The other day, a gentleman who was an official at non-league level, said he was officiating at an U18 game, I think in Brighton, and that Hughes was the stand-out player on the pitch.He added that he knew then that Hughes would progress to being a competent professional.

He is a great player, but only if you play into his strengths.

As stated on this post, he isn't a great passer. So if we got him back would it be the same as the back half of the season? Where he is played further back and not to his strengths.

Given how well Eze is playing atm the only condition I'd sign Connor is if we are going to play him in Eze's position. Which nobody would want to do.

Pretty much how I see it.

If you look at our last two performances it makes you wonder whether we need CG back. I do think however that he would have gotten at Arsenal in that opening 20 minutes, and inspired more than the passive start we saw from the team.

I think you're right Syd, if PV wants him then we back the manager and rely upon him to make it work.

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you have just summed up Boubakary Soumaré to a tee, he is also very good in the air, 6 foot 3

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ha beat me to it

I agree with alot of that. He does get caught alot and does get booked alot also, What i do like about him is his high pressing and puts defenders under presure and scores a few also . He does drift in and out of the game alot, but that only natural as no-one can keep up the pace he plays at. About Huges he is very under rated in midfeild and was very unlucky not to score against Villa Saturday . I still wouldnt mind having Conor back though . We love him and he loves it at SP. his enthusiasm is infectious . IMHO of course .

His value is dropping by about £2m every week at Chelsea at present. He always seemed like the kind of player that you had to be willing to accept would try things and a chunk of them wouldn't come off. For that long range goal against Everton, there were a good 5 or 6 in that first half of the season that went miles over the bar from better positions. A mid table club is more forgiving of those than Chelsea will be, especially a Chelsea without a striker and instead with a plethora of players (Mount, Havertz, Sterling, Pulisic) all taking up the positions CG would want to be stood in.

Wouldn't be surprised if they snap someone's hand off for £20m in January.

Odd saga really - Chelsea must rate him because they easily could've got £35m for him over the summer. I think CG gets in the team over Schlupp, especially because Schlupp looks more comfortable on the left spot that Eze has taken, but Chelsea will still value CG too highly.

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Didn’t think anyone looked very happy there yesterday. In particular Tuchel.. Not a good time at Chelsea, the experienced players all looked pissed off and under par. Connor or any other ,want to be player there at the minute is going to find it hard going.

Edited by Putitout (22 Aug 2022 1.22pm)

I'm not sure CG would actually be in the starting line-up for us now. Doucore is a better all-round player IMO and what I think we need is a replacement for Kouyate - a solid CDM who can sit in front of the back four. Luka at his best can do that but not sure he's got the legs for 90 mins anymore. Schlupp has many good qualities but he's not a CDM

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