Chelsea Banter Archive January 12 2015

12 Jan 2015 18:02:18
David Luiz on the Fifa Team of the Year, what the actual ****

Awful. as was the Iniesta selection. Team of the Year voted for by the players btw.

12 Jan 2015 20:12:59
Mine would of been:

Neuer; Lahm, Ramos, Godin, Azpilicueta; Yaya Toure, Kroos, Di Maria; Ronaldo, Costa, Messi

Iniesta and Luiz on that team are frankly ridiculous inclusions. Thiago Silva also to some degree, he would've been nowhere near my team of the year. Even a guy like Benatia deserves it more than him IMO.

Was incredibly dumb.

13 Jan 2015 01:09:47
You simply can't tell me that those three centre halfs deserve it over Diego Godin. Same thing with Leow over Diego Simeone. I wouldve gone:
Neuer; Ramos, Godin, Kompany, Lahm; Robben, Kroos, Schweinsteiger, Ronaldo; Messi, Costa

I woulda gone this

Goal of year - Tim Cahill

Manager of the year - Simeone

Player of the year - Ronaldo

Team - Neuer, Alaba, Godin, Lahm, Juanfran, Yaya Toure, Toni Kross, Messi, Ronaldo, Costa.

Aron I know your team is good and all, but you still have to pick 11 players and not just 10 haha ;-)

Goal of the year - the Irish girl (Im irish so biased I guess lol) but it was good.

Manager of the year - Simeone

Player - Ronaldo

Team - Neuer, Alaba, Godin, Ramos, Lahm, Koke, Kroos, Robben, Messi, Ronaldo, Costa

Part of me thinks Matic should be in there. But that's what I think

Haha I forgot Robben! And was torn between Jaunfran and Ramos

14 Jan 2015 17:14:06
I was torn between kompany zabaleta and terry. And then matic could've been in there for schweinsteiger or Suarez.

12 Jan 2015 14:33:19
Would love us to sign Micah Richards on a free - if Jose can get his head straight and Micah himself has grown-up a bit, he is top class - a rampaging English full-back who can also play centre-back. Thoughts?

12 Jan 2015 15:52:31
I'm iffy. I along with many others feel we shouldn't buy unless they're world class (which he isn't). Also he would perform a similar role to ivanovic and we have kalas tipped to take over in that role as things stand.

12 Jan 2015 16:11:49
He can't even get in the Fiorentina team

God please no

13 Jan 2015 10:51:08
Really rated this lad about 4 years ago. But his injuries ended his career as a top footballer I believe.

12 Jan 2015 10:55:06
Everyone talking about getting rid of willian and bringing in a decent winger I agree but if we can't get rues who would be number 1 choice and if all this messi talk came true tgen ofcourse take him but why hasn't anyone mentioned alexis sanchez? Arsenal always sell their best players to title rivals haha. New to this site by the way

Hi - Sanchez and Hazard together would be out of this World - I don't know why we didn't get him in the summer - a perfect Jose player, a skilful player who works back. Unfortunately, the Arse ain't going to sell. Personally, I would test Arse with a bid for Oxlade-Chamberlin (not sure about Reus - looks a bit lightweight for the PL to me).

Agree Mrs Costa, the Ox is a terrific player. Very versatile as well. Don't think Arsenal could be tempted to sell though. And I don't know whether the player would be willing to join us.

12 Jan 2015 15:57:44
There's not too many players in the world who are a clear upgrade on Willian and schurrle. Off the top of my head the list of improvements of people that play on the right includes robben, bale, reus, sanchez, and di maria. From there you have some guys who are in their range such as cuadrado, pedro, and Lucas from PSG. Then you have to look at that list and ask how many are doable.

12 Jan 2015 16:13:45
Cuadrado for me, I like Reus but he's injury prone, i'd like chamberlain or Sanchez but I doubt that would happen. Any interest in Cuadrado now Ed?

{Ed002's Note - Not that I am aware - his situation remains the same.}

Hey mate, I've always said we should have got Sanchez. We missed a trick there.

We definetly did miss a trick mate he's carrying arsenal on his own but he could get fed up not winning anything with arsenal then I dint thinkbwe could miss him a 2nd time

12 Jan 2015 02:40:42
Our home form is 10 wins, 0 draws, 0 losses. Inpenetrable.
We have scored 24 goals, and conceded only 3.

Away from home however, we have a very very poor record.
We have 5 wins, 4 draws, and 2 losses.
We have scored 22 goals, but have conceded 16. I know 5 were against Spurs, and 3 against Everton, but that is poor.

If we can pick up our away form, and keep up our extraordinary home form, then we will comfortably win the league.

Aron, whilst I agree our away record could be improved, describing it as very, very poor is a bit much IMO.

12 Jan 2015 08:37:53
To describe our away form as very, very poor is a bit over the top to say the least. This is the Premier League, full of teams who, on their day, can cause problems for the top sides. We have played Man U, Man City, Liverpool, Everton, Spurs, Southampton, Palace, Stoke, Sunderland, Newcastle and Burnley away and picked up 19 points from 33. Apart from our performance's away at Spurs and Sunderland we actually controlled all of those games as well!

I replied saying it was wrong haha, overexageration. Don't know why it didn't come through.