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RIP Mourinho said:
Likely to miss the start of our pre-season due to featuring in the Gold Cup with USA. Makes even less sense why we didn't bring him in this year to half 6 months to get into our idea of football. £60m for a player who likely won't be ready until 9 months after we've bought him.
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Makes you wonder if the board were aware of this when brokering a deal.

 
RIP Mourinho said:
Likely to miss the start of our pre-season due to featuring in the Gold Cup with USA. Makes even less sense why we didn't bring him in this year to half 6 months to get into our idea of football. £60m for a player who likely won't be ready until 9 months after we've bought him.
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It didn't make much sense from the start. Apart from being good for in a marketing sense, he doesn't bring a whole lot of goals. We could have bought Nicolas Pepe. I mean we still could buy Pepe if Hazard and one of Pedro/Willian leaves. The problem is, we are relying on Pulisic, Hudson-Odoi and Willian/Pedro to be our wide attackers. There's barely any goals between those players, so where will our goals come from up top apart from the striker? That's depending on the striker we have too. Just poor recruitment once again. The club never learns. 

 
Just went through this thread, feel bad for the poor kid. So much doubts from so many that never even saw him play. 

But hey, it's part of being an international footballer. Can't take the heat, better sit down.

 
haviet1 said:
Just went through this thread, feel bad for the poor kid. So much doubts from so many that never even saw him play. 

But hey, it's part of being an international footballer. Can't take the heat, better sit down.
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Even those who had seen him play extensively, myself included, had doubts and with good reason. He’s already improved pretty drastically.

 
Scott Harris said:
£58m? You have got to be kidding me right? Good luck to him and I hope he proves me wrong, but I'm clearly not seeing what the club see in him to justify that amount. He can't even get into Dortmund's first 11 and hasn't scored more than 5 goals in a single season. He's pretty much still a youngster learning the game like Hudson-Odoi. Okay, he's got 2 years of experience on Hudson-Odoi, but I think Hudson-Odoi can achieve just as much, maybe even more, in a similar amount of time if he was given the chance.

If he was that great, surely Dortmund wouldn't have relegated him to squad player. I really hope the club haven't pulled off another Bakayoko / Morata moment.
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This has aged horribly

 
driller97 said:
Probably not, but I doubt any has aged that badly lol
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Sure but my point is, despite his post aging badly, that was the general sentiment amongst first reactions to the signing. Some warmed to the idea over the following weeks but for the most part, nobody was particularly excited by it. I’m sure all are happy to be proven wrong!

 
mwblue10 said:
Sure but my point is, despite his post aging badly, that was the general sentiment amongst first reactions to the signing. Some warmed to the idea over the following weeks but for the most part, nobody was particularly excited by it. I’m sure all are happy to be proven wrong!
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Really? I must have been one of the few that was excited to see Pulisic then!

For 58m, signing a 20 year old with bags of potential, and even if he didn't play that well - Given his age we could have sold him for no or very little loss.

Either way, glad its working out well at the moment, but of course its still very early days

 
dkw said:
Weve all done it, I thought Signing Lampard for £11m was a complete waste of money....
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I thought the same. At the time we were being heavily critised for having so many foreign players, so we bought chris sutton who was a disaster, and i felt lampard was another english signing to placate the media. 

In my defence, i was only about 14 at the time!

 
driller97 said:
This has aged horribly
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Sometimes we get it wrong, other times we get it right. I remember being massively against the Bakayoko signing whilst most people were excited, I was spot on with that one, same goes with Morata. With Pulisic, I stand by my opinions at the time. I don't think he was amazing at Dortmund and Hudson-Odoi was really starting to kick on with us. Football changes quickly though and Pulisic went up a level and Hudson-Odoi's progression was halted because of a serious injury.

 
Scott Harris said:
Sometimes we get it wrong, other times we get it right. I remember being massively against the Bakayoko signing whilst most people were excited, I was spot on with that one, same goes with Morata. With Pulisic, I stand by my opinions at the time. I don't think he was amazing at Dortmund and Hudson-Odoi was really starting to kick on with us. Football changes quickly though and Pulisic went up a level and Hudson-Odoi's progression was halted because of a serious injury.
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I remember arguing with you last season over it when you weren't impressed with his performance against Tottenham, I thought he played well and looked good, you weren't impressed. I can see why so many people thought he wasn't going to be a good player though. 

Hell, I used to talk on another Chelsea forum and if you found my comments back in 2012 you would die laughing, I was completely against the Hazard signing, one of the very few Chelsea fans who thought he was overrated, it doesn't get much worse than that. 

 
Slojo said:
I remember arguing with you last season over it when you weren't impressed with his performance against Tottenham, I thought he played well and looked good, you weren't impressed. I can see why so many people thought he wasn't going to be a good player though. 

Hell, I used to talk on another Chelsea forum and if you found my comments back in 2012 you would die laughing, I was completely against the Hazard signing, one of the very few Chelsea fans who thought he was overrated, it doesn't get much worse than that. 
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A lot of people on here were against the Hazard signing too. I can't remember much of what I wrote at the time, but I remember a lot of people weren't impressed with the way he handled his transfer. All of that "who will I sign for next" stuff was seen as a bit big headed and disrespectful to Lille. I think people were worried we were signing an egotist like Neymar, but it actually turned out to be the complete opposite in the end. Hazard is one of the most grounded superstar footballers you will find.

 
Scott Harris said:
A lot of people on here were against the Hazard signing too. I can't remember much of what I wrote at the time, but I remember a lot of people weren't impressed with the way he handled his transfer. All of that "who will I sign for next" stuff was seen as a bit big headed and disrespectful to Lille. I think people were worried we were signing an egotist like Neymar, but it actually turned out to be the complete opposite in the end. Hazard is one of the most grounded superstar footballers you will find.
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That's exactly what put me off, he just looked like a good dribbler to me and never had the character to really improve his game. Well boy I got that wrong, now I'll happily say he's one of the best to ever wear the blue, if not the best in terms of abillity. And as for ego, very far from it, he actually came across really humble. 

 
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