Chelsea Banter Archive November 22 2011

22 Nov 2011 19:05:17
Hey ED,

I saw your mistake post on the liverpool page refering to Higuain but you also mentioned Eden Hazard, were you refering to Chelsea of Liverpool?

Keep Up The Good Work!

PR!

P.s Your a Chelsea supporter arent you? {Ed002's Note - I was toying with the Liverpool supporters.}

Haha Brilliant! Nothing better than toying around with Liverpool supporters!
Legend = Ed002

PR!

What about actually beating liverpool

Toying with Liverpool is all Chelsea can do at the minute! Liverpool showing you how its done.

Dont Buy the Sun

22 Nov 2011 16:58:57
Hi ed a couple of weeks back you mention a possible interest in a midfielder which somehow was subject to the de Bruyne deal, are you going to divulge that info to us? Please don't feel there's pressure in this question cheers mate {Ed002's Note - I feel no pressure thanks and I cannot at this time say who it is.}

Ok thanks ed let us know as soon as u can

22 Nov 2011 12:27:40
Everyone needs to chill out a bit, yh these results are hurting and are hard to take, but we're rebuilding, if nothing else these losses serve a purpose in identifying probelm areas and highlighting that we need to take action, take it on the chin lads we'll have the last laugh, freshen up a touch in jan, come into form just in time to have a fair chance at the cups, another freshen up in the summer and we'll be back

ZOLA

I hope you are right, and that we do start to get shot of the older players.
The board are to blame as we have not invested properly until the start of this year when it became all to clear that the team were no longer the force they once were. I belive Carlo or even Jose may still have been manager had we invested sooner, rather than blame the manager and replace them when the team constantly underperform or we have a bad run of results.
We will need to get shot of and bring in a fair few not just one or two, this is going to be very expensive and we will not get a great deal of money for the players we will be parting company with. I hope we have taken a lesson from this and continually bring in quality even when things are going well otherwise we will be doing the same thing in 4 seasons time, look at the big clubs in Europe they all bring in fresh players and are looking to improve constantly, we have not done that since we sold Robben and Duff.
My faith in AVB has been rocked recently but belive he needs fresh blood to get the team where he wants it, I hope the board give him both the time and money required to get us back to the top of the league where we belong.

You are missing the point. This is not rebuilding playing with the same team as last year. If we played a young team and lost then not many would complain. What we are complaining about is the failure to see that the old recipe simply does not work any more!

Fair point mate but if he put out a team of kids and we got beat 3 or 4 theres not a chance people wouldnt moan, theyd be straight on here slagging him for not using more experienced players, he cant win, i for one am, and will stay right behind AVB and CFC regardless of who he plays and what the results are until hes had a decent amount of time in the job

ZOLA

I like your positivity concerning the team Zola, but I strongly believe the board are totally clueless , personally I would not let them look after my coat while I went to the toilet . The board are so out touch , we should have got rid of the likes of Kalou , Mikel and Malouda a few seasons ago. I read in the paper that Chelsea are to offer Kalou a 5 year deal at 90 k per week. If this happens I am going to stop going to the games , the club I love is run by clowns . Ricky

Agree with last post. They are out of touch and ideas. We missed bringing in some class players this summer just because of a silly wage policy and that what would JT and FL would think. Who bloody cares if those kind of players would bring what we all want! Success!

At the end of the day lads i was a fan when we were rubbish, in fact i prefered it, itl take a lot more than a couple of bad results, a few dodgy team selections and a second season in a row without a trophy for me too lose faith, bare with it im sure it will be alright next season after AVB has had time

ZOLA

Here is the problem. It takes a lot of experience for a manager to transition a team smoothly. And experience is something that AVB does not have.

May aswel sack him then eh? tell you all what i dont mind defending the team against other fans, but when you've got to defend the team against your own fans theres something seriously wrong, i hope we go rubbish again, get relegated, bring on Oldham away on a tuesday night, cheaper tickets, plus we get the real fans back that have been replaced by this new breed of moaning glory hunters,

ZOLA

And what exactly is a fan? Somebody who buys aseason ticket to watch the team and in every match eats a hotdog, drinks a beer, goes home and thinks I am so grateful I can watch my team? Get real. I will critise as much as I want because I pay to watch the team both on tv and on the fround. Fand power!

Zola, Ricky here , I have supported Chelsea through thick and thin . When I left school in 1984 I collected persil tokens so I could follow Chelsea to place like Hull at the age of 16. So the point I am going to make is , I will always be Chelsea , but when the board are offering the likes of Kalu 5 year 90k per week deals , i feel that my club is becoming a laughing stock. What premier team would Kalu actually get info ? Not many . So therefore why should we throw millions of keeping him. If that's the case then I welcome Oldham on a ties night. ricky

I think you should all be a bit more grateful of Romans abilities at running a business. If he hadn't come along and saved you then Chelsea would have been bankrupt. The current management team are vastly superior to the old one. Short memories at Chelsea I see.


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