Dzeko would be a good player for them to rotate with Morata or in a 2 striker set-up.
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To be fair; Dzeko could come in for £30m, then his wages will take up £7m per year which is £21m over the contract, then you have the agent fee of £4m. So the transfer actually costs £55m.
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Why did you forget the signing on fee? Closer to 60m and then chose the worse conversation rate for pounds to euros.
This is why you aren't a journalist.
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I've heard they've got Jon Parkin as a back up option if the Dzeko deal falls through.
Why are they not in for Mandzukic? he's a target man, tall, cost less than Dzeko, conte worked with him before..
Just checked Caballero's penalty stats and he's saved 10 out of a possible 26 during regulation play, not sure about his record in shootouts but the two i am aware he's been involved in he's saved 4 out of 8. If it comes to it in the CL Conte really needs to considerer pulling a Van Gaal because Courtois has many strength's but saving penalty's ain't one of them (5/29 by comparison).
Too short. Only 6'3".
Christ if he's that obsessed he should just whack Courtois up front like Stuart Pearce did with David James, and stick Cabellero in goal job sorted.
Same for DDG, for such a talented GK all round, he doesn't half know how to save them. Should be trying to be more aggressive jumping off the line (refs don't give two shits anyway) and intimidating.
Conte already left Juventus when Mandzukic joined Juventus. It's not like Juventus is easy going when it comes to sale of their player especially mid season. To persuade Juventus, arguably Chelsea would have to pay way over his real value. Dzeko case may be the same. I can't see AS Roma easily let a key player go for market value mid season.
I can't remember now I just thought he had worked under him.
Did you mean to say he doesn't half know how not to save them?
Wonder if Chelsea are going into a tailspin like they did in Mourinho's last season. Abramovich's near certain firing and hiring of managers could have injected chronic short-termism into the club's DNA.
Why is Musonda not getting more minutes? Wasn't he a supertalent?
For 10 years we have all heard Chelsea have got the best youth teams in the world and yet not one of their players have turned out to be any good.
I think some conte also edited his transfer target list.
He’s been injured, had a really good assist today though.
Andreas Christensen is (at least) good.
Today’s big win will shut the anti-Conte fans up for awhile and I am pointing out the Chelsea fans who want him to be sacked.
Please do actually point them out!
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Mönchengladbach did a decent job with him.
Ah. I thought you were actually pointing people out and I fancied a laugh. Im not trawling through thousands of posts on multiple sites just for a giggle at an idiot.
Some people actually want Sarri to replace him, ridiculous to think about
Not that I want Conte gone but Napoli play some beautiful football under Sarri.
Sarri is a good coach however these idiotic anti-Conte fans don’t have the brain cells to think that the current Chelsea squad need an overhaul to be able to play in his attacking system. The Board will never sanction a whole bunch of players to be bought for any coach let alone a newly hired one.
Exactly how Juve fans felt when Allegri replaced Conte, now he's idolized.
What's wrong with Sarri btw? He's doing a very good job with Napoli. Not saying he's better than Conte but he's not another Moyes.
I agree. However, if Sarri was at Chelsea he would need players that can fit into his system and that goes against the modus operandi of the Chelsea board which is 1) only buy players that they want regardless of what the coach thinks and 2) does not practise a Football style identity as it only wants instant success on the field. Chelsea’s identity if any has been a more cautious and pragmatic style of Football for the past 5 years and a sudden change to an attacking style would need heavy investment in both the players and coaches which naturally the Board would never do.
Before the window we lacked a wing back to compete with Alonso, creativity in the midfield & a backup striker conte trusts to compete with Morata.
Looks like we will be getting all 3 and for 63m roughly. This is the business I don't mind if we are going to operate on a tighter budget as they are all good value for money, just hate the last minute panic buys!
Looks like we will be getting all 3 and for 63m roughly. This is the business I don't mind if we are going to operate on a tighter budget as they are all good value for money, just hate the last minute panic buys!
Dzeko will be a good signing I believe (I'd play him ahead of Morata tbh), not sure about the others though. Chelsea are starting to get a very bang average looking squad
Yeah I think he will compete well, would you say Chelsea are over achieving or United under achieving in terms of being only 3 points above an average squad?
I think you're overachieving and we're still suffering a bit from our bad run over Xmas. I think we're a better side than Chelsea right now and should be a few more points ahead of you than we are.
It does seem though that you're increasingly reliant on Hazard to provide almost all the creativity. Conte has been very negative the last few weeks with his tactics.
Chelsea are massively overachieving (as they did last year), huge credit to Conte
He is a fantastic manager, hopefully we back him in the summer to an extent where he can have us challenging for everything.
I think you've looked solid recently but we have dropped in pace also, we are unbeaten since the west ham game but as you say have been set up a bit too negatively recently, which Conte seemed to change at the weekend. Hopefully a few more options in the squad will keep it fresh and I think we will be strong second half of the season.
Still see United and Chelsea battling for second with Spurs taking the 4th spot.
Emerson is going to be an excellent signing, if he fully recovers from his knee injury.
I don't know much about him, was hoping a Roma/Serie A fan could shed some light on how good he was before the injury.
We signed Rudiger off the back of that injury and he's turned out great.
This article is a bit over the top considering the small sample size, but also makes some good points.
I know there's lack of good players in the squad but Conte's tactical decisions during the game are really awful tbh.
Replacing Pedro with a targetman today while leaving 2 DMFs one of them is useless (Bakayoko) killed any momentum in their attack. Should have just put Bats instead of useless Baka and switched Barkley to midfield as this is the only logical solution.
I started to feel the last season was a fluke both for the squad and Conte. They're full of average players and nothing is clicking for their manager at the moment.
Can see Carlo returning to manage them next season.
Replacing Pedro with a targetman today while leaving 2 DMFs one of them is useless (Bakayoko) killed any momentum in their attack. Should have just put Bats instead of useless Baka and switched Barkley to midfield as this is the only logical solution.
I started to feel the last season was a fluke both for the squad and Conte. They're full of average players and nothing is clicking for their manager at the moment.
Can see Carlo returning to manage them next season.