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Unlimited22:
Lol
Wes has finally gotten the surgery. Maresca will manage him well.

On his day he's our best CB by a mile..

counting fofana, anselmino, mamadou, tosin, colwill, veiga that's 5½cbs

Unlimited22:
BTW for what it's worth, I believe Gusto has looked terrible this season because he does not understand that role the way Reece and Cucurella understand it


Lest we forget, he's just 21.

Give him time. And if e head no correct, Acheampong is behind him.

As for LB options, just pluck one of Barco or Diegzzy from Strasbourg if necessary.


Ekpa Diggz, at the beginning of the season, most of us set UCL qualification and a trophy as targets for Maresca. He's done it. Let's give him another season and watch.

My brother na only rant I fit rant, I no get any say for the matter. 😂

Unlimited22:
An elite LW then.

Make them sell Jackson abeg.

Rodrigo ticks all the boxes for us. RW, LW and CF.

He can make that LW his as that’s his best position. Then when we have Jackson or Delap not playing, the Brazilian can still be shoehorned into the CF position. He’s that good.

For all his profligacy, I still think we need to keep Jackson around. His press game will count against certain teams.

It’s important to have players with different distinct profiles in a team.

Unlimited22:
It will pose a problem unless Jackson learns to track opposing full backs, because Cucurella will continue inverting.

Yeah, I agree—it could definitely become a problem, especially if Cucu keeps inverting. That said, I’m not sure it’ll be that bad, considering our fine boy Aba Ronaldo barely ever tracks his man anyway.

diggz:
If we sign Delap and another striker, Jackson might occasionally have to fill in as a left winger or supporting forward—roles he’s taken on earlier in his career. It’s something Maresca hasn’t really had the chance to try yet. But with Sancho hopefully returning to Manchester, and both Neto and Madueke failing to impress, using Jackson out wide might not be such a bad shout—especially if we can’t secure a good left winger.

Most of these chap’s clips I saw prior to him signing for us, were actions from the LW and he was never this bad.

His linkup play is superb. I see no reason he shouldn’t excel playing out wide.

Griffon:
Rodrigo ticks all the boxes for us. RW, LW and CF.

He can make that LW his as that’s his best position. Then when we have Jackson or Delap not playing, the Brazilian can still be shoehorned into the CF position. He’s that good.

For all his profligacy, I still think we need to keep Jackson around. His press game will count against certain teams.

It’s important to have players with different distinct profiles in a team.

rodrygo isn't vinicius he doesn't tick those boxes for us, especially cf. it's not like madrid would sell him

BlewMahn:
I hope your friend is satisfied. Dunno wtf you thought this was😂✌️

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Thank you.

Yes he is.

I watched one were he scored from the left-wing though and it's quiet recent.

Griffon:
Rodrigo ticks all the boxes for us. RW, LW and CF.

He can make that LW his as that’s his best position. Then when we have Jackson or Delap not playing, the Brazilian can still be shoehorned into the CF position. He’s that good.

For all his profligacy, I still think we need to keep Jackson around. His press game will count against certain teams.

It’s important to have players with different distinct profiles in a team.

Exactly this! For all of Jackson’s shortcomings, I still wouldn’t let him go—especially considering the fee we paid for him and the fact that he hasn’t been completely underwhelming. If we can keep him as a third striking option or someone who can play from the wing and link up with the No. 9—like we had with Drogba, Anelka, and Kalou—I don’t see any reason to let him go.

Chelsea have enquired again for Jarrad Branthwaite and advancing on talks for Jorrel Hato. Blues ideally want 2 new defenders.

we are counting defenders that chelsea are not even counting on

diggz:
Since I clearly don’t have eyes, can you use yours to break down the changes he made toward the end of the season?

First off we stopped keeping the ball for far too long and rather keep our defense water tight to avoid conceding thereby making just one goal capable of getting us 3 points. Get him the right players and watch him keep winning. At a point he got us in the title race if not injuries and drop of form we could have had a better season. Poch could have flopped this confernce league believe or not.

Griffon:
Two CFs in one window is going to pose as a problem for this board.

If Delap joins, it’s definitely going to be him and Jackson leading the line for us, at least from how Maresca’s sees it, which we’ve seen this season.

We are signing Viktor and Delap no fear

Enzo5:
rodrygo isn't vinicius he doesn't tick those boxes for us, especially cf. it's not like madrid would sell him

Vini that is only limited to the LW. Rodrigo can play from the right, left and center.

Capaldi:
Less than 30million and we get Schick. Extremely clinical,fox in the box and complete, just a tad injury prone.

You too dey recommend nonsense. Nobody wants that old Serie A flop that can't run, that will be waiting in box to be spoonfed. This is not Leverkusen where we create numerous box chances, any striker we get must be able to play from halfway line up

Ibime:
Neto should be moved on with Madueke. His signing was unnecessary with Estevao and the Ecuadorian kid coming in

That Ecuador kid is no where ready.

diggz:
If we sign Delap and another striker, Jackson might occasionally have to fill in as a left winger or supporting forward—roles he’s taken on earlier in his career. It’s something Maresca hasn’t really had the chance to try yet. But with Sancho hopefully returning to Manchester, and both Neto and Madueke failing to impress, using Jackson out wide might not be such a bad shout—especially if we can’t secure a good left winger.

Jackson is a confidence player. He is not someone that can stay bench and come in and shine. If Delap comes, Emegha should come as his back. Between both is just £45m. We will easily get £30m for Jackson in market

lordfalcao:
That Ecuador kid is no where ready.

That no consign me. He is 3rd wing option. Palmer starting RW, Estevao bench and Ecuador boy 3rd option.

BTW we should bring Carney Chukwuemeka back. We would regret selling him especially if someone converts him to a CM or DM

Capaldi:
Less than 30million and we get Schick. Extremely clinical,fox in the box and complete, just a tad injury prone.

Schick wey slow like snail?

Enzo5:
Chelsea have enquired again for Jarrad Branthwaite and advancing on talks for Jorrel Hato. Blues ideally want 2 new defenders.

we are counting defenders that chelsea are not even counting on

We don't need any more centre-back, we only need to tighten the midfield

We keep looking at problem where there is none

Colwill, Fofana, Chalobah, Tosin is a very serviceable backline without even thinking of Sarr

Get a fit Lavia or a DM of his ilk and nobody will be talking of centre-back. How many bloody centre-back Una want buy, chasing rats while the roof is burning

Centreback is one of the lowest hanging fruit positions in football. Once your midfield is tight, you can win everything with a 6.5 or 7/10 centreback. Joel Matip, Akanji, Stones and bloody Otamendi are proof

Whizlight:
First off we stopped keeping the ball for far too long and rather keep our defense water tight to avoid conceding thereby making just one goal capable of getting us 3 points. Get him the right players and watch him keep winning. At a point he got us in the title race if not injuries and drop of form we could have had a better season. Poch could have flopped this confernce league believe or not.

Firstly, if your eyes weren’t as blind as mine, you wouldn’t have quoted my post just to type nonsense. The post you referred to was clearly about Caicedo being played at right-back, and me suggesting the board make Maresca sign a contract to end that experiment—because Caicedo is clearly more effective in his natural midfield role.

Secondly, please take a moment to actually read the first paragraph and the earlier post properly before jumping in to reply again. Thanks.

MorataFC:
Below is a quote from an angry Manchester United fan about their coach after we completed our sweep of all European trophies. The same may apply here.

"If you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station, the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be."


😂😂😂

make you sack coach wey qualify for champions league and won a trophy to start afresh.

Chelsea nobi master league o

Ibime:
Jackson is a confidence player. He is not someone that can stay bench and come in and shine. If Delap comes, Emegha should come as his back. Between both is just £45m. We will easily get £30m for Jackson in market

Yeah, I get your point. I was just looking at that left wing as a potential opportunity to try him out and see if he could thrive there. But if we end up signing those two players for £c45million , then yeah—£30 million for him sounds fair.

Seems like we'll still sign another striker after delap,and we'll make statement signing,we are so back! Transfer dopamine starting to feel like when boehly was in charge , only that this time the team is more stabilized.

This mean possible sale of Jackson and other mids ,it safe to say there's tears in my eyes 🥺

drisham:
Now we need a main striker

Loan Jackson and sell nkunku

Na una main striker be delap

Ibime:
We don't need any more centre-back, we only need to tighten the midfield

We keep looking at problem where there is none

Colwill, Fofana, Chalobah, Tosin is a very serviceable backline without even thinking of Sarr

Get a fit Lavia or a DM of his ilk and nobody will be talking of centre-back. How many bloody centre-back Una want buy, chasing rats while the roof is burning

Centreback is one of the lowest hanging fruit positions in football. Once your midfield is tight, you can win everything with a 6.5 or 7/10 centreback. Joel Matip, Akanji, Stones and bloody Otamendi are proof

chelsea look to already be signing hato probably as back up for cucurella. they are obviously going to sell chalobah you listed, fofana may be sold considering his injuries anyway even without both, tosin and sarr are solid CB options, I agree we don't need another CB but if they decide jarrad would make us better so be it.

I don't know how you want to tighten a midfield that has more than six players, counting just dms caicedo, essugo, lavia, santos, ugochukwu. don't know how many dms arsenal and liverpool have, or even city or how many we are going to play in a game where maresca mostly uses 1 dm with a full back inverting. maresca could have kept ugochukwu as an option for lavia, I think he tried to use veiga as a dm. Is it that you don't see santos as a good option to fill in for lavia?

Ibime:
Jackson is a confidence player. He is not someone that can stay bench and come in and shine. If Delap comes, Emegha should come as his back. Between both is just £45m. We will easily get £30m for Jackson in market

instead of selling 23yr Jackson for that amount, they better exchange him with emegha, at least with Jackson strasbourg could enter europe.

diggz:
Yeah, I get your point. I was just looking at that left wing as a potential opportunity to try him out and see if he could thrive there. But if we end up signing those two players for £c45million , then yeah—£30 million for him sounds fair.

ya or better still use him as a left winger till january in case it doesn't work. The prayer is if saudi club can come and buy him.

30m for a 23yr epl striker with 10+ goals in 2 consecutive seasons is theft

Enzo5:
Chelsea have enquired again for Jarrad Branthwaite and advancing on talks for Jorrel Hato. Blues ideally want 2 new defenders.

we are counting defenders that chelsea are not even counting on

Hato should be a like for like replacement for Badiashile.

offer sporting cp, Jackson plus £15m for gyorekes.

Griffon:
Hato should be a like for like replacement for Badiashile.

isn't he a lb not cb