Aye, I can see Morata possibly flourishing under Sarri, if he gets his mojo back.
Baka, I cannot see doing anything. Am willing to give him one more season, just to see if he can get his **** together and prove himself a footballer, but I aint holding out much hope.
No idea what Stan sees in him at all? Especially when he is constantly calling out far superior players like Fabregas and Alonso.
debateable.
I call out fab and alonso too.
I reckon Baka will be alright for a team who play at speed (seemed to do okay at monaco). Whether it's because of his recovery from a bad leg injury or he just needs loads of space to play and cover in (no idea why we put him as box to box, he's more a dm for me) but whatever it was, he was awful last year and you can see he's awful technically.
Fab is great in certain situations but he is a top 4 player, possibly PL winning player as a sub. He was great a few years back and people let us play but he has gone even slower than weaker than before. He tries his hardest but as a defensive player, he is pure luxury and for me he isn't good enough going forward (brilliant at making play, moving ball forward key passes, but not a great long shot and no left foot) to negate how bad he is defensively.
Alonso i've always said is a 6 - 8/10 player every game. So consistent, brilliant outlet, is tall and has a great left foot. His problem is any time you have a pacey winger running against him he will get done or if you play an athletic player/winger right up against him, you've lost alonso as a player because he cannot win his 1 on 1 duel. This is not something that happens that often but in the big games against the better sides, he can be nullified because of his lack of pace and burst.
He's a good first team player and it's not a position we need to upgrade but there are better out there imo. In Contes system where the wingbacks are so important, i felt that we needed better because if the wingbacks can't take advantage, all the opposition need to do is congest the middle where our front 3 are and we have nothing in attack