Chelsea Banter Archive April 01 2013

01 Apr 2013 21:43:56
Ed, in terms of new players hopefully arriving in the summer, will the manager have a greater input in to the process, that you have extensively explained, or will it remain the same where the manager is one part of a group who make decisions?Thanks. {Ed002's Note - What makes you think he has not been part of the group making decisions?}

Sorry Ed, I should rephrase, will the new manager, whoever they may be, have any greater amount of input in to the process than their respective predecessors?Thanks in advance and sorry for the confusion in the question. {Ed002's Note - What makes you think he has not been part of the group making decisions?}

I do not think that he has not been part of the group making decisions, however, I just wanted to ask whether this summer he will be afforded more power in the decision making process please? {Ed002's Note - I cannot see how you want this measured.}

Will the opinion of the manager have more authority over the opinions of the other people involved in the process this summer? {Ed002's Note - You seem to be digging a very large whole here.}

Just a simple yes or no will suffice {Ed001's Note - but your question doesn't even lend itself to a yes or no answer!}

Your asking a question about the level of authority the manager who we don't have yet will have on transfers. how on earth is ed supposed to know this.

jscottjr

01 Apr 2013 21:25:02
Something that I am noticing more and more is our ability to play really well and disciplined against stronger opposition in big games where we have done pretty well over the past couple of seasons.
However many of the players seem to be unable to carry that form and commitment into the games with lesser teams hence why we keep dropping points.
Any team that wins leagues has at least 5 to 10 games a season where they play really poorly but still manage to grind out a result, we seem to have lost that ability and subsequently have not challenged for the title for some time but have remained competative in cup competitions with one off ties.
DP

01 Apr 2013 18:13:48
For anyone whos interested Chelsea u19's in the next gen final is currently on eurosport, 1-0 down from a penalty on 50 mins, playing good football though.

01 Apr 2013 15:39:27
hate to say it, but the starting 11 today is by and far our best 11. Think terry will be back in next year when he is fully fit, but lamps has been played out the team. Still a true legand and I hope he breaks the goal scoring record. This starting 11 should be rested on Thursdays and be our premier league 11.

One can van Dan

01 Apr 2013 16:00:49
What about Mikel out?

No. Starting 11 today was our best without doubt either that or terry cb and luiz instead mikel

Mikel played really well today. I don't understand the hate.

Who would you replace Mikel with?

01 Apr 2013 15:09:52
why does everyone overate benat? drop oscar deeper (which is his best position anyway) and replace him with de bruyne? that makes so much more sense

Is Oscar going to play 90mins every game? Need to think about the squad, not the starting 11 all the time!

This is what annoys me about my fellow chelsea fans, you're mostly glory supporters! You don't pay 20million for a back up player. Back up players should be the younger lads, chalobah, josh? I agree that Benat would be a good addition to the squad, however not for the fee we would have to pay! Far more financially prudent things to do to fix the midfield.

Assuming we keep the 4-2-3-1. the 2 mids should imo be. Mikel, Ramires, oscar, Luiz and possibly a young lad like Josh (preferably a holding midfielder).

The chances of that heppening are slim to nothing, but if Jose comes back he will fix it for sure, so we don't need to worry anyway.

Oh and by the way, a shocking statistic is that between club and country, nobody at chelsea (including juan and petr) have player more games than oscar this season. 63 is the current total.

Practically every player is a squad player! Players are then picked on form and fitness! Our squad right now isn't good enough to be challenging for the Premiership or the Champions League!

Is Josh McEachran an upgrade to our squad? No!

Is Benat an upgrade to our squad? Yes!

I agree Josh isn't ready yet. But when will he ever be classed as reay if you don't give him a chance? We have probably the best youth team in the world and they're just being wasted because of the lack of stability. managers come and go and know they don't have long before RA gets impatient, so they can't risk fielding the youth. This is the problem.

While you may argue that sacking managers works for us, it doesn't from a financial and image standpoint. I wish we could keep a manager even 3 years, give him time to implement the youth, enhance the hazards, oscars, mata's and let him build a team. Not a squad of good players, but a TEAM.

If a youth player is good enough he will break into the first team! There is a massive difference in being good players at youth level and doing well in the pros, McEachran will not ever be ready for our first team now; his development stalled!

01 Apr 2013 15:04:58
Azpilicueta was absolutely sublime again today, what a steal he was for £7 million. Reminds me of Ramos defensively and Alves offensively and still plenty of time to grow. Ba wasn't playing today, Drogba snuck back into the bridge to haunt Fergie again. Bertrand nullified the left for United and if Mata, Hazard and Oscar had been more composed, we could have had 4-5 goals. Cech is still world class, we knew that and Courtois will be as good if not better. Luiz looks like he has grown up since November and Rafa, he looks like a proper CB now. And Mikel did exactly what he needed to, break up play and stop United flowing. Good performance all round for me and hopefully we can continue that against Kazan on Thursday.
COYB!
EH17

LETS HOPE FOR A NICE END TO OUR SEASON!
3RD PLACE, FA CUP CHAMPIONS, EUROPA LEAGUE CHAMPIONS.
LOOKS LIKE A SOFT TRIPLE, BUT HELL ILL TAKE IT LOOKING AT THE EVENTS HAPPENED THROUGHOUT!
COYB. KTBFFH
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Don't get to cocky utd were talking trebles three weeks ago and look now don't think you will get past city utd stayed late in London to record a new song I'm for ever blowing doubles great eh poor fergie

01 Apr 2013 14:26:07
Really proud of this team, United hardly had a sniff at goal, I thought our Center Backs and Full Backs did very well today. Ba was exceptional held the line very well, it was like watching Drogba all over again. Mikel showed what he is capable of, he looked up for this game and bossed the center of the park. Thought Ramires put in a real shift and Hazard was a constant threat.

Everyone played well today and showed what we can do when were defensively solid and allow our attacking players to get on the ball higher up the pitch.

Lastly I haven't been his biggest fan but I thought Bertrand did really well coming on at 22 minutes, he kept Valencia and Nani quiet all game.

But not a word of praise for your manager?

Puzzled

His team selection was spot on, i'm one of the only people on this page who hasn't slated Benitez.

No cause I still thinking the three points we dropped at the saints is more important, even thou its a great feeling to beat the scum

What Praise does he deserve? He played our best possible line up. He's still a person.

Yeah he did pick the best line up but he can't proven pick the team consistently every game

01 Apr 2013 03:50:01
I hope we did not put in a bid for Neymar this guy is over rated and would not suit us, watched him in London last year and he done noting,

Are u seriously judging him on a few games!


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