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Boga and Musonda coming on

Thecassanova:
So throw-in can be offside?

I'm not understanding

Rubbish officials. WTF are they doing?

jaysmallz:
Chel 0 -2 inter..

Perisic

Azpilicueta out
Rudiger in

No Alonso out

The set up is incredibly unbalanced

Too easy for them. Where was Moses?

Dubious penalty. Poor decision

diggz:
Lol sorry bruv. I noticed . Welcome back man.

Yeah. I saw your message almost immediately after my hidden message.

Nawa o! 48-hour ban because I posted a football link. I say make I reply Ibime ni o.

olabode89:
Again.. Concerning Neymar you also do not understand the business of football. There is little or no risk in the Neymar signing from a financial perspective. Dude is a money making machine, he is extremely marketable especially in Latin America and Asia.

Hehe. Figures mate, figures! Given that statistically, a whole league sells about 5m to 6m shirts per season, how can you justify that? The clubs with the highest selling number of shirts are probably Barcelona, Bayern, United, Madrid and Chelsea. I bet no one of them sells more than 2m shirts per season. Given that most of these shirts sell between £35 and £80 and at an average £50 per shirts, the highest earners make an estimated £100m per season from combined team shirt sales. This is Real Madrid level sales.

Even if Neymar makes up for a whopping 70% shirt sales in a 1.5m (grossly overstated sales number) for PSG; at £50 per shirt, he would make no more that £75m per season. The catch though is that about 70-80% of those sales go to Adidas/Nike, leaving PSG with a paltry £15m/year from Neymar's estimated shirt sales.

Look at the figures mate! Double the figures if you like, triple the sales if you want, how can Neymar ever pay back €222m transfer fee over, let alone the reported £200m salary over 5 years? Neymar will need to be pusing PSG shirt sales to about 5m shirts a year to stand any chance of ever repaying his transfer fee. To put things in perspective, the whole of the Premier league sells no more than 5m shirts.

How do you make such declaration with a straight face?

Nihilist:
With Rudiger and Bakayoko in the squas, we should be looking for a way to switch to a back 4 abeg.

Having an extra man in defence is useless when we battle teams with solid midfield.

We saw that too many times last season - spurs, city, and Manyoo for example.

The wingbacks can't even go anywhere because when they bomb up, they leave opposition wingers waiting in space.

Just look at what the likes of Ribery and Rafinha were doing today when Moses and Alonso went up field.

With Rudiger and Bakayoko in the squad, we should be looking to entrench the 3-4-3. Increased mobility and pressing is what we will notice as improvements.

That's a pre-season game and very little should be made of it.
Bayern will be doing the same. And they will not be wrong.
Insert Rudiger, Bakayoko, Morata, Hazard, Pedro and Sandro (assumption) into that lineup and Bayern know they are up a against a proper solid team.

Rumour has it that Conte is looking at 3 more players. I will be watching the Pre-season with pop-corn in a relaxed mode. Almost nothing of what we see now will be relevant by August 31st.

afrodoc2:
You are facing a team that will hug possession and you field a midfield of Kante and lazy Fabregas?
That was where the kasala started bursting. Anyway it is just pre-season but if Conte tries that Fab-Kante combo in UCL against the likes of Bayern, Barca e.t.c they will use Shekpe's nose to blow horn.

This is a moot point really. There is a reason why ninjahs were beefing Conte last season for playing Matic ahead of Fab, despite never having been a fan of Matic's all along.

Conte can smell this from a mile away. If Bakayoko was fit, he will be playing. End of!

Good goal Alonso

3 goals in 27 mins

afrodoc2:
Was Cortouis diving to catch a ball or a chicken? lol

Hey Doc, where are you watching? Chelsea TV not showing. Strange!

Real Madrid £160m for Mbappe.


Football needs a big bust. So we can reset and and start all over. This insanity cannot persist.

lordfalcao:
I have always know that this Kennedy is an unserious Brazilian.

When you see 20/21-year-old players who have not achieved much wearing boots with different colours, you know they lack the professionalism required to even aspire to be great.

They like the idea of greatness but lack the base qualities/attitude to be a mere first 11 starter.

Kennedy sent packing. Eediot!

bigkesh:
Sergi Roberto bawo

3-4-3 don't need utility players abeg,we need specialists

If he is coming as a CM,he will be 4th choice and Baker can do that
And we all know he won't be great at RWB

Buy guys with defined roles

No Bigkesh. You are not sure of that.

The ability to be a utility player is what led to the discovery of Moses at RWB. He is actually an average Winger and RB.
The ability to be a utility player is what led to the discovery of Alonso at LWB. He is actually an average Winger and LB.

No we don't need specialist players in a 3-4-3. What we need, are players with intelligence that can transfer their abilities to fill a role and own it. That's what happened with Azpili, Moses and Alonso. Who could have predicted in 2016, that after one full season and 33 apps, no single Chelsea fan will be calling for an upgrade on David Luiz? But he is not even a specialist CB.

The underlying factor is the individual player's football intelligence and Sergi has bags of that.

Unlimited22:
I think I'll soon stop visiting goal.com.
How can we be willing to pay €40m for one midfielder who couldn't find a place to play and wasn't willing to go out and hustle, so he began playing right back?
Sergi Roberto ko, Sergi Roberto ni.

Are you referring to Moses?

Griffon:
Saw the news too, serious business. Are you giving a green light to the deal?

Absolutely! Very good player. The guy's got football intelligence. And you know I have been wanting this dude since he was 19.

Jose Carazo claiming we are willing to meet Sergi Roberto's release clause - 40m Euros.

Nihilist:
Do I deliver this mail or not...

Hmmmm...

Choices...choices.....

Please do not Maester!

nitrogen:
Oga, Mourinho did edge out Conte last season. That is what you don't know.

Meanwhile, you better 'Negodu' now, before someone 'panel beats you tonight.

Hehehe. Edge out. Please check out the topic of the thread you are responding to.

funlord:
See better advice from his psychologist?

Passing by or delivering a direct mail?

Vanquay:
You happy now?

Nice punchlines let's clap for Pork Fat

Mate. Sometimes it is more honourable to accept defeat than trying clap back with dry stuff.
Take some absence. Blame it on anything. . . Like you were in discussions with hunchbacks to prove a point... Or something related. You know?

Just go away for a while mbok. You cannot recover from that.

Ibime:
I'm glad my daughter fine like her daddy. On the other hand, any woman that attempts to allow you pass your nasal features to the next generation should be given VIP pass to the abortion clinic.

I hope an ape like yourself will not have any daughters, otherwise you would be the one to pay bride price to the groom when the time comes

You are the reason HR professionals advise people never to put their face on CV. Hunchbacks wouldn't swap shoulders for your nose.

Even if you mind your own business, you would still be a nosy neighbour.

If you sneeze down the phone, the person on the other line will catch ear infection.

There is enough cartilage in this nose for doctors to harvest and use as transplant for knee injuries. I have knee injury myself. Can you lend me some nose?

Don't let Pep catch you. He will use you to treat Gundogan.

I don't believe in reincarnation, but you must have been an anteater in your past life. Only you can smell what the rock is cooking.

I'm not usually one for reminiscing, but everytime I see your pictures, I get feelings of nostalgia.

See your big nose and tongue like monitor lizard. Can you lick your nose with your tongue?

Jesuuuu!

Nihilist:
Next thing you'll hear is Play X, Play Y like Conte is holding pad in a gamecentre.

If you look out of place in a game with nothing riding on it, teams who are desperate for points will eat you alive in serious competition.

Arsenal have had chances to score at least 2 now.

This is not particular to Chelsea youth. Plus you can't just pluck a bunch of young players who've played in different parts of the world under different systems and chuck them in a 3-4-3 and expect them to dazzle. That's not how youth football works. Even the senior players looked a little disjointed, the first time they played a 3-4-3.

Criticism is good but it needs to be within context.

Good game

Bakerrrr

Nihilist:
Who be that guy wey sleep for floor abeg

Mr Chamberlain

Gooooaaaallllll