Chelsea F.C. Thread IX

Athletic reader I see.

Also seems like Jim Ratcliffe put in a bid, I think he cares about the club as a fan and has skin in the game purchasing nice, he'd be my preferred option, there are sporting people in the other groups so I'm sure they'd make a good decision too. Overall I think we might end up better for this.

Realistically Tuchel wont have any issues with making top 4 every year and probably will title challenge if we give him the funds.

Also, Pogba starting to seem like an attractive option if the wages aren't ridiculous, although he seems more likely to sign PSG deal or a mega contract at United.

Part of our issue in midfield is progressive passing, and it's no coincidence that since Fabregas left we've been nowhere near a title challenge, we negated that a bit with our wingbacks but they can't be our sole source of creating chances. If that's the case then we should be playing Hudson Odoi there.

Athletic reader I see.

Also seems like Jim Ratcliffe put in a bid, I think he cares about the club as a fan and has skin in the game purchasing nice, he'd be my preferred option, there are sporting people in the other groups so I'm sure they'd make a good decision too. Overall I think we might end up better for this.

Realistically Tuchel wont have any issues with making top 4 every year and probably will title challenge if we give him the funds.

Also, Pogba starting to seem like an attractive option if the wages aren't ridiculous, although he seems more likely to sign PSG deal or a mega contract at United.

Part of our issue in midfield is progressive passing, and it's no coincidence that since Fabregas left we've been nowhere near a title challenge, we negated that a bit with our wingbacks but they can't be our sole source of creating chances. If that's the case then we should be playing Hudson Odoi there.

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Yeah good to see that's sorted.

I hope Christensen still leaves anyway but I think Tuchel will keep him as it saves us having to buy an extra defender in the transfer market. Tbh I think Christensen usually is fine as the middle CB but Silva plays there and he's better.

Now the club can focus on signings and giving Tuchel what he wants. Frankly more than another forward who will misfire due to not being suited to our system we need to focus on replacing rudiger and getting a progressive midfielder. I would like Rice, but these French midfielders are something else. Pogba on a free is enticing but not paying him man united wages, hear good things about Tchouameni but not seen him play. We've missed Fabregas in the side, to the point that Reece James and Ben Chilwell have been doing his job. Also Hazard clearly hasn't been replaced, even if the general standard of wingers in the side is better than it was back in 2018.

Man United like to complain about the lack of defensive awareness of Pogba in a 2 but we made it work with Fabregas who's equally as bad there, also Jorginho plays there for us currently lmao.

Yeah we'll need Christensen for rotation.

Definitely agree that that Pogba would be an upgrade for Jorginho but I just can't see the club getting rid of him unfortunately which is a shame because I feel a Kante-Pogba pairing would be nuts.

I do think we need a clinical striker though. The number of wasted chances every game is just painful to watch. We've got a fair amount of creativity and can dominate teams but the final product is just missing. Yes Havertz has been developing and he can probably fill that role again for another season but I feel we've needed a clinical striker since the Costa days. Realistically I can't see us competing with City for the title unless we get that position sorted (and ofc CB). We'll lose points from games we should've put to bed like this season.

Pep got sterling scoring 20 a season and he's Werner level in terms of finishing, what we need to improve on imo is creating clear chances. I think that's partially a coaching issue but also a player issue.

I wouldn't call any of Man City's attackers clinical but look at where they are right now. If I'm being honest, we miss hazard more than we miss a striker. A player who can create space for others because they're triple marked every game.

Our chance creation came from dynamic wingbacks who then got injured. We don't want a single source of failure for chance creation. That's where Pogba/Pogba like player comes in.

That's fair but I think the overload of creativity in City's midfield and wing more than makes up for their poor finishing. Werner isn't going to be supplied with 100 balls across the box unfortunately. We don't have a de bruyne or b silva. That's why they can afford to go without Aguero.

I can't see Pogba alone changing our game to that level compared to a competent striker but that's just my opinion. I can see what you're getting at though and I'm all for another Hazard or two to juice up our midfield and just kill the opposition with chances.

Also am I reading this right but Alonso to Barca? Are their scouts blind lmao. I'd take it and get that LWB we've needed to compete with Chillwell.

Do you guys reckon we'll beat Liverpool in the FA cup final?

The entire point is that we overload creativity in our midfield, Pogba + Kovacic + our wingers does that.

We work by scoring the one clear chance we actually get, but we don't get many clear chances, we create lots of half chances, so either we have players who can do something out of nothing(Costa was good at that) or we create a style of play that allows us to move oppositions. We don't look like scoring despite all our possession vs the park the bus teams.

I hate Alonso man, all I want is a LWB who can do a give and go and pass progressively. Chilwell obviously does that but he's injured.

Azpi needs to go man, having an absolute shocker today. Chalobah really doesn't get a break, this is reminding me too much of Tomori and it's triggering. I don't think just going for experience is the way to handle playing out of poor form. Also imagine Azpilicueta or Christensen vs Diaz in the FA cup final, I don't want to imagine.

Watching today I don't think the strikers are at fault at all. In fact I think they've done quite well even though they haven't scored. The supply into them is poor frankly.

Thank God for Wolves! Let's go gunners

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