Chelsea F.C. Thread IX

Is it some sort of spiritual bondage that Callum has on Bayern?? Can’t believe they are twerking for him again even after getting Sane.

CHO not pushing it this time though. If the club sells him then it’s on them and he will inevitably come back to bite us in the ass like DeBruyne and Salah.

Lol ********.

CHO is being played at RW and his best position is at LW.

He gets dropped and I understand Pulisic playing over him on the left wing but Mason Mount, that's a pisstake.

hudson odi cost chelsea the spurs game,he couldve easily passed to tammy for a tap in

hudson odi cost chelsea the spurs game,he couldve easily passed to tammy for a tap in

And Mount didn’t? He also could’ve passed the ball to Werner for an easy goal and he messed it up. Could easily say Emerson was to blame as well because he could’ve marked Lamela better for the Spurs goal. We were ahead and if we keep a clean sheet then we progress to the next round. It’s a team game, so many things could’ve been done differently to make sure we progressed but CHO wasn’t solely to blame for that not to happen.

The guy is 19 yrs old, playing out of his favourite position but you can still see the talent is there and he’s even starting to put in all that off-the-ball work Lampard has been demanding.

There’s a reason why a club like Bayern are coming in again with a loan offer and option to buy for £70 million. If they change it to obligation to buy I think the club might just accept. It’s a lot of money to turn down for what is essentially a bench player for us atm even though he’ll develop into a star.

Is it some sort of spiritual bondage that Callum has on Bayern?? Can’t believe they are twerking for him again even after getting Sane.

CHO not pushing it this time though. If the club sells him then it’s on them and he will inevitably come back to bite us in the ass like DeBruyne and Salah.

Annoying if we sell him tbh because you know he's going to be a world class player at Bayern.

Look at United with Greenwood e.g. or the mistake City have made with Sancho or Gnabry with Arsenal, or even Coman at Juventus. I guess the club gotta balance the books somehow but I'd also say this is on Frank for not actually playing him when he had chances to use him throughout last season but he'd rather just use Willian or Mount on the wing. This season he's also done CHO dirty too. So that gives Bayern confidence to get him.

He's only now figured that Hudson Odoi offers something that other players don't. I like Pulisic now but if he's got a record of muscular injuries why are we banking on him being fit?

I'd rather sell Loftus Cheek or Abraham than sell Hudson Odoi imo. Do you not think losing two of our experienced wingers and only having 2 actual wingers for the two wing positions is a good idea in any way shape or form? I like the fact it took Lampard to be 3 goals down to West Brom to think 'oh ****, we could do with some width and pace here.'

Btw I think Hudson Odoi will stay.

So transfer window shut. Did all our business early so wasn’t much to get excited about tbh. Chelsea rejected some Tomori loan offers last week on the expectations that Rudiger would leave but Rudiger refused to join West Ham so we’re stuck with 5 CBs all vying for playing time until January.

Ruben joined Fulham. 50/50 on it personally. I think a loan was the best move for him as he needs a lot of gametime which he won’t get here and he’s a guaranteed starter at Fulham but Fulham are so **** and will be fighting relegation. Hope it’s not like Tammy’s loan at Swansea where he wasn’t able to demonstrate his ability at all because the team was so bad. Feel like he could’ve benefited more from a team like Southampton or West Ham. Slightly better quality around him and can learn from better coaching setups.

Barkley looks like he’s gonna have fun and get to showcase himself playing with Grealish at Villa. We might actually be able to get £40million+ for him at the end of the season 😁

Yeah good with the Barkley loan.

I think RLC might be able to help that Fulham side in any case.

I'm very pissed off that we twerked for Rice while Arsenal have got Thomas Partey.

Also find this amusing when people say that Kanté is only a defensive midfielder, this is an excerpt from early on in the 2016-17 season when we started playing 3-4-3 "As an all-round box-to-box midfield pairing, they are the best combination in the Premier League and their ability helps Antonio Conte's system work so successfully. "

It's also interesting that Matic used to be pretty box to box back in the day, Mourinho turned him into a pure DM because we had Fabregas in the side which is fair enough.

Word on the ground is we seriously considered activating Partey’s release clause and have been monitoring him since 2018 but as we couldn’t sell Jorginho or Rudiger that meant we couldn’t buy him.

Tbh it’s obvious Lampard’s heart is set on Rice and he’ll be joining us next summer. If Lampard had really wanted Partey then the release clause would’ve been activated regardless.

Kante is not a pure DM. Did the Makelele comparisons start just because it was a black, short midfielder with loads of energy that had signed for Chelsea as well because they are not similar at all now looking back.

With that said, I’m sure as we are short of options for that role at the moment, Kante can be instructed to just sit. Jorginho did very well against Palace and he will be useful against teams that play that way but we’ll get destroyed against better teams with Jorginho there.

Reece James and Christensen also very good options imo.

When your club spendds £220mil+ and fans are still complaining about not spending enough..

We had a big issue with defending. We conceded 54 goals last season lmao so we probably should have sorted out DM.

I get that when those quality attacking players are at that price you go for it. Also we relied too much on Pulisic who is injury prone and Willian+Pedro left so we did need to replace them.

I hope our having quality attacking players means that we just blow teams out anyway.