Ian Maatsen. The world would know you soon son. Patience. Patience

One of the reasons Poch shouldnt be staying here next season.

Ian Maatsen vs PSG

41 passes
90% pass accuracy
2/3 accurate long balls
1/1 accurate cross
1 key pass
1 big chance created
1/2 successful dribble
2 tackles
4 clearances
1/2 aerial duel won
6/12 duels won

Another excellent performance for BVB by the 22-year-old Chelsea loanee! ⚫️

🚨 Breaking: Chelsea fans will reveal a Conor Gallagher banner at tomorrows match vs Tottenham. It will say “Chelsea since birth” this is ahead of a potential Tottenham swoop for the player this summer

🚨 Chelsea will take their time to decide on Mauricio Pochettino. Forget about anything being agreed with other coaches in this moment.

The priority for Rúben Amorim is to wait for an opportunity.

(Fabrizio Romano)

Hopefully Poch leaves Chelsea and everyone becomes happy😉

Pochettino insisted he has received positive feedback from Chelsea supporters on the work he is doing at Stamford Bridge, but only while he has been out walking his dog. [PA]

Chelsea have lost just one of their past 33 home league games against Tottenham.

[via BBC Sport]

Can someone tell me 2 reasons what Poch has done in his career to stay at Chelsea next season?

Aubameyang explains difficult season at Chelsea: “I understood from December, that the season was over, I already wanted to leave, but you can’t play for more than three clubs.

I asked myself: is this what it means to be old? And I answered: It’s you who decides. Either you decide to follow this path and say to yourself maybe it’s old age. Or you say, no, that’s bullsh*t, I still have things to do. I was disappointed and jaded, I got a little… ‘lost,’ that’s a big word, but I let myself go.”

{L'Equipe}

‘AND POCHETTINO ERUPTS IN CELEBRTION, STUNNING FINISH BY SON’

The make-up of a team is not necessarily putting all your best players together but putting players with the right characteristics together to make-up a solid team.

I don't understand how people think Maatsen will do well for this Chelsea in the Premier League. I actually think we need a defensive left-back because of the attacking style of our RBs and the low space coverage of the CMs.

Maatsen clearly isn't better than Reece or Gusto, so the defensive tilt should go to the left to keep a better balance. If we have defensive minded DMs that can cover spaces well and win duels, we can allow RB and LB to be adventurous but we don't have that.

If you look at Maatsen's duels stats in Bundesliga, you will understand why he's not yet built to play as a defensive LB in the Premier League, especially in this Chelsea team. A team like Everton or Brentford can use him and cover his limitations but we can't.

That a player is doing well elsewhere doesn't mean he will do well for you. That's not how it works. The only way we can actually use Maatsen properly is if we are playing with a 3 centre-back system.

Via Blue_Footy

Have you seen how big Dortmund players are? I think only Maatsen, Sancho and Adeyemi are less than 6 feet tall.

The CBs, defensive midfielders and Brandt as CAM are big fellas. That's why they don't bother about Maatsen's height limitations. He's well covered.

Maatsen in Bundesliga;
Aerial duels won: 20%
Total duels won: 47%

Cucurella in PL;
Aerial duels won: 65%
Total duels won: 59%

If you don't get it now, you will never get it. Cucurella is small but very aggressive which makes up for it. Maatsen is small and not aggressive.

Exactly. It’s just common sense to know why Poch uses Colwill there instead. He wants someone defensive minded so during counter attacks we would have coverage. It doesn’t mean he's not good enough, he’s not just fit for the team. We have seen players like Sancho perform better in Dortmund too, not that he wasn’t good at United, he’s just not a good fit for them. That’s why players are profiled in the first place.

I mean Poch even tried to use him as an attacker to make use of his qualities but it doesn’t make sense considering the amount of money we have spent on attackers for this guy to be playing him ahead of Palmer and Sterling. We just dont need him, let’s wake up from the delusion of retaining all our talented players. Some very good players will go for the bag. Some might even become better, great players but what matters is the vision and standard of the club. City gave us Palmer but it hasn’t really had a major impact on their season. They still play wonderful football so what’s the point actually? Sometimes we talk like we haven’t seen greater players play for this club. Even those ones had to go at some point .