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I'm not sure whether we need major surgery or whether we are playing the wrong system for the players we currently have. I can't see Matic getting back to the level he was when we first got him back and he's not being helped currently by playing in this system. I'd love to see Chalobah and Kante play together in midfield.
I would love to see Chalobah play with Kante but for that decision to be made we need to decide where we want the club to be. If we want to be a top 4 team then that wont happen if we don't mind a couple of seasons outside of the top 4 then yes I can see that working. As often as been the case during Roman's time at the club we are making that decision to late it should have been made during the course of last season |
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At the start of the season I would have said a centre back and right back was most critical but today? I am starting to lean towards we need to be looking at a much bigger job. If football was played on paper it would be very different but looking at performances I think we need major surgery
At the moment I just think every spare moment and every spare penny (even with money coming in) needs to be put in the first team. I would hope those in charge have realised the current transfer policy has not done us any favours I am less convinced that our hopes are based in reality. I think we bought those players in for no other reason then those are the standard of deals we could do. Some people in the club thought ok we could not being in our first choices so lets just bring in players on the off chance and we can at least say we have been doing some work knowing that no matter what the head which would fall would be the managers as "any transfer is a risk" but we not spent much money, I think we have to many people on the business side of the club phoning their job in and getting by on doing as little real work as possible (in some cases because they not at the level needed) But I certainly agree, we need to take a long, hard look at our transfer policy. It seems to me that buying to loan out or eventually sell-on has become almost a priority in the past couple of years. It was fine as a sideline, buying a youngster, putting the Chelsea "stamp" on him and then (if he didn't make the grade for us, which was generally the case) selling him on for a nice little earner. But that should have remained strictly a secondary project. We needed top quality, ready made players who could step almost seamlessly into our team, or at least the first team squad. We appear to have lowered our sights, even if the media does still connect us with the top targets in every transfer window. We seem forced to compromise while the other big European clubs are pulling away from us. I think we need to decide where we are. If we're no longer able to attract and buy the best, we're also not going to be able to hold on to the best. So it will mean goodbye to Hazard, Courtois and maybe others. It's a sobering thought. |
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I don't even think its against the better teams we having problems. Look at West Ham game, We played "well" but at the same time looking at West Ham's season so far you could argue we made them look really good.
Performing and winning can be two different things, I think if you look at our wins even during those you see signs of our more recent performances in them. Take the Watford game and looking back at it and viewing it with recent performances in mind, While we as fans love games where we come back from behind and late subs make a great impact and get late goals but taking away from that, During the other 80 mins of the game while we played well in places you could see shades of the more recent performances. I don't think we would have any trouble attracting the best players I think at the moment its more we either unwilling to pay the money needed or we don't have the right procedures (and or people) in place to do so. So Roman has to make a choice do we continue the current path and we continue to buy the types of players we have bought recently or keep the current procedures (or people) and he as to accept top 4 will be a struggle or we start spending the money or we rip up the current strategy (and or remove the current people in charge of transfers). What ever the decision he makes it needs to be made quickly |
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That other thread is so funny. Moaning about player power yet when that supposedly happened with Jose it was fine. The Liverpool masked slipped again with Rafa as well.
Just can't help himself, such an obvious fraud ![]() Back to today, 3 points are vital at Hull. Whilst it can't mask the problems, 3 points are vital coming into another break. |
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That other thread is so funny. Moaning about player power yet when that supposedly happened with Jose it was fine. The Liverpool masked slipped again with Rafa as well.
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Back to today, 3 points are vital at Hull. Whilst it can't mask the problems, 3 points are vital coming into another break.
I know we're stuck with playing Cahill until JT returns, but it'll be very frustrating if Ivanovic is in the starting line-up again. |
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IVANOVIC HAS BEEN BENCHED!!!!!!!!!!
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Courtois, Azpilicueta, Alonso, Cahill (c), David Luiz, Kante, Matic, Moses, Willian, Hazard, Diego Costa Begovic, Ivanovic, Chalobah, Fabregas, Oscar, Pedro, Batshuayi |
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Not really much of a surprise Brana not playing today but still suspect if we played one of the better teams he would be back in the team
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clear pen for foul on moses right infront of the ref gets absolutely ignored.
what a joke |
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Well, this is boring.......
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Well, this is boring.......
need cesc on |
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Not great. Loads of possession and next to nothing created.
Hazard looks interested, Willian doesn't. |
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clear pen for foul on moses right infront of the ref gets absolutely ignored.
what a joke Moses is trying to make things happen though. At least he looks to take opposition players on, Willian could do with taking note. |
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clear pen for foul on moses right infront of the ref gets absolutely ignored.
what a joke |
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Nice goal Willian.
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Costa with the second.
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A much needed 3 points. A good fixture to have as Hull were pretty woeful.
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A much needed 3 points. A good fixture to have as Hull were pretty woeful.
Still a win and a clean sheet, I'll take that. Shame there's another sodding international break now. |
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A clean sheet. Haven't seen one of those in a while. Willian was awful if not for his goal, whereas Moses looked dangerous for most of the game but still couldn't assist or score. If the two of them were fighting for a spot then Willian would probably win because he scores occasionally whereas Moses is not as productive atm.
Hopefully Terry and Zouma are back after the break |
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Yes, important 3 points. It keeps us In touch despite a couple of recent dreadful results.
All the talk this week has been about Abramovich giving his backing to Conte and accepting the need to overhaul the squad. That's all well and good, but the transfer window only closed a month ago, shouldn't something have been done in the summer ? We're not going to change much in January, so Conte is basically stuck with what we've got. The other rumour is that Kante was the only player on Conte's "wants list" that Emanelo & Co actually managed to sign for him. Perhaps Roman is finally getting the message that there's something not quite right on the transfer side of the business ? |
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Yes, important 3 points. It keeps us In touch despite a couple of recent dreadful results.
All the talk this week has been about Abramovich giving his backing to Conte and accepting the need to overhaul the squad. That's all well and good, but the transfer window only closed a month ago, shouldn't something have been done in the summer ? We're not going to change much in January, so Conte is basically stuck with what we've got. The other rumour is that Kante was the only player on Conte's "wants list" that Emanelo & Co actually managed to sign for him. Perhaps Roman is finally getting the message that there's something not quite right on the transfer side of the business ? Losing Terry before our toughest games so far this season didn't help matters and neither did Cahill's mistakes. |
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I think the 3 wins we got at the beginning of the season actually did us no favours because they masked the fact that we really needed new players. Think the West Ham game was a deserved win but the other two were steals at the end of the match. If you watched the game it was obvious we were in trouble but the results seemed like we had started well.
Losing Terry before our toughest games so far this season didn't help matters and neither did Cahill's mistakes. Did Emenalo do that ?..we don't really know. We were linked with a lot of players, did we try hard enough to sign them, or were they always going to be beyond our reach ? Kante seems a perfect fit for us, no problem there. I like Batshuayi, but is he really a ready made deputy for Costa yet ? If Diego happened to be out for any lenghth of time, I'm not so sure. Then there's the late signings of David Luiz and Marcos Alonso. I thought Luiz was a reasonable compromise, but didn't know much about Alonso at all. I could understand it if Conte was disappointed with the hand he's been dealt. |
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Yes, I agree. I don't like jumping on bandwagons though, most fans were reasonably pleased with our summer signings. But if you bring in a new manager to reshape things, it only makes sense to do the utmost (within reason) to sign the players he wants.
Did Emenalo do that ?..we don't really know. We were linked with a lot of players, did we try hard enough to sign them, or were they always going to be beyond our reach ? Kante seems a perfect fit for us, no problem there. I like Batshuayi, but is he really a ready made deputy for Costa yet ? If Diego happened to be out for any lenghth of time, I'm not so sure. Then there's the late signings of David Luiz and Marcos Alonso. I thought Luiz was a reasonable compromise, but didn't know much about Alonso at all. I could understand it if Conte was disappointed with the hand he's been dealt. Emenalo didn't do shit and he's not helping the club at this point. He's more concerned about doing favours for his mates. Roman has apparently promised Conte that money will be spent to fix the squad but if Emenalo is in charge of that then there's no hope. Luiz has done well for his standards so far imo. His long range passes have also improved so we don't have to rely on just Fabregas for that long pass behind the defenders to Costa. If we stick with 3atb I'm interested to find out which defenders Conte goes with once Terry and Zouma are back |
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I see the Liverpool trolls are still peddling the Rafa was great stuff and also Brendan. The men who threw away titles. Couldnt make it up.
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I see the Liverpool trolls are still peddling the Rafa was great stuff and also Brendan. The men who threw away titles. Couldnt make it up.
In the end, not a bad weekend for us. Seventh in the table is obviously not great, but with only 5 points separating the top 7 clubs it could be a lot worse given the way we've been playing. |
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Just the fact that Rafa is a big fan of zonal marking is enough for me. It's an abomination in my opinion. The only manager (apart from Jose first time around) I'd like to have seen given more time was Ancelotti, always rated him.
In the end, not a bad weekend for us. Seventh in the table is obviously not great, but with only 5 points separating the top 7 clubs it could be a lot worse given the way we've been playing. Yeah not so bad considering we haven't played particularly well. Important couple of home games coming up. |
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