I really hope Joe Cole returns. And possibly Ballack in midfield?
I don’t think we’ve seen Mikel, Deco, Ballack and J.Cole yet, have we? That would be interesting to watch.

And I am having the best time poking fun at Arsenal fans!

Students defying professor!! Gallas, made my day!!! How pathetic has Arse became, from the time Henry & Bergkamps left, they just are a laughing stock!! BullShit policies, Arsehole tactics, !! Next year Cesc is gonna move to Barca, Adebayour may get better in someother English club, but Yes, Monsieur Wenger is there , toujours, searching for his petit Messi!!! LOL, LMAO.

i see am not alone in enjoying the misery of Arsenal, i totally agree with you about this squad being very inconsistent and its really giving me jitters…
we really should set the pace for arsenal’s game on Nov 30th, otherwise they might pull a man-u like stunt on us which we can ill afford.

I dont think this is gonna be an easy game?
Newcastle will fight.
Lampard will b missd if he isnt playin.

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Home games have been always difficult for chelsea this season. i hopw LFS won´t screw this one up. Come prepared Chelsea!!!

home games have been difficult because teams come to chelsea aiming for a draw, chelsea struggles to break down teams like that.
Of the starting 11 against newcastle i would put in a side that gives a rest to some players coming from international week. Terry, bosingwa, lampard and deco should be rested.
Malouda is playing very at the moment and is contributing quite alot down that left flank.
Ferriera–ivanovic—alex—a.cole
———-mikel—-
—-belletti—ballack—-
j.cole——————malouda
———anelka—-

that team has alot of steel in it and order ballack and belletti free license to shoot and go up. Make belletti play nearly as a RM and make j.cole more central. This allows a style that doesnt rely soley on our full backs for width. But i guess the resulting style would be a packed mid with too much based on either crosses or switching flanks which is generally messy and boring. Also expect terry or carvalho to play. wouldnt mind seeing sinclair come in for malouda at some point. Also i think chelsea should sell a midfielder/winger preferably kalou(i like him but he is the most expendable). We really do have too many mids, if drogba comes back and anelka plays thats only 4 midfielders spot and 3 of them will go to DM+2CMs leaving 1 winger slot which j.cole/malouda will fight over. Interestingly if that happens chelsea can change the style of play like a mirror image by swapping 1 out for the other.

Joe Cole is an icon to Chelsea unless he returns we can’t be consistant with all “W” ahead.

Anil

One of the most useless performance .LFS should know when to speak what . When he says, we can win epl without losing, we lose to liverpool, when he says we have to book at room at Rome, we lose, when ray wilkins talk about arsenal youngster approach to carling cup we lose and now he talks about get 97 points , we draw.
With the kind of home form we have , no way we can win the EPL .. we are yet to play big three , villa ( a place we have never won for last 3 years) away .. chelsea need to win at home if they have to think about EPL..

Again , Anelka and Maluda are back to earth. Anelka can never score a match winning goal.. 2 more games, before we get a fit drogba back ..

Man u have never lost to Villa for the past 15 games and so if they win today, the gaps loses to 3 points assuming they win the match in hand..

reply cfc: I don’t know which game you are watching but I totally disagree. For one, Nic was a lot sharper with his touches and his runs were good, but you must credit to Newcastle and Shay Givens for a great organized defense they put up with… no matter how the report reads… Magpies park the bus after 20 minutes of play, our biggest downfall is that we could not create space between the midfields and our forwards. Malouda started off well but lost his way towards the end. I felt that we could have done better with our set pieces, but hey, as mentioned, credit to Newcastle for their relentless tackles and closing-down. Overall, we played with great attacking tactics and were unlucky to break them down, good news is Liverpod drew too… so we remain top. Our flag is still up there!

Another match at home we dropped points . 9 points already dropped at home so far , which is really worrying because I see atleast 4 tough away games ( Villa included and Gunners way back in May , when they might have settled)..

If we have to make 97 points , then we can drop only 8 more points from 24 games…

@8 – Good that liverpool drew, but I am worried about Man U . They can close the gap to 6 points… We need to have as much points above Man u before they go to World Club cup. Last 2 seasons, have thought that is really tough to play the chasing game and concentrate on 4 trophies

we need to start adapting to pass the ball faster. all passes were dead slow, in that time the opponents havin enough time to get back and regroup the defense. hmmm, for dat malouda/kalou quality kinda wingers not gonna to help.

Chelsea dominated completely.just lacked the cutting edge(frm where willl we get that). I would like to play all our game away.just look our home record.its terrible.we were able to win only less than half of our home games.
Played-7
win-3
draw-3
LOSS-1
this is not the record potential champions needed.

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I wish Chelsea bought Robinho, He would’ve offered us that sweet little his magic which Chelsea lacking at the moment.

OK, i concluded that today is a funny day,
Chelsea vs Newcastle 0 – 0
Liverpool vs Fulham 0 – 0
Ashton Villa vs Man United 0 – 0
in which Chelsea, Liverpool and Man U all deserved to win…….i don´t know if its our bad luck or their good luck, table is not much changed. Except that I feel sorry for Arsenal fans, we miss you in BC…..comeback soon!!!

[quote comment="57990"]OK, i concluded that today is a funny day,
Chelsea vs Newcastle 0 – 0
Liverpool vs Fulham 0 – 0
Ashton Villa vs Man United 0 – 0
in which Chelsea, Liverpool and Man U all deserved to win…….i don´t know if its our bad luck or their good luck, table is not much changed. Except that I feel sorry for Arsenal fans, we miss you in BC…..comeback soon!!![/quote]

but my dear, Manu wont loose points at home like we do

[quote comment="57992"][quote comment="57990"]OK, i concluded that today is a funny day,
Chelsea vs Newcastle 0 – 0
Liverpool vs Fulham 0 – 0
Ashton Villa vs Man United 0 – 0
in which Chelsea, Liverpool and Man U all deserved to win…….i don´t know if its our bad luck or their good luck, table is not much changed. Except that I feel sorry for Arsenal fans, we miss you in BC…..comeback soon!!![/quote]

but my dear, Manu wont loose points at home like we do[/quote]

and my dear, noone can do better than us when it comes to away games……..

[quote comment="57993"][quote comment="57992"][quote comment="57990"]OK, i concluded that today is a funny day,
Chelsea vs Newcastle 0 – 0
Liverpool vs Fulham 0 – 0
Ashton Villa vs Man United 0 – 0
in which Chelsea, Liverpool and Man U all deserved to win…….i don´t know if its our bad luck or their good luck, table is not much changed. Except that I feel sorry for Arsenal fans, we miss you in BC…..comeback soon!!![/quote]

but my dear, Manu wont loose points at home like we do[/quote]
and my dear, noone can do better than us when it comes to away games……..[/quote]

Look at the teams Man U played away – Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Everton, Villa .. Last season, we dropped points against each of the team except Everton.

[quote comment="57978"]reply cfc: I don’t know which game you are watching but I totally disagree. For one, Nic was a lot sharper with his touches and his runs were good, but you must credit to Newcastle and Shay Givens for a great organized defense they put up with… no matter how the report reads… Magpies park the bus after 20 minutes of play, our biggest downfall is that we could not create space between the midfields and our forwards. Malouda started off well but lost his way towards the end. I felt that we could have done better with our set pieces, but hey, as mentioned, credit to Newcastle for their relentless tackles and closing-down. Overall, we played with great attacking tactics and were unlucky to break them down, good news is Liverpod drew too… so we remain top. Our flag is still up there![/quote]

Please has Nic Anelka scored a match winning goal or first goal in any game.. Against oposition who defend deep, we need didier or any other powerful striker, who can create chances.. Anelka touches were good, but what is the use.. Maluda, even if he has a one on one with goal keeper, he will find it difficult to score..
Anelka plays best after we score the first goal and when the opposition has to score , which opens up spaces..

Our ability to score from set play is also not impressive. we hit the wall atleast thrice.. Last week , you should have seen Barca – Recrativo match, They held barca for more than 60 mins or so and then it was clearly played set play which created the goal. These are the plan b strategies that should be adopted , because teams are always going to park the bus.

todays results show that it aint gonna be easy this year. overall from a fans standpoint I think its great that its a tight title-race.
I have to agree wit some of you, Newcastle were actually playing really solid D. Wat we have to work on is our transition offence. LIKE @ 10. Agentfed said, “we need to start adapting to pass the ball faster. all passes were dead slow, in that time the opponents havin enough time to get back and regroup the defense”.
and stop hatin on anelka ppl, even if he didnt score or didnt play well he did a decent job. his style dont suite this kind of game. and we didnt create to much for him.
I think all this heavy minutes lamps are dotchin on the pitch are starting to wear him out. he wasnt to sharp in the end of the game. Ballack should have got more then 10 min. specially since he havent played in a long time. BUT again he should have atleast hit the target at the end.

Joe Cole did ok, it was his first game.
I would say my MOTM is Jose B. he was awesome in the first half. he didnt get much space to operate in the second half, but clearly he was one of our better player to day.
I think Ivanovic starting to settle down wit the team pretty well. he had a decent game. ashely was ashely.

kalou and malouda I cant really stand these to lads. I just cant. I wonder if we can ship them to zenit plus sum cash for Arshavijn?? am down wit that trade lol

overall I miss the fighting spirit in our team. As a team we kinda play soft (not you JT).
We gotta wanted more. shit newcastle played their hearts out, like it was their last game ever.

all this fuzz about 97, ARE U KIDDIN ME LFS??????? NO way in hell w´ll reach that. not cause we aint that great. I consider us to be great-in a making, but the league is better now, alot of teams se the BIG 3 are beatable and they have a different swagger when they face us all.

I wanna se ballack ahead of deco, I think deco is playin just cause of his name. no one can actually say he been good lately. I know what He can do but dang he aint lifting the team. I wonder if LFS gonna play DD in the CL? he should he is available right. we need him just to have a diff option, when things dont work out.

TSO is a winner and he carried that to the players. now coach lfs need to do that as well.

OT, its sad what arsenal are goin through right now. but am looking forward to beat them next week. but its nothing to laught about others mishap. lets take care of OUR business and win the PL and CL.

/go blue

I tend to believe Drogba would have made the difference today. Chelsea didn’t look bad today. But, a little more forcefullness up front would have produced a goal. Someone else I couldn’t help but to reminice about was Arjen Robben. When healthy, his dribbling was as good if not better than Ronaldo’s.
I’m glad for Villa and Fullham. I don’t mind the Gooners losing. But, City ain’t on my list of favorites.

I just watched Inter Vs Juve match, and i can´t describe how nostalgic i felt.
First half was crap, i couldn´t tell who was hosting who. Then in second half i saw inter make few tactical changes, but still it wasn´t doing them good. All of a sudden at about 57 minute walked TSO full of rage to the touchline, and shouted at his players, pulled some guys wide and showed few signs, instructing them what to do. And guess what happened next………..MAGIC………………..all of a sudden Inter were full of possesion, Juve looked very vulnerable, and within 15 minutes Inter Score!!!! they could´ve easily doubled their score later on. When i watch Inter game, i remember Chelsea, i see that fighting spirit….i see opponents making mistakes and panicing.

Now LFS has a different perspecitive……he wants his players to play hard and try different things to win, and thats why i think his philospophy is disabled/impaired.

the main difference i saw between TSO and LFS is that,
1) TSO finds mistake in opponents tactic and makes his team exploit it, LFS is too lazy to do that, he forces his philosophy to players and gives a damn to tactic opponents are playing.

Thats the reason chelsea is losing its fighting spirit. Players don´t know what they are supposed to do. They are simply orchestrating what they had tried in training, and when they are asked to play a different number, they completely fail.

2) TSO asks his players to use their brain, and LFS´s concept is that players don´t need to think, but simply do what they had trained.

we have seen many times LFS sitting in his bench comfortably even when teams are not playing good at all. No matter how we are failing in the pitch, he sits there praying that his formation would work. And as it seems he´s too afraid to play players out of their positions. How many times have we seen players exploiting the gaps opponents have created? In his dairy, if he wishes that anelka will be in a score-sheet today, he expects that to happen in pitch, and keeps pressing the remaining players for it. thats why we are finding it very hard to break defence, when opponents are really defending.

Don´t want to make it long, otherwise nobody would read it, haha.

Peter Kenyon has said there will be no January signings because there is no money. How to generate money?

Get rid of Malouda and Kalou – Especially at home both of these players have been woeful. Thank God for our 100% away record.

Both Malouda and Kalou are too lightweight – both have the skill and technical ability, but both are lacking where it counts. Today for example Malouda couldn’t cross a state line and when he was replaced by Kalou it was like playing 30 mins with ten men. Whats was bringing Ballack on for the last 10 mins all about – waste of time and why was Scottie on the bench and not used.

Mr A wants to see the ‘kids’ come through – Scottie would have got some decent crosses in had he had the chance.

For me Malouda’s time is up. He has had more goalscoring chances in any game you can remember from this season, than a team has in a whole 90 mins.

ScoLucky drops 2 more points ,but both pool and manu drop the same

@ 20

TSO is simply great .. He fights with Adriano and suddenly surprises his opposition by playing him upfront. He doesn’t play a fit vierra.. del peiro did even have possession of the ball. I tend to slightly disagree , because even in the first half , stankovic and ibra had one one chance with the goalie..

but the bottom line is LFS is a good world cup winning coach. TSO is great coach or special one :-). Hope he come back to chelsea after 3 years at inter.

coming to today’s match, clearly we lack plan B.. I hope LFS thinks a little bit more on that .. probably in the cl game play both drogba and anelka..

TSO comments after Inter – Juve Match ( from goal.com)

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Tonight Jose Mourinho’s Inter beat Juventus 1-0, and following the game the coach talked about his decision to play Adriano from the start and the new-found balance in his side.

“We played better than our opponents, in my view we gave an incredible performance with great tactical awareness and also the character needed to win games like this,” he observed.

“I always say, if you are too tense you don’t win, and if you’re too distracted you don’t win. You have to find a balance. As a coach I must say my team were fantastic from start to finish.

“This week I understood what the match means to Inter and I’m happy to have given my contribution. We dedicate this victory to our president, who is overjoyed we won tonight.”

Asked if he felt this was Inter’s best performance of the season, he said: “I don’t know, but we did very well, we were in control for the entire match and only really risked when Julio Cesar made that great save on [Alessandro] Del Piero late on.

“With two center backs like [Giorgio] Chiellini and [Nicola] Legrottaglie, who are very aggressive, I thought it would be important to play with an ‘animal’ like Adriano. He is very powerful and can battle with two defenders at once.”

On Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s display: “He did fantastic work for us and even if it had ended 0-0, I would still be defending him, because he played for the team. The fact he missed two goals tonight means little.”

On the team’s tactical system, Mourinho said: “The football I prefer is with wingers, but they aren’t doing very well at the moment so I have to adapt to the situation. I like to have three players up front, but like this the team has more balance.

“At half-time, I only talked about two or three little details, and told the players to continue where they had left off in the first half, without changing the way they played.”

Inter are now six points clear of Juve and will lead the Serie A table for another week, regardless of tomorrow’s results.

@ 23
imagine how the world would see TSO in next 5-6 years! I think he´d be worshipped by his fans and stink hated by his foes!!! He´s one of the sensasion Football has ever seen. He´s a measure of standard for the coaches. And of course he´d have never good relationship with press….;)

Inter vs Juve match was so good that even BBC published an article on it. Now thats the first time in years BBC published something about italian football match in months if not in years…guys who missed this match really missed some good football today!

@20 IwasMissingJose,
In my view, Inter performance was way better than of Chelsea’s today. Remember, they were playing against a top side like Juve, and its a must win game for both the teams to open up/close the gap at the top so its just a cautious game, nonetheless Inter only were controlling the entire game. Juve couldn’t even get into the final third most of the times. Adriano was bit rusty, otherwise Inter could have easily added another couple of goals.

@24 truebluefan,
“The football I prefer is with wingers, but they aren’t doing very well at the moment so I have to adapt to the situation.” this is the Jose I miss. Just imagine, his wingers are all Quearsma, Mancini, Figo quality. They didn’t perform quite well for few games, immediately he not only dropped one or two under performing wingers, instead he has entirely changed the system.

But I doubt whether LFS would ever drop Deco, even if he gives god damn shit for the entire season. Dunno why on earth he gave Ballack only 10 minis :O. We should stop believing in our under performing wingers like Malouda, Kalou and revert back to 4-4-2 diamond once drogba is available!

@27 – it is not just but even our opposition coaches who know very well, what our starting eleven would be .. I did not find any difference between avram grant and LFS in terms of predicability. both of them start with nearly the same starting eleven and their substitutions are around 60 minutes or later.

This is where TSO is way ahead of them. The ability to surprise the opposition is what we miss with the other two coaches.

LFS talks about 97 points or so , I would be very happy even if we touch 91 points that chelsea made in the second season with Mourinho..

In the second season with Mourinho , we won 18 of our games at home .. Is that sort of some record ???

hic,we draw with NEW.that is result poor.
I hate malouda,it is player stupid.Why Scolari use Kalou and Ballack when math started???

Arselol is surely going to drop out of top 4. I bet my money on that. Up goes Villa!! Anyone from UK here? I think Villa park is in Birmingham , aint it? and birmingham is the second or third largest city. I am glad to see that a new city coming into the top 4 and even more glad that a London club is giving the way. Of course Chelsea are already the undisputed leaders in london, and if arselol drops out, it just shuts down all the stupid mouths who still asks questions about Chelsea.

I have seen the Villa – Manu match and I should admit that martin o’neil is doing a stupendous job at villa park. Couple of years back, I thought if any club is gonna break top 4 then it has to be Spurs or Everton, but from the last 2 years Villa has done especially well to get to this stage. I am eagerly waiting for January and want to see what to see what professor wenger does. When arseholes presidents and management had the money he dint buy players citing some of his policies, but this time i doubt there will be no money available even he is willing to buy some players. i pity you , mr wenger. LMAO.

And by the way, only after reading the results of the other matches i am happy that status quo is maintained. Otherwise it would have been disastrous to draw newcastle at home. i think Ballack should start ahead of Deco atleast at home, i remember him doing all the good stuff in a blue shirt last year. The same problems plunder chelsea again and again, joey inconsistent, malouda’s inability to convert something out of his runs, LFS inability to make subs at the right time, though i can see a definite improvement in Anelka, may be he worked hard when DD was injured or started to take more responsibility

I dont know what god damn thing are we gonna do this jan. I always wanted to get a striker in jan, especially huntelaar, but looks like we need to satisfy with what we have.

This was a disaster, narrowly missed, thanks to Fulham.
What else can be said? Malouda and kalou must be shipped, come Jan and buy some good wingers. I think Anleka’s anticipation, or rather the lack of it was very clearly evident last night, when Ashley’s effort to get the ball across the face of the goal post was wasted. I think it was a Bosingwa cross and Ashley Cole dived at the far post and put the ball right in front of the goal post. But Anelka was surprised by this. Le Sulk was not anticipating this move at all. That is where he is still a sulk really.
And he is also not able to break thru the defense like Drogs does. A winger as well as a forward will be a great signing for us this Jan I guess. And Iam just counting the days before Drogs takes the pitch again. Anelka too can be exchanged for some young talent of a striker.
Gud part was injection of Ballack, thou a bit late; a satisfying move. Now that he is back, we shall relax a bit. Hope he bombards the goners in the coming fixture at Bridge. Lampard and Deco could ve done better. I hope they are not getting tired. Especially Lampard, as he has started almost all the games and has played full 90 mins. They do deserve a break. Lets hope Chelsea Humiliate the Goners.
Win against the goners is evident; Humiliation-well lets wait and watch.
KTBFFH!!!!!

i just dont get th ppl here, Kalou seemed to most a very ‘great’ player in the making , what happened??
he is simply not worth that Chelsea shirt, LFS throws him on the last resort for a goal, a good player, hell even a decent player wld have been running his head off and wld make atleast 1 good opportunity, with the pace and supossed talents he has, 10-15 mins he got was a lot of time, what was his contribution?? any half decent player wld take full value for this opportunity to impress the boss, but that crap man has no desire to do anything, if he is in the starting 11 ok, if he is not its still ok, complete loser of a player, sell him and Malouda, atleast i cant criticize Malouda for not trying, but we can make abt 15-20 mn pounds on both the players combined plus the money (10 quid) LFS has on his hands, so abt 25-30 mn pound player can be bought, or 2 very good players!!

What was the biggest piss-off today was LFS lacking any ideas, why is it so necessary to include Deco in every game is well beyond me, he hs not been in great nick for some time now, he just went to Brazil was humiliated and got back a day back after an 8 hour flight, if still Ballack dosent get in then i cant see when…LFS seems a very stubborn fool, he does not change the starting 11, any person with a nut for a brain can anticipate his lineup, his formation does not change, yes the stubborness works sometimes (Read Anelka) but not always, not every manager wld be a fool, its just the quality of our players that is getting us through, he has to use his brain, hell even i sitting at home watching TV, can anticipate his every move , even his subs are so late that they hardly affect the game, somebody needs to give Scolari a big shake up and a strong kick..

Look at robinho’s goal vs ars ,it was just sublime.
He would have made a differance y’day.
It was a mistake by chelsea not try hard to get him.
U cant blame LFS he doesnt got the player he wanted.

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@ joeblue,
Stop complaining all the time about Kalou and pls get a life.If 10-15 mins was much time for kalou to make a decent contribution then what would you say about the 80mins Joe Cole had.Joey was the worst Chelsea player on the pitch yesterday.We Chelsea fans seem to over look wasteful and inconsistent players like Joey while we attack the likes of Anelka and Kalou who have been live savers for us on various occassions.Yes Kalou and Anelka are inconsistent but Joey is much more inconsistent.Yesterday I spent most time looking for Joey on the pitch.Yet no one on this blog has criticize Joey for is shitty performance[Malouda who was better than Joey yesterday have even been criticized by some ].I dont want to hear that coming back from injury excuse.Ashly Cole too was just coming back from injury and he delivered.Ballack also was just coming back from injury and he made an impact although playing for 10mins.Some one on another post told a blogger that the reason the blogger was defending Kalou was either because the blogger was from Africa or Ivory coast but little did he know that the blogger was actually from England.But that kind of argument perfectly applies to the likes of Joe Cole.I strongly believe that the reason why Joey’s short comings are overlooked by most Chelsea English fans is because Joey is English.

chaka
u are a complete fool, joe cole has been in and out of the side for some time now, even yesterday he came back from an injury, all this time Kalou was starting, but he cldnt do sh?t, that is why even an out-of-form, not match fit Joe was preferred to him, that must show u how good Kalou is, as i said again, u are an idiot, u dont understand football, u are comparing players like Malouda and Kalou who have been playing so regularly without injuries to a just about fit player, on his day Joe is awesome, unlike ur fav crap boys he will be back to his best soon, and when he does those two wont be fit to lick his boots, talent wise i think both of them togeather are not worthy to scrub his dirt, and anyone who has an ounce of football knowledge will know that, i will say it again for u to understand, that was one of the most foolish comments on this blog…

http://www.goal.com/en/news/1711/chelsea/2008/11/23/977573/scolari-still-keen-on-bringing-robinho-to-chelsea

i just came up with a crazy idea. Considering that many teams come to stamford bridge just to defend, and that scolari´s tactics work only against attacking teams, why not we loosen up a midfield a bit and actually give them a chance to attack?
We´ll let them gain a bit of confidence that they might score (i.e, Chelsea playing a defensive game). That way we might loosen up their defence, and we could suddenly attack them like a blitzkrieg (lightening war). And once we score a goal, their game is already over. What do you think guys???? Isn´t it worth trying?

chelsea struggles at home because teams go in there looking for the draw, away the team chelsea is playing needs to attack and this lets chelsea attack and show their quality, if teams decided to minimize damage on away fixtures as well chelsea would get a shit load of draws. Its not easy scoring a goal when you have 10 men you need to get through first, the field is crowded and unless you have a very well drilled style(which chelsea doesnt have yet) its too hard to break the defense.

LOL there goes joeblue opening his fly on Scolari. what do you want joeblue? you hated JM, you hate LFS or wait, may be, you want AG?

@ 20. IwasMissingJose
I saw the first half of inter-juve. I didnt think it was a great game. I didnt even watch the second half. I guess I missed out ahey? maybe I was still pissed of from our own preformens that I didnt appreciate the game more.
anyway I kinda feel the same way u do, about TSO. I compared our LFS to sven göran eriksson. good managers but not great game-coachs.

I guess all have been said about crazy-legs (kalou), French Blur (malouda).I just wanted to add that, kalou cant actually be blamed much after yesterdays game. its not like he made a mess the lil time he was on the pitch.

LFS should shake things up in the starting 11. and he have to bench some whom are underpreforming. he needs to make them work for their min. pisses them off. We shouldnt be forced to play the same 11 all the time. we got a big squad. lamps need a break. he been playing soo much that in the end of games rans out of steam.
Jose Bosingwa had a gorgeous first half. He is arguable if not the best one of the best right-back in the country.

This is excellent news . I have always considered him to be useless . From the telegraph.UK

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Chelsea scout Frank Arnesen set to be shown door by owner Roman Abramovich

In recent weeks, Arnesen has been under the spotlight after Chelsea removed two-thirds of the Dane’s scouts who had been working under him since he took over in 2005. In that time he has failed to establish a single youth player in the club’s first team.

According to a media report, Arnesen will be shown the door before Christmas as the credit crunch begins to take effect on one of world football’s richest clubs.

“Frank will be out before Christmas,”an agent close to Arnesen told the Observer. “Roman does not want him near the club any more.”

Chelsea have declined to comment on the matter, while Arnesen said: “I am not leaving Chelsea Football Club at the end of the year.”

Arnesen was acquired from Tottenham Hotspur for £5 million three years ago and is paid close to £2 million a year. Since he took over he has employed a global talent-force of scouts, some of whom are paid a full salary by Chelsea.

Meanwhile, Abramovich has overruled Wayne Bridge’s potential move to Manchester City.

The billionaire Russian is still fuming after losing Brazilian attacker Robinho to the Eastlands club for £32 million.

Bridge signed a new four-year contract only last summer worth around £85,000 a-week while it is reported that City would offer a staggering £120,000 a-week to land Bridge in January.

Reports from Brazil have also quoted Scolari as suggesting Manchester City star Robinho could have a future at Chelsea.

“I am sure that Robinho would be the best player in the world if he came to play at Chelsea,” Scolari told Brazilian daily O Globo.

“The Chelsea doors are always open to him.”

My two cents abt LFS’s style:

He has been following the Boss’s ( Roman’s ) orders to attack, attack N attack again !!! to the letter !!!

The team doesn’t even have difrerrent strategies of what it’s gonna do in the 4 quarters of the game except attack !
No trickery or setting the other team up for the fall by defending a bit or baiting them over to your half by having A Cole not back track ( pretending to leave a hole in the right ) while having Lamps n someone else cover for a while !
And I dint see much position switching / side swapping either!
And with so much time on the ball up to the final 25 yards why didnt Lamps and Deco have ago at the goal more than they did yesterday.
And why didnt someone just rush at the defence with the ball and try to get a blooming penalty heh ? heh ?
U gotta have tricks up ur sleeve for maximising free kicks too.
We gotta think of new ways of terrorizing the competition either than just passing N playing purty football like Aresenile!

And Deco looks shit tired n he should get rid of that facial hair !

If this goes on we are in for a bad time cos English teams arent macho like Spanish teams up against Barca.
If CFc don’t score in the first half of games with wonder goalslike Bosinwa’s recent one and have teams come out from “parking the bus ” …….. blah blah so on so forth

G’ night to ya all

[quote comment="58088"]@ 20. IwasMissingJose
I saw the first half of inter-juve. I didnt think it was a great game. I didnt even watch the second half. I guess I missed out ahey? maybe I was still pissed of from our own preformens that I didnt appreciate the game more.
anyway I kinda feel the same way u do, about TSO. I compared our LFS to sven göran eriksson. good managers but not great game-coachs.

I guess all have been said about crazy-legs (kalou), French Blur (malouda).I just wanted to add that, kalou cant actually be blamed much after yesterdays game. its not like he made a mess the lil time he was on the pitch.

LFS should shake things up in the starting 11. and he have to bench some whom are underpreforming. he needs to make them work for their min. pisses them off. We shouldnt be forced to play the same 11 all the time. we got a big squad. lamps need a break. he been playing soo much that in the end of games rans out of steam.
Jose Bosingwa had a gorgeous first half. He is arguable if not the best one of the best right-back in the country.[/quote]

well mate, you then for sure missed my @ 20 comment. you surely did miss good football.

Shite ! what I wrote has already been written way above me ! Sorry was lazy not to read everyone !the rambling n bickering was getting to me and taking the zest outta my beer !

TWIMC : Please erase the above trite

Chaka @34, you won my respect. All this swiftness to bash anelka, kalou and Louda while letting Joey, the most inconsistent chelsea performer off the hook makes some of us sick.

And what is this perrennial attempt to raise hell anytime we draw at home? Who says it is our divine right to win at home all the time? Who says our opponents are just coming to lie down for us to stroll past them simply because we are home? So one is one-dimensional when one is unable to open up a determined, desperate bus parking opponent? So Jose was was one dimensional for failing to break down teams that came to the bridge to park the bus then?

And what is this constant attempt to make LFS appear to be second fiddle to Jose? Am no 1 fan of Jose (and still carry the user name Mour of essien, i.e. Mourinho and essien)- but please don’t tell me FPS is second fiddle to Jose. No. they are both great managers with different approaches. Remember also that LFS is yet to have the full services of the Dynamo, Essien- the guy whose speed, power and drive has in the past opened things up when the going gets really tough. Neither has he also had DD playing.

So pls lets see things in proper perspective, shred the antiquated thinking that we nust beat every single team easily and above all let’s give Anelka and kalou a break.

When DD is playing Chelsea has the luxury to resort to the long balls to get behind bus parking teams. That is not Anelka’s style. guess thats one reason why Anelka does not measure up in the book of many of our fans. Nico is a different kind of striker. He loves space, movement, through passes, multiple crisss crossing that draws defenders out of positions. Lets celebrate the diversity instead of moaning pls.

[quote comment="58098"]Remember also that LFS is yet to have the full services of the Dynamo, Essien- the guy whose speed, power and drive has in the past opened things up when the going gets really tough. Neither has he also had DD playing.
So pls lets see things in proper perspective, shred the antiquated thinking that we nust beat every single team easily and above all let’s give Anelka and kalou a break.[/quote]

you´re right about anelka and kalou, and i too hope Essien will definitely add some fuel when he´s back, only i don´t know where will he fit in. I want to see ballack, lamps, mikel, joey/malouda, and essien in the pitch. but LFS would never leave out Deco, even when he´s performance is not that good. So don´t stay content, when essien comes back from injuries, he may not play!!!

and we´d all be dumbass if we turn a blind eye to mistakes LFS is making in the name of good football. and you seem content to be losing and drawing at the homeground…..i feel terrible.

Hey all.

Everybod’s saying Deco hasn’t been playing. Truth is he probably has not played well in any chelsea game. Yes, IO know, even the season opener where he had those aids and that goal, he was the least impressive in our midfield Quartet/trio. Seriously, the guy gives away the ball away so readily. This is a problem he shares with essien, yet he was brought in to be a play maker. Lampard is way better, and a fit Ballack can make more play. He’s only playing because he’s Brazilian/portuguese and the coach likes him

About the coach, now that I’ve watched him well enuff, he reminds me of a certain Wenger. He doesn’t care who or what the opponent is, he just plays his one style of football. Doesnt respond to situations at all, cant motivate the players to go for the jugular after a slow first half.

Now the players have lost character, nothing invincible about them anymore. Back in the days, u always thot Chelsea’ll put one in regardless.

And about the Arsenal game. Sorry guys we’re not winning it. Arsenal just lost a game and they’ll be roaring to go, which perfectly suits ther underdog status. Chelsea on the other hand prefer to take things easy, so they’ll score first and then we’ll chase the game till the end.

Plus I noticed something. Skysports commentators now like CHELSEA!

I was Missing Jose@46,

I heard Scolari recently bemoaning the loss of Essien and expressing the wish to have him back ASAP. Essien I believe will walk right in. and guess who will lose his place for him? Not Mikel, Not Lamps, Not Deco but Joey. Because that role on the right is one that suits Essien just fine. Can you imagine what essien and Bosingwa moving along that flamk with power, pace and drive will bring to our team?

About Deco- He is no doubt a great player. But with Ballack now fit, LPS will definitely start rotating them am sure.

When all our players are fit this will be my starting 11-

———————————Cech————————–

Bosingwa———-riccy——————–Terry——Cole—

——————————Mikel——————–

————————–Deco——————–

——Essien——————————–Lamp—–

—————-Drogba———–Anelka———

i hope you´re right mate, though i´d take out deco for ballack. Ballack is simply a great player with lots of awareness and intelligence, he should always feature in important games, and besides he´s taller and quicker than deco, better at free-kicks, superb at heading, and has had incredible amounts of assists last season; to cut short, we play like 12 men when he´s on the pitch!

Am with you but Deco when he is at full throttle passes the ball like no man I know. So ballack for the gritty games, Deco for those that involve more space

At 52
seriously, how many games has he been able to pass like that 4 Chelsea

[quote comment="58108"]At 52
seriously, how many games has he been able to pass like that 4 Chelsea[/quote]

———————————Cech————————–——–
Bosingwa———-Carval—————Terry —–——Cole
——————————Essien——————–——–——–
——————Deco—————Lamps—–——–——–—
——–Joey——–——–——–——–—Malouda——–—
——–——–——–—Anelka——–——–——–————–

that should be our starting line-up for the most part. Essien is absolutely vital at the CDM/ Makelele position. He’s made it his own before he got injured and we need his powerful presence in the middle of the pitch to stifle the bigger teams attacks. Don’t get me wrong though, my boy Obi is doing really well in that position and it would be almost insane to take him out after some of the performances he’s been putting in, but I feel as though big Phil loves creativity, and once Joey gets back into his flow, we will need him out there! So I think that eliminates the Essien on the right wing guess all together. Malouda seems to be coming in really well too, but knowing his bipolar form, I’d say we can easily slot Deco there, and where Deco is currently on my formation, we can either put Ballack or Mikel. I think this is what LFS was doing to begin the season and we just completely dominated teams. As far as Drogs is concerned. I’d say we let him fight for his position back! Anelka is doing wonders for us right now and not looking so much like the Le Sulk that gooner fans have dubbed him. Drogs looks like he thinks he can just walk his way back into the team and we shall have none of that. Love Drogs to death for the miracles he’s presented us… but his attitude sometimes (in fact most times) is poor in my opinion. Besides, with his seemingly jealous nature, if you watched him not celebrate when Anelka scores tells me that he will try to play himself to top Anelka rather then utilize Anelka’s form to help himself… in other words, he would take some bad efforts before giving Anelka a go. That’s my theory on it all in this book I just wrote lol.

i think with this kind of play we will lose against arsenal(1:0). we are poor in beautiful game,
chelsea must get back to ugly winning way.

[quote comment="58116"]i think with this kind of play we will lose against arsenal(1:0). we are poor in beautiful game,
chelsea must get back to ugly winning way.[/quote]

what are you smoking? we are the best team in the EPL just based on performances as well as the stats to back it up. Arsenal on the other hand are exactly as they are shown in the stats. To tell the truth, you’re probably a gooner fan lol. Nice try though

If everyone were fit and available, the starting eleven would be incredibly difficult to decide. The back five is very straightforward: Cech in goal, with Bosingwa, Lord Percy, JT and Ash in front of him.

Ahead of that is when it gets difficult. Mikel has proven himself to be indispensible in the DM role so far this season, so I disagree to what someone said above me. Unlike Makelele, he has the advantage of height. He is stronger, faster and has a better range of passing. In years to come, I suspect he will be a candidate for the Ballon D’Or.

Lampard’s selection is obvious. We therefore have the dilemma of who to pair with him – Deco, Ballack or Essien? Each have their respective traits – Essien youth and dynamicism, Deco experimental passing, Ballack’s sturdiness and aerial ability. I suppose it works per game. In my opinion, Ballack should have been brought on much earlier yesterday, along with Di Santo to really physically test Newcastle. We were getting enough chances and if we had just finished one, there is no question we would have won the game.

Malouda is surely ahead of Kalou at the moment and so must start. Joe Cole is also an obvious choice on the right. So who to go in the centre? As we are discovering, Drogba is the better player to force the first goal from a game with his sheer physical presence. Anelka is most useful AFTER we get the first goal or chasing the game with a partner, as our opponents are forced to attack and leave gaps which can be exploited, as we have found this season, or be distracted by Drogba’s physical presence, as we found in the Arsenal game last year. Therefore, I would start with Drogba. Drogba’s availability is key to our having a back up plan.

My starting eleven would be then:

———————————Cech————————–——–
Bosingwa———-Carvalho—————Terry —–—Ash
——————————-Mikel——————–——–——–
——————Ballack—————Lamps—–——–——–—
——–Joey——–——–——–——–—Malouda——–—
——–——–——–— Drogba——–——–——–————–

There are obvious other variations… Essien’s variability is ultimately detrimental to his chances of getting into the first team, because he can fit in so many slots. Imagine, against a defence like Newcastle, replacing the comparatively diminutive Joe on the right with the power of Essien!

The bench: Cudicini, Ivanovic (because of his ability to play equally well at CB and RB, he just beats out Alex), Bridge, Essien, Deco, Kalou, Anelka

This first eighteen should have us covered for any situation. Hopefully we’ll see my first eleven against Bordeaux on Wednesday!

I think ballack starting over Essien is absolutely rediculous. Maybe starting over him for now being that he needs to be at least 80% fit to command the field like he usually does, but when that day comes I’d say sit Ballack and let him be a bench impact player. And as far as Anelka is concerned, as long as he is banging in the goals or creating chances, Drogba can sit himself down and wait for his chance to shine, either do it in practice over Anelka or shut it. for all we know, the man could be gone in January! But being that that is besides the point, Essien is an undroppable! I don’t know if any of you Chelsea fans have forgotten, but he was an instrumental piece of Chelsea that rivals the likes of Cech, Terry and Lampard! He is undroppable when 100%! Amazing how quickly people forget how valuable a player he is. Essien is our Gerrard in many respects. Essien is a more capable player in the middle of the pitch than Ballack is, Ballack may be physical, but a diminutive CM will outshine him any day. Modric for example owned the German midfield with Ballack at the helm, but with Essien, he provides such versatile play.

essien is 100% for me to, he should play every game when he is fit and back to condition.

http://sport.setanta.com/en/Sport/News/Football/2008/11/22/Prem-Kroos-father-on-futureChelsea-link/

HELLO Vinton Lindo i think u dnt know about ballack….ballack is the best player in chelsea and scores important goals…..where as lampard can score more goals(even 3 or 4) when bottom(relegated)teams plays….first understand ballack scored 39 goals in 89 matches for germany….and he is king in munich…..and please dnt compare ballack’s world class to the likes of essien etc….and pls see ballack goals in bayern munich all have came as a winning goal….that is why iam calling as a world class player and he never missed penalities….

Bayern Munich’s promising winger Toni Kroos could be on his way to Chelsea, according to German media sources, while his father and agent wants to hold talks with the Bundesliga giants.

The 18-year-old Kroos is seen as a top prospect in Europe, and the Germany Under-21 international is being linked to a January loan to Stamford Bridge in the domestic press.

Bayern boss Jurgen Klinsmann has stated he would not be against sending the teenager on loan abroad.

Roland Kroos, the father and agent of the young Toni, is aware of the rumours linking his son to The Blues.

“I am going to have a meeting with [general manager] Uli Hoeness soon,” he told Bild.

this is going to be a one of the best ever signing for chelsea…he is young and brave…and remember he voted as a best young player in under17 world cup and a golden shoe winner…

see some videos of toni kroos

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=UemCmsUwPvE

see this video and decide yourself

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=3k9B2DgyDXg&feature=related

i became a fan of toni kroos after seeing this video

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=y0UhoJRId-4

goal against italy(long range shoot(33cm))

how can anybody compare Joey with Malouda and Kalou?? how many man of the match performances have they made in their entire careers here at Chelsea, they are a joke, week in and out they get the chance to play, they dont do crap, while Joe who was decent atleast on his return from another injury looked 10 times better than those two, i mean is this some sort of joke btw these guys?? you compare a LB to a creative attacking midfielder, wow i m amazed u even have the audacity to comment like that, let me explain to you how it works kiddo, creative and intelligent players like Joe need a little time after an injury to regain their form, they are not defenders u just put back in, they need a rythm, dont understand?? see Ronaldo, see Sneijder, see Deco… but even then he scored but for a marginal decision and overall he dint look too bad, he has had some blinders this season esp the match agnst Villa, did u ppl watch that or were u busy admiring Kalou and Malouda??

just lean some football sense before commenting pls, there is a reason why even a not-match-fit Joey walks into the team at the expense of that clown Kalou, i doubt wether u have started watching football just frm this season, otherwise u dare not make such a comment…

[quote comment="57996"]
Look at the teams Man U played away – Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Everton, Villa ..
Last season, we dropped points against each of the team except Everton.[/quote]

Next week , Man u plays Man city and in two weeks, they play Spurs. Both games away. With that they have played all the teams which finished top 10 in EPL .. Consider this with Chelsea, we have played , Stoke, Hull, West Brom , Wigan , Middlesborough in addition to black burn and man city away.. This is going to be a big advantage for Man U ..

Our away form is worst in CL. In the CL, we have lost to Rome, draw at Cluj, draw (nearly lost) to Liverpool, lost to Fenerbache, draw with Olympicaous . Our last away win probably was with Rosenborg..

If we drop points against bordeaux, then there is good possiblity of Roma topping the group or even Bordeaux and then that opens us the prospect of facing Inter or Barca in the second round..

completely agree vijay about ballack, only a fool would leave him out when he´s available. He is a versatile player, which has both attacking and defending capability. He´s good in air, free-kicks, penalty, he´s strong, expierienced, intelligent, has presence of mind, gives lots of assists, tries new things when things aren´t going right, scores at important moments, is quick, agressive when needed, and important of all, he´s a leader in himself. He´s also a great motivator. Chelsea is special because of JT, DD, Ballack, Essien, Cech and Lampard. After that come other players Ricci, Ashley, Mikel, joey and deco who are excellent players, but consistency is their problem.

@ 58. Chris
am kinda feel the way ur thinking. am down wit that starting 11.

@ 68. joeblue
lool, YOU SAID IT, it had to be said, somebody had to say it. crazy-legs is a joke=)

LFS should leave lamps on the bench. he cant play him all the time. plus that gives him diff-combo to work wit in the middle. in the end of the day, even thought lamps is one of the franchise player, it will do him well and he will be well rested come crunch time.

[quote comment="58132"]how can anybody compare Joey with Malouda and Kalou?? how many man of the match performances have they made in their entire careers here at Chelsea, they are a joke, week in and out they get the chance to play, they dont do crap, while Joe who was decent atleast on his return from another injury looked 10 times better than those two, i mean is this some sort of joke btw these guys?? you compare a LB to a creative attacking midfielder, wow i m amazed u even have the audacity to comment like that, let me explain to you how it works kiddo, creative and intelligent players like Joe need a little time after an injury to regain their form, they are not defenders u just put back in, they need a rythm, dont understand?? see Ronaldo, see Sneijder, see Deco… but even then he scored but for a marginal decision and overall he dint look too bad, he has had some blinders this season esp the match agnst Villa, did u ppl watch that or were u busy admiring Kalou and Malouda??

just lean some football sense before commenting pls, there is a reason why even a not-match-fit Joey walks into the team at the expense of that clown Kalou, i doubt wether u have started watching football just frm this season, otherwise u dare not make such a comment…[/quote]

Kalou is a quality player with lots of potential. We should certainly keep him and give him lots of chances. Kalou is one of the best young talents. Only a fool would abuse him or want him to leave his club. Yeah, I mean it.

“Manchester City will launch an audacious £60m bid for Chelsea defender John Terry, making the 29-year-old the world’s highest paid player on £200,000-a-week. (News of the World)”

“The west London club will refuse to sell full-back Wayne Bridge to City as Roman Abramovich is incensed that the Eastlands club snatched the Brazlilian from under their noses in August. (Sunday Mirror)”

what the fuck is happening behind the scenes???? are we gonna lose our players this summer than signing someone in? I don´t believe JT would ever leave Chelsea for city, but i don´t like city sniffing our players!!!

I find the comparison between Essien and Ballack completely ridiculous as both are great midfielders but with their own strenghts
Both are powerful players, have big presence but Ballack has a great vision and accurate passes not mentioning his aerial strenght. He could easily dictate the tempo and play the role of a playmaker
Essien has drive, power and his defense and shots are improving too
Of course Ballack had bad times with Germany but he was magnificient after his comeback for Chelsea
And I remember people also complaining about Essien at the start of this season when he was terrible before his injury
We just should be grateful and happy to have such a wonderful midfield ( with Lamps, Mikel, Deco ) , they can complemente each other for club success and score goals when our strickers are lacking
I think Scolari will use them depending on form , opponents and tactics , he’s not lucky having all of them available at the same time …
All big players have good and bad games !

When the results are not going our way we start complaining about our players or the manager. I don’t understand those who say that Deco’s been poor recently. He has been making such a big impact on the way Chelsea play and has been driving force of our midfield. I still think he is one of the best play-makers in the game. LFS knew what Deco could offer for Chelsea and therefore signed him. Deco may get the best out of almost all of our players, especially Lampard.

We now start realizing how important Essien was for Chelsea. Every season Chelsea missing one of the big players through injury for long period. Cech and Terry were out for too long last couple of seasons. Ballack was injured half of the last season. This season it is Essien who we really are missing.

The New Castle game was one of our off-days. Chelsea did not really turn the game on their way. Credit to Kinnear. He came to the Bridge with pretty good plan to stop our attack which worked quiet well. Even Owen played in deep role and fought hard enough to stop Mikel.

[quote comment="58125"]HELLO Vinton Lindo i think u dnt know about ballack….ballack is the best player in chelsea and scores important goals…..where as lampard can score more goals(even 3 or 4) when bottom(relegated)teams plays….first understand ballack scored 39 goals in 89 matches for germany….and he is king in munich…..and please dnt compare ballack’s world class to the likes of essien etc….and pls see ballack goals in bayern munich all have came as a winning goal….that is why iam calling as a world class player and he never missed penalities….[/quote]

Ballack is the best player in Chelsea? On his day if others are not on their day probably! On an average performance… NOT A CHANCE OF HIM BEING THE BEST LET ALONE THE MOST INFLUENCIAL CHELSEA PLAYER! I care for not if he is “King of Munich”, if you didn’t notice, this is LONDON! And I never said he was a bad player, we just have better options at least to me. I have been a Chelsea fans since the Zola/ Desailly era and telling from the impact he has made, Lampard iscut from the same cloth so to speak and is a better player than ballack. No need for two of them in the same team. When Ballack was bought, I was totally against it, as well as the purchase of Shevchenko I might add… you sound like you want him back at Munich. If it were up to me, you could go ahead and take him because for ME, Essien is a far more complete player and not to mention he is younger, faster, and more tactically aware defensively! And with Chelsea having a great offense already there is no need for another attack minded player in midfield, but a player that will hang behind the action most time (also join it at times) so that if a ball pops out (since teams tend to back the box against us) we have a guy that has the boot to score!

Perhaps you forgot the goal that saved our winning streak against Arsenal last season? IT WAS SCORED BY THE BISON!~

@ 74. IwasMissingJose

Can Ballack play any position on the field? Because as I recall, Essien pretty much can and did for us last season and the season before! I’d like to see Ballack play LB/CB/RB/RM/LM/FW lmfao! He is a creative player no doubt and versatile to an extent, but he is cut in the same mold as Lampard and we don’t need a knock off Lamps in our starting lineup more so than we need Essien. That’s the bottom line and I’m sure you’ll see that when both Ballack and Essien are available and you see who LFS selects!

Perhaps you forgot the goal that saved our winning streak against Arsenal last season? IT WAS SCORED BY THE BISON!~[/quote]

perhaps perhaps you, forgot the goals that saved our winning streak against last season??IT WAS SCORED BY ONE AND ONLY M.BALLACK

Perhaps you forgot the goal that saved our winning streak against Arsenal last season? IT WAS SCORED BY THE BISON!~[/quote]

perhaps perhaps you, forgot the goals that saved our winning streak against MAN UTD last season??IT WAS SCORED BY ONE AND ONLY M.BALLACK

Come on guys, you keep forgeting the club is going (maybe coming out) of one of the worst injury/suspension crisis in recent years.Essien out, Ballack not fit coming from injury, Carvalho injured, Deco coming from injury, A.Cole injured, Drogba coming from injury now suspended,J.Cole coming from injury.

From those players the one who can play arent on top form.How can you manage to have a plan B if you have to go creative to come up with plan A using Belleti as holding midfielder or finding a short term replacement if (god forbids) something happens to Mikel?

This guy puts it much better than I can:
http://www.chelsea.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=511507

in my view ballack is better player than other chelsea player…and scored crusial goals….but he is unlucky to lose all the finals…..still i remember he single handedly took bayern lev… to finals in the champions league…and he scored winning goals against MAN UTD(in semi final),LOOSER POLL,PORTO,ETC…only failed against realmadrid that too against zidan magical goal…

Last Season , Didier Scored two goals against arsenal .. Probably it was two seasons back when Essien scored two crucial goals – one against Arsenal and another against Valencia .. But I think Ballack scored an equal important winner against Porto . Hey , I still think we can have a midfield with Lampard, Ballack and Essien with Obi Mikel as HM . What I don’t know if LFS would try out these combinations. At the moment, he is still in a country mentality, in the sense , with 7 – 8 games, you win the world cup or euro cup . when it comes to club and that too of big 4 club, you have to plan to play 50 games a season, last season we played 59 games and year before that we played 60 games . Keeping this mind, you need to plan , to keep players healthy, motivated and match fit.. in other words rotate and prepare. I am yet to see that from LFS.

In a carling cup games, I don’t know why he had to play lampard , even Avram Grant used Scott Sinclair in carling cup . But LFS has to give him one start yet..

[quote comment="58170"]Perhaps you forgot the goal that saved our winning streak against Arsenal last season? IT WAS SCORED BY THE BISON!~[/quote]

perhaps perhaps you, forgot the goals that saved our winning streak against MAN UTD last season??IT WAS SCORED BY ONE AND ONLY M.BALLACK[/quote]

Hey since we’re going at it, I got one vital question for you!

IN BALLACK’S STAY AT CHELSEA, WHY DID IT TAKE HIM A SEASON AND A HALF TO FINALLY MAKE SOME SORT OF IMPACT? Hmmm?

least I can say that Essien has grown in importance each and every game that he is present for Chelsea! He has never faultered unlike Ballack who took more than a year to become acclimated! How long did it take Essien? He immediately was placed into the starting line-up and kept his spot until struck by injury! He was so good that he replaced natural positioned players for their own places when they underperformed! You know what that means? It means he is UNDROPPABLE! If ballack is such a “better” player, then why didn’t he fill those roles, huh? Oh yeah, that’s right… he’s NOT as versatile as ESSIEN!

And two… Ballack only played good for the final 2 months of the season while Essien played GREAT over the course of the whole thing as well as being CONSISTENT throughout his Chelsea CAREER! Tell me Ballack has done that! please I’m begging you! And final point, who has been voted a Chelsea player of the Season? Because if I am not mistaken, AGAIN, Essien has and for all the great performances Ballack has put in, others have put in way better ones. Now this is not to down play Ballacks efforts against United which you are referring to, those were clutch goals and great end of the season performances and will not go under-appreciated. But you need to realize how much more important Essien is to our present team as well as the future as Ballack (whether you like it or not) is coming to the end of the tunnel as the twilight of his career is winding down. I’d give it till next season, maybe the season afterwards!

Hey Brothers, It is pretty stupid that we are doing some comparison on two of our best players. They both great, both are completely different type of players, both are important players for Chelsea. Both have made great contribution to what Chelsea has achieved so far. Both deserve starting role when they’re fully fit.

When Ballack, Essien, Joe Cole are all fit, LFS might play our all central midfielders together.

————————Cech—————————

—-Bosingwa——Carvalho——Terry——A.Cole—

————Ballack—Essien—Lampard—————

–Joe Cole————————————-Deco—
———————-Drogba————————–

How about this hmmm???

All this debate about whether ballck is better than essien, dont really see the need. I think right now we need essien more than ballack, in deco frank and mikel we have enough passers on the pitch with peculiarity to their styles of passing however we do not have a forceful midfielder that can cause the opponents to make mistakes, someone who can do something different (not pass or lunch the ball forward), typical example was the game against valencia in cl 2nd leg under jm. Sometimes mikel tries it but he is more of a great passer than an enforcer.
As per the game it was good until we got infront of goal and we just couldn’t pick the right shot, guess some matches are like that.

Sorry but this just proves that LFS is one dimensional. He couldn’t even get 1 goal from 70% possession. He subbed people on way too late. TSO would’ve subbed earlier and win the game back in the golden days. Only 2 points dropped at home under TSO in his second season? Sorry but i’m still dreaming of Mourinho’s return because LFS has turned us into complete crap. There is no excuse to not score against teams that park the bus. Chelsea has done it so many times before.

[quote comment="58176"]

When Ballack, Essien, Joe Cole are all fit, LFS might play our all central midfielders together.

————————Cech—————————

—-Bosingwa——Carvalho——Terry——A.Cole—

————Ballack—Essien—Lampard—————

–Joe Cole————————————-Deco—
———————-Drogba————————–

How about this hmmm???[/quote]

That is Chelsea’s FIFA 09 Starting lineup in a 4 – 5 – 1

If Chelsea fielded that lineup they would not lose, not to anybody. Essien makes such a big difference, he’s easily one of our most important players, along with Terry and Lampard.

[quote comment="58156"]@ 74. IwasMissingJose

I’d like to see Ballack play LB/CB/RB/RM/LM/FW lmfao! [/quote]

I don´t want to see CM, CAM, CDM, RM, FW, to play LB/CB/RB, and GK!

ballack can play as DM, CM and AM but best as a CM with license to go forward.
When chelsea was playing with mourinho the style was maka as CDM, essien as box to box CM and lampard as attacking CM. Essien can play as CDM but isnt his prefered role, mikel is doing great as CDM and should be seen as the prefered CDM for most games.
as a line up i would prefer a good old brazilian 433 or a 4132
something like
—————cech
bosingwa–terry–carvalho—a.cole
————–mikel————
———-essien—lampard——-
——————————malouda
——anelka—–drogba

essientially essien covers the section between mikel and bosingwa and goes up to help, bosingwa covers the entire right by himself and anelka feeds off drogba with essien providing support, lampard has a free role and malouda operates down the left wing.
Another option is
——–mikel—-
essien—ballack—lampard
—–drogba—-anelka—-

and having the two fullbacks provide the width on both sides, very attacking based formation that relies on pure power to get through most teams as the combo of essien, ballack and drogba would be a wrecking ball while lampard and anelka would exploit the space created by the wrecking ball.

Stop fighting by comparing 2 grt mf s.
We need to play more than 50 games.

With d grt Mfs we have Lfs can pick players on the basis of form and availablity.

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would like to se
————————cech——————–
bosingwa—carv–terry—-a.cole
——————–mikel——————-
————-essien——balack———
————-deco——lampard——-
——————-drogba—————-

or
————————cech——————–
bosingwa—carv–terry—-a.cole
——————–mikel——————-
–essien————————-deco—
———lampard—–balack———-
——————-drogba——————

[quote comment="58175"][quote comment="58170"]Perhaps you forgot the goal that saved our winning streak against Arsenal last season? IT WAS SCORED BY THE BISON!~[/quote]

perhaps perhaps you, forgot the goals that saved our winning streak against MAN UTD last season??IT WAS SCORED BY ONE AND ONLY M.BALLACK[/quote]

Hey since we’re going at it, I got one vital question for you!

IN BALLACK’S STAY AT CHELSEA, WHY DID IT TAKE HIM A SEASON AND A HALF TO FINALLY MAKE SOME SORT OF IMPACT? Hmmm?

least I can say that Essien has grown in importance each and every game that he is present for Chelsea! He has never faultered unlike Ballack who took more than a year to become acclimated! How long did it take Essien? He immediately was placed into the starting line-up and kept his spot until struck by injury! He was so good that he replaced natural positioned players for their own places when they underperformed! You know what that means? It means he is UNDROPPABLE! If ballack is such a “better” player, then why didn’t he fill those roles, huh? Oh yeah, that’s right… he’s NOT as versatile as ESSIEN!

And two… Ballack only played good for the final 2 months of the season while Essien played GREAT over the course of the whole thing as well as being CONSISTENT throughout his Chelsea CAREER! Tell me Ballack has done that! please I’m begging you! And final point, who has been voted a Chelsea player of the Season? Because if I am not mistaken, AGAIN, Essien has and for all the great performances Ballack has put in, others have put in way better ones. Now this is not to down play Ballacks efforts against United which you are referring to, those were clutch goals and great end of the season performances and will not go under-appreciated. But you need to realize how much more important Essien is to our present team as well as the future as Ballack (whether you like it or not) is coming to the end of the tunnel as the twilight of his career is winding down. I’d give it till next season, maybe the season afterwards![/quote]

I THINK U R ESSIEN FAN….YES I AGREE BALLACK TAKES TIME TO ADAPT EPL….BUT U HAVE TO AGREE ANOTHER THING THAT NOT ONLY BALLACK WILL TAKE TIME EVEN IF U BUT KAKA HE WILL ALSO TAKE TIME TO ADAPT THE PACE OF EPL…..I DNT NO ABOUT ESSIEN AND HOW HE PLAYED IN THE BEGINNING OF CHELSEA’S CARRER…BUT I WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF HE PLAY’S IN ITALY OR SPAIN AND HOW LONG HE IS GOING O TAKE TIME TO ADAPT THEIR CONDITION? BALLACK IS PROVED PLAYER I KNOW HIM FROM THE BEGINNING AND THE PASSION AND COMMITEMENT HE AS IS UNFORGATTABLE…..

[quote comment="58182"]Sorry but this just proves that LFS is one dimensional. He couldn’t even get 1 goal from 70% possession. He subbed people on way too late. TSO would’ve subbed earlier and win the game back in the golden days. Only 2 points dropped at home under TSO in his second season? Sorry but i’m still dreaming of Mourinho’s return because LFS has turned us into complete crap. There is no excuse to not score against teams that park the bus. Chelsea has done it so many times before.[/quote]

how can you say that when every team that comes to play us doesn’t even come to play offense? when the opposing team has 2 shots all game, none on target I might add and they even have Michael Owen coming to the half to help on defense, how are Chelsea supposed to score when its 11 back versus the 6 or 7 people we send up to score. I think teams should stop being so cowardly and play some footie! LFS has done a fine job so far, lest we forget he has already had 6 (5-0) scoreline games!

@94. gilli vijay

you are right that i am an essien fan, but he isn’t even my favorite player on chelsea, joey is because he influences the way i play footie. i just think you need to stop being so pro ballack/germany which is indicated by your comments with kroos, and king of munich and all these recollections of the past with ballack’s career! it doesn’t matter what he did with bayern munich or leverkusen in the past, it matters what is needed for the team and we don’t need another offensive minded player in Ballack. we have enough quality passers in the starting lineup as deco is needed to unlock defenses as he offers a different type of pass to Lampard. Lamps is irreplaceble! so forget about replacing him as he scores way more goals than Ballack. Mikel is a great passer himself and his form is too good to overlook. Joey C. is another create passer of the ball! So please justify why in the world we NEED Ballack to start? It makes no sense to me when Essien offers a new dimension to the team with power, speed and DEFENSIVE TACTICAL AWARENESS THAT TAKES PRIORITY OVER HIM THINKING OF OFFENSE! Like I said before, Ballack is a marvelous player to have, no doubts about it, but Essien is more valuable to us, HE IS OUR GERRARD as he can do it ALL! And there is no way you can justify Ballack only starting to show up two months before his second season ended! I have been with Chelsea forever and I can remember when Essien was purchased in expense to Tiago (who I might add was marvelous for us) and he came in a made a relatively instant impact with exceptions to some of the speculative tackles he made versus Liverpool and a few other teams. But that is Essien, hard-noised tackler and enforcer! And once he is back to 100% fitness, I believe Scolari will place him back into the starting line-up! And of course he will rotate the midfield depending on tactics, teams, stamina, etc but for the huge games, I think Ballack will be an impact player from the bench while Essien will start as he adds new dimension to Chelsea.

[quote comment="58197"][quote comment="58156"]@ 74. IwasMissingJose

I’d like to see Ballack play LB/CB/RB/RM/LM/FW lmfao! [/quote]

I don´t want to see CM, CAM, CDM, RM, FW, to play LB/CB/RB, and GK![/quote]

You claim to not want to see that, but when we didn’t have an established RB in form or when we had an injury crisis with out CB the last two seasons, I bet you were happy to see Essien doing more than an average job back there for a position that wasn’t his own. I believe that was why he won Chelsea FANS Player of the Season! Because Lord knows Fareirra was horrible for us over the last couple seasons and we lost all our defensive players in one go! Essien was the main factor that helped salvage our season, even last season!

I DON’T WANT TO SEE LAMPARD #2 IN THR STARTING LINE-UP! We already have a Lampard, we don’t need a lesser version in the team when Essien is available!

@94. gilli vijay
YOU seem to be a MB fan so we dont have to argue about that. am glad both of em play in our team.
but if we were to pick just one of them to be included in the squad, guess what Mr ballack himself would have said; good luck guys were is the exit-door=)
Wat essien brings to the table not to many player in the world can do that!

@Kuhulai
wel i dont think ANY player in the world can bring what Essien does, but still i am a very big fan of Ballack, (first football player i saw) and am so proud to have him here, at the moment thouggh lets just think when Deco is getting kicked out, then we can think of Ballack and Essien is way too away for a return so just focus on right now, and i think Ballack shld be in…

Why this debate still present ? I really don’t understand with such those class midfielders we possess.
Lamps, Essien, Ballack, Deco have nothing to prove maybe just Mikel
I ‘ m happy they’re Chelsea players
We should be more worried about our strenght up front at the moment, Joe not in form, Kalou and Malouda disappointing especially in big games , Anelka our top scorer but who has a lot to prove
They seem to need plenty of chances to score
Then we could be pleased our midfielders can step up and score goals, at least all of them are capable to do
that !!

Vinton Lindo, are you a REAL Chelsea fan or are you a lover of Essien?…C’mon Ballack and Essien are team mate! And you are criticizing one of our players, please grow up!

@101. Keith

First off… I’ve been a Chelsea fan since Vialli so you should check yourself. I most likely know more about Chelsea than you would ever know without looking it up. So if I were you I wouldn’t go there. And so what if they are teammates? So you mean to tell me that if another player was needed more than the other for certain circumstances, you wouldn’t make that clear? So if I were you, if you don’t have an opinion about the situation, shut up! It’s as simple as that. If you have a stance on the situation or you can prove or somehow put in a credible suggestion on to what is YOUR OPINION on what should be the case, do so! But if not, please keep my name out of your “ban wagon jump on” mouth!

Cheers mate

Poor little boy…

tell that to my graduate degree.

@ vinton lindo

I think u need to chill dude…

Both men are great players, and we should be glad that they both play for Chelsea. Stop fighting, its not our decision who plays and who doesnt, thats LFS’s job.

I LOVE Ballack.. you have to admit though definitely Essien > Ballack.. but why choose when you can start both? =)

——————-Cech——————
—-Bosingwa–Carvalho–Terry—A.Cole-
—————-Essien——————-
—J.Cole—-Lampard—Ballack—Deco–
—————-Drogba——————

That should be our starting lineup when at full strength, no doubt.

[quote comment="58209"]
how can you say that when every team that comes to play us doesn’t even come to play offense? when the opposing team has 2 shots all game, none on target I might add and they even have Michael Owen coming to the half to help on defense, how are Chelsea supposed to score when its 11 back versus the 6 or 7 people we send up to score. I think teams should stop being so cowardly and play some footie! LFS has done a fine job so far, lest we forget he has already had 6 (5-0) scoreline games![/quote]

When did we win 6 time with 5-0 score line. I can think of 2 preseason ( one against some chinese or Malaysian club) and two during the EPL

Clubs which play big four do the same thing . They are going to defend deep .. LFS is paid to have a second plan of action and not cry about other teams plans ..

[quote comment="58182"]Sorry but this just proves that LFS is one dimensional. He couldn’t even get 1 goal from 70% possession. He subbed people on way too late. TSO would’ve subbed earlier and win the game back in the golden days. Only 2 points dropped at home under TSO in his second season? Sorry but i’m still dreaming of Mourinho’s return because LFS has turned us into complete crap. There is no excuse to not score against teams that park the bus. Chelsea has done it so many times before.[/quote]

TSO chelsea dropped 10 points in their first season , Chelsea under Avram grant also dropped 10 points ( out of 16 games). Here we have already dropped 9 points at home in 7 games and we have won less. Even under AG, chelsea won against Liverpool ( CL), Arsenal and Man U at home.. Under LFS, already lost to Liverpool and draw to Man U ..

Please bring back the special one, now the Frank Arneson is going to be shown the door.

I disagree with most of the teams given here.

No way Joe Cole deserves a place given his incosistency. at the moment, its very much sinful not to play anelka at the time he is hitting the form. Any day, like 2 strikers instead of extra midfielder. 4-4-2 is the best technical lineup, and is the proven successfull lineup. If you are not able to win the game with 4 starlets in the midfield, then what difference it makes to add another there.

4-4-2 diamond, is the most personally i like. It has got ample chances for the creative midfielder. Especially if you dont have great winger’s in the team, then any day i would like to go for this. Kaka for AC Milan, totti for roma , play in a similar formation and i dont think Lamps is inferior to any of them in this field.

————Cech——————–
Bosingwa ———-Carvalho————Terry———-A.cole
—————–Mikel————————–
—-Essien——————Ballack/Deco——
———– —–Lampard———–
———–Anelka— —–DD—————–

I would challenge that any team dare to play against this formation. the only drawback is joey and malouda does not fit in this combination, but i am more than happy to keep them on bench.

I think you all neglect to mention the teams we have dropped points against at home: Liverpool, United, Tottenham, Newcastle, Arsenal next week… All playing in Europe within the past two or three seasons. So far, I’d say our home games have been rather difficult. Don’t forget all our injuries too (and Drogba’s suspension).

Think of all the teams that are yet to come to the Bridge: Hull, Stoke, West Brom, Bolton, Blackburn, West Ham, Middlesbrough… We are fully entitled to expect straightforward victories from these games. Newcastle was an absolute anomaly. On any other day, we would have won by three or four.

Once Drogba comes back from his suspension, we will finally have the chance to plot a Plan B, get out of this inconsistent spell and go on a winning run.

[quote comment="58210"]@94. gilli vijay

you are right that i am an essien fan, but he isn’t even my favorite player on chelsea, joey is because he influences the way i play footie. i just think you need to stop being so pro ballack/germany which is indicated by your comments with kroos, and king of munich and all these recollections of the past with ballack’s career! it doesn’t matter what he did with bayern munich or leverkusen in the past, it matters what is needed for the team and we don’t need another offensive minded player in Ballack. we have enough quality passers in the starting lineup as deco is needed to unlock defenses as he offers a different type of pass to Lampard. Lamps is irreplaceble! so forget about replacing him as he scores way more goals than Ballack. Mikel is a great passer himself and his form is too good to overlook. Joey C. is another create passer of the ball! So please justify why in the world we NEED Ballack to start? It makes no sense to me when Essien offers a new dimension to the team with power, speed and DEFENSIVE TACTICAL AWARENESS THAT TAKES PRIORITY OVER HIM THINKING OF OFFENSE! Like I said before, Ballack is a marvelous player to have, no doubts about it, but Essien is more valuable to us, HE IS OUR GERRARD as he can do it ALL! And there is no way you can justify Ballack only starting to show up two months before his second season ended! I have been with Chelsea forever and I can remember when Essien was purchased in expense to Tiago (who I might add was marvelous for us) and he came in a made a relatively instant impact with exceptions to some of the speculative tackles he made versus Liverpool and a few other teams. But that is Essien, hard-noised tackler and enforcer! And once he is back to 100% fitness, I believe Scolari will place him back into the starting line-up! And of course he will rotate the midfield depending on tactics, teams, stamina, etc but for the huge games, I think Ballack will be an impact player from the bench while Essien will start as he adds new dimension to Chelsea.[/quote]

u cant keep ballack inthe bench all the time if they keep than he could join some other club….i still feeling that he chooses wrong decision to join chelsea with the likes of 2 milans,real madrid.manutd etc this clube will more suitable for ballack i still remember once zidan said that ballack is the one&only replacable for me in realmadrid…….and gerrard itself a crap and u comparing him wth essien…

@oh my blue

clearly u are a joke, how on earth can we play 2 strikers at the moment is beyond me, what has Drogba done in this season except for that one goal agnst Burnley to warrant a start??
u are a joke again when u say that Lamps is not inferior to Totti and Kaka, i like Lamps and i really respect him as a player but on par with Totti and Kaka?? which dreamland are u in?? have u seen their skill and control on the ball?? their pace and footwork?? maybe u just read abt them in the papers, or internet articles, and saw that they dont score as many times as Lamps so why do ppl rate them better, a person who rates Lamps on par with Totti and Kaka lives in a small world of his own.PERIOD.

Gilli vijay its so clear that your just a Ballack fanboy who doesnt really support chelsea and only started supporting them when Ballack and Sheva joined. You said it yourself that you dont even know how Essien played when he first joined Chelsea, meaning youve only been around for the past 2 years.

Lets get one thing clear, we as Chelsea fans dont give a damn what Ballack did with any other club except with Chelsea. Im not slating him, he was crucial to our thrust towards the end of last season, but he is in no way or form a more important player to Chelsea than Essien. In case you didnt know majority of Chelsea fans consider the backbone of Chelsea to be Cech, Terry, Carvalho, Essien, Lampard and Drogba.

Can someone please explain to me why we are low in cash?
Where is the money :
Steve Sidwell 5 mil
Khalid Boulahrouz 4 mil
Ben Haim 5 mil
Shaun Wright-Phillips 9 mil
Shevchenko a ? amount

we must play against arsenal with their 22 years old captain! without drogba it is too hard to bring them down.
if arsenal defeat dynamo they will get a great spirit to beat us at the bridge,our poor fortress.

@ 105. churchill

I think you need to mind your business being that you read both angles of the “argument” and you only call me out as needing to relax. For what its worth, maybe you should sod of because if I want to post my opinion on here I can, that is what this site is made for. I never asked anyone to agree with me, I simply stated my opinion. You don’t like it? Well maybe you should state your OWN opinion instead of posting something that is neither valuable nor constructive!

No one ever said that both players were not class. In fact I have repeated saying that Ballack is actually a great player and in any case neither would be here in the Chelsea squad if they were not world class. I have been a fan for YEARS and it is exactly a fans job to deliberate what players should be deployed how and where and why. If it were not, I don’t think ay of us would be true fans, because it sounds to me that you don’t care about Chelsea enough to even have an opinion. You choose to not say anything about the blues, fine, but if I have an opinion that I think is valid then I will state it. Nobody told anyone on this site, they had to like it at all, you feel you have a different strategy, state it, if not keep my name out of your mouth, SIMPLE!

@cfc
My comment was not meant to be accurate, but a mere representation of our otherwise dominant performances that we have put in so far this season under LFS. I can’t stand when people down play us when at the end of the day, we are the hands down the best team in the league at the moment, if not Europe for that matter. It’s definitely arguable. Here are the actual results I am referring to…
And you are absolutely right, teams don’t come to play football and that makes the game stale. Maybe that’s why for the FIRST TIME EVER THE BIG FOUR WERE ALL HELD TO 0-0 SCORELINES! And even you have to admit that is a little rediculous!
beat AC Milan (pre-season) 4-0
beat Portsmouth 4-0
beat Bordoux 4-0
beat Portsmouth (again) 4-0
beat Middlesbrough (away) 5-0
beat Sunderland 5-0

@ 112. gilli vijay

Gerrard is crap? For Gods sake the man is the most consistent and probably the BEST MIDFIELDER ON THE PLANET! Just based on your statement about Gerrard, I will no longer be responding to you. Enjoy Ballack though while his career lasts. And by the way, THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL BALLACK COULD EVER MATCH THE CLASS AND PROWESS OF ZIDANE, arguably the greatest player of all time let alone his generation.

And just for the record… where are all these supposed Chelsea fans coming from (the woodworks of the ban wagon they jumped on possibly?) already claiming that we will drop points against Arsenal next week? To me, those individuals are NOT Chelsea fans but merely people waiting for Chelsea to go on a downer so they can hop on the next best thing coming! Well if that’s the case and that is how you feel, feel free to leave now and become a Man. City fan or something lmao. For Gods sake, is this what Chelsea fanhood has come to!?

Telegraph reports today D.Drogba had a dinner at a Fulham restaurant with Inter Milan’s general manager Marco Branca and Mourinho’s agent Jorge Mendes. Speculation over Drogba’s future at the Bridge is threatening again. I would absolutely welcome if Drogba leaves Chelsea in January which should open the door for the likes of Benzema, Podolski or even Robinho… hmm. Scolari is not allowed to spend big this winter. However, he could sell one to buy another. On the other hand, Mourinho wants to get rid of Adriano who spends most of his free time at night clubs.

There is also rumours that Man City is preparing to bid 20 million for A.Cole in January and offering him 130,000 a week which is almost 50,000 more than what he earns at Chelsea. I know Ashley boy loves big money but Scolari and Roman don’t want to lose their player to the future tittle rival. I heard that Roman is blocked W.Bridge’s possible move to Man City in January. But in Ashley’s case, he could buy out the remaining of his contract according to FIFA’s buy out clause.

@Mista
since u are so full of knowledge, how abt nominating urself??
unlike u i dont just sit on my backside with my feet up wondering whats going to happen next, i have an opinion like a normal human being, but its difficult for a wood like u to understand…

Another option is
——–mikel—-
essien—ballack—lampard
—–drogba—-anelka—-

and having the two fullbacks provide the width on both sides, very attacking based formation that relies on pure power to get through most teams as the combo of essien, ballack and drogba would be a wrecking ball while lampard and anelka would exploit the space created by the wrecking ball.[/quote]

Ish, I go fully with the second option. The first is pretty tempting too though

essien is the best and just to say it ive spooke to him last year. really nice guy, have a pic with him to. i am 20 years old but when i saw him i felt like a 5 year old kid. but when started speaking i became my self again and told him that he is tha shit and i would never want to se him leave chelsea:) and this was when the megastore was about to close and me and him and the ghana kid that trained with chelsea last year and some guys working there was the only peaople in the store so it was really cool… just so u guys can cry at knight and wishing u was me :D haha

ballack and lampard is best

joeblue – i’m sorry to say that you are the most irritating, annoying, ignorant, arrogant kid on this blog. your big headed comments are always nauseating! the way you belittle and ridicule people is sickening. why do you think that you know more football than anyone else? why do you crave for that attention. c’mon, act like a grown-up man. okay?

[quote comment="58305"]joeblue – i’m sorry to say that you are the most irritating, annoying, ignorant, arrogant kid on this blog. your big headed comments are always nauseating! the way you belittle and ridicule people is sickening. why do you think that you know more football than anyone else? why do you crave for that attention. c’mon, act like a grown-up man. okay?[/quote]

Can’t agree more! Very well said. Completely agree. He is the only negative in an otherwise wonderful blog. It’s not his comments but the way he ridicules everyone around like he invented football.

Keep up the nice work! Look forward to reading more from you in the future. I think it will be also nice if you add “send to email” tool so people can forward the articles to their friends easily.