Whiskyjack

I don't understand the love for cucurella.  He doesn't beat people 1v1, doesnt make enough threatening runs, he's not that fast and not particularly strong either.  Tidy in possession but no better than Chilwell.
I'd take a 26 year old Marcos Alonso over Cucurella any day.

He is much much much better when there is another striker to play off and he can make runs into the box from deeper positions.

Tuchel is addicted to having 3 central defenders which preclude the luxury of fielding Gallagher as a central attacking midfielder. 
And to be honest, even if we do end up having a free-role attacking midfielder, Gallagher would probably be third in the pecking order after Havertz and Mount for that role.

Agreed.
Him leaving the pitch gave the attack a tremendous boost.
Far better for team morale than seeing him come on after 60 minutes when we need a goal and everyone knowing the game is over.

I don't understand the love for cucurella.  He doesn't beat people 1v1, doesnt make enough threatening runs, he's not that fast and not particularly strong either.  Tidy in possession but no better than Chilwell.
I'd take a 26 year old Marcos Alonso over Cucurella any day.

I don't understand the love for cucurella.  He doesn't beat people 1v1, doesnt make enough threatening runs, he's not that fast and not particularly strong either.  Tidy in possession but no better than Chilwell.
I'd take a 26 year old Marcos Alonso over Cucurella any day.

He is much much much better when there is another striker to play off and he can make runs into the box from deeper positions.

I don't understand the love for cucurella.  He doesn't beat people 1v1, doesnt make enough threatening runs, he's not that fast and not particularly strong either.  Tidy in possession but no better than Chilwell.
I'd take a 26 year old Marcos Alonso over Cucurella any day.

He is much much much better when there is another striker to play off and he can make runs into the box from deeper positions.

He is much much much better when there is another striker to play off and he can make runs into the box from deeper positions.

With that group of 3 in the middle we would ship 3 goals a game.  We'd probably score a lot too mind, but it wouldn't win us any trophies.

I don't understand what's so good about Ake when we let (in my opinion) two better prospects in Tomori and Guehi leave, and still have one left in Colwill.  I'd much rather fasttrack Colwill's development.  Ake doesn't have a super high ceiling, he is neither technical enough nor physical enough at CB, and hasn't got the pace to play wide.

With that group of 3 in the middle we would ship 3 goals a game.  We'd probably score a lot too mind, but it wouldn't win us any trophies.

This is why I like both Raphinha and Richarlison.
Their teams were damn near relegated and neither one gave up the fight, in fact they both got better the more their team struggled.  I don't see either of them having the mental weakness of fair-weather Lukaku.

I like Raphinha, I think he is a more tenacious and effective version of Willian, who absolutely every coach we've had at Chelsea loves.
 

I like Raphinha, I think he is a more tenacious and effective version of Willian, who absolutely every coach we've had at Chelsea loves.
 

I don't understand what's so good about Ake when we let (in my opinion) two better prospects in Tomori and Guehi leave, and still have one left in Colwill.  I'd much rather fasttrack Colwill's development.  Ake doesn't have a super high ceiling, he is neither technical enough nor physical enough at CB, and hasn't got the pace to play wide.

Surely has to be Lukaku.  Courtois was bad but at least he tried when he was at the club.  Lukaku didn't even try.

See I completely agree with you here and your previous post too, she doesn't pick the players herself, BUT my conclusion differs: as she decides how much to pay to get the options in the list, and whether or not to get them, already makes her the single most powerful (and responsible) figure in our transfers committee.
For example, theres a list of 3 strikers from last season, her saying "option 1) Haaland and option 2) Kane for 150m is too much or can't get, I'm going with Option 3 Lukaku", gives her the discretion to assign worth (or lack thereof for Kounde, Rice and some Conte transfer targets) makes her the most responsible person for our lacklustre incoming transfers record imho.

See I completely agree with you here and your previous post too, she doesn't pick the players herself, BUT my conclusion differs: as she decides how much to pay to get the options in the list, and whether or not to get them, already makes her the single most powerful (and responsible) figure in our transfers committee.
For example, theres a list of 3 strikers from last season, her saying "option 1) Haaland and option 2) Kane for 150m is too much or can't get, I'm going with Option 3 Lukaku", gives her the discretion to assign worth (or lack thereof for Kounde, Rice and some Conte transfer targets) makes her the most responsible person for our lacklustre incoming transfers record imho.

You're the one making the claims as a fact, you are the one that needs to substantiate those claims of facts.

Inter got arguably the best player in the world in 2010 from reals bench in the form of snjieder. Bayern Munich picked up robben who was benched and he was ridiculous for them. They were happy to let makalele go to us as well. It has happened where the bench has hidden gems

See on statistics that's probably true but I can't help but feel United are butchering his development.  He just looks like he is capable of alot more.  

I think you and I might be the only ones  here who rate Richarlison 😝

I don't blame Lukaku at all.  He is who he is, not who we wanted him to be.
I blame whoever the hell did the psychometric assessment.  No excuses, for how long he'd been in our setup we HAD to know he was weak willed and immature.