He's never really played there and our attack tends to suffer massively when Mount isn't between the lines linking play.
Woah. Probably be taken care of but i'm enjoying the drama.
That’s what they want so they get views. The bbc story is the same, click bait crap with a tiny snippet at the bottom that says:
You are probably right but I’ll keep the dream alive in my head.
Nope, just a top drawer manager.
Spot on. The deal is in so much jeopardy, that Boehly, Wyss, & some of the Clearlake lot were there today hugging and applauding the staff and players. They know full well they have got the club, its not in doubt. Not sure if Mark Walter or Goldstein were, though
Better not to get to the finals? Not much more he could do to win them. Story of our season is Lukaku only got 15 goals, with 30 or 40 things different. We had 63 games.
We thought we had a chance at the start of December. But we were not able to keep up the pace we set. Next season we need to rebuild the defense and injury prone midfield we need to freshen up and our forwards were not able to score goals. Too much needed to fix. So not much optimistic like i was last season when season started.
Not a hope. Very overrated team. It's almost as likely that we'll win it ourselves.
Yes bit overrated by us as well as many opposition fans too. So why not expected much coming season.
At the same time, you're a good side though. I imagine you will probably finish in the top 4 again, but we'll see how Spurs continue and more specifically how long it takes for ten Hag to get us going.
It's not easy for any one to finish in top 4 except the top 2. Too early to count things. We need to replace many players from defence to forward. Only seven are now confirmed starters when fully fit.
I think you’ve summed it up quite nicely actually. Next season I don’t expect us to be champions but hopefully compete more consistently. The Chelsea of 2021 is a totally different side to the 2022 team even with the same players. That gives me hope that a lot of them just need a break.
Reportedly we're already planning to have Emerson back for next season - personally I'm much happier with him as a backup instead of Alonso.
Yep. Alonso can move forward to CF then.
Hah wouldn't mind seeing that - but it looks like he's going to Barcelona.
I have to disagree there tbh. There's a reason Alonso quickly won his place back whenever Emerson was given chances.
I generally prefer Emerson's versatility in that he can credibly play in a back 4 or back 5, and he's not a complete liability when 1v1 and/or tracking back.
For me he's just very ordinary whereas Alonso does give top class performances even if it's only once every couple of months.
Personally I'd rather Maatsen get minutes on loan this year instead of being a backup for the first team - ideally somewhere in the PL (perhaps Huddersfield given the success Colwill has been should they make it back up?).
Chilwell came after long break. Not sure how good he will be. So should have adequate plans and three back formation still look like tuchels preferred one. So need as much players as possible especially in wing back position.
Alonso just has the knack of scoring important goals, and he is a cracking finisher. I have always said id sell him for the right money, but when he is gone i think we will miss him haha.
If he had say, Chilwell or Reece James' pace, Alonso would be an outstanding wing back. Defensively he is meh, but ok; however going forward he would be so good.
A god awful attack that cost an absolute fortune. £311m for 5 attackers, it should be expected for them to score a lot of goals for that cost.
Christ really? Who was the top 3? City, Liverpool and Bayern?
How do you figure that?
Yeah seems that that’s correct. I’d have guessed Ajax being one of the 4 but maybe it’s only counting Europe’s top 5 leagues?
I suppose the point he's making is that he's surprised because each of those players, perhaps Havertz aside, have been underwhelming to varying degrees.
I'm not sure what he means but its wrong by any measure
I did a quick search and it seems to be “in all comps across europes top 5 leagues”
I guess the advantage of an extra comp (league cup) helps here as most other countries only have one domestic cup?
