So it’s Big Phil then. Luiz Felipe Scolari would take charge at Chelsea from 1st July. Allright it’s a great news but was he the best choice available to take Chelsea forward? See I’m absolutely delighted with Scolari’s appointment (after Grant I’d be delighted with anyone’s appointment) but don’t have answers for all my questions!
Scolari comes with a massive reputation. After all, there are not many world cup winning managers in contemporary football. He has managed high profile teams and in some high profile projects. He is 60 but you would not think beyond 50 looking at his energy levels. I’m not blind to Scolari’s minuses but his positives are big enough to outweigh his negatives.
Good things:
1. He is a big man: He has led Brazil to world cup glory. He has managed some of the most illustrious names and world players of the year. Chelsea is his 20th assignment in his managerial career. So now, we have a boss that’s surely bigger than his team. His authority will not be questioned. There’s a reason for the players to believe in his coaching and trust his philosophy. This is Big Phil we are talking about.
2. He can bring some interesting names: The players that otherwise were not keen about Chelsea would get up and take notice. This is a massive advantage. Be it Aguero or van der Vaart or Villa – to be coached by Scolari is a great prospect. Not only can he retain the Portuguese contingent in Chelsea, he can also unearth some raw Portuguese talent. He knows them inside out.
3. The phase of stabilisation starts with him: I’m guessing here. Last thing we want to see is him being sacked because he won the title only 2 points. Roman should allow the manager some time to impress upon the players and slowly make them accustomed to his style. May be it should be made clear that winning of titles in the first season is not really mandatory. He has been given only a three year contract (so the compensation will be lesser?) but he should be allowed to stay for all three years. I think he will.
Not-so-good things:
1. Will it be Roman vs Scolari now: Big Phil is known to be a very independent man. He hates intervention and he demands respect and freedom. Well, that means Roman should spend more time on politics and oil. I hope Scolari stays in the good books of Roman.
2. Where is the club football experience: He has not managed a big club yet. He has managed clubs in south america, some in the gulf and solid international experience. If I’m right he has never taken part in champions league, as a player or as a manager. Being Chelsea manager would be an entirely different experience for Scolari. He’s done great with Rally cars but this one is a crazy F1 machine.
3. What about his ‘ingles’? So what, even Capello does not know, you might say. But you can’t need for Capello’s frequency of communication with that of Scolari’s. In club management, he needs to be communicating every single day. One way of managing it is by bringing in more south european players which won’t be in the agenda considering the 6+5 rule.
On the whole, I’m excited about his appointment. I can’t wait for him to take charge. I can’t wait for the transfers that he’s going to do. But this development does not change who I want to win the Euro. Sorry Phil, Germany for the Euros!
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WELCOME SCOLARI TO CHELSEA
Scolari named as Chelsea manager
Chelsea have named Luiz Felipe Scolari as their new manager in succession to Avram Grant.
Scolari, who is currently in charge of Portugal at Euro 2008, will take over at Stamford Bridge on 1 July.
Scolari from 1st July at the helm of Chelsea for £7.9million a year for the next 3 years
hopefully scolari will bring queresma, moutinho with him as well as some brazilian friends such as robinho, kaka!
SCOLARI NEW COACH OF CHELSEA
:D:D:D!!!!!!!
yay scolari! http://msnsport.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12040_3678920,00.html
Scolari is not very found of Quaresma mainly because hes not very keen on helping team defending.Maybe I’m wrong but Deco,Moutinho and Ronaldinho seem the most likely candidates for Scolari/Chelsea.
Scolari (like JM) can motivate teams like no other coaches and unite players to form (a real) team.Congratulations to Kenyon/AB as it seems they got this one right.
Scolari to bring samba football to stamford bridge!!!
Scolari as the chelsea manager will be terrific provided no one mixes with his work.
I dont think he will bring Quaresma, Quaresma has never been one of his favourit players, only because Quaresma does not recover balls when he loses them, so forget Quaresma.
Regarding Ronaldinho, c’mon Ronaldinho will not come to Chelsea they already had an example with Sheva, let him go to ManCity he will do nothing anywhere he goes, far too m uch whisky and birds.
David Villa and David Silva forget it they wont come.
Maybe Deco still a brilliant player, as you saw him not at his best and still a force to reckon, maybe Carvalho will stay, with a better contract.
Would not be surprise if Chelsea would go after Pepe, brazilian born but Portuguese through and through.
Well Scolari no doubt the best manager out there in CV terms, but lets face it guys we had a clown since last September and the players still managed to get where Chelsea got, so at last Chelsea has a manager with credentials, not a clown that couldnt even a read a match.
I will have my doubts at J Terry when Scolari comes, hmmmmmmmm I can see problems there.
However i wish Scolari the same success as TSO had, he is a terrific manager you only can see what he has achieved with Portugal since he took over, and still what he is going to achieve this championships.
Find it strange, to annouce it at this moment the Scolari post, first Real Madrid with Ronaldo to destabilise him during this tournament and Ronaldo has not at his best, now Scolari annoucement another attempt to destabilise the group, just an opinion.
Portugal won but for me not convincingly, too many mistakes in defence.
Anyway wish the best for Scolari and Chelsea.
I pick Holland to upset everybody in the Euros. Okay, yeah, whatever.
Scolari! Now, this is the news I was waiting for! A solid manager who will not take crap from players nor a spoiled owner! Roman, please keep your mouth shut and sign checks for a man that we fans can rally behind. Heck, even if Chelsea goes under a little loosing streak, as long as he can win silverware, let the man do his job! Praise God, Chelsea has a real manager again!
Yessssssss, a world class manager again that can inspire everyone including fans. welcome Big Phil.
Yes. it begins, the domination of Chelsea on the world
Scolari is going to revamp our attack to take shape with portuguese and brazillian influence
carvahlo may possibly go but you have to remember, Alex is still developing with so much potential
drogba is set to go possibly with scheva and i think we will see a huge deal which will land ronaldinho at Stamford Bridge, well, either him, or Quaresma, more likely Quaresma as he has youth
with valencia selling their assets, we will probably see david villa and david silva at Chelsea,
he will surely switch to his favoured 4-2-2-1-1 so a new striker will probably be on the cards as anelka and villa would not be a good partnership in my opinion. I’ve never been so eager for the end of Euro 2008
Roman bro has seen the light !
Scolari is another Avram Grant
There will always be one special one.
Great News Chelsea will ROCK in coming YEARS….
Will Scolari solve Chelsea’s problems…lets hope for best…
With this appointment some new players who can arrive are Queresma,Moutinho,Deco,Kaka,Auguero….Eto and Silva may also be on their way…Roman will be again ready to break the bank for new manager…
Having seen Bosingwa in action for two matches, I am not really impressed with him…he is vey good in defense but his attacking capabilities don’t seem to be what Chelsea are looking for…20m euros now seems to be way high for him…Porto definitely has made hell of a deal hereand they must be laughing their way to bank…
GREAAAAT NEWS !!!!!!. SCOLARI IS OUR NEW MANAGER.
FROM CHELSEA WEBSITE
“Chelsea Football Club is delighted to confirm that Luiz Felipe Scolari will be the club’s new manager from July 1, 2008.
Felipe has great qualities. He is one of the world’s top coaches with a record of success at country and club level, he gets the best out of a talented squad of players and his ambitions and expectations match ours. He was the outstanding choice.
Out of respect for his current role as Head Coach of the Portuguese national team, and to ensure minimum disruption to this work, there will be no further comment from Chelsea FC nor from Felipe about his new role until his employment with us commences.”
this is the best news after the sacking of grant….scolari is a world class manager..He has managed brazil and portugal…hope he bring in some portugal and brazilian players such as quaresma,deco(maybe),robinho,kaka…WOOOHOOO…beginning of the new reign
good news that we have a manager finally. good or bad only time will tell.Actually at chelsea its not a question of coach ability rather its more about roman. roman will now make his dream signings and coach must be able to play him properly. coach may be consulted while buying players.The the ultimate goal of coach is that sheva should score goals team wins or looses. I cant see him wining the league in the first season though cup competition is a possibility. all the best scholari
up the blues!!!!
did you see the set piece defending yesterday from portugal?? its totally chelsea back line still… i hope cech sorts it out at chelsea!!!
@BC
Don’t know how to react to the news of scolari appointment to be honest.
@Nihongo Blue
Duncan Castles needs a successor and you will just fit in fine………pack your bags and catch the next flight to london..japan airlines await your arrival..lol
tts gr8…hope he can get along with abramovich…which i think he can…abramovich learn his lesson already…by sacking grant….scolari can bring exciting football to chelsea!!!
i believe that scolari likes exciting football but he also prefers a safety first philosophy…..therefore it is very suitable for chelsea….a strong attack and a strong defence…
my only point stating things above was that chelsea learn from the mistakes made earlier. Giving manager time if they want winning with style and let manager do his job without much interferance from others. enough said.
thats it!!!
by all means we have a better manager than that homer simpson. IF or not he´s better than TSO, time will prove it…. my best wishes to scolari and chelsea team next season.
Best of luck to Scolari. I really hope he can take this club where it has never been before. Can’t wait for the tactical battles with Fergie, Wenger et al.
Today’s going to be the day I renew my membership, I think!
Oh, by the way, BC, Big Phil may not have won the European Champions League, but he has won the Copa Libertadores (the South American equivalent) with two different clubs in the past. You may balk at the quality of that competition, but it still takes some skill to win.
We can definitely expect a much more interesting next season .
Samba footy with muscle that’s what we are gonna get , and I don’t care if he mucks up the first few games and has a few boring draws ! so what !
I am relieved we do not have Mancini
The Portuguese press mentions that Scolari discussed with JM about becoming Chelsea manager, and JM recommended it. Expect Deco to join and a few others from Portugal like Moutinho but not Quaresma.
Someone above posted that Scolari is like Avram Grant, thats an insult lol, one is a Fiat pand (AG) another is a Ferrari F1 (FS).
Very good for Chelsea provided that Scolari can be left alone, and no one interferes with his work, he is very much his own man. I can see problems with Judas Terry when he joins, not immediatelly but sooner or later. Can see Alex parting more often with carvalho, and as he doesnt speak “ingles” he couldnt care less lol.
Another topic and this one is for BC.
Hey BC where i am posting is an office, and some other colleagues also post, why it always shows “German Fan”, why cant everybody write their own name, I know you control it with the ip number but is there a way where when someone writes his name can be there?
Also I will be transfered back to London next year so i will be going to SB more often, now that Chelsea has a proper manager rather than that clown.
BC answer my question please.
I believe the appoinment of Scolari is good, if not great, and no one can say otherwise. But the English Premier League is different than any of the leagues Scolary experienced. This would be an interesting challange for him. I am not so worried, though. He has been in europe for almost six years. Therefore, he should already know the europian players, and the other players from other continent. From that point of view, I expect him to do well, not only in EPL, but also in the Champions League.
Good news is that we will have different, or maybe better, style of play. The only thing that I should worry about is Roman’s intervention in the team formation or selection. If Big Phil is assured his freedom, then this is, for sure, a new era for Chelsea.
he will also play his 4-2-2-1-1/4-2-3-1 at chelsea whhich should be interesting.
—————Cech————–
–Bosingwa–Terry–Carvalho–Cole–
———Essien—Ballack———-
—–J.Cole—Deco–Quaresma——-
————–Villa—————-
Scolari’s appointment answers a lot of prayers for Chelsea fans about creative, free-flowing play. Can’t wait for the poaching wars between Chelsea and Inter to begin!
http://startingeleven.blogspot.com/2008/06/chelsea-hires-scolari-best-portuguese.html
welcome big PHILL……………
Roman , thankyou very much for bringing him for us.
hey BC is DECO movement a sure deal?
hey guyz will he bring cristiano RONALDO for ussss????? jzt imagine that????
Portuguese paper Record confirms that Deco is joining Chelsea
with Scollari, and hints that Carvalho is very happy with Scolari being the manager.
Good news for Chelsea, just shows that top players want to join top managers, not clowns.
Portuguese paper Record confirms that Deco is joining Chelsea
with Scollari, and hints that Carvalho is very happy with Scolari being the manager.
Good news for Chelsea, just shows that top players want to join top managers, not clowns.
Portuguese press mention Queiroz or Hiddink to replace Scolari in the national team.
Scolari in England will be horrible to him and for all Chelsea fans.
The Portuguese people is very sad with Mr Scolari and mainly with the English press.
germanfan
i think carvalhio, lampard and queresma to inter . deco and moutinho and one good striker(may be etoo) to chelsea. villa to liverpool. these should be the trasfers.
please please chelsea dont get riccy go to inter…. please he is the best in the world
I don’t understand why so many people are seeing Scolari’s appointment as a bad decision. We all know the 3 things you must do to please RA:
1) Play attacking football
2) Play Shevchenko
3) Win silverware
I think with Scolari we can easily accomplish 1 and 3.
hi germany fans, its not looking good, is it? Skills and self belief will at all times overcome the german machine.
hi germany fans, its not looking good, is it? Skills and self belief will at all times overcome the german machine.
Tuga shut da f**k up nao tens puta ideia do que dizes.
Regarding the Germany v croatia very very poor game, ok Germany was bad but then again Germany is a middle of the road team, guys, I know I watch them every week. It is nice to say they are favourites, but it is all based on the work rate with very very good players that Germany used to have.
Saying that I was expecting Portugal v Croatia an easier draw for Portugal, Portugal tends to play better against teams that play with skill, rather than with brawn, like Germany. The way Germany played today and the way Austria played their first game if they can emulate both matches Austria will go thru.
However about scolari i am very happy to be in london when Scolari is the Chelsea manager, terrific decision.
I sam still awaiting for BC comments on my question.
YEAH!!!!!!!! SCOLARI!!!
He was always my number one, I’m ecstatic!!
I think that if someone can handle the big brazilian stars and the big portugese stars, he can handle anyone.
I suddenly find myself rooting for the Portugese!!
loving it, i am loving it, people dont forget he has Kaka on his mind, and i think it wld be really difficult for him to say no now, get ready for some amazing players here and some amazing football…wow…
I think a man who has managed the greatest country in futbol history will have no problem adapting to life at a big club with huge expectations. I mean if one can manage Brasil to a World Cup victory which is no small order with their tremendous expectations and then transform Portugal into a international powerhouse, he really shouldn’t be questions with experience. Aside from that he will attract current futbol talent as well as finding us some gems. The only thing that could possibly go wrong in this deal is Roman not minding his own business. Other than that, I’d say we’re in safe hands.
Great news for Chelsea for getting a top class manager. One more good quality is that no player can mess with him . He has even substituted Figo in Euros. Need a strong person like him to manage players like didier drogba..
Quaresma says he signed for a big club … is it us or Inter?? maybe Big Phil will take Quaresma with him ..?! that would be amazing if we take him also heard that Lamps will go to Inter and Deco in Chelsea .. that wouldn’t be bad at all .. so Quaresma,Deco,Villa or Eto’o in and Drogba,Lampard,Swp,Belleti, out ..
Yes the Portuguese press claims that Quaresma signed for a big team (Inter?) They do not say which team but the press speculates between R Madrid and Inter.The FC Porto site doesnt confirm it though.
Yes Deco already signeda 3 years contract with Chelsea.
Chelsea apparently paid 15 million to Barcelona. Very good player.
formation for next year(4-4-1-1):
——————cech—————–
bosingwa——carvlaho–terry–cole—–
———essien———lampard———
—cole——————quaresma/robinho
——-villa/kaka/aguero/ballack/deco———
————–gomez/etoo/drogba———-
good luck scolari!!!!!!!!
I DONT WANT LAMPARD TO GO!!!!!! HES MY FAVOURITE!!!!!!
HES AN AMAZING PLAYER I DONT KNOW WHY PEOPLE CALL HIM FAT AND BAD, HES AMAZING AT PASSING, SHOOTING,SET PIECES,SCORING,RUNNING INTO THE BOX!!!!!WHATS SO BAD ABOUT HIM!!!!
hey mike ayad, i also hope lampard will stay…but how can chelsea accomodate more midfielders such as deco,ronaldinho or vander vaart.i think chelsea must sell drogba…in order to play exciting attacking football…chelsea need a creative striker…drogba is great but too reliant on strength….and gomez must nt come chelsea….based on his euro08 performances so far,he is nt as gd as expected.
chelsea must get quaresma and robinho and a topclass striker(villa preferably)….as for midfield, chelsea should get can der vaart(young and gd)/ronaldinho(aging)/deco(aging)
Scolari has no experience in Europe, however his achievements are extraordinary.
I hope Lampard stays (this is imperative!) and Deco does not come. We need an influx of genuine talent on the wings and a 20 goal striker.
Hopefully Scolari will attract the top players in the world and he has the ambition to win the CL and the EPL. We must win both next year.
definitely very interesting times for Chelsea fans…
plethora of names will be now associated to Chelsea be it Kaka,Quersma,Eto ,Deco and who not…I wish Scolari brings Samba spring to Chelsea…..lets hope for best….
David villa is a good player but he is not suitable for England League.In La Liga he is always injured.Now what happens if he play in england?He is just like robben .an always injured player.
Guys, I have been following media news with zeal and unsurprisingly Chelsea is ruling the headlines for last few days and will continue to do so for quite some time… have been really enjoying all transfer rumours now that Scolari is sure to take over at Chelsea..and every big name is associated be it Kaka,Ronaldinho,Deco,Eto,Ribery,Villa,Queresma et al…and papers are full of stories like 100m warchest for Scolari,blank cheque by Roman etc etc…I want to ask u guys whether all this is a good sign for Chelsea…break even by 2010 was a goal and that too was looked upon as an unrealisitc one and that too if Mourinho had countinued and kept winning trophies..but now that whole scenario has changed and a totally new project is on anvil with further huge investments planned by owner, surely financial goals will be reset…I have no doubt in Roman’s dedication to club but then mind is a strange thing and suppose tomorrow Roman gets disillusioned and decides to look other way then what will happen to our club…all this gives a scary picture..we are already paying over odds for players and then salary structure at Chelsea is exceptional in entire Europe and even likes of Real Madrid pale in comparison…hmm..this all gives a feeling that if something bad happens then Chelsea will plunge into deep troubles…I hope if management shows some restraint and money is spent judiciously…w already have a good squad and there is no need to add plethora of stars..few changes need to be made but all this talk of blank cheque etc is really unwarranted…I hope Roman and Kenyon don’t miss the real picture in all this chaos…
Luka Modric is a fantastic player.Young and Talented.We lost him to Spurs .he would be a great replace for Lampard and Ballack.
Pictures of our away kit for 08/09 have been released on the chelsea official website!!!
NEW CHANT:
we will win everything next year
because philipe scolari is here
so do not fear
and always cheer
philipe scolari is here!!!!!
according to BBC, deco is as good as ours. too bad he’s 30 and not 26 anymore
WELCOME. I hope he can move on a few players from our squad.
Anelka, Pizzaro, Ben Haim, Sidwell and Malouda can all leave.
it looks like quaresma and munithio (or w/e) are top candidates for coming to chelsea, with strong connections to scolari and being ‘on his list’, and so far no obligatory agent quotes like ‘they will fufil their contracts and remain faithful’.
Two great additions imo, but it should really be deco or munithio right? they’re the same position? Van der vaart too
with carvhalo looking like staying now, i think the hiring of scolari has already been incredibly positive. If he brings in these sort of players and keeps our key players, he’s had a hell of a start. lampard and drogs are unsaveable though (not too sad about the latter), so can hardly knock him for that.
Did anyone saw Robben last night…I am so sad we let him go..it was hell of a mistake…if we can do anything to keep Lampard then why couldn’t we do same for Robben..and we replaced him with Malouda..shame…on his day Robben is well ahead of even Ronaldo..
and did we miss on Marco Van Basten…just a thought…
mike ayad scolari plays his 4-2-3-1/4-3-3/4-2-2-1-1 but its really a 4-2-3-1 and wsometimes reverting to 4-3-3.
—————–Cech—————-
–Bosingwa–Terry–Carvalho–A.Cole–
———–Essien—Ballack———-
——-J.Cole—-Deco—Quaresma—–
—————–Villa—————
or:
—————Cech—————
–Bosingwa–Terry–Alex–A.Cole—
———-Mikel—-Moutnho——–
—Ronaldinho–Lampard–Robinho—
—————Eto’o————–
Which is the better line-up?
@63…Scolari emphasizes a lot on counter attacks and hence wide players…I don’t think he will make Lampard or Ballack important part of his schemes as they are not suitable for counter attacking style…he will definitely bring in Deco for middle and two wide players like Robinho,Queresma,Ribery or even Ronaldinho…
i think scolari’s theme should be based around volare, so similar.
Personally im still 50/50 on the scolari thing, i imagine that his name alone will bring some players that before would not have come but as a manager in europe he has yet to prove himself. managing a country and a club are two vastly different things.
I can see him bringing in some talented brazilians and portoguese but it should be interesting what he can do with the other european names, villa is available for 17-20million euros, deco is on a free. Will he spend big to change the squad or just update it in areas we will be weak at if players leave.
Also bosingwa looks like a good signing in terms of skill, still overpriced money for a player that could probably have come for half that price now.
anelka and makelele must leave chelsea.
malouda was better yesterday played better than he has done 4 chelsea all season.
——————cech—————–
bosingwa——carvlaho–terry–cole—–
———essien———lampard———
—deco——————robinho
——-villa/kaka/ballack/
————–/etoo/aguero———-
WTF
Did you guys watch Netherlands yesterday, they beat the sh*t out of France, haha. Can´t believe they were the finalist in WC ´06. If they continue their form, i think its Spain vs Netherlands in final, unless they face each other in between.
Feel sorry of Anelka, Malouda, Mäkelele…
@67
Netherlands and Spain will meet in the semi finals can’t meet in finals
I want Drogs to stay , I feel like he will stay … He has Old AG off his back …and ..well he’s human too.. a bit petulant.. sometimes but he’s been as frustrated as as any of us in the past two years.. He’s played as forward , midfielder and defender.. he scored heaps of goals .. for us..
He’s emotional but he has also been inspirational for us and can be for 2-3 more years
He has his faults but who hasn’t..
but I want him to stay
Anyone of the same line of thoughts or emotions ?
@72…new gaffer is at helm and I think his style doesn’t suit Drogba hence even if fans wish Drogba stays it is highly improbable…he will bring someone like Villa or Torres or Eto…
I was hoping to see Germany v Netherlands in the final, they are our really nemesis, not england, england is small fish.
However Germany is playing really bad, or put it in another words, they are playing well to their skillfil capabilities, but when they meet a more organised skillfilfull team they strugle .
saying that I think Portugal is the best team to beat or stop Netherlands, only because they match them in skill and they play the same diamond system.
But I am afraid after all the news of the transfers, scolari to Chelseas, Deco, Ronaldo, Moutinho for Barcelona ete etc , their moind is not focused anymore in the finals of this competition, so expect Portugal to say bye-bye against Germany. Pity as this tournament was ready made for them.
Portugal dressing room is in disarray, all because of the Chelsea suits, that have not got an iota of dignity or loyalty or decency for that matter, announced the signing of Scolari, when he and everybody at the team knew he was going to Chelsea, but one thing to knopw another is to be confirmed, and no doubt this Chelsea suits and pathetic blood)money)-suckers had to announce something after the Portuguese victory against Czeck Rep., and only to appease the fans. What have they achieved? to join forces with Spain in order to destabilise Portugal team, as if you read the spanish press their are the only team they fear most, first with Real Madrid chase of Ronaldo, and the guy is not as his best, it is obvious to see, and now chelsea, oh c’mon you suits have a bit of dignity you scum. You gave a clown a 4 years contract after 2/3 obvious victories, only and only because he was a friend of the owner, so he could get a pay off when he was sacked. When everybody including the owner knew the guy had not the talent, the NOUS, the IQ, you name, it I agree, knowledge, and now you go for the pinnacle in football managers. Well, well done at last you seem to have listened to the fans cries, but c’mon I wanted to see Portugal, as I dont believe in Germany anymore, to do well.But what have you done, tipycal of scum money suckers that feel the need to appease the fans, and I agree that the fans are the heart of any club, however an annoucement in the web site saying something like” we have identified our manager but unfortunately until the 2nd of July or the 1st or find a date you will not declare the name of the next manager.
It is no brainer to guess, the name was in the most mouths already,and nespapers in Portugal, however it would have shown some decency and would have given even more credibility to Scolari a man that is an achiever in football and personal terms and a very loyal manager, how he allowed that to happen, it bewilders me but then again money is money.
Well I have another 2 games to watch with my favourite teams, maybe a third with Germany as I think Portugal is shattered and will not progress, nit for lack of ability but the sooner they are out the sooner their agents can start talks.
Thats all gona watch the Spain v Sweden and i want Sweden to at least draw I like Ljumberg, I even know him.
Cherioooooooo
PS BC has not yet answerted my question in my past posts.
ooppppss sory for my typos
Money talks.Plain and simple.
Scolari had previously turned down a portuguese club (read Benfica) because of a stunt just like this one.Everyone has a price and Chelsea met Scolari’s one, so he has to put up with this press releases and shut up about it.
Time to sell or swap Maluda and Aneka .. Maluda is wanted by Barca, should be swapped with cash for Eto.
best line up
————-cech———–
richards—terry–carv—a.cole
————-mikel————-
—van der vart–essien—G.barry
——-drogba/sheva—david villa—-
First off, the new away kits look sick.
Scolari and his international reputation + 120 million Euros = we will get a couple ridiculous signings. Those absurd tabloid signings are starting to actually have truth to them.
The problem before was never money. It was a moral question. Who wants to spend the next year on a bench? How much is it worth? Are you really going to start a young talent over a solid name player? Are you going to bench ballack or lampard for van der vart? Is someone who is established and has had a great season going to be happy splitting time with a new signing who could very well bust in English football? It’s ludicrous.
We need to remember how good our team is. All of you people saying we should sign david villa, quaresma, richards, AND kaka (lol) all at once… no offense, but what are you thinking? You guys do know that teams get better just from experience, from playing together, from chemistry, not just from buying half a team every season?
With Scolari, I’d guess we get one superstar (most of the names everyone is listing on this board are definitely superstars), one solid player, one decent player, and one backup, and we are more than spoiled with that. We don’t need them, but we’ll get a boost.
Final note in this non directional ramble:
Scolari’s lack of club experience (0 in england, none anywhere in the last 12 years) is worrisome, perhaps. For the record, a chimpanzee with a moderate amount of training could manage chelsea to a solid season. And we all know Chelsea is basically an International squad. So as long as Scolari can keep up with a heavy game schedule and not turn into Rotating Rafa, I think this is going to be a solid signing and a great manager for the blues.
Khalid Boulahroz played very vell.The goal site gave him 9/10.
He have to return.
guys, we should sell tbh belletti bring in ivanovic boularouz and save money for some decent players n
like etoo villa horse-face-dinho
our problem lies in attack and rightback, bosingwa has been bought, with his speed and stamina, he will provide adequate cover for the big purchase we are about to make to cover the right wing
if we are to add a quality striker to our formation, he either needs to be capable on the wing or we’ll sacrifice a midfielder, and out of our boys, the man to be axed from a 3-man midfield would be lampard
you’d argue we need him to take set corners and 20 goals a season, but a good striker would solve that
playing in a 4-2-2-2 formation, i think the likelyhood is seeing a swap deal involving malouda and ronaldinho, david villa coming to the bridge and possibly david silva
deco and torres are most certainly not the way foward
deco is 29 and does not like being touched, a very withdrawn player, torres is good with the ball, and quick, not bad in the air, but gets roughed up too easily, he would not fit in with our ‘scare the centrebacks strategy’ with drogba pulling down longballs and shooting or being challenged and conceding kicks
i would welcome ronaldinho to cover our right flank, but we could do with someone on the left who is left footed, and not lazy
oh and jose holiday
i agree, he winds me up because i hate diving but at the end of the day, for direct free kicks a game, he gets the stats up
secondly, drogba was happy in 4-3-3 until robben left, with no one really making the effort to get foward he started getting frustrated
so we either need to wingers or a striker and a winger
id be upset to see joe cole and swp have reduced playing time but neithr of them truly produce what we need, which is pace and technical ability
im sad to see dos santos slip away as he would have been cheap and a real talent to fill our left wing void, you can be sure ronaldinho is coming to the bridge, with scolari here and malouda willing to go, he can’t argue and barca need to get rid of players, like ac milan and valencia, they have money trouble, so if chelsea are buying any players, those are the places they are coming from
I would welcome Ronaldinho, David Silva & David Villa
we need a forward, a winger to play with joe cole and thats it in my opinion.
villa and quarsema / schweinsteiger would be my choice.
edit: actually, i might pick robinho over quarsema or schweinsteiger, we need the pace as that isn’t what joe’s all about.
A name
That’s what real selfish spoiled fans need, that’s what RA gives you (with little help from the poorest management in the EPL)
Here we have a no name doing great sacked for a big name that will give us shit
Once in a life time story is being ended for the spoiled fans
A name you asked for a name you have
Nothing more than that!!!!!!
Forget about building new team with young players
BC say
“I’m guessing here. Last thing we want to see is him being sacked because he won the title only 2 points. Roman should allow the manager some time to impress upon the players and slowly make them accustomed to his style. May be it should be made clear that winning of titles in the first season is not really mandatory. He has been given only a three year contract (so the compensation will be lesser?) but he should be allowed to stay for all three years. I think he will.”
More than anything I loved the:” May be it should be made clear that winning of titles in the first season is not really mandatory. “LOL
God you’re so funny- huge hypocrite as well
Looks what he needs to do:
More than 68% wins
Less than 25% drowse
Less than 7% losses
Even so it doesn’t mean he will win the EPL
Any ways I bet he will have nothing close to this stats and will keep his downhill ride
This guy is way over the hill
Downhill here we come
“Scolari’s lack of club experience (0 in england, none anywhere in the last 12 years) is worrisome, perhaps. For the record, a chimpanzee with a moderate amount of training could manage chelsea to a solid season. And we all know Chelsea is basically an International squad. So as long as Scolari can keep up with a heavy game schedule and not turn into Rotating Rafa, I think this is going to be a solid signing and a great manager for the blues.”
AS you mention a chimpazee with a moderate amount of training could manage Chelsea, I agree we had a monkey the last 9 months and “he claims the credit” when we all knew that were the players that took Chelsea that long, maybe with the help of Steve Clark, hence the reason that Chelsea still keeps him.
Regarding Scolari, after Moutinho he is even more qualified than JM himself, and lest face it to manage a club is not that different than to manage a club, the difference only that he has to be there every day, a better method to befriend the players and to prepare them psychologically, so what?
Scolari at his age could not and should not decline this offer, it is his pension and his family future, c’mon guys, Chelsea never had such a high profile manager as Scolari, and I tell you he is going to be extremelly successful, maybe not the 1st year but give him the second and you will see. But he will bring silverware the next season and I have a feeling that will be the EPL trophy.
However do not jump into him if he leaves out players that WE think are indespensable, for him the best players are the ones that deliver collectively, and Chelsea need a good clean up with certain players that think they are Chelsea, wait and judge.
The Portuguese press claims that Mourinho and Scolari got together masny many times to discuss about football and players. So I am sure Scolari has been informed about Chelsea and about their players, so to safeguard any possible confrotations with existinmg players, that are going to happen, he brings the ones he can trust, that simple, no brainer.
Expect Alex to play more often next to Carvalho, Carvalho most certain will stay now, if Chelsea matches the salary that Inter was prepared to pay, and Carvalho is a player that no team can afford to lose.
Even Drogba may stay, and damn it, if he stays he is the best player to play Scolari’s method; imagine Drogba in the Portuguese national team!!!!!!!!
C’mon if the portuguese team concentrates and still delivers in this Euro, what by what I have read doubt it, with a player like DD instead of Nuno Gomes, what do you think the outcome would be? Not even my team Germany, would defeat Portugal.
Scolari, after TSO is the best that can happen to Chelsea, by far the most illustrious and most successful manager in the EPL.
Let’s be behind Scolari and let’s hope Roman stays out of the dressing room and tries to get the price of oil down.
ooppps again typos
@76 MATT Scolari’s lack of club experience (0 in england, none anywhere in the last 12 years) is worrisome, perhaps.
You need to do your homework before posting sentences like that here.The man has nearly 20 years club football experience (from 82 to 99) and won for 2 times (with diferent teams) the South American version of Champions League (Copa dos Libertadores).Wikipedia is your friend.Search there in “Luiz Felipe Scolari”.If i post the link here my comment doesn’t show up.
MY CHELSEA DREAM TEAM(4-1-3-2):
———————-cech———————–
bosingwa——carvalho—–terry————–cole
——————–essien————————-
quaresma————-lampard————-ronaldinho
———————-kaka—————————
—————————drogba/villa———–
very attacking!!!
colari Has to :Makelele,anelka,ben haim,sidwel,wright philips,pizaro/beleti/sheva=OUT
Drogba+10M=DECO+RONALDINHIO
IN=Van der vart/boulahroz return/eto/quaresma/mutinhio
Makelele is too old.anelka is not a promising forward.if chelsea want to sell lampard,sell it in up prices like 25m .if scolari sell sheva ,i cheer for philip.with the money we can bring talents in chelsea.fucking gunners are buing a young palyer every day.
@86mike
boswinga –16m
quaresma–25m
ronaldinho–17m
kaka–40m
villa-37m
=135m no way roman will dish out that much,but while we are dreaming sub out ronaldinho and put in robinho
-cech-
-bosingwa-carvalho-terry-cole-
-essien-ballack-
-quarsema-joe cole-
-drogba-villa
i think the fact that the left side and the right side are all each the same nationality playing in the same positions that they play for their countries could be pretty good (carvalho, boswingwa, quaresma // terry, cole, cole). They should begin to know each other inside out.
if drogba goes despite his latest interview, i don’t want to have to use sheva or anelka (or kalou as first team!), i’d like to buy a fast striker in the vein of eto’o, to replicate villa’s spain partnership with torres.
Chelsea defender Ricardo Carvalho has cast doubt on his future at Stamford Bridge by criticising the club’s treatment of former boss Avram Grant.
Portugal centre-back Carvalho, 30, has been linked with a move to Inter Milan to rejoin former Blues and Porto boss Jose Mourinho.
Grant was sacked less than a year after succeeding Mourinho despite leading Chelsea to the final of the Champions League for the first time and pushing Manchester United all the way in the Barclays Premier League title race.
Carvalho told the Sunday Times: ‘Avram did a great job, but they still decided to sack him. Yet after Jose Mourinho left, he picked up the team and got good results.
‘It was very cruel. He did a great job and he could have carried on, but they decided to let him go. It was very ruthless.
‘The new manager will be my third in a year, and in football you need stability if you want to be successful.’
Carvalho is leaving.
at last we have a real manager, but he is human though, i just hope the fact that he human does not stop him from seeing reasons why arrogant drogba should leave the club,Drogba really should leave!!! i also hope they dont increase lampards pay to 150grand cos he is absolutely not worth that pay.Up Chelsea,we are sure to rule if this two players leave…,Honestly they should leave.
David bently is a good player and a young english man.The next david beckham.we can buy him 10m.DAVID VILLA IS A GOOD forward but he is weak and get injured in many times.in valencia he lost his team games about 50 percent.we need eto and keep lampard and forget KAKA.Ronaldinhio and deco will come to chelsea(I HOPE SO)and with some cash and drogba will sent to barca.
Chelsea need a new revolation.A Young Chlesea.Scolari can do it very vell.Makelele need to leave.also anelka.We need a good and young replace for lampard and ballack and if deco come.in forward a 24-26 forward is good.eto/santa cruz/berbatov.sheva and drogba have to go.
poor cech today, lets hope he gets over it soon enough
cech made a bad mistake .i think his mistake put Czech out of EURO.a mistake similar against arsenal.
I think that Scolari is the right choice. Let’s hope that bring with him Quaresma.
But NO Deco!!!….he isn’t a premier league player…he’s not adapt for a phisical championship like the premier….so leave him go to Inter…but no quaresma to Inter too!!!
Quoting pandayumyum
let’s hope!!!!
Kalou will really be at a whole different level next season. When I read all this talk about how many new players we should buy, i cannot help smiling. What is the probability that these players will be able to settle in the EPL next season? I hear people suddenly wanting to ditch anelka, rating kalou (one of most consistent performers this season). others even now rate Boulha on the basis of 2 matches in euro ahead of a classy player like Belletti. How fickle are we?
chelsea does not need all these many players. just a couple of them. If Sheva nad drogs are leaving, Etoo for me ahaed of all these frail looking Villas of this world. quaresma to put Joey on his toes (cos his inconsistensy bothers some of us too much.) lastly, A midfielder who is great at holding the ball and whose passing and vision are super to step to compete with Ballack and lampard- my assumption at all times is that essien is an untouchable, no matter who comes)- who that is between deco and van der vart I cannot tell.
guys we have budding stars like Sinclair (our next robben), Kakuta (our next Zola) and the promising Franco Di santo- next season must be a conscious effort to encourage them.
That is all we need guys.
has any chelsea player scored a goal till now in euro? very poor show and now even cech joins the party….!!
bentley would be another SWP who is exceptional for his former club but cant settle in with star players around.
I hope he does not add Deco to our squad , we do not really need him with Ballack and Lampard.
Guys with so many players, particularly in midfield and attack,expected to come in I am perplexed how would manager fit in so many players and that too all stars who will not like to be benched…..
Makelele will go or will be rested for majority of games..so Essien fits the bill for his position as he attacks and tracks back also..so what will happen to Mikel and Ivanovic…
at RB we have Bosingwa,Ferriers abd Belleti..who will be played…
in MF we already have Ballck and Lampard with Deco,Ronaldinho etc rumoured to come…how will they all be adjusted…on wings Cole is sure to play but then how to decide among SWP,Kalou,Malouda and new ones…
in attackwe have already plethora of players…all stars….and new ones to come I can’t see how to adjust so many…
my ecommendations are:
offload Ferriera/Belleti,Lampard,SWP,Malouda,Sheva,Drogba,Pizzaro,Anelka…
promote at least Das Santos,Sinclair and Kakuta, for at least Carling and FA and some odd matches against weaker oppositions…
and let decide new manager whom to buy..though we definitely need to buy young established stars, though few only…
but still fear what will happen to likes of Kalou,Mikel,Ivanovic…
The squad will be 21 + 3 goalkeepers next season.
We currently have 25 + 3 keepers. So 4 players will be offloaded even if we dont buy anyone.So number of players leaving chelsea this summer should be 4 + number of players bought + number of players promoted from academy.
25 players are: Branislav Ivanovi?, Ashley Cole, Claude Makélélé, Michael Essien, Ricardo Carvalho,Andriy Shevchenko, Frank Lampard, Steve Sidwell, Joe Cole, Didier Drogba, John Obi Mikel, Michael Ballack, Claudio Pizarro, Florent Malouda, Scott Sinclair, Wayne Bridge, Paulo Ferreira, Salomon Kalou, Tal Ben Haim, Shaun Wright-Phillips, John Terry, Alex, Juliano Belletti, Nicolas Anelka, José Bosingwa
this list does not include dos santos who is playing in reserves. should get promoted this season to first team.
i think these players can be offloaded without replacement: pizzarro, ben haim, balletti, sidwell. After that new signings can be direct replacements.
cheers
Carvalho will not be leaving now that Scolari has been appointed.
Have you guys noticed Cech mistakes of latelly?
I just wonder if he needs eye examination his timing on crosses are not what used to be.
Change of g/keepr coach? maybe.
But I think he should check his eyesight.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/fixtures/default.stm
fixtures for next season…
tough opening and close for looserpools
FIXTURES OUT FOR NEXT SEASON WE HAVE PORTSMOUTH AT HOME ON THE FIRST MATCHDAY OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE
@ 107
the ball slipt. it was raining. he is still great. not as good but still great. chelsea cant sack everyone when thing are gething a bit bad.
chelsea players didint perform a good show in EURO.That show scolari has to do a great revolation.Chelsea has to defeat Portsmouth with 4 goals if they have to pick a step foR EPL .
RE: 108
After Cech’s mistake against Arsenal and after christmas Cech had his eyes tested and he now wheres contact lenses. Just because he made one mistake does not mean we need to get rid of him, he is still the best keeper in the world just look at the 2 previous games in the Euro’s.
A few weeks ago i wrote on here saying there was only one man for the chelsea job and that was Scolari, i was write. I wanted someone with huge character and passion and he has it, i cant wait to see him in charge.
Hope we give him time thats all!!!
Scoollarri…ooOOEEO…Scoollarri…ooOOEEO
F C porto to play next season the CL, UEFA declared.
Fucking gunners want podolski/villa/silva
@ 88: I’ve done my homework. I know all about his south american club experience. My post still stands. I said he had no experience in england. No club football for a decade. A decade is quite a while. I didn’t mention his SA experience because I figured it was pretty obvious and still quite irrelevant to my claims.
Who needs to do their homework?
Ballack scores in a fantastic free kick.vell done michael.
As I said before, Scolari’s age and (maybe) poor English are not problems. His lack of experience in the European club leagues is a problem. If he starts bringing in players like Ronaldinho and Deco, then I will be really worried as he should be looking to bring in young English players, especially with FIFA trying to force clubs to play 6 national players in each team. It will also look like a Pension Plan with players such as Ronaldinho and Deco past their best and Scolari himself talking more about money than the challenge. I hope for the best, maybe not fearing the worst, but certainly have a wait-and-see attitude.
we should go for Snjider instead of vander vaart because Snjider is the man who pulls the strings and makes the play for the Dutch team !! plus he has a sweet long range!!
Deco when in top form is the best #10 in europe, period.
Regarding Ronaldinho my worry is the night life in london, but if Scolari finds out expect Ronaldinho in the first train out .
we need to offload anelka and pizarro, and hopefully scheva, he should go back to italy so we can see him flourish again
as i said before, scolari is not going to use 3 central midfielders and i cant see him bringing in deco to push essien onto attacking midfield as he isn’t 100% comfortable there
the central midfield will be ballack and essien, my question is,, what will happen to the wings
i think the likelyhood would be ronaldinho, possibly even kaka but the left winger and striker is priority
in fact, cant remember who said it but our youth need a chance to play
mikel is still only 21, get rid of 35 year old makelele
scott sincalir, franco di santo, all great players with so much potential, play them!
Phil Jackson
You know?
He is one of the world’s best coach, he as wan 10 or 11 NBA titles
He spent big part of his last pregame practice (before game 5) having a chat with Mr AG
Yes yes
After he wan he was asked what did they talked about and Mr. Jackson who is apparently a football fan said they have talked about the JT penalty kick and the impressive way AG gave comfort to TJ
http://www.sport5.co.il/liga.aspx?FolderID=402
Chelsea will have a clear out in the summer now we got a manager who wants players with class and technical ability. Big Phil is gonna bring attacking football to stamford bridge and this i cant wait. I think that RA should give Phil time to express his tactic and authority on the team. As the footy that RA wants wont happen over night. On the ins and outs of the chelsea squad i expect that lots of fringe players will leave and some big players will be replaced.
Out –
Def
Belleiti-Hasnt been consistent and new RB has come in so wont play many games.
Ben Heim-The worst player to wear chelsea colours total garbage.
Med
Sidwill-Not good enough for 1st team.
Wright-Phillips-HAsnt shown enoguh in the lastfew years really inconsistent and not the winger he was once.
Moulada-No were near gd enogh he was brought in to replace Robben and he is nowere near him in terms of quality needs to leave he cant run with the ball.
Makelete-The man has been class but i think its time he left and a new revoultion started at chelsea he lost some pace and ot as gd as he was i expect Mikel to take over from him.
Lampard-This man garantees us goals but i think with him in ur team it lets us down as he hasnt got any ability to take on a player or do a pass that will leave supporters stunned. We need some flair and creactvity in his position. Also he should leave as he feels he is chelsea he should hv accepted the contract offered but now i think he can go to inter with JM.
STK
Pizzaro-He was brought in with hype but has been very dispaointing. He is slow lazy and cant score. He shows glimpses of his quality but we can tell he is cant play the englsih game.
Anelka-Brought in to score goals and 2 goals in over 20 games is rubbish for a stricker of his quality. He has been played out of position but he still should hv scored more as he had a lot of chances i recollect in his 1st 5 games. He hasnt shown any class really at chelsea and i think that the big team hype has affected him and that he should go to a middle table team.
Drogba-This guy can rip aprat a team on his day but wen he plays crap he is the worst player to hv as he doesnt do anything waste of space then. As he complains and wines and groans he should leave as he wants to be with his JM. Even though he stated he wants to stay he should leave as he will say he wants to leave later on and it will distrupt thedressing room again.
DEF
Ivanovic-should relplace Bellitti as he was brought for a large sum and is rated highly should be given an opurtunity.
Bolourouz-Should return form loan he has been gd in Euro 08 and played ok at chelsea but needed time to adapt i think. I feel he should return as he would be a better 4th choice centre bk than ben-hiem.
Richards-He should only be signed if u off load inavnvic, bolurouz, ben heim and bellitte and he would want o play and he would be gd cover. He should aslo be signed if carvalho leaves as he could leave which i hope not.
MID
Ronaldinho-Under Sclorai he could become the best player in the world again as he would hv to change his bad habbits as Big Phil will be tuf and will remove him from the team if he doesnt. Gd rpleacment for Wright-Phillips.
Kaka-Getting him would be quality and would show our intent this guy would match ronaldo in the prem thats if ronaldo dont leave. Kaka will bring class and would make us more attacking gd replacment for lampard.
Robinho-Skill full and a joy to watch his skills are wiked and he is unstobbable on his day. He can Become the best player in the world of he wants to definit signing would bring flair and skill us supporters want to see. Gd replacement for molouda.
Queresma-If we miss out on robino or ronaldinho this gut should be signed trcky and skillfull but there is doughts if he will flop with the strength of the prem.
Deco-Looks like he is coming in already with Scolari and could be a gd player for us or could be a flop due to his lack of pace gd replacement fo lampard or sidwell.
Vander Vaart-could be signed if kaka or Deco r missed out is gd and young and should bring us class and craextivity.
We need 2 central midfielders and 2 wingers to challenge for all hounours.
STK
Ibrahimovic-Two words World Class He is fantasic and scores goals for fun. Gd ith the ball in the air and has predator instincts. Can make things happen should be a number 1 target.
Eto-Scores goals for fun. Very gd player and i feel he will arrive at chelsea most likely and i cant wait to see him fire for chelsea.
Villa-Gd but will he get injured alot he is class but he has stated he dont want to come and play for us could be signed but prefer the other 2.
Benzema-Gd player gonna get better and better. I hv a daught that he could be overatted as he has been abysmol in Euro 08 but he could lighten the prem up with his goals and technique.
Adriano-This is one signing i feel chelsea should make with one or two from the baove. This man would be gd to hv as a back up and he could be in 1s team plan becuase if he hits form nobody will stop him from fireing. He is cheap and is available.
Should sign 2 big strickers for sure and should look for a bk up like adriano or they could promote Di Sonto to 1st team.
All these we will be class. Squad could be
GK-Cech, Cudicini, Hilario
DF-Bosingwa, Ferrira, Ivanovic, Terry, Carvalho(or Richards), Alex, Boulorouz, Bridge, Cole.
MD-Mikel, Ballack, Essien,Kaka,Robinho, Ronaldinho(querisma if we dont sign him or robnho), J cole, Kalou, Deco(Vander Vaart if we dont sig Deco or Kaka)
ST-Eto, Ibrahemovic, Villa Benzema(2 of these mentioned) and Adriano or Di Santo
I expect a busy summer come on CHELSEAAAAAAAAAAA tear Man Utd apart.
Great Phil has 3 years contract and its the same by TSO. And i read a today, that TSO still refers to this club as “MY Chelsea” and was rather surprised to find him defending GP´s decisions. That means he would more likely be back in stamford bridge after 3 years and bring in more talents. I feel relieved now. Future of Chelsea is bright. There may be player swaps right now, but they will be back home with more expierience in 3 years time. TSO and GP will find together a good way out….
cech is still best one mistake does not make him bad his mistakes has increased his saves are 10 times more than mistakes .no question of judging his ability
chelseas 25 players are: Branislav Ivanovic, Ashley Cole, Claude Makélélé, Michael Essien, Ricardo Carvalho,Andriy Shevchenko, Frank Lampard, Steve Sidwell, Joe Cole, Didier Drogba, John Obi Mikel, Michael Ballack, Claudio Pizarro, Florent Malouda, Scott Sinclair, Wayne Bridge, Paulo Ferreira, Salomon Kalou, Tal Ben Haim, Shaun Wright-Phillips, John Terry, Alex, Juliano Belletti, Nicolas Anelka, José Bosingwa
out: Steve Sidwell,Claudio Pizarro,Florent Malouda,Wayne Bridge,Tal Ben Haim,Juliano Belletti,Nicolas Anelka, (and drogba and lamps if they want to leave)
IN: david villa, van der vart, drenthe, barry, and bentley if swp leaves!
NO KAKA QUARESMA RONALDINHO ROBINHO. DONT KNOW WHY YOU WANT TO SE THEM IN CHELSEA.
Chelsea need to buy QUARESMA/MUTINHIO/RAKITIC/RONALDINHIO/ETO/VAN DER VAART/DAVID BENTLEY/robinhio/deco
these players are so young(except deco) and give us a bright glory
and chelsea should sell pizzaro/sheva/drogba/anelka/malouda/makelele/beleti/ben haim/sidwell.guys belive me david villa is not a striker fo EPL.In valencia he is always injured and his fee is to high 28m.eto is better .kalou will be better in next years and we will have a better drogba.
they are not that young. if we would like to get young pleyrs for the future their is alot bether ones like lulinha bojan barotelli benzema benarfa kroos aguero richards and so on but we cant buy every talented player in the world. our squad is great yust some small changes to make the team moore effective is good. quaresma mutinho ronaldinho robinho is just show off players. chelsea dont need this kind of players. they will destroy the team spirit. it will be like another real after they started to get beckahm and every hig profile player. they cant play good as a team. i rether have a strong player that can play effective than a player that only can dribble around like quaresma. gareth barry is a 100 % better player.
Another Portuguese speaking manager. not bad. although I favor Mourinho more. but still Scolari is a great coach. whats up with all these people talking about buying a lot of players? Chelsea doesn’t need to buy like 15 more players. and why even suggest Kaka, Ronaldinho, Messi, Eto’o, Ribery, Benzema, Villa, Robinho, Bentley… those players will never come and we dont need them. instead we need like 5 players: a couple midfielders back up defender and a good striker. i don’t know if we’re going to keep players such as Carvalho, Lampard or Drogba. players that defiantly need to go are Ben-Haim, Pizzaro, Ferreira, SWP, Sidwell, Anelka, and Makalele (retire). but overall our lineup is good. Cech in goal, Bosingwa rightback, J.Terry and Carvalho/Alex in centerback, and A.Cole in leftback, Essien, lampard, and Ballack in Midfield, J.Cole and Kalou on the wings and a Striker.
we need 2 young and top class striker and 2 young mid players.
focus on quaresma.remember WHEN C.RONLADO come to MAN.UT. he lost his footing and lose the ball again and again.but look at him now .the best and the most efective player in the world.we can made a new ronaldo from quresma.i think his dribling ability is better than ronaldo.ronaldinho will come back to his best in cover of PHILIP.REMEMBER HIS abilitis .he dribl all of our defender and score a fantastic goal and cech didnt move.he can do it again in chelsea.you think all of the chelsea players can play all the season.in chelsea 50 percent of them are always injured.remember this season.if we had a couple of good players in the bench like eto/ven der vaart/quresma we could win the league or CL.Are you guys getting stupid ?
Most of the old players get injured fast.Lampard/carvalhio/ballack/sheva/drogba.
ETO/VANDER VAART/RAKITIC/DECO/RONALDINHO ARE A GOOD REPLACMENT FOR THEM.
My manager: Luiz Felipe Scolari
His management team will be: Flavio Teixeira, assistant manager alongside Steve Clarke, and other staff from the Portuguese National Team including fitness coach Darlan Schneider. Medical team and Christophe Lollichon will stay.
Player of the Year will be: John Terry will be immense in defence and lead the team with his inspiring and dedicated attitude.Cech will have a injury free season and be the best keeper in the world!
Top Scorer: Didier Drogba with 27 goals
Newcomer of the Year: Adriano with 17 goals.
We will finish:
In the English Premier League: Champions
In the Champions League: Champions (vs Barca)
In the FA Cup: Final (vs Man utd)
In the Carling Cup: Final (vs Portsmouth)
This is how I will shape my squad.
Players to be released for free or top £100,000 (2-3):, Tal Ben Haim, Juliano Belletti, Claudio Pizarro,Makalele
Players I will sell (3-4): Steve Sidwell (£ 5.5m to Aston Villa),SWP, TBH
Players to be promoted: Scott Sinclair, Miroslav Stoch Di Santo and kakuta.
Players I will buy for £20m + £29.5m = £49.5m (max 4): From club / Position / Price
Ricardo Quaresma from Porto for £18m
Adriano from Inter Milan for £8m
joao moutinho from Sporting Lisbon for for £14m
Vander vaart or Wesly sneijder (my favorite)
Deigo a very good player!! very creative as well !!
etoo from
Ronnie from barca
My Squad: (22 plus goalkeepers) Cech, Cudicini, Hilario, Ashley Cole, Bridge, Terry, Carvalho, Alex, Ivanovic,Khalid Boulahrouz(as back up), Ferriera, Bosingwa, Lampard (he might leave), Ballack, Malouda (needs a second chance just like Drgoba and Essien), Essien, Mikel,J.Cole, Quaresma, Ronnie, Deigo,Anelka, Drogba, Adriano, Eto’o, kalou(should be try in his natural role as a striker)
Kalou
We will be playing: Rotation in midfield depending on the upcoming game, for example Lampard/Ballack, Essien/Mikel. In the Carling Cup, they’ll be appearances of developing players such as Sinclair, Stoch and Di Santo. But in the FA Cup we’ll be more serious due to the history of the cup, so a mix of youth and the likes of Kalou and Bridgey will start. Strongest team will play in the league games and Champions League.
My Chelsea team will play: 4-3-1-2
My starting XI for the season will be: Cech – Bosingwa, Carvalho, Terry, A.Cole – J.Cole, Essien, Quaresma – Lampard/Deigo – Adriano/Anelka, Drogba.
My Subs: Cudicini, Alex, Ivanovic, Ballack, Kalou/Stoch, Malouda/Sinclair, and Shevchenko/Eto’o/Di Santo.
@134 denver
the formation you were explaining as 4-3-1-2 is actually a 4-1-2-1-2:
—————–cech—————–
bosingwa—-carvalho—terry—cole
————-essien————–
cole————————quaresma
————-lampard—————–
——-drogba—–adriano————
i like the formation, my only concern is why two powerhorses are playing upfront together??? it should be drogba and someone like villa or etoo…..
I SEEN GERMANY VS AUSTRIA MATCH..MY GOD BALLACK’S FREE KICK WAS THUNDER….AND I DONT KNOW WHY HE IS NOT TAKING A GOOD FREE KICK FOR CHELSEA…
andrew
He isn’t getting a chance to take any FK
@132 and 133:
“ETO/VANDER VAART/RAKITIC/DECO/RONALDINHO ARE A GOOD REPLACMENT FOR THEM.”
Um, do you think these players would be happy just being possible replacements for injured players?
“You guys getting stupid?”
Think first. Post after.
Pep Gardiola wants to get rid of Ronaldinho, Deco and Eto’o. A lot of people (media etc.) are linking them with Chelsea. My argument is that if they aren’t good enough fro Barcelona, they certainly aren’t good enough for Chelsea who are the number one team, officially, in the Champions’ League. I surely hope Scolari isn’t going to surround himself with players from Spain/Portugal/Brazil because he feels comfortable with them. The only reason any player should come to Chelsea is because he is right for the team and those three mentioned above are headed for the elephants’ graveyard. RA has been linked with Ronaldinho for some time, just as he was with Shevchenko and look at that fiasco. Chelsea are not a pension plan for continental players past their prime; we had that problem once before and don’t want it again. We should be looking to sign up young English players, develop them, and then PLAY them. FIFA are trying to force a 6+5 rule and knowing how devious they are, they may well get it. If we keep signing up has-been foreign players instead of developing the youth, then we are going to go downhill no matter who the manager is.
My 2008-2009 Fantasy Chelsea
Players I will buy. I hear the budget is unlimited ! David Villa -£17 million Kaka – £55 million Ribery – £35 million Lahm – £27 million Ronaldinho – £20 million Quaresma – £25
Should we buy world class players to bench ? Couldn’t even play Sheva properly and made a mess of him.. Poor chap and are now not willing to sell him also .
Why is Drogba still here.. I thought he would be in Milan by now..
Villa to buy Steve Sidwell for 4.5 MM pounds. Good business by CFC , selling a player obtained free last year.
@136 andrew,tn,coimbatore… its because drogba is always fighting him for the ball!!
we need player who are hungry for success and want to be at our club. Not a place for place to try and regain their form, even though i would like to see Ronnie at chelsea (i dont think the blue will fit him though) I reacall him saying he would never play for chelsea, deco is too old, if we are going to replace Lampard we should get Diego!!!(Brazilian) and if we dont get him go for Sneijder then if we dont get him we should go for vander vaart. Eto’o is probably the only one i would take.
joao moutinho- should come with Big Phil instead of deco.
I think we already have a power house mid field!! (ballack Essien, Mikel, J.Cole and lampard… if he is still here) its just that we not really play pretty.
we should bring Quaresma at all cost!! and we should give malouda a second try at it and if he fails we get someone in January…
with regard to strikers.. we need a goal shark!! someone who scores them with any part of his body and someone who fits chelsea’s image(Huntalaar, Gomez even though he is not having a good euro 08,villa)
It seems scolari was already choosen as the man when mourinho left, which do make sense especially when we bought bosingwa and extended ferreira contract. So scholari has already made 3 signings – ivanovic, di santo and bosingwa.( i am not considering anelka here as he was more of a safe guard measure for last season)
so who is ivanovic gonna replace?? carvalio?terry- alex and ivanovic as back up?
bosingwa for balletti ?
di santo for ?????
Manchester United had a powerful bench and this is why they are champions and powerful.
Chelsea bench was awful this season.if we had QURESMA/van der vaart/eto we should snatch the title.In 2005/2006 season chelsea had the most powerful and expensive bench.
lampard will stay at chelsea.scolari said he need him.but we should find replacement for ballack/lampard/makelele.
hey guys do you remember eto/ronaldinho/deco in 2005 and 2006 .they were fantastic. some problems destroy them .they can return to they best in chelsea.in 2007 season ballack was awful but look at him now.he is one of the chelsea key players.jose didnt like him.but ballack improve under avram and return to his best.deco/ronaldinho/eto is like him.
Expect Italy to win the Euros, luck started with the team, in the game against Rumania and now against France.
They will beat Spain , Italy haven’t lost an official match against Spain for 88 years!!!.
@144
di santo for ballack. taller than him faster than him younger than him. and probably in the future better than him
hello BC
please share your thoughts on ronaldo transfer to real. i really appreciate your way of thinking so in any form as article or comment is ok.
my take is man utd/fergie wana cash in on ronaldos name right now. they wana pretend that they r not intended to sell to get the max price out of real and finally ronaldo will go there to real.Thats the only way they can compete with chelsea owner this season. i think of the cash they wana buy berbatov/benzema. they might have the cash also, may be ,but unlikely. whats ur say? what do you say guys?
No chance of Ronaldo leaving unless he’s so unhappy he sits out. There has to be like a 1% chance of that happening. Tabloids love the story though because it has the word “Ronaldo” and several million euros attached to it.
Why would they use the cash on forwards when they have one of the best young striking duos in Europe (Rooney/Tevez)
Some of you people are thick as sh*t and obviously dont know much about football or chelsea and many of you are glory hunting fans which is why you know nothing. For example:
148 – Ballack is a midfeilder and Di Santo is a striker so how can Di Santo replace Ballack
140 – how can Villa cost £17m and Lahm costs £27m – and why do we need lahm when we have A.Cole, Bridge and just bought Bosingwa
134 – Or as i like to call – Mistic Meg! trying to predict the whole seoson, do you know the draws for each Cup then. And why dont you add C.Ronaldo, Berbatov, Buffon and Pele to that relentless list of superstars that you want in the chelsea squad next year, be realistic.
Then theres people saying get rid of Cech because he has made a few mistakes lately – grow up! Clearly one of the best keepers in the world, if not the best.
I could honestly and seriously go on for ages i’v just picked out a few ridiculous comments from the most recently added.
Russia went to quarter .what a fantastic game but they are young and have no experience.
guus hiddink is a great manager.he made a great and attacking team.
samir nasri went to ARSENAL FC(OFFICIAL).i dont like him.so fuck him.
some of the RUSSIA players were great .
we are only focusing on buying strikers and wide players, we will probly just buy deeco centrally and thats it.
first to go
sidwell to villa . Whos next???
@ 149 Nihongo Blue
Its clear to me that Ronaldo is driven not so much by ambition but from vanity.He clearly wants to be the best and he seriously believes one way to get there is to be the most well payed footballer.
I really like him playing but like many portuguese people I think Ferguson should fulfill his threat to put him watching the games in the stands if he starts messing around like a spoiled brat about wages only one year after renegotiating his contract.
what about ashravin he is very good and intelligent even hiddinck praises he was awesome yesterday and was architect in zenits uefa cup win
Tonight , we shall see our new Portugee-speaking Brazilian manager in action…
if arshavin plays good against HOLLAND we have to buy him.he is a good and young choice.
Lampard want to play until 35 but chelsea refuse to extend his contract until next 4 years.chelsea want him only for 2 years and gave him a 130,000 per week but lampard refuse.
Hey u guys : let’s all refer to Scolari by his first name : Luis , whatcha think ?
@ 151 di santos best position is attacking midfield. he said it himself.
and i really want to se benzema in chelsea the guy is one of the best at his age. he was better than henry against italy.
@154. mcurto
“I really like him playing but like many portuguese people I think Ferguson should fulfill his threat to put him watching the games in the stands if he starts messing around like a spoiled brat about wages only one year after renegotiating his contract.”
What do you mean by this?
You have a 23 years old player, that has won everything with MU, then you have the biggest and most famous club in the world, coming for him; offering him £15 million per year after tax, I think even Alex Ferguson would be tempeted to think twice if an offer of that magnitude was offered for his managerial services.
Any player would be disturbed with such an offer. The problem is that if Real madrid wants their man they usually get him.MU is little change compare to Real Madrid in world terms, maybe they are the biggest in the UK but world wide they can not compare to Real Madrid .
@158 I think GP(Great Phil) sounds far better.
Guys, I just read that Chelsea are ready to pay 33m for Villa which no other club is ready to cough up….will it be right if Chelsea go ahead with this policy of pricing away players…we paid 21m for SWP 4 years back…14 m for Ferriera…and so on..but I think if we keep doing so then it will keep haunting us time and again with clubs blackmailing us for money…now we are certainly a big club regularly playing CL semis and need to draw a line somewhere so that in future clubs treat us at par with others…we may lose some of our target players but we need to bear it for some time if we need to be treated with respect rather than being looked upon as sugar-daddy club…
we have already put a limit on Deco’s fee at 12m and I think its a good start…
another point I want to mooot regarding players buy…clubs in Spain or Portugal or even Arsenal always scout in Latin market for young talent and hire them at 2-5 millions and very soon these players become stars in Europe…Chelsea must also start looking into Latin market and have our own Kaka,Augueros etc…may be Das Santos is the start of this trend…
Ronaldo’s pathetic, fair enough moving to madrid because you think you can do better with them but for wages?!? Footballers are meant to play for fun and because they enjoy it, they get paid enough already, If i could play for a career i’d like to be paid but it’s radiculous moving because of salary when you get paid so much already, he wont be able to spend that much money, he should play for fun not money like back in the seventies and eighties when players were payed tuppence but did it because they love football.
@ 159
are u talking about di santo or dos santos???????????
Chelsea captures ‘Kaby’…
http://sport.setanta.com/en/Sport/News/Football/2008/06/19/Premier-League-Chelsea-sign-Kaby/
franco di santo.
Kaby is a good signing. This transfer was initiated by Mourinho. He was the one who was chasing Kaby all along and finally he might arrive.
Chelsea got some top talented shcoolboys.some of them were chasing by arsenal and Man UT.specially KABY.scolari ordered to youth system to get them fast.this is a great sign from a great manager.we can see youth players play next season and i am happy.
arshavin is a great player .if he play good against holland, we have to buy him.
some reports say lampard is close on exiting chelsea.this is a bad season.scolari has to stop him .this is a bad fault from frank .chelsea offer him a 2year contract with 135,000 per week but frank told chelsea that he want a 5year contract but chelsea refused.
CFCIR: “Manchester United had a powerful bench and this is why they are champions and powerful.”
MU are prem. champions because of the backstabbing that went on in the viper pit that is the Chelsea boardroom. They are Champions League champions because JT missed a penalty and Anelka had another one of his sulks, nothing to do with a more powerful bench. Overall the benches were equal, as was most of the play throughout the season. Instead of buying in foreign youth, we should be developing English youth because sooner or later, FIFA will impose their will and those teams without national players will suffer.
chelsea have to buy Lukas podolski/Schweinsteiger/ivan rakitic.
they are young and their fee is to low.
bluebayou:if chelsea had some good players on the bench we dont draw against wigan/liverpool/pourtsmout/villa and … and we could rest our players and play the bench players.and in champions league if we had players like deco/Schweinsteiger and ..
we could done the job in the 90 minutes.yes you are right that we didnt had a luck but our bench must be powerful next season.dont act emotional bluebayou.accept that bench has a powerful effect .
lukas podolski and schweinsteiger played very vell and ballack was fantastic.he was better than C.Ronaldo and we are proud of BALLACK.Portugal defeat wasnt scolari fault.
some of the players play for them self not for the team but GERMAN players plays with team work and they were taler and win the ball in the air-combats.Bosingawa played good but not impresed and P.Feriera was awful and plays very bad .scolari must sell him.
i have been bigging up schweinsteiger for this tournament, hope scolari noticed his performance today! don’t think he could miss it
I just hope he hasnt bought quarsema already.
plus joao munthino, he missed that blinder but he’s only 20 and a national 1st teamer, that can only mean could things.
podolski doesnt play so good for bayern so we need to be careful (at least the two or three times ive seen him)
There was nothing wrong with the Chelsea bench. There was a problem with a manager who was beyond his depth, and did not understand the art of substitution, and therefore used the same players over and over. Top managers are adept at substitutions and using their squad. Weak managers rely on a select group of players because they don’t know what else to do. It is not emotional to recognise a problem. It is pandering to Man U to invest them with superhuman qualities they do not have.
bluebayou:think about that we had schweinsteiger/DECO instead of malouda/makelele in the final .in the jose days we had one of the most powerful benches on the world.
if we had that bench this year some of the key players like Ballack/lampard/drogba and .. should rest and let another players to play and they didnt tired.if we had some players on the bench even avram grant had a gold medal of CL.THINK ABOUT THIS FORMATION IN THE FINAL:
CECH
Bosingwa carvalhio terry cole
essien lampard ballack
cole Schweinsteiger
drogba
subs:podolski/eto/van der vart/mikel/cudicini
you think with this formation even with avram the game went to extra-time?
@173
Podolski is used as a sub in Bayern behind Klose and Toni. Podolski is a much better player than Anelka and was used as winger in the group stages. costs much less and needs very less time to warm up . No wonder Arsenal and Spurs are behind him..
Yesterday , Andrei Arshavin was awesome. Rather than spending 100 MM on some established players, these are the ones we have to go after.
@175
In the CL final, AG should have played 4-4-2 , with Obi as holding MF, Ferrera in the back and Essien in the middle.
Should have started with Sheva or Kalou as second striker.
@176 i thought he was in some predicament like that, rather than dodgy performances he’s just out of favour. I think i remember he impressed me when he played against bolton in some cup game where they drew 2-2.
I think next year Roman will find out that just one man can bring him trophies and that man is Jose Mourinho. Scolari cannot be as successful las Jose.
Bosingwa is going to get a bit of a shock if he thinks he can attack as freely at chelsea as he did today, so far he was a bit too much beletti (i like him but yah). Hope that was just a tactic and he can learn to stay back when needed, he was more of another winger today.
Ex-Chelsea boss Grant to manage Dutch outfit FC Twente
Former Chelsea boss Avram Grant is set to take over at Eredivisie side FC Twente.
The Israeli, 53, was sacked by the Stamford Bridge side, despite finishing runner-up in both the Premier League and Champions League.
Dutch club Twente – who finished fourth in the league and qualified for the Champions League – originally tried to lure ex-England boss Steve McClaren, but decided on Grant, according to The Sun
The difference was between Alex Ferguson, a manager I loath but respect, who had years of experience at the highest level and Avram Grant, a nice-but-dim manager, who’s experience was at a very low level. The Chelsea players nearly won both leagues, unfortunately they were failed by their manager and board. A superior manager would have taken the players he had, a squad recognised to be one of the best, some people say even the best, in the world and won at least one of those leagues. There was nothing wrong with that squad; it only took a superior manager to get the best out of it. Chop and change all you want, in the end if the person making the final decisions is not up to it, it won’t do a bit of good. You shout for power but tactics, guile and shrewdness were what were lacking, not power.
Why did Scolari use the arial route when his players were shorter ?
Long long ago JoseHoliday pointed out that Shweinsteiger was the type of player Chelsea needed…. but ….
we want lukas podolski and schweinsteiger better we can sell drogba or anelka to podolski and malouda to schweinsteiger….and ballack had a excellent tournment..
schweinsteiger out played cr7..but i can see both are excellent wingers..
The problem with the Portugese team ,in my opinion, is that they don’t have the muscle which in European football is very important now.
I guess to win trophies on a regular basis you need :
1. Muscle and power
2. Skill and tactics
3. Money & Talent & creativity
4. Personality & the will / drive to win
5. Leadership & management
6. Luck (to a certain extent)
(hope I didn’t sound like a school tecaher )
JM had most of the most of the boxes ticked and he brought us glory !
I hope Big Phil preparing well in the coming weeks and do well too next year.
Chin up Big Phil ! we’re behind you (but with little niggling fears of course )
Michael Ballack Goal was foul. stupid ferriera made a bad mistake.i think all the three goals was ricardos mistakes.
Diogo Luis Santo is a 21 year/1.82 m striker.a young talent that arsene wenger is behind him.what do you think about him.
Joa Mutinhio ise a great player.he is intelligent and works good with bosingwa.he is a powerful play maker and young.scolari has to bring him to chelsea.
Do you think the fee of frank lampard is 6/6M ?INTER OFFER HIM THIS CONTRACT.THEN CHELSEA IN 2006 OFFER MILAN 30M FOR SHEVA,A 30 YEARS OLD GOAL SCORER.
SA Fergusen preparing an offer for van der vart.we must get van der vart first.
I maintain that scolari is too clever to offload a quality player like belleti. why will ant good manager get rid of such a talenter player. Bosingwa is great at defending- bel is better at attacking- those two should go ahead of paulo for me. bel can also be great utility- midfield, right wing what have you.
Hello Scolari,i wish u could bring LULINHA to chelsea fc
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