"Zinedine Zidane signs for Juventus. The ex Real Madrid coach will join in October as football director."
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"Zinedine Zidane signs for Juventus. The ex Real Madrid coach will join in October as football director."
Looks like Chelsea have sorted out their MF.
Chelsea could be exciting to watch next season if it all comes together it seems for them with Sarri. This is a fine front 6 to be honest:
Hazard - Higuain - Willian
--------Golovin
------Kante---Jorginho---
Hazard - Higuain - Willian
--------Golovin
------Kante---Jorginho---
Not a patch on their previous line ups in my opinion. Like the one from 2-3 years ago...
Hazard - D.Costa - Willian
--------Fabregas
------Kante---Matic---
It will highly depend on how quickly Sarri gets to grips with his quad and makes them play good football (if he manages it this year, or at all). If he makes a team equal or greater than the sum of its parts, then they can be a force. But the line-up itself does not appear particularly intimidating to me.
Ready replacement for whenever Allegri moves on?
Juve will be a bigger pull for players now they've got CR7 and Zidane.
Sarri always gets his teams to play good football. He just never gets them to win trophies.
It's surprising. A lot of Real Madrid fans will be furious, but can't say the guy lied, he explicitly promised in his public farewell he was going to take a year off coaching. He never said he wasn't going to be in another football areas.
Kante, Jorginho, Golovin.
Respectable balance to it - two endless runners and an insightful passer playing deeper.
I’d worry about the lack of goals, though. Willian gets none, Hazard will only scrape double figures at his best and neither Giroud nor Morata are clinical forwards. The Higuain rumour will soak up a lot of goals, I guess.
Yes, but within the confines of Italian football. Even the Great Pep struggled in his first season here despite having near-infinite resources.
It's 17th of July and kick off is on the 10th of Aug. I can't believe that Chelsea will be playing Napoli's football in less than 4 weeks. Or in the next 4 months, tbh.
Doubt it too, but if they manage to play good football just 3 weeks into his tenure we might need to reflect on that.
Which translates to me as soon as we can we're going to sack Allegri.
It says Football Director
Still think there will be a lot of in's and out's at Chelsea in the coming weeks. Think Courtois & Willian will go. Think Drinkwater will go. Think RLC will go on loan again. Now even rumors Cahill may go which I think is for the best. Hazard I think will stay simply because there wouldn't be enough time to replace him and I doubt Real Madrid will cough up the 200m we would hopefully demand for him.
Biggest questions in regards to incomings is striker for me. We surely cannot go through a season with only Morata and Giroud again. Batshuayi won't return only to sit on the bench again. Higuain seems like a huge risk.
Biggest questions in regards to incomings is striker for me. We surely cannot go through a season with only Morata and Giroud again. Batshuayi won't return only to sit on the bench again. Higuain seems like a huge risk.
Better to enjoy the games while City walk the league again than to watch tumescent football as the sensible posters on here say.
Higuain may be a bottler, but not a risk. 20-25 gols per season if you can play some decent football. He is a quick fix and a short term solution though
Fair point there.
That's why I said replacement for whenever Allegri moves on or is sacked?
Zidane initial plan was to be a football director, that's what he studied at the end of his career.
Come on Chelsea, do something about it!
Chelsea will 100% hijack this deal I think.
Liverpool with a world class goalkeeper???
We're fecked.
We're fecked.
More likely, we'll instead go for Butland to help our homegrown quota.
Whoa calm down.... world class in comparison to what they're got probably, but he hasn't reached world class level yet.
PLTBT
I'd much, much rather we paid €30m more and triggered Oblak's release clause. I mean, Alisson is good and probably the best goalkeeper available after Courtois (who doesn't want to come), but he's certainly not in the top bracket of GKs for me.
Then why is he better than Ederson then?
Fair enough, but he's certainly an upgrade on what you currently have.
On paper at least, Klopp is building an impressive team at Liverpool to be honest.
Remains to be seen how they perform on the pitch of course, but if I was a Liverpool fan I'd be optimistic.
(You scouse b*stards)
He's not, and Ederson isn't world class either.
Yeah sure, no doubt about that and I'll still be happy if it's Alisson!
Chelsea should be all over this, they better be anyway.
It pains me to say, but you're right. Keita, Fabinho, Shaqiri and now maybe Alisson.
Oblak is a great shot stopper, but poor on the ball and poor when it comes to commanding his area. Fine for Atletico Madrid playing in la liga. Bad fit for this league and bad fit for us.
Don't forget Fekir. I'm convinced they are still signing him.
Stop it stop it stop it!!!
The idea of another season where end up hoping City win the league like in 2014 doesn't sound appealing, especially with bloody Pep being involved.
Allison is so overrated for God sake. I even witnessed a poster on this forum saying he is better than Courtois and De Gea. Oblak would be a better signing for Liverpool
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