28 minutes ago, ForeverCarefree said:

Neither are good enough to be first choice. 

We need someone better if we want to get back into the top four. 

Still better than Morata.

2 minutes ago, Giordano_Bruno said:

Still better than Morata.

That's like saying chlamydia is better than AIDS... I still don't want it. 

I can't wait for Morata to turn this around and have a great year this year. Then, while he is at it, all of you slagging him off can eat your words. So many on here act like he is some Sunday league footballer, he's going to come around and score goals for us and turn into one of the better strikers in the league.

On 25/07/2018 at 04:30, chokosc said:

I don't understand all the hate coming towards him. He started the season in a good way but his injury, suspension and Conte didn't allow him to continue that. I am hoping that we don't ditch him now to regret it in two seasons. Get him playing, rotate with Michy and we should be good.

I understand the hate, when you fall over at a slight breeze across your chest its going to irritate some people. He needs to be a little stronger, but I think he will. Premier referees are not going to do him any favors he may have gotten in Spain or Italy (he has to realize this).

His injury really hurt his form and then he rushed back bc we didn't have an option behind him (well, we had Batshuayi but Conte wouldn't give him a run-in unless we were playing some League 1 team) and he never returned to what he was, or what he could've been.

This is his year to change the perspective around him and I think he will do that.

 

I am one of the people who think writing him off after one year is ludicrous (especially replacing him with an old striker or a striker who's not already world class).

 

I don't like how easy he goes down, and how much he whinges about it. I don't like how inept he was last season at finishing (a pretty important attribute for a striker)...but I do like his heading, and his ability to get into good spaces. If we don't give him a second season to try and improve, what's the point? You can't write every player off after one average season (especially if it's their first in the country). He can still come good.

Unless he gets rid of his soft-ass mentality, it aint gonna Work, no matter the manager.

39 minutes ago, Cam said:

I am one of the people who think writing him off after one year is ludicrous (especially replacing him with an old striker or a striker who's not already world class).

 

I don't like how easy he goes down, and how much he whinges about it. I don't like how inept he was last season at finishing (a pretty important attribute for a striker)...but I do like his heading, and his ability to get into good spaces. If we don't give him a second season to try and improve, what's the point? You can't write every player off after one average season (especially if it's their first in the country). He can still come good.

Fully agree, writing him of now may be a huge mistake. He needs to change, everyone is in agreement but he definitely has shown signs of what he has, get him playing for the team, fighting for them and we may have the world class striker we hoped we had signed. Strange that some of the people who often complain we let players go too early are the same that want rid of morata. 

4 minutes ago, dkw said:

Strange that some of the people who often complain we let players go too early are the same that want rid of morata. 

Yep, some of the most vociferous attackers of Morata are the ones who are also the most whiney about letting go other players who were pants (worse than Morata).  

Still, no-one ever said that football fans had to be either rational or consistent.

Morata (and Bakayoko) have to produce the goods this year.

3 hours ago, chiefBlueCFC said:

I can't wait for Morata to turn this around and have a great year this year. Then, while he is at it, all of you slagging him off can eat your words. So many on here act like he is some Sunday league footballer, he's going to come around and score goals for us and turn into one of the better strikers in the league.

And if he does, myself and most Chelsea fans will. He cost a lot of money and earns a fortune so he should be performing. If he isn’t he’ll get sh*t thrown at him like anyone else would. You can be sure he doesn’t give a f**k about you. 

1 hour ago, Kev56 said:

And if he does, myself and most Chelsea fans will. He cost a lot of money and earns a fortune so he should be performing. If he isn’t he’ll get sh*t thrown at him like anyone else would. You can be sure he doesn’t give a f**k about you. 

Never said he cares about me or anyone, just a little annoying the way some folks act towards him because he struggled to adapt to England and didn't bang in 20 goals year 1. So many struggle their first year, that's why I'm all for giving the man a chance. Now if he has a repeat of last season, then I get to eat my words, and I'll be the first to say I was wrong. I would say its time to say goodbye, if that happens. He has to put up this year.

I hope he leaves personally and takes Baka with him, I admire the optimism some posters have regarding his unfulfilled potential but Ive seen enough of his cowardly antics last season to last the rest of my life, he cant hold a candle to any of our prem winning hitmen and should be sold if any club are mugs enough to pay over 50 mill euros for him, I doubt they will so some on here will get their wish to see him fall over a lot again and miss barn doors from 5 feet..

Biggest question is not the talent that is clearly there. It is does he want to be here? Cause if he don't we wont see the best of him imo.

5 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Biggest question is not the talent that is clearly there. It is does he want to be here? Cause if he don't we wont see the best of him imo.

I think he wasn't tough enough for the Premier League last season.

I'm hoping Sarri will sort him out, he just needs a manager who will install that belief in him.

6 minutes ago, Malcolm9 said:

I'm hoping Sarri will sort him out, he just needs a manager who will install that belief in him.

If Sarri can't do it, we will need a manager who can.

That's my worry.

If he fails again it simply can't be the fault of Sarri, the board must realise in that case that it's the player they invested in and not the manager.

He goes down far to easily. It's not a case of not being strong enough. Remember the drog at the start he used to go down and roll around all the time. Once he cut that out he was a far better player.

I'm not saying morata will be anywhere near drogbas level or type of player. And he deffo needs to improve his finishing (a confidence issue I think) but if stays up that will be a start.

I don't want him gone after one season. I never like that when there new to the country. But If we can get our money back and bring in a striker of a similar age and proven in the PL I'd be more comfortable with it.

 

6 minutes ago, coco said:

If Sarri can't do it, we will need a manager who can.

That's my worry.

I'm not totally sure that the two extremes of the pitch are primary targets for Sarri. For me he is all about the technical beauty of the passing game with fluid movement off the ball so that the passing can always be short sharp crisp 10-15 yard passes. Whilst this reduces errors rates and the rapid ball movement is pleasing on the eye, it works on the basis that the lads are very fit to ensure that there is constant and rapid movement off the ball.

Working on that principle a decent shot stopping keeper that can play with the ball at his feet will be more important and doesn't have to be what the press believe to be the current best of the crop. Similarly up front, if the ball is being fizzed about on a triangular basis in midfield and we are getting beyond defenders and whipping the ball low and hard into the box, perhaps Morata can be the man as we won't need a traditional all round striker in the mould of a Drogba. We will need a fox in the box who has the killer instinct (maybe an Aguero type of player). If Sarri can get Morata to this standard we could indeed have a gem on our hands. To date, for me he just hasn't looked natural, has little natural instinct and is often caught on the back foot.

I would dearly love to be wrong over him though, but if Sarri can't get this out of him its Morata that's got to go, surely.

Btw PL has never been softer and the refs have never been more protective. Can't imagine this guy playing 10 or 15 years back in time.

If Morata picks up where he left off last season, Sarri will be under immediate pressure.

Away to Hudds, then home to Arse, then away to barcodes. 3 tough games that could see Morata struggling on last seasons form where he failed to score in the five games he played against these 3 teams.

 

 

How low our collective confidence has sunk if we consider those to be "3 tough games" with our new manager's exquisite style and panache.

22 minutes ago, yorkleyblue said:

How low our collective confidence has sunk if we consider those to be "3 tough games" with our new manager's exquisite style and panache.

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/matches/match-day/2017/919236?pageTab=report

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having dominated the game.

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but it was an evening on which Antonio Conte’s side should have taken all three points 

In that dire run in to fail to  get 4th place.   Not a "tough game"  at all, just one when we didn't win when we should have.

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/matches/match-day/2017/919268?pageTab=report