The Chelsea F.C. Thread IV

Adidas did a great little thing for Lampard the other day.

Watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjRpfz8-fdQ

Jose does look like a bit of a broken man at the moment, not surprised considering how he is being treated. Madrid give far too much power to their captain, it was exactly the same with Raul. I hope he comes back here asap on a mission to prove everyone in Spain wrong. A lot of poisonous characters in Real's dressing room, I imagine Jose wanted to cut away those elements and move on with Real being the better for it, but obviously things haven't worked out that way.

Pity that Essien had to spend a year stuck in such a horrible environment.

hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng. Schmeichel-esque

Personally I backed AVB in his attempts to phase out older players, the reason he came under heat imo was more to do with the ultra high line being embarrassingly naive (and he just would not change it no matter how many times it embarrassed us )

I'd say we've been guilty of that ourselves when AVB was here and refusing to play Terry and Lampard. Although Mourinho is obviously a more adamant character than AVB and wouldn't fold to the pressure from the fans and media.

He's leaving Real in tatters tbh. Seems like a job invitation for Rafa

cannot believe ozil missed that. really disappointed

Courtois saved it...............

Yeah same here tbh. I didn't mind, but I was just annoyed with his tactics. Lampard plays but he's been phased out a little by benitez rotating, same thing goes for terry although he's been phased out much more and it's not really costed us that much.



Personally think rafa will get and should get the madrid job.

i can't take anything away from the goalkeeper - it was an amazing save but Ozil (or any other world class player) should not miss from that distance.

Rumours that Moutinho's linked with Monaco too

Surely Abramovich can win this one though?! He's a fair bit richer than the owner of Monaco... one can only hope...

Edit: not sure what happen with the quotes here, lol.

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Yeah, but we haven't even got a new manager yet before we can even talk about signings.

Tbf you guys don't need many players, reckon Lukaku, Ba, Torres would be a decent attack especially with Hazard, Mata and Oscar behind them who will be a season wiser in the PL, especially Hazard and Oscar who's first season in England it was. Luiz at DM looks decent, Lamps and Ramires there are pretty good and you could maybe do with another one for depth. Cahill, Ivanovic, Terry are decent CB's as a 3, Ivanovic is probably best of the 3 atm imo, you might buy one more, and Azpiluceuata (cannot spell that at all ) is decent, reckon you might buy if somebody becomes available. However even with the squad you have now if Jose returns to PL i would definitely make you favourites for the league next year, especially with new managers at City and us with Moysey. Heck if Arsenal get a bit more consistent I can see them challenging even.

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I'm really liking how next season is panning out tbh. I always thought we'd be favourites for the league next year. I'm hoping that spurs put in a big challenge too but they lack the attacking depth. Seems like there's gonna be a breakaway between top 6 and the rest of the league. Liverpool will be about under the CL places like the tottenham team under jol or villa under O'neill.

Ramires isn't good enough to be a starter imo. (see what I say about him in the thread and you'll get what I mean) He seems to pop up with the important goal however, so he's a very weird guy. You can't bench him, and you can't start him.

I'm really liking how next season is panning out tbh. I always thought we'd be favourites for the league next year. I'm hoping that spurs put in a big challenge too but they lack the attacking depth. Seems like there's gonna be a breakaway between top 6 and the rest of the league. Liverpool will be about under the CL places like the tottenham team under jol or villa under O'neill.

Ramires isn't good enough to be a starter imo. (see what I say about him in the thread and you'll get what I mean) He seems to pop up with the important goal however, so he's a very weird guy. You can't bench him, and you can't start him.

Is it just me or does anyone else think that Rami has been so overrated by fellow chelsea fans because of his Barca chip? Another thing I hear people say is that he has great stamina. Sure, he has great stamina, however I just don't think he's good enough to be starting ahead of Lampard, Luiz or Mikel. Not to mention, his rash challenges that he commits to far too often. Just me?