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🚨 MORGAN ROGERS SCOUTING REPORT 🚨

A 2500+ word scouting report on Rogers, why CFC splurged 117m on him, his weaknesses and how Xabi Alonso can bring the best out of him this season.

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@ManasiPathak_ @guardian Have a close friend who is coaching them and fantastic to see it getting eyeballs finally. Well done!

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@sthsthburner @htomufc Wasnt there a spell where he was playing out wide and coming inside an auxiliary 10 too?

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@JohyanCruyff He has on multiple occasions. Bournemouth at home for Villa, 9th November 2025

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@Ruxiiii4 Thanks for this Roger. So fantastic to see a player-coach perspective, you're in the perfect stage of your career to offer really good insights that bridge the often massive gap in between. Wishing you all the very best!

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United's squad has shown very little inclination to do that so far this season. Preparing them physically with next to no turnaround will prove impossible, although Poch is very good at galvanizing a squad mentally too. It is a big risk, either way. Summer would have been ideal.

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If United are thinking of hiring Poch in the middle of a season, then there's a very good chance it doesn't work in the short term (which United need desperately.) Interestingly, Poch took over Espanyol, Southampton & PSG mid-season too. It wasn't until the summer after where he

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North Carolina heat. There was a lot of emphasis placed on transitions, supporting sprints from back to front, and you could tell the players could feel the punishment out there. This was post a 22/23 season where not many Chelsea fans thought their side could be bothered to run.

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My Alonso take:

- Alonso is a good manager. Way better than what he is currently showing right now.

- Do we have a right to feel slightly aggrieved? Absolutely. In an ideal world we would have looked more like a team by now.

- Are we at a stage where we need to consider replacing him? Absolutely not.

We need to build something slowly that sticks. We need to finally build solid foundations and sadly, whether we like it or not, that takes time. Some managers can do it quickly, some take more time.

Unless things become catastrophic, Alonso needs 2 years. All the managers that some fans want to replace Alonso with all had time to succeed at their clubs.

Fabregas and Hurlezer, two managers who have been suggested, are both in season 3.

I am not here trying to make excuses for Alonso, he has made some bizarre choices and is overcomplicating things, but as he has said before, the team we see in May will be wildly different to what we are now.

As I have always said, football can change in an instant. Let’s hope this international break we get some of our key players back and Alonso takes a deep dive how to improve things.

At least we aren’t Man U!

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@COcalcio Excellent work!

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Quali sono stati i problemi del Como senza la palla ieri?

Fàbregas e il suo staff hanno preparato un 442 asimmetrico rispetto al solito, quando la squadra cercava di difendere in un blocco medio: per annullare la superiorità numerica dei centrocampisti dell'Inter, Da Cunha teneva una posizione più stretta di Baturina, rimanendo molto vicino a Zieliński (il suo riferimento individuale anche quando i lariani si aprivano in pressione alta, mentre Nico Paz usciva su Carlos Augusto).

Al tempo stesso, Douvikas e i mediani avevano il compito di gestire Çalhanoğlu e Barella in mezzo: Anastasios seguiva inizialmente Hakan, per poi consegnarlo a Perrone (o Milla) quando doveva uscire su Bastoni.

Molto probabilmente Fàbregas si aspettava che Chivu avrebbe schierato Bisseck da braccetto dx, favorendo indirettamente le sue scelte difensive: infatti, essendo il centrale meno abile con la palla, Baturina avrebbe potuto ignorarlo un po' di più per coprire prima il centro (rimane comunque una prassi nel suo pressing alto, che cerca primariamente di indirizzare i possessi avversari verso dx).

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That's the second game Zion Suzuki has dropped a clanger trying to claim a simple ball.

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@SeanH9017 Sunderland, bottom of the table, got nearly 2 npxG against us, limited us to 4 shots on target from which we drew one save. It was a horrific showing

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What an utterly pathetic showing. Outplayed, outfought, outrun. Not a single outfielder playing like a PL player today.

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Chelsea's last two defeats in the league coming to sides that were 15th and 20th in the table.

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Stunning save from Penders. The only good thing any Chelsea player has done today.

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Granted he's drawing fouls in part bc of his (lack of) size but Moi doing a better job as a dueller at CB than Levi did is not a great look for the latter icl

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Sunderland, bottom of the table before this game, now on their way to more clean sheets in the league this season than Chelsea.

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Rogers, Palmer abysmal all game long. Made to look very, very ordinary so far