Kieran Doyle
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Build a bigger table | Statford Bridge, Chelsea by the Numbers Podcast
Joined December 2011
Latest pod drop: Chelsea filling lanes in the box, good set pieces, previewing Man City. Youtube: Spotify:
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Selling 10% of your TV rights for 25 years to register Franck Kessie and Andreas Christensen is truly just bonkers.
FC Barcelona and Sixth Street reach an agreement for the acquisition of a 10% share of the Club’s LaLiga TV rights. 🔗 All the details:
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Christian Pulisic has played more matches at 26 than Alexi Lalas did in his entire career.
“Load management can kiss my ass.”. @AlexiLalas was fired up talking about USMNT players missing a match against Mexico on the road to recover. (via @SOTUWithAlexi)
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One of my favourite weird World Cup things is watching guys like Ziyech, who just simply won’t defend in club ball, dying to defend and collect second balls for their country.
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I'm not really sure how FIFPRO aren't lighting Barcelona on fire for stuff like this.
🚨 Barcelona are willing to pay Frenkie de Jong back just £3m in deferred wages and have asked him to forgo the rest in a bid to see his move to Manchester United go through. As a reminder, he is owed close to £17m in deferred wages. (Source: @jac_talbot)
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Mendy's ability to play through a press is criminally underrated
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Mason Mount played more games from project restart to Club World Cup (14 months) than Gary Lineker did from age 29-34.
FIFPRO are calling for mandatory season breaks and a limit on back-to-back games to protect the welfare of players. Report published today highlights how young players are playing considerably more minutes at this age than predecessors. More here:.
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Going from Tuchel who had the best in game adjustments in the entire league to Potter who says nice things to players and his only tactical adjustment is diamond or no diamond is painful.
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It’s going to be really funny when Enzo has a pretty down year and is still a 99th percentile volume and quality passer with 10 goals from midfield lol.
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Alfie Gilchrist lock down tackle and smashes the ball into orbit in celebration. What a man.
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Chelsea in preseason, 3-2-5, tight tight tight double 6 to a narrow back 3 ultra secure build up, total ball control against really good teams. Chelsea in season, 4231 with Enzo sprinting to go play striker and Caicedo getting grenades at his knees with 3 players sprinting.
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If Chelsea shift Mount to Liverpool to buy Felix after this half season cameo I think there are Boehly out protests by the first preseason match.
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It really matters that he notices the run back 90+4 to work.
🔵 Maresca: “I said from day one Noni Madueke is the type of winger I really like”. “The most important thing from Noni today was that run back to defend counter attack in 90th minute”. “We can just avoid that free-kick he gave away before half-time…”, Maresca added.
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If every time one of your players on an 8 year contract has a really good season you have to offer them a bumper new deal, the benefits of offering humongously long contracts are significantly neutered.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Cole Palmer commits future to Chelsea by signing 2yr contract extension. 22yo England attacker already tied down until 2031; terms now through to June 2033. Rewards brilliant debut season after joining from Manchester City @TheAthleticFC #CFC
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Little thing but 90+3 with a hat trick up 4 goals and Madueke is sprinting to doggedly track back with Gusto out. That matters.
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I’m sorry but Chelsea’s 6 ft 5 center back (who has already scored a side volley straight from a corner this game) just played a first time dinked through ball with the outside of his right foot, and the very next pass was a flawless left foot line breaker into someone’s feet.
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Maatsen good enough to start a CL quarter vs one of the most physical teams in Europe but can’t play LB vs Blackburn in the cup.
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This is a grand slam for Milan and completely idiotic from Chelsea. Cost controlled squad player with positional versatility, high degree of technical and physical competence, no push to start every game. Get. In. The. Bin.
Understand AC Milan are in concrete talks to sign Ruben Loftus Cheek from Chelsea. He’s priority target to rebuild the midfield. 🚨🔴⚫️ #ACMilan. Loftus Cheek, keen on the move as the negotiation is progressing very well.
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Very interesting that they tried to bait a working with Pep and his influence question and he just side stepped it for Ancelotti Lippi Pellegrini.
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Glenn Hoddle’s “counter point” to Richarlison being offside is that Sterling was screening Lloris for Koulibaly’s goal. Great point except Sterling was two yards onside.
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Chelsea very good for 55’ and then die on the vine the exact same 4 weeks in a row, there is legitimately nothing else to talk about.
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Look, if you view the referee as the arbiter of truth and keeper of law in the match, sure, Lahoz is a disaster. But if the referee is really the arbiter of the spectacle, Lahoz is Picasso or Rembrandt.
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Chelsea doing the incentivized fee structure for a U18 to make sure Palmeiras keep playing him. Very smart.
🚨🔵 EXCL: Chelsea have signed all documents for Willian Estevão, deal sealed!. Final conditions ⤵️. ◉ €34m fixed fee. ◉ €6m add-ons based on apps with Palmeiras. ◉ €17m add-ons based on being multiseason starter at #CFC. ◉ €4m difficult add-ons. Contract until 2033 🇧🇷
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Unless it is explicitly banned by the rules (no sponsorship by non-PL broadcast partners), Chelsea should sue the Premier League.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Premier League refuse Chelsea permission to sign shirt sponsorship deal with Paramount+ as they say it would breach rules. Club subsequently in talks with gambling firm Stake, despite looming ban. 🖊️
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Criticize Enzo all you want but that guy said “yeah no chance”. Somebody show some huevos.
Needed him on pitch, its the Quarter Final of the FA Cup, we’re not 4-0 up doing make a wish pens, why did no one stamp authority?
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That is one of the most insane no penalty handball decisions I have genuinely ever seen.
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Was scoring 40 goals a season in the academy and moved directly into Liverpool’s first team out of contract, this is totally revisionist.
Refreshing to see a player not herald a wonderkid. Develop into a Premier League striker and score 🔥. Hat-Trick ⚽️⚽️⚽️
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Chelsea played the best team on the planet about even, missed their big chance, City scored theirs. We’ll be fine.
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Trev getting the sub ahead of Azpi feels like a very large step.
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If Cucurella is still here next season while Maatsen plays for not Chelsea, it is frankly impossible for the manager/ownership/anyone involved with the club to maintain even a shred of credibility in my eyes.
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Tournament play if you’re a good team is about reducing variance, if you’re bad it’s about increasing variance. It’s barely the same sport as league play. Respect sufferball 👊🏻.
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Chelsea were 0.99-0.29 xG when Malo Gusto sees red, with a Raheem Sterling and Nic Jackson chance flagged offside that would have been VAR'd on if they scored worth a combined 0.5 xG. 1.5 - 0.3 in 57 minutes is not just fine, it's excellent. Chelsea were excellent for 57 minutes.
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If Chelsea miss Champions League, it’s going to be because they didn’t reinforce midfield, and they’ll only have 2 gentlemen to blame.
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My favorite list of Pulisic nicknames: Jan 6 Gervinho, Insurrection Insigne, Stop the steal Stoichkov, MAGA Mkhitaryan, second amendment Sancho. All gold.
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By my math, he has 45.2m euros left on amortization, they’ve gotten 13m in loan fees, so it’s a 3m loss. And getting off 20m in future wage obligations.
🚨🔵 Romelu Lukaku to Napoli, here we go! Verbal agreement in place between clubs. Chelsea accept €30m fixed fee plus add-ons up to €15m for €45m potential package. Permanent transfer brokered by Ali Barat for Epic Sports. Lukaku will sign 3 year deal at Napoli until 2027.
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Jackson has more goals in his 4 months for Chelsea than Jordan Ayew has in his last 3 seasons combined.
Jackson is closer to Jordan Ayew than he is to Kane yet it’s Kane who he tries to play like. Guy is everywhere except where he should be (in the box).
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The USMNT should fire Tuchel to get the most out of Pulisic imo.
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USMNT fans are easily the most fanatical of any national team. Those guys will watch the Bosnian 2nd division because Bragdon Tastywater is on the bench for Odžak 102 and might make a sub appearance.
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No point in sacking Poch now but I think you have enough sample to start your search for a manager in the summer privately now.
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Nothing holds women's soccer back more than the standard of officiating.
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FotMob deciding “we all know it’s gonna look like this in possession anyways” is a nice development
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Benzema and Lewandowski are the two guys whose careers will never be remembered with the esteem they should because of Messi and Ronaldo, so this is nice tbh.
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Emma Hayes is the best manager in the entirety of women's football and I'm not sure it's particularly close.
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Notoriously injury prone and not super available Pulisic. Have a day off.
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The list of strikers that I would swap Nico Jackson for is exceedingly small and definitely doesn’t include a certain 120m Nigerian.
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Chelsea looked at a team with KdB Hazard Lukaku Salah and said nah I'm good lol.
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Chelsea speed running how to mismanage an asset. Accelerate his loans too quickly, reject a way over market bid, jam him into the first team while returning from serious injury, loan where he doesn't play, sell at bottom of his value.
🚨🔵 EXCL: Chelsea and Armando Broja are planning to part ways this summer. Permanent transfer expected as soon as he returns from Fulham loan. 🇦🇱. Albanian number one striker’s on the list of several clubs in Europe and Premier League, looking at him as main option.
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It’s flown under the radar but Southampton have gone down almost exclusively because Bazunu has chucked 20 goals into his net more than his xG. I do not know why these teams accept this.
Advantage Brighton - they're one step away from Europe 👊. Ferguson with a fizzing shot 💥. Could the Saints keeper have done better?. #BBCFootball #BHASOU
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Chalobah In, Clearlake Out
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It is a deeply sad sight that we will never get Emma Hayes 442 war crime ball with Mayra and Kerr as a strike partnership, would generate enough salt to season the world.
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Casemiro showing that even if he guesses the right away if you simply murder the ball they won’t save it.
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Colwill might be best passing LCB on the planet. He just hit a line breaker to Jackson that the space genuinely did not exist. Interstellar pass, bending time and space.
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Chilwell gets done because Cucurella is legitimately the worst player on the field.
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Jackson getting grenade after grenade and making them all stick and turning and linking. Unreal performance.
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Enzo with another 19 progressive passes, 12 into the final third, 4 into the box yesterday. Through 2 matches, Enzo has 36 progressive passes, nobody else in the league has more than 21. Dude's a cheat code.
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Just remember anyone who told you Chalobah wasn't good enough for Chelsea told you exactly in that moment they were not worth listening to.
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Brighton up a player for 65 minutes with added time and 0 clear chances created. Unbelievable defensive performance.
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I am very confused why Potter is managing so afraid of losing his job. You get £50m if they fire you tomorrow and not even one person will count it as a black mark on your legacy. Spurs would hire you to replace Conte when he throws a tantrum tomorrow.
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Havertz is the most consistent ~0.5 xG+xA and literally everything else you could ask for attacker there ever was.
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This will be the move that gets them done for related party transactions.
🔵🇵🇹 More details on Diego Moreira’s deal to Racing Strasbourg. Been told it’s going to be a permanent move as #RCSA can’t welcome new players on loan anymore. #ChelseaFC will €2m in return and should include a buyback option in the contract. #mercato #CFC 🤝 @CyrilOlives
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Mudryk doesn't need more gym work. He needs to sit in a theatre and watch film with a coach so he can learn how to make footballing decisions properly. The lad is already strong and rapid. I've literally never seen him make a good choice.
🚨 A source around Chelsea and close to Mykhailo Mudryk:. “He wants to be better. People need to leave him alone. He is a nice lad.”. “He will be in the gym at the training ground before and after normal drills. He loves it. He will do what Chelsea ask him to do training-wise,
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If you want to make this point, it would be Disasi to gripe over.
🚨🚨| NEWS: An example of Chelsea’s poor player management is that Bashir Humphries should be ahead of Benoit Badiashile in the pecking order, but the latter cost over £32m. [@MiguelDelaney]
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I will put my neck on the line and say if this deal gets done he's Chelsea's starter by the end of the season. That's how confident I am.
BREAKING: Chelsea open talks with New England Revolution to sign Serbia int'l GK Djordje Petrovic, per sources. Nothing yet agreed, but sources believe a deal could get done in the region of $15m (£11.8m). Talks ongoing @TheAthleticFC
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Timo Werner sees an Austrian manager and the opposition in a 4222 and just assume he’s back in the Bundesliga. That’s got to be the reason he always plays well against Southampton.
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Kante and Hazard signed for huge wages straight up but 1 was a PFA TOTY player who’d just won a title, the other had just finished a season putting up 20 and 15 en route to title and player of the year and both cost 32m. Just not the same.
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First big test of Maresca's Chelsea career is how much of a spine he has for Servette. If he has any confidence he'll play a mostly rotated team, get Acheampong in. If he's nervous, we'll see mostly starters.
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Hudson-Odoi is really starting to grow in terms of his willingness to attack central areas and connect for himself, rather than just being a winger-y winger. Some really nice moments against Juventus.
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Mudryk has genuinely no idea when to go inside vs when to hold width, it’s pretty alarming.
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Way too much positive press this weekend we're getting packed in tomorrow.
"What he's done is absolutely brilliant in his first few months.". Rebecca Lowe, Gary Neville and Tim Howard discuss Enzo Maresca's impressive start as Chelsea manager.
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20 mins in and I’m going to say the thing I say every week but why do Chelsea want a striker. You did the hard thing, you found the 30m striker who is actually a 75m striker. Go get wingers who actually do something.
Avoided all spoilers, just watching back now. Jackson 😊.
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Saying the guy who has spent at least 12 years (as long as I've followed him on socials anyways) who spends every weekend trudging up and down the country following 16's, 18's and 21's and highlighting those stories isn't a Chelsea fan is a wild take.
This guy ain’t a Chelsea fan. It’s clear. Shut the hell up and just enjoy how we are playing. Are you not capable of that???
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Kai Havertz the only Chelsea player with any spine. Imagine my surprise.
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We actually fired a top 5 coach in the world because he was mean to bad squad players and wasn’t a good DoF after being the public face of a sanctioned institution while going through a divorce, to hire a PE teacher who says the players need confidence to stand in the right spot.
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Why do we like Andrey Santos? Because he cracks people and he scores goals
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If this is Jackson in basically his second ever pro season, it’s a scary thought what he’ll be 1 year, 3 years, 5 years from now.
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Chelsea signing a load of City PL2 products so they can sell the Chelsea PL2 products who historically whooped them is going to send @chelseayouth to the looney bin.
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Jackson scores 1 in 2 at 22 years old while running the channels and working his bag off as a presser and goes and defends as a winger half the game. How can anyone not rate him?
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Chelsea have been unable to play out the entire game and at no point has Poch even considered tweaking the build up.
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I don’t want to hear an ounce of Caicedo slander. He’s been unbelievable.
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Rice is different man. Chelsea spent 3 seasons looking at him saying no he isn't worth it.
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All season Jackson gets hammered for amazing process and not finishing. Today he’s just ok (still pretty good process), gets a late winner, and he��s hammered for being awful. Real clown hours.
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Good, young, cost controlled, versatile CB who can also play DM and FB. Never complains when he's dropped for 4 months. Head down and works. Hires personal trainers to do extra fitness/nutrition stuff in free time. Sigh.
🚨Exclusive:. Inter Milan are pushing hard to sign Chelsea defender Trevoh Chalobah for £25m, and are in daily communication with his camp. Details below from @standardsport:.#InterMilan #CFC.
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94th minute of an impossibly long season in a game that no longer matters and Gallagher is sprinting until he pukes to block a shot in transition from a corner that HE took. What a man.
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The manager has control over 4 things: what does the press look like (bad), what does the build up look like (bad), what do defensive transitions look like (bad), and what do set pieces look like (bad).
@KierDoyle How much of this is on the manager?.
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I'm actually rather curious if Sixth Street got any protections on Barca joining a super league where La Liga TV Rights are not worth anything.
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Aurelio de Laurentiis belongs in jail for not letting this guy go to Chelsea in 2016.
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Chelsea use 3 of their last 15 available subs, fall off a cliff physically, drop their 5 worst halves of the season in a row. Cheers. Maybe the new fangled data department the Sporting Directors want to wank themselves off in the athletic with can tell him subs are good.
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Going to guess Chelsea had a clause about sacking him if he dropped out of the top half, because today is the first time they dropped that low.
Chelsea sack Potter #cfc .- Stunned players find out via club statement.- Decision led by Stewart and Winstanley.- No immediate successor lined up.- Chelsea don not have to pay full value of Potter's contract (would have been about £50m).
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Jackson up to 4 goals 2 assists on 3.7 xG+xA in 360 league minutes this year. Doesn't even feel like he's on a heater. Just is legitimately one of the best strikers in the world.
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Before people get very worried about Chelsea with the caveat of the smallest of samples. Through 2 matches they've played Liverpool (very good) and West Ham (super organized block), here is where they rank in the league in a bunch of useful and predictive metrics. Give it time.
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Chelsea flawless for 58’, make a big error to concede, run out of gas. Subs come in and don’t try hard. Pictures are clear who belongs and who doesn’t.
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Especially when the reporting is lower your wages or we sell you and don’t pay the wages we owe you. Seems like just cause for contract termination and a free transfer imo.
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I cannot express the joy it brings me in my soul for Ruben to get his flowers. To come back from the injury he did, in the way he has. Top man. @RLC
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Chelsea paid 100m and punted Abraham for a year of overweight and injured Lukaku who feuded with the coach so egregiously a dressing room of players who have dropped the manager on every occasion, backed the manager over him.
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It is remarkably sad to see Hazard just totally unable to go past people.
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Looked at some YoY comparisons (LUT=SOU) for Chelsea. Lots of noise in 4 game sample but:. 1⃣ The attack is *a lot* better. More/better shots. More box/final third entries. 2⃣ The defense is about the same as 22/23 (3rd best team by xGA/90). Take a deep breath, we're fine.
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