Jackson is not the long term number 9. He wasn't bought to be it. For what jackson is , he is fantastic and can only improve. He gives us so much versatility in the future with striking partnerships. Broja is not better than jackson.
1st of all Happy New Year and thanks for all the hard work in 2023.
I do happen to agree with your front 4 entirely however Darren has raised an interesting point about their defensive commitment so I will pay attention to that during January.
So I’m going to move to the point of Broja who if you go back over his career averages a very poor 1 goal in 5 appearances or less, in my opinion he has already exceeded his ceiling and playing for the first team 33 appearances in 4 years and just 2 goals source transfer market.
For Southampton on loan 34 appearances 8 goals a true purple patch. Vitesse on loan 31 appearances 10 goals.
I made this point more than once over the last year he is Championship Quality as a Striker but clearly not Chelsea Quality.
Jackson meanwhile 20 match’s in all comps & 10 goals in all competitions or a 1 in 2 stat just imagine if he could sort out his shooting et cetera and officially he position is described as a midfielder from the information I’ve seen.
For the Jackson knockers I say this I’m not listening he can only get better he is 21 & for the Broja supporters I say this you will grow old waiting for him to score.
David makes a very good point about Disasi btw sell and promote Gilchrist and think twice about a loan deal the lad looks ready.
Every game Disasi carries the ball through 3 players, then passes straight to the opposition midfield. It’s maddening 😂
Broja’s just unlucky because he needs to play consistently post injury, and it’s set him back at least 12 months in terms of development - he’s not going to ever get that here.
In regards to the wider squad, it feels like the short blanket analogy, with Poch having to play people out of position to cover for all the deficiencies in the squad. Palmer’s looked pretty awful playing as a 10, Nkunku’s obviously not 100% fit, Caicedo and Enzo have been disappointing (injury affected ofc), and Noni and Mudryk are wildly inconsistent with and without the ball.
Odd situation of needing CL money to cover the (incredibly wasteful) spending, but the squad is in no position to actually play consistently well enough to get the required points.
Both enzo and caicedo can't be underperforming and we are still searching for the culprit who is playing enzo as a second striker because of gallagher. Gallagher is a very good player but he is ramirez at best. You don't build your team around a ramirez and expect to challenge. You use ramirez best strengths to compensate the weakness of your enzos and caicedos, not the other way round. For me, this is the reason plus others I know poch can't be here for too long. He doesn't know how to use specialized talent.
"Outperforming" in what? Goals? 🤣 Is he responsible for build up? No. Is he responsible for tempo ? No. Is he Outperforming them in creativity stats? Or progression of the ball?
You have a guy that is a good presser, tackles, and high energy. He probabably has more passes than them because of poch, but guesss what? He and few others top the premier league in the least progressive passers in the epl, which is certainly not what you want the guy taking the most passes in the mieldfield leading in 🤣.
He isn't Outperforming anyone in KEY duties of the team.
Also extremely undisciplined as a dm. Leaves caicedo alone ( check the match heatmap)to do all the midfield duties because guess what? he is not a dm.
Engage ur brain, and stop bringing funny twitter tropes here.
Jackson is not the long term number 9. He wasn't bought to be it. For what jackson is , he is fantastic and can only improve. He gives us so much versatility in the future with striking partnerships. Broja is not better than jackson.
Luke
1st of all Happy New Year and thanks for all the hard work in 2023.
I do happen to agree with your front 4 entirely however Darren has raised an interesting point about their defensive commitment so I will pay attention to that during January.
So I’m going to move to the point of Broja who if you go back over his career averages a very poor 1 goal in 5 appearances or less, in my opinion he has already exceeded his ceiling and playing for the first team 33 appearances in 4 years and just 2 goals source transfer market.
For Southampton on loan 34 appearances 8 goals a true purple patch. Vitesse on loan 31 appearances 10 goals.
I made this point more than once over the last year he is Championship Quality as a Striker but clearly not Chelsea Quality.
Jackson meanwhile 20 match’s in all comps & 10 goals in all competitions or a 1 in 2 stat just imagine if he could sort out his shooting et cetera and officially he position is described as a midfielder from the information I’ve seen.
For the Jackson knockers I say this I’m not listening he can only get better he is 21 & for the Broja supporters I say this you will grow old waiting for him to score.
David makes a very good point about Disasi btw sell and promote Gilchrist and think twice about a loan deal the lad looks ready.
Hi Luke,
Happy New Year.
The problem with your front 4, is that 3 of them don't defend properly or track back.
Noni, Mudryk and Palmer all have a massive flaw in their game, when it come to doing the dirty work.
For example, Palmer being at fault for both Luton goals on Saturday..
Noni ambling over to Saka, before Saka crossed for Trossard to equalise. These are to name but a few.
That's why the likes of Salah, Mane, Bernardo, etc etc. Are the next level of players above them, because of their defensive work.
If they did play together, it would leave us open, time and time again to counter attacks all the time.
You'd like to think that Poch would add this to their game.
However considering we concede goal after goal from corners and crosses , and yet still Poch does nothing about this.
I'm not sure Poch is capable of addressing this.
Great to see Chilwell finally back with the first team squad, but let's not forget, that Poch played him at LW before got injured.
I like many others want to see him play LB, when returns and not Colwill who has been awful playing LB this season, and its not his fault.
Agreed on the signings , but for me, Broja will never ever be good enough for Chelsea.
14 months down the line and he still hasn't played 90 minutes nor does he look fit.
We can't wait for him to come good or get fit, he needs to be shipped out and play without pressure.
He is not the answer.
As for Poch, I'm seriously underwhelmed for all the reasons you have stated..
He's got to get it right this month or he goes.
As it stands on Jan 2nd, with no striker being signed.
I'd take 10th and winning the League Cup this season
Every game Disasi carries the ball through 3 players, then passes straight to the opposition midfield. It’s maddening 😂
Broja’s just unlucky because he needs to play consistently post injury, and it’s set him back at least 12 months in terms of development - he’s not going to ever get that here.
In regards to the wider squad, it feels like the short blanket analogy, with Poch having to play people out of position to cover for all the deficiencies in the squad. Palmer’s looked pretty awful playing as a 10, Nkunku’s obviously not 100% fit, Caicedo and Enzo have been disappointing (injury affected ofc), and Noni and Mudryk are wildly inconsistent with and without the ball.
Odd situation of needing CL money to cover the (incredibly wasteful) spending, but the squad is in no position to actually play consistently well enough to get the required points.
Both enzo and caicedo can't be underperforming and we are still searching for the culprit who is playing enzo as a second striker because of gallagher. Gallagher is a very good player but he is ramirez at best. You don't build your team around a ramirez and expect to challenge. You use ramirez best strengths to compensate the weakness of your enzos and caicedos, not the other way round. For me, this is the reason plus others I know poch can't be here for too long. He doesn't know how to use specialized talent.
Yeah this is just a load of waffle. He’s not built the team round Gallagher, he is just out performing our 2 £100 million signings.
Enzo’s a good player but has looked miles off it for most of the season, ofc it’s injury related to an extent.
Why bother engaging your brain though when you can just try to run an agenda
"Outperforming" in what? Goals? 🤣 Is he responsible for build up? No. Is he responsible for tempo ? No. Is he Outperforming them in creativity stats? Or progression of the ball?
You have a guy that is a good presser, tackles, and high energy. He probabably has more passes than them because of poch, but guesss what? He and few others top the premier league in the least progressive passers in the epl, which is certainly not what you want the guy taking the most passes in the mieldfield leading in 🤣.
He isn't Outperforming anyone in KEY duties of the team.
Also extremely undisciplined as a dm. Leaves caicedo alone ( check the match heatmap)to do all the midfield duties because guess what? he is not a dm.
Engage ur brain, and stop bringing funny twitter tropes here.