16 minutes ago, dermott said:

You and your in-depth analysis. Enough. This is a place for glib, knee-jerk write-offs.

Just got off the phone from The Athletic. They've seen my post and wondered if I'd be interested in writing a regular feature for them.

i cannot even remember if he was any good.   Poor lad.   Only 30 professional appearances to his name.  We didn't really need to buy him.  I am sure Todd & co. did their due diligence and watched a significant amount of you tube videos before signing him and we should trust in the project.

2 minutes ago, TheCeleryKing said:

i cannot even remember if he was any good.   Poor lad.   Only 30 professional appearances to his name.  We didn't really need to buy him.  I am sure Todd & co. did their due diligence and watched a significant amount of you tube videos before signing him and we should trust in the project.

He was excellent against us for Southampton at the beginning of last season.

Just now, Gonoir Beniashile said:

He was excellent against us for Southampton at the beginning of last season.

When we sign a promising lad, we all naturally want him to do well.  WE cannot write him off just yet, we have to see him play first.

Wes Fofana also.

3 hours ago, TheCeleryKing said:

When we sign a promising lad, we all naturally want him to do well.  WE cannot write him off just yet, we have to see him play first.

Wes Fofana also.

The thing with Wes is that he's been out for so long, will he ever get back to what he was? Remember that Essien injury, he never came back the same!

4 hours ago, TheCeleryKing said:

When we sign a promising lad, we all naturally want him to do well.  WE cannot write him off just yet, we have to see him play first.

Wes Fofana also.

Significant difference. 

Lavia earns £45K per week and is battling a muscular injury, that in all likelihood, seemed to have happened through errors from the clubs side (rushing him back in). 

Fofana is on £200K per week to which the club have paid more than half a million per appearance from him throughout his Chelsea career. He's also coming back from 2 career defining injuries that both alone are difficult to come back from 100%. 

23 hours ago, Gonoir Beniashile said:

Just got off the phone from The Athletic. They've seen my post and wondered if I'd be interested in writing a regular feature for them.

I thought you were Simon Johnson posting here under a pseudonym anyway.

18 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Significant difference. 

Lavia earns £45K per week and is battling a muscular injury, that in all likelihood, seemed to have happened through errors from the clubs side (rushing him back in). 

Fofana is on £200K per week to which the club have paid more than half a million per appearance from him throughout his Chelsea career. He's also coming back from 2 career defining injuries that both alone are difficult to come back from 100%. 

Different wages are always thrown about, but believe me Lavia will be on a lot more than that. Still not anywhere near Fofana but he defo is on at least £70-70k P/W.

Lads, he's real!

So that is AI, presenting something or someone as real that isn't 🤔

Can’t wait to see him tackle De Bruyne with his walking stick!

I’m really looking forward to seeing if we play Lavia, Caicedo and Enzo in the same midfield towards the end of the season. From the few games I’ve seen Lavia play he’s probably the most natural 6 we have and could release the other 2

 

Yeah it was a quad tear. A bitch of an injury to recover from. 

Back early March. 

7 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Yeah it was a quad tear. A bitch of an injury to recover from. 

Back early March. 

As has been said before his injury record before joining us was not bad.

I believe it was one of his first training sessions he got injured in, then the next training after his first apparence he did this tear.

Lady luck not smiling on him.

On 19/02/2024 at 20:10, axman2526 said:

As has been said before his injury record before joining us was not bad.

I believe it was one of his first training sessions he got injured in, then the next training after his first apparence he did this tear.

Lady luck not smiling on him.

Missed 10 games in his one full season he played, not exactly a good injury record. 

I guess the "news" we were all expecting ... he is now confirmed by the club as missing the rest of the season .. :-( 

Not surprised. Just waiting for the club to announce that Lesly will also miss the remainder of the season, for what should be a thorough investigation as to why those three (with Nkunku) have been out for so long. 

£58m for 30 minutes!

He was injured when we bought him too. I'd love to know who sanctioned this signing. Awful business.

1 minute ago, forbzy said:

He was injured when we bought him too. I'd love to know who sanctioned this signing. Awful business.

Joe Shields. 

He'll be a good player for us imo. We've mismanaged him completely it seems. Lesly and Nkunku too. 

Another awful signing from the buffoons in charge.

Never known a club to waste so much money for so little return. It's a crime 

Setbacks, setbacks, setbacks. All of our injured players suffer setbacks once they are close to returning. Worrying

Lavia, Fofana, Nkuku, James. All basically missed the entire season.

Chilwell, Ugochukque, Chukwuemeka, looking like missing half the season, at least.

Crazy how this injury crisis just never ends. It's been going on for years now.

Gotta feel for the young lad, must be gutted to have been injured this long after signing. 

Quite sad to see so many fans slating him (mostly on social media), I`m pretty sure he doesnt want to be injured.

it won't get mentioned by the pundits  it doesn't suit their agenda ...bet the 1BN spend does though