5 minutes ago, Argo said:

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).

https://footballdna.co.uk/features/ruben-loftus-cheek-england-debut/

This is an analysis about his debut v Germany, doesnt matter how poor the quality of the England squad was. 

@Mod

Who listens to the official site, I'm not moving it until he tells me personally!

On 27/06/2023 at 22:51, El regreso said:

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

Him and Hudson-Odoi. Both got the same injury, both never recovered. Hudson-Odoi used to frighten players when he ran at them, now I doubt he could out pace an aging Azpi.

That is just great. Let us sell mostly all of our good looking players.

25 minutes ago, CaitlinCFC said:

That is just great. Let us sell mostly all of our good looking players.

I know right, can't believe we sold N'golo Kante

19 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

I know right, can't believe we sold N'golo Kante

We didn't.

7 minutes ago, Valerie said:

We didn't.

Thought Al-Ittihad bought him?

Edited June 30, 20233 yr by Drogba1

1 minute ago, Drogba1 said:

Thought Al-Ittihad bought him?

He went on a free, his contract with us has ended 😝

Edited June 30, 20233 yr by Valerie

Good luck to Ruben. He has been unlucky with injuries, but has always given 100% when playing for us and I can never remember hearing any complaints from his camp when he was struggling to get playing time. AC Milan could be a great move for him.

It's so degrading to judge a player on their looks, you should all be ashamed of yourselves and have some respect!

Spoiler

But I guess while we're here....

 

1 hour ago, CaitlinCFC said:

That is just great. Let us sell mostly all of our good looking players.

Started doing that years ago…

Another win win deal for me.  Wish him nothing but the best in Milan - will be fun to watch him in that league.  Always a nice character.

As far as his time at Chelsea, he looked great under Sarri, but always seemed to play within himself after the injury.  This will sound harsh, but it was pretty telling that he couldn't get in a relegated Fulham side and to me is part of the problem of a very underwhelming Chelsea midfield, even using RLC as a squad option.

Good luck RLC, I'm sure we'll see you back at Cobham one day.

Never complained nor made a fuss. 

 

That useless f**king friendly when he was really finding his form...

57 minutes ago, Mod said:

It's so degrading to judge a player on their looks, you should all be ashamed of yourselves and have some respect!

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But I guess while we're here....

 

Yep

1 hour ago, PhilH930 said:

Another win win deal for me.  Wish him nothing but the best in Milan - will be fun to watch him in that league.  Always a nice character.

As far as his time at Chelsea, he looked great under Sarri, but always seemed to play within himself after the injury.  This will sound harsh, but it was pretty telling that he couldn't get in a relegated Fulham side and to me is part of the problem of a very underwhelming Chelsea midfield, even using RLC as a squad option.

Good luck RLC, I'm sure we'll see you back at Cobham one day.

That was also his big problem prior to about 2/3 months before his big injury.

We'll never know now if that was a genuine breakthrough or not.

11 hours ago, ross91690 said:

Never complained nor made a fuss. 

 

That useless f**king friendly when he was really finding his form...

This is why I hate useless friendlys now

19 years in the club, our own Cobham boy!

There is always been a hope that something could be big with him but the injures and stability in his perfromances made him for ups and downs...

Always been a fan of him, thanks for everything RLC!

Good luck at Milan!

I think so many people forget just how good he looked right before the Achilles injury. The goals and assists dried after after he returned from it, but he was still a very useful player that could fill in wherever needed. 

I will always be cheering on Ruben to have a good career, I truly think wearing the Chelsea shirt meant the world to him. 

On the bright side we can finally retire the #12 shirt like we should have done six years ago.

On 20/09/2016 at 22:46, Zeta said:

He's not disciplined enough or good enough defensively for DM, nor creative or attacking enough for AM, only role he could probably play is classic CM bit more box to box, but again, not sure he's really got the ability. 

7 years later and my comment still stands. Good luck to him, though.

Hat trick in the first half 

 

 

nevermind its a friendly

Edited August 12, 20232 yr by DidierDrogbalala

Love Loftus Cheek as a player. Shame it never happened with us.

First half hat trick. Who on here said he wasn't going to dominate in the slow Italian game? Class player.

RLC provided an assist for Pulisic in the 4-1 win over Torino. Pulisic has scored in both his AC Milan games.

Gotta love Serie A. Dominic Solanke would look like Drogba out there.