i would love to see anelka at chelsea

we have heard lot of modric but that clip is great just the guy chelsea wants now i cant wait to see ballack essien mordic play together (if we sign him)

did i see him with the captains arm band??????? hes 22?????

very nice pic BC.. now isreli wont be complaining

It’s about time we bought a proper attack, being chelsea i thought it was always strange to go for the likes of kalou, pizarro and swp (although he did look promising). Dani Alves is who i want most, but whatever happened to the van der vaart rumours?

would love to see anelka play for the blues

The modric guy looks good, really good, more like nedved/zidane, great skill on the ball, good passin and very quick. Lets hope chelsea use him the right way. A combination of him n mikel in our midfield will be some thing else, speaks too well for the future. Hope we get him and anelka and the thiago guy.

cap123 i have been following van der vaarts transfer news and rumours very closly over the last couple of months and if rumours are set to be true then juventus have won the race to sign and are close to sealing a deal with hsv. On oher news, Anelka wold bring a whole different dimension to this team, you guys will see. The transfer of Anelka is pretty much already sealed and he will start banging them in for us i no time. As for Modric, i have seen a lot of him and hinesly i would have to say that he is a little(169cm) wonderkid, hes as creative as i have ever seen playing from CM pushing up to CAM and the wings, just creates and creates chances and wreakes havvoc for defenders. Personally Maicon will definatly be a good buy but lets be honest, there is no chance he will arrive in january, i mean seriosly why would he move form a succesfull and super inter side this season and hes also a first team regular in a great side, what more could you want! as for alves, that really would be great signing and its a fair chance he will arrive in january, about a month ago there where umours of chelsea renewing there interest in him and its 50/50 on that if it will happen. Bilyaletdinov is very much in the same mould as moric, he can play on the wings in our 4-3-3 formation and can also play anywhere in midfield, although you guys odnt know much about him i do and he would be a good sgning for the club. Now finally Branislav Ivanovic, this lad can play CB and RB very much like thomas ujflali(not correct spelling), can play both and could be brought in by avram for defensice cover, ben-haim is nowhere near good enough. In the end it looks like a January transfer window spending spree for avram and chelsea!!

Well it seems Grant will be given the cash not surprisingly that Mourinho was refused but what worries me is that we appear to be increasing our squad size but not getting rid of any players.

So what happens if Modric, Anelka and these two other Roman “wants” for Russia appear on our doorstep? How will Grant incorporate them into our already packed midfield (in the case of Modric and Bilyaletdinov) and our defence if fit with the other Russian? How will Anelka put up with being second fiddle to Drogba upon his return and what will happen to Sheva who actually looked like a semi decent footballer the other day?

It’s all very well having this cash to splash but Grant has to get these new players incorporated quickly into the squad and keep the existing ones happy.

Having a large squad of players used to playing football week in week out for their old clubs will be difficult and I wonder if Grant is up to the job.

We also have to wonder what will happen to our famed team spirit that Mourinho so wonderfully fostered? Can Grant keep this going with a sudden influx of new blood?

The Mirror says Dinamo president Zdravko Mamic flew into London last night to conclude an £11million deal for the Croatia playmaker to join Sven Goran Eriksson’s City.

Modric, 22, can play wide right or wide left and was outstanding in Croatia’s double Euro 2008 qualifier victories over England, where he first came to boss Eriksson’s attention.

Modric will become Eriksson’s second signing of the January transfer window, following the capture of Mexico striker Nery Castillo from Shakhtar Donetsk on loan until the end of the season
THIS IS THE NEWS FROM TRIBALFOOTBALL : MAN CITY TO OUT BID CHELSEA FOR MODRIC

toooooo big a squad might be a problem aswell

Anelka and Kenwyne Jones.

anonymous, the price tag for modric was 22 million, i doudt that a 11 millions pound bid has been accepted

oh ya and about anelks, i think alot of oyu are forget about a 6 foot 4 21 year old striker by the name of franco di santo!!

Why Chelsea is going after players who are already at their peak? What happens to Pizzaro if AG buys established striker? I feel pizarro will be loaned / sold to some other club in next summer.

instead i would prefer chelsea going for non established but promising players. all our strikers are almost in 30s (i dont count Kalou as striker & about Sahar and sinclair i dont know when they will start playing regular first team football).
why chelsea can not do something Wenger did with Eduardo, SAF did with Anderson, Nani. When SAF bought both these players. he made it clear that they are for future and may not get to play first team football in 07-08 season. Chelsea never seem to do it that way, now lamps is injured so there r rumours that we will enter into market for midfielder. last week Cech, Cudicini were injured and there were news about we going for Valencia keeper. Why it is that way? Even with such a big squad we never seem to kope with injuries well and still we claim that our team is not dependamt on 1 or 2 individuals. I totally disagree with that, when Drogs is out, we are not sure who will score goals. when JT is out, we are not sure who will stop goals, when Essien / Mikel is out we say midfield is poor. In Lamps and Drogs we have 50 % of the total goals. What the heck?

Every team faces injuries / suspensions. ex. Scholes, OH, RvP all are / were out for long time and everyone is important player to their respective clubs, but injuries have not reflected their results yet ( i do agree that when Rooney was out Utd were struggling).

Other problem is - how many top players, youngsters want to play for chelsea? in the last couple of years almost every top player was linked to chelsea at some point of time. Now that doesnt seem to be the case (except Ronaldinho). we are not able to lure youngsters either (Pato,Walcott, Drenthe).

So instead of diving into market for replacements of current players, chelsea should start looking at the future. thats why Arnsesan has been hired i believe.
we want to be top club by 2014-15, so we still have time in hand to build (not hire) good squad. Once we build good squad & win trophies with them, top players, youngsters will start thinking about playing for chelsea.

so i expect ( rather want) AG to go for players below / at 20 and not for immediate replacements.

I jus pary we get an offer for SWP!!!!!

Or us let him go 4 Free!!!

lol

Chelsea should buy this peruvian player of 25 years old…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzvMQ4yqTKE

Its fantastic!!! As Maradona!!!

I don’t know why anyone is talking about what Grant “wants”.

Clearly it is a case of Grant agreeing with whatever Roman “wants”.

These will be Roman’s buys that he will give to Grant - like Roman gave Sheva to Mourinho - an apparently unwanted gift.

This time, Grant will make no such complaints whatever players turn up.

I’m not sure if throwing money at the problem in the January transfer window is going to help us quite as much as people assume. It may well break what was a strong team (albeit with injuries) totally apart.

luka modric is the best cm in world. look deco when he was 26 he become faomus modric is 22 and he is better then deco then.

dont want non of those players. please dont get any russian player. i want barry from aston villa, and some young french and portugese players. damn roman make this a fighting team again. i wanna se love for fotball not some russian players that just heard of fotball.

Well RA seems to have an eye for good russian players lol

Luca Madric :
We do not need any play maker. we have Ballack and Lampard and it is enough. Although Lampard is injured , he will be back in 4 or6 wee after that having 3 good play makers lead to many problems. ( like having Duff,Robben and Joe Cole)

Nicholas Anelka:
I like to see him in blue shirt. I said 4 months ago , we have to buy him. he is great.

Daniel Alves, Micon : Why do you think we need a right back. we have Frreira and Belletti. we do’t need more;

In my opinion , chelsea does not need any player. They should not spend their money this season because our only hope is CL and we have most players for them. chelsea should keep the money 50 and add another 50 to that at the end of the season. and buy any players they want , they have 100 , they can build another team if the want.

it is not a good idea to buy players for positions which players are injured or suspended. we should think which positions we do not have any players like Left wing. even if Malouda came back , we would need another lpayer for that position. but we have to wait becasue most players are not available fo Jan transfer lists, they will be avaialbe at the end of the season

hi guys, Merry Christmas to you all.
just watched the Luca boy. We need him as soon as yesterday. What vision and what skills……

Ha ha everyone is behind the gossips from the news papers, i dont think all this players are going to join chelsea.

anelka might be a certain, but others, i doubt. with the likes of lampard and ballack, in the team if luka modric does comes to chelsea, hes not gonna get a regular starting place for atleast another cple of years, and if hes not someone after money, there is a chance, he might join spurs or man city, becos ramos will def offer him a regular first team so as sven,

As of maicon of inter, no chance, they r currently on top of seria A and in CL, if he join chelsea, he cant play in CL and that itself suggests he wont be joining, and he is a regular in roberto mancini’s first team and hes playing superb in inter and i dont think inter wud let him leave, if theres any chance, it wud be highly expensive.

Dany alves, i dont know, its like an ongoing story, he wants to come to chelsea, he dont, then he dint play for them, then he started, no idea.

the two pl ayers from lokomotive mosco, there is a chance both cud end up in chelsea, i cud see that happening. esp with romans reccomendation.

btw modric can play on both wings wings in our 4-3-3 formation aswell so you can count him a left winger as well as a right winger and a central midfielder

next side lol

—————-Cech—————
—–DA—–JT——RC——AC
—————MJO————–
———-ME——–LM——–
—-JC——————–RC
————-NA/DD———

Guys you are missing the plot.
The chelsea team is not balanced and AG needs to get players to balance the squad. In addition we have some old players who will be top of their game for two more seasons maximum and itsa proven fact that old players are also very injury prone
-Sheva-31
ballack-31
Drogba-29
Lampard-30
Maka-34
carvalo-29

add to this we have a few players who are costing us because they are not team players and are just not delivering as expected namely

SWP
JOE COLE-very talented but he holds on to the ball too much and most of his fancy tricks always result in nothing, I prefer him as an impact player

Solomon kalou- an impact player too

so all our wingers need replacement

Pizzaro- is just not quick enough, we need a striker who can score regularly

Sidwell- not chelsea material should be off loaded

ben Haim- not chelsea material should be offloaded
ferreira-very slow, we need a quick right back
so here is the plan

we need to get a new set of wingers- the ones we have are just not good enough

we need another defender for cover to replace TBHm someone who can also play at full backcarvalo and Terry are always injured these days. there is a chance there will not play together the whole season

we need another striker to replace our aging strikers and provide cover

we need a midfielder to replace makalele and provide cover, also ifyou know your football very well it is clear that chelsea lack a playmaker who creates chances for strikers, all big teams have them.Drogba has excelled because he creates his own chances but they are very few strikers like that in the world , infcat he is the only one right now.

so here is my List AG if you read this forum

Defence
Buy IVanov- he can play at right back and be used as cover
Buy Modric- we need him in midfield
Buy Benzema- to play on the wings and be a back up striker
Buy Quaresma-wing
Buy Hunteelar-stiker
Buy Sergio Aguero- wing and as back up forward
Do not sell in Jan since all the above players are CL cup tied so basically we will be able to rest some of our current players from the league so they can focus on CL and use the new recruits a lot in the league

Come August offload

ferreira,TBH,SWP,Sidwell and Pizarro
loan Kalou so he can mature a bit, if Joe is not happy with being benched he can be sold too.
I can’t believe people are saying there is too many players
As you can see the players above that I want bought are young and for the future, in two seasons once Drogba, carvalo,Sheva, balack and lams are finished chelsea will have a world dominating team. we need to think of the future now.

grab modric no one else needed in jan. lamps and drog will leave in summer when jose gets a club. bring quaresma and huntelar or benzema (hopefully) get rid of wrong phillips

@Blue Champion

On Aston Villa Game
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i agree completely with your post…………we were piss poor…………i could not convince myself to watch the match after 18 min……………cech has been rushed back………….i don’t think he is fit………..

on avram positive…..attackin…..etc
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the worst way to form an opinion about a player,team is based on compilation…………….trust me youtube can make boulahrouz look like nesta or terry…………….the only flair or creativity we had in those days was down to our wingers[bought by mr.rainieri]…….joe,robben and duff
trust me we have never played like the way champions should do in ideal world

on newcastle game
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again avram sucks aura around your post…………….the only thing i can confirm as of now in which jose is better than avram is hollywood type looks……….and oratory skills

TBF

I agree that youtube can be highly deceptive. But when we are chasing an unknown commodity, the best possible way to get some idea about the player is through youtube.

You say that we never played like the way champions should do in ideal world. While I don’t how you define ideal world, for me, we did play like champions, absolutely. I’m pretty sure we are not going to agree on this. So let’s leave it at that.

On your response to the newcastle post, if you think Jose is better than Avram only in looks and oratory skills, I’m terribly sorry. Either you don’t know certain things or you don’t want to admit.

Would you have chosen Avram Grant yourself for the Chelsea job after Jose was sacked? Don’t cheat yourself mate. You know, I know, we all know - he is just Avram Grant, a very very ordinary football coach, even if he is to win the champions league.

modri? will stay in dinamo zagreb until 2009 said president zdravko mami?. he is rejected all offers . he want to se dinamo in europe next season .

I want Quaresma, Benzema, Modric & Maicon

i don’t want quaresma’s sort at chelsea, he’s a pussy who doesn’t play the game. Wasted talent.

Who should go?
Vote
1 Pizarro
2 Sidwell
3 Ben Haim
4 Shevchenko

CAP123 surley you jest, he is a great winger. Something we are in dire need for.

sheva is proving his worth more over chelsea will not like to loose forwords in winter so if he scores 25-30 he stays i think sidwell will go back to reading TBH to the gutter

@ Siddharth and @ Sly the Blue Spy

i do agree with your post and i think its about time we start building the team of the future…little unknown world class players that can stage a claim in any team….i believe the transfers thats Sly the Blue Spy listed are the best so the old players can be more focused on the CL and the new ones focus more on the premiership and other competetions…all our players are old and would be out of action in the next 2-3 seasons,we need new young talents that would come in now so by the time the old one’d pharses out,they would have fitted well into their shoe’s…

anelka has signed a new deal with his club keeping him till 2011,modric is more likely to go to Man city if his club allows him to leave…i dont think the russian players wanted by roman would do us any good..

i just hope avram does the right thing this january and he should please learn how to make good substitutions during a match…what is ten cate doing anyway????

its all good,we can all just talk and speculate,the people at the helm of affair would do what they want,i just hope they do the right thing,for the sake of our dearly beloved club and the sake of us the fans…

KTBFFH…CHELSEA BOY FOR LIFE

I JUST READ THAT INTER TURNED DOWN A 60 MILLION BID FOR IBRAHIMOVIC AND MAICON.
I ALSO READ THAT AC MILAN WILL GET RONALDINHO ON JANUARY 1ST
AND THIRDLY MODRICS AGENT SAID HE WILL STAY WITH DINAMO FOR ANOTHER YEAR!!

Try get Kwamye Jones, Nicolas Anelka and David Villa or Luka Modric or Diniyar Bilyaletdinov and Branislav Ivanovic at least 4 of them i would choose Jones, Anelka,Villa and Luka Modric and get rid of the pizza man (pizzaro) rubbish Andriy and put Kaulo on loan.

Get rid of Ben haim he is so rubbish

@izy
getting rid of your forwords and bringing 4 new players with no premiership experience will be suicidal

and BC this editing thingy is quite good

Well it appears Modric is now staying where he is for another season so that’s the end of that.

Anelka according to Megson has not had an offer tabled for him yet but I think this is only a matter of time.

I think Roman will try to push through the two Russian players.

As for TBF’s comment, if you really think the only difference between Mourinho and Grant is looks and how he talks - well I’m at a total loss!

Grant has cash to spend, lets hope he spends it wisely.

offload——————buy
benhaim Branislav Ivanovic
ferriera alves
sidwell modric/vanderwaat
pizarro anelka
Swp Diniyar Bilyaletdinov

tt should be it…

sheva to stay…with new creative players to arrive at chelsea…sheva will have more chances to convert…

also….no big name replacement for goalkeeper as we got cech and cudicini…2 of the best keepers…

in no time…we can be a team tt play beautiful football…

so we have….Gk:cech,cudicini,hilario
Defenders:belleti,alves,terry,alex,carvalho,Ivanovic,a.cole,bridge
Mid:lampard,ballack,essien,mikel,J.cole,malouda,makelele(agreed to play in some games only),Diniyar Bilyaletdinov,vanderwaat/modric,kalou(to me,he’s a winger)
Forward: anelka,drogba(may be leaving),sheva

best formation/s…4-4-2 and 4-5-1

in my opinion, i think we should get quaresma, anelka, modric….we should get rid of pizarro…sheva? i think we should wait n see how he does this season….cause he is starting to look like he was in milan …..great!

@Bella
as for avram vs jose…………………………3 points
1.Jose would not have done any better than what Avram is doing now.
2.Jose had three seasons……………Avram had few months……….with a team which may or may not suit his style.
3.I mentioned “as of now”
Avram has cash to spend……….what do you mean jose didn’t have cash………what’s wrong if the club is not ready to pay 5 million pounds for a dud like tal ben haim who has 3 months left on his contract………..jose even had the option to buy daniel alves……….that del nido blow it by demanding sky high price………..he got malouda……….and what difference tal ben haim would have made to cfc………………this jose guy had the option to bring alex back in winter…………..but his ego………..alex was scounted by arnesen.

@Blue Champion
read the above post to bella

all off this offloading ben-haim talk, dont forget boulahrouz is coming back next season and he can be superstar, not joking!!!

This is not the ideal scenario to judge Avram anyways……………the man has got a half-fit squad, with players put on him rather than chosen by him, yet inspite of it all and moreover the incredible pressure on him to get results ,he is doing very well no question about it……………..but when ppl say are we playing beautiful football??? no, so whats the use………….i wanna ask back—did u expect an unknown man to come out of nowhere, after 9 odd games to handle a team constructed by Jose and playing for 3 years under his style to suddenly start doing wonders and matching Manu or Arsenal??
Did SAF just turn up one day, took hold of the players and start playing elegant football?? did Arsene?? its not a joke, tradation and support play an important role, if teams like United start playing football like us, watch the world go awry, let Grant settle, get the players he wants, have the team under him for a summer, and then judge him, if he fails u can rejoice, if not we will……………..

@Bella
Jose not given money?? lets set the jokes apart please…..he was given all the financial backing, and not to forget he threw away a lot of it on crap, dont let me get into the figures, and the only time he was told no was for Ben Haim, who TBF has said is a dud and that wld hav been a waste anyway……………………