If Terry, Alex and Carvalho are out then we only have Ivanovic to rely on as our CB. Do we have to have Mikel or Ferreira play as a CB?

hey guys did you remember 2:0 down against villa at stamford bridge last season ?
if drogba sideline for 2 months he never get back to his best form. his injuries is like ronaldo.

sum1 pls give me scolari’s mobile number.
dat guy is making me sick with is game plan.
i personnaly
want a younger chelsea. when all the old men gets injured, he will tell us who will play.
how will he know the ability of this boys if they don’t play?
how can their confidence rise when they re needed in games
i dont think he thinks for trhe future.

now drogba is injured he will start using anelka that scores when the game is won.
pls tell him to put di santo in the starting eleven, so dat is confidence can grow.

terry and alex are injured?

old players always injured like this. thats why arsenal have the least injury list . if drogba injured again we should forget him to get back to his best form.

What a match!Never see Chelsea play like this.Injuries, well not good for us.
But guys lets just hope Big Phil sees to rotate his team more, cos its costing us
more harm than good.Look’s like Di santo was close but fractionally missed.
Scolari should give him some time to find his feet.Anelka must be happy to
see Drog injured.Hope January comes fast so we get some decent fowards like
Fabiano or Cristiano Rodriguez of Porto. What do guys think.

i would prefer to just bring in a striker from the reserves, but in the light of this season, we would need to bring omeone in, even if it is just a loan move until the end of the season, we would need someone big to keep the presence in the box, someone like adriano, trezeguet, that sort of player, i would love to see a left winger brought in, how is ryan bertrand doing?
i see this match as a defensive lineup, scolari wasn’t looking to attack cluj massively, no doubt he wanted a win though. This is going to be one of those matches when we bring them to the bridge and slaughter them there

If you play the same 11 week in week out everyone will complain of a sore back. Especially the LB and RB with the amount of running they are doing. And the worst point is the season has just started. Players have tried too hard to impress scholari. Drogba never looked fit till now . Ballack too isnt looking very nice. Lampard has to take up scoring responsibilities for next few weeks now.

As for aston villa wll again have our same back 4 no doubt about it. ashley, terry , alex and bosingwa .

crespo is lying waste in milan. loan him out.

gordon

Quoting gordon @ 52029

old players always injured like this. thats why arsenal have the least injury list . if drogba injured again we should forget him to get back to his best form.

@GORDON
Hi Dude
Is Robin van Persie, Rosicky,Silvestre,Eboue,Eduardo are playing For Arsenal… :). Most time these young gunner’s are injured, Injuries are common in Football,we don’t have to worry about that, because we have a good manager now.

Who knows tomorrow Ballack , Alex or belletti will play a striker’s role , because scolari can do that kind of crazy thing. Paublo Ferriara was playing as left full back in Euro 2008.

But Big Phill Please give di Santo, Sinclair more chance in first team……..

crespo is better striker than ANELKA.

This season, I’m a better striker than Anelka!! haha
I think we have to recruit a young, good forward. Aguero is number one on my list, but I really don’t see any reason he’d come to Chelsea, if he could be with a Spanish giant in a league he’s dominating at the moment, or come to City, where he would be paid much more than anywhere else. The only thing I can think of, is if we win the CL, or because of the Scolari effect.
Other than that, I’ve heard many mention Fabiano, who’s averaged a goal in two games for Sevilla. I love his play, but he’s already 27 years old.
Another name always floating about (somewhat like Van Der Vaart was for ages, and no big club got him till Real got a bargain this year) is Huntelaar. I’ve only seen him play a couple of times, both for the Netherlands… He seems good, but I’m not sure of his greatness. He’s 25, though and you can’t go wrong buying a player nicknamed The Hunter. So far this year, he has 4 goals in 5 matches, as well as 37 from 39 matches last season, and 36 from 51 the season before. So, one thing is clear, he can certainly score goals in the Eredivisie.
But I’m not sure how effective these players would be in England, or how good they’ll be providing us with what Drogba gives us: Power, holding up the ball, a free-kick goal or two, good header, great shooting, good set piece defense, etc…

What do you all think?

last season manutd faced the same crisis and loan spell of larsen was very instrumental in their winning the championship… crespo fits the bill.. i know he doesnt likes london life but even a 3 month loan will do. If it clicks he can even be used in champions league. think about it kenyon.

what the hell.. am i banned? what for my neat comments are waiting moderation…

I’m attending the Villa game on Sunday, but it is in no way a forgone conclusion. With the form Villa are in, I think a draw is most likely. Obviously, if we win 1-0, I would definitely be satisfied.

A new striker is undoubtedly needed in January with Drogba’s injury, or Di Santo needs a lot more playing time. Anelka does score enough goals now but he could score twice as many if only he was more clinical!

drogba is out for 3 months and it get one month for him to get back to his best.so we have only
kalou/di santo/anekla for rest of the season.one of the most weakest strike option in the world.like other seasons we must depend on our Midfielders for goal scoring . why players like deco and a.cole must get injured in warm-up.

i think drogba will never get back to his best.his injuries are like ronaldo . the drogba age at chelsea is going to over and we need to find a young striker like him.

Pizzaro should have never been unloaded. Have you seen this guy’s latest performances with Bremen? He has scored four goals in the past four matches, including a vital away goal against Inter Milan. What a terrible decision!!

I want Scolari to do a Turkey with Chelsea. U know wat happened in the Euro. Everybody was Injured and they were playing the shit out of everyone. I completly agree with some of U give the youngters a chance. As they say u never know if u never try. And this will give them xperience playtime to be ready for action when they’re needed. When I saw Di Santo I was very happy an as soon as he hit the pich it was on. An that let me thinking, wat if Scolari had thrown him earlier on the picht, or put him in the starting XI. I’m still waiting on Assnelka to do a hattrick like in that prea-season game against ac milan, or that was just a bad sign of how crap he will be this season so far. You know wat they say, the higher the fall, the bigger the bounce, otherwise I’m just to hopefull. Assnelka get U’r shit together.

Huntelaar as i have told many times previously, is the guy we should be tapping. Letting off van der vaart is a big mistake. Aguero will not come cheap or he will not come at all. so is david villa. that cuts many of options to buy from spain except fabiano may be. so we should look at germany and holland for strikers. huntelaar, gomez are all lying there. personally i love the dutch strikers and wingers. eredivise is very much underestimated nowadays, given the media effect of EPL, La Liga or Serie A. Its sad that many in India dont follow eredivise or have low opinion about eredivise. i guess they forgot the ajax academy of the 80’s and 90’s. hup holland !! clockworke orange.!!!

0-0 does look kind of bad. But, heck- that is an away point. Injuries, word is Drogs will be out for 4 or so weeks. Kalou will have to step up and be the man. And I’d give di Santo more pitch time too.

are alex and terry unfit to play? i thought that they finished the match but were just a little banged up.

@17 - Shaun Philips scored his 4 goal for Man city in 5 or 6 games. He did not score that much goals probably last season at chelsea. With chelsea, we seem to offload players, without giving much time to settle in . Keane scored first liverpool goal after 10 or so games. By this time, sheva was branded a flop .

Rather than buying proven expensive players and then branding them as misfit, I would like LFS to try Franco Di Santo or Scott Sinclair probably as the second striker.

Rather than buying proven expensive players and then branding them as misfit, I would like LFS to try Franco Di Santo or Scott Sinclair probably as the second striker.

We should get a young player that can become a superstar. That’s really what we need. We don’t need a Dirk Kuyt. We need a Fernando Torres.
And about Keane, he was never the Ballon d’Or winner or ‘deadliest striker in Europe’ as Sheva was. He was a good forward. The expectations are for him to score 12-18 goals this year, no more. Sheva needed to deliver at least 20 goals to justify 30 million pounds. I wish we didn’t give him back to Milan. I remember his double against Villa, and his killer goal against Tottenham at SB… The problem was, the Special One didn’t want to use him, and Grant didn’t know how to utilize him. He was always second choice to Drogba, and simply didn’t fit the 4-3-3. But imagine him playing now instead of Anelka, being fed by Lampard, Deco, and Ballack. Those runs surely would have paid off. And he’s already looking good in Milan. I’d take Sheva over Anelka, any day.

I regret us unloading SWP and Sheva. The first was versatile, often fit, faithful to Chelsea, and FAST! (Something we need) And again, Sheva>Anelka.

But Pizarro is not a Chelsea level player. He’s doing well because he plays with a certain Diego, the best player in Germany. I’d score a goal a game with Diego as my #10…
Anyways, the competition in Germany isn’t as tough as England, and Werder for the past three or four seasons has been a superb attacking side.
They leak goals though!!

Sheva scored his second first goal for Milan tonight And good news, Drogba’s injury requires weeks, not months.

I think the youngsters of Chelsea will always be forgotten and never given a chance. It’s because of what Chelsea has become. Our club is so obsessed with results and wins that a lose is equivalent to the end of the world for us in any competition. Look at the league cup, Scolari formed an almost full strength team. I’m sorry but I think Chelsea can’t change now. I too would like to see fresh youngsters tearing up the field and given the chance to be brilliant, but this probably isn’t the club you want to be pinning your hopes on for “attractive football” played by 17 year olds. Go watch ajax or arsenal.

I’m sick of the complaining about us wanting to win everything. In order to do that, we have to take it slow with the young players. We can’t thrust them in the deep end.
What’s a year or two compared to the history of a club? We have a chance to make history. We can win a quadruple. We really can. So we can allow the young ones to play when the game or the points aren’t on the line. And in a couple of years they’ll break through.
However lovely or noble the idea, starting Di Santo, Stoch, Mancienne, and Sinclair every match will turn us into Arsenal. We play well, win some matches, and lose all the competitions.
I want a couple of years of winning with our senior players, backed by our young ones, and not a year full of the young ones trying but failing.
I’m so sick of it. Sure, the young ones should play. But everyone thinks Di Santo can just walk onto the field, and Drogba won’t be missed. That’s not the case. Deal with it. If you support Chelsea because they want to win, then every competition, every match, must be tackled head on, and our best 11 must play every match.
Rest is another thing all together. If players need rest, so be it. But to play the young ones to show off, it’s the most ridiculous thing ever!

I think what we have lost most in this season is the element of surprise and the ability to change the game when it’s not going our way. I’m still hopeful that players like Deco and Joe Cole could spring a few surprises but that’s not going to happen while they are still in the sickbay.

Quoting Adonis @ 52139

I’m sick of the complaining about us wanting to win everything. In order to do that, we have to take it slow with the young players. We can’t thrust them in the deep end.
What’s a year or two compared to the history of a club? We have a chance to make history. We can win a quadruple. We really can. ………………it’s the most ridiculous thing ever!

I kind of agree with you to a certain extent. We need to get stability in our play first before “trying”. I guess we are all kind of desperate to seek a new young hero at Stamford Bridge. After watching DiSanto coming on at Cluj, I do agree that our seniors needed to be there to provide the clear chances for them to progress. Else, they risk being branded “failures” before their career began. So for now, I think we all need to give the team some time. We are not that bad if you look at the facts:
The Facts are………
we are doing good in terms of result,
we are not playing great sexy football week in week out but still win and draw decently,
we always fear the “what if it is another Wigan’s tactics”, we a point away from home is not that bad,
we’ve got a long growing injury list but we do expect them to return in the coming weeks.
So it is not that bad, it’s just not great at the moment…. not great yet.

The Positives are

Anelka,Kalou and Malouda are not injured.
Ballack,Lampard and Mikel
We have Ashley Cole and Bosingwa but maybe Wayne Bridge or another defender may do the work.

Guys what would you make of chelsea for the next five or three seasons when deco, ballack and rest are all retiring.Would you think of buying more playmakers whiles we have tejera, kakuta etc.Sinclair has done just enough to be in the lineup. in the reserves matches he’s played so far he scored two in two matches.Isn’t this
just enough to make him get some first team action.Why do we keep playing the same team, when Mancienne needs to be tried at least before selling him(What a heard).This makes no sense.Why wouldn’t Arsene W consider signing Kalou when he has played a match.Drog bad news, must be cursing his stars.Sinclair needs the best consideration.He’s been on the bench toooooooo much.Try him and he could be our team’s Lionel Messi.
I think stoch was onthe bench against Cluj, when the match was getting to the end he should have brought him on
while he has great pace than belletei and should have come on.

Great blog, this is my first time here.Very cool place.BC yeah the blog writer write,
I think there are some more improvements we can make to this blog like(just ideas)
putting in some chelsea crest, create a downloadable place where one can download some
chelsea wallpapers and also upload some if the bloggers has one.it would help cos i really
love this blog and would love to see improvements.

kalou and mikel are proven. Di santo and sinclair are unproven at the highest level. They will probably get more time during league cup and fa cup. Of the reserves i dont see any that are able to realistically break into the team. Our defense is pretty solid, with ferriera being able to play as any defensive role he is very versatile. Our midfield is all high class and many are nearly fit again. Our attack is the weak link but as it stands no one can take drogba’s place. I think it will be safer to keep anelka playing because even if he misses a crap load of chances he has scored 3 goals in 6 matches. Not a great return for a striker but not too bad either. He needs early service to be really effective but is not getting it with chelsea’s build up play not really helping him as much. Maybe sign fatty ronaldo to a 1 or 2 year contract. lol

Quoting ish @ 52177

Maybe sign fatty ronaldo to a 1 or 2 year contract. lol

Not a bad thought though! But this drogless time(1 month?) should be effectively used shape up Anelka and Santo as a pair…

You can’t talking about arsenal can’t you…probably you’re just plain jealous of them…by the way the recent 4-0 by arsenal vs porto was quite a good match

Sorry, I was referring to BLue Champion..Seldom hear him mention about Man U or LIverpool. By the way, So what if Drog is injured? Sure he’s special, but any of Chelsea’s first team is good enough for the starting XI, with all the millions spent, England’s very own Real Madrid, minus the cups (more coming soon perhaps)..

VILLA IS A GREAT TEAM AND THEY ARE DANGEROUS . I HOPE ALEX AND TERRY WOULD READY FOR AGBONLAHOR AND YOUNG GREAT CROSSES.

This the time and opportunity to play with rest of the players so as to become the ‘Best Team’ going forward. The whole team should be elegant when the stars are back in game.

I agree, Villa are quite a dangerous team, and Martin O’Niell is the best manager in the Premiership outside the top four. Agbonlahor is simply superb. And Carew can cause problems with his Drogbaish strength and size. Aston Villa are our bogey team, like West Ham is for Man U. They always manage good results against us.
Someone suggested Sinclair can be our own Messi. It’s quite a pleasant thought… Keep dreaming.

Scolari please use our own mini arsenal squad AKA the youngters need playtime

Man U’s youngsters have also been impressive. They seem to have a core team which seem to play every game and then they revolve a couple of youngsters around that . De Silva, Evans and Fraser Campbell all the three have impressed.

That is where I am disappointed with Scholari tactics . After the game against Portsmouth ( both PL & Carling), with 40 minutes to play, we should have allowed franco & sinclair a chance.

Villa is a team I am desperate to win having not taken full points from them for 2 seasons..

You’re right, ravi. It’s been five games they’re unbeaten against us… I’m desperate to turn that around.
With all our injuries, a draw wouldn’t be a bad result, and some experts are counting on Villa to end our magical home streak. Each home match that goes by with this streak going is a delight, but frankly, we’re going to lose sooner or later. I’d prefer to lose now when the deficit can be made up. I really won’t mind if we lose while trying our hardest.
But there’s a bit of magic to Stamford Bridge, isn’t there? We know that, even two goals down, or even two men down, we can still get the results. There’s no better fortress in England, and frankly, I can’t think of a better home fortress over the past five years than ours.
So here’s to Stamford Bridge, here’s to our fantastic players who never give up, and here’s to Chelsea lovers worldwide who’ve enjoyed this streak!!
KTBFFH!

Quoting Chel @ 52184

You can’t talking about arsenal can’t you…probably you’re just plain jealous of them…by the way the recent 4-0 by arsenal vs porto was quite a good match

LOL Chel - I’m not jealous of anyone! The Porto vs Arsenal match I was referring to was played in 2006 and I was not referring to the one played last week. Actually, even the Arsenal fans consider that as the most embarrassing match as both teams were simply passing around without any idea to attack, just to get a point and progress.

Read it again. I’m not jealous of Arsenal because there’s nothing to be jealous about. I don’t want Chelsea to be like Arsenal. It’s easier to play a younger team and then to win some and lose some and let the inexperienced players take the blame, while the manager gets the plaudits for having the guts to play them. That’s sick. I don’t want that at Chelsea. If Romario at 42 years can score 25 goals per season, I’d have him over any 18-year old.

It’s easy to do an Arsenal. It’s very difficult to do a Chelsea or Man United.

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