Chelsea Banter Archive January 07 2019

07 Jan 2019 22:17:31
The media have turned CHO's head in my opinion. They have made such a big deal about his lack of playing time when his progress through the ranks has been just at the right pace over the years.
We just haven't been killing games recently to bring him on although now is a perfect time for him to step up for Chelsea. It's just a shame we risk losing him.
Also heard a Benzema rumour lately and can't work out if that's good news?!

08 Jan 2019 07:45:12
mate the media is the worse. hate them. about anything. wether is about football, the country, emergency severices, brexit and everthing thing else. their an absolute joke!

07 Jan 2019 20:41:48
I and getting sick of the constant Criticism being fired at Chelsea, cheslsra being called foolish for selling CHO and blaming the club for not playing him and saying he is a star in the making. the media didn't mention him 2 months ago and now all these pundits who haven't seen the boy play are huge huge fans, when asked about the future of English football, Mount Foden Maddison etc etc where all named none of these so called experts mention him. Chelsea clearly want him to stay, his getting his chance and is still only 18, we do not want to sell, he doesn't want to stay and wants to leave, we're in a situation where we take £30m or nothing, Chelsea hand is being forced, he is such a talent and I remember one of the Ed's talking about mushonda and few other of the kids and saying Chelsea rate CHO ahead of anyone to come through academy, I want him to stay get his playing time, he should be ahead of Willian and Pedro but not every week, he has a lot to learn still, hating the media making out we're forcing him to leave, Ed's what is the situation. has he said he wants to leave? Has he made his mind up, is there a chance,

07 Jan 2019 21:13:37
I’ve given the reasons on a previous post why I think he will decide to stay and sign a new contract.

I’m more and more convinced that he will stay.

07 Jan 2019 21:39:27
I really hope so Tom. I think he can be our long term replacement for Hazard.

07 Jan 2019 23:31:40
I didn’t realise the media were making us out to try sell him. fact is he was our best player in preseason and saw the pitch once or twice before the fans/ media started asking why we weren’t playing him. Willian and Pedro were not setting the world alight, that’s why the media and fans have spoken.

It’s much more difficult for Foden because he has Silva Silva and De Bruyne to try get ahead of.

07 Jan 2019 14:32:44
Hey everyone. In case you didn't already know, there's a short VICE documentary on YouTube, about Christian Pulisic. It's not long, but it gives a pretty good depiction of who he is and his upbringing, as Ed001 already said, he really seems like a good guy with a good head on his shoulders. I highly recommend taking a bit of time of your schedules and watch it.

07 Jan 2019 22:12:28
i no 1 of the edds recently also stated he's a really good kid for a 20 year old or what ever he is he's suppose to be very mature and down to earth.

07 Jan 2019 10:06:31
Why all this talk about getting an immediate replacement for fabregas when we already have one (David Luiz) I mean he has played there before under Benitez and it worked wonders for Torres maybe it could work for Morata we have enough cover for defence ie: Ampadu, Christensen. We could even put Azpilicueta in central defence he is that versatile.

07 Jan 2019 10:41:42
I would like to see Luiz in midfield, he's quick, excellent shot over a packed defence and better passer than he is given credit for and taking him out of the back would hopefully reduced the risk of a booking, penalty or sending off when the red mist descends. Unfortunately there are few here that see him in that position. We need a midfield general and once again I am one of the few who does not see Jorghino as anything other than ordinary. He's had over 2000+ touches this season and not one assist and that is a huge problem we must address; the forwards needs service and on Saturday we saw the value we have with Hudson-Odoi's crossing, now we need to produce "Fabregas style' weighted passes from the middle.

07 Jan 2019 11:10:40
Amapdu was excellent in midfield vs. Forrest. He is more than capable of deputising for Jorginho during the rest of the season.

2000+ touches and no assists, I actually see this as Jorginho performing a selfless role for the club, it isn't his role to be creative. I can see why fans are frustrated when the club clearly lack goals, but the question should be who is he laying the ball off to? Barkley? Willian? Pedro? Kovacic? None of these players have been creative this season and as many have pointed out, Hazard can't do it on his own.

I think Loftus-Cheek offers more creativity than both Barkley and Kovacic, although Kovacic is currently a better all round player and as such will currently be favoured against bigger teams - Barkely finds himself back in a battle to get in the side. You also have to hope that Pulisic will be better, and more dynamic, than both Willian and Pedro. But that's for next season, the biggest signing we could make this window will be to get Hudson-Odoi to sign a new contract. If he can show half of the creativity he showed against Forrest in the Premier League then we will have much more going forward in the second half of the season.

07 Jan 2019 11:37:51
Not David Luiz, why fix something that isn’t broke? Just promote Ampadu straight into back up. Simple. Easily good enough on any stage.

07 Jan 2019 13:16:25
Good post J. Respect your opinion. Agree with you Adam.

07 Jan 2019 14:14:30
J, you're one of the few who seem to get what Jorginho is to the side. A player who starts the a passage of play, and dictates from the field.

People only want him out, cos they believe Kante should be in there. However, we have already seen we've gotten 3 times the amount of goals, plus the same amounts of assist from Kante now, then we had in the whole of last season.

07 Jan 2019 07:29:01
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Review Of The Day 7th January 2019