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Watched Sessegnon when he broke through as a 16 year, class act as is his brother. One of the guys were I used to work his kid plays for Fulham's under 16s now and says they are both really down to earth kids who just loving playing forward, after they had finished training with the first team they then join a match with the kids. Hope he says at Fulham for a least this season as he would be guaranteed 1st team football. We had another superstar in the making Patrick Roberts, who signed for Man City and has been at Celtic for the last few seasons.

Hope he says at Fulham for a least this season as he would be guaranteed 1st team football.

The rumour is that he'll be sold soon but the deal would see him loaned back to Fulham to play out the 2018/19 Premiership season.

Have a friend whose a Fulham fan, goes to a few games, not a season ticket holder who is super excited about the promotion and Sessegnon’s ability to keep them up.
Plus Fulham have signed jean Michel seri, whose supposed to be super tasty, and should have been a target for some of the bigger clubs in the division..

I didn’t want to sully @CanonAxe joy about Sessegnon, but I’m hoping we’re that club as we’ve been angling for him, for the last two seasons..

Think Mitrović would be a great signing fans favourite after a few games, big strong nonsense forward which is what Fulham had been missing since the days of McBride. Must admit I really enjoyed the Championship, so many teams in or around the same level made for good matches. Will probably go to a few mainly away games, grounds I didn't get to, the first time we were in the promised land.

It's inevitable that he will leave, for him he needs to go to a club where is pushing for a 1st team place, he doesn't need to be loaned out and I'm not sure his head is turned by money, they still arrive at the training ground by cab.

When do we start talking about potential and pointing to all the "failed" footballers that don't fit ?

Zola's coming home!

I believe it's referred to as the Ravel Formula.

Not sure about some of that list and think there are better and more developed players - as mentioned above someone like Maddison could be deserving of a place, Maitland-Niles, Lookman, Lewis Cook, Gomez, Davies, Nketiah and Abraham should all be playing more first team football this season.

Foden and Mount need to push to go on loan or get more meaningful playing time

Sarri and Jorghino finally confirmed, thank fuck for that... Conte has been great but fighting with the boss is never gonna get you anywhere at Chelsea, that Costa thing was a fucking disaster as well... Egos coming before the good of the club? Nope, can't have that...

Looking forward to seeing what Sarri can do with the players we have, £200m price tag for Hazard should keep him at the Bridge for a bit longer... Hoping for a Sarri revolution, I like what I've heard about him, he seems like a total football nutjob... Great to have Gianfranco back as well... #cornypost

Up the Blues!

So Chelsea will win the league this season, and be terrible next, Sarri leaves after two years. That's how it goes right?

I don't really know much about this fella tbf, how did he fair in Naples? I know they've been an emerging force the last few years, but it's gonna take something big to topple Juve.

Sarri did a great job at Napoli. While it's true they were already a good side, and he didn't radically alter the squad, he also made every player better (particularly Mertens) and improved the side even after losing their best player, Higuain. Napoli easily played the best football in Italy last year, they just had a very small squad so were bound to find it hard to compete for Seria A and in the later stages of the CL, so Sarri deserves further credit for pushing Juve all the way in the league.

Understand, I didn’t think the list was that much of a deep dive, and the players you list also need to push on with the first team football. My surprise was that foden was the only creative midfielder on that list and as mentioned previously that position is what we currently lack..

I’d imagine that Sarri has been working on his Chelsea project for a month or so by now. It’s a bit ridiculous that it’s taken the club this long but I doubt it that they didn’t send him any player files.

I loved our first season with Conte, even the latter part of last season. The Costa situation cost us dearly. I’d love it if Batshuayi gets a chance as he could be a player that thrives under Sarri. Not sure about Morata.

@jaw what can you tell me about Alireza Jahanbakhsh? There are some persistent stories linking us with him.

about 150pts in scrabble if you can find a double word score to put it on

the sulking and constant huff he had last season wore very thin.( until the FA cup ) Really looking forward to Sari (As I was with Conte) the switch and change of managers is irritating but its successful.
Would like to see if Chelsea have a longer term plan. I imagine the board have set top 4 as target if that is not got it will be the big El bow.

Napoli played great football last year it will be interesting to see. Also Sari sparking up a tab on the side lines

Will he be allowed to light up in uk stadiums?

Napoli were a good side under him.
Interesting times..

Can’t wait to see how Sarri gets on with Granovskia and the LGBT fans considering his previous sexist & homophobic behaviour.

Great coach but not equipped to work in the 21st century media world of football.

Alireza. Player of the season in the Dutch league last season and has grown out of the league according to the man who brought him there in the first place. Didn’t see much Dutch football last season but he was a class above from what I saw. Carlos Aalbers reckons he’s ready for a top 6 team in one of the big 4 leagues.

Not sure he’s fast enough for the PL and his left foot is a bit weak. How much £ are we talking?

They lack players who can keep possession in the 2/3 of the pitch under high press and players who can beat the press - several of the players mentioned can do that.

I’m pretty optimistic about watching England in future tournaments but those players need to be playing 20+ games a season

https://statsbomb.com/2018/05/world-cup-scouting-irans-alireza-jahanbakhsh/

£19m

Or 1.2 Musa’s