Why are people coming at me for saying “maybe it will align in the future” - maybe it will? For all you know in 5 years United could be top of the tree with cash ready to splash out. For all you know they could be in the Championship and it looks ever more implausible.
With him in our team if we are going down to championship you wouldn't want him logically. So either way you won't get him if logically speaking.
Haha, I meant United could be in the Championship. Although there was a period last season where Chelsea looked like relegation material yet Palmer stuck out like a sore thumb.
That's the point. His talent made us move up to sixth at the final standing.
I think Pep's Barca is the greatest team I've ever seen by some distance, but there is a difference between Pep now and Pep then. He has a lot more power at City than he had at Barca (or Bayern).
I think it will depend on the opposition - if we're playing against a team that wants to leave a LW high for opportunities on the break I think we'd approach it differently, for instance.
This is crazy talk.
) to Jude when they aren't expected to impose themselves in midfield or do any defensive work. Even if Jude doesn't score or assist he puts in a shift in midfield to win 50-50 balls and possession, you can still see the Championship player in him at Madrid. Against Atalanta he chased an overhit ball to win a corner in the last 10 minutes despite being gassed and looked like death after. The issue is Jude can be as creative and technical as Palmer or Wirtz if he's deployed purely as a CAM or second striker but this season he's deployed as a B2B/CAM and runs himself into the ground while everyone calls him overrated because he gets fewer G/As despite his heavier workload and contribution. Everyone appreciates the creative guile of playmakers without any other responsibilties like Palmer or Foden but Jude does the playmaking, ballwinning, goalpoaching it's tiring to watch. Even in int'l friendlies he gives 150% (probably thinks he has to show Brexit gammons who prefer PL players his hardworking attitude or they'll think he's a RM diva) and has the mentality of old-school captains who leave everything on the pitch, the main problem is if his knees can hold up to his ambitions.It is also because of his personality. He is one of those people that are funny - partly intentionally, partly not - and because he appears to be very down to earth. Because of that and his productivity, people talk about him a lot.
No he didn't, and the squad reshape that summer had nothing to do with him
Don’t you rate Vini?
I mean, he could just actually be thick. Scholes, Merson and Le Tissier all had great football intelligence as well.
It's really, really weird that people are so obsessed with his personality and how he comes across. Calling him a wet towel and thick, there's just no need for it is there? You don't know him. You haven't sat down with him and had a pint with him. If you want to care about personalities go read a celebrity magazine or some shite like that.
Absolutely. You can't accuse Chelsea of messing about when it comes to signings. They get it done.
Zero chance City would have sold him to us. Although, annoys me he doesn't play for us.
I personally don't believe that. He was a rotation player and they never expected him to be that good.
When have we done a deal with City or Liverpool at all. We do deals with the London bigs boys but this guys we don't.
When people start talking about 'best player in the world', you lose me. Ollie Holt even dared to invoke the name of Lionel Messi in a piece he did recently. You are right, the hype has absolutely gotten out of hand.
I don’t think anyone, even us Chelsea fans who love him, genuinely thinks he’s the best in the world.
Someone in this very thread called him the best player in the world. Like, yesterday.
Seems more like a drive by shitpost, tbh. Surely nobody actually thinks it!
You could probably find some muppet in a thread calling Antony a Messi regen. Don't use outliers as the context for your argument. I have never seen any reasonable fan call him the best player in the world.
Are you serious??
I wish Chelsea's main attacker had football intelligence, you can't learn that though (sadly)
I don't think so, actually. The Premier League is currently the best league and has been there or thereabouts for a long time now, but that doesn't necessarily mean it has the best individual players in terms of the absolute superstars. A player can easily be 'in the discussion' for the best player in the PL without being a genuine contender for BPITW.
Seems like the 3 of them occupy 2 positions (when at their best)…unless Bellingham drops to CM - who goes to the right?
Yeah agreed. Just wait until he does a Kluivert and scores a hattrick of penalties. He’ll then surely be the GOAT
