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That's a fair point but I was just pointing out that it's unfair to judge him for not being able to break into Madrid's starting 11 when he had 2 of best CMs in the world playing in his position. It's not a fair reflection of his abilty It wasn't that long ago that Isco wasn't a starter for Madrid but right now almost every team in Europe would love to him in their team

Not only is he very highly rated with huge potential he's also very comfortable with the ball at his feet. In a way we've kinda upgraded on Courtois as this kid will be a much better fit for Sarri's system Our signings this Summer all perfectly suit the system that Sarri is trying to implement, We have listened and identified targets that our manager wants and appear keen to actually change the philosophy of this football club There's been an element of panic in this widow but we've actually done brilliantly this Summer, we've kept hold of Hazard and Kante and signed 3 top players.

He's only been on the bench due to the fact he had Kroos and Modric ahead of him and let's be honest not many players would start ahead of them

Highly energetic midfielder, he's a very good passer but not quite as good as someone like Fabregas or De Bruyne. He has brilliant technical ability, good pace and one of his best assets is his dribbling ability, his ability to carry the ball forward with pace is fantastic. Him and Hazard could cause serious problems for opposition defences He doesn't have a great scoring record but he did manage to score 8 goals in his last season with Inter Milan so the potential is there for him to possibly develop into a better goalscorer For me, a midfield trio of Jorginho, Kante and Kovavic is up there with some of the best. In Sarri's tactical setup we won't be losing many midfield battles anytime soon

Also, thank f**k we are actually attempting to play football and attack City this time around Remember when we sat back like cowards last season and appeared to be frightened? How our aim was to keep the scoreline as low as possible? I hope to never see anything like that again

So we're 20 minutes into our first competitive game, we're playing a new formation and new tactics after playing 3 at the back for the last two years, we're missing by far our two best players in Kante and Hazard and are playing against the best team in the League who are almost at full strength And people are already moaning and being negative in regards to the new season? Damn

I really don't see a space for Bakayoko in a Sarri side, Sarri has spoken multiple times about being willing to coach a player to fit in his system, he's done it so many times with other players but I don't really see any qualities that Bakayoko has that would allow him to function in a Sarri team It's not just his technical abilities like passing and ball control that are below average, he also seems to have no awareness of whats going on around him either. Also at a club like us that can afford to spend over 50 million on a player like Jorginho and potentially 30 million on a player like Golovin it makes it even less likely Bakayoko will get any sort of chance with us

We already had the best box to box midfielder in the League in Kante, we now have the best DLP in the League in Jorginho Add RLC or Golovin in the last midfield spot and we would then have a truly excellent midfield and one that could compete against Europe's best

As soon as City became interested in him I thought there was literally no hope of completing this signing. This could well be our best signing since Kante, these last few years he's been one of the best DLP in European football and key to the way Napoli play, everything goes through him. I wouldn't worry about him not being able to handle the physicality of the league, Fabregas and others have coped just fine Some numbers from last season from Jorginho 33 games3,197 passes89.5% pass accuracy62 tackles won50 interceptions49 chances created4 assists2 goals Those are some insane numbers. I had lost a bit of faith in the board recently in regards to our ability to sign top players but they've done extremely well to sign this guy.

It would certainly be an interesting appointment and a big change from managers we normally go for. He's done a great job at Fulham, they were fighting relegation in the Championship when he took them over and in a few years he's gotten them promoted playing great attacking football. He also appears to have a good record with youth and has done a brilliant job with Sessegnon, he started as a LB then Jokanovic moved him to the wing and he absolutely flourished becoming one of the best attackers in the League I'd be open to him being our manager if we can't get Sarri

We've been getting linked to Luis Enrique recently, in all honesty it appears no one has a clue what's going on but I will say that I seriously hope Enrique isn't our new manager.

The thing that worries me about this whole ordeal is us not wanting to pay the 8 million fee to release Sarri. 8 million is a small amount in football, we suffered last Summer because we tried to pay the lowest amount of money possible for players and basically failed to get almost all of our first choice targets due to this I keep hearing about us wanting to sign players like Bailey, Lewa, Icardi, Martial yet we are hesitant about paying less than 10 million on a new manager. I'm not exactly sure what our board is up to, we are a rich club with high revenues and making big money from sponsorship's, if we were cash strapped it would be understandable to go about the way we are

So basically after going through all this hassle with Sarri and Napoli we suddenly decide to draw the line due to his past comments? Sorry, I don't believe this... We would have known about past comments by Sarri, everybody in football knows. Matt Law - "Chelsea knew about Sarri's past when they first considered him. If they don't end up appointing him it will have nothing to do with his previous history and everything to do with money. If his lawyers can make him a free agent let's see what happens. If not.."

Sounds logical Lets risk losing our best player and two more of our top players to keep around a manager that bitched and moaned all season, badly under-performed and quite obviously didn't give a sh*t half the time

Icardi is an absolute c**t, the type of player that you'd love to have on your team but hate to play against. He's primarily a poacher and that's what he does best but that doesn't mean he's useless in other areas, he's actually pretty decent with the ball at his feet, has decent pace and a great first touch He's effectively carried a very poor Inter Milan team these last few years and is a nightmare at times for defenders, like I said he's a prick in a similar way to Costa and knows all the tricks and dark arts

"Icardi better link up play? Bats has more assists per 90 on your picture." This isn't a fair way to look at it, it doesn't show how those assists were made. It could have been a simple flick on or a 5 yard pass The key stats from that in terms of build up play of "key passes" and "chances created". The fact Icardi is making basically double than Michy gives some indication that Icardi is better at linking up the play

Forget spending money on Pastore and give that spot to RLC/Mount

No matter how bad things get we'll never be as bad as QPR

I hope I'm right when I say this but the huge amount of money that's involved in this and the amount of money that has and will go into the economy in this country with Roman as our owner tells me that this could be resolved I could be totally wrong but we live in a world where money talks and Roman is insanely rich.

It's bad enough that we can't seem to bring in our first choice targets and result to panic buys but now we can't even bring in a new manager without seemingly making a mess of the situation I don't want to be negative, but we've just had an awful season and needed a very good Summer to take us back to the top. The Summer window has only just opened and we don't appear to even know what we are doing All our rivals are pressing ahead with their Summer plans and we seem happy to stand around and try to haggle to save a couple of million with a lunatic

I would have said that getting Hazard signing a new contract and getting the managerial situation sorted as quickly as possible were two of the most important things we needed to do I'm starting to think that getting rid of Marina and replacing her with someone who actually knows how football works and has proven experience in the role would have probably been the most important decision now It's actually ridiculous that after the mess of last Summer and the disappointing season we just had we now find ourselves in limbo with our managerial situation, have no DOF, Hazard hasn't signed a new contract and we haven't even started our transfer plans yet

With the links about Morata leaving the Lewandowski rumours start to make sense I know he's 30 soon but if we have any chance to sign him we need to take it, he's easily been one of the best strikers in the world these last few years and would upgrade us massively. I feel our biggest competition would be Madrid, with Ronaldo, Benzema and Bale all getting older I'm hoping Madrid will target younger players to replace them.

Belotti is 24 and has only scored 15 goals or more once in his career, he also only scored 4 goals in total on the International stage Lewandowski has scored goals wherever he has been, he's scored 103 goals in 184 games for Dortmund and 151 goals in 195 games for Bayern. He also has 52 goals in total for Poland

That League also contained a Roma team that beat us 3-0, finished top of a group that contained us and Atleticio and knocked Barcelona out of the Champions League by beating them 3-0 Napoli finished well over 10 points ahead of them

People also seem to forget Napoli hardly spend big money on new players. The only time Napoli have spent big with Sarri in charge was when they sold the best striker in the League to their main title rivals and used that money to fund new players Even though they lost one of their best players to Juventus and are unable to financially compete with their rivals Sarri has managed to keep them near the top