Just imagine, before the game there's all this speculation of if he'll line up against us, then the team news comes out and we see he's not even on the bench again.. everyone cries of foul mistreatment and how he should've come back when suddenly up in the stand there he is donning the red and blue shirt cheering on the palace from his seat!

The First 90 Minutes Are The Most Important!

All these posts from page 1 of the thread have not aged well

Well he wanted to fight for his place at Chelsea

Assuming Kante and Jorginho are fixtures, there is one spot up for grabs. Looks like he has seen off Bakayoko and is ahead of Moses and Drinkwater. So just Barkley, Fabregas and Kovacic to go

If he was striker or central defender, he would have have less competition

Edited by pssguy (20 Aug 2018 3.15pm)

Looks like he is destined to be the forgotten man in Chelsea reserves. Gone from the World cup to not even getting a first team game.
Seems he hasn't a good agent.

Perhaps it was the agent's fault for not convincing RLC sufficiently that such a notion was utterly unrealistic to everyone except, seemingly, the player himself.

Just an idea, like.

Well, I can’t see him (or his agent) putting up with a season in the reserves without a sniff of the first team other than in cup games. Outside interest is there - players can and do agitate for a move and surely Chelsea’s penny will eventually drop that getting a transfer fee for an in-demand player is preferable to hanging on to and winding down the contract of a player who simply isn’t going to feature. It’s simple economics apart from anything else.