Raheem Sterling | Joins Chelsea for £50m

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LongsightM13 said:
Palmer is surely ahead of him especially as a natural wide player. James is definitely not a wide player imo, Lee probably chatting wham again
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The bulk of his article is about Palmer playing on the left and stepping up in minutes. Then at the end it mentions McAtee is also an option for some minutes, with it likely his introduction to the team would be in a wing role, like Foden & Palmer before him.
 
Anyone else think its a bit odd Chelsea trying to sign Sterling? They don't play with wingers, so would they be looking at him as a 9 or 10? Not sure he will thrive, especially as a 9. I suppose him and Mount behind Havertz might be the plan?
 
Blue Coop said:
I think now it’s known he’s open to leaving there could be a number of clubs interested.. Now would you rather sell to Chelsea for £30m or elsewhere for £40m?
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The whole of football knew he wanted to leave since his team started twerking at Barca last November.
 
The Stockport Iniesta said:
Anyone else think its a bit odd Chelsea trying to sign Sterling? They don't play with wingers, so would they be looking at him as a 9 or 10? Not sure he will thrive, especially as a 9. I suppose him and Mount behind Havertz might be the plan?
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Really depends what they do with a #9 tbh.

Sterling xxx Havertz
and Mount dropping into an 8, would be pretty decent with the WBs they have.
 
With regards replacements for any players leaving I would just like to point out that the media talk shit.
 
SterlingSilvas said:
Really depends what they do with a #9 tbh.

Sterling xxx Havertz
and Mount dropping into an 8, would be pretty decent with the WBs they have.
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Problem with that is, Tuchel would need to change the formation from a back 3 to a back 4 to fit in Mount, Havertz, Sterling and one other player, say Dembele. I'd personally welcome it but I don't think this is happening.

So if we have Sterling, Dembele, Mount and Havertz, one of them is sitting on the bench. And that's before we get to CHO, Pulisic, Werner and Ziyech some of whom will surely have to be moved on.

It's a weird situation to be in, not knowing exactly what the team will look like next season. I think the biggest indicator of the formation change a lot of us want is if we sign Declan Rice. With him, I think we can transition into a back 4, and probably not need to sign 2 CB's since there would be 1 less CB positions to fill.
 
BlueTG said:
Yes, but that analogy doesn’t hold up here.

We let Kompany leave without a replacement.

We let Aguero leave without a replacement.

We let Torres go mid season with no squad replacement.

It’s not like we always buy like for like when a player moves on.
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We have replaced them all just a window or 2 later than we should have.

The Kompany delay cost us in the league and the Aguero one in the CL
 
Vialli98 said:
Problem with that is, Tuchel would need to change the formation from a back 3 to a back 4 to fit in Mount, Havertz, Sterling and one other player, say Dembele. I'd personally welcome it but I don't think this is happening.

So if we have Sterling, Dembele, Mount and Havertz, one of them is sitting on the bench. And that's before we get to CHO, Pulisic, Werner and Ziyech some of whom will surely have to be moved on.

It's a weird situation to be in, not knowing exactly what the team will look like next season. I think the biggest indicator of the formation change a lot of us want is if we sign Declan Rice. With him, I think we can transition into a back 4, and probably not need to sign 2 CB's since there would be 1 less CB positions to fill.
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Strange to say that for a team that has a monster defending from the midfield (Kante).
 
Vialli98 said:
Problem with that is, Tuchel would need to change the formation from a back 3 to a back 4 to fit in Mount, Havertz, Sterling and one other player, say Dembele. I'd personally welcome it but I don't think this is happening.

So if we have Sterling, Dembele, Mount and Havertz, one of them is sitting on the bench. And that's before we get to CHO, Pulisic, Werner and Ziyech some of whom will surely have to be moved on.

It's a weird situation to be in, not knowing exactly what the team will look like next season. I think the biggest indicator of the formation change a lot of us want is if we sign Declan Rice. With him, I think we can transition into a back 4, and probably not need to sign 2 CB's since there would be 1 less CB positions to fill.
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Mount not able to play in the middle of a 343?

Be interesting to see how they go. Dont think Sterling will move personally.
 
Constantine said:
Strange to say that for a team that has a monster defending from the midfield (Kante).
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Kante is not a sitting DM. He's kind of a box to box guy if you think about it. His game is basically to harass opponents all over the pitch. Rice would be the sitting DM we need who is also capable of doing box to box stuff when needed. That's how I see it at least.
 
SterlingSilvas said:
Mount not able to play in the middle of a 343?

Be interesting to see how they go. Dont think Sterling will move personally.
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I don't think he can. He's not a CM like Kovacic. He's an 8. Putting him in the pivot would be setting him up to fail.
 
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