Chelsea Banter Archive April 04 2018

04 Apr 2018 16:35:38
Sad news about Ray Wilkins, condolences to you all.
Villa fan.

05 Apr 2018 12:26:42
Kind thought villadave, appeciated.

04 Apr 2018 15:54:27
Cobolences to ray wilkins family and friends

Once a blue and a rangers man always a blue and gers man

R. I. P RAY.

04 Apr 2018 14:09:54
What we desperately need going forward is stability which will only be gained by the continuity of appointing a manager that gets support through thick and thin which includes transfer dealings. I would also suggest bringing John Terry and/ or Frank Lampard into the fold because we seem rudderless not only on the pitch but the dressing room seems to be too heavily influenced by the few; at least John and Frank thought about the club. If you look at Mourinho's second term and his comments about the title winning team were not good enough to mount a defence and names like Pogba, Griezmann and Sandro were bandied about and we actually brought in Pedro, Rahman, Begovic, Kenedy, Falcao was on loan, Hector, Miazga, Nathan, Djilobodji and Pantic; with the exception possibly of Pedro what were the Chelsea hierarchy playing at as clearly none of those would have been on Mourinho's mind and is it a wonder he started blowing a fuse. Fast forward to Conte's title win and he basically said the same and look what happened; Morata, Bayakoko, Drinkwater, Rudiger, Zappacosta, Emerson, Caballero and mid-term, Giroud and Barkley. Four of those arrived injured or getting over lengthy injuries, Drinkwater and Zappacosta hardly play and we have got half a season out of Morata, who, along with Zappacosta might well have been Conte's only two picks. Is it a wonder he has looked deflated most of the season also. There is something wrong that we keep repeating and nobody will address the problem other than dump the manger and start the process all over again.

04 Apr 2018 16:57:56
Agree 100%.

04 Apr 2018 22:24:31
C1955, Very good post. Unlike Sid I don’t agree with all of it but you make some very valid points!

04 Apr 2018 13:18:49
Isco and Asensio's names have both been mentioned a lot as someone we could get from Madrid if Hazard leaves but I would also consider Kovacic as he is the type of player we need. I don't like these one dimensional players I'd rather have players who are capable of both either side of Kante. We have to be realistic with transfers as we're going to miss out on top four now. Kovacic is going to be class and is under utilised at Madrid with Modric and Kroos ahead of him. I think the likes of Kovacic and Bailey are attainable without top four. Vidal is also someone I'd love here too as he's a real leader. Him, Kante and either Kovacic or Loftus-Cheek cheek in a 4-3-3 would give you everything.