Easy money for him & he likes london. Levy got levy'd.15 millions quid a year
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Match Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur (A) Sat., 22.2.2020 (12:30)
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A number of things went wrong for us today.
First of all the injuries to Son & Kane. With Kane we would have had someone who can hold the ball up and bring in players plus when he's in and around the box he'll take the shot rather than faffing around and being indecisive. Son would have given us someone who runs in behind.
Playing 5 at the back I would have started Sess & Aurier as the WB as they have the pace and energy to get up and down plus they would have helped us overload the midfield. My CBs would then have been Toby, Davo & Tanganga. Also, Dele should have started up top with Bergwijn playing off him. Lucas doesn't have the brains, the ball control or passing to play up top. He could have done a job as an impact sub.
The more you look at the GLC foul the more it looks like a red, we've had a lot worse red card decisions go against us this season including the Mount challenge on Dier (I think) when we played them at home.
We keep laughing at Chelsea, West Ham and all the other teams as we are their cup final and they always raise their games against us. This isn't a secret so our players need to up their effort. To an extent, I can deal with playing badly but I can't deal with players walking around feeling sorry for themselves. GLC, Lamela, Winks & Tanganga are the only fit players who always give everything when playing for us. There may be better players in our team but talent means nothing if you're not willing to put in the work.
I'm still confident on CL football assuming Man City are disqualified. We've got over a week until our next game so plenty of time to rest, reassess and be ready for a good Wolves team.
First of all the injuries to Son & Kane. With Kane we would have had someone who can hold the ball up and bring in players plus when he's in and around the box he'll take the shot rather than faffing around and being indecisive. Son would have given us someone who runs in behind.
Playing 5 at the back I would have started Sess & Aurier as the WB as they have the pace and energy to get up and down plus they would have helped us overload the midfield. My CBs would then have been Toby, Davo & Tanganga. Also, Dele should have started up top with Bergwijn playing off him. Lucas doesn't have the brains, the ball control or passing to play up top. He could have done a job as an impact sub.
The more you look at the GLC foul the more it looks like a red, we've had a lot worse red card decisions go against us this season including the Mount challenge on Dier (I think) when we played them at home.
We keep laughing at Chelsea, West Ham and all the other teams as we are their cup final and they always raise their games against us. This isn't a secret so our players need to up their effort. To an extent, I can deal with playing badly but I can't deal with players walking around feeling sorry for themselves. GLC, Lamela, Winks & Tanganga are the only fit players who always give everything when playing for us. There may be better players in our team but talent means nothing if you're not willing to put in the work.
I'm still confident on CL football assuming Man City are disqualified. We've got over a week until our next game so plenty of time to rest, reassess and be ready for a good Wolves team.
Seems to mean everything when criticising Levy.
I think at home, we can compete with a Leipzig team without their first 3 CB’s injured. I don’t think that’s preposterous.
Norwich will make changes I guess, they need to think about staying up more than a cup run.
It's not only about that I'm afraid. Chelski had holes today and they beat us. Some people here are looking for simple answers (I've been doing this myself for a while), but our problems seem to lie deeper.
Exciting tactics dudes.
How many centre Half's can you play at once.
How many centre Half's can you play at once.
Dier / Toby / Jan
Walker / Vic / Dembele / Davies
Eriksen / Dele
Kane
@Mindnumb spamming 'dissagrees' in the face of facts though, like a champWalker / Vic / Dembele / Davies
Eriksen / Dele
Kane
If you recall, Conte went 3atb early doors and we followed suit not long after as we were (ironically) struggling for goals... It was the year that 3CBs became in-vogue again.
Lloris
Toby - Dier - Verts
Walker - Dembele - Wanyama - Rose
Dele - Kane - Eriksen
Such a naive and dated thing to say anno 2020
Seriously?
A £55m impact sub? For that money, I want him playing every week.
He's been here for six months so fitness should not be an issue.
There are no quick fixes here.
Against Villa, we tried to press and OK we scored 3 goals but we conceded 2 against a pretty poor side. Would that approach have worked today - very doubtful given Chelsea's greater quality.
For this game, it is fair to think the fatigue factor was also in Mourinho's mind and hence he reverted to sitting deeper and counter attacking, a style that requires less energy. Totally understandable, but the reality is our defence isn't good enough to pull that off consistently.
Now is not the time to judge Mourinho - there are a lot of factors he can't control at play. The fact we are even in with a shout of CL is pretty miraculous.
Against Villa, we tried to press and OK we scored 3 goals but we conceded 2 against a pretty poor side. Would that approach have worked today - very doubtful given Chelsea's greater quality.
For this game, it is fair to think the fatigue factor was also in Mourinho's mind and hence he reverted to sitting deeper and counter attacking, a style that requires less energy. Totally understandable, but the reality is our defence isn't good enough to pull that off consistently.
Now is not the time to judge Mourinho - there are a lot of factors he can't control at play. The fact we are even in with a shout of CL is pretty miraculous.
Dier dont play for 2 games and we lose both....puts on tin hats and waits ...... 
We did compete, we lost 1-0 and had the same shots on target as them. Not competing is losing 7-2 and getting DESTROYED with your best XI. Not an injury ravaged team scrapping away and losing to one mistake.
Wolves are certainly gonna be licking their lips after this shit show, hard to find a positive at the minute.
Like they did in the reverse fixture
Give them a couple of days off, get them back in Wednesday or something ready for a massive spell of fixtures starting with Wolves