The Next Manager?

[lucio 5,418]

7 hours ago, Gundalf said:

What makes a player a great passer then?

Someone who passes quickly and efficiently especially under pressure. River doesn’t have the composure , skill or intelligence to be a number 6 at the highest level. Better of using him as a box to box charging around the pitch if anything 

[Reddish-Blue 2,488]

20 hours ago, YorkshireBlue said:

Maybe at club level time to time at West ham, but I'm fairly sure in an England shirt he sits deep and allows, the likes of Bellingham to play further forward.

Put it this way, Declan Rice would be a luxury signing at the price tag West Ham want.   

Feel like there are plenty of other positions on the pitch that need to be looked at (e.g. a good goalkeeper, a good finisher up front) before we go and get mugged off by West Ham and end up paying them 120 million for Declan Rice (even though the nearest other offer would be from Arsenal at 70 million). 

No different to Mudryk (apparently Arsenal's offer was only 50 million + add-ons) and yet they somehow got us to spend 70 million on him...

[lucio 5,418]

Maybe pochettino would like him. He used a similar big English blockhead at Spurs (Dier). But really, caicedo and lavia are clear, especially at the price 

[Gundalf 805]

13 hours ago, lucio said:

Someone who passes quickly and efficiently especially under pressure. River doesn’t have the composure , skill or intelligence to be a number 6 at the highest level. Better of using him as a box to box charging around the pitch if anything 

I dont care about a passing DM. Thats literally Enzos job. We need someone that relieves pressure from the back 4. Someone that blocks attacks, intercepts balls before the opponent can run torwards them. Someone that just adds security for the attacking players to do their thing. How many years have we conceded goals now bc our midfield has been overrun time after time. We dont need another Jorginho, Kovacic, Enzo type of midfielder, we need a defensive minded DM that stays in position and breaks and absorbs the opponents attacks. And Rice is that. He is leading the PL statistic for interceptions by quite some margin. The first Chelsea player on that list is in P66 (Thiago), so our squad is massively lacking that skill and quality that Rice could add.  

Its also a myth that Rice only does backward and sideward passes. He is outperforming Caicedo in terms on forward passes and created chances btw.

I would be fine with Caicedo also but name me a DM that offers the needed defensive stability and adds more passing creativity that is actually a realistic transfer target.  

[Gundalf 805]

14 hours ago, lucio said:

Someone who passes quickly and efficiently especially under pressure. 

So you basically want Jorgi back 😂

[Jype 6,398]

On 15/05/2023 at 12:49, Vegetable said:

Can Rice do what Kante can't though?

He can stay fit, yes.

[Gundalf 805]

A fact that we should also consider is experience. We have so many players with little to no PL experience in our squad that need more experienced players to guide them. Thiago will go into his last season, a lot of the more experienced players will leave the club in the summer. Not a lot of players will be over 23.

And Rice, even tho hes still quite young, has a lot of PL experience - over 200 PL games, 41 games for England, compared to the 27 of Lavia and 31 of Caicedo. I think we should search for more experience in certain areas (especially midfield), a succesfull team is a team with a good mixture.

Rice has more PL games than Lavia, Caicedo, Colwill, Chalobah, Mudryk, Madueke, Felix, Badiashile, Enzo, Chukwuemeka and D. Fofana have COMBINED😂

 

14 minutes ago, Jype said:

He can stay fit, yes.

Damn yes:

Edited May 16, 2023 by Gundalf

[NikkiCFC 8,286]

Our players won't like him. 

 

[LAM09 7,043]

2 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Our players won't like him. 

 

Same thing came to my mind after watching this video. If Boehly doesn't put an end to player power at this club, we might be looking for another manager before Christmas.

[NikkiCFC 8,286]

26 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

Same thing came to my mind after watching this video. If Boehly doesn't put an end to player power at this club, we might be looking for another manager before Christmas.

Yep, especially considering Potter was giving them 2 days off after defeat. 

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

 

[Pizy 18,848]

Where is this announcement? Everyone briefed that it was done last Friday and said it would be announced early the next week.

Well?