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Emenalo. That was your moment.

Nice goal Essugo

BlueMann:
Look at Tosin lmao

As in?

BlueMann:
Omo I just tuned in. Who's impressed so far

Cos it looks like Delap is on some BS

Delap is always on some BS.

basilico:
There is no fraud in maul in voting.
Why does Europe not tse it?

We can vote via post in the UK.

basilico:
Nateevs .China is paying journalists whom. You quite endlessly not knowing they are doing a number on you.
What am I desperate for?
I was trained to think and not outsource my thinking to some compromised propagandists.

Guy, you are the one who outsourced thinking. What exactly are you expecting China to be, a country without problems?

So what is your issue with China?

FACTS

China leads the world in Engineering EOS. That's nothing to do with propaganda. China graduates over 1.5m Engineers per year. China graduates more PhD Engineering holders per year, than the whole of Europe combined. I am talking Resident per Resident... not foreign study.

China leads the US in PhD engineering 7:1.

If the US allowed Chinese EVs to enter the their markets, it will be the end of the automobile industry as you currently know it. That is not propaganda. It's just facts.

Of the total number of Nuclear reactors being built in the world - 80, over half of them are in China. When those plants are completed, they will be the undisputed leader in Nuclear power, overtaking the United States.

When those plants are complete, China will be the first country in history to be completely electrical energy sufficient, without the need for a drop of Oil or 1 cubic cm of gas from anywhere in the world to produce electricity.

China leads the world in battery technology. China controls over 75% of the world's supply chain of Battery Tech. Do you understand what that means?


China control over 85% of the world's rare earth refining technology. Forget the megedefegede in the news, the US now depends heavily on China to make high-end electronic tech. The US' entire Military Industrial Base CANNOT make munitions, fighters jets, and defensive equipment, without China.

These are FACTS!

China currently leads the world in operational AI models and they operate open source. Matter of fact, most corporate consumers are ditching US companies and pivoting to Chinese-based models. Once China cracks the Lithograph Machine and can make their own advanced chips, the entire AI industry in the US will go bankrupt. FACTS!


I can go on.

If you have not outsourced your own thinking, you would have found out all of this out. The US is busy fighting needless wars all over the place and bankrupting is people, whilst China is advancing.

Keep allowing your own propaganda to consume you.

basilico:
China-United States Exchange Foundation has been paying for journalists in America to make trips to China after which they start writing positive stuff Or besmirching Trump.
Names here

https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/revealed-here-are-the-mainstream

List of journalists who have been sponsored to visit China.
Ezra Klein, Vox co-founder and New York Times columnist;

Matthew Yglesias, Vox co-founder;

Ronald Brownstein, CNN senior political analyst and Atlantic senior editor;

Bradford Plumer, New York Times reporter;

Marjorie Miller, former Associated Press vice president and editor;

Steve Clemons, former editor-at-large of The Hill;

David Rohde, former New Yorker editor and current MS NOW national security reporter;

Jonathan Alter, MSNBC commentator;

David Sweeney, former NPR managing editor;

Daniel Gross, former Yahoo Finance columnist;

Marilyn Geewax, former NPR senior editor;

Kathleen Deveny, former Newsweek and Wall Street Journal Marketplace editor;

Tom Omestad, former U.S. News & World Report correspondent;

Steve Chapman, former Chicago Tribune columnist and editorial writer;

Bruce Stokes, former National Journal correspondent;

Craig Gilbert, former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Washington bureau chief;

Tony Semerad, Salt Lake Tribune reporter;

Shikha Dalmia, former columnist for The Week;

Jonathan Broder, former Newsweek senior writer;

Cristi Kempf, former Chicago Tribune associate managing editor;

Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times deputy editorial page editor; and

Julian Pecquet, former Foreign Affairs reporter.


Anything you read from the above journalists and medis is definitely a mix of truths and propaganda.
Some of the above wrote articles praising Joe Biden ..

Many here just accept everything they read without bothering to identify if they are being led like a lamb to the slaughter.
I group liberals here into two.
1.
Those who are hopelessly and irredeemably brainwashed eg o, I and b.
2.
Others who are too scared of finding out they have been deceived eg d, b, so they block any negative opinion

Get a flight ticket and go to China yourself. Nigerians are going to China and streaming live, without any sponsoring, censorship and affiliation. Shey Nigerians are paid agents as well.

You are desperate.

cococandy:
Small business bankruptcies are through the roof because of Trump’s tariffs

Lots of folks not paying attention to this data. The things that are coming, many are not prepared.

Ballzproblemm:
Danny welbeck? ,blueco don mas ,they just can't help themselves from dashing Brighton money.

That means no future for the likes of delap , Jackson even emegha

Word is that Alonso is already disappointed with Delap's "very bad finishing" in training and generally way below the level of quality Alonso wants to work with.

Emegha is seen highly, and will join the team.

Jackson will leave to generate funds for the club.

Guiu will leave on loan. I'd rather Satpaev.

Welbeck is 35. He will not block Emegha. Instead, he will bring the much experience and leadership to the team, with a lot of top-level quality in depth, as a 3rd choice striker.

We are finally building team balance. This has Alonso written all over it.... and we should be happy the "project" is dead.

StarchAndBanga:
Enough is enough abeg. Lavia has to go if anyone shows even the slightest interest

There's no point having a good player that's never available for selection..

You know how people reached the end of the road for James saying enough is enough? Lavia is only 22. He can make a come back.

No one's going to buy him now anyway.

Enzo5:
I don't support selling half a team and expecting all of them to adjust soon
Well if we get 70m+ for neto why not, if diomande is worth 100m. Make Alonso no pack defenders for xi sha

If half the team is supported by Airmark, then you have to do the needful. Erase and start afresh if you must.

Ibime:
Your imaginary lineups na 3-4-2-1, Kittens dey talk say na 4-3-3 dey sele

Not sure how "line ups" crept into my own narrative. I was going to mention players, not line ups, as evidenced by the second part of my post.

3-4-2-1, 4-3-2-1.....I am not fussed. I believe Alonso can execute both to a high level of performance.

As far as I am concerned, the appointment of Alonso alone, along with the commitment of pursuing his own targets and appointment of Austin MacPhee already closed the gap on Arsenal.

Now I am just waiting for the midfield targets to be completed, for me to make a prediction on the league title.

Enzo5:
are there even dms or CMS that play this way anymore, that can play accurate passes across the field

Lavia! He just doesn't play.

Enzo5:
according to gittens xabi wants to play 433 (like the 4231 they have used in preseason)

should Chelsea sell neto and buy kerim, he may not adjust well like gittens or may adjust like estevao

Are you following my imaginary line ups? You se say e don dey arrange one by one, including the predicted outgoings.

Phant0mStranger:
Seriously why is no one talking about that fraud lavia

He has been here for almost 3 seasons and i can’t point to any spectacular thing he has done.

I never stop talking about Lavia o. I stan Lavia to heaven. An injury ravaged player is not a fraud.

I have faith in an injury-free Lavia. He's only 22. If managed well, he could do a James.

A fully-fit available Lavia is a weapon.

Kimbeast:
Chalobah is a good squad player, we should be selling Badiashile and Tosin first.

I agree. But he's got the most value, and we need to balance the books.

We would be lucky to get £20m for those two combined.

drisham:
Why would he leave a club playing CL footy like Madrid , with a chance to win the league
To come to Chelsea

When there's another club playing CL footy in arsenal interested in him?

Thankfully, we are in a new era and the club is focused on letting Alonso have what he wants. Even the Ant and Dec Technical Directors have been sidelined.

Alonso will NOT want Vini, and that's where it ends. Thankfully. We cannot be carying a player who chooses when he wants to put in a defensive shift.

Ihebu4chelsea:
It's sad we are not linked to any decent goal keeper, we just cannot continue with Sanchez.

Word is Alonso has asked for time to evaluate the current GKs during PS before making a decision.

Bluelines69:
He’d be the main man at Arsenal though, also I don’t think any team has as much harmony as Arsenal currently so i don’t see it tbh

Vini that Alonso could not control.... throwing tantrums openly because of defensive duties. Arteta don land problem. There is no space for prima donnas in the PL. Your ego go puncture asap.

When it comes to strict team discipline, Alonso is cut from the same cloth as JM. Therefore, it is no surprise JM is riding of him. Discipline.

Bluelines69:
Vini to Arsenal, God abeg

Vini is a dressing room time bomb. I hope the move happens.

popizaino:
I wouldn't expect you to understand even if i explain to you like a child because you have been conditioned to see it as ridiculous but i will still do it anyway.

Any midfielder is capable of playing anywhere in the midfield,it is either he needs to increase his pace or lower it and also takes a willing coach and an instruction.

It is why Bastian Schweinteger in a midfield of 4 can easily be slotted to the base of the midfield in the later part of his career.

Pirlo from an attacking midfield can return to the base of the midfield likewise Xavi.

Lampard your box to box played at the base of the midfield and did excellently well there.

There are certain traits that makes these people midfielders not defenders. A born defender don't have this trait. A midfielder can easily become a defender,not a defender becoming a midfielder.

In fact a full back like James can only excel playing as a winger like Valencia not coming to the midfield.

And for a team like Chelsea that chances doesn't often come by,we need a defender with good attacking trait at the back so as to increase our chances creation while having more attacking oriented players in the midfield.

I expect backlash from people who were so sure France was going to beat Spain and win the world cup though.

You don't understand the player profile of a 4. That's the only reason you think Palmer can play 4. You actually sincerely think there are similarities between Palmer and Xhaka.... because they both use the left foot?

Enzo5:
Alonso has been using 4231, hope he doesn't do a pitch on us and change when season starts

cc natev

Has he? Interesting. Who played in the back 4?

Ibime:
Is there any other club winning consistently with 3 ATB?

They are all one season wonders who are easily figured out, whether Leverkusen, previous Chelsea iterations, Amorim etc

Consistent winners Madrid, Barca, City, PSG, Bayern are all 4-3-3 teams. That's how you build identity and consistency

It's not true. There are just statistically more managers that play 4ATB. Just like at some point in history, there were statistically more managers playing 4-4-2 than 4-3-3.

Let's not also forget that said consistent winners sign the best quality players in every position, consistently.....a very important point that must not be ignored.

The game always evolves

Many more managers now might appear to line up with 4ATB; they quickly invert one of the full backs into midfield positions in attempt to overload the midfield during attacking phases of play. That is effectively a 3ATB. But you don't look at it this way because they are not using wing backs.

PSG may line up with a back 4 on paper.... they quickly move into a back 3 in the attacking phases of play, with Vintinha taking up a LB position in a back 3, and Neves pushing up very high. A very unusual tactical approach.

Pep and Enrique have already won consistently, without strict 4ATB tactical set ups.

You guys are pushing myths.

airmark:
Ofcourse as he rushed to buy 100m central defender before buying 117m attacker.

Weeed is dangerous.

This one don start again.

Ibime:
It's like Nateevs is going to be this summer's BlueAngel444 with all these daydreaming and imaginary lineups

Blue Angel ko, Red Devil ni.

As the tactical analyst that I am, I bin dey try show why I think we are leaning towards a 3-4-2-1 based on all the strong links with specfic prospects and profiles ....and you dey call am imaginary.

Which one consign me with imaginary?

Enzo5:
even if you remove Enzo, who may not leave, dont we have Barco, essugo/lavia and I know Chelsea is after alex Scott but that's if Enzo leaves

Then there is you putting quenda as left wing back, maybe palestra plays there, we still have gusto and James. Only garnacho and guiu seem highest to leave, I doubt half of those names actually leave, especially neto who like you said may fit in. We can use him at back up instead of spending on Alajbergovic, because no way they are able to sell neto gitten and garnacho this summer

Nice line up but that left side looks defensively

If you study Alonso's tactical solutions, you will notice that he likes to deploy 2 x 10s and a striker in a 3421, instead of 2 wingers and a striker in a 343. His 2 x 10s have tactical flexibility to drift to the flanks and provide width when required.... otherwise width is provided predominantly by the WBs.

The RHS 10 was already settled - Palmer and Estevao.

Though one might be tempted to think he'd adapt to the players ealready have, if you look at profiles of the players we've been genuinely linked with - Kroupi, Ibrahim Maza, Godts, Alajbergovic- you'd have known we were looking for LHS 10s and not particularly wingers. We went for Rogers in the end. And so by forward thinking, it makes sense to think that Garnacho, Neto and Gittens are now surplus to requirements. Only Gittens can't leave because he's injured... so loan, maybe.


Enzo will leave... seeing as we've now submitted an official bid for Alex Scott. Also because we went for Xhaka and have gone for similar profile midfielders like Wharton since then. To add to this, we sold Santos, who was our next best midfielder for a 4-3-3 behind Caicedo.

If you ask me, I say Barco will be an understudy, Lavia can't leave because he's injured (I don't want him to leave anyway).... and Essugo deputises Caicedo.


I put Quenda as wing back because he's already played there (albeit RWB) for a full season. He did so under Amorim who also deployed 3ATB at Sporting CP. So don't be surprised to see this if the LWB targets (Araujo, Chavaria, Hall) don't materialise. Barco is also an option.

airmark:
Alonso is righting the wrongs in the team and once jakujaku Jackson gets sold I will shout Hallelujah 7 times.

Every trace of Nateevs (Garnacho) and Timbros (Jakujaku Jackson) must not be seen donning our colours at Stamford Bridge.😁

We are still writng the wrongs from your Madueke..... one that I told you will be sent packing the moment Estevao steps in the building.

Your Neto is also about to be sent to left Wing Back or moved on to brown pastures., along with your Delap.

Thank goodness we exercised restraint and didn't foolishly add Vlahovic and Muniz to the mix. We for dey beg God now for new maga now.

Bluelines69:
I pity Caicedo for this set up

Enzo was just a placeholder for that image. May heaven never allow it.

My understanding is that Xabi will not play with Enzo and Caicedo in a 3-4-2-1 and that is evidenced by the immediate chase for Xhaka upon his arrival, and subsequent follow-ups for similar players in Wharton, Alex Scott, Manu Kone et al.... one the Xhaka deal fell through.

My preference is Alex Scott.

Enzo5:
you have too many imaginary players in your line up

my point isn't focused on estevao but on him wasting the attacking options he has just to play more defenders

That just means you are detached from the events at club level. If you have been following, then you understand that Hall, Wharton, Xhaka, Stones and Alajbergovic have been linked strongly to the club for a reason - tactical solutions for a 3-4-2-1.

Hall is linked because Rayo want too much money for Pep Chavaria. Wharton/Alex Scott/Manu Kone because Xhaka fell through. Stones, because, well.... free agent defender and Senior man. Alajbergovic as second 10 to Rogers.

I excluded Enzo, Neto, Garnacho, Gittens, Guiu, Fofana, Tosin, Gusto, Sarr and Delap for same reason - players linked with moves away from the club. A few of them would fit in as well if we don't move them on.

Even if we used only Lacroix as the imaginary player, we still have more than enough tactical solutions for a 3-4-2-1 without playing any more than 4 defenders.

In any case, there's no version of this where we get to play Rogers, Joao, Palmer, Estevao and Quenda in the same starting 11, whether 3-4-2-1 or 4-3-3.

Enzo5:
not sure Chelsea have players for a 343 though, I know we got palestra boy that can play left and right wing back, but with the number of attacking players we have it would be silly to limit them to starting just 3 just to have one more cb we don't even have.

if he sticks with his preseason formation then it's 4231, Alonso will fail as a manager if he benches estevao, Pedro and quenda, we even have excess garbage upfront. We have too many backups that estevao should become one

We do have players for the 3-4-2-1. That's not even a debate.

Alonso's success will not come to whether or not he plays Estevao (even though I agree Estevao must see good playing time)..... it will come from how effectively he deploys Rogers, Palmer, Joao, and the wing backs.

Ibime:
Morgan will play left, Palmer will play centre, Estevao right

That's if Alonso doesn't bring his useless 3-4-3 formation which seems likely with his pursuit of Xhaka

Morgan and Palmer are great friends from Man City academy so symbiosis is there already

It is a 3-4-3.... seeing as we are pursuing wingbacks.

Alonso likes to deploy double 10s in the forward 3, slightly behind the striker, instead wing forwards... but these 10s operate with tactical flexibility about the forward line and can drift to the wings when required.

Rogers and Palmer will be the left and right 10s respectively. Estevao will deputise on the the RHS 10.

Spence for this world cup? Sublime!