Chelsea Banter Archive December 09 2017

09 Dec 2017 22:20:59
If we carry on playing 3-5-2 we need someone who contributes with goals from midfield. Bakayoko, Kante, Cesc and Drinkwater don't do that. Nainggolan And Coutinho either side of Kante would give us a whole different dimension.

{Ed0333's Note - Coutinho will be sipping Sangria on Las Ramblas in the near future mate

09 Dec 2017 23:55:28
I know Ed but don’t you think we need someone of that mound for this formation? Someone who can create and score from long range? How good would we be now if we had Loftus-Cheek, Kante and De Bruyne in midfield? Blimey I really do hate Jose for selling him.

{Ed0333's Note - De Bruyne makes me salivate

10 Dec 2017 09:27:23
Honestly, De Bruyne is a whiney prick that looks miserable the first moment things don't go his way. I'm not mad we sold him as I really don't like him. Very good player when on form, but whines way too much.

09 Dec 2017 16:40:48
Very dissapointing result today. I cannot believe how poor we were, generally our play was so slow and its a massive let down.

Morata needs to concentrate on the basics, for awhile now he has been missing so many chances with his feet. If not for his headed goals his goal scoring stats with his feet would have been pathetic. He needs a rest, bats needs to start the next match. Hopefully comes in and scores with his feet and piles pressure on Morata.

09 Dec 2017 18:15:37
Morata is all instinct. Give him time and he usually misses, great player thou, needs options to support, him, today hazard didn’t work, sometimes he needs a tea striker up with him and hazard wide as a plan B, at the moment our plan b is our plan A from start of season which didn’t really work with Willian / Pedro wide.

09 Dec 2017 18:50:05
I agree may be the time to give batman a chance, he will definatelky have one against bournemouth in cup game. And if he take his chance than he definatelly may have a chance to start in premier league.

09 Dec 2017 15:03:03
Conte - he did amazingly well to win the league last year but I increasingly question his ability.

Pedro on for Alonso reducing width when WHU were packing the centre of their defence doesn't make any sense to me; to combat a packed defence you have to go wide not play through the middle as we constantly attempted to do. His 2nd substitution should have been his 1st - Moses should have come on for Zappa at half-time; and so a substitution was wasted. Against a team defending and sitting deep with 2 lines of 4, why not bring on Michy to play alongside Morata and give West Ham something to think about? Morata was up against 3 central defenders on his own. With 10 minutes to go, why not throw Cahill up front - we didn't need 3 defenders to cover the 1 West Ham (knackered) attacker?

Aside from today's game, I think it is ridiculous the way that Costa and Luiz have been treated - none of us know all the details but a good manager should be able to make his point and then move on, not throw the baby out with the bathwater - imagine how long Keane would have lasted at Man U if Ferguson had had the same attitude as Conte.

If Conte left tomorrow, it would not bother me one jot.

09 Dec 2017 15:28:49
What a nonsense post, Conte is the best what could have happened to this club.

Complete nonsense. Pedro was brought on as he can offer witdh (he is a winger after all), though he could have let batsman play but players let him down today, they didn't turn up for the game.

Anyway your post is disgusting, you really need to think if you suporting the right team.

09 Dec 2017 15:29:20
Had no problem with the way the Coasta situation was dealt. As much as we're missing him, he wanted to leave on more than 1 occasion and disappeared the entire 2nd half of the season last year after the Januray window and then tried to play the victim once he realised he couldn't go back to Athleti in the sunmer. With Luiz we don't really know what's going on so can't say anything. With the team it's hard to play with width when there's no quality, Zappa has been awful, Alonso is doing his best but clearly lacks, only player who does anything is Moses who should've started. Morata had more than enough chances to bring us level but he's been terrible in front of goal for a while now. Batshuayi should've gone up with Morata I agree with but for me he isn't being ruthless enough. Continues to trust Morata and Bakayoko eventhough they keep letting him down. Start Bats, give anyone but Baka a chance. We had enough chances today, but it's clear to see our lack of quality with our system when Hazard and Fab don't play well.

09 Dec 2017 15:30:12
Miss Wood, in my opinion you are so wrong about Conte and I find it amazing that any fan would NOT be upset if he left the club.
It’s all about opinions but for me he is the best thing to have happened at our club for a long rime and I hope he stays for many years!

09 Dec 2017 16:54:57
TomB, it is about opinions - having lost to Burnley, Palace and now West Ham - fortunate against Swansea - how can you say that Conte is 'the best thing that has happened' in years? Also, he's not going to stay 'for many years' as was made obvious by his refusal to extend his contract. Costa is criticised in this post for wanting to leave - so why is it ok for Conte to do the same? It is my 'opinion' that he Conte cannot think outside of the box, and if his 3 at the back tactics are not working he seems to run out of ideas - just my opinion.
LRDit, I don't consider abuse as debate so won't be responding to your crass comments.

09 Dec 2017 17:19:39
Miss Wood, The reason I’m happy to say Antonio is the best thing to happen to my club for many years are as follows:-
(a) First year as manager wins the Premier league.
(b) This year SO FAR we are third in the league through to the knockout stages of the Champions League and still have both domestic cups to play for!
(c) I no longer dread our managers press conferences and comments.
(d) NO manager gets everything tactically right in every game but I’m happy that he gets the vast majority spot on.
On a general note I don’t blame any player (including Costa) if they want to move on. They have the right to play for any club that makes them happy. Players have a short carrier.
I’m only guessing but I think one of the the main reasons for Conte not signing an extension to his contract are his family and if they settle in the UK. If that’s the case it’s understandable.

09 Dec 2017 17:54:36
Miss Darren Wood, I have not abused you at all. Just saying that you are talking some sh*t it could have been any manager today, but if the players don't turn up everyone would struggle. Our squad is at most is 3rd best in the league and to win title last year is amazing achievement taking into account how much other clubs have spent.

If anyone could be criticised it should be people who are responsible for transfers this summer as we clearly should have done better at that department.

09 Dec 2017 19:47:47
Miss Darren Wood; I think it will get better besides Conte is doing a good job. TomB's last comment is good.

09 Dec 2017 14:20:37
Disgusting display.

09 Dec 2017 14:26:01
Loads of players could take the blame. Bakayoko is just so so bad, the boy needs to put his head straight and try his best. As again he has some blame for the goal, felt sloppy and his player ran away from him and played the wall with goal scorer. We can forget the title just need to get top 4 this year and hope we win any cup.

09 Dec 2017 14:47:33
LRDit, not sure Baka was to blame for the goal - think it was Christensen not being tight on his man. That is not to say that Baka is not a hindrance - I said last week that he is only 21 but the more I see of him, the more I think that he will never improve enough.

09 Dec 2017 15:13:40
No one is more disappointed than me but I refuse to use terms such as “disgusting” to describe any performance by my team!

09 Dec 2017 15:59:46
Well said Tom. We were very poor today. Problem was the transfer business in the summer, we just don't have enough quality players. As Ed01 has said the lady (forgot her name ) needs to have someone alongside her and take advice when dealing with transfers. Maybe we will have to pay a bit more than we would like for a player, but if we want to keep up with city and United then we have to spend the dosh.

10 Dec 2017 08:11:15
Ok it was brill.

09 Dec 2017 14:05:04
Best team winning don’t know how we are so poor. Movement slow and ponderous. We look totally out of sorts. No urgency. I think we can kiss this goodbye. Let’s concentrate top four and cups. Just not strong enough, losing to two out of bottom three not good.

09 Dec 2017 13:42:55
We don't even look as thou we've played together before, strange performance, so sloppy, with other teams having big games we needed the win.

09 Dec 2017 13:21:40
We are smothering each other at the moment, Conte will have to make some changes. 60%+ possession and not really got anywhere and as for this passing backwards and forwards to Courtois in defence!

09 Dec 2017 10:43:24
Bakyoko is going to be immense today. got lot to prove after few schoolboy mistakes and maybe tiredness, willian. well hopefully he delivers but think his confidence is low and tries to hard, morata may be rested as been ill so michy could get a start.

09 Dec 2017 13:24:00
Again some fault in bakayoko play for the goal, he just seems a bit lazy and turns off in important moments.

09 Dec 2017 13:53:41
Ignore that comment about bakyoko. Joan looking more and more useless.