Match Day Thread Vs Chelsea (A)

He did, he kept them in the top 4 after they’d sold by far and way their best player and binned off their expensive striker.

As you say, we’ll see how he copes with the extra pressure of expectation this season, but unless we’re now judging him on one game that they played over half of with 10 men, then the time to review his progress isn’t now.

 

lots of the foreign clubs sign young British players solely with the intention of profiting from them by loaning / selling them to other English clubs .

 

You're right he did do a decent job and I agree with the rest of what you say as well. Although 'working with what he'd got' makes it sound like he inherited what Rafa did with us and not some of the most expensive and talented players around
A few poor results and he will be gone.

 

He was one of our top prospects along with Jones and Williams and no doubt would be with them now making the bench for the first team. He was more or less pushed by his agent, who he quickly dropped after he realised what he'd done by leaving us. He's Gerrard's cousin and I think I'm correct in saying he told him to stay.

 

I just pictured a rainbow

 

What he got was probably the worst Chelsea squad since Roman first turned up. But to be fair, that's more to fo with the quality squad they've had over the years, they still had some very good players.

 

really don't think he would be anywhere near making our bench - his problem was that he is a forward and before he would play was Origi , Brewster , AOC , Shaqiri and even possibly Elliott .
Mind you his agent was a total sleazebag .

 

I've got no idea about the quality of previous squads because I don't take much interest in other teams but just looked up who they had last season and that looks pretty good to me ( as you say they did have good players). They also had 36 players out on loan last season! Poor Frank.

 

Klopp 4-0 Fat Arrogant Frank.

 

Didn't show the touch that gave the pen away...

 

This is true, but even though Sucky makes a bombastic point, he is right: Lampard didn't change tactics much with ten men until they got two behind and Liverpool had the cigars and slippers out. I thought he should have brought Abraham on much earlier, for instance, as he's a target man who the ball sticks to, and he'd have given Fab a far more physical test than Werner did.

 

It was gossamer light, no camera could catch it.

 

That would be 'involvements' rather than 'touches'