4 minutes ago, Blueblur said:

I'm not usually a doom-monger, but here we are.

Only fourth in the league, FFS, and still in all the competitions we entered.  How sh*te is that?   We are no better than Huddersfield, are we?

9 minutes ago, yorkleyblue said:

Only fourth in the league, FFS, and still in all the competitions we entered.  How sh*te is that?   We are no better than Huddersfield, are we?

We are the fourth best team in the league and our league position accurately reflects that I think, I'm not complaining. We deserve to be where we are.

But if we all suddenly think that Higuain is going to suddenly solve all of our problems (Jorginho, Kante- out of position, Alonso) then I think we are being very naive.

However he will surely be an upgrade on Morata, whose attitude has been appalling since joining. 

Edited January 24, 20197 yr by Blueblur

Wishing him well and hope it works out.

apparently £270k/week according to Daily Fail

yep, because the first thing any player wants to do is phone the Mail and brag about his salary.

Some financial details of the deal via Juventus, released due to their being on the being on the public stock exchange. 

2 hours ago, mojo said:

apparently £270k/week according to Daily Fail

£1m pm x 6 . £6m for something like 20 games = £300k per game. or.... assuming he bags ten goals £600k per goal.

I was expecting to see the newer version of JFH, but this guy doesn't look fat to me.

 

4 hours ago, Blueblur said:

We are the fourth best team in the league and our league position accurately reflects that I think, I'm not complaining. We deserve to be where we are.

But if we all suddenly think that Higuain is going to suddenly solve all of our problems (Jorginho, Kante- out of position, Alonso) then I think we are being very naive.

However he will surely be an upgrade on Morata, whose attitude has been appalling since joining. 

I wish when people said out of position Kante, they said, not playing a defensive midfielder. As Kante is being played in the best position he possibly can. 

Although kante isn't really a defensive midfielder. His real role doesn't really exist. 

2 hours ago, ForeverCarefree said:

Some financial details of the deal via Juventus, released due to their being on the being on the public stock exchange. 

Any chance you can make the text a bit bigger :) 

3 hours ago, mojo said:

apparently £270k/week according to Daily Fail

The same article says that he earns £130,000 a week at Juventus at the moment. If its a loan surely we just take over his wages and their contract? No way do we more than double his wages.

24 minutes ago, Bonzodog29 said:

Any chance you can make the text a bit bigger :) 

There’s a few golden oldies on this forum, let’s pretend it’s for their benefit.

8 hours ago, coco said:

We should be trying to buy the players that will be on that list over the next decade. 

 

Hopefully this summer.  Curious - who would you like to see the club target?

5 hours ago, Blueblur said:

We are the fourth best team in the league and our league position accurately reflects that I think, I'm not complaining. We deserve to be where we are.

But if we all suddenly think that Higuain is going to suddenly solve all of our problems (Jorginho, Kante- out of position, Alonso) then I think we are being very naive.

However he will surely be an upgrade on Morata, whose attitude has been appalling since joining. 

Honestly ... he could solve a lot of those problems.  With Morata, he was a very poor early target, and soft.  Giroud is a good target, but not much of a threat on goal.  Higuain will hopefully keep defenses honest; mark Jorginho with a 9 that stays high and the defense gets stretched a lot, also will create some space for Hazard to operate in.  Kante and Alonso, don't have to run up field quite as much.  With our lineup against Arsenal Alonso was the guy to flight balls to from the left back.

I remember when Costa was coming back from injury and would come on as a sub... how much the game would change.  Arsenal won because they had determination up top going to goal, every where else they were worse. Pedro knicked Lacazette in the box... our guys are falling down pleading for a penalty there, he fought through and scored.  Higuain has been the type to fight through and shoot.  We've been too soft going to goal, and Higuain can change the whole personality... will he is the question.

23 minutes ago, mwblue10 said:

Hopefully this summer.  Curious - who would you like to see the club target?

Whoever we target, we should not commit ourselves to one player or another ,and try to keep as many options open as possible. We should be looking at players who are scoring at an early age, on a regular basis, at all levels. we have youngsters on the books who fit the bill and should be included, along with other players identified by those that are paid a salary by the club for such a job.

5 hours ago, Blueblur said:

We are the fourth best team in the league and our league position accurately reflects that I think, I'm not complaining. We deserve to be where we are.

But if we all suddenly think that Higuain is going to suddenly solve all of our problems (Jorginho, Kante- out of position, Alonso) then I think we are being very naive.

However he will surely be an upgrade on Morata, whose attitude has been appalling since joining. 

5th best team, I think a full fit Spurs squad finishes comfortably above Chelsea and Utd massively underachieved with Mourinho this season, the attacking players they have are anything better we have apart from Hazard. To finish below Utd while having an 11 points advantage would not be good at all.

3 minutes ago, coco said:

Whoever we target, we should not commit ourselves to one player or another ,and try to keep as many options open as possible. We should be looking at players who are scoring at an early age, on a regular basis, at all levels. we have youngsters on the books who fit the bill and should be included, along with other players identified by those that are paid a salary by the club for such a job.

Young players that want to prove themselves and that have the hunger.

58 minutes ago, ForeverCarefree said:

There’s a few golden oldies on this forum, let’s pretend it’s for their benefit.

What was that dearie, theres a bend in the tenner pit?

1 hour ago, abramovich said:

I was expecting to see the newer version of JFH, but this guy doesn't look fat to me.

 

Hes fat like Frank Lampard was fat.....

4 minutes ago, dkw said:

Hes fat like Frank Lampard was fat.....

He is definitely not fat in the same way as I am fat :)

9 minutes ago, Bonzodog29 said:

He is definitely not fat in the same way as I am fat :)

Nor the fat w**kers who used to sing it at Lamps, the irony of some fat mess west ham twat singing it while the gravy from his pie and mash was dripping down his chins almost broke the universe.

2 hours ago, coco said:

£1m pm x 6 . £6m for something like 20 games = £300k per game. or.... assuming he bags ten goals £600k per goal.

I still use the Sutton ratio (£3,333,333.33 per goal) to measure the success of our strikers 

39 minutes ago, dkw said:

Hes fat like Frank Lampard was fat.....

Hazard and Costa had more chunk on them a few seasons back. 

1 hour ago, dkw said:

Hes fat like Frank Lampard was fat.....

Hopefully he will continue the trend of fatties scoring for us regularly!

New to the forum here, but wanted to weigh in on Higuain. Cautiously optimistic for what he can bring to the team. His quality and aggressiveness will at least be a welcome change from Morata’s lack of confidence with the ball.

In any case, I think we should all welcome him with open arms, so I came up with a chant for his debut:

Higuain, Higuain, Gonzalo Higuain!
Welcome to Chelsea, Higuain!

Higuain, Higuain, goal scorer Higuain!
Welcome to Chelsea, Higuain!