Chelsea thread 2012/2013 season

[nehe11]

Lampard. Would you have him here?

Yes, good player with alot of experience.

 

[cmdub]

Lampard. Would you have him here?

no, only on a loan option till the end of the season

anything else goes against or transfer policy

 

[bluemonkey71]

Tony Evans on Talkshite reckons Rafa won't be in charge next season.
Going all out for Pep 18 million a year WTF...

 

[mancboy123]

The wierd thing is with pep is that he is still an unknown quantity as it were, yes hes won la liga and the european cup but he inherited that team and that team included messi who over the last two years has been quite sinply unstoppable, take 90 goals out of any team and they are gonna struggle, those players make any manager look absolutely incredible i mean viilanova is doing better than guardiola did .
It is yet to be seen how guardiola copes with a different set of players in a different environment i mean its probably a daft comparison but brendan rodgers wants his teams to play like barcelona but wanting your team to play like barcelona and having the players to play that way are two entirely different things.

Its an experiment and a very good way to see if the coach makes the players look good or the players make the coach look good and as was seen with AVB im not sure if chelsea is the right place to do that experiment its a huge gamble both on guardiolas part as if he goes there and doesnt be absolutely outstanding he will be sacked and the majority of his cache gained whille at barcelona will be erased and on chelseas part as i guess around 50m will be needed should they decide to get him then sack him which is abrahmovichs MO but they arent averse to taking 50m gambles.

 

[Ray78]

I don't think he will end up at Chelsea. Bayern seems like a good possibilty and as a club they don't sack managers on a whim which will appeal to Guardiola the most.

 

[MaineRoadM14]

The funniest part about this whole saga with the Chavs is that if Abramobitch would have just admitted over the summer that Torres was a lost cause and signed a decent striker, none of this would have happened. They wouldn't have been dumped out of the Champions League, they wouldn't have been out of the title race barely 2 months into the season, Di Matteo would never have been sacked, their chances of finishing in the Top 4 wouldn't be in jeopardy as they are now, their chances of luring any more top managers going forward wouldn't be in serious question, and the fans wouldn't be in open revolt. The buys they made over the summer were world class and they were playing the best football in England for the first 2 months of the season admittedly, just lacked any cutting edge up front and only had 1 [completely useless] striker in the entire squad. The midfielders were contributing goals and covering up for it for the first month or two, but once they expectedly slowed down a bit after awhile and were no longer doing Torres' job for him, the lack of firepower really began to show. No goals = No wins. When you think about how many times we and the rags have been playing poorly this season (and even when we've been playing well) and needed either our starting strikers or strikers coming off the bench to score from nothing and win us games and points, then realize that they don't had those kinds of options at all this season, it's easy to see why they're so far behind. In the end, their owner has no one to blame but himself.
It's comical really.

 

[bleed.blue]

The funniest part about this whole saga with the Chavs is that if Abramobitch would have just admitted over the summer that Torres was a lost cause and signed a decent striker, none of this would have happened. They wouldn't have been dumped out of the Champions League, they wouldn't have been out of the title race barely 2 months into the season, Di Matteo would never have been sacked, their chances of finishing in the Top 4 wouldn't be in jeopardy as they are now, their chances of luring any more top managers going forward wouldn't be in serious question, and the fans wouldn't be in open revolt. The buys they made over the summer were world class and they were playing the best football in England for the first 2 months of the season admittedly, just lacked any cutting edge up front and only had 1 [completely useless] striker in the entire squad. The midfielders were contributing goals and covering up for it for the first month or two, but once they expectedly slowed down a bit after awhile and were no longer doing Torres' job for him, the lack of firepower really began to show. No goals = No wins. When you think about how many times we and the rags have been playing poorly this season (and even when we've been playing well) and needed either our starting strikers or strikers coming off the bench to score from nothing and win us games and points, then realize that they don't had those kinds of options at all this season, it's easy to see why they're so far behind. In the end, their owner has no one to blame but himself.
It's comical really.

Yeah I dont think so.
1. The reason for their ouster from CL is their comical defense and midfield. They let a 2 goal lead at home vs Juve go waste, lost away games to Shakhtar and Juve by 2+ goals.
2. RDM was tactically a very poor coach. He was exposed during his stint at WBA and this season as well. The CL that they won was because he just let the players play they way they had been trained since Mourinho's days.
3. Also their is a limit to spending considering FFP. A hugely talented striker wouldn't have come cheap.

 

[ANewEra...]

The funniest part about this whole saga with the Chavs is that if Abramobitch would have just admitted over the summer that Torres was a lost cause and signed a decent striker, none of this would have happened. They wouldn't have been dumped out of the Champions League, they wouldn't have been out of the title race barely 2 months into the season, Di Matteo would never have been sacked, their chances of finishing in the Top 4 wouldn't be in jeopardy as they are now, their chances of luring any more top managers going forward wouldn't be in serious question, and the fans wouldn't be in open revolt. The buys they made over the summer were world class and they were playing the best football in England for the first 2 months of the season admittedly, just lacked any cutting edge up front and only had 1 [completely useless] striker in the entire squad. The midfielders were contributing goals and covering up for it for the first month or two, but once they expectedly slowed down a bit after awhile and were no longer doing Torres' job for him, the lack of firepower really began to show. No goals = No wins. When you think about how many times we and the rags have been playing poorly this season (and even when we've been playing well) and needed either our starting strikers or strikers coming off the bench to score from nothing and win us games and points, then realize that they don't had those kinds of options at all this season, it's easy to see why they're so far behind. In the end, their owner has no one to blame but himself.
It's comical really.

Yeah I dont think so.
1. The reason for their ouster from CL is their comical defense and midfield. They let a 2 goal lead at home vs Juve go waste, lost away games to Shakhtar and Juve by 2+ goals.
2. RDM was tactically a very poor coach. He was exposed during his stint at WBA and this season as well. The CL that they won was because he just let the players play they way they had been trained since Mourinho's days.
3. Also their is a limit to spending considering FFP. A hugely talented striker wouldn't have come cheap.

Ba cost them 7m???

 

[Blue Haze]

Well done Oscar

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

Well done Oscar