Today's Football 2018-19 Season
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he's one of our own, harry winks, he's one of our own
Sharpattack
Player Valuation: £35m
Spurs doing us a favour there. Thanks
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
Good result for our lion hearts (not that they’d care).
We need Huddersfield, Fulham and pobably Cardiff to keep losing because we won’t get many more points this season.
We need Huddersfield, Fulham and pobably Cardiff to keep losing because we won’t get many more points this season.
Blue Magic
Player Valuation: £1.5m
At least that would be more enjoyable to watch than most of our games.
gonetomorrow
Player Valuation: £70m
Good result. We don't want the likes of Fulham getting any ideas.
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
Good heavens no! Can you imagine how our lion hearted lads would react if pressure started to come on from teams that are supposed to be relegation fodder: our lion hearts would fold like a cheap tent.
We actually support a team that is unlikeably craven.
gonetomorrow
Player Valuation: £70m
I was thinking more that we are not all that clear of the dreaded zone if we should - perish the thought - suffer a Koeman-style meltdown.
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
either perspective does not present me any optimism...our team has no spine.
N.S.N.O.
Player Valuation: £35m
Any ideas of what?
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
Martin Samuel was funny on Chelsea and Sarri's rant on the Sunday Supplement this morning basically saying Jorginho is not good enough to build the Chelsea team around,
Sarri had a post match well publicised rant admitting post-match his players are "difficult to motivate" and questioned his team's mentality.
However, Samuel believes Chelsea's recent struggles are not related to their mental strength, but is the result of Sarri building his team around Jorginho, who the west London club signed for £57m last summer.
"The headline is 'Sarriball is fantastic' says bloke called Sarri,"
"It doesn't necessarily mean it's fantastic for everybody. It isn't fantastic for Kante or [Eden] Hazard.
"The guy it all has to rotate around is Jorginho, who doesn't look good enough for that, certainly not in the Premier League.
"It seems to be a lot quicker than Serie A was for him. Arsenal swarmed around him yesterday. Sarri was basically saying 'Arsenal wanted it more than us' but their midfield was superb.
"They swarmed around Jorginho and they swarmed around Chelsea's midfield. You've got Jorginho who, going into the game, the statistic was 1997 passes, creating 15 chances and zero assists.
"You can say the zero assists could be to do with players missing chances, but he's not playing a killer pass - and if this is your playmaker he's got to play the killer pass."
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I just wonder if this could be Sarri's one and only season as Chelsea manager?
That post match presser was very Mourinho-esque and sends up a big red flag.
I've posted before about Chelsea managers:-
1/ Win the league and you possibly have a life expectancy of a season at maximum and sometimes only a few months,
- Conté one season, Mourinho a few months last time
2/ Win the Champions League and its a few months
- Di Matteo - a few months
3/ Win a domestic cup or nothing - neither option has much value, and its days
Sarri is in the third of those categories and won't be there next season.
Sarri had a post match well publicised rant admitting post-match his players are "difficult to motivate" and questioned his team's mentality.
However, Samuel believes Chelsea's recent struggles are not related to their mental strength, but is the result of Sarri building his team around Jorginho, who the west London club signed for £57m last summer.
"The headline is 'Sarriball is fantastic' says bloke called Sarri,"
"It doesn't necessarily mean it's fantastic for everybody. It isn't fantastic for Kante or [Eden] Hazard.
"The guy it all has to rotate around is Jorginho, who doesn't look good enough for that, certainly not in the Premier League.
"It seems to be a lot quicker than Serie A was for him. Arsenal swarmed around him yesterday. Sarri was basically saying 'Arsenal wanted it more than us' but their midfield was superb.
"They swarmed around Jorginho and they swarmed around Chelsea's midfield. You've got Jorginho who, going into the game, the statistic was 1997 passes, creating 15 chances and zero assists.
"You can say the zero assists could be to do with players missing chances, but he's not playing a killer pass - and if this is your playmaker he's got to play the killer pass."
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I just wonder if this could be Sarri's one and only season as Chelsea manager?
That post match presser was very Mourinho-esque and sends up a big red flag.
I've posted before about Chelsea managers:-
1/ Win the league and you possibly have a life expectancy of a season at maximum and sometimes only a few months,
- Conté one season, Mourinho a few months last time
2/ Win the Champions League and its a few months
- Di Matteo - a few months
3/ Win a domestic cup or nothing - neither option has much value, and its days
Sarri is in the third of those categories and won't be there next season.
Really don’t understand barca’s transfer policy it’s like ever since they sold neymar they have panicked and sign anyone they can
Wish they would come and sign Tosun, Morgan and Mccarthy for starters!
4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
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