Your team v Chelsea

[justincredible]

Play half our game and we should beat Cheatski...
There's some serious work to be done on the drawing board and training pitches over the next couple of days... C'mon boys!

[justme]

It’s crazy when you think that we spent all that money and didn’t bring someone in to offer competition there , move Endo on for a nominal fee , get rid of jones and bring another midfielder in who can play naturally deep . It’s a huge oversight, imagine the stability a good dm and Marc guehi would provide to this side , I can see them buying another cb in January and going for guehi on a free next year

Thing is players want to be assured of playing most games, its not easy telling a person thats replacing Endo you will only start a few games a season. and on the defender situation we tend not to buy players for the sake of it. If we can't get better or similar to Guehi in January and teams don;t want to sell. we will probably stick with what we have and thats not enough.. but not stopped us before. I think its likely Robertson will be an option as a defender if needs be

[Red October]

That's why Gomez is so useful cos he can play a few positions. He's not the best but he is versatile. Right now will he be any worse than Konate?

[Kev0909]

At least chelsea have some injuries, we have a chance

[Red October]

Mamardashvilli
Frimpong Gomez VVD Kerkez
Szoboszlai Gravenberch MacAllister
Salah Ekitike Chiesa (if fit)

[jozza800]

Personally, i'd be 'doubling down' as Steveo nicely puts it.

Mamar
Frimpong - Konate - VVD - Kerkez
Grav - Szobo
Wirtz
Salah - Ekitike/Isak - Chiesa

But for us to play with a proper 10 then the two midfielders behind him have to sit.

It feels like there's too many moving parts at the moment.

[Nineteenx]

Back to as many of the players from last season as possible is likely but he might double down

He’s kept doubling down from popular opinion by keeping playing 4231 and keep including Wirtz and playing Salah & Gakpo who are essentially both forwards deeper than they played before so further away from goal

With the ONE we only have one central player with 2 CBs around him to try and play into and off

[Nineteenx]

That's why Gomez is so useful cos he can play a few positions. He's not the best but he is versatile. Right now will he be any worse than Konate?

Yes a lot worse Konate is still
Winning a lot of front foot defending challenge in the air and on the deck and Gomez can’t front foot defend to save his life neither could Quansah and when either of our CBs backs off like those 2 do, it creates more issues than Konate’s odd lapses

[Steveo]

Is probably right - Konate isn’t great but he is almost certainly the best partner for Virgil within our ranks. Wouldn’t have been had we not dicked around over a few million and left it to the death with Guehi.

I mentioned not long after we won the title how poor I felt Konate was. I watched him for France - and his calamitous defending. I think in 1.5 games with him they shipped 7 goals. France - with all that defensive sgrength!!! Not sure who was responsible for missing out on Guehi but whoever it is - must be keeping a very low profile

[Red October]

Would be a great boost for the team if we could get in in January.