to face last year, such low quality or ancient players so often by FAR the best CB's he saw were his teammates in training plus the first 2, and the old men at Juve Matthijs de Ligt Kalidou Koulibaly massive drop off Merih Demiral Roger Ibañez Nikola Milenkovic Berat Djimsiti Amir Rrahmani Alessio Romagnoli Bremer Marash Kumbulla Luiz Felipe Lucas Martínez Quarta Rafael Tolói Simon Kjaer Leonardo Bonucci Chris Smalling Francesco Acerbi Mattia Caldara Nikola Maksimovic Daniele Rugani Maya Yoshida Vlad Chiriches the ancient ones Giorgio Chiellini Diego Godín Stefan Radu Gary Medel Martín Cáceres Federico Fazio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Mikel OBE 4,920 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 Just now, Vesper said: the best CB's he had to face last year, such low quality or ancient players so often by FAR the best CB's he saw were his teammates in training plus the first 2, and the old men at Juve Matthijs de Ligt Kalidou Koulibaly massive drop off Merih Demiral Roger Ibañez Nikola Milenkovic Berat Djimsiti Amir Rrahmani Alessio Romagnoli Bremer Marash Kumbulla Luiz Felipe Lucas Martínez Quarta Rafael Tolói Simon Kjaer Leonardo Bonucci Chris Smalling Francesco Acerbi Mattia Caldara Nikola Maksimovic Daniele Rugani Maya Yoshida Vlad Chiriches the ancient ones Giorgio Chiellini Diego Godín Stefan Radu Gary Medel Martín Cáceres Federico Fazio I didnt even realize Pitbull Medel even still played.Such a short man Vesper 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,206 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 8 minutes ago, Sir Mikel OBE said: I didnt even realize Pitbull Medel even still played.Such a short man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea_4_eva 1,182 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 All this talk of will Lukaku be dropped for this match or not and here I am thinking how the hell are we going to get a fraction of our money back from his sale.. £97M we spent on him... sigh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laylabelle 9,536 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 3 minutes ago, chelsea_4_eva said: All this talk of will Lukaku be dropped for this match or not and here I am thinking how the hell are we going to get a fraction of our money back from his sale.. £97M we spent on him... sigh... And he hasn't helped his own image with that interview either. Obviously club would take him on but unless it's Inter they'd know he doesn't want to be there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero 1,874 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 My striker Hermione 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmicway 1,333 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 8 minutes ago, Laylabelle said: And he hasn't helped his own image with that interview either. Obviously club would take him on but unless it's Inter they'd know he doesn't want to be there Yet the draw against Brighton was not his fault and he has done relatively well apart from the time he had to be benched. It was a crazy interview. Italian league is no good these days. They won the Euro because they have many good expats. Then we beat Juve by 4 to 1 on aggregate and everybody is unhappy because we did not beat them both legs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero 1,874 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 I hope more fans doing that today. Let's show Lukaku he's not bigger than Tuchel bigbluewillie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Blues Forever 1,232 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 2 minutes ago, Nero said: Not really huge loss aside Alisson. bigbluewillie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 21 hours ago, milka said: The next two games against Liverpool and City, and if we lose in both, we can safely concentrate mainly on a battle in the top four. Remembering the second half against Brighton, I just don't see what we could do against Liverpool. It must be some unearthly miracle to win tomorrow . Has last season not taught you two games aren't the same ffs. OneMoSalah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikkiCFC 8,331 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 10 minutes ago, cosmicway said: They won the Euro because they have many good expats. Really? You can say this about every top national team in Europe but not Italy. And that's why most people wanted them to win. Basically just Jorginho and Emerson are Brazilians but also with Italian heritage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoSalah 8,886 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Tomo said: Has last season not taught you two games aren't the same ffs. I wouldn’t be surprised if we got a couple of good results in these games and then its “our title challenge is back on” from all the doom and gloom “we will struggle to make top 4 playing like this” merchants. Wouldn't put it past us to taken points from either Liverpool today or City when we play them. Just have a feeling. Edited January 2, 2022 by OneMoSalah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 3 minutes ago, Blues Forever said: Not really huge loss aside Alisson. Firmino is, he's doesn't score that much but he's a big reason Liverpool as a team do. OneMoSalah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 Just now, OneMoSalah said: I wouldn’t be surprised if we got a couple of good results in these two games and then its “out title challenge is back on” from all the doom and gloom “we will struggle to make top 4 playing like this” merchants. The hilarious thing is by their same logic how will Liverpool score past Silva and Rudiger when they couldn't score past CB less Leicester. OneMoSalah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmicway 1,333 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 1 minute ago, NikkiCFC said: Really? You can say this about every top national team in Europe but not Italy. And that's why most people wanted them to win. Basically just Jorginho and Emerson are Brazilians but also with Italian heritage. What if we draw a Danish side and lose to them ? Everybody gets sacked ! National teams are a different proposition and their clubs are awful. Old peoples homes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blues Forever 1,232 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 Just now, Tomo said: Firmino is, he's doesn't score that much but he's a big reason Liverpool as a team do. Not really huge loss considering Jota has been good whenever he replaced Firmino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoSalah 8,886 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 Just now, Tomo said: The hilarious thing is by their same logic how will Liverpool score past Silva and Rudiger when they couldn't score past CB less Leicester. Aye thats it. Leicester game is actually the perfect example, they were very depleted against a full strength Liverpool but showed that it just takes a lot of grit and that bit of quality in the final third to beat them. I tend to remember us showing that grit at Anfield with 10 men at the beginning of the season when we had arguably the toughest start of the any top 6 side. Tomo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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