macjireh:
who now plays in d finals kante or kova?

donjazet:


Let me now calm down to reply this unnecessary verbiage.
First of all, my anger then was geared towards the management for their sheer deceit towards the fans. After all, they did promise to embark on a long term project with lampard and then dumped him at the first bad spell.
Never you forget that lampard did after all supercede expectations last season and for some spells earlier this season, did make chelsea look unbeatable until that unfortunate inexplicable slump in form. And most importantly,cultured our best youths on the biggest stages.

In hindsight, the managements decision seem to be a good decision seeing as Tuchel has won us over with with his tactically astute and well organized team set-up. But one can't still help but wonder what happens when that dreaded slump or bad spell comes.
This is football. Every team no matter how good is assured of having bad spells at a certain point. Even if Tuchel wins us the FA cup and the champions league this season, will that save him enough credit in the bank when that time comes?? As a chelsea fan, you truly cannot answer that question.
Liverpool are still having a bad spell, yet they stuck with their manager. Man city had a bad spell earlier in the season, yet they rightly stuck with their manager. Likewise united.

I'll repeat what I said months ago. Being a chelsea fan can be pretty emotionally intensive. Almost every biannual season, we go from an absolute high to an absolute depth. A cycle that always triggers a managerial change, which of course is very sad seeing as the outgoing manager must have won us over with his preceding efforts. It involves us having to start from scratch everytime.
I yearn and wish for stability. The board needs to be clear eyed when hiring a manager. They need to be sure of what they're getting into and the achievable targets for their new recruits. For instance, they knew lampard was a rookie but they hired him on the basis of granting him enough time to; play good football, nurture our academy players and SUBSEQUENTLY win trophies. Half way down, they betrayed that promise. Likewise sarri. They start a process and never give the project time to materialize.

I am very happy with Tuchel now for his efforts. All of us can agree that he has set-up a team that is now very hard to beat. A team that now shows and holds a lot of promise for the future. And my most fervent hope and prayer is that we remember these moments very well when he is at his lowest and trust him and give him a chance to reproduce these moments.

Bville02:


I trust Tuchel to make the best choice which will win us the trophy. Kante or Kovacic, I know the champion's league is ours.

rationalmind:


If it was just an exchange of pleasantries, fine. To see him laugh in that manner after your team had just lost a UCL S.final is all shades of wrong.

popizaino:


Is that what you understand from my post ?

BlueMann:




His case is a sorry one. He looks an utter shadow of himself from his Chelsea days, and nothing seems to be going right for him.

I seriously do not see how he can hit peak form anymore. Not like her has age on his side again.

And one big saving grace he has is that there aren't fans in stadia at the moment. Real Madrid fans are known to be ruthless - even CR7 hasn't been spared harsh treatment in the past.



If only he turned up at Real Madrid in top shape. Secured his dream move, yet he came in overweight and he hasn't been able to recover since.

Sha thank God we enjoyed the best of him at Stamford Bridge.

nihilistjnr:


Kante is not playing the makelele role at all.

Makelele used to sit and intercept, not like Kante that defends the whole pitch.

I'm not sure I've seen anybody know n world football quite like Kante. The closest I can think of is probably Arturo Vidal

Jodera:
Professionally as a footballer, that's wrong. What's worse is that he's not even in form to even appease fans.
If he had done a handshake or just spoken to zouma, it would have been understandable, but that hearty Laughter, it feels as if he was mocking them(Madrid )

rationalmind:


If it was just an exchange of pleasantries, fine. To see him laugh in that manner after your team had just lost a UCL S.final is all shades of wrong.

NinjaMetahuman:





It's just a laugh. And it was obviously because zouma said something funny. It doesn't look like he was mocking madrid or anything. And it all happened on the pitch, not in the chelsea's dressing room or something.

Fans and spanish media are just looking for something to hold on to after painful loss and hazard's terrible form is not helping his matter. If he is a golden boy in madrid, it won't be a big deal.


I wonder why barcelona fans and spanish media are not up in are arm when koeman was laughing very hard after 4-1 defeat.

NinjaMetahuman:





It's just a laugh. And it was obviously because zouma said something funny. It doesn't look like he was mocking madrid or anything. And it all happened on the pitch, not in the chelsea's dressing room or something.

Fans and spanish media are just looking for something to hold on to after painful loss and hazard's terrible form is not helping his matter. If he is a golden boy in madrid, it won't be a big deal.


I wonder why barcelona fans and spanish media are not up in arm when koeman was laughing very hard after 4-1 defeat.

swiz123:


Imagine Sarri laughing at me after his cluelessness made city beat us 6-0. I'd take a gun to West Lodon in the dead of the night.. Such utter disrespect can only be sated with blood.

Skimpledawg:

As it stands, Kante should be rested for much of our games this season and unleashed during the FA cup and UCL finals.

Only Kante can harass KDB and Stone cold-Fernadinho and unsettle them. I need a replay of that in the UCL finals.

Greatihex:
Do you think he is happy in Madrid? Getting subbed in 60 minutes? It is just that he is not much of a controversial person so he doesn't know how to express anger.

Jodera:
Him laughing that hard looks that it wasn't very serious he took that match, hence the loss didn't pain him. I mean that's not just a league match(which is understandable) but a semi final of UCL. Even ordinary tournament that guys play at street that involves money, a loser won't be seen laughing such a way with an opposition player even if both of them are close friends. Also, he should have done that away from the pitch not cracking jokes at the pitch side. Why you're taking it lightly is because you won and you're in a happy mood (same way zouma and Mendy won't see anything wrong with what he did). But I assure you, if you're a real Madrid fan, na pepper dat pix go pepper you for body. You can never ever catch Ronaldo, messi, kroos, Ramos or modric or most top players do what hazard did ystdy no matter what (esp if they're the losing side)

As for the pix below, it garnered talk(go to barca thread) but not as much as hazard cos Koeman didn't laugh and crack jokes with PSG players

swiz123:
Those old cargos in Madrid that doesn't like anyone that earns more than them are holding that club back.

Even though they sign Mbappe, Ramos will still take penalties; they will still pass more to their man Benzema. They didn't want to rate Hazard hence they didn't build the team around him. I even see Modric trying useless side-footed passes to that average Vinicius.

Kante made all of them look even older than they are and that gave me orgasm. They think it's by flexing muscle against teams with express road as defense line like Barca.

Jodera:
Hmmm... If that is a way of expressing his anger and displeasures, then he's 10x lucky fans ain't at the stadium. You never do anything, so so injuries, yet you(hazard) dey claim displeasure and anger.

Him never serious

Greatihex:
Dey there nah. You never read about em burger eating adventures when not playing?

BTW, do you see Ziyech whenever he is subbed, especially when he has not scored?

Skimpledawg:
Abeg, someone or anyone drop the link to Madrids' thread abeg.


I have a message from the lord for Melvyn11.

Ebukacute:

Oga shut da fvvck up and take this nonsense out of here... You can Jo soapy with it if you want.

Jodera:
So na pension retirement him go do for a whole Madrid ? this is wonderful

As for ziyech, the few times I've watched, I've not noticed his countenance

Greatihex:
You have not been observant then.

Hazard's burger eating was when he was at lille and Chelsea.
He was not in form at lille and his manager dropped him, nigga went to a shop opposite the stadium to be eating burger while his team were playing.

swiz123:
Those old cargos in Madrid that doesn't like anyone that earns more than them are holding that club back.

Even though they sign Mbappe, Ramos will still take penalties; they will still pass more to their man Benzema. They didn't want to rate Hazard hence they didn't build the team around him. I even see Modric trying useless side-footed passes to that average Vinicius.

Kante made all of them look even older than they are and that gave me orgasm. They think it's by flexing muscle against teams with express road as defense line like Barca.

Ibrahim79mantu:

Havertz was the most intelligent player last night. His sublime touches and passes were simply too good for the opponents to handle

monerozi5590:



You know nothing about Madrid. Our formation yesterday was just to accommodate Hazard. Have you ever seen Vinicius playing RWB?.. Hazard disbalances our team.


Hazard is a fraud not just a fraud but a very big fraud.

popizaino:


I will welcome back my fraud with open arms .

Bville02:


Exactly. Kovacic should be fit to face City on Saturday, Kante should have some rest. We need him for the greater good.

FBS:

Was that what you meant?