Chelsea Banter Archive September 29 2011

29 Sep 2011 20:11:36
When you see players like Mikel, Malouda, Mereles, Kalou, playing regular. You wonder what the hell Josh Mc has got to do to get a run of games.
A bad start for AVB, lets hope he has learnt by his mistakes.

Coudln't agree more. Yesterday AVB showed his lack of experience. And yes we, the mere fans, shouted and waved at CFC all summer to offload the deadwood. But then, what do we know?

Surely you cannot 'offload dead wood' if no other teams come in for them and if you dont succeed in other targets, you end up lacking depth when injuries kick in. Im not Kalou's biggest fan by a long way but even if he is kept for carling and FA cup games to rest other, more first choice players its got to be better than over playing the regulars and they end up injured.

TBH i feel for AVB a bit, i think if he had had his way the likes of Kalou and Malouda, maybe Mikel etc would have been shown the door, but it never happened. What is important now is that he uses the squad he has as well as he can. And i think by and large he has, i do agree though that midweek his substitutions were very strange indeed, i cant for the life of me work out why Oriol wasnt put on rather than Kalou, and why Anelka wasnt brought on for Malouda rather than Torres. But AVB will continue to learn more and more about his players and im sure by the end of the year he will have a much better idea of how to work the squad, and which players offer him what, he just needs time (and maybe the Jan transfer window!).

We'll be lucky to get rid of one of those three in January

I'm not the biggest fan of any of those players but as long as they play for chelsea and are willing to give 100% whenever they wear the blue shirt then I will support them

29 Sep 2011 17:51:30
Priority now should be to get rid that Kalouless. He cost the team an easy qualification. If I were AVB he wouldn't play another game.

Priorty is to support the team whoever is playing, and leave the buying and selling of players to the club.

29 Sep 2011 03:55:02
Avb was right in sending kalou. He is planning to sell him in january and in order to make him cashable he needs to give him some playing time. most of the clubs won't pay u more if he just warms the bench. Mistakes are part and parcel of every game. Some people score with hands like henry, maradona while some accidently block them. lampard has commited blunders also in past, so please forgive kalou. I played professional hockey myself for dutch and german clubs and i know how it feels like when u r at kalous place. It is like between devil and deep blue sea, u r nowhere. I find that most people who comment here do not know anything about sports culture, they are just people who malign english language by writing slangs like s**t, wtf and many more.

Kings xi punjab chelsea

I understand exactly what your trying to say. Kalous confidence is shot, he knows he does not figure in AVBs plans long term and that alot of Chelsea do not rate him. I do feel sorry for him because he has always been there when called upon and gave 100% to the cause. But the fact does remain that for Chelsea he isn't good enough. Its a shame. What i will say though is that i would take Kalou over Tevez ANYDAY! He has represented us well and from now on i hope more Chelsea fans respect him and refrain from slagging him off. Yes hes not good enough, but he deserves massive respect from us all for representing our club so well and not doing what Tevez did no matter how many times he gets dropped or put down by us.

Morgan7

What does confidence have to do with the fact he used his hand knowing that the referee was on the money all the time and cost his team an easy qualification round?

Nothing, thats what you call a mistake i think? Could be wrong though.

Morgan7

At the end of the day our hardest game in the prem has gone OT, and now our hardest game in the CL group stages has gone so no worries here. just some of the players need 2 b sorted out bcuz they are crap