10 minutes ago, just said:

Broja already has so much more to his game than Aubameyang has now.

Strength, aerial ability, hold up play, works hard and of course has the one thing all defenders fear..  real pace. We should be letting him loose, not holding him back. God knows we need a striker with those assets.

We are drooling over Aubameyang only because we have had so much garbage up front, for so long, the moment a 33 year old comes a long who actually looks like he can finish something other than his lunch, we start feeling giddy with euphoria. But he won't finish every chance and from what we've so far his all round play, and also his work rate IMO, leaves an awful lot to be desired.

 

 

 

Agreed. But as Potter has made his feelings with Zakaria and Ziyech quite clear in his selections, so has he with our forwards.

 

Auba > Havertz > Sterling > Broja.

1 hour ago, Gentian said:

Apparently Ac Milan are very interested on Broja and have had their representatives in London to discuss a 35 million euro move. 

I would be disappointed if he left because you can clearly see that he is humble and talented.

When he missed that opportunity to pass to Mount it was lack of experience, although he did create a great opportunity for Havertz from hardwork and perseverance.

Along with Chalobah, I thought he was very good against Brentford, just a bit unlucky not to get a goal. 

I can imagine the majority of the fans fuming if we were to let Broja go. We don't even have a long term striker to begin with and there are no hints of giving Lukaku one more chance as he's set to stay in Inter. 

I doubt we will sell him to AC for a tiny 35M, if there's a deal if has to involve Raffel Leao ( allegedly we are so keen for him). He deserves to play more, will only get better if he does

Got him tied down for 5 years haven't we? No chance he leaves for 35M.

9 hours ago, icecoolguy22 said:

I doubt we will sell him to AC for a tiny 35M, if there's a deal if has to involve Raffel Leao ( allegedly we are so keen for him). He deserves to play more, will only get better if he does

This.

Even the chance he should have squared it earlier, he still managed to hold onto possession and fire the ball across goal that Kai should have knocked in if he was more alert.

1 hour ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Got him tied down for 5 years haven't we? No chance he leaves for 35M.

6 years.

It’s pretty bad isn’t it, Broja cameo minutes got me more excited about him than I ever was about Havertz.

1 hour ago, coco said:

6 years.

Half way through this season now, 5 and a half left 😉

19 minutes ago, dansubrosa said:

It’s pretty bad isn’t it, Broja cameo minutes got me more excited about him than I ever was about Havertz.

I think we just need to give up on big money signings these days. Havertz, Lukaku, Kepa (pre-5 games ago) all massively underwhelming. Fofana hasn't really showed he's better than Chalobah so far.

3 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Half way through this season now, 5 and a half left 😉

2028 blimey He’ll still be retiring before me.

20 hours ago, just said:

Broja already has so much more to his game than Aubameyang has now.

Strength, aerial ability, hold up play, works hard and of course has the one thing all defenders fear..  real pace. We should be letting him loose, not holding him back. God knows we need a striker with those assets.

We are drooling over Aubameyang only because we have had so much garbage up front, for so long, the moment a 33 year old comes a long who actually looks like he can finish something other than his lunch, we start feeling giddy with euphoria. But he won't finish every chance and from what we've so far his all round play, and also his work rate IMO, leaves an awful lot to be desired.

 

 

 

As must as I rate Broja and went in record of NOT wanting us to sign Aubameyang, think you are going slightly OTT there Just.

Want to see him play more and more minutes - definitely ahead of Havertz in the pecking order, but fully expect Potter to keep him on the bench as our super sub. Hopefully the more he impresses when coming on from the bench, the more minutes he will get until it proves hard for Potter to leave him out.

 

 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Nibs said:

As must as I rate Broja and went in record of NOT wanting us to sign Aubameyang, think you are going slightly OTT there Just.

Want to see him play more and more minutes - definitely ahead of Havertz in the pecking order, but fully expect Potter to keep him on the bench as our super sub. Hopefully the more he impresses when coming on from the bench, the more minutes he will get until it proves hard for Potter to leave him out.

Nibs never thought I'd see you arguing against giving a young player his chance!

Again, he did more than Auba.

Created something out of nothing once again. He's basically the only attacker right now that can actually do something when the ball is passed to him he showed it last time and now he won the penalty. The rest just lose the ball or take too much time, Broja should be starting for us.

I sort of wish we didn't sign Aubameyang. It will always cause problems with playing youth players.

I think Potter has done more with Broja than most managers would - just need patience and I think more games will come. I do believe Broja is his type of striker more than Aubameyang.

20 minutes ago, Chelsc96 said:

I sort of wish we didn't sign Aubameyang. It will always cause problems with playing youth players.

I think Potter has done more with Broja than most managers would - just need patience and I think more games will come. I do believe Broja is his type of striker more than Aubameyang.

This is correct.

He's bang overrated here though - currently, that is. He has an awful lot to learn and made some very poor decisions on the pitch against Brentford. But he has the potential to become a world class player, and he is exactly the type of striker GP used in Östersund and Swansea (not as much in Brighton, because they simply didn't have a player like that available).

Aubameyang is a non-GP player. He's good at what he does - putting the ball into the net - but too limited otherwise. However, for the time being, Chelsea got better chances to win games with Auba than with Broja.

So how did starting Auba and Sterling do for us rather than go with Broja and Carney Mr. Potter?

27 minutes ago, SwedishEntity said:

This is correct.

He's bang overrated here though - currently, that is. He has an awful lot to learn and made some very poor decisions on the pitch against Brentford. But he has the potential to become a world class player, and he is exactly the type of striker GP used in Östersund and Swansea (not as much in Brighton, because they simply didn't have a player like that available).

Aubameyang is a non-GP player. He's good at what he does - putting the ball into the net - but too limited otherwise. However, for the time being, Chelsea got better chances to win games with Auba than with Broja.

I do agree that people are jumping the gun with Broja, and it will be a slow process. I think Potter is playing him as much as he can at this point. 

I was never really a fan of the Aubameyang signing based on how it ended at Arsenal, to be honest, but I did think we needed to sign a striker in the summer. I just think it was the wrong one. 

Edited October 22, 20223 yr by Chelsc96

12 minutes ago, SwedishEntity said:

This is correct.

He's bang overrated here though - currently, that is. He has an awful lot to learn and made some very poor decisions on the pitch against Brentford. But he has the potential to become a world class player, and he is exactly the type of striker GP used in Östersund and Swansea (not as much in Brighton, because they simply didn't have a player like that available).

Aubameyang is a non-GP player. He's good at what he does - putting the ball into the net - but too limited otherwise. However, for the time being, Chelsea got better chances to win games with Auba than with Broja.

Broja is overrated on here, and hebis being overrated because our other options as so cr@p.

Auba is, at this stage of his career, like Jorginho, a specialist in one thing, putting the ball in the net. The rest of his game in pants.

Havertz is a poor false 9, as is Sterling and Mount.

That leave Broja, he is not Haaland nor Drogba but he is the best we have by some distance as he works hard and worries defenders.

Broja isn't overrated on here. Nobody is saying he is world class or anything like that, all we are saying is that he is a striker with a lot of potential and we would like to see some faith put in him. Yes, he wasn't perfect against Brentford, nobody is saying he was, but it was promising. He was making things happen and was much more involved in our attack than Aubameyang has ever been. I have seen Costa, Drogba and especially Aubameyang play much worse at their peak.

Needs to start every league game he's fit from here on out - No brainer.

On 22/10/2022 at 20:28, Scott Harris said:

Broja isn't overrated on here. Nobody is saying he is world class or anything like that, all we are saying is that he is a striker with a lot of potential and we would like to see some faith put in him. Yes, he wasn't perfect against Brentford, nobody is saying he was, but it was promising. He was making things happen and was much more involved in our attack than Aubameyang has ever been. I have seen Costa, Drogba and especially Aubameyang play much worse at their peak.

Lets not also forget we didn't get Drogba until he was 24/25 if I remember correctly. 

Broja has only just turned 21, shows everything that he can develop into a player of top standard.

And on top of all this, a few rumours/stories going around Todd wants Ronaldo in January. 

30 minutes ago, Kev56 said:

And on top of all this, a few rumours/stories going around Todd wants Ronaldo in January. 

Ronaldo doesn't go to another big team imo.

MLS or back to Portugal.