Chelsea Rumours Archive December 06 2018

06 Dec 2018 13:27:39
Some of the comments about players and the manager have an element of truth but generally reflect our recent performances.

I am in a minority by being a Morata fan and some of the continuous negativity about him bare, in my opinion, any reflection of his performance.

Over the last few games Alonso has been poor and so has Willian.

Hazard hasn't been the same since the Utd game for some reason and it's true, when he isn't playing well, we struggle.

We have two centre forwards who are good in the air but not a single player who can cross a ball.

The manager criticism is about what I've come to expect from some fans but they are in entitled to their opinion. I am surprised no fan has compared the situation to Scholari yet.

06 Dec 2018 15:31:35
I have compared it to Scolari, my comment is on the Banter page. Good comment and you also forgot to state that D. Luiz is below par too.

06 Dec 2018 17:51:11
I also compare Sarri to Scolari further down. We do have 2 players who showed recently in the Europa that they can cross a ball well: CHO and Emerson.

06 Dec 2018 20:41:26
I’m sorry I didn’t see that you guys have ALREADY compared Sarri to Scolari! ’

I think there is a treatment for people being premature but I do value your opinions!

06 Dec 2018 21:42:07
Scolari has Drogba lampard terry carvalho Cole deco Ballack Anelka Cole . Sarri has luiz alonso willian Pedro Barkley morata Giroud, . Let’s not compare who can do what with who, Sarri’s Style is creating chances it’s there’s nobody to finish them.

07 Dec 2018 01:16:51
Matt, ’I think the people making the comparisons between Scolari and Sarri are not thinking about the style of play. They are comparing the early season success followed by a string of poor results.

07 Dec 2018 07:50:48
I can't believe Sarri is being slated. Loss for words. Terrific manager. Best style of football we've had in a long time. I hope Chelsea back him and he buys his own players. Pep took a season to get to grips with the league. Patience people!

07 Dec 2018 09:48:18
I’m sorry to say It’s the way of the supporters world Shak.

Players can’t have bad patches of form without them being called “deadwood” and managers are only as good as the last game!

07 Dec 2018 11:38:27
But the bottom-line is that Sarri still insists on playing the World's best defensive midfielder out of position!

07 Dec 2018 13:41:48
This isn’t a “bottom line” decision. It’s just a managers choice based how he wants the team to play.

We can all have opinions and we MUST all respect each other’s opinions and that includes the managers!

07 Dec 2018 17:31:44
The world's best defensive midfielder played in his correct position last season and maybe you could tell us what position we had finished?

Give the manager a chance for heaven's sake. as soon soon as something goes wrong we are calling for the managers head. It's the same set of fans that wanted Sarri as our manager that are slaying him after 2 losses. There's a lot more to our losses than Sarri. He needs the chance to build his team, I am positive eventually he will select Emerson, Odoi, Ampadu etc. However, he can't stick them all in at once. He will phase them in like he did with RLC.

We are the laughing stock for managers, eventually we will run out of options, stability is what we need.

05 Dec 2018 23:55:04
Not overly surprised, gutted, but not surprised. Our defence has been shocking all season and our attack has been wasteful. Put those together and results like this will happen. Yes we've only lost 2 games this season but we've been very fortunate in many others where we should've lost. If Sarri isn't backed in January things will get much worse.

Half of the players he has are incapable of playing his system or just aren't good enough for Chelsea. Alonso, Willian, Morata, Giroud, Luiz and Azpi all are players that feature in every game but none are good enough. Azpi can be debatable but he's not a RB in this system, far too slow and not good on the ball under pressure. Fair play to Ruben though, he's performing when given the chance and is the only player that can walk out that game without criticism.

Hudson-odoi needs to play more as well, i don't get this obsession managers have with Willian and his endless flaws. Please Sarri just give odoi a go, much more direct, has a good cross on him and you know you'll get 100% from the kid. Man City next, doubt even the most optimistic Chelsea fans are expecting anything good from this game. January really can't come soon enough.

06 Dec 2018 06:19:36
I agree with a lot of above, Willian was shocking should have had at least 1 if not 2 goals. Morata is totally ineffective. Defensively thought Christianson was poor, he just not assert himself. Personally don’t agree on alonso. As for RLC I thought again his work rate was poor and he was dead on his feet. Generally a poor performance. We don’t seem to have an identity, we have gone to side to side then pop one over the top. We are not getting the ball wide.