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Nihilstjnr:
Me, I have my own agenda.

I'm not even bothering to assess what Morata can bring to Chelsea as I'm already convinced that he wasn't even ready for EPL in the first place. If Conte manages to work on his mentality, then great. Otherwise, it's simply more ammo for me.

My main agenda is to prove the guys who said first touch is better than goals, that I was right and they were wrong.

Call me the Arya Stark of the thread, cos I have a list of people I need to kill this season.

Don't worry Nateevs...you're last on the list....

lordfalcao:
what made you think Chelsea would have not attracted top coaches in ancelotti, mourinho and co ? Is pochettino different from them ?

Nihilstjnr:
I don't think you even know what your talking about. Drogba at Chelsea was playing with Balon Do'r and WPOTY podium finalist, UEFA midfielder of the year, African Footballer or the Year, UEFA defender of the year and so on...

He was not playing with Kante, Alonso or Victor Moses.

Drogba's team could afford to share the goal scoring burden...This team can't.

I don't understand how it's not immediately obvious.

I mean you're the same dude who was arguing that Costa's goals won something for us...but now Morata doesn't need to?

Be consistent mehn...

Griffon:
Telegraph are running a report that the board has promised Conte three more signings.

Aurier, Van Dijk and Drinkwater are the players shortlisted already.

Now IMHO, the arrival of Dijk should see Azpi moved to the RWB on a permanent basis. We already have to many Centre-halfs and it's getting crowded over there.

With Azpi and Moses at the RWB, there won't be any need to bring in Aurier, who looks pretty much like Costa 0.2, rather his funds should get us another LWB, a competition for the feeble Alonso.

Drinkwater would count as homegrown talent and he knows the league well too. I won't mind having him, that our midfield needs anything that can trap the ball and tackle humans, just incase Kante shuts down.

One LWB, one CB and one CM, and we are good.

Your thoughts.

lordfalcao:
nobi today Chelsea begin sack coaches. If he resign we pick another person probably pochettino..

dopeJemi:
you bought a striker for 70m to score 20+ goals in 2020

alright

afrodoc2:


I hate inconsistency too. It seems Morata was bought for his touch not his goals.

airmark:
Zola said morata would not fit into our style, that we should buy a striker that will hit the ground running. Fast forward, before morata played his first game, conte was already saying kane was his ideal striker, that morata needed time to adapt. If you cant see sense in what zola said and the reality on ground now, it's not my problem.

That pep has always been struggling with his defensive setups, doesn't make him dumb in other aspect of coaching a team. So if zola failed as an all-round coach in average teams, that doesn't mean he won't have a good knowledge of the type of attackers that will gel in a big team. Di matteo won us ucl, but last year he was hired and fired by aston villa within 4 months. So if matteo airs his views now, you will ask him to shut it.

Meanwhile, Zola was a chelsea attacker and a great one at that. So from experience, what he had said for now, is spot on. We are not even sure if morata was conte's first choice. If he was and he is telling us he needs time to adapt, then i have overrated him as a coach. Then the board may be right dragging foot to rush and sign more spineless players suggested by him. Let's be more intelligent in our convo.
Thank you.

Leyqute:
Antonio Conte to Resign



No be me talk am o. Na Karawa talk am.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/10978805/jamie-carragher-on-antonio-conte-ill-be-surprised-if-hes-still-at-chelsea-in-a-year

raumdeuter:
I can pretend to be anything. I didnt see his posts anywhere until the Neymar saga and it sounded like he was just trolling

airmark:
I will actually recommend animal pak to him. He needs to be juiced up

nonsoroyalty:
God forbid that's why I hardly go there because of fools like that

Imagine someone wishing death on neymar because he left barca. Isn't that extreme?

raumdeuter:
That guy is not a Barca fan, I am sure he is a troll

nonsoroyalty:
the annoying part was that some people were supporting him, like that sumarai whatever

nonsoroyalty:
If you deliver this mail Na me and you go collect ban

nateevs:
You still misunderstand my post. If you look back, you will see I referenced a difference between depth in numbers and depth in quality.
My disagreement was in us being shorter in numbers from last season but I never disagreed with quality.

I think I was the first on this forum to state categorically, that we need upgrades for the positions of Cahill, Matic, Moses, Pedro and Alonso. And I wasn't even advocating selling those players.

sod09:
Guys I heard that, the ball Courtois kicked has not been found yet

nateevs:
Me sef wan see the fight. I never even read two post, some people don dey talk leaked episodes, the war, somebody died......
I was like naaah. This will end in sorrow.

I will come back after my catch-up

nateevs:
Damn! I cannot go there unfortunately. I have 2 episodes to catch up on.
I will hate myself for ruining it for myself.

Ibime:
Which thread Una dey talk about?

nateevs:
Which thread abeg? But I am sure all posts would have been hidden by now.

bykebyke:
At least I would give Shell a two months notice before I leave so they would look for a suitable replacement.


Why big club fit sell their stars now weh league wan start?

Make our season end in shambles first if I no go take plane to Paris shoot the bastard myself.

nonsoroyalty:
Dude hasn't gotten to Zuckerberg's level and he's already behaving like north Korea's leader

Nihilstjnr:
I don chop ban

Nihilstjnr:
One thing I noticed about our wingbacks versus theirs is that Arsenals wingbacks are natural ball carriers.

Bellerin and Ox drive up field with the box and create space.

Moses is the only one that does that for us, and to a limited extent sef. Alonso doesn't really run with the ball, instead he chooses to take up good attacking positions...and hopes that sombedy finds him with a good pass.

Unfortunately with Hazard out, we only have Fab and Willian to carry the ball and try and find players in space. Maybe we can add Luiz to that. And Willian is not even that good sef.

This one reason why there was such a huge gap between midfield and attack yesterday. Most of our players are runners off the ball...unlike Arsenal where them dey show for pass at all times.

Can't we just shift to 352 so that Morata can at least use his first touch at number 10?

airmark:
Yea, at this point we just need a replacement real quick, no matter the age. I dont know how morata will not get bullied, starting our matches.
We cant wait for him man.

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