I was having a conversation with my mate about our players and of course we were naming our strongest 11 and had a couple of disagreements... I preferred Rudiger/Luiz CB pairing along with Emerson at LB, He preferred Christensen/Rüdiger with Alonso at LB but apart from that our teams were identical.
We then quickly realised we had left out the likes of Fabregas, Pedro, Bakayoko, Loftus-Cheek and a couple of others and it got us thinking how good would our 2nd string 11 look on paper and how high we thought it would finish in the league... I've fielded what I believe to be our strongest XI along with an XI of players who probably won't be first choice.
Team A:
----------------Courtois
Azpilicueta Luiz Rüdiger Emerson
------Kanté Jorginho Barkley
------Willian Morata Hazard
Team B:
------------------Caballero
Moses Christensen Zouma Alonso
Bakayoko Fabregas Loftus-Cheek
----------Pedro Giroud Odoi
I didn't realise we had this quality of depth, Of course the likes of Bakayoko, Giroud, Pedro and Moses aren't particularly rated very highly by Chelsea fans but this is a pretty solid 2nd string team with a good few internationals too.
After seeing this do you still feel like we lack quality squad depth, If you doubted it to begin with or do you still feel we need significant upgrades?
Squad depth
posted on 5/8/18
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posted on 5/8/18
Departures must happen before any incoming.
At the limit of foreign quota (17) and homegrown quota (8). Overkill.
4 days remaining to sign player (s).
26 days remaining to offload players.
posted on 5/8/18
We won't win anything with this squad of players this season as it is useless.
posted on 5/8/18
comment by ZahraIhsanphile (U20361)
posted 4 hours, 49 minutes ago
We won't win anything with this squad of players this season as it is useless.
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I have to disagree, We showed last season that we could indeed win something with this squad... Under Conte.. Who had fallen out with all but a couple of players.
Oh and we have a new manager in Sarri who the players will enjoy playing under and sure let's just throw one if the best playmakers in Europe into the mix too in Jorginho.
We will challenge for the title.
posted on 5/8/18
Emerson is garbage
posted on 5/8/18
Zappacosta will be back up RB. Moses could well be very out of favour this season. Only appeared at RW in pre season. A shame because he’d probably still make a decent RB
posted on 5/8/18
have we sold Cahill and Batshauyi while i wasnt looking. I still believe we should bring back Marco van Ginkel. Has been scoring goals and making assists big time last season, hes way better than bakayoko who i personally dont want anywhere near London again(unless in a Spurs shirt).
posted on 5/8/18
comment by Kunta Kante (U1641)
posted 4 minutes ago
Zappacosta will be back up RB. Moses could well be very out of favour this season. Only appeared at RW in pre season. A shame because he’d probably still make a decent RB
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Apart from Pedro Moses is our only Direct player, he gets his head down and runs, if he loses it he still has pace and stamina to recover the ball which is very much what sarri wants, i think moses will be a very good fit for this kind of football.
posted on 5/8/18
MVG just had surgery on his ACL and will likely be out for the season roughly
posted on 5/8/18
comment by vavarising (U21731)
posted 22 minutes ago
have we sold Cahill and Batshauyi while i wasnt looking. I still believe we should bring back Marco van Ginkel. Has been scoring goals and making assists big time last season, hes way better than bakayoko who i personally dont want anywhere near London again(unless in a Spurs shirt).
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Forgot about Bats but I cannot see Cahill featuring much at all, Europa League and cup.games against smaller teams perhaps?