Chelsea Banter Archive November 24 2011

24 Nov 2011 20:43:22
Is Battersea the most likeliest destination for our new stadium ed02 now that we have asked a advisor to look at the place? {Ed002's Note - Probably not. At the moment I think the club are putting as much pressure as possible on the local council. Chelsea's preferred option is to extend Stamford Bridge. Battersea is probably third choise after Stamford Bridge and Earls Court.}

ED, by expanding Stamford Bridge would that mean, expanding The Shed and the matthew harding, or one of them. Is that what they are proposing?

PR! {Ed002's Note - Expanding Stamford Bridge would ideally mean adding a third tier to each of the stands.}

Season ticket holders in the west stand should have their tickets sold to fans who actually know a song or 2.

How are they going to fill all these extra seats?

24 Nov 2011 11:48:44
Dealings In January I Would Like To See -

Out -

Drogba - £2m
Kalou - £5m
Malouda - £7m
Alex - £5m
Feriera - FREE

In -

Cahill - £7.5m
De Bruyne - £10m
Jordi Alba - £22m
Junior Hoilett -£10m

We need to take the January transfer window to refresh the squad and allow us to get rid of some deadwood and recop some transfer fee's for players that would leave on a free at the end of the season.

Drogba, Kalou and Malouda arent what they used to be period. Selling in January allows us to free up some wage space and some EU quota player space. Both Alex and Feriera arent getting any playing time this year and it would be good for all parties if they moved on.

Concerning in coming players, Cahill would be a direct replacement for Alex and would be direct cover for Luiz, Terry and Ivanovic.

Kevin de Bruyne is someone we have been watching for a while now and is a very technically gifted player, he has a killer long ball and a great shot on him. He would add some creativity and youth to our midfield.

Junior Hoilett has a expiring contract at Blackburn and a club like Chelsea coming in for the player would force Blackburn into a sale. He has pace, dribbling ability and a attacking style (literally everything we lack) and for the price and him being a UK born player along with him being available to play in europe, this could be a very shrewed buy.

lastly on this list Jordi Alba a very versatile LB/LM player. Lovely feet and blistering pace, he could be a direct replacement for Malouda and also offer a world class replacement for Ashley Cole in the following years. A truely gifted player and in my opinion a better option than Alvaro Perriera.

PB

Don't hold too much hope. This is what we thought would happen in the summer when we lost some top class players because we didn't want to upset the top payed players. I mean this is turning into a very bad joke.

And how is this gunna improve our team.?

How will Jordi Alba and Junior improve our slow tempo build up play and lack of pace? Both are blistering quick and attack minded players who can beat a player, we oviously have so many of those who play for Chelsea.

PB

24 Nov 2011 09:09:16
Avb looked rather dejected in the post match interview yesterday.what is he doing.we were not mobile enough in midfield and attack.lampard can no longer carry the team. terry is becoming unreliable. and drogba is not the future,ramires is too mechanical. lets start playing our younger players. torres should come back to the team, josh,lukaku,romeu.and we need a flying winger badly like walcott,lennon etc remember what robben use to do.and mata should play central midfield. what do you think ed. {Ed002's Note - I have no thoughts on the matter.}

Avb has got the defence playing too far up,he doesnt seem able to change tactics when things are going wrong,yet hes no fool,just look at his record,and Drogba had a good game,give him and the team time,its an ageing team,cant just bring 6 0r 7 players in like some are suggesting,couple of wins on the bounce and all will be well,stick with em.

24 Nov 2011 05:52:59
Today was frightening. I will start again with the selection, how on earth do you expect anything from Torres when he's constantly getting benched for Drogba? I honestly don't know. It's not like Drogba tore it up against pool. He had a nice goal but missed some chances and most concerningly didn't hold the ball up which was his trademark. Other than that no real questions. Cech was again poor today. More so I believe now the play alex fan club should be silenced. Alex was on when both goals were conceded. My thing with Luiz is when he plays for brazil you don't see him making the marauding runs almost at all so obviously it's a matter of system. Avb doesn't stop him from doing that while brazil has a firm grip restricting him from doing it. I don't believe Ramires has looked as good as he did before the injury. Sturridge's assist today was the best pass I've ever seen him make (I'll be the first to admit I think he's greedy). Cech was up and down today. Both goals he conceded were soft with the first being down to him getting caught in between. However the game could've very easily been much worse but cech made some classy saves. I think in all honesty though that lampards time is pretty much done. I believe Lampard contributes from the penalty strike and he makes some nice time runs but just doing that as a midfielder isn't enough for me. I'm not saying he should be full of energy like Ramires but hes just not doing enough. My biggest gripe with avb is the fact that mceachren hasn't seen any time. He can't tell me he didnt anticipate this so I am clueless as to why he's not on loan. It makes no sense he doesn't get any better by riding the bench and playing a reserve fixture periodically. If he's not on loan in January I'll be pissed.

Exactly dude..iam a liverpool fan..i still put torres top of teh list for the striker...the probs torres is now is teh sysytem..and teh midfield..alonso, gerrard bennayoon, kuyt, riera and babel..all feeded wit hhim teh oppeortunity and he scored...just watch his games for liverpool...he just need a half chance to score...most important..he had a beautiful relationship with all teh team members and fans...but till now..he hasnt had that with lampard of otehr cheslea teammates...being a fan of torres..i love him to score goals...once was the highest shirt sellers in EPL now struggling for a match...

You need to keep it real,he cant get in the side for the same reason he cant get in the spanish side,hes just not performing,and its nothing to do with the service hes getting,hes was missing easy chances game after game,since he left Pool his form has been crap,our strikers are way behind the front runners in the league,a coupl of quality signings in the January window will make a world of differece.

24 Nov 2011 03:24:50
I normally read this site and don't feel the urge to respond. However, earlier I was in south London watching the game and now, after coming home and reading some of the posts, I do feel the urge to respond. Can everyone please just wait one second. Villas Boas brought on Malouda and Mikel tonight to try and keep things tight. Fine, it didn't work, but getting Hiddink in means we save our season? You should see how Turkey played under him lately.

Kicking Villas Boas out means we're back to the drawing board again and, to be honest, it's just too much. Give him continuity please. Allow a Chelsea manager the ability of saving his job from having a bad month. The only way we go forward is by change, not of management, but by the players playing. The change is going to be hard and tough but it is going to happen.

Yes, there are players who are not good enough at the moment but, please, don't go back to the whole 'sack the manager' thing again. No, keep the manager for once and let him build a team.

I, for one, did not go and sit in the stand at Watford in 1999 and watch us go down 1-0 to read some of the nonsense put up here.

We'll be back. Keep the faith.

We have sacked managers far to quickly in recent years and should at least give AVB a fair chance, I hope the board are making funds available and already sorting deals for January, the board have failed in keeping the squad fresh and in my opinion have been very short sighted in letting some decent players go Diarra, Parker, Sidwell and Borini all of whom could be doing a job for us at present.

Ur stupid owner shud not have sacked ancelloti in the first place. The guy was a class manager, everyone except stupid roman knows it.
Indian Buzzer {Ed002's Note - You have very clearly no idea what happened.}

24 Nov 2011 00:05:00
Hi Ed, i no its oviously just a way to build up the hype but Lille predident has come out and said the price is 50m euros for Eden Hazard which is roughly £43m pounds. Do you see Chelsea or any club for that fact making a move for the player at that price? Also it is reported that a few MLS sides are interested in Frank Lampard, do you think AVB would listen to offers for the player?

PB

Ed?

PB {Ed002's Note - Unless an extraordinary bid is made in January, Eden Hazard will not be available to the summer. Real Madrid or Barcelona is his preferred destination. PSG, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Inter Milan are all interested to one degree or another. I said over the summer that I would not be surprised to see Manchester United through their hat in to the ring with Hazard as well. I don't see Hazard moving to Liverpool, Juventus, AC Milan or Arsenal for that matter. Chelsea have maintained a long-term interest but one particularly influential party at the club sees the player as having an attitude problem. Lampard would like an extension to his contract and any proposals to buy him would not be dealt with by AVB. Chelsea are obviously aware they need a replacement and have been trying to find one for the past year.}

Thanks for the reply

PB