2 minutes ago, ForeverCarefree said:

Higuain not pictured in a team photo with the Saudi prince on the eve of their game with Juventus tonight for the Italian Super Cup. 

If Sarri gets Higuain, it'll be the deal that makes or breaks Sarri's future here imo.

3 minutes ago, coco said:

If Sarri gets Higuain, it'll be the deal that makes or breaks Sarri's future here imo.

Depend what sort of deal we sign him on. 

6 month loan and he flops... Then people will say it was a gamble worth taking because of Morata's form. 

18 month loan and our football and results don't improve next season? Then Sarri's not getting an extension on his 2 year contract. 

3 minutes ago, ForeverCarefree said:

Depend what sort of deal we sign him on. 

6 month loan and he flops... Then people will say it was a gamble worth taking because of Morata's form. 

18 month loan and our football and results don't improve next season? Then Sarri's not getting an extension on his 2 year contract. 

Yeah but this has Sarris official approval, one of his own so to speak. With Jorginho starting to turn in some very poor performances on a regular basis and no sign of having anything special about his game (ask @just ) then with Higuain coming in for 6 months or two years, if he doesnt perform over the next 6 months and improve on what we had (virtually impossible) then Sarri is in trouble imo with his two personally selected players failing to improve us.

1 hour ago, coco said:

Yeah but this has Sarris official approval, one of his own so to speak. With Jorginho starting to turn in some very poor performances on a regular basis and no sign of having anything special about his game (ask @just ) then with Higuain coming in for 6 months or two years, if he doesnt perform over the next 6 months and improve on what we had (virtually impossible) then Sarri is in trouble imo with his two personally selected players failing to improve us.

My worry for Sarri is that it seems he has tunnel vision about the way he wants to play. It's Sarri-ball or nothing. 

We've signed Jorginho who is apparently what his playing style centres around, so you're already banking on him to succeed because if he fails is another manager going to want Jorginho who apparently plays a very niche role. 

Now we're going after Higuain, which goes against club policy more or less, it's been a long time since we signed an outfield player who was over 30, Eto'o was maybe the last one? 

There's rumours we want(ed) to sign Hysaj too and it concern me a little that it's predominately players Sarri has already worked with that he wants/we're targeting because it starts to feel like he/we are so focused on replicating the Napoli blueprint that if it doesn't work/we don't sign specific players then it could start to fall apart. 

6 minutes ago, ForeverCarefree said:

My worry for Sarri is that it seems he has tunnel vision about the way he wants to play. It's Sarri-ball or nothing. 

We've signed Jorginho who is apparently what his playing style centres around, so you're already banking on him to succeed because if he fails is another manager going to want Jorginho who apparently plays a very niche role. 

Now we're going after Higuain, which goes against club policy more or less, it's been a long time since we signed an outfield player who was over 30, Eto'o was maybe the last one? 

There's rumours we want(ed) to sign Hysaj too and it concern me a little that it's predominately players Sarri has already worked with that he wants/we're targeting because it starts to feel like he/we are so focused on replicating the Napoli blueprint that if it doesn't work/we don't sign specific players then it could start to fall apart. 

We signed giroud for £18m last year who was the same age. 

1 minute ago, big blue said:

We signed giroud for £18m last year who was the same age. 

Completely forgot about Giroud (apparently Sarri has too). 

Strange really that for the second year running we're looking at a relatively short term/quick fix to our strikers. 

We need a striker who can slot home at a regular rate, Higuain is currently on 1 league goal in his last 8 starts.

5 minutes ago, coco said:

We need a striker who can slot home at a regular rate, Higuain is currently on 1 league goal in his last 8 starts.

Great, Those are our kinda stats. Sign Him Up!!

1 minute ago, Nibs said:

Great, Those are our kinda stats. Sign Him Up!!

 

I don't think is right to judge him for the last months in Milan. it's a problem of motivations. The last ten years speak for him. Always from 20 to 30 goals scored for season.

31 minutes ago, Master&Commander said:

I don't think is right to judge him for the last months in Milan. it's a problem of motivations. The last ten years speak for him. Always from 20 to 30 goals scored for season.

But who is to say he would be motivated IF he came to Chelsea - on the downward spiral yet probably picking up £100k + per week?

2 minutes ago, Nibs said:

But who is to say he would be motivated IF he came to Chelsea - on the downward spiral yet probably picking up £100k + per week?

I don't follow Italian football to know if this is the start of his decline or a blip in form, have Milan struggled as a team recently?

Looking at when he moved he had 7 goals in his first 10 games which is a vast improvement on what we have.

But who is to say he would be motivated IF he came to Chelsea - on the downward spiral yet probably picking up £100k + per week?

He will be motivated  

 

 

The creativity at Milian is so low that I reckon most top strikers would struggle to score there.

 

And the Lord is on it too:

 

So we're signing the bottler. I dreamt of this a few years ago. Hope he does a job for us. He looks pretty lean atm and hopefully he's just told to get in the box and put it in the back of the net.

If it's announced today, is he in the 18 against Arsenal?

 

I wish it. Let's fix one of the problems. That would be a terrible mistake thinking is the only one. 

4 hours ago, ForeverCarefree said:

Completely forgot about Giroud.

So did everybody else. I bet by now Olivier himself would have forgotten he was employed as a player at Chelsea FC if he wasn't getting his weekly pay cheque.

 

Higuain with 3 goals against Arsenal this Saturday.

4 hours ago, coco said:

 

I saw the media post about him just ending a goal drought, might be a good time as even Salah and Kane this season have had goal droughts of about 5 matches.

Right now we need a striker and there really isn't many available in January at this point in time

While Higuain is 31 and getting on a bit he knows where the goal is and has played under Sarri before so shouldn't find it too difficult to fit into his tactical setup. He's scored goals his whole career and will be a much better option than our current options

We need a top 4 finish this season and need Champions League football. This is a short term fix and if his goals fire us into the Champions League next season it will be worth it

Also, with it possibly being a loan agreement it should allow us to spend big on a striker in the Summer instead of spending big on a panic signing this window

Frankly we aren't really in a position to turn our nose up at any top striker, so I think as a loan its worth a gamble on Higuain. He should settle into Sarri's style quickly and I can see hazard especially enjoying playing with him. 

Reports out there that it will be a 6 mo loan, with option to buy this summer or extend loan for another year.

Pretty ideal terms, or as close to ideal as we could get.