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CHELSEA General Discussion and Rumours 07/08

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,803 ✭✭✭✭Paul Tergat


    Shamrok wrote: »
    Why are there capitals in the thread title? Could we not read it without them? :confused:

    imagine he was just stressing at the time that their actually should be a Chelski thread and was shocked there wasn't one already


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,176 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    Essien should be back soon. He has done his 3 match suspension hasn't he? If not then surely the carling cup will end it.

    Wouldn't be surprised if he is thrown back into centre back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭growler


    Mad Dog wrote: »
    Speak for yourself, it's a results based game and he is getting results so the fans ARE happy from what I heard at the Bridge last Saturday and Tuesday.
    .

    Speaking for myself and for most of the chelsea fans in know, not one chelsea fan I know wanted Grant to get the job and not one of them were happy to see him get a 4 year contract. He's had some results allright but I think its been more down to luck and the quality of players than his judgement.

    You must have heard the crowd in the shed chanting Grants name ? or all the kids with the Avram Grant masks and names on their shirts? yeah right.

    He's tolerated by the fans because it wouldn't really help motivate the team if we were doing a Vialli.

    I'm a chelsea fan first so I'm always going to support the team regardless of who's in charge, that doesn't mean I'll blindly cheer on an unqualified buffoon when his mate hands him the chelsea manager job in place of the most successful manager we ever had.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭jackdaw


    So why is the match with Liverpool being played at Ewood park ?

    neutral venue ? -- i didn't know they did that in the carling cup ..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,046 ✭✭✭eZe^


    Its a pity to see Henk Ten Cate not getting the recognition he deserves amongst he chelsea following.. The man was the tactical genius behind Barcelona and what do you know... Since he left, we havent won a major trophy... I guarantee he is also a big part of the chelsea sucess atm... How I wish he'd come back.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭growler


    jackdaw wrote: »
    So why is the match with Liverpool being played at Ewood park ?

    neutral venue ? -- i didn't know they did that in the carling cup ..

    errr its not


    or it better not be, the tube doesn't go to blackburn afaik


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭growler


    eZe^ wrote: »
    Its a pity to see Henk Ten Cate not getting the recognition he deserves amongst he chelsea following.. The man was the tactical genius behind Barcelona and what do you know... Since he left, we havent won a major trophy... I guarantee he is also a big part of the chelsea sucess atm... How I wish he'd come back.

    Agree with you there, i guess its coz we can't really see how he is influencing things, tactically we've not been brilliant in recent times in fact we have shown a total lack of tactics and have been pretty disorganised, he's never on the touchline shouting instructions and seems to be very much a back seat driver at present.... which is daft considering who's "seemingly" behind the wheel.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,282 ✭✭✭bullpost


    Anyone know if we're going to spend during the transfer window? Would love to see Benzema from Lyon come in?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭selpher


    Bring back Eidur!

    A lot of talk of Anelka and Modric coming. As long as there's no silly panic buys.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,828 ✭✭✭gosplan


    banned


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭dc69


    gosplan wrote: »
    bah, Chelsea are a bunch of c*nts!!

    discuss that

    lol,the most interesting thing written here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭growler


    gosplan wrote: »
    bah, Chelsea are a bunch of c*nts!!

    discuss that

    very insightful :rolleyes:

    enjoy your break from the soccer forum


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭jackdaw


    So happy with the draw ???

    I think Chelsea got a nice draw, shame for Arsenal though !

    ouch !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,282 ✭✭✭bullpost


    Very happy with the draw. The Liverpool and Aresenal ties will be worth watching!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭growler


    best of the lot of them I think, reasonably easy all things considered at least we didn't end up with Barca / Arse / Pool like we usually do :-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    Just finished watching the Newcastle hightlights...

    I hate your team. I was 19 when Abram took over from Ken Bates after Mathew Harding died, and you know what? That's the worst thing that ever happened to Chelsea FC. Because until then people gave a damn about the club. And everyone's so bloody ugly! Grant with a face like a smacked arse. Terry the dead spit of Herman Munster. Didier the Goat Drogba, and that ugly, fAt, money grabbing bastard Lampard. God how I hate your ****ing team!!!


    /mods don't take this too seriously (see youtube video)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,372 ✭✭✭✭Mr Alan


    wats that from? :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    Mr Alan wrote: »
    wats that from? :)
    ...
    The Street with Jim Broadbent as the ultimate Bitter Blue


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,372 ✭✭✭✭Mr Alan


    must hunt it out for a watch...sounds like my kinda thing ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,282 ✭✭✭bullpost


    Just wondering - shouldn't this post be moved to the Fashion and Appearance thread?
    kinaldo wrote: »
    Just finished watching the Newcastle hightlights...

    And everyone's so bloody ugly! Grant with a face like a smacked arse. Terry the dead spit of Herman Munster. Didier the Goat Drogba, and that ugly, fAt, money grabbing bastard Lampard. God how I hate your ****ing team!!!


    /mods don't take this too seriously (see youtube video)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭radiospan


    The Kevin Doyle rumour is back, it's on the back page of the Echo today. Cork City would get 10% of the 12 million euro


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,246 ✭✭✭ROCKMAN


    plazzTT wrote: »
    The Kevin Doyle rumour is back, it's on the back page of the Echo today. Cork City would get 10% of the 12 million euro

    As famous comedian once said
    " Cute Cork Whores "


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭jackdaw


    I see people are saying Chelsea will lose a lot of points during the African cup of nations,
    well the fixtures are
    Spurs home
    Birmingham away
    Reading home
    and Portsmouth away ,

    Feb 10 they have Liverpool away , will Drogs & Co be back by then ?

    it doesn't look too dificult apart from Liverpool , but I think the ACN is over by then ?

    you have a lot of these anti Chelsea journalists trying to stir ****e ..
    like this guy
    http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/01/02/five_things_we_learned_over_th.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,836 ✭✭✭Vokes


    He's hardly stirring anything.

    Chelsea are gonna be missing there best striker, one of their best playmakers (after Bllack) and their best combatitive midfieider for pretty much all the games you've mentioned.

    And then Lampard is out for another 3 weeks.

    So its just Sidwell, Ballack and Makelele in centre midfield...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭growler


    starting to think anelka wouldn't be a bad buy now, although i can't imagine bolton holding out for toll long for more money.

    I saw a story in the torygraph this morning that Spurs want Ben Haim, more than welcome to him, he's been bloody useless for chelsea thus far, god help spurs if they think he's going to stop them leaking goals. If they do lose Berbatov also that would be very bad news (for them).

    Still hoping that we acquire Alves and Villa which would certainly brighten up the new year and keep us in with some chance of keeping in the title race.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    ~Rebel~ wrote: »
    *clears cobwebs off thread*



    http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_2942821,00.html

    Stupid pointless stuff to be saying. Possibly a sign he plans on joining Jose and (reportedly) Drogba out the exit door?
    A piece from an interview by Italian player Luca Santonocito of Celtic:

    Che differenza c'è fra i nostri allenamenti e i loro?

    Quelli italiani sono basati soprattutto su tecnica e tattica con un basso ritmo di gioco; quelli scozzesi c’e meno tecnica e tattica, molta piu fisicità e resistenza, i ritmi di allenamento sono sempre molto elevati. Inoltre, io mi alleno tutti i giorni tranne il mercoledì, ho due partite alla settimana, e alcuni giorni le sessioni di allenamento sono sia mattino che pomeriggio, oltre alla palestra.

    Babelfish translates it to this:

    Which difference is between our training and theirs?

    The Italians above all base on technique and tactics with a low rhythm of game; Scots c’and little technique and tactics, a lot piu fisicità and resistance, the training rhythms are always a lot elevate to you. Moreover, I train myself every day except the Wednesday, I have two left to the week, and some days the training sessions are are mattino that afternoon, beyond to the arena.

    More reason as to why the British game is "brainless".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭ShoulderChip


    We really should try and revive this thread it is important to have a place to discuss chelsea, as I posted in another thread here is my opinion of our 1st and 2nd string team, it is quiet scary really!
    Cech
    Belletti
    R.Carvalho
    J.Terry
    A.Cole---

    Essien
    Ballack
    Lampard

    J.Cole

    Anelka
    Drogba


    With a Sub 11 of

    Cudicini
    Ferreira----Alex
    Ivanovic
    W.Bridge

    Makelele
    Mikel

    Wright Philips
    Malouda

    Schevchenko
    Kalou

    Third String
    Hillario,Sidwell,Pizarro



    Here is a question where would that team of subs end up in the premiership if all fully fit and on form? push for europe?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 34,404 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    No Malouda on either team?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭ShoulderChip


    sorry my mistake.
    edited


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,478 ✭✭✭Bubs101



    Here is a question where would that team of subs end up in the premiership if all fully fit and on form? push for europe?

    Assuming there'd be no Chelsea they'd be top 4 material easily but all of the top 4's secondary teams would be


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