Chelsea Banter Archive July 31 2017

31 Jul 2017 22:34:39
Sky sports saying our 3 man shortlist for cm with matic gone is drinkwater Barkley and ox, were not even trying no more, where's the ambition,

31 Jul 2017 23:48:05
It not always about going out and spending 70-80 million on marquee signings. A decent manager, like Conte, knows the quality/ attributes he wants in a player. He can get the best out of good players. Obviously not ever player he would want is available for a number of reasons. Maybe have a little faith in the squad of players we have instead of panicking we haven't spent 70 million in over a week or so.

01 Aug 2017 01:03:33
i agree patience u swear we were in a relegation battle we sign a decent back up keeper to replace begovic signed a good defender in rudiger and good midfielder in bakayoko and a top notch striker in morata no fear of us. with a bit of luck qel get sanches done now on loan and maybe even sandro who knows.

01 Aug 2017 02:12:40
Can't agree mote JFCF all you have to remember that pur best signigs have came relatevely cheap compared to the other teams spendings. We are the most succesfull English Club of last 10 years this means club is doing something good and all we fans have to do is stay behind the team and relax!

01 Aug 2017 07:04:48
Bakayoko was the replacement for Matic. Remember him?

If we get another cm it will be a squad player or someone versatile.

01 Aug 2017 08:07:28
Bakayoko is 22 y. o. kid with no PL experience whatsoever. He is injured, had surgery and can flopp just like that. He at 3 years away of replacing Matic. Wake up they f. ed up the club. But this is serious this time.

01 Aug 2017 08:43:27
Heard all this last year too. Turned out pretty well.

Bakayoko made the Champions League team of the season last year. Wake up.

01 Aug 2017 12:04:27
Last year we still had excellent squad. We lost Terry,Ivanovic,Mikel,Oscar,Costa,Matic,Ake,Begovic,RLC loaned,Chalobah.
The difference is more than obvious. Maybe Bakayoko and Morata are promising players,but Morata is a bench warmer from Real(he was bench warmer mainly at Juventus as well) Bakayoko who had 1 good season which means absolutely nothing with 0 PL experience.Rüdiger who suffered serious injury last year.
We have Hazard who was operated after serious injury less than 2 months ago.
On what you are building your optimism.???

01 Aug 2017 12:39:13
Matt Martin, how much did Azpilicueta cost? Or Moses, Ivanovic, de Bruyne, Lukaku, Cahill, Frankie Lampard? And best of all Franco Zola at £5.7m! Everything that's shiny is not always gold. I think Danny Drinkwater would be an excellent buy.

01 Aug 2017 17:26:29
Drinkwater is a good player, not debating that. He is similar to cesc in his style of play. two slow to play in a two in middle. So could cover for cesc but cesc will be behind Kante and bakyoko. imo we need bit of class with energy and passing abilty, to me sanches has energy passing creativeness and has played at top level., . And it's really not about spending huge amounts. a loan would be great,

01 Aug 2017 19:13:38
Anti - Matic and Costa have been replaced (with better players), the rest you named barely played.

Conte has had a fully preseason in which to prepare (not to mention last season)

We've signed more and better players than at this point last year (by some distance)

We have champions league football, a shed load of money from sales, an owner happy to spend, and players will want to come to us. I expect some August spending.

But let's get the right ones.

01 Aug 2017 23:58:50
The thing is that I have enormous trust when it comes to Conte. But this time they really played him down (board) . It will be extremely difficult for him this season. I'm afraid that majority of do not see real picture, carried with last season success.

31 Jul 2017 22:44:20
The last what I'd call top tier player we signed was Hazard. Remember the days we were constantly linked with and made moves for these top tier players?

Robinho (although we missed him and he was ultimately a flop), Neymar (ended up at Barca) Shevchenko (once again he was a flop), Torres (once more he flopped), Gerrard (we almost signed him in his prime), Hazard (got him and he was worth every penny) .

Clearly we've done extremely well in the past few years winning the title two times in three seasons. And I'm not saying we should move for these players with ffp and so on, but it was great to see us linked to and attract these players to our club. Nowadays I feel we look to the good players but not those top tier players, and until we do we will struggle in Europe especially. That's just my opinion so don't shoot me.

01 Aug 2017 01:07:24
fabregas was top class when we signed him . diego costa was top class when he came. it doesbt always work out signing top class players . look at united . pogba mikatryian. chelsea shevchenko torres . man city robinho mangala otamendi adebayor fernando fernandinho. spurs soldado lamela. arsenal granit xhaka . etc patience were doing ok mate the power in europe shifts around i wouldn't worry when ronaldo and messi are finished im sure english cluba will be bacm. in fact i reckon city are a good bet this year to win it.

01 Aug 2017 12:53:20
Fabregas, Costa, Pedro, Eto'o, Falcao, Willian, Oscar, Luiz, Luis, Rahman, Cuadrado, Zouma, Schurrle, Remy, Salah, Matic, Kante, Bakayoko, Rudiger, Morata, Batshuayi - the fact that not all of them have been successful at Chelsea does not mean that we're not attracting top players. I could add De bruyne, Lukaku and Mata to the list.

31 Jul 2017 21:42:50
Ed002 any truth in the Drinkwater rumours? Would be a very underwhelming signing for Conte.

{Ed002's Note - I know nothing of it sorry.}

31 Jul 2017 21:41:30
Danny drinkwater oh my days a poor mans cesc. just what we need,

31 Jul 2017 22:19:08
If this is actually true I've no idea what is going on at our club. I also see Watford have beaten us to that young Brazilian we were linked with. We need some good news sooner or later as this is becoming depressing!

31 Jul 2017 17:16:31
Usually loads of rumours, mostly outrageous about players in and out. last 3/ 4 days nothing. Read comments of king Carlo saying sanches stays, really worried, paper thin squad, any good news eds.

31 Jul 2017 19:01:25
Come on guys you're all acting like children, it isn't even a month since the window opened. We all know the squad is thin and that it's better to bring players in early but as Ed said the club is doing what they can to fix that and everything would be fine. Most big signings come later in the window in any case I can see a lot changing around Europe in the next few weeks. Let's not get into a frenzy and bother the eds. Seriously we should have some faith in the club. No matter how you look at it, we've done some good business and there'll obviously be more.

31 Jul 2017 19:02:18
I have good news, Matic has signed for United.

31 Jul 2017 19:16:56
I do get that, it's just we have no more friendly's, we have our first league in 8 days, we need to get these players in and settled and I worry if we won't pay what's required now it's only going to get worse, teams will see we need players in and prices will go up, plenty of time in the window but not before big games, after each post I think I'm like a school kid pestering he eds lol I apologise lol.

01 Aug 2017 07:33:27
Matt, why do we have to get them in and settled?

We've a strong starting 11 and to extend that, a decent first 14/ 15.

Anyone who comes in late will have time to adjust and fit in.

The pessimism of some fans is draining. The window doesn't close for a month. Not as if we need to do business by midnight!

01 Aug 2017 08:02:55
Jesus Christ, that's such a BS and you know it, decent 11. We have no depht. You are forgetting how many important players have left. With this team avoiding relegation will be success.

01 Aug 2017 10:53:09
Yes, antibot, I said decent!

For f*ck sake, barring 2 players, it's the 11 that sauntered to the league last season so I would say yeah, decent 11.

I didn't say decent squad, I didn't say loads of depth! I said, new players will have time to bed in.

Talking relegation is awful BS, you need your head checked!

30 Jul 2017 23:05:46
Why people worried about matic to Utd! Doesn't win headers not the greatest passer gets caught out of position and to put a nail in his cfc career conte must of seen him bottle that 50/ 50 with Ramsey in fa cup final. He needs kante to bail him out

£50m jeez take it and bloody run.

31 Jul 2017 03:25:02
very average player he will do well in a modfield of 3 do.

31 Jul 2017 05:51:12
Why does everyone keep saying £50M? BBC, Sky and Eurosport are all saying £40M?

31 Jul 2017 06:31:41
Keep lying to yourself. It won't be easier when Chelsea hits the bottom in few months.

31 Jul 2017 08:34:05
Oh behave. Matic is past his best. there's still 2 or 3 to come in.

31 Jul 2017 08:41:07
A bit far fetched to say "bottom".

To be honest he won't make it in the starting 11 with Bakayoko's arrival and he probably doesn't fancy sitting on the bench given his age and has probably made his intention to move quite clear.

I doubt it's Chelsea forcing his hands to move and it's seem more in line with the fact that whoever doesn't have the right attitude to fight for the cause will have to move on.

Conte is stamping his authority which is what we have needed for years. Doesn't matter who you are and how big a star you are but nobody is bigger than the team.

31 Jul 2017 10:10:29
£50m or £40m either way it's to much! Theses Utd fans that are convincing their selfs that they getting a top player are going to be in for a shock. These people who rate matic are the ones just judging him on his debut against city his only top class game

I love conte getting out average players matic Mikel Oscar is refreshing.

31 Jul 2017 10:20:22
This seems incredibly similar to when the club sold mata to them following his tremendous year. He's a good player and will perform well in a midfield three but he isn't mobile enough for a 2 man midfield. When you combine that with the fact that he's 29 (this week) and has 2 years left on his contract (with no hope of an extension) and it makes sense for the club to sell him. If it was the matic that we saw from January 2014 until March 2015 that would be one thing, but for whatever reason he hasn't been the same since the Ashley Barnes tackle.

31 Jul 2017 11:22:41
Matic had more assist last season than any Man. Utd player and that's statistical fact. We didn't sell him we lost him which is much worse.

31 Jul 2017 13:38:58
TK i have to disagree with you on Mata, the guy was poor class (and loved Chelsea so much) but sadly Mourihno fell in Love with oscar for unknown reason (as mata was twice the player Oscar will ever be) and decided to let him go.

Just look at the amount of assists and goals Mata provided each season, the guy was the top player but Mourihno fu**ek his career up big time.

31 Jul 2017 19:06:41
So, we love Mata and are happy to have Matic. He isn't flashy but he will protect the back four and let our flashier players do their thing.