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Looks like they're stacking up this year. They picked up Shevchenko, and Ballack in the offseason. :dry: :dry: :ermm: :ermm: :mellow: Sooooooooo. . . . .
This thread is on how much you hate or like Chelsea, they're to the EPL like the Chicago Bulls with Michael Jordan were to the NBA.
I Hate Chelsea as a team and most of all Mourinho! However there are players in Chelsea tha i really like them! Robben is a very good player, Lampard, Joe Cole.
However i hope they become like Real M. Even though i dought it with Mourihno there! That Guy is not stupid at all! Very good coach shity charachter
Seems you guys forget they also bought Salomon Kalou. One of the biggest talents out there on the footbalfield.
Probably another Kezman, rather good in the low standard Dutch league, but won't cut it in the Premiership. His goalscoring record is actually quite poor compared with Kezman's.Quote:
Originally Posted by jetje
Nice kid tho'. Loyal and that. He was trying to get Dutch citizenship so he could be a part of the Dutch squad for the World Cup but since he just failed in that, he's decided to pledge himself to his native Ivory Coast and play for them instead.
Bet he'll be popular.
15 goals in 35 games isn't bad, he was playing on the left side of a 4-3-3 like chelsea do, so it's like Robben or Cole getting 15. Obvioulsy the dutch league isn't the best but he's only 20 and has time to learn and adapt.
He's more of an AMC/AML/AMR than a out and out striker, he's quick but has very little strength.
I've never seen him play.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peerzy
I did, however, take an instant dislike to him when I heard about his nationality shenanigans - and that was before I knew he was linked with Chelsea!
Looking at the current squad, I don't see the lad starting more than five games (in some crappy cup competition) next year and possibly getting loaned out either half-way thro' or at the end of next season.
True, im not a massive fan of his antics with the national team but from the football i've seen him play (late night dutch football on channel 5 ftw) he's quality. He's kinda in the Robben mold, just better with his right foot and more of a team player.
Remember though he can play Left, right on center in midfield or up front and while we've made 3 signings so far, none have left yet. Huth is going, Glen Johnsen is going (maybe), Eider Gudjohnsen is on his way out, Duff hasn't played well and has been linked to a few clubs. Crespo is almost certainly going back to Italy.
Is he any good on FM2006?
Kalou? He doesn't start off the best but gets quality. I've never brought him but in my 2011 game he's at Milan.
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/439/kalou9om.th.jpg
We just signed John Obi Mikel, in my opinion the best young player in the world. It's cost us £16M (£12M to Man Utd & £4M to Lyn), but in 2 or 3 years time when he's the next Gerrard (very much like Gerrard in the way that he's box to box, an amazing tackler and is great attacking) and clubs are offering double what we paid.
Or he can't get a game and you knacker his career for a couple of years.
That's the point that people miss sometimes. Chelsea can buy players just to stop their opposition having them and not really want them for a first team place. Then just give them a few games in the year.
Mentally they can actually afford to spend millions of pounds for "squad players"
SWP is the only player we have really done this with.
If it wasn't for Mourinho and Chelsea J.Cole would still be a trick pony right winger who can't be assed to defend or pass the ball sitting on the bench for England
Oh I didn't realise, all your star players are happy getting regular first team football and nobody is talking about going away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peerzy
Which other star player is annoyed at no regular first team football? Only person i can think is Gallas but thats because he does't like being played at LB. It's not like it's just us either. Cisse is always moaning at Liverpool, Arsenal had Pires annoyed and Cambell now, who doesn't know if he will be first team or backup. Man Utd have RVN who is unhappy at first team football.
Can you read? I said I didn't realise your star players were happy. I didn't say that any of them were unhappy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peerzy
You then asked me to list the one's who weren't.
That's just mental
Mental? No, never. Just a very clever rod:whistlingQuote:
Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley
You're having a giraffe.Quote:
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I wonder which players will be replaced in the main eleven.. With all these new players in Chelsea's squad. I havn't heard for any player leaving. Will Gallas stay eventually?
If anyone wants to leave Chelsea will just double their wages. It's better than giving players to their rivals, that would just be silly :no:
Jock Stein (greatest ever Celtic manager) had an excellent signing policy. If there was a Catholic and non-Catholic who were equally good he would always sign the non-Catholic. He knew the huns would not sign the other one, as they had a "no Catholic" policy.Quote:
Originally Posted by DorisInsinuate
So, much as Celtic were considered the "Catholic team" they actually had a policy which was slightly biased agin' Catholics.
True story.
What i meant was no player was either tranfered nor released so some players from the main squad will be replaced bye Ballack, Shef. , Kalou etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by DorisInsinuate
And i mentioned that Gallas said that he was dissapointed bye Chelsea and wanted to sign up for Millan which in their turn made him an offer! So i was wondering what happened!
I still cant believe Ballack would leave Bayern for Chelasea
What is this, the feckin "how many different ways can you spell "Chelsea"" thread?
Has anyone spelt it Chelski yet?
You have.Quote:
Originally Posted by DorisInsinuate
As for players leaving.
Crespo has said he wants to go back to Italy, his family like it there and the league suits him.
Reports today susgest Middlesbrough have signed Huth, although Wigan and Werder Bremen also had bids accepted.
Gudjohnsen is talking to a few clubs, including Man Utd apparently, which is a shame because i think he's a quality player.
Glen Johnsen is a target for West Ham as there right back is shyte.
Mackelele is 33 so won't be leaving but he only has another full season in him and then go to be a rotation player.
They've sold him to 3 different teams then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peerzy
One of which doesn't actually exist.
Now that is good business. No wonder Chelsea are such a wealthy club.
No, 3 different clubs had bids accepted. Once a bid is accepted by the players current club then the club trying to sign the player can talk to him and offer him a contract. You cannot offer a contract without the current club knowing about it. So 3 clubs offered a contract, and Huth had to select one.Quote:
Originally Posted by StephG
Also whats the non-real club:ermm:
http://www.mfc.premiumtv.co.uk/
http://www.wiganlatics.premiumtv.co.uk/
http://www.werder.de/
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Yup, just for you:DQuote:
Originally Posted by StephG
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Originally Posted by Peerzy
Why thank you.
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Maybe Chellsee should enter their 'B' team into the Premiership as well.
They'll all be too tired after their World Cup campaign.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheese
The Dutch league is one of the strongest in the world, with the best and most attractive football played. Average players make it to the premiership that are not even good enough to play in the 1st teams over here. Like Jimmy floyd haisselbank and George boateng. You guys think that english football is any good but with a champion that bought it's team and over 50% of foreign players that start in the teams it's nice to call it the premiership, cause the word english doesn't belong there. In the dutch competition there is a litle over 80% dutch players involved. A lot of teams play well in europe. Not making it to the finals but surving severall rounds and that with a budget as big (or a lot smaller) as chesea payed for chevchenko.
Kalou is a sensational talent, fact that Manker never heared about him tells more about Mankers football knowledge then about the dutch league or Kalous skills.
Btw a dutch team under 21 has won the under 21 ueropean championship with very nice football. All players play in the dutch league, so we just havent that much arrived stars playing here, but we see all future stars play... all Dutch of course
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I agree with you about 90% JetJe.
However, no matter how strong Chelsea gets, We have to admit that the English league is has the best quality of football of all! Its the only league that i enjoy watching no matter how "weak" the two teams are!
I'd heard of him. I'd read several reports about him and heard that he was a good player but a bit of a tosser.Quote:
Originally Posted by jetje
What I wrote was that I'd never seen him play.
The fact that from that you thought I'd never heard of him says more about your intellect than it reflects any football nuance :)
Based on previous Dutch 'sensations' that don't do well in the higher quality Premiership, I made a comment that he would also prove to be a disappointment - in this case it's especially justified because he's going to Chelsea and won't get a game, except for in the worthless cup.
I notice that a Premiership reserve, Van Persie, is rated higher than current Dutch striking 'sensation' Kuyt, by your national manager Van Basten.
Seems that if you know what you're talking about, you'll lay national pride aside and comment on facts. Van Basten knows that Kuyt isn't actually that good and that despite only playing a handful of times in a team that often struggled last year, Van Persie is a better bet on the big stage than a striker who is widely regarded as the best Dutch striker in the Dutch national league.
You will note that I'm surmising again, I can't be sure what Van Basten thinks that and if the words he says are merely lip service to discombobulate the opposing teams in their group - but his recent actions and words do seem to hint that he rates Van Persie more highly than Kuyt.
This would only be because the Dutch league is poor compared with the Premiership as Kuyt's domestic record this past two years is light years better than Van Persie's.
Which two club teams have sent the most players to the World Cup?
Chelsea and Arsenal, enough said. And also, the English Premiership is the best League in the World. That's a fact, in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by manker
Just proving you don't know shit about this. Kuyt isn't a winger... He's a center striker that is so great that he can play from the wing when a coach asks him to do so. Kuyt is also a youngster. Van Basten just gives van Nistelrooy the 1st position in the center, but also finds Kuyt so good that there are no other center attackers are needed (like Roy Makaay or another dutch sensation Klaas Jan Huntelaar) for instance. :whistling
Van Persie plays up front for Arsenal. Has done for the past two years - when selected. He took Kuyt's place as a right sided striker in the final warm up game. Holland play 4-3-3, do they not - both players would be out of position there.Quote:
Originally Posted by jetje
Hence the point is valid, dick 'ed.
Neither Kuyt nor Van Persie are used to playing that role but Van Persie seems to be the one who is thought to be better suited to the role. I mentioned what Van Basten seems to be hinting at because altho' right sided support striker doesn't suit either player - Van Persie seems to be able to adapt better.
I think this is because Van Persie is a more elegant, skilful player and Kuyt is more of a runner - effective but in the Keegan mold, rather than a Bergkamp.
This probably explains why Kuyt hasn't been bought by a top English side - he lacks class.
i see that i watch the premiership and the dutch eredivisie (as a lot of other leagues) and my guess that you don't look much further then late nite 20 minute highlights of the english premiership.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
Kuyt is a great player but a center! He's playing at my team, i do know where he plays! Van Persie is not a center striker! If Kuyt needs to be compaired, i guess Shearer comes closest to his playing style. Not a Bergkamp, but way more effective in the finishing. :cool:
Engllish teams just can pay up the money he's worth, not even abraham :whistling