Lost the game today, very unlucky I thought, losing 2 defenders in 1st half etc..
Not won at home yet,. 2 defeats at home in one week.
Now you would think I would be totally depressed.
Well think again. I have not been this excited about an emerging Chelsea team like this in many years. Virgil Van Dyke is one of if not the best CB in the world and Tammy gave him a lot of problems, Mount comes back from injury, as does Kante.
Tomori is showing a maturity way above he's years and I was just on the Liverpool board and they were saying Salah was not himself , well to be honest I think they are doing Tomori a disservice, he gave Salah nothing
If as I suspect we will allowed back on transfers in January, with 2 top quality players , left back and CB and see how Rice does at RB .
We have the making of a very very good side.
Keep your chins up CFC fans, the good times will be with us sooner rather than later.
Patience is the key
SO EXCITED FOR THE FUTURE
posted on 22/9/19
Took my so today, and was well impressed with Chelsea's second half display. I'm not a big fan of Alonso but he was superb, and but for some poor finishing, the three points could have been Chelsea's.
posted on 22/9/19
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 16 minutes ago
comment by Devil D.A. (U6522)
posted 4 minutes ago
Even if granted the freedom, I'm not sure we need anyone in January tbh.
Part of what we're doing atm should demand only recruiting absolute proven commodity players around the ages of 23 to 26, it'll send split signals to the players if we impulse buy squad padding to fill gaps - which is all you'll likely get in January.
In a perfect scenario next summer we should be looking at going big (80mil+) on one or two rather than middling on three, four or five.
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Absolutely
As I see it a LB and Striker and next summer a replacement for Willian and Pedro. We must have at least £300m burning a hole in our pockets. Just three players to compliment the youngsters should do us fine and if the right players aren't available then wait until the right ones are!
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Absolutely + 1, stop gaps or panic buys got us into our current state over time. Only the very best should be bought now if available in weaker areas. We aren't in too had a shape.
posted on 22/9/19
Why are you so excited about losing to Liverpool? Even before Roman's money you rarely lost to Liverpool at home.
posted on 22/9/19
comment by Dubbed the new Emery (U21076)
posted 56 minutes ago
Why are you so excited about losing to Liverpool? Even before Roman's money you rarely lost to Liverpool at home.
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Chaavs are weird bunch...applauding their team after losing a league game but giving a dog's abuse to their players for missing a penalty...
posted on 23/9/19
comment by Dubbed the new Emery (U21076)
posted 5 hours, 30 minutes ago
Why are you so excited about losing to Liverpool? Even before Roman's money you rarely lost to Liverpool at home.
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If you had bothered reading the posts you would know 2 things, 1, the answer to your question and 2, we don't all think the same.
posted on 23/9/19
I'm not as optimistic as many on here. I think we'll be lucky to finish top 6. I am though enjoying watching our 3 young English players.
The plain truth is that defensively, we are not good enough. Tomori has been brilliant and I'm hoping he and Rudiger can make a good pairing at the back. But where we have problems is in the full back positions. We need proper full backs who can tackle, who are positionally sound and who can cross the ball.
I also think we need are a little light in midfield. Okay, we are missing RLC but Kovacic is just too lightweight in there. We need a stronger presence, a good box-to-box player, maybe with a few goals.
Today, I feel Lampard missed a trick. Pulisic Liverpool a few weeks back - a bit of pace and trickery may have undone them today so I was a little upset not to see him come on instead of Batshuayi.
Can't wait for CHO to come back. Hope we at least mount a challenge for top 4 but it's looking unlikely.
posted on 23/9/19
I'll take 6th, I'm hoping for 4th but 6th will do, we can push on from there.
posted on 23/9/19
We just need to phase out the old guard now...
Willian Alonso Azpi - we are frankly weaker with any of these playing now...very weak if all three are, especially in a back 4
Jorginho needs to play more of the ball instead of the opposition...sloppy discipline lately
Pedro if needed but prefer as an impact sub
Giroud is fine as a super sub
Bats i've never been sold on at all
Barkley...massively over rated
Kova...still not doing it for me
I'd love to see
Kepa
James Rudiger Tomori Emerson
Jorg Kante Rubes Mount
CHO Tammy
posted on 23/9/19
You could easily move to a 343 with this too
push Emerson up, slide Rubes or CHO wider, & slot Mount in as a No10
posted on 23/9/19
Then you've got a subs bench of
Pedro
Pulisic...who may become a starter
Kova
Zouma
AC
Giroud
Alonso
Azpi
until we can buy replacements