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I actually would give a bit more credit to the likes of Drogba, Lampard, and Cole given Terry got himself sent off in the 2nd leg of the semis for trying to stick his knee up Alexis Sanchez's arse for no reason!

He is not and has never really been a particularly good (i.e. efficient) dribbler: He's much more of a wide forward that needs to cut inside rather than a pure winger who creates and carries the ball. There's been a concerted effort to make...

Oh it was a total fluke. RdM is a Chelsea legend but the players were the ones managing that team.

He stayed on to start the following year for Chelsea. Got sacked after we finished 3rd in our CL group behind Juve and Shakhtar - replaced by Benitez who won the EL.

Davies is extremely easy to get past:

I didn't want to be hyperbolic but I agree. Also think it goes back further than just this season in all honesty. This was always a ridiculous take. His insane 1v1 defending in wide areas was part of the reason Chelsea were so good with 3ATB...

Absolute colossus. Been one of the best CBs in the world since Tuchel got his hands on him at Chelsea.

Lavia is the guy that is missing from midfield as a true holding player. Caicedo is more like Kante; needs to have freedom to press vertically to be effective and if he's sitting deep you lose some of the benefits of his engine when it comes to...

Oh well apologies; that's fair enough! Apologies if I've strawmanned there. I'll just go back to reading this thread and enjoying the schadenfreude...

But surely you can recognise that your argument is purely hypothetical in nature beyond a single pre-season friendly? It's more or less undeniable that Spurs have been better without him this year and Bayern have been worse with him. Obviously...

I'm sorry but you are trying to extrapolate that Kane would have been successful under the new manager based on one pre-season friendly against Shakhtar Donetsk?

Olise is the one we were trying to get

Yeah obviously it's purely luck and there's no other way to do it logistically barring shotgun starts maybe but it really does suck when half the field gets such a leg up

True - but I am also glad that conditions are tougher this afternoon relatively so the early starters yesterday when the greens were soft don't have a huge advantage