Chelsea Banter Archive May 19 2013

19 May 2013 23:28:14
Posted this awhile back. There is not much to be done in the summer. Don't throw silly money back and forth. Bring in Lukaku and DeBruyne. They are ready to start on this team, let slond be in it. At 65 games at least on our schedule playing in half of them would give you just as much playing time as they both receive at their respective clubs. So what is the actual point in keeping them away much longer?

Saying farewell to the likes of Benayoun, Malouda, Marin, Torres and hopefully Obi Mikel will free up some first team places. In an ideal world the perfect replacements would be:

Lukaku for Torres
Schurrle for Marin
DeBruyne for Benayoun/Malouda
Xabi Alonso for Obi Mikel

Add Cavani/Lewandowski to the mix and a proper center back. The team is complete.

JG

19 May 2013 23:50:07
Spot on, but I'll rather Khadira than Alonso.

I'd rather we go for Gundogan, and while he's probably not available this summer, I'd wait and try again next summer. Don't really fancy Khedira to be honest

Jackson

19 May 2013 21:53:43
Considering everyone is talking about when mourinho is back at Chelsea, when do you think the club will announce it?

Hopefully in the start of June

19 May 2013 21:12:32
hi ed can you tell us which players will defo be leaving this summer thanks in advance
jambo {Ed002's Note - "Defo", no.}

19 May 2013 20:31:41
Hi Ed002, is there anything to conclude from the fact that the agent of Michael Laudrup was present in the directors box today as a guest of the Chelsea board?Thank you for your time. {Ed002's Note - Twitter?}

No, the TV cameras picked him out during the game apparently, Is there a possibility Laudrup could be our next manager Ed002? {Ed002's Note - Sounds like the sort of thing that appears on Twitter.}

It was confirmed on chelsea tv before the game. Laudrup was a special guest of the chelsea board at todays game.

NWBLUE {Ed018's Note - shouldn't he have been managing Swansea during their match?}

Sorry I ment laudrups agent lol.

NWBLUE

19 May 2013 19:55:09
ED002 non Chelsea related but I am a admirer of Napoli and Walter Mazzari do you know if he is leaving at the end of the season? {Ed002's Note - Nothing is decided just yet but I think he will.}

19 May 2013 15:16:26
ED002, apparently the agent of Michael Laudrup is at Stamford Bridge as a guest of the board, please god tell me we're not picking him over Mourinho?Thanks ED002.

I wouldn't doubt it because he plays the type of football roman seems to want if the rumours are true. but it is also possible that this agent is an angent to a player or something.

19 May 2013 20:53:41
Ok Anceloti met with PSG president and told him he is off to Real. Mourinho will leave Real for Chelsea after the last match with Osasouna (French and Greek press). Proitos

19 May 2013 19:58:00
Whats the crack with people saying Micheal Laudrups agent was in romans box at todays game. surely load of crap eh?

Would not surprise in the slightest, we have the chance the get José Mourinho and we choose Michael Laudrup, says all you need to know about people making decisions, particularly one guy, the same guy who recommended Benitez and pushed the candidacy of Pellegrini too, looking after his own self interest in fear of losing his job if Mourinho came, the tail wags the dog unfortunately in our case. What's the bets Laudrup gets sacked before next Christmas, choosing a guy who won the capital one cup because he plays tippy tappy football and, like Villas Boas, flavour of the month, over potentially one of the best of all time and an icon to the fans in José Mourinho, I rest my case.

19 May 2013 20:55:44
Michael Laudrup is my 2nd choice only behind Klopp.
Bas!cs.

Emenalo has been fantastic! It's just a smoke screen so Mou knows there's other options.

19 May 2013 19:09:42
Lukaku! Hat trick vs the champions only coming on in the second half.

We have got one of the best talents in the world here and will score goals for us for years to come!

Jordan

19 May 2013 18:49:32
Thanks and goodbye to Paulo Ferreira. Great bloke, terrific defender and a man who has stuck with us and always been a solid option even if he wasn't playing every game or playing as much as he'd wanted.
Thanks and good luck for the future!
EH17

Thanks Paulo, you are a true blue.
Thank you for the great moments.
roan

Only one Paulo Ferreira!

19 May 2013 18:39:07
any chance torres could stay?

He should. Had a good season. We may finally see him in his confident self.
roan

Im sorry, but that was his first BPL goal since december! Lukaku is already better than him!

He has not played much in the PL since the turn of the year. Ba has ben playing in most of our PL matches.
roan

19 May 2013 19:48:10
Lukaku has scored about or more than twice Torres' goals in the EPL in his first full season on loan at Westbrom without proper service. Even at Liverpool, Torres didn't score 20 EPL goals in a season! Yes, he's had a decent season, but before today, when last did he score in the league? If we can get Cavani, then both Torres and Ba can leave with Lukaku back to the Bridge. Otherwise, keep Torres and Lukaku and sell Ba. A good centre back, a CDM, Schurrle plus De Bruyne back and we'll have a great squad.
Bas!cs.

In his first season at pool he scored 24 in the league in 33 and in his last but final season he scored 18 in 22 matches in the PL.
roan

He has played 36 times for us in the premier league, scoring 8 goals.

jscottjr

Very few starts in the PL in the second half of the season with some sub appearances being being for less than 10 mins. But in the games he started in the second half he had quite a few good
games contributing significantly to the wins.
roan

19 May 2013 18:07:40
Thank u Rafa the Gaffer! Weldone. Now u can gracefully bow out a winner on all fronts. I was nervous to see Ake start but he had a great game - one of our best players on the day. Weldone El Nino, my man of the match.
Bas!cs.

Torres says he is happy to have a top striker come to the club, why don't we keep him.

He Has Very Big Wages To Not Be A Starter

JMJW

Well let's see if he will agree to a cut in wages, you never know.

19 May 2013 17:57:15
Lukaku and legend both start with a l. Coincidence? I think not.

I genuinely believe that if Lukaku breaks into the Chelsea first team and plays regularly then we could have one of the most potent strikers in the world on our hands.

19 May 2013 17:53:50
Congrats to the boys. Was literally laughing when we had 4 wb's on the pitch.

19 May 2013 15:52:53
Hope rafa gets a good send off today. At the end of the day he is going and guided us to another european trophy and champions league qualification. I think the club was up and down until the boro game, rafa had a rant and the fans got behind the team. Since then we have looked together as fans and a team. The one thing I would say is if the players could motivate themselves for the so called lower teams like reading, southampton etc like they have for the big teams then we could have been even closer in the league. Next season could be the start of something massive for our club as the other top teams in the league will be losing top players/managers. If we could bring in three/four top quality players plus bring back mourinho then I can see us dominating english football like utd have.

NWBLUE

19 May 2013 12:58:44
Do you know of any potential defenders we are looking at?

BagleyBlue {Ed002's Note - Please read the posts.}

14 May 2013 11:21:44
Ed002, I have a question, that may not have a quick and easy answer, but if you have time, could you please shed some insight into the specifics of the formation of Chelsea transfer policy.

I distinctly remember that at some stage, when asked if Chelsea were looking into "wingers", you pointed to the fact that the club did not perceive their transfer policy in such subjective terms, but rather look for players that would add to the team. This coincided nicely with us forming the attacking trio of Hazard, Mata and Oscar, none of whom are wingers per se, giving us a distinct shape from other clubs.

It would still seem that some basic positional sense is there for example in defense, where the roles are pretty set in stone, but certainly the midfield is no recruited based on the formations of old (be it your 4-4-2, with distinct wide players that are good crossers of the ball or the like).

Could you shed some insight into exactly what underpins the selection criteria for midfield players a bit more, and while I'm not sure it will in any way stop the flow of endless questions, such as: "are we in for more wingers?", it would certainly help more regular readers form more of an understanding of the transfer policy by Chelsea FC.

Thanks for your time, ed. {Ed002's Note - I really cannot see an easy way to answer this. Sorry.}

19 May 2013 12:49:13
We've moved from 433 and perhaps 422. We now play a 4231 formation with basically 5 'midfielders', and this is one consideration in our player recruitment 'policy'. This formation (4231) requires a central midfield pairing of two for the holding/defensive, playmaking from deep and box to box roles. They have to be really good in shielding the back 4, breaking up play with hard well-timed tackles, good range of passing and help play transition by quickly joining in attack. (IMO, this is the area we've suffered most this season and needs real upgrading as our central midfielders - Lampard, Mikel and Ramires - are more suited to 433). The centre backs have to be quick and real ball players to aid in possession. Luiz excepted, our other available centre back options seem to suffer in this aspoect - I expect an upgrade. The formation makes room for just one 'striker' and the remaining three 'forward players' are classed as midfielders; they are often versatile with one tasked with playing the 'No. 10' role. They could necessarily interchange roles and are basically players with vision who can create as well as score goals. (This is why comparatively we're still up there in the goal scoring charts even without most of our goals scored by the 'strikers'). They don't need to be out-and-out wingers but 'foward players' with good technical attributes - skill and flair, etc. The fullbacks in this system should be capable of venturing forward to add width without compromising their primary duty. These generally, ceteris paribus, typify our 'recent' recruitment model.
ANYSENSE?

19 May 2013 05:05:07
Chelsea in's:

Rooney £25m
Cavani £45m
Kederia £15m
Shaw £10m

£95m in total

Out's

Torres £20m
Ba £15m
Essien £10m
Bertrand £5m
Marin £5m
Mikel £10m
And all them out of contract
Starting line up

Chech
Azpil Ivan Cahill Cole
Luiz Kederia
Oscar
Hazard Cavani Mata

Subs
Lamps, Terry, Rooney, Rami, De Buryne and Moses

Loans: Lukaku 6months, Piazon, McEachan, Calobah

19 May 2013 09:18:07
Torres £20m
Ba £15m

Whose going to pay these?

Why Bertrand?

Anyone else want rooney?

What a silly post. Rooney wants to leave Man Utdbecause he's lost his starting position, you really think he wants to be a bench warmer at Chelsea, NO.

Marin doesn't deserve to go. He deserves a proper chance. If he can at like he did in Germany he's better than Moses.

See that centre midfield hasn't got a decent distributed of the ball which a good two man midfield need. It's all about defensive which doesn't help mata hazard break free and in decent space. You usually have for example. Passer with a def mid. Or you can have a box to box with def mid. Not two def mids. Other wise you find the attackers will come deeper and deeper to receive the ball closing everyone out. We're better off playing either luiz or khedira, with Oscar mceachran or ramire. Ramires can play either spot.

19 May 2013 00:01:08
will torres be forced out the club? {Ed002's Note - Torres is expected to leave this summer.}

I am afraid You're wrong about it Ed002!