DannyBoy

He simply would have been another Morata here. We don't create chances as much as Arsenal does, he definitely would have struggle here. Don't forget he gets missing in most games and he and Morata are few of the laziest forwards I have ever seen. Just FYI, the little + Button next to the 'Quote' Button is for multi quoting

Had a decent game, still struggling to find the final product. So many awful crosses from the edge of the box. It’s almost like our training drills include trying to hit the defender rather than trying to get it to one of our boys. Once or twice I can understand but it happens far too often.

? have a lot of love for this man

What an absolutely woeful game of football this is, can’t pass a ball for sh*t, as usual, no one wants to shoot. The only decent player we’ve had on the pitch has been Ruben and he got taken off, tactical master class!

You'd rather that over a complete redesign....?

Me having a wind up?! Never! What gave you that impression. ?

Didn't think it was an agreement as such, more so the option to make it permanent at the end of the loan..? EDIT: Jesus christ, he was our #1 transfer target apparently.. a 31 year old striker. Scraping the barrel.

Careful mate, you never know... ?

Would have thought the club has procedures in place to negate knee jerk signings like Drinkwater et al but that doesn't seem to be the case either. I'd dread to think what's going to happen to be honest. Yeah it was reported that we expected the FIFA decision a while ago, and needed the decision to be official before we could take it to the CAS.

???? This made me chuckle.

We're a ship taking on a hell of a lot of water recently, and doesn't look likely to change at least for the next couple of year... How many top quality world class players can we realistically expect to sign if the ban does get temporarily lifted. As others have stated: we'll make a handful of knee jerk panic buys that turn out to be wasters.

Upsetting to think that not so long ago we were half decent at signing players that fit together to make up a proper team. Sad sight to behold lately the calibre of the players that we have been signing. Turning into a bit of a laughing stock really lol. Pair that with not being able to keep hold of a manager for more than 2 seasons.

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Nothing wrong with Drinkwater mate, had a stellar season. ?

Lmfao, the troll face did me in ? In all seriousness though, what an awful looking kit ?.

"Man up" is on the list? lol deary me, what a strange world we live in ?

I guess we'll see if he stays for another season. I'd hate for us to be discussing the same thing next season.

Strikes me as a little bit of a hand being forced kind of situation, the fans start kicking up a fuss (rightly so), it gets around in the media a lot- the England start for CHO etc.. I bet he was either spoken to and told 'look maybe you should start playing these lads' or he just felt forced to do it as a result.. Before doing so it's not like the results were going that great for us so what was there to lose.

Some of it is getting to be a bit ridiculous now, cant say this and cant say that. One thing that shouldn't be tolerated is racism. Listened to the talksport late night show from last night and Jason Cundy said he was appalled and embarrassed that those idiots are fans of the club, and some guy rang up and called him a fake chelsea fan and almost defended the behaviour. Mind boggling stuff.

Based on how things have been going recently, I'd be very surprised if he signed a new contract with us lol.

That's the main thing here, I don't think we've ever seen his true potential whilst in a Chelsea shirt, purely because we dont have the right players in the team around him. Besides the moments of solo brilliance that he pulls off like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, fact is that we just don't have the players to bring out the most in him. And that's a shame. I think one of the major plus sides for him being here rather than somewhere else is that we don't have to play against him lol. Regardless, whether he goes this summer or next summer on a free (think this would be a mistake personally), his mind is made up. And I don't blame him at all, he's done awesome things for this club since arriving and there's only so much you can expect one of, if not THE, best players in the world to stick around and hold themselves back from their potential. On the plus side, if/when we do sort out our mess, once we have a team of players that truly compliment each other and we have a solid style in place, I don't think we'll be any worse off without him the way we have the team setup currently.

Agreed, we have very little fluidity or emphasis on quick attacking plays.

I'd say it's dependant on whether Sarri either a) leaves at the end of the season (and even then there's no guarantee he'd get the nod from the new manager (although you'd have thought that's the case)), or b) Sarri actually starts giving him some decent playing time. It's obviously gotten to a point for him that he's unhappy enough in the club to have put in a transfer request. If the feeling amongst the players is anything like the fans with regards to the Hazard situation and having the feeling that Hazard is going to be gone come the start of next season or the season after, if we decide to run his contract down, hasn't done anything to persuade him to stay then not sure what will.

Assuming CHO actually wants to stay ?