18 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Quick question for everyone:

If Hazard leaving this summer meant that CHO would start 90% of our games next season, would people be okay with Eden leaving or still want him to sign an extension?

Keep Hazard. 

Would rather keep him and lose CHO because he's such a unique talent and I feel more confident of success with him than banking on CHO who hasn't shown he can deliver the goods in senior football yet. 

Preferred scenario would be to keep both and sell Pedro and Willian in the summer with Pulisic coming in. 

36 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Quick question for everyone:

If Hazard leaving this summer meant that CHO would start 90% of our games next season, would people be okay with Eden leaving or still want him to sign an extension?

As above, I'd prefer to keep  them both,  and one of Willian/Pedro - I'm not sure yet that CHO is experienced enough to be the only choice we have.

1 hour ago, Bonzodog29 said:

RLC wasnt dropped he is injured, 

He was on the bench the game after his hatrick, wasn't that long ago to remember 

1 hour ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Quick question for everyone:

If Hazard leaving this summer meant that CHO would start 90% of our games next season, would people be okay with Eden leaving or still want him to sign an extension?

Direct answer to that question is difficult. If we had a crystal ball and were certain CHO is going to be the top player we all think / hope he could be, than I would reluctantly sell Hazard. But if we sell Hazard and CHO doesn't end up fulfilling his potential, then it's not good. 

Think all us CFC want our cake & eat it (as we are entitled to!) and keep Hazard AND see CHO play more. At least one of Willian & Pedro to be moved on now we also will have  Pulisic and perhaps sell both if we can pick up another promising, younger winger.

1 hour ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Quick question for everyone:

If Hazard leaving this summer meant that CHO would start 90% of our games next season, would people be okay with Eden leaving or still want him to sign an extension?

Only if he is actually good enough, there are no guarantees he will turn into the player we all hope he can be.

If he doesn't start tonight, I can see him pushing to leave before the end of the month.

20 minutes ago, tmarmsi said:

He was on the bench the game after his hatrick, wasn't that long ago to remember 

Because he can barely finish a game let alone play two in 3 days. His body can’t handle it.

15 minutes ago, Nibs said:

Direct answer to that question is difficult. If we had a crystal ball and were certain CHO is going to be the top player we all think / hope he could be, than I would reluctantly sell Hazard. But if we sell Hazard and CHO doesn't end up fulfilling his potential, then it's not good. 

Think all us CFC want our cake & eat it (as we are entitled to!) and keep Hazard AND see CHO play more. At least one of Willian & Pedro to be moved on now we also will have  Pulisic and perhaps sell both if we can pick up another promising, younger winger.

 In the short term I think it would be interesting to see if he still gets game this season. With Higuain coming in I would assume Sarri will revert to Willian & Hazard on the wings, with Giroud and Pedro on the bench. Where that leaves CHO is still unclear.  Both have to be moved on, not just one. You can only keep wingers forward, your fourth with be a CM who can play on the wings ie RLC (Bernardo with City). City have Sane, Sterling and Mahrez in rotation; Liverpool have  Salah, Mane with Shaqiri in rotation. 

Personally feel Hazard indecision is hindering the club in making future plans, and indirectly affecting his decision making process. 

3 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Quick question for everyone:

If Hazard leaving this summer meant that CHO would start 90% of our games next season, would people be okay with Eden leaving or still want him to sign an extension?

I'm partial to keeping Hazard, but I think it depends on the price we get for him, too.  If someone was willing to pay 150m this summer for him, I think we would take it.  Would we invest it wisely?  Not too sure about that, which makes me lean towards keeping Hazard.

So much is unknown about who we would buy and how we would build the team, after Hazard eventually departs, that I think it is much safer to keep him at all costs because we know what we have - a generational talent and best player in the league.

5 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Quick question for everyone:

If Hazard leaving this summer meant that CHO would start 90% of our games next season, would people be okay with Eden leaving or still want him to sign an extension?

Great question. I think best case scenario is Willian and Pedro leaving. Hazard and CHO staying. Our Wing rotation will then be Hazard, CHO, Pulisic, RLC which potentially, could be very interesting. I actually quite like how Pedro plays and I think he fits into Sarri's system very well. But he'll be 32 after the summer which is really pushing it for a winger. 

But if it's a strict choice between Hazard and CHO, for me, It's very very close but I'd have to lean towards CHO. Maybe I'm sentimental, but the idea of a home-grown academy player potentially becoming a world-class player at Chelsea is just too tantalising, and I really think CHO has it in him to make it. 
 

5 hours ago, big blue said:

If he doesn't start tonight, I can see him pushing to leave before the end of the month.

If he's going to start then Pedro or Hazard are not starting or if Hazard is again going to be false 9 then either Pedro or Willian are not starting.
So...all things considered he could start ahead of Pedro or Willian but if he doesn't then I mean he wants to leave what else can anyone do about it? I thought that his best option is to wait and see if Hazard will be sold in the summer and if he could get a bigger role in the squad, and because of the annoying way that Bayern is apparently trying to get to him I would hate seeing him leave, specially to Bayern and in this way. IMHO it's 100% granted that he will have a much bigger role next season anyway.

20 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

If he's going to start then Pedro or Hazard are not starting or if Hazard is again going to be false 9 then either Pedro or Willian are not starting.
So...all things considered he could start ahead of Pedro or Willian but if he doesn't then I mean he wants to leave what else can anyone do about it? I thought that his best option is to wait and see if Hazard will be sold in the summer and if he could get a bigger role in the squad, and because of the annoying way that Bayern is apparently trying to get to him I would hate seeing him leave, specially to Bayern and in this way. IMHO it's 100% granted that he will have a much bigger role next season anyway.

I agree 100% he should stick it out and see how it looks next season. 

On the bench again though tonight.

Sam Wallace hitting nails on their heads:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/01/23/chelseas-history-repeats-short-termism-exposes-hopeless-lack/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

20 minutes ago, Spiller86 said:

Sam Wallace hitting nails on their heads:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/01/23/chelseas-history-repeats-short-termism-exposes-hopeless-lack/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

I need to register just to read the article? That's ridiculous.

 

They better get a move on then. I’ve only known us to drag out a transfer this long. Unless, no it can’t be! Is this all a complete load of made up drivel?

On 24/01/2019 at 07:02, ducavis said:

 In the short term I think it would be interesting to see if he still gets game this season. With Higuain coming in I would assume Sarri will revert to Willian & Hazard on the wings, with Giroud and Pedro on the bench. Where that leaves CHO is still unclear.  Both have to be moved on, not just one. You can only keep wingers forward, your fourth with be a CM who can play on the wings ie RLC (Bernardo with City). City have Sane, Sterling and Mahrez in rotation; Liverpool have  Salah, Mane with Shaqiri in rotation. 

Personally feel Hazard indecision is hindering the club in making future plans, and indirectly affecting his decision making process. 

I also think it's hinging on whether or not Hazard signs. Which incidentally is likely dependent on if we qualify for the CL so I doubt the wait will be short. 

At this point if Sarri is just going to sit him behind Willian and Pedro we might as well accept the RB offer now and see how he gets on. 

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1089244365623644162/photo/1

Now has handed in a transfer request. We might as well accept it. He is not going to change his mind. He wants to go, we have been offered big money that may significantly reduce in summer. We're giving him more chances recently but his mind has already been made up. Even if he does play here, it will always be on and off if he was to sign a new contract. Bayern, the level of opponents will be better and let's be honest, he is joining a top team where he prob will play his favoured position t

 

Edited January 26, 20197 yr by STATS

Loan him out. Don't sell. 

I wonder if this came from the same Sky sources who said we accepted their offer three weeks ago?

f**ksake. Brought this on ourselves by never playing the boy, unreal.

If he doesnt want to play for our club just sell him. We have plenty other youngsters who would appreciate playing for Chelsea more than him. No player is bigger than the club. 

I’ve had just about enough of this saga

For me if any player wants out then let them go. 

CHO is without question a talent but he clearly believes or is being advised he is much further developed than he clearly is. 

At 18 it isn’t just unusual to be a regular starter but it’s more often than not reckless in terms of the players long term career.

To a degree this  situation is very similar to when Sturridge left Man City to join us. He thought he was a far better player than there were at Chelsea and slowly but surely he realised the grass wasn’t greener.

If we can get circa £40 million for him it’s time to take the money and run and yes down the line that may seem to have been awful business but it’s just as likely it won’t .

 

21 minutes ago, STATS said:

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1089244365623644162/photo/1

Now has handed in a transfer request. We might as well accept it. He is not going to change his mind. He wants to go, we have been offered big money that may significantly reduce in summer. We're giving him more chances recently but his mind has already been made up. Even if he does play here, it will always be on and off if he was to sign a new contract. Bayern, the level of opponents will be better and let's be honest, he is joining a top team where he prob will play his favoured position t

 

Have we though? He’s been chucked on for the last 10 minutes in most games since the first spurs game and didn’t even get on in the second leg. His options are still really limited so is fully entitled to want out.

1 minute ago, ekimozturk said:

If he doesnt want to play for our club just sell him. We have plenty other youngsters who would appreciate playing for Chelsea more than him. No player is bigger than the club. 

We had DeBruyne, Lukaku, Salah who we failed to nurture...