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hi scolari my name is balack! i will be playing for u!! HAHA

@BC

Just out of curiosity,you hae started supporting inter from this season or before.
Will be glad to know that atleast in italy and spain i support barca and milan.

not kicking portugal but pushing ferriera.. i am not sure how riccy, ferriera , bosigngwa and most importantly scholari are going to take it. riccy atleast now has a ready made excuse of going to inter saying this.

I´ve never seen such a lucky team as Türkey ever in my life….They show passion only when they are a goal down and manage somehow to come over it, even if only few seconds are left….haha, really feel sorry for you Croatians….

Hey IwasMissingJose

You never seen a team as lucky as Turkey ? I have… LOL …Chelsea …last year and Turkey’s luck is gonna run out like CFC’s too .

why blaming scholari for defeat and i will like to ask @3 that loses 2 games in a row should be sacked then no one will be willing to manage us again we will 5 managers a season and all superstARS WILL leave no will want to join chelsea. scolari is agreat manager very great may be not as great as jose but 10000 times than stupid grant and he won south american version of championsleague 2 won world cup with a brazilian team that was even struggling to qualify took portugal that had not reached semifinal for years to a final and semi .lets face it germany were a better team and it our ferriera fault not scolaris .he will be a success at chelsea waiting for the season o start and hoping to end united reign

Ivan Rakitic is one of the croatia team.He is young and fast.20 years old not good enough.Luka modric is the best Mid in the EURO.EVEN BETTER THAN BALLACK AND VAN DER VART BUT WE LOST HIM TO SPURS.

Milan and Juventus have their history of cheating and corruption, and Roma have their own of ultra-violence although it appears to have improved in recent years.

I hope Germany obliviate the Turks. Any team that has led for two and a half minutes over four matches and still reaches the semi-final of such a prestigious competition takes luck to a new extreme, more so than we did over the 06/07 season with all the late winners, perhaps even more so than Liverpool in the Champions League final in Istanbul. Now half of their players are suspended or injured, Turkey’s luck has run out. There’s no way they will get past Michael Ballack and co. Croatia paid for their missed chances, and Germany will be deserved finalists for learning from their mistakes.

Italy barely survived their group and yet I have a feeling that they will reach the semis also. Spain are the only team that can stop Holland other than Germany, I think, but Italy will somehow get past them.

If it turned to be a Germany vs. Holland final, I wouldn’t be disappointed whichever side won.

@JoseHoliday

You never seen a team as lucky as Turkey ? I have… LOL …Chelsea …last year and Turkey’s luck is gonna run out like CFC’s too .

were you having a dig at jose’s chelsea last minute equalisers?………can you appreciate your dig at yourselves………i can

@BC
On the contrary i have never liked inter[not caus jose is manager now]…………they are one of the most underperforming teams who spend money,play shit and their results are even more shit……….there three titles are won more or less by default and that muppet moratti sacked their most successful manager[lol].
though have to admit i like the jersey and the youtube superstar zlatan and adriano[though no longer the same].
it will be interesting to see for how long jose will be able to survive there

Slaven Bilic is next jose mourinhi.he is intelligent and his celebration is too funny.i like him .we must bring him to chelsea in 2013.

@BC
Just read your report about Germany v Portugal and sure sure you must have watched a different game.
To start with portugal had the very first opportunities of goal, even Moutinho had one sitter.
Then Portugal lost Moutinho through injury, when he started dominating the his side of midfield, a blow to Portugal and scolari thats for the first time he didnt even had a B plan, so sure was him that Portugal is far superior to Germany, in my opinion I agree .
Then in a counter attacke the Germans scored a typicall portuguese goal.
The secon german goal came from a free kick that the same fault was done by ballack on their progression, but typically of UEFA to save the financial success of the tournament referees go in favour of the host or tyhe hosts’ neighbours.
You see an Italy v Germany final will defenetely be a bigger success than a Portugal v Spain, for the mere fact that less distance to drive.
So honestly I do not understand your comments, truth may be told , I only read your first paragraph. In my opinion there is no coubt that the best team so far is Holland, followed by Portugal (gone) and Spain.
Spain has no chance against italy and we will see the same favoured refereeing towards italy that we saw with Germany.
Germany as a team play well as they always played as team, against Portugal, and watch the highlights in BBC interactive, played deffensivelly always 10 men behind the ball, in another words it is easier to destroy that to build. Everytime Ronaldo had the ball 3/4 germans players surrounded him, even if you are superman, eventually yyou capitulate. £rd goal of Germany was a foul, but conveniently the refferee and the linesman never saw, pity that the commentators immediately saw it and so did Scolari.
Yes Germany has some players above the average like Ballack, a sly and dirty player, has always been even in the last World cup and the last euro cup, saying that has a technic well above the other german robots. Lahm has a spanish newspaper put it is like a robot, runs 100 metres prob under 10 secs and a good foot.
Anyway pls watch the high ligts and read the stats and tell me who had the most possession, the most corners, the least fouls, but also tell me who had the most luck.
Germany in the last 15 minutes of the game were shit scared, we only had to watch them embrace after the end of the game to see that they believed they won the cup.
Between Portugal and Germany there is a gulf in skill, technic and good players as big as the grand canyon(metaphoricacly speaking). Do not worry it will be an Italy v germany final brings far mor euros than pounds lol.
I could go on but better leave it .

24@CM,

Hi, I’m Richard and I’m not a fan of both Portugal and Germany. Indeed I wanted Portugal to win it against Germany so either my favourite team Holland or Spain can go one-on-one with Portugal in the final and I bet it will be one hell of a Showdown of skills and speeds. To be fair, almost the whole world populations are watching EURO 2008 and everyone knows that Germany won the game because of the “immeasurable” statistics. Statistics that you mentioned are measureable. Total shots on target, corners, shots wide, passing…but there are things people could not measured with numbers, the quality of players as ONE UNIT and the QUALITY TO WIN. Talking about Ballack’s goal, which I myself think it was unfair, but the fact is, this is football and its been part of the game since Maradonna’s Hand of God. I was wondering after the match, regardless of Ballack’s 3rd and decisive goal… Germany did really give one hell of a match after they were leading 2-0. Why not Portugal leading if they have all the quality individual players? If you can answer this, than maybe it is WORTH to ASK about Ballack’s goal. Just look at our Chelsea team in Champions League final, we have the statistics, we also have the Qualities, Manure too have both but our match statistics are higher, but then, we lose the game on lottery. If Chelsea needed to win with qualities, we need to have more HIGHER quality players that can shutdown Ronaldo or players alike from being able to score the One goal, and then we need the higher quality players who can break down Manure tight and disciplined defenders. We need a higher quality Chelsea team that do not depend on penalties or luck to win each games.

Arshavin is a great player.even better than cole.chelsea has to buy him.

russia won…. bring their no 10…. he is awesome and want to leave zenit

chelsea need a great winger.arshavin is the best player that we can have him.

Rusia beat Holland????? WTF??!!

24@CM, I’m afraid all the best team that you have mentioned is going out including my favourite team…

Holland, Portugal and Spain…now only left Spain and hopefully they will beat Italy. But I am just afraid of the scary facts that I have just noticed…

1-Germany, Turkey and Rusia are all second placed in Group Stage – win the Quarterfinal
2-Portugal, Holland and Croatia are all winners in Group stage – Lose in quarterfinal, out of EURO 2008 race
3-All Portugal, Holland and Croatia, after won first 2 group stage matches, they rested their first team players on the last group stage game – which maybe disrupted their current good form because of too much rest. There are difference between a fresh player(after 2 good win) and players who are forced to continue working hard to fight for 2nd position and a place in the quarterfinals.

bluechampion ypur prediction is amazing….and who is going to win euro2008 any prediction?

i hope that arshavin comes to chelsea

@BC

I am interested in knowing what you make of these

1.carvalho openly critisising club for sacking grant.
2.michael essien openly saying “we don’t play good football”
3.mourinho saying roman doesn’t have a family in football business and moratti breathes football[pathetic escpecially as roman is an orphan]

i m sure you will let me know[but then you can justify "no eggs no omelettes"]

I hardly say this about any players that RA wants to get, but I really want Arshavin and Pavlyuchenko in our squad

out:makelele/sidwel/wright philips/anelka
in :mutinhio/arshavin/rakitic/eto

check out my blog!

http://www.thechelseafcblog.blogspot.com

go germany go…………….crush the turks.

Schweinsteiger admits his love 2 play in england
mayb we cud swap ballack for him

MATT:I am sorry.but i am sayin deco and van der vart are good players but arshavin and racitic are younger and better than them.after all i am not only watching their game in euro.i follow them in shalke 04 and zenit,specialy arshavin.SO BE CAREFUL WHAT ARE SAYING MATT.Last year we follow players like F.Torres and C.Tevez .but chelsea fc forget them and their go to ManUT AND liverpool and scored goal against us.do you like arshavin and van der vart join Man ut and arsenal and score goal against us?do you like manchester united and arsenals laugh to us again?i said we must bring some of thees players to chelsea(deco/van der vaart/arshavin/eto/…..).who do you suggest to bring in chelsea?

spain and italy are playing like shit. its the most unexciting quarterfinal match i have ever seen….

Big Phil is interested in going for Schweinsteiger!!!

hey guys did you think about that avram grant bring shevchenko in moscow final instead of anelka.then sheva could took that penalty instead of john terry.do you think he could goal that penalty like what he did in 2003 oldtrafford final?

@57 – AG should have played Sheva after 60 mins. He scored a goal, just a week back. Anyway no point in discussing now that is all over

Schweinstager actually would be an incredibly good pick for chelsea, I think. He just switched from the center midfield to wing this year (swapped with Ze Roberto) and he’s been… okay. He may be in need of a change of setting and teammates to bring him to form, as he obviously has done well at Euro 2008 and of course he wouldn’t mind pairing with Ballack.

The main problem I have with the names many people list here is that they aren’t physical enough for the English game or don’t fit into Chelsea’s style at all. Schweinstager is strong and fast and has a heck of a boot. I think he fits Chelsea’s style of play, whereas people like Arashavin and Villa do not.

Although that I love Felipe I miss Mourinho in Chelsea.
I’m brazilian, but I don’t see with good eyes Felipe, I hope that Felipe makes as he did on 2002 World Championship: with no credit..to win…Nobody is will better than Mourinho did…
That’s why from this season, I’ll also support Inter…

i don´t think players like Philip lahm or schweinsteiger will ever leave germany, unless they get 30 like ballack….

Philip Lahm and Schweinsteiger could probably leave Bayern because they want to compete in Champions League and if posisble reach the final. I think that he will feel that Bayern is still not capable yet in this competition as long Chelsea, Manure, Loserpool and Arse-nal still have the X-factor to conquer Champions League. See, Bayern even lose to st Zenith Petersburg (Russian club) in UEFA Cup. Comparing Arshavin and Schweinsteiger to strengthen up Chelsea, I personally prefer Schweinsteiger coz he has the pace and strength even not as skillful as Arshavin but to be able to go up againts opponents especially from English Club is important. I believe Chelsea attack from the flanks will be strengthen up and will be more dangerous and have more options to attack. Chelsea will be dangerous from the middle and also the flank.

It seems a lot of Chelsea fans’ eyes will be on the Italian championship this year.
It’s as if the bugger, RA has a horse running in that race too !

And Bastian Swein …..er… can’t be worse than SWP but he looks a lot more rugged and menacing than the little bloke… Well it just is a reminder of AG’s year at the CFC helm … that he just couldn’t afford to let players grow or improve or become part of the team…. Whatever people said about JM …. they can’t say he didn’t give Sheva and SWP and Mikel a chance ……

haha podolski better than villa?!

mikel is only 21 and already one of the better CM/DM players in the PL. Sure he has a tendancy to get cards and loses the ball a little easily sometimes but he makes up for it by being a mini-makelele, you might even call him mikelele. His ability to win the ball and harass attackers is very good. If he was playing for a lower level side with less strong central-midfielders like liverpool(just kidding maschareno is awesome) he might of had more games but as he is now he cant overtake essien and ballack for those midfield positions, he will probably replace maka this season.
Hopefully scolari doesnt go overboard, we only really need 1 Attacking mid and a striker unless we have a mass exodus, perhaps try for eto’o and VDV or adriano and deco cause scolari will want ppl he cant talk too.

Sorry BC I cant believe that luck will strike 3 times. I will go for spain to beat Germany. First Spain must pass a very improved Russia team, what i think it will happen tomorow.

@BC
Look at the stats on Germany games.
Germany has not played a convincing win so far, particul;arly after the group qualifications. Against Portugal, they got a portuguese team that played their worst match in the Euro, with probably with the best defense in the tournement, but in that particular game was unrecognisable. Every team in any tournement has a bad game Porttugal had it against Germany, even so Portugal outplayed Germany.
Against Turkey, gee Turkey could be 2-1 or 3-1 after the first 45 minutes and Turkey was all over Germany, yes they took their chances and won. As Lineker used to say football is a game of 11 v 11 and Germany wins. Germany has 3 or 4 good players but even Ballack is not a playmaker in the mould of a Deco or Cesc, a good player in good form for the last 3 months, but I do not think if they play Spain or for that matter even Russia that they will win it. We will see .

some guys seems to come out with mindblowing ideas that germany win through luck and teams like portugal win through hardship. and states portugal had a bad game with germany. Well just guess the standard of the team who can afford to have bad game in quarter finals? and they point finger at the team who make it to semi-finals and finals again and again? well portugal got to euro finals last time just because of luck, and germany won yesterday despite having a bad luck. so which one is better?

well said MoE, i agree to you almost all that you said above.

why don´t you use gravatar stuff. here´s a nice pic of MoE if you are simpsons fan…

http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.simpsonstrivia.com.ar/simpsons-photos/wallpapers/moe-szyslak.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.simpsonstrivia.com.ar/wallpapers/moe-szyslak-wallpaper.htm&h=768&w=1024&sz=84&hl=de&start=10&um=1&tbnid=0cL1P_H16Vc9XM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmoe%26ndsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dde%26sa%3DN

@79
Waht u talking about?
Every team in any tournement has a bad game, Germany had it against Croatia, Portugal against Geremany, Spain has not hat yet, I just hope it won’t be in the final.
Germany is a good tesam, thats all with an incredible work rate and will to win, but this time I hope and expect Spain wipe them. There were and are far better teams than Germany in this tournement but in any competition you need luck and twice Germany had it time to pay for it .
Spain 3 Germany 1.
Spain won’t make the mistakes that the Portuguese deffence did .

on june 6 i predicted a Germany – Spain final and Germany win 2:0 Klose/Ballack and Ballack to be the best player of the tournament ..

BTW:Despite good or bad performances most teams in these finals are somewhat balanced and its that little bit of luck (or lack of it) that makes the diference.Either in penaltys or if like Germany the refereed misses the push Balack gives on Ferreira to get a clean header for goal.

Pinky and the Brain.

One is a genius and the other’s insane.

You decide.

Cheers!

@87 Oh my god you are awesome how did you do that, please tell?

Lampard signed for Inter @ 9MM Euros

If lamps is truly gone, i want to express deep gratitude for brilliant service rendered to the blue flag. We wish him well under the blue/black flag (can’t be the same though- blue is royalty). Now we need to unleash the bison- lamp’s presence has been the main reason essien was largely kept in a defensive midfield role. Essien now must fully revert to the Lyon days when he was a constant terror of back lines just behind the lyon forwards. keeping essien in a defensive role is so counterproductive- how can such energy, thrust, power be wasted? Between Van der Vaart and deco, who do i prefer? I don’t know, but if both scolari and jose want deco, then the guy must have something great. Besides, off pitch, the portuguese speaking contingent might make deco settle faster. so deco shades it for me.

@Nick

VDV has 1 goal in 2 games ration in bundesliga and ballak got 9 goals without playing half season and without being a first choice penalty taker.
Deco won’t score 20 but he will make sure that our forwards like sheva,kalou and anelka score 20 goals and same is the case with ballak and vdv

Departure of lamps could be the end of an era and the beginning of a new phase- a new phase which combines the old solidity and winning mentality with a new more liberated but still ruthlessly efficient style. our midfield approach could certainly be stepped up to enable much more movement, and less predictability resulting in goals from many more different angles. look at it this way- henry’s departure far from killing arsenal, rather liberated the team and brought so much out of every one. it is for this reason that the departure of lamps and selfish (Drogs) wil not sadden me. Great guys they are and great service they have rendered- but we can still open new vistas without them, i believe.

Hi guys..

Why isnt ANY CLUB APPROACHING DROGBA????????????????????..DROGBA PLEASE LEAVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

BC..London..Stamford Bridge..WOW…

Lampard In Milan To Complete Inter Switch *-)

http://www.goal.com/en/articolo.aspx?contenutoid=754960

although spain are scoring, you forget their defence isn’t particularly tight, in fact, very unorganised, they are missing their right wingers which is showing as they lose dynamism on the right flank, its going to be a good game and could quite easily go either way, my heart and head both say Germany on this one, an experienced team with a good mix of youth, not too extravagant and better in front of goal. I’d be looking for a big game and the key match ups being central midfield, particularly ballack (if he is available) and fabregas as those key passes and their timings unlock the attack for both sides. The Germans like being in the box alot and that will cause Spain problems, I see a 3-2 to Germany in extra time.

I think losing lampard is the best option to move foward
in order to change formation, we need a 4 man midfield and although lampard is gifted with passing and shooting, he does not have pace or dribbling for the flank and he isn’t brilliant defnsively, essien and ballack are both well balanced and will work very nicely behind what i would hope to see two gifted wingers and another 2 strikers

I’m curious to see what is going through the heads of other CFC supporters on who the club should purchase come the transfer period. Don’t be shy to voice to opionions.

Why is it that Chelsea (CFC)is considered to be an ordinary club.

Like, lets say a Newcastle Utd or say a very wealthy Pourtsmouth?

Instead of being the club that every football player wants to be apart of and at least have writeen on one of their pages in the diary of their careers that they at least played a single or even just were lucky enough to make an appearance during a match for Chelsea FC (The blues).

Is’nt Chelsea FC more wealthier than Madrid at the very least?

And I can really honestly see Chelsea FC becoming instantly more prestigious than Madrid if the PR Department played their part.

Who would you prefer to play (make a career) for Chelsea FC or Madrid FC?

And if you say chose the latter who is to blame for that decision?

Mr Abromavich or the next best man (the club’s face or identity man). AC Milan has Silvio Berlusconi. Their billionaire owner making noise through the media.

Real Madrid has Ramon Calderon. Their vice-presdient.

And liverpool has the manger Rafa Benetiz playing the transfer market.

And Chelsea FC (CFC) has no one at the moment. Mr Abromavich gives many football supporters the idea that he (Abromavich) hasn’t got a clue as to how to run a football club professionally and succesfully!

It’s as though he has a loaded six-shooter with one bullet cocked in one of his hands and the barrel is spinning round and round and by some stroke of luck Mr. Abromavich manages to not shoot himself in the head. Instead the foot.

I can’t get this bit out of my head?

Why is Mr. Abromavich recieving advice from Fabio Capello instead of listening to what the board-members have to say. I think Mr. Abromavich is insulting the board.

Who are paid professionals by the way.

Chelsea FC needs to file out those dents and should consider getting a paint job.

Chelsea FC needs a change of attitude and a brand new mindset. The club started off so well in 2003 by putting their money where there mouths were are and buying players and upgrading their training facilities and percevering in getting the best manager and coaches and support staff etc.

But this blue revolution has lost most of its steam thanks to one man in particular. That one idiot is Frank Arsenen. That one man who singularly destroyed Mr. Abromavich’s dream of making Chelsea FC a hit, lets say like a number one music single track played on the every radio station around the world and in a football sense a football team watched by millions and if not at the very least a billion around the world sit up and admire the beginning of something special.

A Championship team to rival all other teams. Period.

If Mr. Abromavich loves his beloved Chelsea FC so much and wants to make at least some money out of Chelsea FC (CFC) then the best thing that he can or could do is to retire and let another money man with at least some football business sense take over and run the club.

Cheers

I correctly predicted that Spain would win Euro 2008 Championship.

One shouldn’t predict a winner and loser. You can’t predict which player is going to slip up and give away the goal and which player is going to take x chance and score that goal.

It’s like playing the lottery.

Cheers

As predicted Germany could not be 3 times lucky.
Spain outclassed and outplayed them , Casillas did not have one save that you can call a real save.
Germany is a good organised team, their most outstanding fixture, but they are not as good as some other teams, where real technic and skill prevails.

@112

I don’t think that Chelsea FC neccesarily needs a spokesperson.

Chelsea FC is a terrific club but the cirucs must stop.

Who goes and asks Fabio Capello for advice, the CFC might as well as just kept Jose Mourinho.

No chelsea player got a single winners medal whole season and the last hope also gone with ballack and germany comfortably beaten by spain. Apart from the 5-10 min spell in between germany never looked like scoring any time. Strikers were pathetic and what was kuryani subbed for??? getting offside, fouls… anelka in disguise.

barcelona midfield of xavi and iniesta rocks really. True playmakers. torres is very fortunate striker to play in front of such a midfield.

I think purtugal will be cursing themselves and our chelsea star ferreira(may be ballack too) else it could have been easiest of euro for them to win. bad bad mistakes in the quarter final.. one too many..just what they needed was a win against germany.

Maybe Herr Ballack is jinxing us , I’m not usually one to be superstitious but the man seems to be jinxed when it comes to finals…… and in football we can never underestimate luck… and even Mr Lucky Strike : AG’s luck, couldn’t counter Ballack’s bad luck…..
and JM had to leave when Ballack arrived too….

I know I am not logical…. and what I’ve written maybe stupid ….. but RA ain’t really logical or or super-intelligent concerning footy matters all the time either…

LAMPARD HAS NOT DENYED ANY INTER RUMOURS!!!!
http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=757638

122@ i think yes cos if Lamps stay i dont think how we gonna play with all these midfielders .. Mikel,Makelele,Ballack,Lampard,Deco,Essien

you’d be silly not to be excited about the coming of such a class player as deco, i wouldn’t have bought him but it’s still pretty cool and something to look forward to.

@121 CM – And you’re leaving out the red card the referee should have given to Lehmann late in the game when he punched the ball outside the box effectively denying Spain the second goal .

what number do you think deco will get?? he is 30 yes but he is a direct replacement for lampard, meaning he will be a every present force in mid field and lets face it he is a hell of a lot more creative than lampard!

14, 16, 19, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32 are all possibilities.

Finally, we have a real playmaker. And we’ll actually be dangerous from free-kicks now. If we didn’t have a couple of Alex scorchers last year, we would have been the most pitiful team from set plays in all of Europe. But now we have a true master of the dead balls.
A better replacement for Lampard than Deco is hard to find.
I hope he won’t be a replacement, though.

JoseH@ 137, BP for Big Phil????? Man you have made laugh again till my sides hurt. BP? as in blood pressure???

Anyway, am glad about Deco. I predicted @97 above that since both scolari and jose want deco, then the guy must have something great. Besides, off pitch, the portuguese speaking contingent might make deco settle faster. so deco shades it for me. The guy is a creative player- and having one just behind guys like aneka, kalou and sheva who all love lots of movememts will be excellent.

with big players come big egoes. Its good so sign in few big players, but when the entire squad is filled with big players, there will be a lot of disharmony, scuffles and lack of coordination during the game. I hope chelsea will buy players who would be faithful and obident to GP (great phil?)

makelele must leave chelsea .he raise chelsea year average.then :sidwell/SWP/pizaro/ben haim/

Churchill, Kalou won’t be going anywhere… He was instrumental for long stretches last year, being our most consistent scorer for a long time. And Joey is Chelsea through and through, he was born to play for us, and won’t be going anywhere either.
I’m not so sure I want Makelele to leave. Last year he was a titan in the Champions League, and he’s a very, very good player still. Can Mikel and/or Essien cover for him? I’m sure they can, but I’m not sure they have such and advantage with his great experience. He is nearly 84 years old…
Anyways, I think in such a strong team as this, I’d love to see us play with somewhat of a 4-2-3-1:
———Cech———-
Bosingwa-Terry-Alex-Cole
—-Essien–Lampard—-
—–Ballack–Joey—–
———-Deco———
———Drogba——–
That attacking team would be monstrous!

—————Cech—————-
Bosingwa—JT—–Carvalho–A.Cole-
—————Essien————–
——–Lampard——————–
J.Cole——————-Robinho—
————-Sheva—————–

Big Phil used this formation for Portugal for almost all their games

chelsea only need a topclass and young striker.
anelka and pizzaro must leave.

Whoever it is we need to offload a midfielder + Makelele, if we dont i have a feeling Deco will be warming the bench next season and if Robinho’s brought in and we play with 2 wingers + 2 strikers then probably offload another midfielder because 6 class players for 2 positions will probably leave 1 or 2 of them out of the squad which isnt good.

As a striker is concerned i think that we should throw drogba into the trash and get rid of the hopeless Pizzaro and the “try hard fail easy” Anelka. After that we need either one class striker. Kalou is consistent but is still young so shouldnt start all the time, if Shevchenko doesnt show any promise in the first few games then i would give up hope on him completely which is a shame, we then can also have another class striker who will score goals consistently and drag the team through tough times. If it isnt working by January then we can get another class striker to help but we also have di santo who can come through the ranks.

In my opinion Deco wasnt a great signing, we didnt really need him and have plenty of midfielders that can play in the role he has but i guess Scolari wants him for that “Flare” and “beautiful football” aspect but personally i would prefer VDV, havent really seen much of Diego so i dont know.

I DONT want fatty (Ronaldinho), hes way past it and he wont be able to loose that mass amount of weight on him before the start of the season im sure. Robinho will be a good choice, he can play on the wing and can play as a second striker which is what we need at the moment, he can get balls in the box, get past defenders and has the prospect to score lots of goals.

As far as any other transfers i dont think we need it, we have a great squad already, even if Riccy goes we still have Alex and Ivanovic, if anything we need a cut down on the squad.

Outs – TBH, Ferreira, Belleti, Makelele, Lampard?, Anelka, Pizzaro, Sidwell, Drogba

CM@ 150, No one can silence Jose because he will remain a Chelsea legend forever and he will always be loved by most of us Blue fans. Zola is forever loved- jose will similarly be forever loved.

Having said that, i believe Big P (Jose Holiday, I think this sounds less gloomy than BP)is definitely the man to take us to another level. Jose has laid the necessary foundations (the winning pedigree and self belief) for scolari to build a splendid outfit upon.

Who should come and who should Go? I leave it all to Big P. He knows where he wants to take us and knows how to reach there. Anelka must stay at all cost. Guys, blame not Nico but blame the clown who spend 15 m on a great player and still was to fearful to play a 4-4-2 that would have accomodated both he and sheva. give Nico match after match and he will surely deliver- the guy has nothing to prove in the EPL, for crying out loud.

Holland choked, Turkey rose as high as they could, hurah to Spain.
Now, what’s up with the Robinho rumor of him comming to Chelsea? Is Real that desperate for Ronaldo that they would get rid of a fine young striker like that? Imagine a defender fearing Drogs running over him or Robinho dancing him down? This could be very interesting!

——————-Cech——————
—Bosingwa—TErry—Carvalho—A.Cole—
———–Essien—–lampard————-
—robinho——–Deco/ballack———–ronaldinho—-
—————–—Drogba——————–

this my formation!!! lampard can spray the passes every where across the pitch.

@155 you dump joe cole? wow.

see, the thing is, i don’t think mourinho really wanted deco, now he is free from abramovich, he can start buying young talent.
Scolari has brought deco in for his passing, Lampard can pass very well, but also very simply, he is a hard hitter, he doesn’t put the kind of bend on the ball that deco can, at the same time, deco is not going to enjoy the premier league, he is going to get roughed up alot. Im hoping Lampard will stay for at least this season as Deco should not start but is a useful option, he will help push Drogba foward and with the support of robinho alongside him, we should see a better goal tally. I hope that we will see the arrival of ronaldinho and a left winger and that will really get us scoring more goals playing a more attractive style. I am very worried about our rightback situation, bosingwa provides a presence but really would not do anything for my nerves, watching Portugal was very off putting

@157. cap123 i love that formation… but i would add robhino to rotate with joe cole. drogba or malouda wont be here because big fhil does not want them so im guessing a formation like this:
————–cech————–
—-bosingwa-JT-Riccy-Ashley—-
———Essien—Deco———-
-Joey Cole/robhino————Schweinsteiger-
————–Ballack————
—————Eto’o————-

subs: Carlo, ivanovic Alex, (Alcides), kalou, Anelka Di Santo, Sinclair

we can also replace drogba with Roman Pavlyuchenko… because Roman wants at least one Russian in the squad

@163
deco is not a striker
just check how many goals he has set up for the strikers
he is a complete playmaker

GUYS, A ZENIT SOURCE HAS REVEALED THAT ARSHAVIN IS COMING TO LONDON TO COMPLETE A MEDICAL!!! HE SAYS THAT CHELSEA AND ZENIT HAVE AGREED A DEAL!!!

http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=761127

i guess Asravin is on his way to Chelsea. we have more than enough midfielders now. its time to sign in some strikers.

arshavin likes to play just behind the striker i think, a second striker/ attacking midfielder like where i put ballack in my formation, i think thats a good signing if he plays there, but if scolari intends for him top plkay further back we may have a bit of trouble. maybe he’ll play on the left, am i wrong in thinking he played there in a game for the russians?

I’m back out of the big house.

This is my Chelsea CFC team.

For the year 2008-2009!

Goalkeepers:(1)Cech(2)Gordan(3)Schiemikel

Right-back:(1)Sergio Ramos(2)Johnson

Centre-back:(1)Terry(2)Carvaliho(3)Alex(4)Ben Haim

Left-back:(1)Bale(2)Riise

(R)Sam Hutchinson

Right-midfield:(1)Cole(2)Taraadt

Centre-midfield:(1)Lampard(2)Gerrard(3)Babbel(4)Pavlyuchenko(5)Gelsen Fernandes(6)Mikel

Left-midfield:(1)Gamst(2)kalou

(R)Steve Sidwell/Scott Sinclair

Forward:(1)Messi(2)Robiniho(3)Van Persie(4)Bent

(R)Adriano

Please put out the players that you think that the club should purchase in order to assist the club.

Scolari will bring whoever he wants- one unsung guy that i can bet will shock everyone and get a regular starting shirt is KALOU. Watch out for that boy guys. he does much more for us than we give him credit for. we talk a lot about joey, but on a consistent basis kalou shades it ahead of Joey.

and pls, no matter what we do, we should not waste essien in a defensive midfield role- that guy has too much coming forward so we shoild hope he is given more opportunity to drive the team forward with his boundless energy and fighting spirit

This will proberbly be our team next season, Scolari played 4-3-3 for ages so I dont expect that to change.

—————-Cech————–
——–JT———–Carvalho—–
Bosingwa———————Ash–
————–Essien————–
——Lampard——–Ballack——
———————————-
Joey Cole—————Arshavin–
————Sheva—————–

The 4-3-3 formation used by Grant must be abandoned by scolari- it only wastes our strikers. Whats the point spending so much on strikers only to keep them on the bench? 4-4-2 or at worst 4-2-1-1 must be the way forward- and to achieve that, Essien must be given midfied duties nearer the right wing so that he can combine right wing play (where he naturally excels) with midfield role. Of course the attacking prowess of boswinga as shown during euro should facilitate that.

Operating on the assumption that lamps and Drogs leave and robinho and arshavin and etoo arrive (not far fatched) i will opt for something like-

———————–Cech——————

—Bosingwa—-Riccy————Terry—-Cole

—-Essien———–Deco———Ballack

—————Robinho/Arshavin/Kalou/Joey———–

—————-Etoo/Sheva/Anelka

OR

——————————Cech——————

————-Bosingwa—-Riccy————Terry—-Cole

———–Essien———–Deco———Ballack

——–Etoo/Anelka/Sheva——Robinho/Arshavin/Kalou/Joey

we need to sell:
benhaim(we’ve got ivanovic,alex and alcides)
sidwell(not gd enough for chelsea,arrival of deco, and possibly other players)
anelka(he plays without energy….no fighting spirit)
drogba(he’s very gd but he whines,moans and playact alot)
belleti(i personally don’t want him to leave but bosingwa and scolari arrive so i think ferriera is more favoured)
swp(nt creative enough)

unsure list:pizarro( he asked for a chance to prove himself..should scolari give him a chance since he scored alot for bayern munich)
malouda( should chelsea sell him onli aft a few seasons?)

players we should buy:
Robinho(replace swp)
eto/pavylchenko/villa(replace drogba)
players unsure of buying:
ronaldinhO(can provide creativity but too fat?)
arshavin(y do we need him if we have robinho)

———————–Cech——————

———Bosingwa——Riccy—————Terry——-Cole——-

——-Essien———–Deco—–

——Robinho/Joey———–Bastian/Malouda——-

——-Ballack/Arshavin ——-

———-Eto’o/Pavylchenko/Huntallar/———

subs: Carlo Anelka,Kalou,Alex,Ivanovic,MikelAlcides,

Is this a strong team????

Bored stiff cos no futbol !

CANT WAIT FOR MORE UPDATES ON TRANSFER!!!!!!!!!!!111C’MON SCOLARI, MAKE YOUR MOVES….ROBINHO AND A TOP CLASS STRIKER SHOULD BE OUR TARGET NW

sorry i meant ballack can help split defences open and can help assist the attackers****

Ahem… DECO
BELLETTI
ETO’O
RONNY BUCKTOOTH

What are we beginning to look like ?

JoseH, we are looking like a university where disatisfied Barca high school kids graduate to- lol.

sadly to say…maybe wayne bridge..our underrated LB gonna leave..he’s a great lad…playing his best for every match he plays…but ferriera play LB for portugal and belleti is a brazilian…scolari may nt bear to sell bnoth of them,….maybe bridge will leave…as he is the understudy for a cole…

….and expect Alex to pair Carvalho (if he stays) and JT is going to have
a rough ride.
It will not happen immediately but just watch,Scolari is a very good freind of JM and they talked a lot after JM left Chelsea.
Just watch this window.

Andrey Arshavin will be a Chelsea player tommorow. I cant wait

CHELSEA GAVE UP ON ARSHAVIN AND LEFT HIM.ZENIT WANTS 22M FOR HIM.SO WE HAVE TO FORGET HIM.GOOD AND TALENTED PLAYERS DONT COME TO CHELSEA BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT CHELSEA WILL DESTROY THEM.PLAYERS LIKE HUNTLER(THE NEXT RONALDO IN 2009 MAN UT) DOESNT LIKE CHELSEA VERY MUCH.CHELEA IS A OLD TEAM AND THIS TEAM HAS TO REFRESH.THE TEAMS LIKE MAN UT AND ARSENAL AND LIVERPOOL HAVE A BRIGHTER FUTRE THAN CHELSEA.

we want marko marin…he is going to rule..see this sample video

http://germany.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/a-name-to-remember-marko-marin.html
or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h43BSddtfMQ&eurl=http://germany.worldcupblog.org/euro-2008/a-name-to-remember-marko-marin.html

he has amazing talent….

marin has got wonder ful talents

as it is now chelsea is pretty good with what they have, i dont think buying robinho would do anything since i think kalou is nearly there anyway. Scolari will buy robinho though because he loves the guy.
lets see
————-cech———-
bosingwa—carvalho—terry—-a.cole
———essien—ballack———
—————deco———–
j.cole——————-kalou/malouda
————–sheva—————-

that said could easily challenge for a CL final. That said im not sure if carvalho, sheva or malouda staying. I think buying eto’o would be the smart thing to do if drogba and sheva leave. Also we could convert deco to a more deeplying play maker but i dont think he vision and passing is good enough.

I’ve just seen Huntelaar on Sky Sports and on paper he is a very good player. His stats show that he has a proven track record.

Chelsea shouldn’t let this player go to Man Utd or Arsenal or Barca or even Madrid easily.

This is my CFC team.

For the year 2008-2009!

Goalkeepers:(1)Cech(2)Gordan(3)Schiemikel

Right-back:(1)Sergio Ramos(2)Johnson

Centre-back:(1)Terry(2)Carvaliho(3)Alex(4)Ben Haim

Left-back:(1)Bale(2)Riise

(R)Sam Hutchinson

Right-midfield:(1)Cole(2)Taraadt

Centre-midfield:(1)Lampard(2)Gerrard(3)Babbel(?)Balack/Pavlyuchenko(AM)/Elano Blumer(5)Gelsen Fernandes
(6)Mikel

Left-midfield:(1)Gamst(2)kalou

(R)Steve Sidwell/Scott Sinclair

Forward:(?)Fernando Torres/Messi(2)Huntelaar/Robiniho(3)Van Persie(4)Bent

(R)Adriano

Please put out the players that you think that CFC should purchase in order to assist the club.

post 193.lovechelsea
players will come to chelsea but remember why, much like michael ballack, to build a strong team and win titles like the champs league which has been our ultimate goal to establish ourselves since the rise of abramovich
as for our team, i am under the impression carvahlo is going to inter milan as we recently recalled alcides. I think thats good as alex needs more playing time but we need another class defender on the bench at least, but with ivanovic, im hoping he’ll be the difference.
with all the signings we’ve made, its obvious that we are going for a quad this season, so i wouldn’t be surprised to see us spend another £80 million on players, im not sure robinho is the best buy, hes small and not too good in the air, id prefer to play ronaldinho up front who isn’t known for scoring headers but can do and is very quick. But my number 1 concern at present is the left midfield situation as kalou should be allongside drogba, not always pushing in form the left. He’s good when he makes runs like he did against liverpool in the 2nd leg of the champs league that led to the 1st goal but i feel he could do such more with his pace playing off drogba

I have this funny feeling that Ballack maybe on the way down in terms of effectiveness and influence on games. Yes he is a great player but I think it was a mistake that he ever came to Chelsea…. anyone out there to rise to his defence ?

u r rite jose holiday
he shuldnt have come to chelsea

@ 207

i dont think so den because of tv rights and other factors the times will change….

Quoting Pensioner

This is my CFC team.

For the year 2008-2009!

Goalkeepers:(1)Cech(2)Gordan(3)Schiemikel

Right-back:(1)Sergio Ramos(2)Johnson

Centre-back:(1)Terry(2)Carvaliho(3)Alex(4)Ben Haim

Left-back:(1)Bale(2)Riise

(R)Sam Hutchinson

Right-midfield:(1)Cole(2)Taraadt

Centre-midfield:(1)Lampard(2)Gerrard(3)Babbel(?)Balack/Pavlyuchenko(AM)/Elano Blumer(5)Gelsen Fernandes
(6)Mikel

Left-midfield:(1)Gamst(2)kalou

(R)Steve Sidwell/Scott Sinclair

Forward:(?)Fernando Torres/Messi(2)Huntelaar/Robiniho(3)Van Persie(4)Bent

(R)Adriano

Please put out the players that you think that CFC should purchase in order to assist the club.

Sorry but thats a shocking team, so many of those players dont want to come to the club or dont deserve to come to the club. Gordon is an average, overpriced keeper and Schmeicel wouldnt have been loaned if he was really as good as we saw. Johnson moved to Pompy and is going to stay there, Sergio Ramos said he will stay at Real Madrid and besides we have Bosingwa but im guessing you didnt know Chelsea signed him, Ben Haim is a shocker, Bale is always injured and Riise has moved to Roma so no way he will come to Chelsea and also you missed out Ashley Cole who’s one of the best LB’s in the world.

Gerrard wont ever leave liverpool and will be like 50m+ if sold and i wouldnt pay that for him. Babel is good once every 10 games, Elano is the same, Gamst is no more than average and Fernandes is hardly comparable to Chelea’s current midfield talent, wont get a look in, maybe above Sidwell but no where near Mikel.

Torres wont be sold, at any cost i bet, Messi i agree should come to the club, I could think of better than Huntelaar or Robinho so i wouldnt choose to buy them and if you have Messi and Torres they will be earning 100k a week to sit on a bench (YES PLEASE ROMAN I’D LOVE TOO THANKS). As for Robin “Always” Van “Injured” Persie he would be a reserve player and Darren Bent, you’re so funny.

I also like the fact that you’ve sold about 20 players from our current squad and kept the worst (Sidwell and Ben Haim), I really wish some people would think rationally, picking random names because you heard they cost alot and were very over-priced is hardly a way to pick a dream team.