JoseHoliday was right. It’s hard to find interesting Chelsea news nowadays. With Jose Mourinho, we were always the happening club. Whether we win or lose, we were always in the news. Sometimes for good reasons but mostly for selling more copies. It’s all quiet now.
Papers are all about Arsenal’s upsurge, Man United young guns, Rafa’s rotations and Tottenham too has a fair share of the print area. Chelsea is not a hot cake anymore. While some people are happy about it, I’m not so happy. I liked being in the hot seat, fighting against odds, proving ‘experts’ wrong, defending ourselves against allegations and such stuff. Anyway, despite Chelsea dropping places in the print area, just like in the league table, I would keep fishing out the Chelsea news from various sources. I wouldn’t commit on the amount of truth in these news stories nevertheless these are Chelsea news.
Avram Grant has asked why the African Nations Cup is held right in the middle of the European league season. Martin Samuel of TimesOnline says why this is arrogance of highest order. I’m with him.
I don’t understand why the tournament is played in the middle of the European leagues and not in the summer.
May be he should remember that it is African Cup he is talking about and not the European Cup. And this has been the tradition. African Cups are held after the African league season gets over. To ask this question with two months to go for the cup, is not a smart idea. Rather he should look at how we can manage the absence of our key Africans during the Cup.
I don’t think Avram will have too much of a problem that Martin Samuel does not agree with him. What matters to him is how the Chelsea management and fans evaluate him. Peter Kenyon has already given his verdict:
Avram, you have to say, has exceeded people’s expectations. He has had seven straight wins, with some big games in there. You have to give credit where it is due, and credit is due to the team and to Avram Grant. Five or six weeks ago, people were writing us off. But as of Saturday night, we are in third place in the table, three points behind leaders Arsenal.
Three points behind Arsenal while they have two games on hand . . c’mon Pete!
I badly want someone from Chelsea management to define the word ‘people’. Avram was saying yesterday that ‘people like’ if we go for another goal after taking a lead in the 70th minute or something to that effect. Now, Kenyon says Avram has exceeded the expecations of ‘people’. If things happen at Chelsea FC for the so-called ‘people’, Jose Mourinho should have stayed. If I’ve to ask one question to Peter Kenyon, that would be ‘what’s Chelsea FC’s expectation for this season – for every competition’.
Roman and Kenyon are very keen to bring Avram closer to the fans and this has resulted in Avram Grant featuring in the Chelsea FC fans forum answering the questions from the supporters. Some questions are very interesting and very direct, my favourites being ‘Can you explain to us how the team of yourself, Steve Clarke and Henk ten Cate split their responsibilities’ and ‘what would be a successful season for you’. The replies from Avram are so boringly diplomatic and does not actually make a good read. If you still want to read it, here is that interview.
After chasing Ronaldinho offering enough money to start a bank, Grant seems to have conceded that Ronnie will not leave Barca after all. Now Grant is closing in on a deal with Lulinha, 17-year old Corinthian attacking midfielder and forward. Any promising football player in his teens will have to be called the ‘new Maradona’, ‘new Pele’, ‘new Shaun Wright Phillips’ (of course I didn’t mean this) etc. Following this convention, Lulinha is the ‘new Ronaldinho’. Is that because he looks like or plays like him, I don’t know. He says:
Any footballer dreams of playing in one of the big teams and I’m no different. My favourite position is as an offensive midfield player. But I can also play forward. I like to attack and to score goals. Ronaldinho is my idol. People say that with my style of play I look like a Ronaldinho and that gives me great pride.
At 17 years, running at a price of about 8 million euros, he must be something special. If signed, he would become Avram’s first signing for Chelsea. Or should I say Roman’s first signing with Avram as the manager!
News round up will not be complete without a Didier Drogba story. Drogba apologises for missing the scoring chances in the Everton game.
It was nice for me to score but not nice for me to miss the chances I had. The first one in the first half was difficult because of the bounce, but I had a big chance to score. I was so sorry for my team. We can’t be happy with the point – but we didn’t lose. We still have a chance to win the next game, so it’s OK. I am very disappointed and I think we created a lot of chances; I think enough to win the game. They [Everton] had one chance and scored. I think they deserved a draw because they defended very well. We created enough chances to win the game. Sometimes you need only one chance to win and every chance you create, you score. This was the opposite – and that’s football.
That’s Drogba in a paragraph. Wonder what would happen if Sheva is to apologise for his fumbles and SWP for his bad crosses!
We’ve dropped back to No.4 in the table and we proceed for a international break where England’s fate would be determined. I have mixed feelings here. It would be sad to see a European championship without England but I would want the Chelsea players of the England squad to concentrate on Chelsea and nothing else. If England fails to make it, that would not be nice but at least our boys can devote all their time on Chelsea. More like the Carling Cup situation I guess!
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Hi Guys,
Signing Lulinha or any other teenager would be a big risk we are taking..its not sure that they will come in and set the EPL on fire from day 1..I’m not saying they cant..but its like a 30% chance or lesser that they will work wonders.
I would prefer to see Chelsea sign established stars from within the EPL..
Anelka, Bentley, Downing, Micah, Barry, Crouch,Berbatov etc..These players have proved themselves in the EPL..and most of the guys I mentioned are open to a move…the right offer to the player, agent n the club can capture them…and money is something our owner has in plenty..some of the prices may be outrageous..but with the amount of money involved in sport nowdays, it would be a good investment..Winning the EPL along with TV n marketing rights guarantees around 40 million or more..the UCL particiaption gets 10 Million plus(Finalists gets round 25 million)..Then theres the small millions associated with winning the FA n CC as well..so a good team can make more than enough money from the sport.
4 of our top performers are leaving for the ANC in jan..they’ll be easily missing 5 or more games…n seriously without Drogba, Kalou, essien n Mikel, i think we will drop some points during the period..n dropping points at that stage of the season is like conceding the EPL..So its absolutely necessary that AG n RA bring in some brilliant ESTABLISHED players during the transfer window..I believe we need 5 to 6 guys to strengthen this squad..n Kick out TBH please
We need youngsters as well…it would be better if we buy the promising youngsters n train them at the academy before they make the transition to the first team squad..
TruBlueInd – Can you please get in touch with me. NOt through the contact form, through your own email ID.
@Blue Champion
again mate,your post is nothing but another glory “you-know-who”post and having digs at avram……………anyways it’s democracy so i will put my points and slam your post
*JoseHoliday was right. It’s hard to find interesting Chelsea news nowadays. With Jose Mourinho, we were always the happening club. Whether we win or lose, we were always in the news. Sometimes for good reasons but mostly for selling more copies. It’s all quiet now.
yes he is certainly right and i’m certainly happy we are less in the headlines………………to put it simply i m happy we are more entertaining on pitch than in press-conference or in the dug out[my lil dig at you-know-who]
*Avram Grant has asked why the African Nations Cup is held right in the middle of the European league season. Martin Samuel of TimesOnline says why this is arrogance of highest order. I’m with him.
really do you know it is a much better controversy created by grant than “better team lost………..what’s cheating called in catalan…………there are different rules for us………..i was not surprised when refree entered barca’s room”…………..of course avram’s biggest controversy is bigger…….lol
*Roman and Kenyon are very keen to bring Avram closer to the fans and this has resulted in Avram Grant featuring in the Chelsea FC fans forum answering the questions from the supporters. Some questions are very interesting and very direct, my favourites being ‘Can you explain to us how the team of yourself, Steve Clarke and Henk ten Cate split their responsibilities’ and ‘what would be a successful season for you’. The replies from Avram are so boringly diplomatic and does not actually make a good read. If you still want to read it, here is that interview.
rightly mate,avram replies are boring,they are diplomatic and each and every interview should end up with comments which finds it’s way to the front of the newspaper and create controversy……..shouldn’t it??????
*After chasing Ronaldinho offering enough money to start a bank, Grant seems to have conceded that Ronnie will not leave Barca after all.
yes do you know avram and roman are fortunetellers and can see the future……….the future was really bad because ronnie ditched them 5 months later from today…………so roman ditched the idea of bringing ronnie before he ditches him 5 months later……………….so they suddenly found a player out of the blue……and make him sit on the hotseat
*At 17 years, running at a price of about 8 million euros, he must be something special. If signed, he would become Avram’s first signing for Chelsea. Or should I say Roman’s first signing with Avram as the manager!
roman is the manager,you hit the nail on the head………….lol……….avram is an abramuppet…………lol
lulinha is the player who is most similar in playing style to ronnie………..the showboating,the tricks,the flicks,the flair………..the creativity………….you are really goin to curse him once he arrives in cfc…….caus he won’t defend from playmaker position[u appreciate defense and effective"boring"football i guess]
*That’s Drogba in a paragraph. Wonder what would happen if Sheva is to apologise for his fumbles and SWP for his bad crosses!
this came from match reaction…………i am yet to see a sheva or swp post match reaction on cfc site…………….maybe you have seen it…pls post the link if u have really saw somewhre where sheva was showboating and boasting about his miss or telling how excellent he has been for cfc since his arrival….
*on your wigan game:it feels like a defeat….lol
i will be damn honest and the truth is we have got the taste of our own medicine in that game………..after clearly dominating the game………havin many excellent chances saved by tim howard……….we undeservedly conceded a goal……….don’t tell me you don’t remember how excellent we have been nickin the games based on luck in you-know-who’ era…………this is lil exaggerated but put forth the point
@Everyone
as for lulinha…………….everybody wants established epl players………..but all the big teams buy talented youngster…………he may take over from lamps once he decides to hang his boot…………understudy to ballack and lamps for now…………………
man utd-nani,anderson,pique,rooney,cristiano ronaldo[when they were bought they were young]
arsenal-fabregas,robin van persie………practically the whole of arsenal squad
liverpool-lucas lieva…..
barca-geovanni,bojan
stand up applause dude TBF , completely agree with u , oh and i think Jose dosent need us to stay in the news anyway after he recently beat a kid up and then was writing apologizing letters(nothings changed in his life)………lol!!!
U say at 8 million euros, getting Lulinha would be a risk. I agree with u
TrueBlueInd says such a signing would have 30% chance or less of working wonders from day1
However, this is what i think.
If Lulinha costs 8million euros, how much would say Messi cost? 80million euros? Probably more!
What if we got 10 ‘Lulinhas’ for 80million euros? And each had less than a 30% chance of becoming a ‘wonder’ from day1? Good odds i say!
Lulinha for 8million euros is much better than getting Bent for however much Tottenham forked out.
The established stars that we could purchase are a known quantity/quality. They are not going to make improve our squad significantly enough to make chelsea dominant and noticeably the best in the world.
I loved Mourinho- he was awesome for us. But i’m still angry about losing Robben. It angers me whenever i see SWP perform inconsistently, whenever we go through a game where our wingers fail to take a game by the scruff of the neck blitz the opposition with creativity and flair.
If Lulinha has less than 30% to become a worldclass player at 8million euros, than i think it is still more than an acceptable risk, rather than spending 8milllion euros on another known quantity who would have little potential to become worldclass- ie tal ben haim, pizzaro, sidwell (yeah i know they were all free transfers but u should understand my point).
We need to invest in worldclass potential- i agree with TBF. We would have been so much better investing in 5 young players of worldclass potential than getting schevchenko (fingers crossed he really comes good for us)
BC..I dont have ur personal id man..my email id is manjith_mt@yahoo.co.in
Hi Guys,
I agree with the posts above me stating he importanace of youngsters.I am totally for getting in brilliant youngsters into the Chelsea set up..
However, the immediate concern is The Jan-Feb period when we lose 4 of our top Performers…I would definitely prefer Anelka, crouch, Downing, richards etc who are established Epl stars and who can come in and perform staright away..The Jan-Feb peroid sees a club like chelsea fighting on 4 fronts…I feel personally that we need guys who can deliver the goods for us..some one who can Replace the likes of drogba, essin etc..
The alternative would be promising youngsters who may or may not prove to be effective..they will definitely come good with time..because they are talented and will work towards getting better..but will such a situation suit the club’s immediate concerns????..i dont think so..
I dont remember the exact names and all..but over the last 3 years we have got in so many youngsters into our academy set up..most of the transfers were done by Arnesen..I remember reading in skysports..one serbian/slovak boy..a few english boys..Leeds United had some issues with a couple of them..and a few more..i cant recollect..those are all good investments and the boys will soon be ready to take the next step..We have to keep adding youngsters to our academy and bring out the best in them..
Or we should find Incredible youngsters who can get into top leagues like the EPL, the Spanish league etc and start working wonders..Guys in the mould of Rooney, Aguero, Messi etc..That would take some finding
I read in an article that Chelsea are also approaching a boy from Uruguay..Its really good..Get in talented boys n polish them up..Guys Like Lulinha are needed..we need to look at the future.
It also depends on the management’s vision..I dont think the board will be ready to wait for 3-4 years to allow our kids to develop n start delivering the goods..
When we talk about clubs like Arsenal, Man utd, Liverpool, Real, Barca etc we must also understand the set up at those clubs..Those are all very very successful clubs and their management would be more tolerant and patient than the chelsea board.We musnt forget that Arsenal is dominating the EPL now after 4 years..they went through a team building phase..Man Utd won last year after a gap of 4 years..they had to go through that phase as well..All backed by their respective managements…Will our board be reday to wait 3 or 4 years to win something????..thats the important question.
Chelsea has to keep winning regularly for now..We arent anywhere near all the great clubs as far as achievements go..we will definitely get there..Those clubs talk about history and we are busy creating it..
Our unbeaten streak, the maximum points gathered in an EPL season, least number of goals conceded, maximum clean sheets kept..a few records in our name..we are capable of creating more records
All said and done, its not guaranteed that Anelka, crouch, downing etc will do well at Chelsea…but the have a 60% chance of performing straight away..that is more suited to address our immediate concerns..
Whatever..I just hope AG buys some good players who can help our team get better..
Go BLUES..
TBF
Here we go again!
It’s no secret that I love Jose Mourinho – for the successes he brought us, for the stature he gave us in European football and for his own personality. That’s a thing of personal preference.
There was a time when Jose was being abused right, left and centre in this very blog by many of you. Now, if I have make soft remarks on Avram, then such opposition springs up. Strange. Move your cursor to the right side bar of the blog – do you see a post titled ‘The Evolution of Avram Grant‘ where I’ve given my views on Grant’s stint so far. It may not be exciting you because I’m very positive about Grant in that post. Or even this post about Avram stepping up to defend John Terry.
I repeat, I love Jose Mourinho and nothing can change that. You’re going to put my every comment on Grant under microscope but I don’t care. I say what I want to and you say what you want to. As you said there is definitely democracy within the framework of law and order.
And yes, the way Jose made Chelsea take on the mighty Barca by its horns would stay in my memory for long (all those ancillary episodes included)!
I stopped writing anything at all about Jose. Here today I mention his name once and we get into the same old argument!
trueBuefushion my aswer to you
grant is very stupid. i feel so embarrassed to have him as chelsea’s manager. under jose all the matches were we scored a goal in the last few minutes, we deserved to win. none of those goals were lucky. nuff said.
grant is creating a myth that things are better but he is going to screw us. our first home defeat in many years, is not too far away.
i hated mourinho and now i hate avram even more. at least mourinho won us trophies and this old bugger is not worth his weight in garbage. roman – please sign a real manager soon.
TBF @ 3
your arguments are piss poor. you mean the games we won in the last few minutes were pure luck??? pathetic. we dominated all those games and we deservedly got a goal in the final mins in the last season. hope you know ur bit about footie.
we lost 2 pts only because of the old moron who had no idea about football tactics. like a fool, he went for the second goal with only 15 mins to go and was severly punished. it is a deserved goal for everton, they certainly deserved it. we should have defended peacefully and bagged home the three points. horrible football from chelsea and the old moron.
Guys! Watch Lulinha video in the featured videos section. I like him already! Hope he doesn’t do a Pato!
Hi Everyone
BlueChampion:
I think teams especially, Chelsea should re-look their policy when it comes to buying players for the current season and planning for the future.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when this subject comes up about Chelsea FC, because it seems to me that the bar is set to low in terms of the quality of players that has arrived, say for example this season at the club.
We had the whole of the off season to get beautiful, brilliant and star players.
Chelsea strategy should be to get 26 ELITE players. Period.
The next step is to get the best coaching staff.
And finally, other powers (owners and other members of the club) should not intefere with the manager. But then I would look at myself, and if I owned Chelsea FC, I, myself would want to make decision’s who goes and who plays and who to buy?
Israeli:
Avram Grant is NOT looking like the good dresser and a the person with the sharpest brain after drawing with Everton. Avram should at least equal or better most of these premiership managers outside the top four.
But it is not Avram Grant’s or Roman Abromovich’s fault that Everton drew to Chelsea.
But the players who couldn’t find the back of the net, which is pathetic for a club who is intending to become one of the biggest clubs in the world and who should be fielding the WORLD XI and not the Chelsea FC eleven.
And especially Belleti is in question who alowed the cross to get pass him and watched helplessly as the ball fell into the back of the net.
Maysam:
Mr. Maysam our University Student, who works part-time.
Are you willing to pay 15 million pounds for Nicolas Anelka?
ps: There are hundreds of players out there that could do a 100 times a better job than Nicolas Anelka!
Why are the people who visit this blog obsessed with buy Premiership players.
We should invest in the stars.
@ everyone :
I Believe Grant is better than Jose Mourinho in terms of handling the media.
i was and am his big fan of jose , all my internet usernames , except this site, are jose mourinho, just google “jose_mourinho” , you will find a male , 24 years old from long beach ,that’s me , i said these to show you I like him but when he was our coach , there were many storied around the club, one day Sheva, one day Carvaliho , one day Robben, one day Lampard, one day Bridge, one day Makelele , one day Ferreira . it is not good , it hurts the club.
We won EPL first year of jose, you know why ? because we did not have those kind of stories, do a research , we did not even a story.
the next year after that, we start drwoning in the stories, and we won EPL but not as well as the year before that, and last year , we lost becasue we were actualy drwon in it with Sheva and Ballacks stories.
Grant handles media very well, he probably is not a professional coach but he is good at handling the media.
you guys may like to read about chelsea everyday, but it is not good. i wanna give you an example,
Carvaliho , he said i wanna leave chelsea, Jose said I talked to him and if he still has problem , he has to take IQ test. well it is not a good reaction, Carvaliho could leave chelsea just becasue of that. and we know how valuable player is Carvaliho .
but Look at Grant, when Drogba said I wanna leave chelsea, How well grant controled the situation, Drogba event apologized, and he is doind his best.
I liked Mourinho very much , and I still like him , but in terms of handling media , he was a big loser. We may won versus Barcelona two years ago , (4-2) with aim of Jose ‘s interviews in media but we lost many things after that just becasue of his childish interviews in media.
I never say these words for a un chelsea fan, but here most of guys are chelsea fan, and it does not hurt to be realistic.
I said Criof and Ten Cate will be chelsea coach next year, I have good reasons for that, but this thursday I have two midterm therefore I don’t have time to write them down but I will do that this weekened. you may disagree with me but my reseaons are logical.
Every1 by now knows am no supporter of AG
I bet if we had sum1 with a bit of football credentials ya’ll wouldnt be calling Jose Mourinho’s name so often!!!!
Damn I like the guy 2 but he aint here no more!!!!
It took me a month to accept the fact that he had left……..
And now Im getting over it!!!
Useless talk……and I might say utter disrespect to AG!!!
We cant always compare Jose to AG!
Thats really harsh on AG!
I dnt like the fact that he is manager………quite frankly I hate it…but give the fellow break!!!
When we get a real manager………(eg Abromovich) then you bash him!!!
I really do think AG is doing his utmost best and to be frank….the fact that we lost really had little to do with tactics!!!!
The goal was not due to us over attacking or anything……It was jus poor defensive work by the PLAYERS who are professionals and know their roles and responsibilities!!!!
I do think his substitutions need a lot of work but hey we cant blame him for everything!!!
He is human!!
We had some pitiful games under Jose as well!!!
Werder Bremen!!!!!
And knowing Jose I really dont think Chelsea is on his mind right now(lol) He probably out doing/saying sum crazy ass stuff right now!!!
And I get the feeling from some ya’ll comments that many o ya’ll are Mourinho fans solely because he entertained you in the press…not because he was a great coach!!!
He Gone!!!
Lets rally and petition 4 a new owner!!!!!(lol) ( I actually think I mean that)
Since we dnt have nuttin in CFC news….just thought I’d say a little of wats on ma mind!!!
Cheers!!!!
Praying 4 the season to end!!!!
@Blue Champion
i m not sayin stop lovin jose…………i m just sayin don’t bash avram just for the sake he is not jose………..no two persons are same.
Isn’t it funny that TSO’s pulling a kid’s ear got more press coverage than AG’s meeting with CFC fans ?
Avaram Grant Vs Jose Mourinho
I think its unfair to compare both, jose was his own man in every way, as much as i like him, for his outrageous and frank comments on every thing, i would hav to agree, he does looses his plot completely at times. Prime example being the bad eggs. It might be very true that his players were not performing and key players are injured but having a dig at other players in the squad publicly doesnt help at all.
With AG, he’s very diplomatic infront of media, apart from his “playing good football “which is becoming a bit of laff now, he’s alright. he had his say about drogba and its very impressive the way he delt with it, You just have to think about it, a unknown figure untill he came to chelsea, then took over the managers position from the special one, watever the situation is at chelsea football club, you have to give credit to AG. At least he managed to convince the people who appointed him that he’s good enough for the job, we all have to wait and see for how long !!!
TBF, the more you most the less everyone thinks of you. Dont argue with BC for his fantastic writing. Why dont you stay away from this blog, make your own blog, and then cry when no one comes to read it?
I acknowledge that :
Any team that experienced a change in leadership would suffer at least a bit
Any coach would have an enormous task juggling duties,the owners demands
etc would be as grim as AG
Any coach, any team losing 4 estblished players at a crunch time would feel the effects pretty bad
Any team going thru playing- style transition would lose points
Any team with the backline injured would suffer sooner or later
Any team withn greatly improved competition would have much more of a battle in winning the title
I just hope that this year even though we might not be EPL champions ,
at least , we are not going down without a fight.
I just hope we are the SEXY , Glamourous , Gung-ho , cheeky , Chelsea a bit again….
That would make me feel lots better.
Here i will disagree BC , what r u talkin abt Jose being abused left , right and centre??? remember on this blog only 3-4 guys had the guts to bash him up , all the rest , and yes i mean ALL the rest bashed us for Jose , stop making him some sort of a victim , even now its 3-4 defending Avram and the rest bashing him up!!
U point to the post u wrote for AG , yeah and it was a one off thing , remember when Jose was here , every post had less talk abt our football but more abt what Jose had said and what he thinks etc etc , and not to forget a post every week defending Jose on all fronts………………..i m not sayin u stop lovin Jose , just that get out of his shadow , he aint Chelsea any more , he has got nothin to do with us whatsoever (besides being a part of radical history at Chelsea) , even i concede he was a great manager , but the past is past , he had his faults Avram has his , so if u treat them at par , them both being Chelsea managers and ur allegiance being to the club u shld defend him as well instead of instigating snide remarks on whatever he says!!!
Though i too say he is not upto the mark , and neither is he good enough to be the manager of a club like ours , but hey hav u any solutions?? does anybody?? whatever is happenin atleast we r doin better than we were under Jose(this season) , so lets just back this guy up , Jose had the support of all of u , why not Avram??? Lets just wait , till there can be a permanent solution to this mess………what else can we do???
@Longrange
do you know blue champion has no problem with my comments and neither are they muppetish…………………….bc has clearly in intro said that he created the blog for like-minded peoples i.e who support chelsea fc till death……….
another point blue champion in faq has mentioned that the blog is definitely a good platform for debates resulting from clashes of idea and it is the pupose of blog unless the debate turn into an ugly fight….and posts become abusive…………so please stop making childish comments…………
Joe Blue
Hiya there
I ,for one, am not against AG but against RA, the uber-rich buffoon
It is only the memories of the glory days , expoits on and off the field that sustain, lots of us in these dark primitive days
It is not easy to suddenly be back to
4th or 5th without true hope of taking the EPL title
from being all-conquering just a while back.
The transition is all too heart-wrenching.
But I say… it is just….that
We need time to adjust…….. to reality…… THE REALITY !
…..of …that unthinking chimpanzee of an owner has broken the team’s spirit , my heart and …..
and made the team and the fans just playthings………to acquiece to his every whim…….
Well I’m gonna make my sorry voice and opinions heard whatsoever and this blog shall be the instrument of my choice to make it so heard throughout the footballing fan realm that…..
……. that……….RA is just a rich fool !
And…… that…… we are in an unholy union with him……
( JM was lucky to get out of this relationship fast.. and he made a packet at the same time too…. but we supporters are not so lucky….. )
Hi Joseholiday , long time no see!!
Firstly…….My allegiance is with this club , and so hence with the owner , yes Roman Abramovich is a dream come true for Chelsea acc to me!!!
Secondly…….its not just because of his money but also beacuse of his sense and understanding of football , he does not take crap from anyone , anywhere and knos what he wants , to make Chelsea the biggest name across Europe , this will take a lot of time and effort(and nt to forget loads of bucks) , but if anybody can do that its him!!
Thirdly……..i hav so much respect for this man that i cannot see where to start, the indefinate amts of pounds he has spent or the training facilities he has developed , or the best coaches and trainers he has hired from all over the world or the fact that he has made a huge trust fund for us in case he is not here tomm(god forbid) , moreover he has a clear and cutting vision and sense, believe me ppl he is the best thing that has happened to Chelsea!!!
He can walk off tomm and all we wld only be remembered as a club having two golden years , and then years of mediocracy and mid table seasons , if thats what Chelsea fans want then i cant make them see sense more than this…………………
and to those ppl who r expectin Avram to win every game and who think we hav a chance in the EPL , forget it , it has never been done , yes NEVER has a manager who has taken over after the season has begun won the EPL , so if none of the ever greats cld do it , how can this new guy , he is still doin the best he can with all the patched up squad he has……………….
BC,
After reading the topic I felt that BC had nailed it once more on how things have turned too as I have always loved to miss the TSO & bash the not so special one… However I feel that BC you need to address the real problem at the moment is not with what is happening with the blues but its with what YOU ARE EXPECTING FROM THEM!!!
Lets see when TSO went it was all crap thrown at RA & than AV and his entertaining way of footnball that he actually demonstrated. This was when your opinon changed about AV & than all praise including some great articles in honor of AV & than Ten cate & God knows a whole segment of “AV’s evolution” & now after a couple of draws you have freaked out and come up with your bore about the club.
BC, in all honesty we all loved TSO and the entertainment that he provided on & off the feild. Off the feild was much better as we got a lot of lets say Positive pubilicity however maybe we never played extremely entertaining football. So you had one thing happening however missing the other element so it was a bargain. Looking at AV and where he comes from I think we should expect only titles or entertaining football thats it!!! No point in raising our expectation from this guy who can as you agree get you in the news, probably the transfer season might bring some more cash induced news but regular fun naa!!! it is not going to happen….
So I believe that we dont have TSO anymore however we have the club so lets be practical and have very focused expectations from AV & the gang…we can have good wins however no publicity…Arsene before this season was a bore, however when things go consistently right you get good news paper articles which have real creepy but good fun publicity…. So BC what do you want from the club…I know you are an accountant, too many numbers !! however we cant expect normal people to give us color in our lives that TSO gave us…he was one of a kind…rather than asking them to do it for us lets have articles that give solutions & more solutions so that someone reads it & does something!!!
Accepting AV was not so cool BC when within a few days you have come out bashing his days in-charge and started missing TSO…
Park you with what TSO said today
“I DID MORE THAN WHAT ARSENE DID in 11 years!!!”
You will never get that from AV or the current blue world!!! however we might just get entertaining footie!!!
Jose is a legend. not only at Chelsea but was in porto and I BET everywhere he goes. But for the insuperable obstacles the Roman Mafia placed in front of him the man would have swept the EPL three years on and who knows what could have happened in the Champions league had Roman not forced us to resort to using Essien at Centre Back when we needed him most.
The man was Confident to the point of Arrogance- Of course anyone needing to topple established order on a sustainable manner must have that spirit. It was the kind of spirit we needed to ward off the hate that we evoked simply cos we were overthrowing the old order.
The man was controversial and rubbed the media and officialdom the wrong way. So was Cassius Clay in his days. He however just did not talk but walked the talk as well.
Move on we will- we have no option. But moving on does not mean, that we cannot reminisce the great moments we experienced under the most successful manager in our history; especially when we have this pretender who is constantly making claims to having brought us a better way of playing football.
And who says in the overall scheme of things even some negative publicity does not shore up brands and increase fame? Many times, fame is the aggregate of those who love you and those who loathe you. All legends have had teeming numbers in both sides. The negative sustained propaganda waged by our opponents and media is what make some of think that Jose was bad for us.
Jose is a legend and will continue to be. His records with chelsea in the EPL will take years to be surpassed. Highest number of league points, lowest number of matches lost in a season, our three season plus no league defeat at the Bridge, name them…….
Jose is a legend. not only at Chelsea but was in porto and I BET everywhere he goes. But for the insuperable obstacles the Roman Mafia placed in front of him the man would have swept the EPL three years on and who knows what could have happened in the Champions league had Roman not forced us to resort to using Essien at Centre Back when we needed him most.
The man was Confident to the point of Arrogance- Of course anyone needing to topple established order on a sustainable manner must have that spirit. It was the kind of spirit we needed to ward off the hate that we evoked simply cos we were overthrowing the old order.
The man was controversial and rubbed the media and officialdom the wrong way. So was Cassius Clay in his days. He however just did not talk but walked the talk as well.
Move on we will- we have no option. But moving on does not mean, that we cannot reminisce the great moments we experienced under the most successful manager in our history; especially when we have this pretender who is constantly making claims to having brought us a better way of playing football.
And who says in the overall scheme of things even some negative publicity does not shore up brands and increase fame? Many times, fame is the aggregate of those who love you and those who loathe you. All legends have had teeming numbers on both sides. The negative sustained propaganda waged by our opponents and media is what make some of think that Jose was bad for us.
Jose is a legend and will continue to be. His records with chelsea in the EPL will take years to be surpassed. Highest number of league points, lowest number of matches lost in a season, our three season plus no league defeat at the Bridge, name them…….
Roman’s coming has been great for us. it gave us the capacity to step right into the top echelon and do it in a sustainable way. but even Roman will concede that his presence was necessary but not sufficient- hence his dogged determination to get the Special Manager who can take us right to the top. Enter Mour the special one.
Great tho Roman maybe, he has serious character flaws just like all of us. The difference tho is that his mistakes have far reaching repercussions than those that you and I fans can make.
The man is a spoilt brat- who will throw a tantrum and literally destroy the very house he has built just because he is not having his way. and for someone who wants to win hearts and minds, he must simply grow up.
I say it again- any person who can shipwreck his own team by refusing to buy critical reinforcements last january when we needed it just because Jose was not succumbing to his wishes, has lots of growing up to do. Roman must grow up!!!!!
@ 31 well said about mourniho , but come on mate, we cant blame Roman for everything, I am sure if i own a club and i have JT and Drogba in the team, i would def sub them at 60 min and get myself the no 10 shirt and come as a sub, at least roman didnt go that far. hahaha. We were a sinking ship before roman came and he poured millions into it and we have to be happy he’s still there. and i dont think he’s a spoilt brat, hes someone who has clear vision and he knows what he want from his team, which i think is fair enough. end of the day hes born in russian suburb, late 60s and been in militry so he cant be that spoilt brat. i respect the man, i know there’s a bit of mystry behind the way he made his billions, but come on, who doesnt !!!
@31 forgot to ask you if you did have a team, wud you sub the star player and come urself as a supersub?? and probably score a goal ?hahaha .
@ BC, Peter Kenyon in Delhi, i dont know when, its regarding some olympic or common wealth games, somthing to do with representing london. i am sure u read about this, but incase if you missed it.
joeblue
You said ‘only a few guys had the guts to bash JM’ – I don’t undersand why you need to have ‘guts’ to bash JM? If you have a reason to bash him, you bash him. Simple. You said there were always posts about what Jose said and what he thinks – Yes, because he was the manager then. Now, I’ve written articles on AG’s support for Terry, AG’s evolution so far apart from references to what he says in public. You said I’m in his shadow still – Good memories never leave me. How many of you still love and think about Zola? Legends always stay in memory. Remember, all that I said in this article was one reference to JM and we’re having such a nice discussion.
You clearly say that AG is not good enough to be the manager of our club. The moment AG accepted the Chelsea job, he is subject to all expectations that you’d have on a Chelsea manager. His not being good (as you say) itself will make him open for criticism. Why should I care about whether he is capable or not, whether he is a new guy or not? Why should I have mercy on him or sympathy on him? When you take the rights, you’ll have some duties as well. Finally, I’m completely with you about Roman Abramovich. You said ‘your allegiance being to the club, you should defend AG as well’. This is were you constantly get me wrong. I don’t go about defending anything and everything to do with the club. If I see a point, if I agree with someone or something, I talk in favour, otherwise talk against it.
Blu Rehman
I’m saying it again: this is what I want from the club – victories and trophies – because that’s what gives me ultimate satisfaction. Probably what you expect from the club is a good club image and publicity or acknowledgment from your friends or experts or everyone that we’re playing ‘beautiful’ football. You might want both too. What comes on top of the other is what matters. If there is only on thing we can achieve, I want that thing to be trophies.
‘Accepting Av is not so cool’??? Strange comment. Do you have your preferences based on what’s cool and what’s not? My choices need not be ‘kewl’, they are just my choices. You talk about my opinion changing about Avram. When Avram was appointed as the coach, how many of you honestly thought he deserves the job of chelsea coach? Don’t be a hypocrite. We all had doubts and most of us still have doubts about Avram’s capability. There was no reason for me to think that he was the right choice for the job. Avram has no pedigree at all to be managing Chelsea at this stage. He’s won stuff in the Israeli league. Would you readily accept someone who’s won trophies in Russian league or Turkish league to become Chelsea’s manager? Wouldn’t you have some doubts about his capabilities?
Of course, Roman can only think good for Chelsea, but he’s human. He can be influenced. He’s made billions but human mind is still a human mind. He can make a mistake. You said ‘after a couple of draws you’ve freaked out and come up with your bore about the club’ – silly silly comment to make. Your words speak for you. Choose them carefully.
Overall, I know it’s going to be like this. When I appreciate AG, you’d either ignore them or read between the lines in search of sarcasm, when I don’t, you know what to say!
PETER in Chelseablog said this. I thought this was interesting so I’m cross-posting it here:
Quoting Blue Champion
Thanks Pete!
Michael Mariens : I think I answer this one late becasue i did not rwad that.
sorry
No , I don’y pay . I said Chelsea has to go for him I did not say they have to pay 15 m .
by the way , gus sorry for bad spelling it is not my fault I have changed my keyboard, bought a new fancy one, I think I have to return that, it is kind of hard to type.
You guys are really passionate about the Chelsea FC the club.
I thought the club was just a football team and not a pre-teens private little tree house club.
I only take football as a hobby, you know for a laugh.
I never ever took football this seriously as you guys seem to take it to another level?
People:
If I was to run Chelsea FC and say I had about 30 minutes to spend, just to entertain myself.
The least we could do is offer or to give our opionion that is prudent towards the subject matter.
ps: Guys don’t get so emotional, instead lets think with calm heads.
Rumours start to fly that the players are being contacted for transfer to other teams.
Mourofessien @30
Simply great ! Eloquent piece !
BC , you know, of all the Chelsea blogs on the ‘net ,
you have the BEST , it is certainly a ” Special One ”
It keeps the blue flag flying high even in these …. aghh whatever
This weekend, I will keep the original Blue Flag Flying Hgh as i root behind the Azurris to go, see and conquer Scotland. Will any of you blue mates join us in solidarity?
BC,
Its been quite a while reading your blogs and I ha ve always respected your opinon which is nothing uniqe however I still feel that the choice of words has always been appropriate my friend… I honestly feel your texts show tendencies of lets say freaking out…from Jose departure to AV’s six nil all I have seen is opinons being formed and de-formed!!! so I feel having an opinon based on being cool & not so cool makes more sense if rational view points change as much as yours….
Now when you wrote good about Av everyone reads it and replies to it however in a space of two articles you have made a 360 degree spin in your opinons…no force or even Pete’s blog which always lacks creativity & usually is an abstract of other writers does not change the fact that Roman is trying his best however there is no accountability in one man power houses so be it Av or JM we will always suffer from over expecting analyst’s like you….I plead to you with all my love for the blues please get your priorities right for what you expect from CFC, Roman & the rest of the clan…..JM also lost, hope you read your own posts from that time and till now you will find out that I talk true that you have now really Freaked out (take it positively) as I have the same feeling however still I stree that BC you need to change your expectations!!! win win & win forget about other lateral love affairs that you have lost with the moving out of TSO….
BC,
Its been quite a while reading your blogs and I have always respected your opinon which is nothing uniqe however I still feel that the choice of words has always been appropriate my friend… I honestly feel your texts show tendencies of lets say freaking out…from Jose departure to AV’s six nil all I have seen is opinons being formed and de-formed!!! so I feel having an opinon based on being cool & not so cool makes more sense if rational view points change as much as yours….
Now when you wrote good about Av everyone reads it and replies to it however in a space of two articles you have made a 360 degree spin in your opinons…no force or even Pete’s blog which always lacks creativity & usually is an abstract of other writers does not change the fact that Roman is trying his best however there is no accountability in one man power houses so be it Av or JM we will always suffer from over expecting analyst’s like you….I plead to you with all my love for the blues please get your priorities right for what you expect from CFC, Roman & the rest of the clan…..JM also lost, hope you read your own posts from that time and till now you will find out that I talk true that you have now really Freaked out (take it positively) as I have the same feeling however still I stress that BC you need to change your expectations!!! win win & win forget about other lateral love affairs that you have lost with the moving out of TSO….
BluRehman
I don’t understand what you mean by a 360 degree turn. When Avram was appointed most of us expected him to be a failure. In the opinion poll on this blog, most of us thought we would not get a champions league spot this season (well, you can allow about 10% margin of error).
I have always thought Grant should be given time. That’s what I’ve been saying from day one. But that does not mean I’m going to agree with everything Grant does. Why should I? Grant has not accomplished enough to get the benefit of doubt.
Someone like Grant does well, I appreciate and when he doesn’t I say so. I don’t see a 360 degree (or 180 degree!) turn.
BLAH