What Is lacking?

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

If we were lucky enough to get Grealish & Kane or Haaland in the summer I’d be feeling pretty confident about next season, to put it mildly.

 

[I'm Blue]

In fairness we threw the fa cup this year and by we I mean Pep. Tiredness wasn't the reason we lost. Pep needs the domestic trophies others don't bother with to keep his rep in tact.

We did throw the fa cup and that gave Chelsea more confidence last night.
I did think we looked tired/off it last night.
Kev walking round the pitch, Mahrez looked slow, Foden, Gundogan.
Obviously Pep putting them under the cosh right from the off didn’t help either, we were chasing shadows early in the game.

 

[SOR_21]

A striker, ideally Haaland. If Pep's looking for a wildcard move for next season, Laporte at DM (good on the ball, tall, strong, Spanish). Otherwise, a new pacy DM as others have mentioned.

 

[Gundog’s Gundog]

Top class wideman who can beat a defender in a variety of ways so he doesn’t know whether to drop off or get tight

Grealish

Top class centre forward with a perfect first touch who can consistently hit the target

Kane / Haaland

 

[I'm Blue]

Agree with this, I think this season especially we should have played the kids in the league cup. Most seasons the final is in like February, so it can be won and then the team can focus on Prem & CL. But not this year.

It’s so difficult though, we had three weeks rest leading up to last night, whereas Chelsea had basically 5 finals in those three weeks (to secure top-4 and the FA Cup)... which was better preparation for last night? The rest or a string of important games? If you’d asked me yesterday I’d have definitely said three weeks to chill, but now I’m not so sure.

Them beating us twice at the end of the season didn’t help either.
We hardly put up a fight in them 2 games and then last night we started the game with one hand tied behind our backs by not starting a defensive midfielder.
Madness.

 

[Paul1970]

It's weird because in the days leading up to the game, discussions about whether to start Dhino or Rodri was the dominant topic of conversation. Maybe Pep couldn't resist chucking a curve ball at that very issue. Love him dearly but his biggest flaw is his tendency to take unnecessary risks in one-off games.

I’ll tell you another thing aswell anyone who thinks the owners will be ok with what happened last are living in fantasy land . Pep will never get sacked and rightly so but there will definitely be a conversation at board level as to why and what went wrong . It isn’t about getting beat as Chelsea are a top top outfit and will be up there next season but we gave them a massive bonus with the team sheet and gave a n elite player like Kante free roam in midfield which will only end one way . Luckily for us Chelsea can’t finish of this game would have been over at half time .

 

[ws01]

What is lacking?

1. An in-form Sterling playing in his best position, RW

2. A replacement for Dinho that's as a close as we can get like for like

3. A clinical striker ever since Kun became a permanent sub

4. A pacy left winger to replace Sane, giving us a second option for Phil

5. A pacy left fullback (left footed) that can rotate with Zinchenko

I'm confident we will solve at least two of those points in the summer. The first point is up in the air

 

[Damanino]

CL is a trophy where tactical mistakes are punished in an incredible high % of the time.
And thats where Pep is failing pretty much since he took over from Heynckes at Bayern but he aint learning imo.

Its very likely City will win the CL first time with a much lesser manager than Pep.

Chelsea got to three finals, first Avram Grant as caretaker, then Di Matteo with almost zero top level experience winning it now Tuchel within 5 months of training them.

 

[Musampa 209]

I don’t think we’re lacking anything that would have made the difference last night.

We had enough to win the game but Pep went full Pep and it backfired

 

[argyle]

A top class defensive midfielder to replace/rotate with Fernandinho.

It's clear that Pep doesn't rate Rodri.

So, also maybe some new people involved in transfers as who decided to sign an immobile defensive midfielder?