Excited to see how he does in serie a. 

one of the cobham graduates in the past decade or so that truly had a extremely high ceiling. Such a shame a few injuries derailed his career in the way it did. 

Good work from the board to get another high wage player off the books, and for a decent fee none the less. Excited to see what he brings to AC Milan!

Only small details left to go over but apparently RLC terms with Milan and the transfer fee, 16mill euros plus 4mill in add ons all agreed.

Basically close to being done.

11 hours ago, bisright1 said:

Excited to see how he does in serie a. 

The often ponderous tempo of Serie A will suit him. He has the skills to be very very good.

Think its a good fee for him all things considered. 

Was destined for greatness until that ridiculous friendly. His play style should translate to Serie A well, think this will end up  being a great signing for Milan. As a footballer he's far better than their league stars at CM like SMS.

36 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Think its a good fee for him all things considered. 

Was destined for greatness until that ridiculous friendly. His play style should translate to Serie A well, think this will end up  being a great signing for Milan. As a footballer he's far better than their league stars at CM like SMS.

I think ultimately his body was always going to break down at some point for us. But yes serie a seems tailor made for him. 

2 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Think its a good fee for him all things considered. 

Was destined for greatness until that ridiculous friendly. His play style should translate to Serie A well, think this will end up  being a great signing for Milan. As a footballer he's far better than their league stars at CM like SMS.

Lets not be bias because he's from Cobham. we've completely pulled Milans pants down with the fee.  He's nowhere near SMS.

Think he's probably the most overated player Cobham has ever produced from a talent perspective and always had a low ceiling.  A few Cobham marks gush over his physicality and ability to carry the ball in midfield but how can a player who can't pass, can't shoot, doesn't know when to pass, has extremely low football IQ, no positional awareness and a low work ethic ever be a useful player?

Been a blue for longer than he's been alive and I can't recall many worse players to wear the shirt.

21 minutes ago, Whats_The_Mata? said:

Lets not be bias because he's from Cobham. we've completely pulled Milans pants down with the fee.  He's nowhere near SMS.

Think he's probably the most overated player Cobham has ever produced from a talent perspective and always had a low ceiling.  A few Cobham marks gush over his physicality and ability to carry the ball in midfield but how can a player who can't pass, can't shoot, doesn't know when to pass, has extremely low football IQ, no positional awareness and a low work ethic ever be a useful player?

Been a blue for longer than he's been alive and I can't recall many worse players to wear the shirt.

Let's see, you joined in 2012. You have not seen many worse players in those 11 years (or even in a longer period), RLC is the one that woke you up?

1 hour ago, Whats_The_Mata? said:

Lets not be bias because he's from Cobham. we've completely pulled Milans pants down with the fee.  He's nowhere near SMS.

Think he's probably the most overated player Cobham has ever produced from a talent perspective and always had a low ceiling.  A few Cobham marks gush over his physicality and ability to carry the ball in midfield but how can a player who can't pass, can't shoot, doesn't know when to pass, has extremely low football IQ, no positional awareness and a low work ethic ever be a useful player?

Been a blue for longer than he's been alive and I can't recall many worse players to wear the shirt.

You can’t recall many worse players to wear the shirt ? I take it you have not been Chelsea for very long ?

1 hour ago, Whats_The_Mata? said:

Lets not be bias because he's from Cobham. we've completely pulled Milans pants down with the fee.  He's nowhere near SMS.

Think he's probably the most overated player Cobham has ever produced from a talent perspective and always had a low ceiling.  A few Cobham marks gush over his physicality and ability to carry the ball in midfield but how can a player who can't pass, can't shoot, doesn't know when to pass, has extremely low football IQ, no positional awareness and a low work ethic ever be a useful player?

Been a blue for longer than he's been alive and I can't recall many worse players to wear the shirt.

f**k off.

Great move for him, although I personally would love to have him around. Never whined and never let us down. Hope he goes and smash it in Italy!

3 hours ago, bisright1 said:

I think ultimately his body was always going to break down at some point for us. But yes serie a seems tailor made for him. 

His back problems as a young un really slowed his progress, then the bad injuries since. Such an unlucky player, had everything as a youth player and could have been an incredible player for us.

There were a few games in a row one season where he looked so strong in midfield driving forward and even scoring a couple and then injured and basically NT able to reproduce that ever since. 
 

certainly the big clear out this window. 

2 hours ago, Whats_The_Mata? said:

Lets not be bias because he's from Cobham. we've completely pulled Milans pants down with the fee.  He's nowhere near SMS.

Think he's probably the most overated player Cobham has ever produced from a talent perspective and always had a low ceiling.  A few Cobham marks gush over his physicality and ability to carry the ball in midfield but how can a player who can't pass, can't shoot, doesn't know when to pass, has extremely low football IQ, no positional awareness and a low work ethic ever be a useful player?

Been a blue for longer than he's been alive and I can't recall many worse players to wear the shirt.

You're talking utter rubbish with your last paragraph but I do agree he was overrated when he was younger. Didn't use the ball very well and was a non entity out of possesion, the odd long bursting run made it look like he was playing better than he actually was.

Sarri investing time with him on the training ground (and during matches, I went to most Europa games that year and he was calling him over for instructions on pretty much every break in play) looked to be paying off close to the end of that season, was that a fluke run of form or a genuine breakthrough? Unfortunately we'll never know.

Good luck to him hope he does well there, got a good fee for him too

Honestly think that if it wasn't for that injury he would have been our main man, first name on the team sheet kind of player. He just wasn't the same player after that.

I hope he rediscovers some of his initial form in Italy.

That period under Sarri had he not got injured man he would have been some player

10 hours ago, Argo said:

 he was overrated when he was younger. Didn't use the ball very well and was a non entity out of possesion, the odd long bursting run made it look like he was playing better than he actually was.

 

Thats absolute nonsense, prior to his back problems he was outstanding in all those aspects, even when he was on loan at Palace he was doing everything a midfielder could superbly, getting him an England call up. In that summer he was wanted by several clubs after impressing during the loan period. 

15 hours ago, Whats_The_Mata? said:

Lets not be bias because he's from Cobham. we've completely pulled Milans pants down with the fee.  He's nowhere near SMS.

Think he's probably the most overated player Cobham has ever produced from a talent perspective and always had a low ceiling.  A few Cobham marks gush over his physicality and ability to carry the ball in midfield but how can a player who can't pass, can't shoot, doesn't know when to pass, has extremely low football IQ, no positional awareness and a low work ethic ever be a useful player?

Been a blue for longer than he's been alive and I can't recall many worse players to wear the shirt.

Makes sense you've only made 2 posts on here if this is the kind of drivel we can expect. 

11 hours ago, yaz said:

Honestly think that if it wasn't for that injury he would have been our main man, first name on the team sheet kind of player. He just wasn't the same player after that.

I hope he rediscovers some of his initial form in Italy.

Worst player to ever wear a Chelsea shirt bullying £105m Declan Rice in the first clip 😂

I would have kept him to be honest. He's versatile, technically sound, and physically capable. He doesn't complain when he's out of the team for long stretches, or when he's played in (erm) experimental positions. He's also club-trained, plus it might be worth keeping hold of more than one of our senior centre midfielders... 

50 minutes ago, PloKoon13 said:

I would have kept him to be honest. He's versatile, technically sound, and physically capable. He doesn't complain when he's out of the team for long stretches, or when he's played in (erm) experimental positions. He's also club-trained, plus it might be worth keeping hold of more than one of our senior centre midfielders... 

I also would have kept him. He's another one that doesn't need to be sold given our situation.

22 minutes ago, Remodez said:

"I also would have kept him. He's another one that doesn't need to be sold given our situation"   .What for though, he doesn't do Anything,nothing at all,why keep him he is completely pointless 

 

Edited June 28, 20233 yr by guddy69

16 hours ago, Andy2461 said:

You can’t recall many worse players to wear the shirt ? I take it you have not been Chelsea for very long ?

You would only have to have been supporting Chelsea for 15 minutes and you could've spotted a worse player than RLC, nevermind 11 years. 

3 hours ago, dkw said:

Thats absolute nonsense, prior to his back problems he was outstanding in all those aspects, even when he was on loan at Palace he was doing everything a midfielder could superbly, getting him an England call up. In that summer he was wanted by several clubs after impressing during the loan period. 

Back then the England squad was so devoid of quality Jesse Lingard and an ageing Ashley Young were starters.

For me it's telling that his managers pre Sarri didn't know what to do with him (or couldn't be bothered to invest the time coaching him) so seemed to be improvising as they went along. Jose tried to make him a DM, Conte tried him upfront and Roy tried him on LM.

No-one was more delighted than me when it looked like I may have been getting proved wrong just before his injury but I was very concerned by how easily he was drifting out of games (there's multiple posts of mine from that era on here displaying that concern).