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Reece James

PloKoon13
in General Chelsea FC

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23 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Ridiculous. He only had surgery at the end of last season. Doesn’t surprise me he’s picked up injury with the amount of running that Poch is making them do. 
 

So disappointing. 

 

7 minutes ago, Zeta said:

I thoguht he didn't have the surgery in the end.

Yeah think Zeta is right here.

Got trust Gusto or whoever we have in reserves to cover James. It's an unfortunate part of his career, everytime he went down our results went with it. I don't think there's 100M 21 year old RB out there even if we want to burn cash.

9 minutes ago, Hot Since 1882 said:

Chances you buy a RB? Anyone to promote from Cobham - and odds on that over spending £15-30M on a 'stop-gap RB'?  

How highly do you guys rate James? - for England/Neutral - I've always rated Walker miles ahead, then Trent, Trippier.

Enjoy watch him play, seems talented - but if he turned into your Wilshere - how long before you look to spend £100M on a right back?

James has no real weaknesses, other than his injuries. He's far ahead of Trippier, it's not even close. Alexander-Arnold is great at attacking, but James is on another level defensively. Walker is all about pace and at the same age as James, I didn't rate him that highly. Guardiola made him a better player.

    58 minutes ago, JM7 said:

    Ridiculous. He only had surgery at the end of last season. Doesn’t surprise me he’s picked up injury with the amount of running that Poch is making them do. 
     

    So disappointing. 

    He never had the surgery, and it would have been on his knee if he did have it.

    I am very confident, maybe without enough reason, that Gusto will do a great job defensively, but yet to show what he has in attack. In short Gusto excellent off the ball but unknown to me when he's on it.

    So I could support Whitewall's suggestion of having Pavard as a backup.

    Equally i think this may speed up the switch to 4 3 3 and have the midfield do more of the defensive screening.

    2 hours ago, Hot Since 1882 said:

    Chances you buy a RB? Anyone to promote from Cobham - and odds on that over spending £15-30M on a 'stop-gap RB'?  

    How highly do you guys rate James? - for England/Neutral - I've always rated Walker miles ahead, then Trent, Trippier.

    Enjoy watch him play, seems talented - but if he turned into your Wilshere - how long before you look to spend £100M on a right back?

    James is the most complete. He would be about 2nd for any technical, tactical or physical aspect if comparing those players. Take Trent for example - more creative than anyone on that list but James is better defensively, physically, would probably rack up the same number of assists if he was feeding the Liverpool frontline, and is a bigger goal threat. 

    Alas, I think it's time to move the guy to midfield and bring back memories of those Wigan days. Note, Disasi can cover at RB as well which is probably a good reason as to why the club got him.

    49 minutes ago, ozboy said:

    So I could support Whitewall's suggestion of having Pavard as a backup.

    Waste of funds. Use Disasi or buy a youngster. Wouldn't be a surprise if they bought, although I personally would just keep Lewis Hall and use him there.

    2 minutes ago, TheCeleryKing said:

    So.

     

    How long is he out for?
     

    Do we have an estimate?

    All season, effectively. He'll get fit for a week or two here or there, but let's not kid ourselves. I love Reece, but we can't ever count on him for the long haul again. 

    1 hour ago, venom2011 said:

    Waste of funds. Use Disasi or buy a youngster. Wouldn't be a surprise if they bought, although I personally would just keep Lewis Hall and use him there.

    Yes they should try and keep him.

    2 hours ago, ozboy said:

    I am very confident, maybe without enough reason, that Gusto will do a great job defensively, but yet to show what he has in attack. In short Gusto excellent off the ball but unknown to me when he's on it.

    So I could support Whitewall's suggestion of having Pavard as a backup.

    Equally i think this may speed up the switch to 4 3 3 and have the midfield do more of the defensive screening.

    Gusto looked good in pre-season. I think he will be able to provide decent cover. Of course we will miss Reece but hopefully his absence will be a little less felt than last year

    1 hour ago, venom2011 said:

    Waste of funds. Use Disasi or buy a youngster. Wouldn't be a surprise if they bought, although I personally would just keep Lewis Hall and use him there.

    Lewis Hall has made it pretty clear he wants to play in midfield though. Disasi or Chalobah would be options to look at if Gusto is unavailable

    5 hours ago, ozboy said:

    I am very confident, maybe without enough reason, that Gusto will do a great job defensively, but yet to show what he has in attack. In short Gusto excellent off the ball but unknown to me when he's on it.

    So I could support Whitewall's suggestion of having Pavard as a backup.

    Equally i think this may speed up the switch to 4 3 3 and have the midfield do more of the defensive screening.

    Interested in your thoughts on James @ozboy. You were one who regularly called for Kante to be moved on for his injury record. With James picking up so many injuries and missing so many games, and at such a young age, would you be looking to sell him on now?

    41 minutes ago, just said:

    Interested in your thoughts on James @ozboy. You were one who regularly called for Kante to be moved on for his injury record. With James picking up so many injuries and missing so many games, and at such a young age, would you be looking to sell him on now?

    Actually I would also ask the same question of @ducavis and @OriginalS and @Scott Harris.

    James missing so many games now, do you look to sell?

     

    8 hours ago, Hot Since 1882 said:

    Chances you buy a RB? Anyone to promote from Cobham - and odds on that over spending £15-30M on a 'stop-gap RB'?  

    How highly do you guys rate James? - for England/Neutral - I've always rated Walker miles ahead, then Trent, Trippier.

    Enjoy watch him play, seems talented - but if he turned into your Wilshere - how long before you look to spend £100M on a right back?

    Trippier over James? I don't know what you've been watching.

    James is by far the most complete player, excellent ball control, passing, crossing, and very sound defensively. 

    I'm not even one of those to say "our player is better than x" when it comes to England, I said Shaw was a better option to Chilwell for the World Cup and EURO's and I love Chilwell (I would say different now mind). But James is better than all those RB's you mentioned, the only thing Walker has over him is pace and that's it. The problem with James is that he's always injured and it's going to impact his potential. But to be honest, he's the best talent I've seen from our academy since John Terry. 

     

    1 hour ago, just said:

    Interested in your thoughts on James @ozboy. You were one who regularly called for Kante to be moved on for his injury record. With James picking up so many injuries and missing so many games, and at such a young age, would you be looking to sell him on now?

    James is a young club captain and the extent of his present injury isn’t known. Kante was ageing and the fact that he went to Saudis shows he was past his best. So I certainly don’t advocate selling James but I do think Gusto might need a backup. James’s is an excellent player when fit. So far he hasn’t had the opportunity to show that over a whole season in the way that Kante did over his 4-5 peak years. So regrettably James may end up as one of those “if only” careers. Sigh. 

    He just became the captain, he'll be back stronger than ever. Still sad that we can never have the opportunity to play the best possible team, Liverpool and Man City can do that most of the time. So I fully expect that someone else will get injured once James is back, it's just the theme of the squad.

    You can't really win the league if your key players are always missing.

    Edited by Gol15

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