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    What Joao Felix will bring to Chelsea



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    Graham Potter’s honeymoon phase with Chelsea has gone swiftly downhill and they now sit 10th in the Premier League. Is Joao Felix what he needs to pull the Blues back to Champions League contention?

    Where will Joao Felix play? How will he fit into the Potter system?

    JJ Bull explains.

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    4. Herman Kermit-Warm on

      Definitely more patience from pathetic Chelsea fans who want a manager out with zero transfer windows and wanna act like the last 8 months under Tuchel and signings like Lukaku weren't a joke.

    9. Adam Driver on

      Going forward its just a bad piece of business. Guy is here for a loan and is not even a proper striker. I think he would play up top and havertz behind him and mount as a winger. I'm actually curious to see that.

    11. Spuzzell on

      Felix is good for Portugal as he has a striker to pivot off, and Neves, Vitinha, Otavio, Carvalho etc etc in midfield to both ping passes around and do all his defensive running for him.

      Chelsea signed Felix INSTEAD of signing a striker to pivot of, or a midfielder to ping passes around and do defensive running.

      The money is obviously just stupid for 4 months, but if he were a player they needed then it'd be worth it.

      He's just not the player they needed.

    13. Bradley on

      People need to relax with Potter.

      The guy has literally had 4 months as manager, 2 months of which was World Cup.

      The games he’s lost in order are Brighton, Arsenal, City, Newcastle, Villa, City, City.

      Games drawn were Salzburg(first game so doesn’t really count), Brentford, United, Forrest.

      He has had an awful set of games to come in to, Brentford are giant killers, United are hitting their best form in years, Newcastle are hitting their best form in years, Brighton are hitting their best form in years, arsenal are hitting their best form in years, and we played the best team maybe ever three times.

      All while we are in transition of club, manager, players. A celebration box of important injured players.

      Let’s stop overreacting people. He’s had TWO MONTHS!! working with these players, 2!!!.

      Both Pep and Klopp had longer bad periods than that, so did Arteta.

    14. Bog Standard Ash on

      Is this not all a bit false 9ish? I imagine they will want to replicate 2017 Liverpool with him in the Middle playing on to wing forwards like Mane and Salah used to do.

    19. sersarsor on

      So what I got from this video is that his position overlaps with Mason Mount. Either that or Raheem Sterling's gonna be playing wingback for a while. Good job Chelsea.

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