Davey Baby

This is going to set us back years.

Saw the presser. Frank said we are creating 20 chances per game and our problem is finishing. He has said this a lot lately. He is deluded. 20 shots per game does not equate to chances. Real bona fide chances are at a premium. I remember Morata missing loads of chances. I do not remember anyone this season missing loads. It simply hasn't happened.

Wolves are a bloody good team. Liverpool have the best GK I've ever seen. It's just the way he carries himself. Klopp went and bought a world-class GK and CB and it's made the world of difference. We need to do the same. There's no harder working side than Liverpool. Tonight we saw good set pieces and lots of saves, something we see very rarely at Chelsea. If you want to know how good Klopp is, look what he's done to Henderson.

Once you factor in Kepa it became 382.

They could have just rung me up and I'd have told them.

Spurs may not have taken advantage and they may have been in dodgy form but they've still gained 6 points on us since Mourinho took over. We absolutely have to beat them at home. That is going to be a humdinger.

I'll do it on Monday yorkley.

Just the way it's been going for us lately, but chin up, lots of reasons to be cheerful, although I do wish some of the fun football of earlier this season would return.

Arsenal are sh*t. They were down to 10 men for 3/4 of the game. They had their best player out. We were at home. We were 1-0 up. We should never have drawn that game. If it was a freak result, okay, but deep down we all know in our hearts it was anything but. Sadly it was entirely predictable.

Kante played so well in his first season for us alongside Matic, in a pivot, and Matic was the player who sat deep while Kante ran around the pitch a lot. That's what Conte loved about Kante so much and he repeatedly said so. Conte said football was a running game, and nobody runs more on a football pitch than Kante.

You can get found out as a novice rather than a fraud. I don't think Frank's a fraud at all, but he is very green, and it's showing in my opinion. I don't think pinning everything on the older players is fair. In fact I've always been very sceptical when people start blaming players. Some of those older players you've listed I rate, others not, but with the squad we have, recent performances and results should be a lot better. Hopefully it's a learning curve for him and he will improve, especially once he starts signing his own players, but what's evident right now is that he has a lot to learn.

Wants Atletico apparently .. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jan/22/edinson-cavani-psg-atletico-chelsea-transfer

Totally agree about Jorginho. I've never been convinced by him, and I've received a fair amount of stick on here for saying so. If the above stats are correct, 1 win in 9 when Jorginho plays with Kante, including 5 losses. Frank needs to try something new.

Those stats are relevant though, in my opinion. Kante is having a wretched season, whatever the reason. He won the PL twice with different clubs, won the FA Cup and won the WC. Those are all relevant stats too. He was playing phenomenally, in a role or a system that suited him. He was intrinsic to those winning stats and I'm afraid he's also intrinsic to our losing stats. I was very upset when I saw him in the starting line-up yesterday and I said so. I just don't think he's improving our chances of winning. Whether that's Frank's fault or his or a combination of both is up for grabs, but right now, when he plays, we just aren't as good, generally speaking, and we're nearly in February, so I think it's a fair enough number of games to make that appraisal.

Frank being found out. Our form since our wining run is really poor. He's making very bad decisions. Worst of all, we do not look like a team that is coached well. You look at Leicester and you see they're being coached well, day in day out. That's the difference. Yes we're fourth and that's to be congratulated but we'd put ourselves in a great position to claim top four and Frank looks like he's incapable of capitalising. Bar the odd performance, I've been very unimpressed with him lately, particularly with his midfield choices. Early days for him as a coach and we all hope he learns on the job but right now there's clearly an awful lot of room of improvement. Still, it's what we signed up for and we have to be patient and give him a chance. It's just not good enough at the moment.

The team isn't being picked on merit. Kante's inclusion and Barkley's omission prove that. I'm very unhappy about it. Hope to be a bit happier after the game. Come on Chelsea.

Very upset Barkley isn't starting. He's bang in form, far more than our other midfielders, and what does Frank do? Drop him against Newcastle and Arsenal. It's poor management in my opinion.

SSN say he's on 300k a week.

Re-watch all three games. You will need a paper and pen. Maybe some snacks. Make a note of every chance we create, what minute they occur, who creates the chance and who fluffs the chance. You have until midday tomorrow.

Probably a lot of guesswork in this article but interesting to note Cavani only has 6 months left on his contract and PSG will lose him for free in the summer. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7911459/Chelsea-hold-Edinson-Cavani-talks-led-Claude-Makelele.html

This is just a big fat lie. Don't worry what Frank says, or the stats. It simply isn't true that we create tons of chances. You quoted Frank as saying we created 50 chances against West Ham, Bournemouth and Southampton. Truth is, rather than 50, we only created 1. These are the facts and I've had them verified by an independent fact-checker. Of course, if you want to dispute this, you can always list these 50 chances, or even 10. The stage is all yours.

Good post, as usual. I think it's a difficult one but I can see the sense in it. First of all, someone like Cavani comes, all the young players get a buzz. It could potentially help them I believe, and help us. It might just up everyone's game. As for Tammy, I can't see this as a negative. Cavani is 33 in two or three weeks, he's had injury problems these last two years, he'd be new to the Prem. He'll be taking the burden off Tammy a little bit rather than walking in and taking all his minutes. If he provides a bit of competition for Tammy, good. Tammy's young, he needs the competition and maybe we shouldn't be relying upon him quite so much. As a replacement for Giroud on a short-term deal, it may not be the worst idea, it may give us added firepower, and it may give Tammy somebody to learn from. Lampard has always said his priority in this window is goals. Maybe this guy can provide some. Besides, if it's what Frank wants, then we should go for him. Frank has invested a lot in youth, if he wants an old-timer to join the group, then I say we back his judgement. It wouldn't surprise me one jot if Mourinho is sniffing around this deal, and he can offer Cavani a guaranteed starting place, at least until the end of the season. Watch this space.

Thanks but I'll pass.

You've changed your tune. A minute ago we were creating a million chances now we're not creating anything at all. You really need to get your story straight, sunshine.

The big question is can he help us defend set pieces.