Chelsea Thread 2013/14 (continued)

[Marvin]

This, this and this.
Every time I hear they've no strikers I ask about Torres, Ba and Eto'o; all were top class recently, and Lukaku who is probably better than the other three on recent form. If Maureen was such a good coach rather than just a talking arsehole and pantomime twat he'd have coached the midfield and strikers to work together. Alternatively he'd have recalled Lukaku rather than just having him score against the challengers. Surely him playing for Chelsea for up to 38 games was more likely to benefit them than having him opposing us, Arsenal, Liverpool and Spuds in 8 games.

Strange isn't it, those 3 aren't too shoddy - is there a stat that says they've missed loads of chances between them or is it just lack of chances created for them? Sure any of them would bag a few playing up front for us. The press seem to lap up the bullshit though - Wilkins reckons Chelsea would have won the league at a canter "if they had a striker"!

No they are shoddy and you should not got by names. The most baffling out of all of them is Torres though. Torres should be much better.
The only player I can compare Torres to is Bale, during his bad years. I don't understand why Torres is so bad. He is still strong, fast and has great stamina. He just finds a way to constantly miss. If you were compiling his stats for a game they would all be quite good, apart from his movement, but he just messes up.

It was a mixture for Chelsea. In some games they missed chances and some games they did not create enough. The striker was the bigger problem.

Torres is not as quick as he used to be. Always used to accelerate past the last man.

 

[City_Sean]

Mental how they've seemingly managed to coop 100 Million for Mata, Luiz and De Bruyne.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Do you think something dodgy is going on. It can't be right that PSG are paying £50m for Luis. Perhaps it says £50m in the Chelsea books (nice bit of revenue to beat FFP) You can guess the rest.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

I hope clubs take the piss when going for Torres and Ba, preferably by not buying them, but opting to loan them whilst Chelsea pay a stunning amount of their wages.

 

[Len Rum]

This is a huge season coming up for Mourinho, they need to be successful.

They were successful though weren't they? Third in the league and champions league semi finalists despite having no strikers. We on the other hand only won the league twelve points fewer and six weeks later than we should have.

Chelsea were joint favourites with City at the start of the season.

You have a very strange view of success.

No strikers? They chose to go into the season with their squad

Marvin mate, my attempt at sarcasm obviously failed miserably.

 

[TCIB]

If they end up with Cavani and Costa then fair do's.
Obviously the Cavani bit is tenuous speculation on my part, he could come the opposite way to Luiz without to much stretching of the imagination though.

That would be a pretty solid attack.

 

[GoMancini7]

Its unreal how Chelsea is getting great fees for players that isnt even needed that much for their team/manager.

De Bruyne went for 16m hardly got agame at Chelsea before.
Mata wasnt needed in Mourinho's plans 36m for him.
Now Luiz "who cant defend" is going for 40-50m pounds, all three players are actually creating a net profit in their transfers as they were lot cheaper when they bought them.
So basically they were at Chelsea for free and wages of course but even that is offset by the net profit on players...

They did some great negotiation on selling side recently.

Also if they would be stupid to let Courthois (Atletico GK) go they could get 20-25m from him without him ever playing for Chelsea.

 

[BayernMan]

PSG agree terms with David Luiz

 

[Burtonblue]

£50 m for David Luiz?
Wtf!!!

 

[stony]

Something absolutely fucking reeks about Luiz transfer. £50M ? lol.