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Antonio Rudiger

Rudiger is the only one I have faith we may keep, if he wanted to leave he's had plenty fo time to do it. Clearly he understands he is in a position of complete power here and can choose to play for whoever he wants at this point. He loses nothing by waiting. From my understanding he won't make a decision at least until the new owners are sorted out which means he will at least wait to hear our next offer. 

I think his first choice is to stay, now regarding Azpil it's up to him as well. His contract extension has been triggered and if he doesn't want to stay we will allow him to leave. Imo we should do everything to convince him to stay, previously he wanted to, but we were only offering a year extension at the time due to our over 30s policy. I say offer an additional year on make it a 2 year deal and see what he thinks. 

Christensen has not informed Chelsea FC as of now that he will 100% leave he only has an informal verbal agreement in place with Barca who have yet to announce the deal only allude to it. Where have we heard this before oh yes when he agreed last year to sign the contract extension. Meaning until he signs with Barca, we will have an opportunity to offer him a new contract and a chance admittedly small he signs for us.

This is especially relevant since the board currently does not intend to do this due to the way he behaved (agreeing a deal and then back tracking) however, with new management may come a different perspective and possibly a new offer.

My point is nothing we have heard yet is completely set in stone and everything currently is dramatised to make our situation look more dire. Whilst I'm frustrated by the situation I know that it can change at any moment. The key phrase here is there is a possibility we lose all 3 of our starting cbs there is also a possibility as slim as it may be as things stand that all 3 re-sign.

 
I certainly wouldn't be getting too pent up about losing any of those three. 

 
I gave him man of the match simply for that wonder hit but of you take that away he was only above Alonso and perhaps Mendy and Werner in terms of display.

This is why he cannot play in a back 4. Brentford exposed him time and again. He looked like the Lampard Toni.

 
Couple of defensive shockers and seems like there are less and less people about concerned with his contract situation.

 
Don't know if people have noticed his passion and anger in the end of the game.

Yeah, he slipped in the second goal, but I think his performance was fantastic. His mentality is something that we must have in the squad, he's a real winner. 

We need him with us as much as he can perform at the top. 

 
IliyaKrostin said:
Don't know if people have noticed his passion and anger in the end of the game.

Yeah, he slipped in the second goal, but I think his performance was fantastic. His mentality is something that we must have in the squad, he's a real winner. 

We need him with us as much as he can perform at the top. 
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Agreed.

 
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that's football 💔

but he needs to sign on, i don't care what we have to do. rent Lukaku out to do chores or let Mason Mount start an Only Fans and use that money to get Rüdi a new deal 

 
I'm not going to say that if Rudiger was playing against Arsenal, we were winning the game, but I can say that see him on the pitch gives us a lot of more than just defensive ability.

His partnership with Thiago Silva is good enough to play in 4 defensive line, but especially when we play 3 in the back. 

It looks like we don't have the confidence without him to play some proper buildup, push forward with the ball, create something special to the final third, leadership + communication in behind.

I'm sure that Nketiah could play in the same way against Rudiger like he played tonight. I'm pretty sure he would be winning all the aerial duels around him.

For the next season we have to give Rudiger a new contract and sign a world class CB next to Rudiger and Thiago Silva, let's hope all the situation in the world will end till then and we will have the ability to buy and sell in the transfer market. 

 
Strong rumours he’s off to Madrid. Not going to lie I’m going to be extremely bitter if Rudiger leaves us for free this summer, everybody loves him here and we can offer trophies, there’s no reason for him to leave.

 
timetowaste said:
Strong rumours he’s off to Madrid. Not going to lie I’m going to be extremely bitter if Rudiger leaves us for free this summer, everybody loves him here and we can offer trophies, there’s no reason for him to leave.
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Reports are that he lowered his demands but nothing has yet to be agreed. Fully expecting him to resign once new ownership is established. 

 
Looking more likely to leave. 

The squad has gone from needing 2 or 3 additions last summer, to now requiring an entire back line, rejuvenating the midfield, and fuxing the attack!

Feel sorry for Tuchel tbh.

 
big blue said:
Looking more likely to leave. 

The squad has gone from needing 2 or 3 additions last summer, to now requiring an entire back line, rejuvenating the midfield, and fuxing the attack!

Feel sorry for Tuchel tbh.
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Blame the government. If they didn't tie our hands, we would have offered him a contract by now.

 
Frankie8Lampard said:
Blame the government. If they didn't tie our hands, we would have offered him a contract by now.
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We had long enough to tie him down and we didn’t. We only have ourselves to blame.

big blue said:
Looking more likely to leave. 

The squad has gone from needing 2 or 3 additions last summer, to now requiring an entire back line, rejuvenating the midfield, and fuxing the attack!

Feel sorry for Tuchel tbh.
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How on earth did we let ourselves into this situation? Really awful planning. We only signed 1 player last summer and it cost us 100m. He’s now another problem. What if we spent that 100m on securing contracts and increasing squad depth, such as wing backs? 

 
Sconnie Blue said:
Reports are that he lowered his demands but nothing has yet to be agreed. Fully expecting him to resign once new ownership is established. 
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I thought so too before Di Marzio said it’s looking likely that he’ll go to Madrid. I’d be gutted to see him go as that’s another £40+ to spend on another CB when we already needed one 

 
dansubrosa said:
We had long enough to tie him down and we didn’t. We only have ourselves to blame.

How on earth did we let ourselves into this situation? Really awful planning. We only signed 1 player last summer and it cost us 100m. He’s now another problem. What if we spent that 100m on securing contracts and increasing squad depth, such as wing backs? 
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Tuchel thought that the squad is already flawless so spending 100m on Lukaku didn't seem like such a bad idea when we just won the CL.

 
timetowaste said:
I thought so too before Di Marzio said it’s looking likely that he’ll go to Madrid. I’d be gutted to see him go as that’s another £40+ to spend on another CB when we already needed one 
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We are not sure what direction the new owners will take us in. One thing we do know is our wage bill is horribly unbalanced and we will take a few years to sort it out. When the likes of Kepa, Lukaku et al earn huge amounts more than players keeping them out of the side it needs to be addressed.

That may mean for a few years we are not competitive at the top level. 

 
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