19 Aug 2024 18:21:45
Felix to Chelsea and Conor to AM seems to be done
It feels ridiculous, but Felix is only 24 years old and maybe he will find his best form playing for Chelsea, at least I hope so
Anyway, I'm looking forward to see whom we will sell in the coming days
Perhaps both Noni and Raheem will be leaving? Still have to find lots of buyers for the likes of Broja, Chilly, Fofana and Chalobah.
19 Aug 2024 18:53:10
I have always quite liked Mr. Felix and he wants to play for Chelsea. That is important.
We need to sell or loan or loan to buy A LOT of players. Especially the players on high salaries. Chillwell, Sterling, Arizabagala, Lukaku.
Chukwuemeka is on 100k and although he is awesome, he is not going to get a lot of playing time in this team.
19 Aug 2024 19:49:02
Who will Felix replace in the first 11?
19 Aug 2024 20:20:15
Still haven't got a world class keeper, centre back, centre mid or centre forward yet we go out and get another attacking mid. Do the sporting directors and owners even care, have they not seen our spine.
19 Aug 2024 20:30:14
Chuka or rotate with Enzo.
19 Aug 2024 21:28:32
Dan, of course our SD’s care.
We have two DM’s who are in my opinion top class. I very rarely use the term “world class. ”
Also, what do you know about Jörgensen?
19 Aug 2024 21:53:40
I'm all for positivity but you can't seriously back them based on the players we've signed since they've been in place. They haven't addressed a single issue. It's literally there for the world to see.
We've got Lavia. Caicedo isn't a DM, he's more effective further forward where he played for Brighton.
Jorgensen, I see another young unproven kid. Sanchez seems to be our number 1 again which is laughable. If we'd bothered to sign a better keeper it would be problem solved.
19 Aug 2024 23:52:53
We all see it differently dan but I and the vast majority of football fans agree with you that they haven't done a good job.
I hope we are massively wrong and we turn a corner this year!
20 Aug 2024 01:16:32
Jorgensen is an unproven kid? I think that’s incredibly disrespectful to both villareal and la liga considering he was the first choice goalkeeper there last season.
20 Aug 2024 06:10:55
So, you haven’t seen Jörgensen and Caicedo didn’t play as a DM all last season under Poch.
I have no idea what the “vast majority of football fans” agree on but there are certainly a percentage who will, as is there right, show there dislike for the owners.
I continue to think we have a strong squad but I also think mistakes have been made. I would have liked us to sign Costa and Osimhen but I don’t always get what I want.
20 Aug 2024 07:47:39
I don't think it's disrespectful. He's only played one season of football and wasn't even in the top 10 keepers in the league stats wise, so I'm not trying to be harsh, just facts.
Colwill played half the season as a left back under Poch. Doesn't mean he is one or that's his best position. Same goes for Caicedo as a DM.
20 Aug 2024 10:00:45
Caicedo has played nearly three quarters of his total premiership games as a DM and a very small number of the remainder at a FB. I think various managers including international managers would disagree with you about his best position.
I asked the question have you seen Jorgensen play and you obviously haven’t but you know enough to call him an “unproven kid. ” Why not at least see him play for Chelsea before you make your assessment?
I think Colwill playing part of the season at LB says more about the fitness of Chilly and Cucarella than it does about anything else abut if it works for your narrative, good luck.
20 Aug 2024 11:24:57
I disagree. I think it’s incredibly disrespectful, he was the first team keeper for a team that finished in the top half of the Spanish top flight. Yet he’s an ‘unproven kid’. I would hardly call that unproven, in fact I would say that’s pretty darn good for a ‘kid’ and says a lot not only for his current ability but also for his potential ability given that his position is generally one that players age into and have their prime towards their later years.
20 Aug 2024 11:28:56
Tom, I don’t know anything about Jörgensen but it is worrying that he can’t displace Sanchez.
20 Aug 2024 11:57:00
My original post Tom clearly says world class centre mid. You've got on your high horse about a DM. I've just stated that Caicedo had his better games as a 6 box to box, not a traditional 4 (DM) .
Do you and cech come as a double act? Seems anything said on here, that isn't of the same opinion as you, is challenged by one of you in close succession.
Cech nobody is taking away his potential. But I'm talking here and now, the guy can't possibly be proven after one season and he is very young. Big Pete was relatively unknown and unproven, turned out to be the best we've had, took him a few seasons to be proven though. Again, I just said in my original post, instead of spending money on 1 world class keeper we've signed someone else. Actually, we've signed 4 keepers instead one.
I think you take people's opinions on our recruitment as personal attacks on players which it isn't.
20 Aug 2024 12:28:30
Dan, I have no “high horse” but I do have an opinion.
I have clearly said I don’t bandy terms like “world class” as easily as some but I certainly see Caicedo as top class and as I pointed out to you, roughly three quarters of the games he has played have been as a DM. That includes international, Brighton and Chelsea. Clearly managers disagree with your assessment of his best position.
You quote Big Pete as some sort of example. Jose made him first choice day one of his managerial reign and he was top class from his first game onwards in the premiership. If I remember correctly he was about 22 and didn’t have a huge amount of top class experience.
Jimbo, I don’t understand why Sanchez has been selected over Jörgensen or Petrovic but I’m not writing either goalkeeper off because Sanchez at the moment is being selected.
20 Aug 2024 15:19:51
I don't think a calling a player with one season under his belt unproven is disrespectful at all. Most people don't even know who Jorgensen is so I think that qualifies him as unproven.
That doesn't mean he can't be quality. Both things can be correct.
20 Aug 2024 16:17:26
Standard, I guess that’s the spread of comment.
The player is an “unproven kid” or a player who is “highly regarded. ”
I think some would have said both Big Pete and Courtois were “unproven” in premiership terms.
20 Aug 2024 19:29:01
I am unclear why we would need a “world class” box to box centre midfielder when we don’t play with one. Chelsea play with a DM and two high 8s/ 10s. Where is the box to box midfielder going to play?
I’d argue that Colwill and Fofana have the ability to be world class. Caicedo likewise and Enzo has won a World Cup and Copa America, so there is something there if Maresca can make it work. Palmer could be world class and was a standout in England last season and Nkunku was getting towards that bracket before the injury.
Plenty of talent - maybe too much of it. It’s about making it work.
20 Aug 2024 21:38:11
FD77, I agree completely. We have the basis of a very talented squad.
21 Aug 2024 21:35:26
Tom, as for goalkeepers I have written Sanchez off, he is dreadful. I am open minded about Jörgensen but he is unproven he hasn’t played a single game in the PL. i agree with Dan we have signed a number of keepers who haven’t worked out, it would have been better to have splashed out on a top class keeper.
FD77, it is premature to suggest Nkunku is getting close to world class bracket based on a few pre-season games last summer; given that he spent last season out injured, he has a lot to prove.
22 Aug 2024 03:45:06
I’m not sure who has been scouting goalkeepers for our club in recent seasons but in the last twenty years in my opinion we have only had Big Pete and Courtois as top class. The point I was trying to make is they were both “unproven” in the Premiership. I would have loved the club to sign a Costa type keeper but maybe in Jörgensen they think they have. Apparently he has a good reputation and is highly regarded. Of course that then begs the question why not pick him now as our first choice.
22 Aug 2024 08:02:59
Agreed Tom. That's all I was getting at with the recruitment rant above. Perhaps I just didn't word it very well ?.