Chelsea Banter Archive March 30 2019

30 Mar 2019 19:31:42
Zouma having another good game for Everton, was a real shame what happened to him but hopefully he'll get a chance with us next season. Personally i'd love it if we had a partnership of him and Christensen next season, especially if we can't buy players. Both are far better defensively than Luiz and Rudiger and Zouma's arial presence would be a nice threat.

30 Mar 2019 20:28:13
Zouma isn't better than rudiger.

30 Mar 2019 21:16:43
Rudiger is a very good defender but playing with Luiz makes him look very poor.

31 Mar 2019 15:50:12
Watching this game and many others, i just don't get how you two rate Rudiger. Defensively he's utterly shocking.

31 Mar 2019 16:22:39
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king. At the moment, I think he's the best that we have got (he's better than D. Luiz and Christensen at the moment) but is he in the top 5 central defenders in the EPL? One can argue.

31 Mar 2019 16:25:07
Zouma is better than Rudiger.

31 Mar 2019 16:43:37
Rudiger is decent.

Luiz is fantastic but has 'off days'.

Sorry, but Zouma would be found out in tight games. He is left in posession and forced to play by well organised teams and loses possesion too easily / slows play. He's physically great though and a real leader, so it's a shame and you never know what could be done with him.

31 Mar 2019 23:28:15
So after watching that game you’re still telling me Rudiger is better than Zouma? Not being funny but Rudiger is a fantastic athlete but he lacks even the most basic level of common sense it’s scary. Zouma all day. He’s even making Michael Keane look a decent player, that tells you how good Kurt is!

30 Mar 2019 08:45:11
{Ed's Note - Reid the Red has posted a new article entitled, Premier League Matches Previews 30 March 2019

30 Mar 2019 02:46:45
I have been on this site for around a year now and I have to say, I am sometimes left flabbergasted at how much Ed002 knows way before the media catches wind of it:

1) Talked about the European Super League way before the Der Spiegel Football leaks.

2) Told us that Barcelona are looking to sell Umtiti, which was difficult for me to believe at first.

3) Talked about Mane being a target of Real under Zidane which the media has caught wind of only now. (France Football, Marca, El Confidencial)

4) Talked about Griezmann being a target of PSG if Neymar or Mbappe left which the papers have discussed in the last month. (Diario AS)

5) Knew about Bakayoko moving to Chelsea way before anyone else knew about it.

6) Told us about Real's interest in Junior Firpo before the Madrid-based papers even caught a sniff of it.

I don't know how you know these things Ed, but your info is invaluable to the football community.

{Ed002's Note - You are very sweet.}

30 Mar 2019 08:45:40
It's just amazing, isn't it? :)

30 Mar 2019 10:00:52
I’ll be honest I thought Ed002 was a nutter when he was saying Pogba wanted to leave United when he was in great form and as Solskjaer was starting his revolution. I didn’t see why on earth he would want to leave and now it’s all come out that he wants to leave. Guess I should trust her even more .

30 Mar 2019 10:14:33
For those of a certain vintage on the site, you'll know Ed002 mapped out Mata's move to Liverpool breaking down and Arsenal also failing to sign him before Sky even tried to report it. They also said Mata would join Chelsea about a week before the deal was announced.

31 Mar 2019 11:07:10
I enjoyed knowing we were signing some bloke called Azipilicueta a year in advance.

Mata was good too.

31 Mar 2019 16:24:30
Dave was my personal favourite! Everyone was raving about us signing Van Der Weil and Ed told us we have interest in Azpilicueta (who? ) - awesome knowledge and what an awesome player he’s been for us.