The Chelsea manager defended Nicolas Jackson after Alan Shearer on Match of the Day said the striker did not look like a ‘natural goalscorer’
  • R_Schuhart@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Some players need time to adjust and they deserve time and chances to find their footing, but it is also reasonable to criticise them if their performance is poor or if there is no progression in their game. Expectations are high and fans are frustrated, but most of the criticism has been quite fair so far. Shearer had a point, he wasn’t just bashing him.

  • ScousePenguin@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    He’s not a Chelsea level player. Man was moving to Bournemouth in January before a hamstring injury stopped it.

    Chelsea threw all of their eggs into the “they will come good” basket and it is not going to pay off.

    • Rickcampbell98@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      “Chelsea level” that’s mid table mate, he fits right in. These man don’t learn, spunk 30 million on a man because of one purple patch when he was arse beforehand. Don’t even blame him though, Chelsea ruin players.

      • Wintermute7@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t say we ruin players. But all of them are quite young and inexperienced, at this level and to the country. Chelsea are correctly a mid table team, and have been a relegation form team for a while now.

        But the club implied level is top 4, so the pressure and mentality is something all the young players have to experience, work through and get better from. Sadly football isn’t football manager for us Chelsea fans. For a while now, the squad is mentally weak, and many coaches haven’t been able to find a way to break down a low block with the squad.

      • PuddlestonDuck@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        The worrying thing for Chelsea (and Utd) is that at the minute you look at the table and the teams above them are all solid, effective teams. It’s unlikely over the next few seasons they’ll all stay at that level of course, but even so it’s a problem.

        In the past when they (or Liverpool, or Arsenal) have fallen out the top four it was very easy to see it as a blip even if the fall was heavy and somewhat prolonged. The way back up was still generally relatively clear - when Chelsea finished 10th it was still something of a joke to say they were a “mid table” side (indeed - they won it the next year!).

        At the minute it’s hard to see how that is the case anymore though, the strength in depth across the top half of the league is enormous. Chelsea are currently mid table, it’s not a flippant thing to say, and they have a huge task to turn that around.

  • yungchigz@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I thought Shearer was very fair, and Poch mentions that it was unfair to judge him on one game but he’s looked shite in plenty of the other ones and they didn’t even bring that up cos they were just breaking down his objectively shite performance in that particular game

  • BadCogs@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    He needs time and lot more development, he has a good base to work with, but thing is we can’t afford time because our owners scraped their early plans to buy other ST along with him. Now he and Broja (who himself needs the same time) are our only options and are under pressure. Nkunku injury put further demand on these guys producing.

    But going by our luck ST we’ll buy will turn to this himself.