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Antonio Rudiger

The Don Antonio said:
Rudiger is gone. His contract and christensens contract should have been the main priority after the UCL instead of wasting money on that useless lukaku.

I expect a part 2 of this with kante and jorginhos contracts up next season
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This take always annoys me. 

The club don't focus on one thing at a time. They've been trying to get rudi and ac a new contract for ages. But neither would accept the terms we were offering. 

It's that simple. We aren't the richest club in the world and if a player wants to take the risk somewhere else by winding down their contract to earn more money then they will. 

It's going to happen more and more to all clubs as madrid and barca are no longer paying out monster transfer fees. If you want your sunny retirement in spain then it's going to have to be going on a free. It's not the clubs fault

 
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To be fair after the sanctions hit the club has had other things in mind. It is mostly bad luck. I think the club handles contracts pretty well in general. We are not overpaying or break our own salarytable for a single player.

ManU paid 300k a week to Rooney 10 years ago. Not to mention someone like Pogba who shouldn't be paid a dime. Every time he puts on that shirt he turns from a world class player to a circus pony. 

I agree we should have done something earlier but who knew Putin would start a war that kicks out Roman and we are sanctioned. 

Christensen I feel would have left anyway. After the CL glory he probably saw an era ending and new chapter beginning. 

I have absolutely no hate towards either of them. 

 
It's a big loss for us in terms of our current playstyle and tactics. But if Tuchel ever wants to change to a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 then the best decision is to let Rudiger go and not to give him a bigger contract.

Like already mentioned above regarding Real Madrid, getting a player that shines in a back 3 but that is shaky in a back 4 is a strange decision unless Ancelotti is going to re-invent himself.

 
As a player I dont its a huge loss as he is replaceable, especially if we ever go back to a back 4 where he was very suspect. Its more his personality and fight we lose, and were already severely lacking in that.

 
I don't blame the club because Rudi and Christensen had a sudden performance boost deep into their contracts, at a point where they held all the chips.

I remember wanting them both replaced during Lamps' 2nd season.

 
Not sure about the "can't play in a back 4" tune anymore - IMO Rüdiger developed and matured quite a bit. The current system fits him to a tee so there is that but with someone like Thiago I can see him doing well in a back four. With James and Chilwell fit I don't even think we would play that much better attacking wise with a 433 instead of our 523. That was some fantastic football we played at the start of the season right until our only fitting wingbacks got injured.

Christensen I think would have eventually signed a new contract if Thiago would have left so that he could take his spot. But I have to say it's a bit annoying that he's not available rather often and thank god Rüdiger could play almost every single game under Tuchel from start to finish. So a good replacement could make us even stronger (and possibly even more flexible). 

 
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I like Rudiger and would really liek him to stay. Christensen is a liability and will never be an elite footballer. Rudiger i like. That said he has been very much a man for the moment and the system.

Under Frank he was just as wobbly as the rest of them , was positionally all over the place and often looked like he was playing on ice.

The bigger concern is the timing and our ability to get a replacement in with this ownership cloud taking so long to clear.

 
Im gonna miss Rudiger but don't agree w a lot of pundits in the media saying he's world class, he wasn't that good ever in  a back 4 and suited the 3 much better, what really endeared me to him was his character on and off the pitch and his penchant for popping up with goals just at the right time in games. No surprise he's allegedly off to RM, good luck to the fella. We've still got Dave, Silva & Trev and Im sure the club will bring in  a couple more eventually

 
Heads up to Rudi tonight, despite being on his way he still gave it 100% and I fully expect we will see the same level till he departs. 

 
charierre said:
Heads up to Rudi tonight, despite being on his way he still gave it 100% and I fully expect we will see the same level till he departs. 
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He did, but I don't think this is a 100% focused Toni. He will still be good but the spark was missing from him today imo.

 
300k+ a week, even without sanctions we wouldn't compete anyway. Just want one more epic performance in the final and that'll do

 
Good luck Toni.

Please actually look like you are bothered to play these last 4 Chelsea games at a high level again.

 
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