Bonzodog29

Oli is going a little bit Billy Elliot there 🙂

Hang on you seem to have missed Man U from that list 😁

As much as it pains me to say it I think Neville is pretty good and balanced in his commentary, Jenas when we have played Spurs is always a Tit though

or recording live TV.... I have never understood this "Hill to die on Lefty Tax hate the BBC never Watch it bollocks" for starters it works out at about 40p a day. Is still regarded as the one of the best broadcasters in the world, provides Radio stations nationally and internationally,

I would suggest the difference is the way the managers have dealt with it, one went about his business and didnt often mention the injuries or any other circumstances and the other has whined to the media whenever possible

As is and always has been the case for any player (on the bench/ injured/ not getting game time) and always will be

My take on that would be that it seemed that AVB didnt communicate effectively to the player why they werent in the team just shut them out, just my impression of course, I always felt AVB was tasked with getting the age of the squad down and thought that meant freezing out players without informing them

I would say that all players out on loan actually fall in to all sections, or more accurately your option 2 is the cover all

especially the amount of time they then replayed the one on Rashford desperately trying to find a way of giving it

In that case think of him as a box to box destroyer, he hunts the ball breaks up play and then passes to someone with a greater skillset

The problem is that teams set up differently against us than they do against a team like Villa, so while playing for Villa they will keep an eye on him and Grealish for example they wont and dont have the same 10 men behind the ball, this is why when RB plays for a smaller team he gets the space to run into and shoot, that wouldnt be there in most game we play

I would also suggest that part of the reason we ran riot in the second half is the fact that we had so much possession and were constantly probing at their defense that they started to get leggy and we remained comparatively fresh, so once the breakthrough happened they had nothing to lift their game with, look at a lot of "possession" teams they often have these sort of results due to shear weight of pressure

pffffttt

I would suggest you have kind of answered your own question, the problem is that when we buy these players they get the Chelsea premium added (or have historically) and then to top it off we pay big wages.... therefore when it comes to sell we have a player that is worth £20mil and should be on £60k per week, who was actually bought for £40 mil and on £120 per week, we want to recoup as much money as possible on the original price and the player wont want to half his wages *values are made up to show the point before anyone starts moaning about who is on £120 etc etc

The simple answer, is that both he and KDB, were not developed enough when they joined the Chelsea team at the time, we had better more experienced players in the same positions and both wanted to further their careers and couldnt or didnt want to wait they both went back into mainland Europe and got the game time they needed to become better players then came back to the prem.