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It's always difficult with these sorts of players, Chelsea clearly wanted to see the back of him and he knew he had no future. It was obvious after his second season. There's a few things which stopped him; his salary, his professionalism and his performances on loan. He is a talented player and was a very good mid table midfielder, however, by seeing out his contract at Chelsea he will be looking at being a championship player. No team at his level could match his salary he was earning at Chelsea and I think most people would see out such a lucrative contract but he didn't do himself any favours with instances like fighting with his teammates or his drinking

I'm quietly impressed that he didn't say that Ronaldo with one leg would be better than pulisic tbf

That's completely the point I was making! Between kante, jorginho and kovacic you know that there's going to be long parts of the season where at least 1 are out injured at any given point so to think that getting rid of kante is the answer is baffling to say the least. Gallagher is needed as well as one of ampadu and gilmour but another addition is needed otherwise we could be struggling.

I wouldn't entertain that for a second. Kante isn't the force he used to be but without him there's a gaping hole in the team. Gallagher can't replace kante for defensive quality. Next summer I would love Chelsea to go all out for a quality defensive midfielder and have a midfield 3 with Gallagher, mount and kovacic being the box to box options and have gilmour and ampadu as options but the defence needs more attention than midfield right now (in an ideal world a midfielder comes in this summer) and getting rid of kante would just add to the issues already there in the midfield.

I would agree with you if we didn't already have colwill. For me signing Ake would be an indication that for now it would be Ake de Ligt and Silva but moving forward Ake is rotational and colwill is the starter. If colwill wasn't here then I would imagine that we'd be looking at players like Gvardiol, Bastoni, Pau Torres or the Monaco centre back instead of Ake.

I can't be the only one praying this doesn't happen. We've just endured a season with a goalscorer with a massive ego who doesn't work for the team. Ronaldo is a far superior player to Lukaku but we'll have the same issue as last season of we buy him. Raphinha was very expensive but go to a back 4 with him, sterling and havertz as a front 3 with mount in midfield would be so much better for the team than getting Ronaldo in.

Havertz has looked very good at times and as a false 9 with sterling I think the downside of his game (not enough goals) will be offset by sterling being a better goalscorer than the wingers currently at the club. I thought when we got Havertz in that he would have been the perfect successor to firminho at Liverpool and we did excellent business by getting him. I think I've said it before that after the champions League win I wanted Chelsea to go for a goalscoring winger instead of a striker and I'm glad that now Lukaku is gone that it looks like Tuchel is wanting to go that way. There will be games where a striker is needed and I think that Broja will get plenty of games where it's needed

Wouldn't it be funny if he turns out to be the new Malcolm for Barcelona

I think there's a couple of things which could have happened. One he was resigned to the fact that Barcelona couldn't afford him and was open to joining Chelsea before Barcelona re-entered the race for his signature. Or Raphinha and deco played us, indicated that he was open to the switch to Chelsea so that we submitted a bid to force Barcelona to act.

Congratulations to Harvey Vale who captained England and lifted the euro u19s trophy last night

If we didn't have colwill and look to be getting de ligt I'd agree. With colwill coming through I can see Ake being first choice and being phased out into a back up for colwill. De Ligt is a powerful centre back and is commanding in the air and although Kounde has a great leap a centre back trio of Kounde Ake and Silva is on the short side. If we didn't have colwill I don't think we'd be looking at Ake and be looking at someone like Gvardiol instead. I think one of de Ligt and Kounde is what we should be aiming for and in my opinion de ligt is the better option.

Koulibally would be a very good signing as he could enable Chelsea to integrate colwill into the side without having to chuck him in at the deep end. He also has the physicality that rudiger had.

Not in a long time to simply answer the question. However I think it makes sense, west ham apparently view him as their best centre back as well as their best midfielder. With kovacic Gallagher kante and even mount there's plenty of energy ahead of rice that he wouldn't get exposed. His positioning and technique is brilliant and although he's in a midfield 2 for west ham I don't see a reason not to put him in a holding midfield role. He's not like kante where the best part of his game was relentless energy and hunting the ball down. He has all the tools to be the deepest player in a midfield 3.

Rice enables us to go to a back four with 2 box to box midfielders (mount, Gallagher, kovacic) with kante being able to play both positions. If sterling and one of dembele or Richardson came in with havertz playing the false nine then that midfield and attack looks very good.

There's a Brazilian striker playing for Porto called evanilson who's got 14 goals and 4 assists in 30 games last season. He's young and looks very talented, although United are sniffing around and it looks like he'll cost richarlison money (65 million euros). Personally I'd prefer him to richarlison even though they're both around the same money he looks like he could be an elite striker whereas richarlison is already accustomed to the premier League. I guess the only difference is that richarlison might be playing as a lw with havertz through the middle?