thanks for the great compilation. if no news related to chelsea sure so bored.

we need to keep van ginkel and RLC.

dont be like last season keep on selling players and then we got bakayoko to replace matic. and turns out....

zouma is another one that we need to keep. dont loan him since david luiz is now consider a fringe player so zouma is our prime candidate to replace him.

3. If Morata scores like batsman in BvB, this is insane. He showed so much promise there and banging in goals at Dortmund.

half a pre season gone but our board do nothing

if sarri come and bring in his players, i dont think van ginkel, rlc, bakayoko etc got playing time

morata can never score like batsman... he is headmaster

alexander golovin nice? how about roman use his influence to get him. doing well at world cup.

quite good in first two wc matches.... but against saudi arabia & egypt

mirror: Chelsea are poised to try to cut their price for sacking Antonio Conte by alleging he mismanaged the sale of Diego Costa.

haha, use every excuse to cut the compensation

hazard scores for belgiummmmm

That last min freekick from kroos, top class

rlc not bad tonight

to the club, he is not that good

we prefer buying rather than using our own product. and we love buy back own product at expensive price too . not saying its a bad practice but some youth are good. they just need time but we didnt give them the time. each and every department cant be tolerate.

feel like conte save england
since he introduced 343 to epl, spurs, ars, mu, mc etc tried their own 343
most of the current england squad players play 343 before

Pep has been using 3 at the back long before he came to England.

It's not new to England either before Conte. Roberto Martinez was one of the first to popularize and successfully implemented it first at Wigan. Brendan Rodgers also used it for a period of time with Liverpool.

It just never got noticed in England before Conte because they didn't win the league with it. But just because they didn't win the league with it doesn't mean their implementation is inferior to that of Conte's when they have vastly inferior players. And in the same stroke, Jurgen Klopp is not the originator nor is he the innovator of Gegenpressing, the concept was introduced long ago and even in Germany there were proponents of it before Klopp. But Klopp using it to propel his underdog Dortmund to title wins obviously catches the media's attention and now the term Gegenpressing is often attributed to Klopp as if he is some genius who came up with it.

This post has been edited by Cloud0890: Jun 25 2018, 12:33 PM

But we make it works till we won BPL, Now lots of team playing with the same formation

What I said, just because Roberto Martinez didn't win the title with it doesn't make his implementation inferior to that of Conte's, even if it's obviously Conte is a much better manager than he is. You can't expect Wigan to win the league no matter what formation they play.

Popularization is the keyword here, Conte won media admiration only because he managed to win the league with it, no one would've bat an eyelid if he didn't. Hypothetically speaking if Conte had used it to save West Brom from relegation for example like Martinez did with Wigan, it would still be an achievement because of how shit those teams are, but it wouldn't have caught as much media attention even if they were successful with it.

And there really aren't that many teams who are using it. In fact, I would say only Wenger's Arsenal were the only other PL team who were using it regularly as their main formation. Spurs uses it sparingly often rotating between 3 and 4 at the back.

This post has been edited by Cloud0890: Jun 25 2018, 12:51 PM

tbh...england have yet to meet stronger teams in their group...

let's see the outcome after meeting belgium and so on

rumors:

sarri to london on monday

this. looking forward for them to face balgium. would be interesting match

Yo Mr Know-It-All, you contradict your comments; first you said Martinez popularize 343 then you said Conte did.

Make up your mind please. I thought you wanna be the best Mr. Know-It-All here in Football Lounge.