Chelsea Thread - 2023/24

[Alan Harper's Tash]

We'll see, I predict he'll struggle to become a regular, bit of a Zouma type player, does he own a cat?

He’s far more mobile than Zouma. Despite being taller, I bet he’s a good 2 stone lighter.

Whether he’s a success is unknown, but it’s not much of a financial gamble.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Your opinion but I've yet to see him impose himself on any top 8 team.

He's a more than competent premier league defender on a free. I didn't suggest he was good enough to be first choice, even for chelsea, I said he was an upgrade on chalobah who is nowhere near their first choice. Upgrading and getting a big money profit is great business.

 

[Manc in London]

if you say is he’s third tier after Chelsea have signed him, my guess he is quite a bit better than that based on your previous track record of assessing Chelsea players. I’ll definitely enjoy watching him.

You just don't want anyone passing the ball to him under ANY kind of pressure.

 

[Akira]

Since we were founded, we've had 4 managers; Chelsea have had 18 (Maresca will be the 19th). Yes ; 3 or 4 of them were short term caretaker managers, but that's a ridiculous number. Did we have as many over a similar period in our crazy era?

List of Chelsea F.C. managers - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Tbf most of it came from Abramovich and he's crazy in his own way. Post-Abramovich it's driven by the new owners hiring one mediocre talent after another. I'm sure they want someone long term, but they're never going to get it fishing in their choice of talent pool, unless they get extremely lucky.

 

[dublinblue12]

Best of luck to him.

 

[KS55]

I didn’t actually know he was ex City. Thought he was a Londoner lol. Took him a a while to work his way to the top. Looks like we’ll be offloading Chalobah to United to help the books and Tosin is his replacement.

Wiki erroneously has zero first team appearances for City. In fact he has 8, I believe, across 3 senior competitions. He played in Pelegríni’s team that lost to Chelsea in the Fa cup, when a youthful side was selected because of European commitments.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Will Tosin be the new Sol Campbell?

Will there be riots in Walham Green?

Bottles of Pimms all over the show.

 

[Vienna_70]

I didn’t actually know he was ex City. Thought he was a Londoner lol. Took him a a while to work his way to the top. Looks like we’ll be offloading Chalobah to United to help the books and Tosin is his replacement.

He shares the same birthday as me, though Tosin is considerably younger, of course.

 

[Semper aggressus]

Interesting really, that Chelsea probably have very similar aspirations for each season as we do, and they feel Tosin is good enough for them, yet we got rid and showed no interest in bringing him back. I wonder who will be proved correct.

 

[Vienna_70]

Interesting really, that Chelsea probably have very similar aspirations for each season as we do, and they feel Tosin is good enough for them, yet we got rid and showed no interest in bringing him back. I wonder who will be proved correct.

As we’ve seen with others, some players (Brahmin Dias, Pedro Porro, Jérémy Frimpong, etc) mature at a later age, so both clubs might be right.