Chelsea thread

well he has been suffering frm malaria man give him a break

but is great for us to get that result
we can push on from here, we have 2 games v utd still to play but they really are must win

 
   fantastic

was really good to see the front 3 all grab a goal on the weekend, and not to mention ramires getting his first for the club. cant really see us getting back into contention for the title unless there is some major form turnaround from man utd and arsenal, so for now im hopeful of a good fa cup run and hopefully a good run in europe.

cant bear the thought of us finishing below man city so heres hoping we are back onto winning ways and can get ahead of city

Downey262011-01-26 09:46:56

van aanholt and kakuta have gone out on loan today to Leicester and Fulham respectively. will do them the world of good to have regular playing time at a top level

got everton this weekend in the cup. we have been showing a bit more consistency so im reasonably confident we can get a result here but not holding my breath. will be interesting to see the teams selection with a game on tuesday vs sunderland to think about. would like to see sturridge get a start and im thinking kalou may also be given the nod 

not that excited about playing everton again but by all accounts it was a good fightback so will take the result, good to see kalou show he can be a game changer.

sunderland tonight, i want payback.

sturridge to bolton on loan is an interesting move, with torres coming in and drogba, anelka, malouda and kalou up front it seems a good idea to let him go off and play premier league football at a good attacking team like coyle's bolton. with the age of anelka and drogba though im sure he has a bright future at the bridge once they have retired or left.

'Europa League side Chelsea has reported a �70.9m loss in the year to June 2010 - despite winning the Premier League and FA Cup.'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12330303

wonder if torres will play vs sunderland tonight, or will he debut vs liverp00l this weekend? that would be intense 

 
a statement on that here

http://www.Europa League side Chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2281149,00.html

Is there some contractual thing wherein he will get the money back, just like a loan?  I always assumed he bought the club, put in the money and hoped he'd eventually make a profit but didn't think it was like a loan.  Anyone enlighten me?

It's a loan. That way he hasn't really spent his but the clubs. It was interest free from the word go. I'd say it was to be used as an investment and part of his portfolio. If the Russian turns up tomorrow and says "I'm off, give me my money", Europa League side Chelsea would need to be taken over by someone rich or fold and Stamford Bridge turned into retirement flats.

Flop.

Youre manager is class btw, serious.

Ok, I get ya.  Are most clubs done on that basis or is it really case by case?  The Phoenix, for example, aren't like that are they?

The Nix are not, Terry has poured in a fair bit of his own cash.

some great signings there, should help us get back into contention

sunderland this morning, new signings wont be playing. will be tough away from home but looks as though the front 3 are finding a bit of form. lampard and ramires are looking alot sharper also

torres has been given the number 9 obviously

Luiz got 4.

f**k, what a sh*t start 

geez i go away for 20 mins and its 2-2. wish i wasn't at work, sounds like a great game to watch

will Torres play against us? he's talking up scoring...

 
not sure yet, him and luiz were not ready for sunderland but didnt say weather they would play vs livrpool. i would say torres would be involved in some way

come on boys, hold this lead, or add to it

  great stuff, look forward to watching this when i get home

great for the confidence 2days game i think
onwards and upwards

....naah....,might struggle to make the starting 11 ChopperHarris2011-02-04 09:22:13

....be a long que waiting to buy us...[ lots of rich Indians and Arabs around ...]  but they would be " very posh retirement flats" in the posh part of London, attacting many from Sheperds Bush area[ if they could afford it] into much better digs . ChopperHarris2011-02-04 11:51:25

good to see sturridge score, hoping he can score a bundle for them

Can't. Wait. Even though I think Torres will score against us (especially if Carra plays) and we'll probs lose. But for us, its just great to be excited about football again- with all the sh*t thats gone on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B5ftOV3FYA

What can be said about that?

f**k that was hard to watch. im sure im guna get a bit of stick from the livrpool fans and rightly so. with man utd losing we really needed to win that to have any shot at the title.

i thought we deserved at least a draw, 2 penalty shouts, the 2nd being a decent one but oh well, you cant get them all.

the formation really didn't work. drogba and torres with anelka behind them. we play best with drogba in the middle and anelka and malouda out either side of him. doesn't work well with torres cos with him there you have 2 target men who need to be in the middle. something for carlo to think about im sure.

cech really should have come forward and claimed the cross that lead to the goal, and bosingwa could have done a bit more, was caught ball watching a bit.

ivanovic had 3 good chances to head at goal and missed all three which was disappointing for him cos hes usually a handy header of the ball. kalou could have done better with a couple of headers as well.

on a positive note i thought david luiz looked really good the second he came on, very quick, especially on the turn which is what we need in defence.

Agree re: Drogba up front on his own. Its the same with Torres too. Gonna be a funny one. Not really convinced with either penalty shout (Lucas handball and GJ shoulder charge?) buit you defo dominated us, especially for large periods of the second half. Still- our game plan worked well. Cech and Ivanovic had that mis-up in the first half too- foreshadowing much?

yes the bust up between cech and ivanovic was regrettable. felt cech was in the right though but weather he called or not i dont know. good thing mikel was there to pull ivanovic away. no biggy though, that happens 

yeah, yeah, its no major at all. just made me laugh how Ivanovic got up all aggressive like!

ashley cole england player of the year 

Thought the commentators were interesting on this - one guy kept crapping on what a 'wonderful' ball from Gerrard it was, and neither really criticised Cech for his indecision.

In reality, it was a fairly hopeful ball to the near post that should have been collected by the keeper who wasn't sh*t-scared to come out and take a bit of contact (guess Cech's history had something to do with it) without much problem. Wonder if we'd have heard the same 'analysis' if the players involved weren't Gerrard and Cech.