Chelsea Banter Archive June 20 2011

20 Jun 2011 19:53:21
What was announced at 7pm on Chelsea TV? {Ed018's Note - it appears nothing}

Just to clarify, what do you mean 'nothing' Ed? surely something was announced?! thanks. {Ed018's Note - i mean nothing}

20 Jun 2011 17:38:44
Chelsea will sign Neymar soon. Info comes from his agent. {Ed002's Note - This is of course nonsense as far as his agent saying anything.}

It is not official statement.

We all know by now that he will change his mind tommorow to be honest id say he was off to real madrid.

20 Jun 2011 14:56:08
Any news on the meeting that happened with Neymar's agents EDS? {Ed018's Note -nope}

20 Jun 2011 15:01:08
regarding transfers, i personally think we will sign neymar/aguero, modric/sneijder, van der wiel, turan, maybe pastore.... what do you think is the likliest outcome out of these players. and please dont say you wont be predicting its just ur opinion {Ed018's Note - my opinion, all of those players are possible. we know there have been bids placed for some of them. likliest outcome of those listed. thats guessing at this point. but id like to see VDW, Modric, Pastore and Neymar

To be honest i thought the exact same thing. oh yh do you have any information on how the supposed meeting between zahavi and neymar's representatives went over the weekend? {Ed018's Note - nope}

20 Jun 2011 14:26:08
i think we will definitely buy a spanish player this year to help torres
jmartinez/mata/thiago/miuniain/villa 1 of them or more my guess

Sounds as if Barca is trying to push Villa out (to pay for Fabregas). I'd hate to see him go to Citeh, but not sure he'll be that cheap.

20 Jun 2011 14:19:47
if we do get boas he will be able to communicate with most players better than ancelotti would of as boas speaks perfect english portugese so can speak to the brazilians alex, ramires, dluiz, piazon maybe neymar
im guessing he understands a bit spanish so could speak to torres and any spanish signings

Most important is English (although speaking Portuguese is a plus with the players we have).

Torres speaks pretty good English, so unless we get another Spanish player it may not matter if Villa-Boas speaks much Spanish.

20 Jun 2011 14:13:44
Will Villas-Boas be the manager until he's had enough of Abramovich messing with the team, sacking backroom staff, and buying players the manager doesn't want, or will he be sacked like Ancelotti when it goes wrong because of the interference? {Ed018's Note - before we start that speculating lets wait for an announcement that he's the manager}

Unless Andres is socially inept, he should get on fine with the Chelsea staff/board/owner. Remember, he worked with the club when Jose was here.

In my opinion he's tactically superior than most of the managers that we've had since Mourinho. So he should be fine. I doubt that he's as touchy/controversial as Mourinho either.

He plays more attacking football and has a better record at porto than mourinho did, thats all i need to know

20 Jun 2011 14:09:21
HEY ED DO YOU THINK CHELSEA CAN SIGN DAVID VILLA, JAVIER PASTORE, ARDA TURAN AND LUKA MODRIC AND DO YOU THINK DANIEL STURRIDGE WILL BE AT CHELSEA NEXT SEASON? {Ed018's Note - i think sturridge will be at chelsea next season. unless a big offer for him comes in. those other players are all very possible. chelsea has interest in pastore and modric

20 Jun 2011 13:59:41
ED002 or ED018 Wasn't the plan to get Jose back in 2012 with Hiddink in charge for one year? What changed if Villa Boas is in Charge then Jose will not return will he ?

BLUEBLOOD {Ed018's Note - i was under the impression that villas boas was always the one for the long term.}

But will Hiddink arrive with his as director mate? And do you think he will have a say in transfers? {Ed018's Note - i belive so. as far as tranfers go, yea he would have a say

Anyone that thought Jose would come back to manage Chelsea after the last time is seriously deluded.

Well ol' Bluebloods posts tend to be a bit delusional. ;-)

I agree with ED018. I always felt that Villa-Boas was the long term option. To a lesser extent, Pep Guardiola.

20 Jun 2011 14:01:19
Hi Ed's, just thought i'd post on here to say that I posted about Abramovich's interest in Villas-Boas a while back, think it was March, glad to see there interest has finally been made public.

Why did you leave my name at the bottom?

GH15 {Ed002's Note - The interest has been public for months.}

20 Jun 2011 13:37:48
ED002 or ED018 Wasn't the plan to get Jose back in 2012 with Hiddink in charge for one year? What changed if Villa Boas is in Charge then Jose will not return will he ?

BLUEBLOOD {Ed018's Note - i was under the impression that villas boas was always the one for the long term.}

20 Jun 2011 12:50:11
Didn't see that one coming did we. A great move by Roman, give him time and a new era begins. Delighted.

20 Jun 2011 12:27:16
The club really pulled the wool over our eyes in relation to Boas. Was hiddink always lined up as DOF then? Just using rambling here, I haven't actually heard any rumours about this yet, but do you think we could raid Porto for some players due to Influence from Boas? Players like hulk ect or will the club stick to players already targeted? Surely Boas will now have some input

20 Jun 2011 10:49:24
things regarding transfers were quiet over the weekend ed, do you have any news? {Ed018's Note - must have been busy on the manager side of it}

20 Jun 2011 11:02:31
Ed, if the Villas-Boas reports have truth in them, could he work under Guus Hiddink or would he work as the manager with Hiddink as the sporting director? {Ed018's Note - if villas boas is coming he will be the manager

20 Jun 2011 10:16:47
just seen sir alex ferguson near stamford bridge with lionel messi smiling so i fink both to chelsea

Rather not have fergi Nob!

20 Jun 2011 11:49:43
Looks like Plan A just got torn up and thrown all over the floor!!!
Good Luck Villa-Boas!

20 Jun 2011 09:59:20
Lukaku and KDB will be announced on June 4.

Ed, are u able to enlighten me on who the club view as the long term replacement for A.Cole? PVA or Bertrand? I am worried if we dont offer one more game time soon we risk losing them both...

Also i would be dissapointed if we gave up the chance to see the potential of Kakuta and Sturridge etc with an influx of new and expensive signings. Ur thoughts are much appreciated Ed... {Ed018's Note - I like both PVA and Bertrand but i believe PVA will be Coles replacement.

It is the 20th of June do you mean July

20 Jun 2011 08:30:27
How can some people think about selling Essien??? For Modric??? No way!! Essien is the best player in his position around ALL the world even last season injure. He wont move. Just buy Modric.

20 Jun 2011 00:32:28
Chelsae signings this summer: Sneijder, Ellia, Aguero, deBruyne(loan back to Belgium for one year) Lukaku(loan back to Anderlecht for 1 year), VDW. Possible signings as well A.Young, Pastore(but not for 40m) Marin.

I got to hand it to you. You did a great job of spelling all of the players names correctly...

... too bad that you misspelled Chelsea, however (on another post as well) haha.

Spoke too soon. It's Elia, not Ellia lol

Sorry, I was in a hurry.