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I'd put Baba Rahman ahead of Del Horno if we're making a list of useless left back signings. £20m and looked completely out of his depth every time he played.

Just going to throw out some names others likely won't mention. Chris Sutton. Bought for a club record £10m, which was a huge sum of money for the club at the time. Scored just 1 league goal, was so terrible up front we resorted to playing him a makeshift defender. Was quickly sold for £6m. Adrian Mutu. Signed for about £16m and was playing okay but then he decided to put a load of Bolivian marching powder up his nose. So we sacked him. Juventus then signed him on a free transfer as he was out of contract but then sold him for a profit 12 months later. To this day Mutu still owes Chelsea £15m compensation for his breach of contract. Mark Bosnich. Not only did we sign a former Manchester United goalkeeper but turns out he was on the Devil's dandruff and we promptly sacked him. Gabriele Ambrosetti. Arrived from Vicenza and Vialli dubbed him "the Italian Ryan Giggs". Made all of 16 appearances for Chelsea and then was farmed out on loan for the remainder of his contract. Juan Cuadrado. We sold Andre Schurrle for this pile of crap. One of the worst players to ever pull on a Chelsea shirt. Yossi Benayoun. No idea the thinking behind signing him. No one wanted him here then we loaned him to Arsenal and West Ham.

Begining of last season scoring goals wasn't a problem. Of the 19 games that Lampard oversaw in the league we scored 2 or more goals in 9 of them. Season before that (a team without Werner, Lukaku, Havertz, Ziyech and Hazard), we scored 2 or more goals in 24 of the 38 games. Main difference being that we weren't defensively resiliant which is the strength that Tuchel bought to the team when he introduced the wingback system but that defensive stability has ebbed away. We've only kept 5 (3 against Spurs) clean sheets in the 17 games we've played since the start of December. Werner's record at Leipzig 161 games, 95 goals and 54 assists - 1 goal involvement every 1.08 games (1.95 for Chelsea) Ziyech's record at Ajax 165 games, 49 goals and 83 assists - 1 goal involvement every 1.25 games (3.2 for Chelsea) Lukaku's record at Inter 95 games, 64 goals and 21 assists - 1 goal involvement every 1.12 games (2.5 for Chelsea) Havertz's record at Leverkusen 150 games, 46 and 31 assists - 1 goal involvement every 1.95 games (2.63 for Chelsea) Are the players with good goal and assist records for their previous clubs the problem or is Chelsea the problem?

Insane to think a coach of his quality can't coax any semblence of consistency to the plethora of attacking players we have that have shown much better form for previous clubs.

Everton don't have to pay anything until he's made 10 appearances for them and then they'll have to pay Spurs £10m.

Fairly shrewd by Sony. Destiny has ended up being a massive franchise and if Bungie make a Destiny 3 that's a Playstation exclusive it'll be a huge win for them. Xbox/Microsoft buying Buthesda and Activision Blizzard is going to be interesting. They'll make some games Xbox console exclusive but not sure they'll keep games like Call of Duty and Elder Scrolls to themselves. The amount of revenue they'll make from those two games on Playstation and Nintendo would far outweigh what they'd make by keeping it exclusive. Interesting approach from Microsoft though. I do wonder if down the line they're going to try and make Game Pass so attractive that Sony will have little choice but to make it available as a subscription on Playstation. Reviews have been pretty decent for it. Sitting at 77/100 on Metacritic. I'm still going to wait for player feedback on it though. I won't be getting it this month though because I already have Horizon and Elden Ring on pre-order and there's no way I'll have enough time to finish Dying Light before they come out... That's before getting into that those 3 games would set me back £200!

Possibly. He's still an immense talent, absolutely no question about that. My worry is that he is increasingly having lengthy spells out of the team due to various injuries. He missed 16 league games in 19/20 season, 8 last season and 9 so far this season (33 league games missed in the last two and a half seasons). Of the 62 league appearances he made during that period 12 have been as a substitute meaning he's started 40 league matches in two and a half seasons.

Probably that Everton's normal #10 is staring down the barrel of a prison sentence. So Dele comes in, effectively on a free transfer and he might actual add some creativity sorely lacking from the raft of average wingers that Rafa kept signing.

I think it's always a good idea to try and freshen up the team every few years regardless. If there's a chance of letting someone like Jorginho or Kante go for a decent fee and bringing in someone like Declan Rice I think it'sa good move.

For that one title winning season under Ancelotti, Malouda looked absolutely mustard. But never really got close to replicating that form again. That era of Robben, Duff, Cole and SWP was the best set of wingers we've ever had.

Pulisic is of an age and at a career turning point. He's woefully out of form and he either uses this season as a learning curve, gets his head down and turns it around and delivers on the potential he previously showed. Or. He joins the long list of young players who showed so much promise but by their early twenties never quite manage to take their game that next step.

Naturally. Although scarily he is still one of the best performing players to have worn that squad number of the Roman Era.

Misunderstood genius.

Neil Sullivan Boulahrouz - Djilobodji - Ben Haim - Baba Rahman Drinkwater- Bakayoko - Veron Cuardrado - Morata - Marko "The German Messi" Marin

Apparently Ralkf Rangnick leaving for United was a part of the reason behind the loan cancelation too. When he joined Lokomotiv there was an option to buy at the end of the season too so it's quite a 180 on their part.

Could you not make an argument that the attacking players aren't taking on enough personal responcibility and that's why "big chances" don't come their way? Also you've got to remember that the forwards are constantly being rotated. Salah and Jota top that list and have had 1783 and 1552 minutes respectively whilst, with the exception of Mason Mount, all of our other attacker are 1000 minutes and under. There's not enough consistency with our attacking selections for any of our players to be particularly notworthy this seaosn.

Could have cost us as much as £5m to bring him back for 6 months and then likely would have lost out on the sale to Lyon at the end of the season for £17m. He's average at best and I can't see that he would improve us in anyway had he returned. I've been frustrated by Alonso since Chilwell's injury but I think Sarr has shown enough promise to see us through the rest of the season. I think we're better off with Sarr, Kennedy, Alonso playing on the left personally.

Disagree about Emerson. He's never been particularly good for Chelsea since he arrived and was never going to get minutes ahead of Chilwell or Alonso. Personally I'm not disapointed he didn't come back because hopefully Lyon take up the option to sign him come the summer as we really need to offload the amount of average left sided defenders we have on the books. I think a back 4 is the way forward for the remainder of the season. It gives us the option of playing 3 in midfield including playing Mount or Havertz there which I think is a more aggressive team selection. I also think the attacking players could benefit from the change in formation as I think the wingback system contributed to their struggles.

70 appearances for Chelsea to date, I think that's enough to start drawing some conclusions about what he's offered us over the last 18 months.

But that's where he is playing but has yet to show any sort of consistency for us. He's got 25 appareances to his name this season scoring 5 and assisting 3. Of the 5 goals he's scored two have come in the League Cup with 2 goals in 16 appearances in the league. A strike rate of 1 goal every 8 games just isn't good enough for a player we valued at £75m. Yes he's had Covid and injuries etc. but even taking all of that into account we really should be seeing a lot more from him at this point.

Ah, the old Theo Walcott defence.

Looking unlikey that any new signings will arrive today. Will be insteresting to see how Tuchel approaches the remainder of the season. Will he move to playing a back 4, with Sarr at left back, more regularly? I think the attacking players benefit from having more natural width to play in, whereas the wingback system tends to force them in field. Tuchel really needs to find a way to get the attacking players doing more. Ziyech looks to have benefited from the recent formation shift, which is closer to what he played in for Ajax. Maybe some of the others will reap the benefits too. Under Lampard a few of them looked much more threatening in the 4-3-3 formation so maybe we'll see a return to that.

18 months into his Chelsea career now. When he signed I was under the impression we was signing one of the best up and coming talents in Europe. But and a season and a half, in terms of overall performances I can't say that I'm really seeing what it is that Hazertz is meant to bring to the team. When we signed Hazard you saw very quickly what he was all about, what he could do. Mason Mount and Reece James, players of a similar age have shown more for us and in my opinion are showing signs of having a higher ceiling than Havertz is right now. Hopefully after this short break Havertz is fit for selection again and can offer up a strong end to the season but I personally think he needs to start having a bigger influence on the outcome of games.