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Gareth1808 said:
Seems like Barca are preparing a bid for Kante, cash plus Gomes who they value at 17.5m, interesting to see how much cash they offer then, 80+ is expect.

I'll be amazed if when the season starts we've still got all of Hazard, Willian, Kante and Courtois. We'll do well to keep 3 of them imo.
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Anyone that thinks he's to good for the shirt can hop it as far as i'm concerned.Hope the knew bloke takes some
interest in the huge amount of talent we have out on loan......Looks like we'll be playing a 4 3 3 again just as the rest of
the league copied our 3 5 2 system<laugh>...Its going to be different and very interesting to say the least.
 
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Optimistic and yet looking forward to the season with an mix of trepidation and hope. I have no idea how this season will unfold the only thing I am sure of is...….. I'm Chelsea till I die no matter who owns, manages, or mis-manages. You have to look back at where we were to appreciate where we are and given recent successes remember them nothing is permanent, if it moves one day it will break down.
 
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Interesting appointment. Plays exciting attractive football but hasn't won anything at top flight. How long before Chelsea get sick of watch exciting football but being trophyless?

Not saying he won't win anything but winning the PL or CL with that brand of football is difficult.

As a neutral I'm happy to see a team with very good players try to play exciting football. Which is what Chelsea should be doing with top class attacking players.
 
lazarus20000 said:
Interesting appointment. Plays exciting attractive football but hasn't won anything at top flight. How long before Chelsea get sick of watch exciting football but being trophyless?

Not saying he won't win anything but winning the PL or CL with that brand of football is difficult.

As a neutral I'm happy to see a team with very good players try to play exciting football. Which is what Chelsea should be doing with top class attacking players.
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Unless you are Pep Guardiola with a bottomless pit of money.
 
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If Sarri favours 433 the thought of Kante, Jorginho and Loftus Cheek at some point is quite exciting.
 
lazarus20000 said:
Maybe the boss wants to make Chelsea more likeable and you can't get more likeable than Zola. Hope he gives the post match talks too.
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If it was the new managers idea to bring him in i see as a masterstroke tbh(always wanted Conte to do the same).
Sari likes to play an attacking 4 3 3 system...can anyone think of a better number 2 for that system?...
 
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armchairblue said:
If it was the new managers idea to bring him in i see as a masterstroke tbh(always wanted Conte to do the same).
Sari likes to play an attacking 4 3 3 system...can anyone think of a better number 2 for that system?...
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Problem is you need attacking players to play attacking football.that means we need at least 2 new midfielders, 2 strikers and 2 CDs as well as keeping Hazard but even more so Kante.
With our transfer budget, good luck with that.
We might have to get used to not winning for a couple of years. Problem there is when the rebuild is 2 years into its plan, RA bins the manager and starts again. Sari looks the best choice out there, Zola is Chelsea through and through, so there is reason to be cheerful for sure.
 
Chelsea Pensioner said:
Problem is you need attacking players to play attacking football.that means we need at least 2 new midfielders, 2 strikers and 2 CDs as well as keeping Hazard but even more so Kante.
With our transfer budget, good luck with that.
We might have to get used to not winning for a couple of years. Problem there is when the rebuild is 2 years into its plan, RA bins the manager and starts again. Sari looks the best choice out there, Zola is Chelsea through and through, so there is reason to be cheerful for sure.
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What exactly is RA's angle? Is his priority to win stuff or play better? You'll certainly be playing better football with Sari but realistically, you won't be winning as much with so many sharks swimming in the PL pool. Will Sari get time to rebuild in his own vision or will he get the same treatment as the rest?
 
Chelsea Pensioner said:
Problem is you need attacking players to play attacking football.that means we need at least 2 new midfielders, 2 strikers and 2 CDs as well as keeping Hazard but even more so Kante.
With our transfer budget, good luck with that.
We might have to get used to not winning for a couple of years. Problem there is when the rebuild is 2 years into its plan, RA bins the manager and starts again. Sari looks the best choice out there, Zola is Chelsea through and through, so there is reason to be cheerful for sure.
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Disagree.

I think we have some great attacking players. Also coaching can help.

Conte was great for us but once his plan and structural football was found out he failed to adapt. Maybe he would have if given time but we are now onto a new chapter.

I think we lack some pace in the up front positions but I think our strikers are good if given the correct tactics. Willian, hazard and Pedro can be great players.

We still have Kante and jorginho is potentially the ball player we need
 
Saying that though I expect us to move one of willian or hazard on. Hopefully Pedro hasn't lost his legs but I hope he gets plenty of opportunities under sarri
 
Your new manager has plenty of quality to work with at Chelsea. You'll need strengthening but no where near as some say here. My team had some serious deficiency especially in midfield, but our transfer business has fixed a lot of those. I don't see any major weaknesses in your squad to be honest, you have a very good all round first team which is capable of challenging for the PL. A few of these under performing players will get another chance with new man Sari. He also comes across as a good man manager as well as a technician who should get these guys playing better. An obvious guy i can think of is Morata, Sari could rejuvenate and make him one of the best forwards in the PL.

Both our clubs are in similar positions so it's exciting to see what both our teams do. We also meet each other in pre-season, so that should be interesting.
 
lazarus20000 said:
Your new manager has plenty of quality to work with at Chelsea. You'll need strengthening but no where near as some say here. My team had some serious deficiency especially in midfield, but our transfer business has fixed a lot of those. I don't see any major weaknesses in your squad to be honest, you have a very good all round first team which is capable of challenging for the PL. A few of these under performing players will get another chance with new man Sari. He also comes across as a good man manager as well as a technician who should get these guys playing better. An obvious guy i can think of is Morata, Sari could rejuvenate and make him one of the best forwards in the PL.

Both our clubs are in similar positions so it's exciting to see what both our teams do. We also meet each other in pre-season, so that should be interesting.
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we will see. Going 3-4-3 the one of the things i noticed is that (at least under conte) if teams pressed us and marked our wingers/strikers closely, we'd be boxed in and couldn't play it out. This is partly because we didn't play with a quick winger making runs in behind, the oppositions defensive line could have high line and with morata who couldn't hold it up unlike costa meant we'd lose the ball (plus conte likes the wingers to drop in a bit more, less for hazard, more for the opposite side).

We lost our counter attacking threat and lost our threat that way.

It will be interesting how Sarri sets us up.

I'm hoping its something like this:

Courtois
Azpilicueta Luiz Rudiger Emerson (harsh on alonso)

Kante Jorginho Willian

Pedro Morata Hazard


This is if we keep it on the ground, if we start reverting to chelsea and finding we aren't that good at passing it out then i'd prefer giroud in there as he's a great targetman.
 
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