The job of a Chelsea manager is a time bomb. It’s always gonna blow up. It’s only matter of time. Many would say, Scolari’s time bomb is also ticking. What wrong did he do? Chelsea are second in the league, trailing only to a team that’s known for its lack of consistency. Peter Kenyon confirmed that Scolari need not have to win titles to keep his job. Have we heard him say this before? Good old fashioned CEO-speak. Scolari might know about Avram Grant’s situation. He was Roman’s pal and to everyone’s surprise, under him, Chelsea lasted in the premier league and champions league until the last day and last second respectively. Scolari must know what is expected of him. A last day runner up finish was not good enough. A sudden death in Chelsea’s first ever champions league final was also not good enough. The expectations are really high but may just be proportional to Scolari’s salary.
The way I saw it, Scolari was supposed to bring in some tranquility. Last season, Chelsea got too much bad press – some from the journalists’ creativity and some from the way the club handled certain things. Scolari was meant to calm things down, bring more stability, show a very nice and noble face of Chelsea and of course, bring more success. When a team keeps winning, everything is positive, good spirit and attitude; happiness all around. The moment a team starts losing, stories like players not being happy with the coach, in-fighting among the players and all that would start surfacing. More often than not, success drives a lot of other things – team work, camaraderie, respect, spirit, attitude etc. If you are wise and successful, the other things would fall in place sooner or later.
Also, there was this angle of delivering a more beautiful playing style. No Chelsea official or the owner has gone on record about the playing style being a priority at any point. This is something media has always propagated and has made millions believe this. I strongly believe that the table never lies. As long as you win the league, nothing else should matter. It is impossible to play bad football and win a competitive league like the premier league. Under Scolari, our playing style is certainly changing but may not be because of Roman’s wish and this could be just coincidental. Scolari wants his teams to play in a certain way and that’s what he is trying, instead of Scolari trying to make Chelsea play differently because Roman wants that way. Roman Abramovich said this when he bought Chelsea FC:
The goal is to win. It’s not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don’t want to throw my money away, but it’s really about having fun and that means success and trophies.
Think of his billionaire mindset. For these billionaires, it’s not about money or anything. It is the obsession to win and to conquer. He must hate to see his team draw or lose. All that he wants to see is his team winning. No one can quote that Roman wants us play more beautifully than we’ve been playing. I have given the proof above that Roman wants ‘success and trophies’. Does he leave us with any doubt about what he refers to as ‘fun’ or ‘goal’?
I don’t think cute football and amicable behaviour alone can keep him in is job. Scolari has to win the titles, and he can’t be taking too much time. If not for Jose Mourinho’s back to back titles, Chelsea FC would have had an entirely different approach. By winning the title in his very first season and by winning it again in his second season, he has made the Chelsea owner and board believe that it’s possible and they can expect this from any expensive manager. Managing an English club for the first time, understanding the dynamics of football in the English league, assembling a multi-million pound team, handling all the pressure and winning the first Chelsea title in 50 years by amassing a British record of 95 points, is an impossible achievement to repeat. Because Jose Mourinho was able to do it, we can’t expect every Grant, Hiddink and Scolari to do it. Well, no disrespect to them, it is such a tough act to follow. In many ways, the back-to-back titles have either spoilt us or set our ambitions higher. Undoubtedly, Jose Mourinho was the best Chelsea manager ever. So it’s quite natural that every manager since JM is being compared with him.
When you compare the squads that won the back-to-back titles with the one we have now, I’d say we have a much better squad today. Only exception could be Robben. Other than we have either retained the good players and have made some good signings. While retaining Terry, Lampard, Drogba, Joe Cole and Carvalho, we have since added Essien, Mikel, Ashley Cole, Bosingwa, Anelka, Ballack, Deco, Ivanovic, Alex to the championship winning squad. Surely, we have strengthened our squad. We have one of the best squads in Europe. Let there be no doubt about it. Whether these players’ potential is turned into performance is a question but the answer should come from the manager, whose very job description would include this. Of course players are growing older, but they are also getting wiser. As JM once put it, there are no old players or young players, there are only good players and bad players. Some believe that our players have become slower and that’s down to their age. No. It’d down to our new style of play. The new style is not about forcing the issue at once. It’s about elaborating it and finishing with a flourish. More often this actually becomes over-elaborating to just perish. So our slowness on the pitch is down to the new style of play that we are acquiring.
I don’t understand the point about Scolari not being able to spend on transfers. When JM was around, we spent millions because we were setting up a team, we were assembling a set of players who could challenge for the title. I don’t expect us to spend that kind of money every season. Now that we have won a few trophies and that we have a great squad, it’s time to reap more benefits. If I were Roman, I would not spend any more money unless there is real need, such as a season long injury or something. When Scolari took over, he must have known what is taking charge of.
For some reason I believe that the agreement with Scolari to appoint him as Chelsea coach was done much before the announcement was made. I feel Bosingwa is a Scolari signing. He is a Potuguese and an electric wingback who fits into the Scolari gameplay so well that I can help but doubt that he signed him. Then Scolari spent 8m pounds on Deco. When we had a midfield of Lampard, Ballack, Essien, Mikel, Makelele (then), Sidwell (then), the best he should have gone for is a squad player for the midfield.
Most of us have come to a conclusion that the Deco signing is somewhat a flop. But I like Deco and I still hope that he can come good for us. After a bright start, Deco has faded gradually. He is so poor at the moment that I hope he does not start against Man Utd next month. Scolari knew Deco very well. They have worked together. It was only because of Scolari, Deco is here. This being the background, why would Scolari find so difficult to get the best out of Deco? Okay, he need not produce his best, but he can do what even the midfielders in the coca cola league do – pass. Why can’t Scolari motivate Deco to come up with a decent performance? Deco also gets loads to time on the pitch to improve his performance. Almost in a scandalous manner, he manages to play all 90 minutes and never gets subbed off despite being the worst player on the pitch, not just the worst Chelsea player. JM made a lot of flop buys too, every manager does, but at least with JM, players were picked based on pure merit. In JM’s world, underperformance was dealt with very severely, irrespective of who had bought that player in question.
Scolari wanted Robinho. Chelsea screwed the deal up. Real Madrid did not surprise me one bit being the double crossing bastards. Scolari was upset with this but these things happen. For a few seasons, we didn’t have very good full backs. The right back role was played by about half a dozen players in the space of two seasons. What if Robinho had joined us and was injured out for 6 months? Scolari offloaded a lot of players like SWP, Pizarro etc and added Deco, Mineiro etc to the squad. At the end of the tranfer period, he was happy with the squad. He did not want to sell any of Malouda, Kalou, Ballack, Drogba, Anelka. So he can’t complain now, at least not to his bosses. If one or more of his players were not playing up to the mark, he can’t blame anyone. He has a superb squad and if he is able to bring the best out of his players, he may not need anyone else. He says he needs a dribbling playmaker. If it’s for the future I’m fine but if he says that because he does not have a dribbling playmaker, it amounts admitting that he cannot get the best out of what he has. Scolari was certainly happy with the squad and that’s why he did not change much. He could have easily reduced the average age of the squad if he had wanted.
Scolari has been a strong influence on the Chelsea team so far. Be it the away pluses or the home minuses, Scolari’s stamp could be seen everywhere. It’s better to try and fail than not to try at all. Scolari certainly has been trying to understand the country, the league, the rivals, the players, the officials, the English approach etc. While he has been honestly trying to understand, I’m not sure if he has learnt as much as I would have liked him to. There was a widespread belief that it would take time to change a team’s playing style. Scolari has broken that myth. We see how differently (not necessarily ‘how better’) Chelsea plays, the credit/debit goes to this man Scolari. Also, he has been such a fine gentleman all along that you see more and more neutral fans starting to like Chelsea.
You see the press talking positively about Chelsea. Journalists show a lot of respect for the man for his pedigree. Can’t believe now if you say Scolari punched Dragutinovic right on his face (he later on claimed that he was merely protecting his players, literally). His not being able to speak the English language fluently is certainly a handicap. It also helps that he can always blame any headline on the misinterpretation of his English. Scattered english also means no sarcasm, no tongue-in-cheek, no elaborate responses, which is in a way good. We have seen the extremes of these at Chelsea anyway. On the other hand, he does not seem to be the type to enter into mind games and influence opponents. That’s quite a weapon if he knows how to use it.
I strongly believe that Scolari is unable to get the best out of his players. One thing is to get the best efforts from one player. Then there is getting the best efforts from all players. Then comes getting the best efforts from all players all at the same time. And then finally comes sustaining the best efforts of all the players over a long period of time with admirable consistency. This is where I think Scolari did not cut it. Language is a barrier for him but that’s a common thing in modern football. It’s not that he landed in London and realised people are speaking English. It was a known devil. It’s simply not possible to make a passionate, emotional and motivational speech to the team, with his type of command on the language. May be that’s why, he prefers to have more and more Portuguese and Brazilians around him.
Also, he had little background about the English league, the teams and players. This is where a Steve Clarke would have been very very helpful. Last season, I still believe that it was Steve who ran the show. It was Steve who always had the job of preparing for the matches, doing the background work, preparation and training for set pieces, study on how opposition play, preparing the videos etc. Also Steve had a fantastic relationship with the players. He was the last link between JM, his style, his methods, his philosophy and the players. Grant knew this and used him to the fullest extent. Scolari should have realised this and should have tried his best to retain him.
Even with Wilkins to help him out with media, Scolari did venture out and made some dubious interviews. In one interview he had said that he did not have dribbling players in the squad, by naming Lampard, Ballack and worse, completely ignoring Joe Cole. This must be a bit annoying for the players. Would not have helped their confidence too. And then there was this instance where he said players love him because he never criticises them. I don’t see anything wrong in holding individual players responsible and accountable for their mistakes. Reading what the manager said would have certainly relaxed some players. Compare this to the mouthful that they used to get from JM every now and then, which kept them on their toes all the time. On another occasion, when Drogba scored the winning goal and sent us through to the next round of champions league, the journo was asking Scolari about Drogba’s performance and Scolari jumping with a response saying Anelka is very important and he was the one who was scoring all the goals. Unwarranted. After the Fulham match, you heard Scolari saying to the press that the goal area is to be organised by Petr Cech and he would ask Cech why and how that goal was conceded. Quite contrary to his own claim that he never criticises players as we saw him doing it in public.
Scolari certainly has his own set of favourites, just like any other manager. He has his favourite formation, his favourite players and his preferred style of football too. For a man of his age, it’s natural that he seems to have some strong beliefs and opinions. I would also say that he is stubborn and risk-averse. I’ve said it many times here that he does not take the game by the scruff of its neck. His Chelsea does not control and dominate the game (not the opponent) as much as it can. He has been quite slow to react too. May be, he belongs to the school of thought that his major role is in the training ground and in man management while the captain and the players take care of the execution on the pitch. Modern football is much more pragmatic and objective than football of yesteryears. Old timers say that football is much more tactical than it was, probably, a decade back. With whatever I have seen so far, I won’t rate him high as a tactician. I remember those times when experts used to discuss about how Chelsea did not have an exploitable weakness at all. And now, any decent tactician can out-think Scolari and shut down Chelsea.
There are rights and wrongs but we cannot deny the fact that he is changing the face of Chelsea. What I expect from Scolari is stability. In order to achieve anything, we need to have a long term manager who could stay with us for 5 to 10 years. It could not have been Ranieri because he was not seen to be competent for the project of this size. It could not have been Jose as there would be this clash of egos at one point or the other. It could not have been Avram Grant as you know why. It could be Scolari. He has the experience, wisdom, ability to handle big players and he has a great CV which misses only a successful big club stint. I hope Scolari stays for a good long period of time but only if he shows some promise.
As long as the players have the technical ability, you can have the players play in any style. The key is if we are clear about the objective and how much the style helps us achieve the objective instead of taking the focus away. Reminds me of how I used to study for my exams back then. In terms of quality and depth of football played, Barcelona has been the best and are a benchmark by themselves. They are testimony to the fact that it is possible to combine beautiful and intelligent football to achieve the objective. But if you see them play, they are not beatuy-conscious about their style. It comes naturally to them. While on the pitch, they don’t seem to think ‘let’s play beautifully today’. It just happens for them. It’s in their DNA. That’s the only way they can play. By beautiful football, I don’t refer to one-twos, one-touch passing and triangles. I refer to truly creative out-of-the-box play which does not require a plan B because every attack is unpredictable. Always multiple options exist because of the constant intelligent movements of the players.
Let’s be honest. We’re more keen about what to achieve than how to achieve. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong about this. Without being ‘Barcelona in blue shirts’, we have won titles. We have a much more pragmatic and direct approach to football just like let’s say, Liverpool. I’d call that intelligent football where you know how exactly to maximise your strengths, minimise your weaknesses, undo the opponent’s strengths and exploit his weakness. And you’d be able to get the result that you set out to achieve. To tinker with this mentality is quite dangerous and probably counter-productive sometimes. That’s because you’re trying to change a winning model. That’s what Scolari is realising now. It was quite easy for him to change Chelsea’s style of play but there are some side effects too. In my opinion, the game in England is played in a much more intelligent manner than in Spain. To succeed in England, your football should be more intelligent than beautiful.
When Frank Rijkaard took over Barcelona, they just finished runner-up in 03-04. It was only in 04-05 and 05-06, Rijkaard brought the best out of Barcelona. Even in 06-07 when Rijkaard was sacked, his Barcelona team performed better than Real Madrid. Being level on points and with superior goal difference, they still lost only because of the head to head results. Even Barcelona were not winning, even when Rijkaard was building his team, Barcelona could hardly be dominated. Rijkaard and his team showed a lot of promise and they delivered, finally. Do we see that promise with Scolari and Chelsea now is the question. Chelsea is three points off the leader, and if Man Utd win their games on hand, we’ll be third in the table. As much as we have earned this, we’ve also been conceded this spot by our rivals. Going by how this season has gone so far, topping the table calls for no euphoria if the gap is not 6 points or more. If Scolari had better, we’d have been leading the table by at least 6 points. Even keeping the results aside, my problem is that I don’t see any promise! Is it a case where see the promise, improvement and development, and only the results don’t go our way?
I failed to see the promise and development as of now. I see us going weaker by the day, in fighting spirit, winning mentality, consistency and results. These are the things Chelsea have prided themselves in the recent times. Fighting spirit. Winning mentality. Consistency. Results. The reason why we had all this before is because of JM. Sorry that I need to keep taking his name but that’s the truth. JM personified those four things – fighting spirit, winning mentality, consistency and results. As a very good manager, he made the whole team think like him and he built this team with these cornerstones. The Chelsea FC until recently were living JM’s idea of the Chelsea FC team. The team now reflects Scolari. His mentality, his priorities, his way of doing things etc. The team concentrates on areas that Scolari would give importance. The team neglects areas that Scolari would neglect. Scolari thinks it’s all right to draw and the team also thinks it’s all right to draw.
Scolari’s biggest challenge now is not on the pitch or in the training ground. His imminent action should be aimed at restoring the Chelsea pride and getting back the self-confidence of his players. They should get back to what made them champions. They should play for the team, for their colleagues, fight for each other, play with a ‘never-say-die’ spirit and a ‘devil-may-care’ attitude. With what I have seen, Scolari does not seem to be a great motivator. In terms of points and statistics, there is no crisis in sight but there is a gradual deterioration of performance by the players, all of them, including the best player of this season Mikel. I see their shoulders dropping. I see that they have big doubt on their own capabilities to score, to win, to lead and to hold the lead.
Things started going downhill from the day on which the home league record was broken. That was a milestone. There was only two ways to go from there. Either to regroup and relaunch or to crumble and succumb. We have certainly not regrouped and relaunched since that result. Scolari as the manager should have foreseen and managed this slump. He, unfortunately, has allowed the result to take a toll on the players and allowed it get them pshyched out because of that. Reminds me of Arsenal’s 4-0 drubbing in the hands of Man Utd and their match against Birmingham last season which had the lasting impact on their season which saw them surrender their 10-point lead and finish third in the league.
With half a season gone, Scolari has not yet won a big game or a derby. Draw with Man Utd, Fulham and Tottenham. Defeats to Liverpool and Arsenal. A poor run in the champions league group stage. A torrid home home league run. Toothless attacks and spineless performances. We no longer dominate teams but we succumb quite easily. Definite change in the players’ mentality. We’re no longer the victory machine that we were. We lack the spirit and ‘never say die’ attitude. We now miss the siege mentality that JM sowed in the players. That’s why players sometimes even entered into brawls on the pitch. They were passionate. They were emotional. JM grew this ‘us against the world’ mentality to develop and maintain the team spirit and mental strength.
The Chelsea that we now see is a very vulnerable team and beatable team. As long as you got your homework right, you can fancy your chances against Chelsea now. For all this, what have we gained? Has anything improved during this period? I won’t call this a transition period. A transition denotes a process of significant change. I don’t think Scolari intends to bring about any significant change. He opted to continue with the same squad with a few additions. If we are in the process of transition, I don’t expect us to be champions but there is no transition. What Scolari seems to do is to just try and continue the good work done by the previous managers. But he simply he has not shown the quality to complete with the likes of Sir Alex, Rafa Benitez, Wenger, Martin O Neill, Moyes etc.
If I have to rate Scolari on a scale of 1 to 10, I’d give him a 5 as per the BBC rating scale (see poll below). This was the season where he could have led the pack by more than 6 points. He is now trailing by 3 points and is probably facing drop to the third place as Man Utd storms through. So far, in my eyes, he has certainly fallen short of expectations. Players did not play all too well. If a set of players don’t play well and don’t play well for weeks or months, all fingers will point at the manager and rightly so. It’s not my wish but I don’t think Scolari is going to stay with us for too long. I’m afraid he’ll soon lose the dressing room, as we churn out more and more poor results. Failure breeds disharmony. My expectation for this season has fallen rather steeply. I don’t have any serious demands. Trophyless season is fine by me, as long as we finish at least second in the league.
All I want to see is Chelsea play like they used to, in terms of how they hated to lose or draw, how they badly wanted to win every single match, how they fought until the final whistle, how they all played with the game intelligence, how they played Chelsea. In short, I want Chelsea to be Chelsea I know. I want my Chelsea back.
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Guys
There goes my longest post ever (I guess). All of 4000+ words. Sorry about the post being longer than the chinese wall. I had to say all this. I feel lighter now. Take your time. Read this in leisure. Please do vote. Please do comment. As fans, we have a big role and responsibility to play in letting the powers that be know what we feel. Don’t think that no one cares about these blogs. This is internet. Anybody can land up on this blog – be it John Terry or Roman Abramovich. I’m sure they must have their methods to obtain fans’ feedback. If they do, BlueChampions blog should rank right up there as one of the important sources.
One request: Keep the discussion mature, sensible and objective. Thanks.
Whoa.. and I thought I posted at length. heh. Nah – very good post and I agree with 90% of it as well. Especially the part about them just “playing better”. That is why I said I would be comfortable with a high scoring ManU draw. If they look like they are playing well and still draw at Old Trafford then who can blame any team on Earth for that result?
brilliant way of summing up every cfc fans feelings!
nice article!
Great previous post. My views echo that with the exeption of the fans! My time supporting Chelsea goes back to a time when a win against Grimsby would be celebrated all the way down the M1. Our support is terrible at home, fact. When fans ike Burnley and Southend can fill our Shed end and sing about our support being rubbish you know you have a problem. When your up against it you seem to want it more, the so called supporters are so danming of their very own at every game, it has become a joke.
I am 43 and in my block which is west lower 5-6 it is literally like going to the cinema sometimes. I always try to sing up for the team and often get frustrated a the lack of vocal support. I remember going to Anfield in the semi which I still beleive to this day that their fans won them that game. In the seventies when ever we had a corner or even a throw-in, we would always in sync sing at the top of our voices “come on you Blues” repeatedly. All the players had their own song which we sung at the start start of each game. We never had favourites, if they played we sung their name. We do when things are not going to plan do the “come on Chelsea” chant but even that, its not as compationate its almost like your telling the team off. Its time we ALL took responsibily for our home form.
Scolari is adjusting, Steve Clarke is a massive loss. For JM to offer to quit if Clarke gets sacked says it all. JM knew our support was getting to expectant and touched on it in his program notes on more than one occasion. Even John Terry beleives our support needs to step up to the plate. We should out sing every club who visits the Bridge and help make it the fortess it deserves to be. We were all hungry for success which I still believe hepled with the back to back titles and our support was great particulary the 2005 campaign. I would rather have 25,000 real fans together rather than 41,000 mixed with people who could not be asked to sing and cheer the team, I am sure it influences the real fans to fall into the quiet and moaning lot these new types we have. Get behind the team. Resurrect the chants we have and do them in unison, from all sides not just north stand but all over. Make evey opposing fan feel that they were outsing at the Bridge and trust me the results will follow!
Hey Paul
Thanks a lot. You made a very interesting point. It is generally understood that the increase in ticket prices and the corporate allocations have kept the vocal grass root fans away from the stadium. While that’s on one side, the manager of the club should develop a rapport with the crowd. The fans should feel the connection. That was something JM was quite an expert at. He was easily the crowd favourite because he understood the fans’ psyche. He would go to the away fans stand and thank them, he would spoil his expensive suit to celebrating a goal, piss off the rival fans and managers etc. Scolari too, should somehow create this connection with the fans.
All – Thankya. Can’t believe you’re really reading all that . . .
Appiah is on a weeks trial with Spurs….. this guys is gonna be a killer!!
http://football-corner.blogspot.com/2009/01/former-chelsea-and-arsenal-target.html
The Southend manager and striker finding a chink in our armour and calling us vulnerable!
Southend manager: They [Chelsea] did look a bit vulnerable in the air. They missed John Terry [suspended] at the back, he’s a leader and wins things in the air, there’s no doubt about that. Everyone can see that.
Southend striker: Of course we spoke about the problems they had been having at home. We watch the football, we watch Match of the Day and the Premier League games. We’ve seen that 80-odd [unbeaten home] game run come to an end. We believed that there was possibly a chink in the armour. We set out our stall, we worked hard during the week, and had a game plan.
Says a lot about our situation.
BC
I try to read all your post but painfully I can’t stop thinking of the hypocrisy that comes with your post.
JM was and will remain the best ever manager in term of stats and spending $$$$.
He could have gone 2ed very soon if only the people who run this club had more vision.
Sooner or later Peter Kenyon will be blamed for the description of this club, either by the fans or by MR RA, I’m not quite sure yet when .
Any ways
that’s the 2ed best average stats ever for this club!!!
that was made by MR AG who i deeply miss
total games 54
total wins 36 66.67% Percentages
total d 13 24.07% Percentages
total l 5 9.26% Percentages
total scoring 95 1.76 per game
total considing 35 0.65 per game
clean shits 30 55.56% Percentages
goleas difreance 60 1.11
total league games 32
league wins 22 68.75% Percentage
league d 8 25.00% Percentages
league l 2 6.25% Percentages
league points 74 2.3125 per league game (thats like 88 points if he was manager for all 38 games)
total points 121 2.24 per game
english cups wins 8 80.00% Percentages
english cups d 0 0.00% Percentages
english cups l 2 20.00% Percentages
cl wins 6 50.00% Percentages
cl d 5 41.67% Percentages
cl loses 1 8.33% Percentages
all this LFS bla bla could have been saved.
Sooner or later Peter Kenyon will be blamed for the Sooner or later Peter Kenyon will be blamed for the destruction of this club, either by the fans or by MR RA, I’m not quite sure yet when .
Quoting BFDS
BFDS – Sorry I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. Especially the above paragraph! What is the ‘hypocrisy’ you’re referring to?!
goood read! I’d agree with about 85% of what you made clear. Still don’t believe that we will end up with nothing this season, nor have I lost faith in being EPL champions considering the players we have, the chances we consistently generate and the recent performances of the other big three in terms of them dropping points as well! We are again, only three points adrift and the other big three still have to pay each other as well so we stand more than a good chance! With the return of some injured regulars and their key play with Lampard, Cech and Terry still embodying the belief of old, with Mikel coming to prominence, I’d say we have much to look forward t as long as are forwards put the ball in the net more than one goal in 15 chances! There in lies the problem, our finishing is not ruthless, but rather toothless and that is what needs to be fixed!
Guys! Why don’t you reveal your 10-point rating for Scolari and explain why you’ve rated him so?
I’d give the man a six considering that he is a FIRST TIME European league coach! And considering that his English skills are lacking which in turn affects his motivational speaking to the team as a whole would seem to cause some damage as well. What I also think people are under-estimating and what BC briefly managed to include in this article was the fact that Clarke was a major loss for us! I believe he was the rock of motivation in terms of our defending and organization. With him gone, we seem a shambles. Overall, I think Scolari (when you balance the beginning of the season when we were called the best team in Europe and now with us falling off the consistency map) he has put in an average performance.
I think much of our lack of success when it comes to killing off games comes from the fact that we lack consistent finishers in front of net and a further creative outlet that can break down two or three men on his own (which is why Robinho would have been marvelous for us… anyone see what he is doing at Manchester City?! Imagine the amount of goals and assists he would have with our squad around him!) But that is outside the point… I think Scolari has been nothing short or beyond average and that he sadly has not lived up to the hype of his name, but that it will come once he is officially settled, given better prowess over the English language, is allowed to reshuffle the squad and bring in some new blood and given another season! Look at Barcelona and how they have rebuilt a team that essentially kept its core players and added on to that nucleus! We must do the same as the feeling at the Bridge and some of its players have become quite stagnant. I’d say we hold on to the likes of Lampard, Mikel, Terry, Cech, Essien, Bosingwa, A. Cole, Joey and sell some of the loss ends and the deemed troublemakers (ie. Drogba, Ferraira) as well as look to integrate some of the promising youth we have!
For me, this is a transition period that should have honestly started in the summer of this season with the offloading of some of the aging and inconsistent players and the acquisition of more players who can make an impact, such as Bosingwa (who for me has been a top 3 player in terms of consistency for me).
BC you said .. you want to see scolari here because he has promise…. the you went back and said .. you dont see and promise. what is it man!!! do you see it or not !?
I sure as hell dont see any promise with Scolari God knows!!!
BC Im loving this piece(article) It was very long as i saw it i knew.. I said damn BC something was on your mind…lol !!
I feel like crying sometimes when I think of how the old man is destroying us!! where is the damn board!!! Scolari’s mentality is all wrong….
“I remember those times when experts used to discuss about how Chelsea did not have an exploitable weakness at all. And now, any decent tactician can out-think Scolari and shut down Chelsea”.
‘The team now reflects Scolari. His mentality, his priorities, his way of doing things etc. The team concentrates on areas that Scolari would give importance. The team neglects areas that Scolari would neglect. Scolari thinks it’s all right to draw and the team also thinks it’s all right to draw”.
bc all I can do is quote you.. all your point are correct!!
“Things started going downhill from the day on which the home league record was broken. That was a milestone. ” not once but twice!! that was the day I know .. this is not the man for the job!! it was the manner in which it happened as well
scoalri thinks ITS OK TO DRAW AND NO PROBLEM IF WE LOOSE!! SCREWED UP MENTALITY THAT HAS RUBBED ON ON THE PLAYERS..
I SAID FUCK OFF WITH THE DECO AND SCOLARI!! DECO PLAYS LIKE SHIT … AND PLAYS 90 MINS…. WHAT THE FCUK!
I remember on December 7th of this year watching Aston Villa at Everton. Everton went down 2-1 at the 54th minute with an Ashley Young goal, but fought like madmen to regain a lead. Everton tied it up in the 90th but it didn’t even seem like they were playing for a tie during those remaining 36 minutes; they were storming the gates looking for a win. And even though they lost that game 3-2 (another Young goal in the 90th), it was some of the best football performance I’d seen form a single team in a long while. It made me realize what I miss most about Chelsea. The choice between beautiful football or utilitarian football matters little if the team lacks the motivation to execute. It seems that every time we give up a goal we start breaking down. We’ve lost something in this new Chelsea. I’m not the type of fan to falter at the lack of silverware (the Chelsea crest tattooed on my chest isn’t there for superficiality), but I won’t tolerate a team who wants to be on the pitch less than I do. As passionate as I am about Chelsea, as we all are about the Blues, I shouldn’t have to look to a 6th place team for inspiration. Whether or not LFS is the root of these problems is unclear, but it’s his task to solve them, to turn our team around. If we lose this season, or this trophy, or this cup is forgivable in my eyes, but disrespecting an international cult of loyal fans with impassionate football is not.
The beginning of the season when we were called the BEST team in Europe and now with us falling off the consistency map… Scolari is single handily responsible for this!!
I remember this.. I was so proud….and to think manure won the CL and the media saw us as the BEST! wow… now we are shit… not nice at all
Based on his performance so far, I would give him 5 . Don’t care if he is first timer to European football or English premier league or carling cup or FA, he earns 6 MM pounds. I am not going by the last few results, it seems to be problem with his attitute, which is that of a coach who manages a country – no rotation , no tactics whether you play Man U , roma or southend , whether you lead 4-0 or whether you are down 2-1.
If I have to play 4-1-4-1, trust me any one can do this job for 100,000 pounds..
Based on his performance so far, I would give him 5 . Don’t care if he is first timer to European football or English premier league or carling cup or FA, he earns 6 MM pounds. I am not going by the last few results, it seems to be problem with his attitute, which is that of a coach who manages a country – no rotation , no tactics whether you play Man U , roma or southend , whether you lead 4-0 or whether you are down 2-1.
If I have to play 4-1-4-1 always, trust me any one can do this job for 100,000 pounds..
why didnt scolari go for Appiah!! he is a hell of a lot better than deco. do you see how easily deco looses the ball!
guys take a look …Punters set off Luiz Felipe Scolari scare with Chelsea boss tipped to get the sack
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1106072/Punters-set-Scolari-scare-Chelsea-boss-tipped-sack.html?ITO=1490
Great piece, matches over 90% with my on opinion.
Just want to say, that Scolari in BR and Portugal become known not for being a Gentleman, but for being a choleric with players and press.
There another thing that I still can not judge it well. It is largely understood, that he holds a lot from Deco. But in truth, Deco only became the Portuguese Passport and starlet to represent Portugal, because at the time Scolari never called him to play for Brazil. So I think their relation is not the easiest one.
Scolari is really not building the team, and does not have the skill to be successful in the EPL. I always had this impression, only was in the expectation to be proved gladly that I was wrong.
he didn’t go for Appiah for one simple reason that is bore from the same country as this man…
ESSIEN!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/gallery/2008/jun/18/chelsea.portugal?picture=335119086
Funny
i rated scolari a 6
our opening game against portsmouth gave us that result because of very poor defending which portsmouth is still giving now
scolar has bought something to the team, but whatever it is, it is backfiring, even watching our games, there is a reluctance on the pitch to give the ball to deco when he is in certain positions.Last season, we conceeded goals because belletti marked lazily, this season we had problems with adventurous bosingwa, now we are conceeding alot of aerial goals and for a team like chelsea who opponents fear when airborn, that simply isn’t acceptable, in terms of physical strength, we probably have the best team in the premiership, we are a tall team and gifted in the art of retaining possession whether or not we decide to shoot
I like scolari for his passion and character. He did something brilliant with brazil, i questioned his euro approach with portugal but i also point out, he had a similar set of players to work with. the only things brazil, portugal and chelsea hve in common is a solid backline and a tall striker, whereas portugal and brazil had an arsenal of quick, dribbling attack minded midfielders. It could be a case of scolari adapting to a slower more strategic game as none of his national teams were known for working the ball around the back four and midfield until a 1 on 1 appeared. My problem with scolari, is his refusal to change. Quite rightly said, scolari said he ould get the best of his players, he kept some we felt to be deadweight and signed another i have been against since tabloids announced the rumors. Scolari had access to many portuguese and brazillian stars as well as others. Forget robinho, we could of had joao moutinho, quaresma, meireles, veloso, lacerda, marcelo, even ronaldinho was available. Deco needs to sit on the bench, the epl is not going to give him any return to form, he needs to decide whether he is going to bring a few players in now or stay quiet and change the system again. This is still mourinho’s chelsea. But something has been tinkered and no-one can put their finger on it, bring clarke back, and lets see what happens.
Quoting denver
Next year, then he will lose Essien, Mikel and Appiah for African cup. If he is so good, he would have found a team. Even Wenger has not yet signed him even if he is free transfer.. We have Mineiro who is yet to start a premier league game yet .. he didn’t even play FA cup .. Appiah would be cleaning our bench , even if he joined.
Guys – Your opinion on Ben Arfa and Theo playing on our wings
I think Scolari is making Chelsea a bit boring. How I long for the growling, ruthless and feared Chelsea !
He is due to sit in the Old Trafford directors’ box along with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article2097693.ece
PLEASE ROMAN GET HIM BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
he have missed essien this season lets wait and see till seson end and then give verdict on scolari i bet ur opions will change come then
essien will be like a new signing fresh legs we have been missing essien never gives up week in week out he is the engine if we can beat united then we can win epl
i rated him 7.
I think he has done good upto now,considering that he has not managed a club team for so many years.Yes,I would hold him responsible for the for the Liverpool loss and West Ham draw,but other matches its ok,Arsenal match was okay he couldn’t do anything about it(the linesman spoilt the game),Newcastle i think we did break down their defence only for the assistant ref to give Joe Cole’s goal offside.And for the recent results I don’t think he should be held responsible for it.Everton match had to be a draw after Terry went off.The players made mistakes against Fulham and Southend.
Scoalri isnt playing on the pitch,he is just managing,what we have to do is take every chance that comes,else we pay for it.
You guys must surely remember that 1-1 draw vs Wigan at Stamford Bridge which dented our title hopes,why did we drop 2 pts ,coz we didnt take our chances.Its upto the players to show some professionalism.In the same match I remember their keeper Kirkland being fantastic,just before Wigan scored ,we had a great chance,Essien squandered it really,he just had to blast the ball,instead he tried to be too cute.This also happened in stoppage time.
Therefore,for the recent results I do not blame Scolari,the players also need to show some professionalism.
And I think we have been missing Essien a lot,he was the heart of our team last season.He literally does destroy the opponents while going forward,moreover he has got some pace with the physicality.
We really need him.Im really looking forward to the OT match,I do really think we will get something out of this match,the reason being how well we are while attacking in the recent 2 games.
Our away schedule is Man Utd,Liverpool and A.Villa,iI think we will get a minimum of 5 pts from these 3.
If we can keep up with Man Utd and Liverpool (i mean catchable distance)until Essien comes back,we would have a great chance in the league.
As for the cup competitions,there is still a long way to go.
Southend result is ok.These things happen.It wasnt our day at all.Man Utd got knocked out in the quarters of the FA cup last seasonmthey played damn well,hit the post ,created many chances,but it just wasnt their day.They got knocked out.
I think we will become stable come the end of January.And again I really think we will get something out of the OT match.
Looking forward to it.
Go Chelsea!!!
also please read this:JM is going to OT to watch the match adn they say he will sit with RA in the director’s box.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article2097693.ece
Eessien should not be missed too much in a midfield consisting of Ballack, Mikel, Lamps,Deco and J Cole. managers always have to do with what they got and LFS has got quite a lot !
maybe it’s in the grand scheme of RA and RK that they let Chelsea muddle thru a few years of the present situation for PR purposes then get JM back later !
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1106077/Nielsen-wants-leave-Chelsea-join-Rennes-advice-Drogba.html
YET MORE PROOF OF DROGBA THE TROUBLEMAKER!
And any team would miss Essien! No matter what midfield they have at their disposal… Essien is an engine and is of a different class than Ballack, Deco, and Mikel!
Quoting Vinton Lindo
LOL that’s taking it a bit too much. Would you have cared about Nielsen otherwise? Many don’t even know he exists, let alone at Chelsea. Please don’t think Essien is the solution to all our problems. In the pre-season and the few matches he played, he wasn’t too impressive.
I’ve rated him 4 because he has taken all the pride out of Chelsea. We’re no longer special. We are just another team. We have no specialities now. All those things that happen to other teams happen to us also now. We are not immune to anything now.
Jose’s gonna watch the Manure vs Chelsea match from the directors’ box with Roman. I want two things to happen now:
(a) Jose to give a passionate, motivational team talk to our players.
(b) Roman to strike a deal with Jose to take over Chelsea at some future point of time.
Voted 7 as the man had to overcome some difficulties right from the start: Steve Clark gone,Drogba injured and then red carded,Essien Carvalho, Joe Cole,Deco,Ballack all with several injuries,etc,etc…so there really wasnt time for the players gel together.Plus he knows that previous managers were put away because of problems with the press so he cant really complain about things to so the focus of attention is more on him.Theres still a long season ahead and I would only worry if MU gets 6 or more points clear from Chelsea.
BC,
I first want to let you know that I value your opinion highly and when I was at work and I saw how long your article was I didn’t read it until I got home so I could read it without distractions. I was glad because usually I get annoyed when your blogs are too short! Lol, the more insight we receive from you the better. Anyways, I enjoyed reading what you said and I agreed with pretty much all of it except one thing, when you said “trophyless season is fine by me, as long as we finish at least second in the league” Maybe not that I disagree with it but because I think that would be a disaster for this club if that happened. I guess in a way it’s good if the fans lower their expectations drastically, but at the same time I think back about 3 months ago or so when most Chelsea fans were expecting to win a quadruple. It astounds me as to how things can change so quickly and so easily. I am guilty of being one of the fans to turn against Scolari maybe too soon, perhaps he needs some more time to become more accustomed to English football. Whatever it is, things need to turn around before it becomes chaotic within the club. If we have a trophyless season, Scolari is almost guaranteed to be fired as well he should be, this squad has way too much class to end this campaign empty handed once more.
Looking ahead to Man United, I really don’t think it is an impossible task at all. United have lost to Arsenal and Liverpool as did we, and drew against us even though the reds were outplayed in that match as well. That is 1 point out of a possible 9 vs the “big 4″, so yes they are beating the teams they are supposed to but not in particularly dominant fashion and not against the top sides. This is the perfect chance for Chelsea, to give Scolari that big win, to give him that sigh of relief. For all our fans and players to put some doubts to rest and become rejuvenated. I know you are looking to find the old Chelsea back, I think we all are. It lies within the players, they still have it in them. We still have the same core of players as the title winning years, I believe they will find it. Chelsea will be back.
Fayez – Don’t post in CAPS. It hurts.
Its not all about soclari,the players were poor too.Terry/lampard/ballack/cech……. played very poor in many games.We can see old chelsea see back at old trafford,if the players have passion for their club ,show it at old trafford for chelsea fans and FUCK OFF.
All of us know that Manchester United game is a title decider.Defeat means the end of chelsea EPL and i think end of the season.But a win ,you know how this feel.
After demolishing Midelsboro 5:0 all of the players thought they are the champions of world,after that chelsea were fucked.Our spirit was stamford bridge ,when it had beaten ,chelsea spirits had gone.But chelsea has a chance at sunday,we throw away too many chances this season,I hope we get this .
I gotta give big phil 6
BC, today was a good day, tx for this long post!
I never been a LFS fan (didnt cheer for brazil and portugal). I think as BC said, more then the result mattered when they appointed big phil. there for I never had high hopes about him but I did expect our team to do superb. for his defense I gotta say, he been havin a whole alot of injuries. and one more big factor is the communication problem. Why didnt S clark leave? cause he didnt mesh wit LFS or cause he wanted to get a better chance at gettin a headcoach job? evidently he was very important to us.
BUT injuries are part of the game and everything start and ends wit the coach.
I think he is bein to nice. he needs to stop kissing a**! his honeymoon is ova, he needs to take control.
The players are bein lazy to. I mean like some said, there only soo much a coach can do.
Our recent play dont promise much, but the season is long and I honestly believe that we still got everything in our hands. WE WILL go to the promiseland and sing we are the champion.
One more thing, is it bad luck that we been having all this injuries?????????????? What are the fitness coach doing? I mean something gotta be wrong. I know some of the blame to essien been gone for so long is theirs. they did advice him not to take the surgery after he did twisted his knew in the preseason I think it was. they told him he was strong enought and it didnt required surgery. We all know what happend then.. Maybe am way off blaming them. but damn gotta try to stay fit. After the season I dont wanna look back and blame the injuries, but accept the fact that man u was the better team.
THIS been my believe all along, the team that are ahead of man u when the season is over will be crowned EPL-Champs!
I hope we trash man u, and show TSO that its all about chelsea. the worst thing would be if we get outplayed by man u.
I got a good feeling for the game at OT. lets make a statement that speaks loud in the PL.
come on u chelsea
Thank You BC, Great post as always, i actually read it all lol. I personally think we have become weak and fragile under scolari and its not that he’s not a good manager, but its because he lacks the qualities JM bought with him. As you pointed out clearly BC we have lost our “winning menatlity” and as long as we dont get out confidense back and beleive in ourselves we are not going to previal. Surely we are/were playing beautiful football and at first it was all good, until teams figured out out over-used and predictable style of play and since we have not looked the same and have gown downhill. To be honest chelsea is just not the same team anymore, we lack confidense, ability to kill the game, inconsistency, intellegence on the pitch and quite simply the JM effect. News about Mourinho coming to watch the game against utd is quite interesting, I wonder what he will make out of his rock-solid chelsea that has now become spongebob square pants comin strip. It would be really embarrasing losing out in front of him but what matters the most is that a loss at old trafford will surely kill our season because in our current state their is no way we can close down a 6 point lead on liverpool and a 5 point lead on utd with villa and arsenal right on our heels. Its a must win game at the trafford but somehow i think were simply in for a drumming but if we can get our motivation and confidense back, then ill be more than happy to be proven wrong!!
I gave Scolari a 7, for the reason that I don’t think he has been at all horrendous. It takes an exceptional manager, like Mourinho or Alex Ferguson, to win the English Premier League; so far, Scolari has not lived up to that expectation in our performances but he has hardly been bad. We are still second (albeit likely to fall third behind United unless we beat them at Old Trafford, a rather unrealistic expectation) and only three points from top.
As you said though, BC, we have not taken advantage of the opportunities our opponents have given us. I have no doubt Jose would have had us several points clear by now, even if we wouldn’t have kept the home record. Scolari does have my patience, but results must improve soon if he wants to survive a backlash from fans and the board. I get the feeling we will improve, but this two month blip (since Newcastle really) has certainly cost us the title this season.
My expectations were always that we would reach the quarters or semis of the Champions League, but no further. It is excruciatingly difficult to get to the final two years in a row, never mind win it (if United win the league for the third year in a row and the CL twice, then their quality is absolutely undisputable). All my realistic hopes for a trophy are in a decent FA Cup run – we should make our way to the fifth round at least with ties against Southend and Ipswich.
As an aside, finishing second in the league makes no difference now other than bragging rights… First to third in the EPL are all now worthy of a Champions League group stage place – no qualifying round. I think, despite our flaws recently, we are comfortably superior to Aston Villa and Arsenal, and are in no danger of dropping below third at any point.
…….Gottcha…..BC………..and keep up with the good work…………when i first arrived at your site by accident……i was stunned by its detailed analysis …on chelsea fc……….i was longing for such an interactive site……………..
and i once again say this………..tht “i just hope some chelsea official coach player anyone out there linked to this wonderful club….read these blogs and comments……u will truly feel…. chelsea fans emotions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we are all in to this together
Have read it through and agree with about 80 per cent of what was written. Now I am going to talk about the points that have not been reflected earlier enough, or at least I did not have seen that:
Steve Clarke. It is not a cliche that an assistant manager is often as important as a manager (head coach) himself. It is no coincidence that AG, although his training and tactical abilities were nothing special, was able to do a great achievement of fighting till the last minute in the PL and CL as well. At least he knew when it was better to let somebody else do his impact. On the other hand, I thoroughly understand Stevie that after all that years he simply wanted a change – and when he was called by his former team-mate and a Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola, it was pretty hard to hold him at SB.
Stevie is gone, but it leads me to another point – Scolari’s English. Although I cannot omit my respect to the courage of the old man to get a job in the country he does not know the language of and is able to learn the basics of that in a short time (just imagine that!), it is clear that the appointment of Ray Wilkins as assistant manager was at least partly because he needs an English-speaking AM to speak to the media sometimes. I honestly hope this is not the only role in the club Wilkins is destined to – but anyway, if you were a Portuguese manager, did not speak English at all and had a bunch of your natives in the realisation team, with whom would you consult your decisions more often???
Now, why I talk about that. With his new assistants, Scolari promised Chelsea to play like Brasil. It undoubtedly sounds great to the ears of Chelsea fans that suffered under Mourinho and even more under Grant (o. k., I loved the style, but sometimes it was a bit boring to see Chelsea win 1-0 for the fourth time in a row with 1,5 sensible actions in the whole match and just passing-and-waiting style in the rest of the time). I still love the general pattern of the play he brought to SB. But the problem is that he starts to forget the basics – quick change from defence to attack, solid-rock defense and 100% organisation at offensive as well as defensive set pieces. That is a grave mistake. The fruits of Scolari’s work are maybe yet to go; however the erosion of the former benefits of our team is already visible, and much of that is because of Scolari’s neglection.
For all this, I give Scolari 5 – nothing special, hoping for a better tomorrow, but anyway I still have a fate in him. Let’s see on Sunday – no way of excuses, now show what you can do!
@ BC
Looks like the Big Phil’s mentality is not only affecting the players but seems to be taking its toll on you as well my friend..cheer up..!!…dont loose the fire in the belly of doing the treble…and never settle for anything but first being a Chelsea fan..!!
lets go fcuk some manu ass..!!
LOL read the news on Scolari sayin he will not play a 4 – 4 – 2 formation until he has a genuine left footed winger, so why sell bridge genious when he play play on the left, we could of easily played him as a left footed winger since were not buying any new players. Its not hard to guess that with Malouda injured we will be playing the good old worn out and figured out 4 – 1 – 4 – 1 formation at old trafford. What does that mean, you may ask – hmmm well from the looks of it we will be outplayed, outsmarted and literally raped by Utd because AF will most definetly play a formation that is going to counter balance our own and Scolari unable to make the right subsitutions, we are most likely to be down something like 2/3-0 at the end of the match. I hope to god im wrong!!!!
Quoting Playmaker
that is not the point! the point is, why is Drogba telling our youngsters to leave the club if he were about Chelsea?
and for you, Playmaker, to say that Essien is not one of the solutions to our problems is absurd!
and Jaz…. wtf kind of post it that about your own team?! Down 2-3 nothing? Are you out of your fukcing mind? Have you not seen how ManScum are struggling for goals themselves? Stop being such a useless fan and try supporting your team! Chelsea to win 2-1 for me… but wouldn’t be surprised at a 1-1 draw
That’s the spirit Vinton Lindo! I have found someone who believes Chelsea will win this Sunday!
@ vovka
are you taking any kind of drugs lately? You should stop it, it’s not healthy.
You wrote ” …sounds great to the ears of Chelsea fans that suffered under Moreno …”, well me for once long for that kind of suffering again.
@ vovka
are you taking any kind of drugs lately? You should stop it, it’s not healthy.
You wrote ” …sounds great to the ears of Chelsea fans that suffered under Mourinho …”, well me for once long for that kind of suffering again.
Man Utd vs Chelsea :
===Cech===
Bos=Terry=Carvalho=A.Cole
=Lamps=Mikel/Essien ?=Deco
=Kalou=Drogba=Anelka=
Only Win!! or go home SCOLARI :@
SUB:Belletti,Ivanovic,Ballack,Cudicini,Di Santo,Malouda,Sinclair.
Please come back Mourinho
Quoting bluefanforever
breda NO ASS FUCKING AROUND HERE BOSS!!! YOU A VIOLATE THE ORDA!!!!!!
Quoting Jaz
thats what I’m asking.. I remember us saying to the old man .. try bridge as a winger…… he can play a more advanced role .. but did he listen … NO! now he chats shit about .. not having a left footed player!!! moron
Vinton Lindo, there is no need to be flabbergasted mate, if you read my comment properly, in the end i said i wish to god im wrong, why wud i be happy if we lost to man u, but at the same time their is something known as keeping in touch with reality. Fair enuff utd are struggling to score goals, but were also struggling not to concede goals, so with that in mind do u reli think with the sort of mentality, that we have under scolari we can go on to score and keep the lead at old trafford?? Did we do it against Arsenal? Did we do it against Fulham? Did we do it against Southend? and these are just to name the few matched where we took the lead and coudn’t hold on to it even if our lives depended on it. Im not trying to be negative or trying to get a reaction out of people on this site, as i said nothing would give me bigger satisfaction if im proven wrong and we go on to beat united. But in reality we are just not the same team under Scolari, were too predictable and too nervous on the pitch and were making too many mistakes and teams like Utd thrive on mistakes. That’s all im trying to say that if we do play the way we have been as of late then utd will take advantage of it. We need to see the same fire in our players that led them to beat Arsenal 2-1 when we were a goal down, beat Liverpool 3-2 in CL semi final, beat Everton when we were 2-2, that is what we need from our squad and our manager the “never say never” attitude on which we thrived and literally ate other teams alive!!
To above…
As a fan, why would you entertain the idea to begin with?
Bc
I must agree that some points of my post wasn’t clear so I will try to explain
When I said that your post had a lot of hypocrisy in it, I think of few points
1. The ignore of the AG era and comparing FLS to JM when you should have compared FLS achievements and stats to AG’s just as to JM’s
2. I see that as part of trying to avoid your big misjudgment AG as our manager.
Instead of admitting you where all wrong, you prefer to go around the bush as AG time never happened, and the fact that you and so many fans here never had the sense to realize the quality and achievements of AG.
The way you give Steve Clarke so much credit is not based on any facts but if it helps you to minor AG part.
If I’m not wrong any team with the same stats as AG stats would get the title in 7 of the last 10 years.
But you still ignore all that.
3. My 3ed point is the way you ignore our opposition for the title each year, and the fact that Man U of last year was a team hardly will any team do or play so well.
It would be refreshing to read you say how blind you where all last year.
Any ways I ranked MR LFS with (6) for being so average.
That’s what I said here at June 14th
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A name
That’s what real selfish spoiled fans need, that’s what RA gives you (with little help from the poorest management in the EPL)
Here we have a no name doing great sacked for a big name that will give us shit
Once in a life time story is being ended for the spoiled fans
A name you asked for a name you have
Nothing more than that!!!!!!
Forget about building new team with young players
BC say
“I’m guessing here. Last thing we want to see is him being sacked because he won the title only 2 points. Roman should allow the manager some time to impress upon the players and slowly make them accustomed to his style. May be it should be made clear that winning of titles in the first season is not really mandatory. He has been given only a three year contract (so the compensation will be lesser?) but he should be allowed to stay for all three years. I think he will.”
More than anything I loved the:” May be it should be made clear that winning of titles in the first season is not really mandatory. “LOL
God you’re so funny- huge hypocrite as well
Looks what he needs to do:
More than 68% wins
less than 25% drowse
Less than 7% losses
Even so it doesn’t mean he will win the EPL
Any ways I bet he will have nothing close to these stats and will keep his downhill ride
this guy is way over the hill
downhill here we come
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vinton lindo makes a good point
although we are struggling it seems, we still have scored the most goals and conceeded the least, man utd may have 2 games in hand but none of their goals have been fluent works of art, all of them are scrappy and not every team will conceed that way. We needn’t worry about liverpool, they will waste away as they always do. But quite rightly said, this match which will decide the title, last season, we lost and beat man utd, so that is three points each, this season, we already have 1, if we pick up 3 against man utd, the title is pretty much taken care of
The players should go into Old Trafford with the pain still in their hearts, the pain of that rainy night in Moscow, and destroy Man U in their own house. Let’s go Chelsea, I believe in you guys.
Manchester United 0-2 Chelsea
BFDS
I sometimes presume that every single reader knows well enough which makes skip certain points. I don’t think there was any hypocisy there because I don’t think I leave anything to ambiguity. All of you know my views on more or less everything about Chelsea. Don’t ya?
I don’t rate AG. Under AG, Chelsea made it to the champions league final and was in the premier league until the last day. It was more than obvious that AG was not pulling the strings. What kind of manager would be walking around scratching his head when his assistant is doing the talking int he break before the extra time in the champions league final. AG just happened to be there. I’m sure not one player would have felt bad that AG was sacked. In fact, with our performance in the champions league and premier league, any other decent manager would have been given another chance. You need to ask why AG was not given another chance? What made Roman sack his friend AG by paying him heavy compensation? AG was bad for Chelsea. Even if he had won the champions league, I would have said the same.
Yes I said “May be it should be made clear that winning of titles in the first season is not really mandatory” and I still stand by it. I have said this a thoutsand times. I’m gonna now explain it like I’m telling a five-year old. I don’t rate manager and performance only by titles. If a new manager wants to bring about a massive change, we should allow that time for the transition. Very few managers will be able to win trophies even during the transition. If you understand me clearly, my problem with Scolari is not that he may not win titles. My problem is that Chelsea has become no spinless, no ordinary and lacks so much confidence under him.
My sincere advice to you BFDS: Please post in a coherent way that everyone will be able to read, understand and appeciate your comments. Be a bit more clear. It would help.
This is what Lassana Diarra says about Real Madrid:
Quoting BlueChampion
Well said Lassana! That’s exactly I long for! I’m not saying I want Jose Mourinho back. I’m just saying I want that Chelsea back. That union of thoughts and approach. That winning mentality.
Quoting denver
i meant, lets pick ourselves up and kill manu on their turf, just a figure of speech when trying to rally the rest of us here who are getting bogged down by our preformances (just like i am). Sorry if it offended anyone..
I totally agree with play maker and by extension disagree with Vinton Lindo on Essien. He’s not going to be the solution to Chelsea. Right now Chelsea are playing like a bunch of chihuahuas, adding a bulldog to the pack wont alter things much. It is a team game. Plus someone mentioned about his games in preseason and the 1epl where he was not so impressive.
People have a short memory, do u guys remember on this blog when we used to be seriously divided over essien, especially about his passing and general decision making in the centre of the pack. Essien will only play well if he is plaed on the wings, no real place for him in central midfield .
I gave LFS a 4. He has taken our fire away. Even though we have scored plenty goals in total, most of those goals came before teams realised the soln to relentless RB and LB attack. Since then we’ve struggled to score. Now, if I were an epl coach playing against Chelsea, I’ll play 2 defensive midfielders like Liverpool and stress the Life out of Lampard and Mikel, end of story.
Having said these, I hope something happens in OT. Something like Fergie deciding to go soft in the head and playing Anderson and Carrick in the Centre and including Nani- who by the way may find his way to chelsea giving LFS predisposition- inthe starting 11.
Plus, BLUECHAMPION, is there a way for us to be more active about getting our opinions heard by those that can do something about it. It is ok for us fans to come here for hugs and mutual back patting. I feel it’s high time we took it a step further, we have been shiuting, we need the right people to hear these noises. I dont want LFS sacked, bt are we the only ones that think he’s doing a shiite job that people are not even tipping him for a sack, regardless of the global financial crack and tear
i gave him a 7. Simply because even though chelsea are second they also are one of the few teams that get better as the season goes on due to the large squad depth, we can rest players that liverpool, arsenal and even manU arent able to.
Comparing chelsea to barcelona when rijkaard took it over is a bit silly because rijkaard inherited a club with a style of play he was not asked to change, they already had the attacking, pass play and any new players that were bought in got used to it. Chelsea on the other hand had ben ingrained in a style of direct attack play, one where the shortest route is the preferrable one, thats why mourinho used a 433, it maximum attack in the shortest period of time, it worked great but is boring as hell to watch.
Scolari was bought in to change the perception of chelsea as a boring team because look at the biggest teams in the world none are seen as boring, cept maybe the italian’s. Roman wants to enjoy himself when he watches chelsea and to do that he needs to win beautifully.
Now to do that requires a crap load of work and great players, we have one but not the other because many times the players just dont have the right positioning to really open up and it becomes obvious that too many times chelsea’s goals come not from an individual bit of brilliance but just having better players and simply stacking the attack with as many players as posisble. Give time for chelsea to shine and i think people will be surprised even the maulings of portsmouth and middleborough that chelsea inflicted was not perfect with many times the players moving slowly and thinking slowly, but by having a hugely talented squad it seemed like they were performing great.
Barcelona are going great this year but in all honesty how much of the line up really changed, half the time its the same players as last year yet they a much different team, the players were able to find their groove and even barce had a shaky start. Chelsea’s 2008 was sad but now its a new year and hopefully some players will pull their heads out of their arses and play.
Quoting ish
Chelsea has been suffering from a lack o squad rotation guy!!! if you watch barca matches you would have seen that Pep is rotating his squad.
Scolari is not rotating thats why Bridge left!! and now saying he does not have a left footed person…. moron
Quoting olu
I agree with you man!! I have always asked BC to get our word out there!! we must try to get out views to the board man!
Quoting bluefanforever
alright youth everything cool!!
up you blues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jose Mourinhio will come to old trafford for Chelsea-Manchester United game.How sad he will not sit on chelsea bench on sunday.
@66 olou
No place for Essien in the midfield?! He is a Top 3 midfielder on the planet as of this moment! And he is our version of Steven Gerrard, so how is it that he cannpt replace Deco or Ballack? You must be mad because he is the most versatile player we have and is the most commanding player we have in terms of presence in the mid of the pitch! Did you not watch him save us game after game last year! Do you not know he was voted Player of The Year in 2007? The man is a beast and if we do not use him, we will lose him and surely that is a travesty!
Scolari will probably use him immediately as he becomes available and for me, with Essien fit, Ballack and Deco can both sit on the bench as they haven’t been able to connect one meaningful pass in the last couple of games and have both been playing terrible!
Quoting Vinton Lindo
Well said!! THE BISON (aka the train) is the best we have and he must come straight into the squad, and if he does no then scolari is a morn
ish – I wasn’t comparing Barcelona and Chelsea. In fact, I was saying that Barcelona have their style of play in their DNA. It comes naturally to them. Whereas we had a winning formula which is being fiddled around for the sake of more beautiful football. My worry is that this quest for more beautiful football is making us very vulnerable and mentally weak.
Quoting BlueChampion
That’s what I said. I was certainly not comparing Barcelona and Chelsea in the sense you seem to have understood.
Also you seem to suggest that Roman wants to see us play more beautifully. This is the most talked about point in the last two seasons but I doubt if that’s what Roman wants. These are my thoughts about Roman’s so-called dream of beautiful football:
Quoting BlueChampion
Since Essien can play in 5 different positions and has been known to have a powerful left foot, just a thought but can we not use him as a left winger ?? Essien in like Stevie G for us and Gerrard can play on the left and just behind a striker and he is very effective in each role so with that in mind, we should experiment with Essien and see if he can fill the role of a lift winger that we soo badly are in need of. Since Kenyon will not buy any other player and since we offloaded Bridge, SWP, Ben Haim, I think its time for Essien to play as Scolari insists the missing puzzle role in Chelsea. I wonder what ever happened to all the money that we got from selling and loaning out good 20+ players this season??
With the emergence of Mikel we can play Essien almost anywhere we want. He is devastating as an attacking midfielder, I want to see this lineup on February 25 vs. Juventus:
——————————-Cech—————————–
–Bosingwa———Carvalho——–Terry——–A.Cole—
——————————-Mikel—————————-
——J.Cole—————-Lampard————–Essien—-
—————Anelka——————–Drogba————–
Quoting Jaz
yeah good question!! what happen to all that money!! (in kenyon’s pocket?) what was robinho’s transfer fee?!! SWP’s fee, Ben Hahim’s fee, Bridge’s fee!! we should have more than enough money to get a LB (yuri Zhirkov/winger) Winger(Ben Arfa/LEFT winger) and a top class striker(Podolski/Zaki)!! Come on man!! they are killing us!! BC you should look into this!! please get back to me and let add this up!!
why is everyone so obsessed with Zaki?! I don’t get it… the guy, at least to me is extremely overrated.
he’s not a Chelsea calibre player in any way and would be a mistake buy much in the same fashion that Sidwell was although Sidwell would be a great player for a 5th through 20th place team, much like Zaki he is not a Champions League talent.
i chose 6 because i can’t really forget his impressive result early this season which is gave us this well goal diffs at this moment of the season . anyway like some of lads i fell confident that things gets better in near future . maybe MANU match would be the key ! and i agree with LFS about our recent problems which is lack/less Concentration in matches i really don’t have any idea where is it come from ! i personally think something wrong happened in or out side among players !! otherwise what’s hold us against southend because they were from fu*kin league one for god sake but i think if we seek consistency AND clean result it’s the main factor we should resolve so let’s keep hope alive . UP Bluez .
Quoting Vinton Lindo
youth Zaki is class…. did you see his goal against Pool?!! you probable didnt .. hush, when he plays wigan is like a whole new team! he takes free kicks well .. also penalties… he is like a drogbaish kinda guy… he terrorizes defenses, the guy picked up a thigh injury .. and when wigan were in problems… they put him on.. and the ran like he was fine!!! thats the kinda heart chelsea need! wigan still lost the game but … he came on and worked hard.. similar to drogba
lol i just want to emphasis our inside (in mind) problem theory . did u c the tottham v burnley match ? they thrash them with 4 goals. they were that team who came to bridge and fuc*ked us up .
A week since the transfer window has started. We have seen one player sold and another go on loan. Still no news about any buys ?
talking about new forces and after recent LFS woes about he doesn’t have any left foot wingers except malouda who is injured so he can not change system to 4-4-2 i think there are 2 perfect options available right now for chelsea first one is lukas podolski . he is 23,left foot and really talented no doubt and i heard recently that bayern could sell him just for 10 m euros according to the news . second is vagner love . he is 24 , left foot too ( actually both ) technical & has very good stats at CSKA . both of these players are fantastic if chelsea will have any plan for this transfer window.
@82
Who hasn’t seen his goal against Liverpool! That is is one claim to bloody fame! Tell me any other games when he has scored such important goals? The guy has 11 goals of which 4 are penalties.
He is not Chelsea calibre and is not worth the time investigating his worth nor integration into the squad! Pretty much any average or just above player can make an impact on Wigan! Isn’t that my Heskey at like 40 is still their top man lmfao! Come on with this business about Zaki man, it’s laughable at best!
You just named reasons why we don’t need Zaki besides the fact that he only has 7 goals for a striker when the penalties are taken away!
1)He takes free kicks well?! Why would we need another good free kick taker when we have the likes of Deco, Ballack, Lampard, Drogba?
2)”drogbaish kinda guy” – My point has been made clear within your own description of Zaki! Why would we need another Drogba if we already have the real Drogba?
3)”Wigan still lost but he worked hard…” – We have plenty of hard workers, that is not what we need! What we need is a out and out CONSISTENT goal scorer!
… and my final point… If Zaki is such a hot property, why are no other Champions League teams looking to acquire him? And since there are none looking to acquire his services being that he simply is nothing special… why should a team with the goals that Chelsea are looking to accomplish buy a player that none of our competitors on the European scale want?
Point proven.
Furthermore… Luis Valencia of Wigan would be a more useful buy to us with his pace, shot and delivery! Far more useful and a claim to the cause of any of Wigan success than Zaki is!
How do you explain Luis Valencia being sought after by Sir Alex himself at one point, Real Madrid, etc while Zaki gets no such looks?
look who lost to derby today, even after strengthening the squad with three starters, man utd still crash out of the carling cup
scolari has rotated players just not as visibly, rotation does not mean massive changes in just one game, its a gradual change like for instance resting anelka in one game, lampard in another and so on. But in the next part of the season, the business end. The teams who are able to cover for injuries, tired players from internationals and other little things will be in the best position. The teams with any sort of depth is manU and chelsea, and since ManU has a couple of 2 games per week times coming up they will struggle in that sense.
@88 sadly they didn’t crash out of the Caring Cup yet… they still have a home leg to play, but Fergie said he’s still going to rely on the youth to make up for the missed opportunity to actually put in a decent performance today.
btw sinclair has been loaned out to birmingham for the rest of the season. so 1 less youth player to watch out for.
Quoting ish
Scolari has not rotated player visibly or invisibly. 9 out of 10 times Scolari has made only forced rotations because of injuries and suspensions. He rested Anelka ONLY ONCE and that was against West Brom or someone. Even against Fulham, Anelka was brought on. Even when it comes to rotation, Scolari is a big failure. The guys simply doesn’t know how to rotate. Let’s admit it. There were so many matches where he could have given chances to second choice players but he didn’t. Even when we are 3-0 up and 4-0 up, he never brought on players like Di Santo. The appearances that Di Santo and Stoch made were in improbable last few minutes when Chelsea were trailing against Arsenal and Liverpool and when Drogba was not available.
Guy is a muppet. He gives away Sinclair, Sahar and Bridge and says he won’t play 4-4-2 without a left footer. What’s this nonsense? Scolari is a loser. He talks like a loser and acts like a loser.
hello all……..
The start of the new year has been very tough for me. After facing a few problems on the financial front , now my company got stuck in a big mess ( Satyam Computers ). people from India would know it…..added to it Chelsea’s woeful form now….its been a tough time.
wish some divine intervention to come and bail Scolari out in the Manu match….i somehow feel that A Cole will score a goal and we might win….my suggestion to Scolari is ( if he listens) play a midfield diamond. there there is no req for a left sided player and he can play his wonder kid Deco also in that formation. wish Vidic fires Drogba and then we can see a resurgent Chelsea again…..
Praying at least the things will look up for me now……
sinclair is loaned out only till feb 3
yeah no time for rookies . we need a proven skill.
@52
Lets make it clear… I greatly appreciate the work of Mourinho and I really enjoyed the Chelsea seasons as a whole during his era. But, time of the time, it came a bit boring to me when I saw a fourth consecutive 1-0 win and no sensible action at all besides that goal one (yes, ok, a solid-rock defending was great – but what more?). That does not mean I dont appreciate it, I enjoyed the season as hell.
But when Scolari came, I said to myself: OK, now we are going to play an attractive all-out-offensive football, dominating the midfield and destroying enemies with possession and activity, not with the stubborn defense, counter-attacking and set pieces whenever possible. God, how I would be happy if it worked properly, if Scolari was a bit less predictable and more elastic with his tactics. It does not – but anyway I am still eager to see Scolari repair the wrongs and put it the right way. If he is able to do that (and I still believe he is), than the result will be more attractive play than during Mourinho era, bringing results to us as well. But up to now, it is still only “if”…
btw. thanks for asking – I drink a hell lot of coffee every day, maybe that s why
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the bast team of the 2008 is Man.Unit Chelsea is in the 6th place behind Bayern, Liverpool, Barcelona, Boka Jouniors
bastarding, well, theres still hope man utd will lose out
nonetheless
we should play youth teams in these kinds of competitions really, it is owed to the fans to see the progress of our youth system
our midfield is very good at retaining possession under pressure, especially mikel, the problem is, aside from joey, no-one has the ability to penetrate the box when it is bogged down with defenders, robinho would have worked but not against teams like us and man utd, remember how much he got put on his ass against us and them. Even still, scolari is right to say malouda is key, hes tall for a winger so that is box prescence, he is quick so he is good for counter attack, and he is left footed so there is balance, but he is playing so poorly, he never displays the qualities that he has shown at lyon, i think he too has lost passion. We should come away with the league title this season, but I can’t see anyone other than barca walking away with the champs league trophy. Summer will be a very interesting time for chelsea, i expect a fair bit of shopping
I dont like to bash anyone in blue. but this Deco he is awful.
Quoting Vinton Lindo
your one of those guys that never like to create our own talent…… what we should have gone for Huntalar right… well he wouldnt come…. cause for some reason when we go up against bigger clubs we always loose out on the player. next we need a attacking powerful forward thats what I meant by “Drogbaish kinda guy” remember its a real possibility that drogba will move on in the summer… who else do you know young enough with proven worth in the EPL as a lone striker??
fact is you are one of those guys who want everything ready made…. if Zaki is average… we can ake him into class then
I guess you dont rate Podoski either…..lol what are you going to say he does not start for Bayern right….. we all know he can bring the goods… just not being given the chance at bayern.
… and for your information I don’t prefer buying guys than raising them! So when you stop your accusations, I’ll stop mine.
Sidwell was not a good enough talent for Chelsea, bottom line! And neither is Zaki. That is why he wasn’t able to stay because he never impressed here, BOTTOM LINE! Good player… just not Chelsea calibre, just like Zaki!
Old Man can’t play two strikers and now creates an issue
http://www.goal.com/en/news/1711/chelsea/2009/01/08/1051419/chelseas-franco-di-santo-in-row-with-scolari
Oh God , please for just two weeks can we have all the chelsea player without injury and then lets see if this Old man can play other combination. Till now drogba was injured, ( with Maluda/bridge and anelka/disanto/kaluo) he said he can’t play 4-4-2 and now he had found a great excuse with maluda injured..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/chelsea/4174831/Roman-Abramovich-to-miss-key-Manchester-United-clash.html
Quoting cfc
u serious!! we need him and JM to have a chat!! and reason about the team … and make up! and become friends again
Angel Di Maria… could he be a good buy?
we should play a 4-4-1-1 against utd but scolari has been training the pnly with the formation 4-2-3-1 this last week. positives are that carv and terry is back. drogba will surely play alone striker. my guess is that mikel and balack is playing more defence and cole deco and lampard are playing behind drogba. our first 11 looks good but i wouldnt like to se deco start, he has not been at his best. we need another winger and a striker. di maria and benzema?
OK boys ! everyone spew venom at ManUre in the coming hours !
admittedly i do have some reserves about podolski, he is a bench warmer at bayern for a good reason but i would use him on the wide left as he does for germany, he is quite big as well so i think he could provide bos prescence and would be able to pull down those long lobs we dont seem to be able to reach
denver i think you decimated whoever it was who talking that rubbish about sidwell zaki etc
those are a long list of players i dont rate and had to work hard just to put in a league one performance
I see so much potential with di santo but if scolari doesn’t give him decent opportuinities, he will leave, i want to see more of our youth but as far as i know, we don’t have any bright stars in the left side department. Like our captain, drogba is not a spring chicken any more, he gets injured more frequently and severely each season.
i repect man united, well, i respect fergie alot, he has stayed with a club and assembled it from the bottom up. What I will say about man utd, is they do not quite have the depth we have, just versality. Their team is full of alot of players you would not rush to sign, they have a major injury in hargreaves and to be honest, they haven’t been playing that well lately, aside from the derby match
there is no reason for us not to come away with all 3 points.
This weekend I want to see us be formidable in the box, i want us to penetrate the middle of the pitch, carrick, scholes and anderson are not notorious for ability nor strength, i want to see shooting at every sensible opportuniy and if that means driving from ouside the box, lets see more of that
decimated? haha hardly… the debate over Zaki and Sidwell was clearly placed on the autopsy table by myself, can’t see how Denver ever made any good points.
Hey Guys did u see Rafa burstin out on the comments made by Ferfuson, seems like another mind game between fergie and a manager. How many times has he done that before with Keegan and Wenger, only JM never let Fergie get to him instead it was the other way around lol, well now to the big match, I kno as of late ive had my doubts due to our performances but for some reason I think now is the tym to put in a world class performance and shut all the critics up once and for all. Our boys need a magical performance on sunday, all the squabbles, transfer talks and media hype needs to be put aside and chelsea needs to come out shining like they have so many tymes before when we were doubted. Ballack & Lampard should start, I dont kno if starting Deco wud be a good idea, Joey on the right and kalou on the left with Drogba finally playing with confidense because its about time he starts to act like a world class footballer caliber that he posseses rather then a cry babay that he loves being as of late. Go You Blues, the time to react is perfect, Victory awaits us!!
Di Maria looks like a decent promising player and somewhat humble but needs some decent coaching to get the best out of him in the next few years.But on the other hand (I think) hes got a serious injury that will keep him away for a few months.
team against man utd:
—————————————-cech—————————————
bosingwa——————-carvalho—–terry—————————–cole
————————————–mikel—————————————-
————————–ballack————lampard—————————–
——cole——————————————————–kalou————
————————————-drogba—————————————
I believe this team will put in a performance on sunday and they will silence the critics. We have to end this horrible run, the worst in ages (3 wins in the last 10 games in all competitions). We should win this game 2-1, drogba to score then rooney and then lampard for the winner.
Gd luck blues, keep the blue flag flying high.
lol, vl, im jus sayin u pushed some buttons, denver came across almost angry
anyway jaz is thinkin on the same lines as everyone else i think, lets jus stick to the normal formation, without deco. and if need be, we’ll twist it up come 60 mins
man want to win because it is the game of the season, we want to win because of what we stand for, I want to see a good show this weekend, no excuses, no silly mistakes like backpasses, unmarked men, just pure stamford style class
Quoting Vinton Lindo
guy did you watch zaki in the ACN ?!! I bet you didnt!! the guy is a fucking best standing at 6’1 and built for the league very powerful!!! and has been consistently putting on good performances for both his club in Africa (thats why the keen eye of steve bruce took him to the EPL) and country.
he has 10 goals!! regards less if it includes penalties… a goal is a goal!! he has near perfect movement and vesion!! thats why he scored that great goal (side kick) * dont remember against who.
you just making it seem like the guy is no damn good!
I made no good point!!! lol
I never chat shit .. I do my research and then speak to facts!!!
ever since you came on here all you have been doing is attack other bloggers but you can scare me youth .. so build back !!Jamaica mi come from!
by the way he aint old .. he is just 25
Quoting Vinton Lindo
no use complaining over this anyway youth cause we dont have no money to buy any one!! so buy someone else on your PS3 if you dont like him lol
Guys this is my last post on this blog cos I’m going back to school and would be back in May.Very long time I would miss you BC, Denver, Vinto just to name a few and all of you guys.Love you all and peace.I would listen to the Man U vs Chelsea game on radio.Hope we can do well and take all the 3 points.
My Squad for the game:
Cech
Bosingwa——Carvalho————Terry————Cole
Mikel
J.Cole—————————————-Kalou(Deco)
Lampard
Anelka——————–Drogba.
Chelsea, Lamps, Terry calvaho all the best do it with all your heart like the Chelsea under the JM era.Get the winning spirit.Guys did you see Ronaldinho when he scored against Inter with the header, did ya see what he did to see to get the fans behind the team.That’s the spirit, the die hard spirit.Chelsea do it all!!!!!Scolari please don’t let us down.Mancienne should have a feel of the EPL let him come on please the guy is soooo good, he’s 21 today let him make his debut tomorrow and let Di santo go Scolari, he’s only warming the bench, let him gain experience please he’s so important to the Under 20 squad
Subs:Mancienne, Belleti, Stoch, Di santo(if available),Ballack and Deco.
Why does scolari need Di Maria, Scott SInclair oh why does chelsea not see the great potential in this guy.Give him the left flank and see the wonders he would do.I just love this guy, put Stoch and Sinclair on the wings and see the results.Pacy football and lot of goals.
Stoch needs to play this match in the second half, he is a goal scoring winger like C. Ronaldo.
Guys listen to what SInclair says after he’s being loaned:
I’m 19 and I’ve got to that age where I need to start playing every week,” Sinclair told BBC WM.
“I’ve been back at Chelsea playing with the likes of Deco and Frank Lampard and all those top stars, but it’s time to kick on my career and get games.”
I’m very sad to hear this when Scolari says he doesn’t have a left footed player.Damn it, look at C.ROnaldo, Manutd took him and did they ever send him on loan?Even Alex F. doesn’t want to send any youngster on loan.Sinclair needs a chance to prove himself.He is what we need on the left flank.Sinclair has done enough to prove to any manager that he’s ready.Very soon i think no young player would play for chelsea.Give him the chance Scolari please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Bye guys.
My dream Chelsea team in 6 years:
Ryhs Taylor
J.Cork—-Mancienne—-Hutchison—-Bertrand
Bridcutt
Sinclair—–Kakuta—–Stoch
Di santo—–Ben sahar(Frank Nouble)
Quoting Splinter_Cell
big up youth evrytime!!!! respect!!! keep the blue flag flying high … my brother in blue!!
@118 | Splinter_Cell I agree with your point about Stoch and sinclair I for one have always wanted to see them get their chances!! like when we were 4-0 up or 5-0 up but it never happened.. hopefully soon though .. gods speed
this team is a wicked team by the way
My dream Chelsea team in 6 years:
Ryhs Taylor
J.Cork—-Mancienne—-Hutchison—-Bertrand
Bridcutt
Sinclair—–Kakuta—–Stoch
Di santo—–Ben sahar(Frank Nouble)
but it will never happen….. for one too much youth.. also their will still be Mikel… Terry, Essien, Cech, kalou9 so they would have to be in the mix too)
later man!!!!
Man Utd vs Chelsea:
===========Cech==========
=Bosingwa=Carvalho=Terry=A.Cole=
===Lampard=Ballack=Mikel=Kalou==
======J.Cole===D.Drogba======
I don’t understand why some fans are 100% agreeing with BC but then later pointing out that they want new players??? Like BC said, Scolari has a team more than capable of winning titles. He just needs to motivate them. I rated LFS a dismal 1. Given the how much RA is paying the man and the squad he had in pre-season (maka, sheva, pizarro, SWP ….) and also how mediocre Liverpool were last month, we should be miles ahead in the league if we took our chances.
Watch this video, if you have not ( don’t read the text )
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/liverpool/4210628/Liverpools-Rafael-Benitez-lets-Alex-Ferguson-get-under-his-skin.html
And now folks listen to this video
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/chelsea/4210381/Chelsea-in-trouble-if-we-lose-to-Manchester-United-admits-Luiz-Felipe-Scolari.html
did I hear our manager saying, that he doesn’t know the second player who is injured …
God please save us from disaster on Sunday..
Quoting cfc
I could not believe myself … God save us!
[...] possible opportunity to cut the losses. You just stop the losses. That’s what he’s done too. He realised that Scolari at Chelsea is shite. Then what’s the point to hanging on to him only to realise that we more shite than we thought. [...]