And unemployed.
Sometimes you have to do the right thing. The only one who was pressuring him was Mirallas at LW. Had pedro passed to courtois (azpi clearly tells him to when he gets the ball), he could have possibly got rid of the danger. Instead he tried to create an attack from it and ends up conceding a corner.
Pedro is 28 already, and I doubt there are 10 seasons left in him, while with Darmian and Depay you ever know. Neither of them look great, but they have time on their side but if you are signing player like Pedro, from Barcelona, then you are definitely expecting him to make an impact. Depay and Darmian also have resale value, I doubt Chelsea could sell Pedro for decent money in a year or two when he is 30.
Sad thing is, when you join United, your resale value seems to go down the toilet as we always sell players dirt cheap whereas at Chelsea they always get much more than expected.
Well how good is he? Not verySure
Good enough to make United's defense including De Gea look like clueless schoolboys?
It was about time he did something. He has underwhelmed.
Eh?
It's Needham, you're not supposed to take him seriously.
Saw him at Stamford Bridge against Palace back in August. He was anonymous. He's only slightly improved since. Maybe he's still adjusting, but he has underwhelmed given where he came from.
he assisted falcao that game, didnt he?
Yeah, that's right, Falcao. So he's been good value, too?
Wondered how long it would take until someone figured that out. The larger point is how poor Needham's conclusion on Pedro was, not to mention knowledge of footballers in general
Haven't mentioned any other players apart from Falcao. Tell me about the great performances Pedro has given this season.
I agree, but some posters are making it out to be much worse than what it is.
Hazard is a sly, gutless, lazy wanker. No player is worse then him.
People were doubting be could get back to his form circa 2011 and wondered if he was carried by a great side and having his weakness papered over with his sub appearances.
I never particularly rated Pedro to begin with so I'm not really writing him off. He'll probably get bit better but I very much doubt we'll ever regret not signing him. He's just not that good. Never was.
Hazard isn't playing poorly because of Chelsea, he is playing poorly because of himself. In fact, Hazards form has fecked Chelsea over more then Chelsea has fecked Hazards form up.
Well yeah but are the players playing shit cos the team is bad or is the team bad cos the players are playing shit? It's fair to judge him as it's fair to judge Hazard, Fabregas, Costa, Matic, etc. and say they've been poor and contributed to an awful title defence, but it's reasonable to suggest he'll probably look better when everyone (including himself) starts performing a bit better.
While Im sure Pedro would look with us i have no idea why Memphis would look better with them. Care to explain mate?
Chelsea are a lot quicker to transition the ball outwide than we are. Willian has been excellent often because he's able to run with the ball into the final third against only the single FB. Fabregas in particular despite all his deserved criticism is excellent at quickly setting the wide players off by playing the ball into space.
It's not fair, but it's not just this season that Pedro hasn't performed well. As many of us said in the summer, he's a long way short of his 2010/11 peak.
Tbf this is quite funny. I was thinking about this the other day. He has done absolutely nothing since his debut.
To be fair, when you've pretty much only played at a top class team it's probably difficult to adjust to the mess that Chelsea currently are!
It was a long time since he contributed that much to Barcelona too. He was good at scoring hattricks against the lower sides in Spain but after 2011 he wasn't really that good otherwise.
