The Chelsea F.C. Thread IV

**** sake that seemed like a good goal from the commentating but my stream froze

u won't win, trust me. berbatov will punish

Oh my god luiz!!! What a goal

aha, yeh same here, during the replay.

We were planning to go for a guy named Dede, an ideal replacement for the ageing Terry, but he's apparently snubbed Chelsea and is going to join another club in Brazil (as Goal reports).

Essien/Ramires/McEachran are all CM's. Ramires was it his most effective last season on the right hand side of the middle 3, and Essien was equally adept there in our earlier seasons, although that was more fluctuating in between DM/CM.

Ilkay is actually a lot like Josh. He's a natural CM but can play either CDM/CAM. Now he's about as good as Meireles was for us, but obviously he's young and he'll improve. I'd love it if we bought him, partly because he's young and talented, also partly because I follow Dortmund closely and it'd be nice bring some a player from them here. I'm not sure if it'd be detrimental to Josh though with them being so similar. But I tell you a pivot pairing of either Romeu/Luiz/Gundogan would be pretty immense. Wouldn't just be one running forward (IE Mikel always back) they'd swap which would make it harder for the opposition to mark.

It's also a good deal. Dortmund aren't secure financially and they're looking to bring in another midfielder apparently (Kehl ageing) and they have Bittencourt and Leitner coming through in midfield. Could also use the money if they attempt to re-sign Sahin. Doubt the Chelsea board would attempt to bring him in though, although saying that we seem to be looking into the German league a lot more recently.



FM should be a requirement for Scouts/Coaches. They could learn a lot.

Don't need to replace terry yet. See barcelona on how they can keep class players starting for the team at an old age, abidal, puyol and xavi are prime examples while ferdinand isn't doing too badly either. Also don't see why we should get an unproven defender from brazil. While he's clearly a great signing on FM/fifa it's too risky having to rely on a defender outside europe who's not young having to adapt his game. At least if he got games for brazil and shone in the world cup I can warrant a reason getting him otherwise he could just turn out to be a massive flop. Would.not.buy

Plus we have more than enough CB's atm unless we're getting someone of the quality of dante/barzaghli/mascherano there is no need for a CB with the quality we have now. I think terry should start from now on as in the big games he can clearly provide when it matters, he was a man who would have taken no **** in that first half vs city and organised the back line better