Chelsea Banter Archive January 19 2018

 

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19 Jan 2018 18:55:32
How many of our squad actually pick themselves in our starting XI?

I say 5! And that's why we're not good enough. For me only Courtois, Azpilicueta, Christensen, Kante and Hazard walk into the team.

Rudiger has surprised me to be honest and has done very well when played I'm hoping he can cement his place.

Morata is a weird one. I don't know whether he just lacks confidence or he's personally just not as good as first thought.

Alonso picks himself on merit because we don't have anyone to challenge him. Emerson can't even start for Roma so he's got no chance for us.

Apart from being great with the ball Fabregas is a liability as he can't do nothing else.

Bakayoko and Drinkwater are too one dimensional neither are the box to box midfielders we need I. e Vidal, Nainggolan types who know how to attack and defend.

Moses And Zappacosta are both very average IMO. I'd give Dujon Sterling a go over both that lad is a beast.

Willian and Pedro are no longer good enough to start for us as both don't create enough or have a consistent end product.

That's just my personal point of view. We need to be aiming for the likes of Mahrez, Alex Sandro and Vidal to complete the holes in our line up and stop wasting money on squad players as we have plenty of them.

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19 Jan 2018 20:25:00
Emerson just come back from a serious knee injury mate that’s why he hasn’t played!

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19 Jan 2018 21:37:05
You're right about Alonso, he is a given on team sheets because there is no one to really challenge him. Same can be said of Morata and Moses; no judgement on their ability - just a fact when you look at our squad.

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19 Jan 2018 20:26:15
In my opinion, Chelsea lack quality in 4 positions, RWB, CM (Playmaker), RW and ST. I have an easy solution to this, stop with the "overpaying" for players malarkey that we keep on hearing, but still think it's okay to over pay for mediocre dregs. Get RWB - florenzi, CM - Dele Alli or Max Meyer, RW - Mahrez and ST - Icardi or Belotti. Seriously, you wouldn't think that we're one of the biggest teams in the world with our current transfer policy, it's a joke.

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20 Jan 2018 00:06:36
Truth is Emerson and Dzeko will sort out two of our problems instantly. Gives Alonso real competition for his place and we'll have a good back-up to Morata that Conte will trust and will have a much better impact in games than Michy. Can't see us doing much more bussiness after if this deal goes through but if we we're to make a late push and get Mahrez i think it'll be a fantastic window for us.

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20 Jan 2018 00:29:10
Good post LondonBlues. KingFrank i agree with your post too. Given that we are no longer a super power in the transfer market makes transfers difficult but for now i'll take Dzeko and Emerson which more than sorts out 2 issues. If Morata keeps missoig then he may find himself on bench, maybe he needs that kick. As for Alonso, he will get good competition with a fully fit Emerson who i think the fans will take a liking of.

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20 Jan 2018 02:05:53
Dele Alli? Would cost 200m and no way spurs would sell and espcially not to Chelsea.

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20 Jan 2018 14:43:29
Dele ali is not the answer for our problems. Barkely will do better.

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19 Jan 2018 17:03:23
As it looks like Loftus Cheek, s injury is worse than expected and may need surgery. Will he return to Chelsea for the treatment?
Hope he recovers well. Bad luck for the lad feel bad for him.

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19 Jan 2018 14:36:02
No Pedro cesc morata and Cahill tomorrow, Barkley in squad,

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19 Jan 2018 13:16:06
Roma topped our CL group and meet Shakhtar in the next round to move into the Quarter finals. Roma are in 5th place in Serie A, 1 point off 4th and a CL place and 3 points off 3rd place. Edin Dzeko has 12 goals in 25 games - Roma's second top scorer this season is El Shaarawy with 4 goals. Why would Roma even think of selling Dzeko?

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19 Jan 2018 15:17:41
Financial issues. They already have Schick to replace him.

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19 Jan 2018 15:49:52
Struggling with FFP I believe.

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19 Jan 2018 05:03:27
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19 Jan 2018 00:03:44
I think Dzeko and Emerson are pretty much the next transfers for us.

Given Dzeko's age I think Roma will sell him to us now as they are in need of cash and he is 32 in March. Its a win win situation for both clubs. He would be an ideal back up for us. He could potentially put pressure and get Morata to perform.

I would have liked better than Emmerson. He really needs to show us more than what we have got. Not so convinced with this one, however he did play a chunk of Roma games last year.

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{Ed018's Note - these two as backups make sense and I for one would be fine with it. It is January and hard to bring players in but the whole Carroll and Crouch nonsense has to stop. I can’t get over who I’m their rightful mind at Chelsea thinks that is any improvement on what we have so let’s hope it’s Dzeko and Emerson}

19 Jan 2018 00:57:01
But why are we insistent again on spending so much money on back ups? I don’t understand! Dzeko and Emerson are decent players but that money could be used on Mahrez who is an actual game changer. Or just pay the proper fee for Alex Sandro and stop penny pinching who would walk into our starting XI no matter how good Alonso’s been for us Sandro is an actual world class full back/ wing back.

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{Ed018's Note - because to get Mahrez and Sandro you can probably tack another 100 million on what they might pay for Dzeko and Emerson}

19 Jan 2018 00:59:15
Džeko's strike rate everywhere is brilliant, something like 1 every 2.5 games. Emerson looks like Baba MK. II but a lot of Roma fans rate him highly. Just glad it isn't Carroll/ Crouch (although Two Metre Peter is a lovely guy)

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19 Jan 2018 05:50:12
giroud anybody. roma want 65million for 31 year old dzejo an a left back who has never got into der first team . surely giroud is worth a try and ryan bertrand.

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19 Jan 2018 09:06:32
Dzeko has been brilliant for Roma since moving there. Will. def do. a. job for us. we have think we paid 75mill. for Mortata so he is always going to be a our main front man.

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19 Jan 2018 09:11:25
If Chelsea had started off with the rumours of Dzeko/ Emmerson then i think they knew the fans would have asked questions. So they thrown in Carrol and even Crouch and intensify these rumours to get everyones morale so low and now being linked to Dzeko/ Emmerson seems ok and would be ok.

KingFrank i completely agree with you mate. It's a puzzle why we don't put that little extra and get proven quality. Who is actually in charge of transfers? Maybe Roman has placed budgets in place and we don't have the funds to compete anymore. Everton show more ambiton these days.

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19 Jan 2018 09:37:26
I would love Dzeko as a 2nd striker the guy definatelly knows where rhe goal is. He wasn't bad for man coty either, is that they had 4 strikers once he was there.

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19 Jan 2018 11:58:35
Also realky good shout about Giroud. I think he definatelly wouldn't be bad as 2nd choice striker. Questions is would he like to come here to be 2nd striker though?

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19 Jan 2018 16:08:33
Roma wants just above £57m for both Dzeko and E. Palmieri while Chelsea is offering £44m for both players according to Sky sources- as at 11/ 12 noon today, I don't know if anything has changed since then?

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19 Jan 2018 15:16:58
Sandro would cost around 60, Mahrez around 50 which is nothing in this market. So you’re a 100 million more offer is fairly over exaggereated.

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