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News Roundup | What’s Happening With Alves?
Some news roundup for today. Drogba on our premier league lead, Kalou’s target of 20 goals this season, Lampard on his captain armband, Sidwell’s admission of his poor performance, Fergie is let off after his referee blame and finally what’s happening with Daniel Alves? Read on!
This is how the league table looks after two games for most of the teams. We are at #3 because of the goal difference. We have an unlikely topper in Everton and Man City. Granted it’s only the beginning of the season but still. While Arsenal fans may not have too much to be happy about their situation but they can always take some joy from where Spurs are. While rotting at the bottom, Spurs have good company in Bolton. As much as the points, or the lack of them, the goal difference should really be a worry for them. Newcastle truly seems to challenge teams like Bolton, Spurs and Everton and also Arsenal, if I may add.
Will Man City continue their dream start? I hope so at least for the next match when they host Man Utd. If Man Utd drops points against City, that would hurt the morale of the team and the pressure would keep building on. The current 4 point lead is excellent considering that we lost the last title by only 6 points.
Drogba is quite happy that we are 4 points ahead of Man Utd but he always seems to ignore the title challenges from Liverpool and Arsenal.
It’s too soon to look at the fact that we’re four points ahead of United and say, ‘That means we’re going to be champions’. But we want to be champions because we missed out last year. We have a four-point advantage and nobody would say we don’t want a gap like that.
On his own form, he is more happy to have started than to have scored. These are anyway becoming synonymous nowadays, if Drogba starts there is a great chance that he scores too!
It’s very difficult to play in England - if ever you think you’ve cracked it and are the best, then you’re in trouble. I was happy to be back on the pitch, starting a game again. That’s the most important thing for me, more important than the goal.
Didier, the best striker in Europe, Drogba can also help his colleague in achieving his goal. In his interview to Chelsea TV, Kalou says that he wants to score 20 goals this season:
. . score a lot of goals. Last year I scored nine goals, if I can double that, it will be fine. It’s my goal to score 20 goals in all competitions and I hope to reach that.
If you ask me if Kalou can score 20 goals this season, it’s quite possible. We thought he had an average season in 06-07 and he scored 9 goals then. With more chances of playing a huge role in the domestic cups, with some improvement in form, 20 goals is within reach but not easy, if you ask me. You can read his full interview here.
We felt that Sidwell was quite poor against Reading on Wednesday night. In fact he himself knows that and says that he was eager to make an impression at Madejski stadium but realises that he was not up to the mark that day. When a player does not play well and acknowledges the same, it can make the manager’s job little easier. You have a matured individual who can assess his own performance and has the heart to openly admit that. Also he says that Jose’s half time talks and tactics did the trick and that’s why he is the best in the business. He says:
The most important thing was we got a result, but obviously performance-wise it was disappointing for me. I tried to come back and make an impression but not to be. That’s why he’s best in the business. ‘I’ve said it before, tactically he’s got it spot on again. Second half we looked strong and could have had more goals.
Lampard knows that he is only a stop-gap captain and in fact, would be more than happy to hand the responsibility back to John Terry when he is back.
It feels good, pretty much the same really. I love playing for Chelsea anyway, I take the armband when John’s not around and try and be a strong leader. I don’t change my game too much, and look forward to when John’s back in the team because he’s so important to us, and he can wear the armband.
Last season, when Jose said that no visiting team can get a penalty in Old Trafford, Fergie was fuming that as Jose was trying to influence the referees in an unfair manner and FA should punish him. Now, Fergie said that Steve Bennett (referee who sent of Cristiano Ronaldiver) is always delighted to send off his boy. For a man of his stature, influence and good offices you would not expect him to be fined or something like that. That’s what FA has confirmed. Sir Alex, you can go on being a hypocrite!
Finally, what’s happening on the Dani Alves deal?
As per the reports, we have offered 23 million pounds and Sevilla is not happy with this. Of course, we spent crazy money when we were setting up/revamping the the squad but at this stage, this is too much money for a right back. Sevilla are simply holding us on a ransom knowing how badly we need a quality right back and in particular, Dani Alves. Roman is right is saying that 23m or no deal.
If this deal does not go through, Sevilla will end up as the bigger loser than Chelsea. That’s because Dani Alves would be completely upset that he came so close to joining Chelsea and Sevilla screwed it up and he is not going to be very enthusiastic playing for No.4 in La Liga while he had a chance of English champion and European champion. And with no world class right back, we have won back-to-back premier league titles. If there is one unfortunate soul in this episode, it is Daniel Alves.
Another 10 days to go for the window. While I hope that this deal will go through to our favour, we can send some signals and shivers to Sevilla, if we arrange for a good right back to be on loan for 6 months or 1 year. We can manage the premier league matches and for bigger matches we have efficient right backs like Essien and SWP :-)
I know some of you folks have even lost hopes on Alves and are thinking how do we cope with the current set of players. I have a feeling that we’d know the decisive news on Alves before this weekend. Big match on weekend. I’ve just put the polls on the Liverpool vs Chelsea match, on the side bar. Go ahead and vote.
Surprise, surprise, I’m rising up on the fantasy league table of Blue Champions Club. I’m at #14 and beware of the bluechampion, you toppers - Hu$ty (#1) and Torohi (#2 now). If you think I’m joking then let me tell you I’m better than Man Utd, the title contenders. It is obvious - No.14 in 52 teams is better than No.12 in 20 teams, right? ;-)
43 Comments
1. Blue Devil
2. Blue Devil
BC,
By the way i’m still above you in FL(fantasy league) @ 9th. But i have made 2 substitutions to my team for which i have to drop 20 points(not aware that only 1 subs is free and another one cost’s 20 points!!!).
3. Blue Devil
BB58,
Whats you views on Dani’s deal?
4. Jo
Hope sevilla will just accept chelsea’s bid becuz alves wants to go chelsea but sevilla demanded so much for him.
5. Giridhar
We should not be very worried if the Daniel Alves deal does not get trough. We still have the same players we had last year playing in that position (minus Geremi). It would be great to have Alves but not at a price that Robben’s sale can’t fund. By the way no news on Robben is the press fed up of the Robben Saga.
I am also very surprised by Benitez’s comments that Gerrad can play on sunday but cannot play on wednesday… I just dont understand the logic… BC do you make sense on this…
6. gaffer
kalou will score 20 goals. alves will join chelsea. we will beat pool.
7. SH.IBRAHIMI
of course i would like alves to join Chelsea like all of you but even if he don’t it will not be a problem for me cos i think we have good players at Rb position like ferreira,jonhson,ben haim ( Essien,SWP if we need too ??)
8. MourofEssien
Alvez is too expensive at 23 million pounds. He should not cost more than 17m. after all Malouda with all the experience in CL and France cost only 13.5 m. I watched Haim play full back during the pre season and he was super. With SWP doing what he is doing on the right flank, we may not need an attacking RB as much as we need a defending one. am tired of eams wanting to rip us off because they think we have loads of cash. Let us call off the negotiations and leave an unhappy player on their hands like we need when Bolton was playing hard ball with us last January when we wanted Haim.
9. Cashif
There must be beter value alternatives around - proper rightbacks!
If the guy is begging to come to us why don’t we ease off a bit and let them sweat???
10. Cashif
FANTASY LEAGUE: I WOULD BE UP THERE IF I ENTERED MY TEAM A FEW MINUTES EARLIER. ONE WHOLE WEEK OF WASTED POINTS!!!!
FORSSELL, DROGBA SANTACRUZ, GERRARD….
11. Cashif
LESCOTT, GEOVANNI…
12. Nihongo Blue
has somebody fueled the chelseafc also
check out the latest articles
13. Nihongo Blue
i meant chelseafc.com… awesome read
14. Blues_Godson
i think 23million for alves is ridiculous….but if we’ve offered the ammount already then lets stick to it and not drop our guns for no reason…lets just hope we get him cos i love the dude..
15. MourofEssien
guys, what do you think Jose will do on sunday? will he change formation to 4-3-3 or will he stick to the current 4-4-2? Who will he likely play at RB? Your thoughts pls. I will have opted for this, working on the premise that essien is still not fit, Riccy is out and Alex after about a week is raring to go-
—————————————Cech——————————————
———haim—————-Alex———————-Terry—————–A.cole
———————–Mikel—————————–Lamps——————
—–SWP———————————————————————Malouda—
—————————–Drogs—————————-Kalou——————-
I will definitely throw Alex in because I am confident that a big match of this nature will bring the best out of him. Together he and terry will completely destroy all those long and high balls Looserpool love to play. I will start with kalou first and introduce Piz in the second half.
16. AgentBlue
WHat da heck sum a ya’ll talking bout???????
SWP at right bacK????????
I cant bash the lad cuz he seems to be playing thus far this season!
Crazy ass ppl talking bout 23 mil
23 mil is way to much for any player esp a right back!!!
I aint gonna apologize for that!!!!
Dunno where these ridiculous price tags came from????
17. AgentBlue
Dunno if Im the only one finding this thing totally funny(lol)
What da heck?????
They want more than 23 mil
Thus guy should be costing us somewhere around 20mil maximum!
Plz aint nobadymention he rridiculus money we paid for SWP….I still aint gotten over that !!!
I say let Madrid by Alves!!!!
Then sell em Roben for 40mil(lol)
Then we laugh at the crazy ass ppl!!
18. AgentBlue
But if Chelsea continue to seem so desperate for a right back!!!
Obviously Sevilla are gonna hold out for crazy money!
We made a stupid offer, they rejected it!!!
They take us for idiots!!!
They are saying our offer is way below their valuation of the player!!!
Why the hell are we still in talks with em anyway!!!!
life goes on……
Kenyon get ur arse back in england!!!!
If we need a right back that bad……find one elsewhere!!!
19. SH.IBRAHIMI
———————————-CECH————————————————–
———BEN HAIM———ALEX————-TERRY—————COLE————–
——————–ESSIEN(MIKEL)————-LAMP———————————-
———-SWP(J.COLE)————————————-MALOUDA——————
————SHEVA(PIZZARRO)—————————DROGBA———————-
20. SH.IBRAHIMI
IS ESSIEN FIT FOR LIV’POOL OR NOT ????
21. Jumbo
23 mil is too much for a RB. We shouldn’t be paying over 20…
When is the Robben news going tobe resolved? I would’ve thought having signed Schniejder and Drenthe that Robben isn’t required?
Who knows.
Tough match on the weekend but I feel we can win if we don’t concede in the first half.
2-1 to us. Sheva to start n a 4-4-2?
22. Nihongo Blue
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
alves is just a precaution for roman if we dont win CL.. no one should say u had a RB as problem… Jose willl handle this
lets look fwd to epl.. i think elves is jus for CL… what say BC.
KTBFHF
23. Adonis
I don’t care about the price-tag, I’m not paying it… I think if Daniel Alves, being one of, if not THE best RB in the game is worth a lot of money. He’s also one of the most unique players in the world. I saw him play and if he can lead Sevilla to UEFA Cup two years in a row and be leaders of Spain for much of the year and finish 2 points behind Champions Real and Barcelona?? He’s worth a lot. I understand why Sevilla won’t let him go.
We need a right back, and we’ve already made a 23mn pound offer, we should just finish this deal and get him.
I don’t like Kalou that much. I think he does a lot of good work but is like the old SWP, he is selfish at the wrong moments, and when he is unselfish it often lacks the final ball. I can’t see him starting with Pizarro playing so impressively for us as well as Sheva presumably back in business. Here’s my Liverpool 11, assuming Essien’s out.
Cech
Ben Haim———-Alex—Terry———-Cole
Makalele——Lampard
SWP—————————————-Malouda
Pizarro
Drogba
I saw Pizarro playing up and down, Drogba playing left and right, and I like that. I think Pizarro, Malouda, and SWP have been our best players since the beginning of preseason till now, and it’s great that FM and CP are both new.
Can’t wait till sunday!
24. Adonis
Well, here it is again, it looked weird last time
————————-Cech———————
Ben Haim———-Alex—Terry———-Cole
—————Makalele——Lampard———–
SWP—————————————-Malouda
———————Pizarro————————-
————————Drogba——————-
25. SH.IBRAHIMI
iF Essien won’t play the best choice to replace him is Mikel ….
26. Adonis
Yes I agree, but I want to see Makalele play Liverpool because he’s vastly more experienced and can certainly be immense for fifty or sixty minutes. Then Mikel can have his fun.
Makalele isn’t prone on cards or silly fouls, two things which could decide the match, so I think he should start and play the match… And besides, how long has it been since he last played? He must be dying to get his place back in the XI.
BC, you’re happy about being 14th?? I’m ecstatic… I’m 6th!!! I just want to finish in the top ten, really. That’ll be good enough for me!
27. Adonis
Perhaps Essien’s playing, anyways. Checking some websites about our injuries, I only found Robben, Ballack, and Bridge definitely out.
The biggest thing is Terry’s return. If we had to play with no Terry/Carvalho at the Anfield again, we’d have paid for it.
28. gaffer
guys need not worry. essien or no essien. we’ll thump them in such a way that torres will go back to spain on sunday night itself.
29. trublu
when it comes to the league matches jose owns rafa. the match on jan 20 was an aberration. we’ll kick them out of anfield on sunday.
30. trublu
and dani alves is coming to chelsea and that’s the reason why he did not play the champs league match for sevilla. it’s only a matter of time guys.
31. oneman
kalou is a good player and some people say he is the next thierry henry. he has skill and determination and he is only 22. wait for him to blossom. this could be his own season. if he scores anywhere near 20 goals, then he will grow exponentially.
32. oneman
is john terry really back or is it one of the mind games of our man?
33. tim_ber
terry is well and truly back and he also trained normally with the team. so he will play on sunday for sure.
34. sacro
who are those 5 people who voted for a liverpool win in the poll. show up guys and also explain.
35. MourofEssien
Adons great point on Alvez but I still maintain we should dump the whole negotiation as a way of making a statement once and for all that those days of we being taken to ranson are log gone. in haim, i think we have another Gallas. remember that while Gallas was with us we never had any headaches with either left or RB. haim is that kind of player. Those of you who remember him at the full back during pre season will testify that even when it comes to moving upfield he was very good. I think withhim there we are really covered. Besides, I have always wondered why our most skilful defender Riccy, cannot be tried at RB sometimes especially when Alex establishes himself there. riccy is so cool moving forward that he will be immense even in that position.
Long story- let us drop the Alvez idea and make do with what we have.
36. Adonis
I’ve asked that question about Carvalho before, why isn’t he tried at RB?? No one seemed interrested by the idea. He was too vital in the center, I guess. But now we have two terrific CB’s so why not try him at RB. We know he can defend well, we know he can cross (remember that one cross to Sheva for the rocket in the top right corner, or how he started the break with the long, long pass to Drogba who made a mockery of the defender and crossed to Joe Cole for that brilliant goal last season??) and passes well all the time. In my opinion, he’s got the speed and skill to succeed.
Mour, about Alves, us offering 23mn pounds is already rediculous, what’s 2, 3 million more going to do?? I mean, teams know we’re owned by the 16th wealthiest man in the world and it affects them, true. We need to do something about it. But in this particular case, we’ve ALREADY offered a rediculous 23mn. So, we might as well get him no matter what, because I doubt we can win CL without a great RB.
As for Ben Haim, I saw him at RB once and he’s been great in all his matches. But he has the feel of a CB, and that’s his preffered position. True, he can cover any spot like Gallas, but he’s backup RB or LB because he’s not the best in those positions. Having Alves would boost us in every category across the board. Better service to the box, better defense, better counter-attacking, and better freekicks. Alves is amazing. Sign him.
37. MourofEssien
Adonis, just picked up this news: Real Madrid has bid £25million and Brazilian full back Cicinho for the Sevilla defender and teammate Antonio Puerta. This might tilt it their favour. Besides, it is emerging that our offer was really 17 m not the 23 m we have been hearing- anyway thats what Daily Mail is reporting.
38. Adonis
I doubt Real will get him after he and his agent have wanted Chelsea, and have said Chelsea over and over. Alves wants to move on to the Premiership. He wants to work with Mourinho.
Real want Robben more than Alves, anyways, and I doubt they can have both. So they’ll “settle” for Robben.
A 17mn pound bid is too low for Alves, Sevilla are right to reject it. I say 22 million is what he’s worth. All the people that say I’m crazy, you haven’t seen him play. He’s the best right back in the world in many people’s eyes (including mine).
Mour, a 22 million pound bid is worth it. If Real steal him, they would have robbed us of both Drenthe and Alves, and maybe even Robben. I doubt Chelsea will allow them to do that.
39. Adonis
And besides, Sevilla want a bidding war between Chelsea and Real, so they’re probably stalling for that to happen. If we don’t react to irrationaly and keep applying pressure, they will sell him.
40. antonio
they are many good rb…why must alves?
41. b.ibrahimi
and chelseafc end alves?
42. b.ibrahimi
and chelseafc end alves?
43. b.ibrahimi
alves ok super en evropa
………………………….cech…………………………………………
………alves………alex……………terry…………………….a.cole
……….shw…………esien……….balac…………..
………sheva………….drogba…………….
Anyways i want Dani in Stamford Bridge this summer. more or less 23 million pounds. He is more interested than any other. I have not seen much of Dani but after seen some matches is a quality player and is very young in age.
But i’m having a gut feeling that he will finally land in Chelsea…
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