19 Jun 2012 22:01:39
Opinion on RB
Just wandering what people thought about this position, it is clearly one we are attempting to strengthen and there are a lot of options. IMO my preference is Piszczek as i believe he was last season the best RB in Europe, but i am not even sure Chelsea are interested and his price tag would be large. VDW has not got the talent as far as im concerned, i though this before the euros, and he has done nothing to change my mind. I am not sure about Debuchy, i think the reported interest is simply in relation to the Euros, and i doubt it will lead to anything, as i dont think Chelsea would sign a player based on one comp. Cesar may be the best option all in all, he has the talent, is young but not cheap, and i believe something has cooled in that situation between the two clubs.
So all in all a complicated position, what are your opinions?
Chelsea Banter Archive June 19 2012
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19 Jun 2012 21:58:38
ed can u do a profile on Ukrainian messi {Ed018's Note - i'll pass it along}
19 Jun 2012 21:51:35
How does Gerrard get so much praise ??
Seriously his 5 yard passing is shocking and him ad Parker look so flat in the middle
So overrated !! Just has a good cross
Thoughts ??
Jm10
I bet if he played for Chelsea people would say he's awful. Lampard has never got enough praise and in my opinion his career has outshone Gerrard.
All this talk that Lampard didn't allow Gerrard to attack for England....BS. This tournament Gerrard has been hugging the defence and Lampard is not there...Parker is.
Lampard has started doing the same him and Mikel if u actually watch games side passing bulls**t this is from a Chelsea fan
My biggest problem with Gerrard is his positioning, he runs around the pitch like a headless chicken, and when a counter is on he is found out of position with others having to help. I believe it is the same with liverpool, there was a great article about it.
Just an idea, but do you think Gerrard could have been asked to play more defensively by Hodgson?
IB.
Alan curbishley said," gerrard the player of the tournament" for him ,on sky this morning ?..rayzor
Ian wright the sun,steven gerrard was outstanding!!!not quite sure who knows what their talking about.pros or posters.?
Honestly , how can anyone seriously come on here and slate Gerrards performances in this tournament.
He's a big game player who has shown all his qualities on and off the ball. Tackling , passing , vision , work rate. The bloke has got the lot.
People have short memories , wasn't it the fans favorite and messiah Jose mourinhio who tried to buy Gerrard twice for Chelsea, if that had happened and he wore the blue of Chelsea then all the posters on here slating him would be whistling a different tune I'm sure.
Please take off the blue tinted glasses and appreciate the qualities that Gerrard brings.
I know I'd rather listen to the opinions on top players like Roy keane
We are all awaiting your reply jm 10 ?
I will say jm 10
gerrard is a bit overrated but done well at the euros
but i dont know how anyone can say parker isnt good mate, hes probably been player of the tournament so far, atleast for england anyway
curt
Not according to curbishley,and to be fair curt he knows a bit more than you..
Scott Parker player of the tournament , what have you been smoking. He's not even England's stand out Player.
You really know very little about football.
Cfcmatt.
19 Jun 2012 19:43:01
chellsea should get rid of essien, malouda, meireles, turnbull,hilario and sturridge
loan out lukaku McEachran an piazon
use de bruyne as a super sub
and buy walcott, azpilicueta and fellaini
No don't loan out piazon if he stays with us until he's 21 hell be home grown if he goes he wont
Agree with the outs, not with the ins
I agree that many of the players you want out will not get much game time next season. However you overlook the fact that they provide vital experience within the squad meaning if all of the mentioned leave, you will find your SQUAD to be hugely inexperienced. Plus if one of them leaves the squad morale changes as many others are affected as they have lost one of their mates in the dressing room. EG. Ferreira helps Brazil/Portugese players settle at the club and learn the language. P.S Walcott is absolute trash!
Seem to remember from a previous comment by an Ed that Piazon will be classed as homegrown as long as he plays under the English FA, so a loan to an english club wouldnt affect it ..... I think.
PieZ {Ed002's Note - Correct.}
19 Jun 2012 19:18:12
hulk makes chelsea come and get me plea
19 Jun 2012 18:40:26
Has Giovinco signed for Juventus? Didnt they co own him?
19 Jun 2012 17:09:54
One thing I did forget on the night it happened... But the season review reminded me of it...
Against Barcalona. Mereiles had been playing in the midfield commonly in the CL campaign and you can guess he would have been in the final squad...
Barcalona broke off from an attack and swarmed forward, led by Iniesta. Mereiles had been booked in the first game and bundled Iniesta to the ground, with no attempt to play the ball. He was booked for it. I don't need to remind you the rest.
If you want to slate him for his ability, I don't disagree with that. But I think he deserves a bit of credit for doing that. How many of us would really do that? Sacrifice a spot in the squad to help your team?
A few of us would say that we would (me included) but I know I couldn't do that. He has some spirit for that.
In my opinion, he is a decent squad player and scores a few goals from the midfield, I think we should keep him. Sturridge should be kept unless we get a great offer for him and I certainly don't want Walcott who is even more inconsistent than Sturridge in our colours.
My ideal ins:
Debuchy
Jovetic
Hulk
(And some youngsters)
Anyone got any other thoughts?
CFCFOREVER!
We need to buy English talent, Kyle Walker and Victor Moses seem to people we should be targeting, both English, both young and both solve a purpose, we have no winger depth and we desperately need a RB. I love the idea of Hulk but i think the price is far to much, he scored 21 goals last season, 9 of these were penalties, that means 12 were from open play and even then i would assume 1 or 2 would be free kicks. In comparison Sturridge scored 12 goals. £38m seems a lot for a winger who has the same scoring record as Sturridge and has been labelled greedy and not a great decision maker. I do rate Hulk i am just concerned about the price.
PB
I know sometimes meireles makes s**t passes but he's work rate for the team is unbelievable. I like meireles good squad midfielder. We also have lamps and ramires who attack, Romeu and Mikel holding. That's all we need with mceachran and piazon. Let the bison go.
Erm.....PB ,Victor Moses is a home grown player but he isn't English he's Nigerian, wasn't invited for England so he chose to play for Nigeria, I think a few months ago.
ELI
19 Jun 2012 17:39:53
With signing of hulk and hazard, we are going to rock the epl. Personally the title race will be between us and city. Blue nose.
Have i missed something pretty sure we havent signed hulk yet
curt
19 Jun 2012 17:08:02
Some idiots dropped the champions league trophy!
Carefree
Only a replica,makes you wrong again carefree!!!
LOL uefa didnt like us anyway
Chackers97
Sergio ramos probably got his hands on it
Blue aero
19 Jun 2012 15:29:20
Ryan,sam,JT,ashley,cahill,turnbull, lampard,sturridge so that makes 8 home grown players..supposing,malouda,kalou, bos,feriera,benayoun,meireles,DD wil leave,that frees 7 slots for foreign players,so we will be having 10 or 12(considering hulk and new rb) foreign players and 8 home grown players.i dont see the need of signing home grown players,for the sake of completing the quota,unless they are real talents,and i think moses is one of those and but not walcott.but since ed said we are looking at homegrown players,which i believe is true,lets talk about the best home grown talents!can you suggest some gems that fall under home grown category?
silv3rzz ;) {Ed002's Note - You need to put a space after punctuation marks or the posts will eb deleted as they foul up the page formatting.}
Kalou and Bosingwa have already left, been released. If we dont have 8 homegrown players I believe we have to leave space in the squad, ie: if we only had 7 HG players we could only submit a 24 man squad list, I doubt homegrown players will be a huge issue though looking at our current squad, youth and potential signings.
PieZ
19 Jun 2012 15:20:22
Hi ed Would just like to know your opinion on hulk signing for us this summer or not? Percentage wise? I'm guessing its 50/50 at the moment, thanks ed. {Ed002's Note - Read the other posts. I have no time to keep answering the same questions.}
19 Jun 2012 12:32:39
Read Roan post .......................... generall chit chat etc ....
ELI
{Ed002's Note - We are done with all of the abuse etc. Eli and I appreciate the sentiment but it is time to cut the posts. I warned everyone yesterday we are not in a position to support anything which gets out of hand at all - I don't have the time available to oversee the posts at a macro level. Puzzled has not been abusive and neither have you - and you are all welcome to banter about the quality of the pies at different clubs and to compare the length of your love truncheons and whatever else you kids get up to nowadays.
What we can't have is brain-dead knuckle-dragging pot-bellied tattoo-adorned shaven-headed jerks spoiling it for everyone else.
Generally you are all a decent bunch - play nice or I won't let you play at all.}
Fair enough ED, I'm glad we both agree . Keep up the good work . CHELSEA RULES!
ELI
Come on Ed, I have tattoos and a shaven head, but you don't hear me giving people stick on your site. Don't stereo type dude.
Lunchbox
Took the words right out of my mouth there lunchbox! {Ed002's Note - Are you all admitting to also being brain-dead, knuckle-dragging and pot-bellied?}
Although I'm not so much shaved as I am just bald these days :( {Ed002's Note - Bald is OK. I myself have a reverse mohican.}
A female with a reverse mohican ? upstairs or downstairs ed..rayzor
Well thinking about it It I have let myself go a bit too..... Way to make a guy feel
Good about himself Ed ;)
2hotty
So, ed002 is a feisty goth rock goddess with a with thing for football.Hmm..makes her unique,which is why we all like her.Way to go ed.Anything else?
roan {Ed001's Note - she likes gifts of expensive jewellery, diamonds especially, which she uses to adorn her body in piercings.}
19 Jun 2012 10:57:20
On this day 1 month ago
Didier drogba stepped up with the weight of expectation on his shoulders
He did this after scoring a dramatic equaliser and then giving away a penalty that should have been advantage bayern
This time he was the 5th penalty taker in the final shoot out, to crown us European champions
To beat bayern on their own back yard and to find the holy grail
Drogba is immortal at this football club
Hell never be forgotten
Jm10
£100 says the disagree was a scouser
Carefree
19 Jun 2012 10:06:17
Chelsea have given up on their raid for Lucas Moura after deciding that paying upwards of £32m is too much of a risk on a 19 year old player. Instead they will revert their attention to Luka Modric and hope that a deal can be completed around the £30m mark on the condition that Modric hands in a transfer request as expected. To complete their business Chelsea will complete their £38m deal for Hulk who will play on the right of the 3 behind Torres next to Mata (playing centrally) and Hazard on the left (DiMatteo's preferred formation is 4-2-3-1). Ramires will return to a central midfield position and Chelsea now hope he will operate next to Modric. The remaining midfield options of Lampard, Essien and Mikel will rotate in and out. Merieles is likely to make way for Modric but may be kept should McEachran be moved on loan. Sturridge is likely to move as DiMatteo can not use him in his formation as he is greedy and doesn't work hard enough. In this instance Lukaku is likely to remain and be considerably further up the pecking order. The only other likely major signing is a right back however Chelsea do not want Ivanovic forced out of the team so the cost of the right back is likely to be less than expected. The club are considering a 3 year deal for Croatian captain Dario Srna for £11m who would provide experience and world class set-pieces/crosses or they are considering Debuchy from Lille for around £8m. The club have ended their interest in Van Der Weil because of his inability to defend (they do not want to make the same mistake as they did with Boswinga). The only other likely minor signing is a new back-up goalkeeper to replace the aging Hilario. Courois will remain on loan in Madrid.
You seem very certain about the comings and goings. Do you have a crystal ball or inside info
19 Jun 2012 09:39:45
What the hell is this site coming too? Walcott had a p*ss poor season and has had the same sort of career. Plays one game off the bench and scores and people want him at Chelsea? Sturridge has the potential to be a world beater. He is a 22yo arrogant striker, exactly what you want in a striker. RDM did excellently in pulling him back in line over the last 3 months, not playing him and it resulted in an assist when he got a game. Give the bloke a break! Melbourne CFC
He is a arrogant little crybaby always moaning that he is not in the team or being played out wide. He needs to realise he is nowhere near as good as all the hype, he is extremely 1 footed, arrogant, lazy and greedy. If he wants to go he must be sold, and if he wants to stay then great get his head down, play when and wherever the manager tells him to and do a job for the team. And yes Danny that means passing the bloody ball once in a while
Mate I'm not disagreeing that he is greedy, I have eyes. Theo Walcott though? Are people taking the p*ss?
Melbourne CFC
Theo would be a huge mistake, even arsenal fans aren't sure about him. I say give Danny at least 1 more season, his talent is undoubted and hopefully he will mature abit. My big problem with Theo is that he really doesn't seem like he has a lot going on in his skull...
Marley
I dont like or want either of them, not when citeh want sturridge and they have adam johnson ;) BLUEBOY1
19 Jun 2012 05:03:25
Suprised I haven't seen a whole lot of talk about the fixture list. First off I gotta say I'm happy. The worst part of our last two years (December & January) are littered with lower clubs. There also is a softer start to the season which will help our new players gel in at the new level without playing top teams. Finally I was pleased there wasn't an extremely extended run of difficult games. I think all of this will help prevent a bad run that's plagued our last two years. Also look forward to getting that world club championship title in january.
Tk
18 Jun 2012 23:22:51
Ed, why is the sky blue?
People still asking stupid questions, thought I might get involved too.
I'm dying for one of your sharp and witty answers
Cheers
Dont think theres a witty answer to that considering its probably a bit too scientific to be 'witty'
curt