Chelsea XI to face Real Madrid: Jorgensen, James (C), Badiashile, Colwill, Gusto, Lavia, Enzo, Nkunku, Madueke, Guiu, Sterling

Bench: Sanchez, Bettinelli, Acheampong, Adarabioyo, Fofana, Chilwell, Veiga, Ugochukwu, Chukwuemeka, Dewsbury-Hall, Mudryk, George

comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
comment by Superb - The Director's Cut part deux (U6486)
posted 11 minutes ago
And it's all well and good saying that every big money striker we've signed has flopped but there's a very long list of cheaper, low profile strikers we've signed that have also flopped. Many of which most of us have actually forgotten about they were so irrelevant.

And really it's not true that every big money signing has flopped. Drogba cost what was at the time considered a very big fee. And Diego Costa wasn't exactly cheap either for the time he was signed. Obviously prices have skyrocketted since then.
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That's just two

The list of flops either expensive or not is way too long.

As for Jackson, well he needs to step up at least two levels this season. There were just way too many woeful performances from him last season.
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Yes it's two examples but they're very important ones as Drogba and Costa have been our most important strikers of the last fifteen years or more.

The point is that it invalidates this idea that all big money Chelsea strikers flopped. An idea I keep hearing more and more these days for some reason.

Hasselbaink cost us £15 million back in 2000 which was a very big amount of money then. That would probably be equivalent to about £70 million in today's market if not more. He turned out to be an excellent signing.

Fact is we've bought too many ill-suited big money strikers. Both Sheva and Torres were vanity signings by Roman with little thought given to how they would really fit into the system. Jose never really wanted Sheva.

Morata was always a very odd signing. Lukaku signing probably should have worked out better than it did but various factors were involved there.

Sterling 🤦‍♀️

Team feels a bit better balanced

Mads and Sterling doing their show already

Nkunku two unpressured passes out of play

Our fooking CBs

Honestly fook anywhere else in the pitch we need a CB or 2......STAT

Why are so many of our players so shaky. They look like they're playing in a big final lol

......how?

Vinicius gonna tear James a new hole this match lol

Typical Chelsea - look good with 0 killer instinct

Gusto ain't gonna make it to day 1 is he?

Reece all over the shop

Come on Sterling.......can't let them overload us like that!

How easy is it to get at our defence? Championship standard.

We're a mess defensively

Col will having a mare Bads doesn't seem to be on the pitch

Attackers aren't tracking....except for Mads

😂😂😂

WTF are you doing Colly? Pathetic

We got a relegation back 5. Caicedo doesn’t stop anything and our back 4/5 are just really poor

I know it's only preseason but I'm starting to get worried about our defence...

Standard, all over the place.

High line is trash and we haven't got a clue

comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 2 minutes ago
We got a relegation back 5. Caicedo doesn’t stop anything and our back 4/5 are just really poor
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Caicedo probably wants to but he's on the bench mate

Sterling been on the pork pies and milkshakes all summer by the looks

Rubbish

Fook off Sterling