Chelsea Banter Archive July 11 2012

11 Jul 2012 20:37:49
Daily Mail says RDM has added 28 year-old Porto right back Christian Sapunaru and 26 year-old Lazio midfielder Senad Lulic to his shortlist.
Thoughts? {Ed002's Note - See earlier answers.}

11 Jul 2012 18:41:46
Could one of the eds confirrm if hulk has signed a new 4 year deal with porto this summer!!
many thanks


davo {Ed018's Note - I don't believe it was signed this summer but he does have 4 years left on his contract}

He signed a 6-8 year deal I think with that 100M buyout clause. That's why it is so hard to sign him, the very agent who got him to agree to this deal is the one whoring him out saying he wants to leave... Pretty smart eh?

11 Jul 2012 16:10:16
Earlier AVB mentioned that several clubs were holding discussions with Spurs regarding Modric, are we one of those clubs ed ?

11 Jul 2012 15:12:34
Bet you CFC lot are all chuffed to hear in his interview that AVB believes he was responsible for your cup wins. He must have left the club in such a solid state that a WBA cast off could carry on his good work.

This is from an LFC fan - you gotta laugh at his gall!

Bulls**t! 3-1 down against Napoli and 0-0 against brum in fa cup at our own ground! It was RDM and the players that won us them 2 games so we could go on and win both cups!! Nothing to do with AVB! The guy is a muppet! DJ

100 per cent agree avb left us up sh't creek with out a paddle he is a muppet

From what it sounds like to me, AVB went in with the wrong attitude and an ego bigger than his reputation. Stepped on far too many toes and his team selections were a joke. You could tell by the way the players played on the field and a total lack of drive. It was shaping up to be a complete disaster but turned out fantastic when Robbie took the reigns. Its what we have needed for a long time, a manager who is passionate about the club and has the players and fans interests at heart. Wonder how the Yods get on with him?

He came in to the club with an Ora of invinsibility and when your results are that poor the invincibility goes away.

Tk

11 Jul 2012 08:26:49
My opinion of Chelsea signings

Hazard - £32 mil
Marin - £12 mil
Hulk - £38 mil
Oscar - £24 mil
Azi - £14 mil
Schurle - £22 mil

Total £142 mil

My opinion of chelsea sales

Drogba - Free
Kalou - Free
Bosingwa - Free
Malouda - £8 mil
Essien - £15 mil
Sturridge - £12 mil

Total - £35 mil

Total expenditure - £107 mil

Feel free to comment but not slate

FT9

In my opinion we shudnt be paying £24m on a unknown talent in Oscar and im sure the club wudnt pay that fee.

Malouda wont be sold for that price, if he is going to go to Brazil then a fee of around £4m-£5m max i would see as a transfer fee. I would also not mind us selling Ivanovic, if we can get a new RB in. He is probs worth around £20m, we have Chabolah, Ake, Kalas behind Luiz, Terry and Cahill, he would provide great cover at RB and CB but i think he wants regular football. £20m would be a good move for all parties.

PB

Do you honestly think that he hasn't been thourly scouted! Just cause you don't know who he is!

Would love the signings. i would like muniain if hulk fails. with the outs i think we could get mre for stur and not so much for essien. think ess will be fully fit next year hes gd for our squad.

I honestly would rather have sturridge over schurrle and I know I'm gonna get slated for this. First off you will save money with sturridge as long as you can resign him. That's huge. Second off he's homegrown and english. Finally I think he has a far larger upside than schurrle as long as he can get over his selfishness. Keep in mind I'm one of his biggest critics.

Tk

11 Jul 2012 06:19:10
Now I'm not trying to say anything concrete here, but I think Oscar is a good choice for a buy and also AVB pickled him out and much as I hate to say it, his transfers (apart from Mereilles) were all fantastic, I think he got that element of the game right. Anyone actually seen Oscar play a lot? I've only seen a few Brazil U20 highlights.
CFCFOREVER! {Ed002's Note - The only transfer AVB decided on at Chelsea was Meireles.}

Classic ed. absolutely classic

11 Jul 2012 01:01:34
The Guardian has stated that Oscar will join within the next few days and that Di Matteo will favour a 4-2-3-1 formation next season, so basically the 1st eleven could look like this:

Cech
Ivanovic/Cahill/Terry/Cole
Luiz/Mikel
Oscar/Hazard/Marin
Torres

subs
Turnbull
Maicon
Essien
Mata
Romeu
De Bruyne
Sturridge

Going to be hard to please some players, realised Lamps will have his work cut out if the new guys deliver the goods. {Ed018's Note - so Ramires doesnt start or even make the bench, David Luiz is played out of position. Mata on the bench. Wake up}

Luiz is cring out to be played in defensive midfield, keeps getting caught going forward and that is not a quality a center back needs, he wants to get involved. Ok your right about Ramires, id start him on the right wing, going to be one hell of a selection headache for Robbie. {Ed018's Note - so Mata still doesn't start, your starting Oscar who isnt a Chelsea player, you have Maicon on the bench who isn't a Chelsea player. Not to mention a few of those players may be loaned out or sold this summer}

I said COULD look like, get a grip.

Or it is most likely will look like this:

Cech
Ivanovis/Cahill/Terry/Cole
Mikel/Lampard
Ramires/Hazard/Mata
Torres
subs:
Turnbull
Romeu
Sturridge
Essien
De Bruyne
Marin
Luiz

If we play.a DM ramires will sart lamps should be the one dropped

11 Jul 2012 00:11:55
ED001 have you seen much of Oscar? is he better the Ganso or Lucas Moura? {Ed001's Note - I have never seen him play, sorry.}

Watched his videos on Youtube, looks like a young Kaka type of player to me. {Ed018's Note - i've seen him play a handful of times most recently in matches with Brazil and he is a good player who i believe is alittle bit further along than Lucas Moura. Obviously it's impossible to predict how is career will play out but he appears to have the talent there}